5G, also known as Fifth Generation Mobile Networks, is an emerging global telecommunication system designed for the next generation of significantly higher wireless data bandwidths to support a variety of consumer, commercial, and industrial applications. On promise are data rates of 10-100 mbps for tens of thousands of simultaneous users in the metropolitan area, with 1 gbps indoors and connectivity for hundreds of thousands of simultaneously connected sensors. As important as these enhanced bandwidths will be the software extensibility and configurability of the 5G network, making it possible to partition and customize network bandwidth and services for a variety of site- and area-specific applications to support diverse devices at the network edge. RISELab and our industrial sponsors Ericsson, Intel, and…