5G mobile communication systems 1 Central units 1 Competition 1 Control planes 1 Customer choice Equipment costs 1 Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) 1 Graphics processing unit 1 Hardware Acceleration 1 Hardware acceleration 1 Market competition 1 Network function virtualization 1 Next generation networks 1 Open computing language 1 OpenCL 1 Processing time 1 Radio access networks 1 Transfer functions 1 User planes 1 Virtual reality 1