The evolving of fifth generation (5G) networks is becoming more readily avaialbe as a major driver of the growth of IoT applications [2]. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) report, the global 5G services will drive 70% of companies to spend $1.2 billion on the connectivity management solutions [2]. New applications and business models in the future IoT require new performance criteria sucha as massive connectivity, security, trustworthy, coverage of wireless communication, ultra-low latency, throughput, ultra-reliable, et al. for huge number of IoT devices [4]. To meet these requirements, the evolving Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G technologies are expected to provide new connectivity interfaces for the future IoT applications. The development of next generation of ”۵G” is at its early stage, which aims at new radio access technology (RAT), antenna improvements, use of higher frequencies, and re-architecting of the networks [6]. However, main progresses have been made and the evolution of LTE needs to be complemented with a radical change within the next few years in the fundamentals of wireless networks – a generational shift in technology and architectures and business process. According to the Gartner, up to 8.4 billion IoT devices will be in connected through machine-to-machine (M2M) by 2017 and this number will reach 20.4 billion by 2020 [1]. The 5G enabled IoT (5G-IoT) will connect massive number of IoT devices and make contributions to meet market demand for wireless services to stimulate new economic and social development [59]. The new requirements of applicaitons in the future IoT and the evolving of 5G wireless technology are two significant trends are driving the 5G enabled IoT [59]. In the past few years, many research efforts have beed made on both 5G technologies and the future IoT. A number of key enabling technicals in 5G are developed to offer new infrastructure and design with inherent capabilities requried by the future IoT [3]. The authors reviewed most recent reserch results from two major academic databases (IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect)to understand the current status and future research on both 5G and IoT. We noticed that in the past four years from 2014 to 1st Jan 2018, 389 IoT and 5G related papers have been published by IEEE Xplore and 588 papers have been published by ScienceDirect. Figure 1 indicates the number of articles stored in IEEE Xplore and ScienceDirect from 2014 to 2018.