A New Approach for Enhancing the Services of the 5G Mobile Network and IOT-Related Communication Devices Using Wavelet-OFDM and Its Applications in Healthcare

Table 6

Proposed assessment of OFDM and OWDM for 5G NR.

Performance indicators	OFDM assessment	OWDM assessment	Downlink requirement	Uplink requirement	Side link requirement	V2X requirement	Backhaul requirement
Spectral efficiency	High	Very high	Very high	Very high	High	Very high	Very high
MIMO compatibility	High	High	Very high	Very high	High	Very high	Very high
Time localization	High	Very high	High	High	High	Very high	Very high
Transceiver baseband complexity	Low	High	Very high	High	Very high	High	High
Robustness to frequency-selective channels	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
Robustness to time-selective channels	Medium	High	High	High	High	Very high	Low
Robustness to phase noise	Medium	High	High	High	High	High	High
Robustness to sync errors	High	Very high	Low	High	High	Medium	Low
PAPR	High (can be reduced)	Low	Low	High	High	Medium	Low
Frequency localization	Low (can be reduced)	High	Medium	Medium	Medium	Medium	Low