Point-to-Multipoint Communications and Broadcasting in 5G

The articles in this special section focus on point-to-multipoint communications and broadcasting. In the last few years, since the Internet, streaming video, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones have come to play prominent roles in modern daily life, the communication industry has started working on new, more effective digital broadcast systems that can simultaneously deliver signals to both fixed and mobile devices. Digital broadcast systems are suitable for large-volume broadband information delivery, especially for multimedia communications. In fact, the rapid global growth of mobile data traffi c is primarily driven by the massive deployment of mobile video services on modern large-screen devices.