Overview of 3GPP

and 5G standards
© 3GPP 2012

Balazs Bertenyi - Chairman of 3GPP RAN

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 Outline

3GPP structure and membership

5G vision  5G NR © 3GPP 2012

3GPP releases and 5G NR standards

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 3GPP structure and membership
© 3GPP 2012

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 3GPP structure
Technology Standards for global cellular technologies:
GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE-(A) (incl LAA), and 5G-NR (including NR-U)

Technology Standards for the full system: Radio, Core, Security, O&M, Codecs, Testing

© 3GPP 2012

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 3GPP facts & figures
600+ Companies from 45 Countries

75,000 delegate days per year

100,000 meeting documents per year

© 3GPP 2012

1,200 specifications per Release

10,000 change requests (CRs) per year

New Release every ~18 months

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 Membership expansion
The 5G effect: variety of new members
Agriculture (e.g., John Deere, Husqvana, etc)
Car manufacturers (e.g, Volkswagen, Volvo, Toyota)
Railway (e.g., International Union of Railways)
Industry Automation (e.g., Siemens)
Energie sector (e.g., Legrand) © 3GPP 2012
Broadcast (e.g., EBU, BBC, TDF)
Satellite (e.g., ESO, Inmarsat, THALES)
Defense and space (e.g., Lockheed Martin, BAE)
Online commerce (e.g., Alibaba)
Social Media (e.g., Facebook)

Teljes lista:
http://www.3gpp.org/about-3gpp/membership

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 3GPP organization

© 3GPP 2012

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 5G vision  5G NR
© 3GPP 2012

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 5G vision
Perfect storm of multiple technology breakthroughs:
Low latency radio with fully flexible network
Millimeter wave operation
© 3GPP 2012
Vertical industries going wireless
Device revolution for AR/VR
Artificial Intelligence and Automation

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 5G vision  5G NR
Operation from low to very high bands: 0.4 – 100Ghz
Including standalone operation in unlicensed bands (NR-U)
Ultra wide bandwidth
Up to 100MHz in <6GHz© 3GPP 2012
Up to 400MHz in >6GHz
Set of different numerologies for optimal operation in
different frequency ranges
Massive MIMO for better performance
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 5G vision  5G NR
Native forward compatibility mechanisms
New channel coding
LDPC for data channel, Polar coding for control channel
© 3GPP 2012
Native support for Low Latency and Ultra Reliability
Flexible and modular RAN architecture: split fronthaul,
split control- and user-plane
Native support for Network Slicing

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 Release 15 – the advent of 5G
© 3GPP 2012

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 Timeline
2017 2018 2019 2020

Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

Rel-15 NSA Rel-15 NSA

(option-3) (option-3) “Main drop” © 3GPP 2012
freeze ASN.1 Rel-15 Rel-15
“Early drop” freeze (incl ASN.1 (incl “Late drop”
5G SA) 5G SA) Rel-15 late Rel-15 late
drop freeze drop ASN.1

Rel-16 Study phase Rel-16 Study and Normative phase

Rel-16
RAN1 freeze

Rel-16
freeze

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 Why the multiple “drops”
“Early drop” for Non-Standalone 5G
Addresses the most urgent deployment needs for eMBB
Uses LTE anchor with 5G NR in Dual Connectivity configuration
Accelerated specification© 3GPP
to ensure
2012 a single global ecosystem
“Main drop” for Standalone 5G
Contains full standalone 5G support with 5G Core
“Late drop” for some migration needs
Contains specs for all potential migration options
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 Release 16 -
© 3GPP 2012

towards the full 5G vision

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 Timeline
2017 2018 2019 2020

Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

Rel-15 NSA Rel-15 NSA

(option-3) (option-3)
freeze ASN.1 Rel-15 Rel-15 © 3GPP 2012
freeze (incl ASN.1 (incl
5G SA) 5G SA) Rel-15 late Rel-15 late
drop freeze drop ASN.1

