5G Waveform Candidates: Rohde & Schwarz White Paper
5G Waveform Candidates: Rohde & Schwarz Application Note: Enhanced Mobile Broadband, Massive Machine Type Communication, Ultra-reliable and low latency communication have been identified as the requirements to be supported by the 5th Generation of Mobile Communication - 5G. 5G is being extensively discussed in the wireless industry especially around the need for a new airlink. A great deal of research and pre-development is being conducted worldwide, including an analysis of the waveforms and access principles that are the basis for current LTE and LTE-Advanced networks. In this application note R&S discuss potential 5G waveform candidates, list their…
The next generation of mobile technology, 5G, is envisaged to bring a “Networked Society”, providing an unlimited access to information and data at anytime, anywhere by anyone and anything. Education is one industry vertical that will benefit from 5G and this white paper considers some of the requirements of 5G for Education and how a future learning model will be an international, immediate, virtual, and interactive environment, which enables learners to learn and interact in a variety of different ways compared to how students are taught today. This is a joint White Paper between GSA and…
Populated regions offer a particular challenge to networks trying to manage OpEx, data loads, millions of hours of streaming video per day, and IoT connections from consumers and sensor-rich devices. What is the best way to densify the 5G wireless network, while ensuring proper connectivity and content delivery together with positive ROI? This session featuring Ken Stewart, Intel Fellow and Chief Wireless Technologist at Intel and Tod Sizer, Head of Mobile Radio Research at Nokia Bell Labs will take an in-depth look at the enabling technologies for 5G, including small cells/DAS, massive MIMO, mmWave, self-backhauling dynamic networks, full-duplex, multi-radio integration, amongst others, as well as consider best practices and strategies to deploy these technologies.
BRIEFING: 5G survey results December 4, 2015 - [537.2 KB] These slides contain results from a survey of the GSA’s online community conducted in Q3 2015. Questions covered attitudes to aspects of 5G, and specific plans for 5G testing and deployment (responses to these last questions are contained in a separate GSA briefing document) The material in this slide deck is taken from the GSA Executive report The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development. The full report is a free download on the site. Sign in and follow the link. Copyright: GSA…
BRIEFING: 5G trials, commitments and forecasts December 4, 2015 - [337.8 KB] These slides are an extract from the GSA Executive report The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development. The full report is a free download on the site. Sign in and follow the link. Copyright: GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association)
BRIEFING: 5G use case analysis December 4, 2015 - [371 KB These slides are an extract from the GSA Executive report The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development. The full report is a free download on the site. Sign in and follow the link. Copyright: GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association)
PRESS RELEASE 19th November 2015 GSA predicts over 270 5G networks by 2025 in the first Executive Committee report “The Road to 5G”. 19th November 2015: A new report from GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) “The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development” published today predicts over 270 5G networks will be deployed by 2025 and points to two significant trends that are driving the wireless industry to develop 5G network technology. These are the explosive growth in demand for wireless broadband services, which require faster and higher capacity networks to…
The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development
New Report: The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development 19th November 2015 A new report from GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) “The Road to 5G: Drivers, Applications, Requirements and Technical Development” predicts over 270 5G networks will be deployed by 2025 and points to two significant trends that are driving the wireless industry to develop 5G network technology. These are the explosive growth in demand for wireless broadband services, which require faster and higher capacity networks to deliver video and other content-rich services and the predicted massive growth of Internet of Things…
GSA attended the Huawei Global Mobile Broadband (MBB) Forum in Hong Kong between the 2-4th of November 2015. Hosted by Huawei and the GSMA it was a spectacular event with the largest presentation screen we have ever seen. Around 1,000 people were in attendance and we listened to presentations from senior executives in the mobile industry including Ken Hu, Deputy Chairman and rotating CEO at Huawei, Alex Arena from Hong Kong Telecom, Peter Wong from Hutchinson 3, Alex Sinclair from the GSMA and Hroshi Nakamura from NTT DOCOMO. There were also very enlightening presentations from the 5G Forum-Korea, CNN, Time Inc., Google, Visa, Vodafone, China Telecom and Facebook to name just a few.
