Application of 5G Infrastructure for IoT: Challenges and Opportunities

The development of Internet of Things (IoT) became one of the most significant and promising technologies of the 21st century. This technology offers new opportunities and introduces us to a wide range of technologies such as sensors, pervasive computing, seamless communication, embedded system, machine learning, and wireless networks. The primary purpose of IoT is providing efficient, smart, and convenient connectivity to the user's end. One of the major challenges in creating a smart, connected community is the wide-range, long-lasting, reliable, and near real time connectivity. This article provides a comprehensive survey of existing and developing communication solution and strategies for supporting IoT application in the context of cellular and wide-area networks. The fifth generation or 5G mobile network promises to enhance wireless technology and attempts to solve the constraints of its predecessors to support Internet of Things. The risks and challenges are briefly discussed in this article, as well as the emerging solution brought by the latest network, the 5G network.