TY - JOUR N2 - The world is heading towards deployment of 5G commercially by the year 2020. But providing broadband 5G connectivity to remote rural regions is a significant challenge. Fiber connectivity has attempted to penetrate rural regions but last mile connectivity is still a problem in many rural sectors due to improper land demarcation and hostile terrain. A scheme which is based on the Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) concept is proposed to provide last mile 5G connectivity to satisfy the broadband needs of rural subscribers. A wireless 5G downlink environment following 3GPP NR specifications with a significantly high throughput is simulated. The last mile link is provided through a 28GHz carrier from a proposed IAB node delivering a data throughput of 4.301 Gbps for singleuser carrier aggregation and 5.733 Gbps for multi-user carrier aggregation which is quite promising for broadband service, like high-speed Internet and streaming video. The results presented in this work are observed to agree favourably with the results of other researchers in the field. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121902/PDF-MASTER/90_3201_Biswas_new.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/121902 PY - 2021 IS - No 4 EP - 663 DO - 10.24425/ijet.2021.137859 KW - Carrier aggregation (CA) KW - component carrier (CC) KW - 5G KW - New Radio (NR) KW - Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) A1 - Biswas, Ardhendu Shekhar A1 - Sil, Sanjib A1 - Bera, Rabindranath A1 - Mitra, Monojit PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications VL - vol. 67 DA - 2021.12.27 T1 - Integrated Access and Backhaul based 5G Connectivity for Rural Indian Sectors– Ending the Digital Divide SP - 655 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/121902 T2 - International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications ER -