Fundamental requirements for the design of ultra-reliable low-latency mobile networks

The support for ultra-reliable communication is a key distinction between today's and tomorrow's mobile networks, enabling emerging critical-communication services such as factory automation, remote-controlled vessels, mobile cloud computing, and yet-to-come applications. In this paper, we study the fundamental requirements to design mobile networks capable of ultra-reliable communication. We consider two network design assets, bandwidth and network density, and network models by the 3GPP. Our findings indicate that required assets can be beyond what is typically found in today's networks. We study network sharing as an alternative approach to facilitate the provision of resources to meet ultra-reliability goals.