There was a very strong 5G theme over the two days with most presentations mentioning the Internet of Things (IoT) as being a main driver for 5G deployments.
Ken Hu pointed out from the very beginning of his presentation that there is still 1 billion unconnected in the world and 4 billion have no Internet access – this is creating a new digital divide. The industry focus should be to bridge this digital divide and one requirement is for regulators to make more spectrum available.
It is generally agreed that 5G will be about a better user experience – high definition audio and video – with video (4k now and 8k later) anticipated to be up to 70% of all network data traffic by 2020.
Both Google and Facebook referred to video as a main driver for 5G with CNN and Time Inc. echoing this message.
Bill Gajda, who is ex-GSMA and now VP of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships at Visa told the audience they have 2.2 billion payment points – cards and PoS terminals – and that they expect 50 billion by 2020 as multiple devices become payment enabled. There will be Access Points in the edge network to manage this huge growth in payment points using secure tokens to protect user data.
But lets get back to the discussion around IoT and some of the requirements that are driving the revolution or evolution to 5G.
Standards – Costs – Ecosystem – these are three key IoT areas.
Luke Ibbertson from Vodafone talked standards for Narrow Band Cellular IoT and the strides being taken to standardize NB-IoT. There should be commercial products based on the standard in the summer of 2016 with the 800 MHz & 900 MHz bands proposed as the ideal frequencies. Applications included pet trackers and parking bay sensors to inform drivers where the spaces are were suggested.
IoT access costs are currently running at around $5 but need to move to the next growth step of $1 per connection to drive rapid IoT deployments. We also think that clear and simple Service Level Agreements (SLA) need to be in place that encourage developers and product companies to enter the IoT market. Simple to understand SLAs will help drive a healthy ecosystem supporting fast market entry of new kinds of mobile devices and applications.
Our question at the event was to ask, “What will constitute a commercial 5G network or device? What performance criteria needs to be met for a network operator or vendor to be able to claim it is 5G?”
There was some agreement with the results of a recent GSA survey on the topic of 5G commercialisation criteria suggesting that massive MIMO, 1Gbps, sub 1 ms latency, a reduction in deployment costs, 1,000 X capacity increase and network splicing were all important 5G criteria. We don’t yet have a definitive definition of what performance criteria will constitute a 5G network in the eyes of the cautious GSA. Some hints will come in the new 5G GSA Executive Member white paper due out before the 16th November.
As always, GSA will strive to agree clear criteria for agreeing 5G commercial readiness as we look to monitor and report on 5G network and device availability.
But lets not forget that we are still evolving to LTE-Advanced and LTE-Advanced Pro (The new 3GPP brand name for Release 13 and beyond). Stephen How from Bell Canada and Hans Cronberg from Poland’s “new” P4 (Play) operator explained how they continue to roll out LTE with some very interesting 4G LTE marketing from P4 in particular. You had to be there but basically P4 did actually promote a mobile service based on the promise that 4G LTE is coming!
Finally – there is clearly some overlap between what LTE will deliver and what 5G is predicted to deliver from 2020. While we don’t agree that one 5G-performance criteria being met means a commercial 5G network, there will be cases where operators could claim an early 5G network deployment based on a subset of full 5G network performance criteria. It could get messy out there and that is why GSA is striving to help the industry define what 5G will be.
5G Consensus Insights – GSA presentation given at the Global MBB Forum
GSA 5G Consensus Insights - Global MBB Forum Presentation November 4, 2015 - [3MB] Published November 5, 2015 SUMMARY GSA presentation given at the Global MBB forum 5G Round table - Hong Kong 3-4th November 2015 ========== The Road to 5G: GSA Executive Committee report summary based on a survey of GSA registered users. Identifying what are the key performance criteria that will define commercial availability of 5G networks and devices. The survey was undertaken wholly by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), and incorporates information obtained from direct information exchanges between GSA and mobile…