Rel-16 Study phase Rel-16 Study and Normative phase

Rel-16
freeze

Rel-16
ASN.1

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 Release 16 – 5G Expansion
2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2019 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4

5G Vehicle to X (V2X)

5G Industrial IoT
© 3GPP 2012
5G URLLC enhancements 5G
5G for Unlicensed spectrum operation Expansion

5G for Satellite

5G above 52.6GHz
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 Release 16 – 5G Efficiency
2018 Q3 2018 Q4 2019 Q1 2019 Q2 2019 Q3 2019 Q4

Interference Mitigation

5G SON & Big Data

5G MIMO enhancements
© 3GPP 2012
5G Location and positioning enhancements 5G
5G Power Consumption improvements Efficiency
Dual Connectivity enhancements

Device capabilities exchange

Mobility enhancements

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 Balance

5G 5G
Expansion © 3GPP 2012
Efficiency

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 Release 17 planning
© 3GPP 2012

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 Release 17 - Key milestones
RAN#84 (June/2019): One full day was set aside for initial presentations on Rel-17 proposals
Consolidation of multi-company proposals into Work Areas, start email discussion on these
RAN#85 (September/2019): Review of email discussion progress on Work Areas, adjust where
necessary
RAN#86 (December/2019): Approval of Release 17 content
2019 2020 © 3GPP 2012 2021

Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3

Approval of
Rel-17
content

Release 17 specification work

Rel-17 RAN1 Rel-17

freeze freeze

Rel-17 ASN.1
freeze
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 Release 17 Work Areas 1/3
NR Light
Optimal operation for mid-tier NR devices (e.g MTC, wearables, etc…), incl power saving aspects
NR above 52.6 GHz (inlc 60GHz unlicensed)
Preparing for waveform decision for >52.6GHz, and decision cut off point (between waveforms)
Generic enhancements to NR-U
Generic unlicensed operation enhancements not covered by any other item
© 3GPP 2012
Small data transfer optimization
Small Data and Inactive Data transmission (both Uplink and Downlink)
Sidelink enhancements
Includes V2X, Commercial, Critical Communications
Includes FR2 (>6GHz) aspects
Achieve maximum commonality between commercial, V2X, and Critical Communication usage of sidelink
Multi SIM operation
Identify the RAN impact of target use cases for Multi SIM operation, identify specification impacts

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 Release 17 Work Areas 2/3

Coverage enhancements
Clarify requirements for all relevant scenarios focusing on extreme coverage
Data rate target FFS.
Includes both indoor as well as wide area
NB-IoT and eMTC enhancements
© 3GPP
Enhancements motivated by current commercial 2012
deployments
IIoT and URLLC enhancements
Header compression aspects and other Release 16 leftovers
MIMO enhancements
Enhancements motivated by current commercial deployments
E.g.: Support for cases with high speed mobility, better support for FDD
NR for Non Terrestrial Networks
Integrated Access and Backhaul Enhancements
E.g. Mobile IAB
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 Release 17 Work Areas 3/3
NR multicast broadcast
Main drivers: V2X and Public Safety
Power saving enhancements
Enhancements for power saving of smartphones
Network power saving aspects
RAN data collection enhancements © 3GPP 2012

Includes SON and MDT enhancements

Data collection to enable AI
Positioning enhancements
Factory/campus positioning, IoT, V2X positioning, 3D positioning, cm level accuracy, incl latency and reliability
improvements

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 Release 17 content definition
Email discussion for each Work Area to be conducted on the RAN_Drafts exploder
until December/2019
This is an open email exploder, anyone can follow the discussions
Each email discussion to use a dedicated tag in the Subject: (and potential sub-tags) for easy
traceability
© 3GPP 2012

Release 17 content definition decision in December (3GPP TSG RAN#86):

Only a small subset of all Work Areas will be taken on board!
Note: What is left out can again be considered in Release 18

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 Thank You !
© 3GPP 2012

Balazs Bertenyi
Chairman of 3GPP RAN
balazs.bertenyi@nokia.com
+36 20 9849152
www.3gpp.org

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