5G is coming

I stumbled upon very interesting article about 5G in metro.co.uk

There are also mentioned about Samsung proposed solutions :

• hologram calls 
• drive the boom in self-driving cars

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According to metro.co.uk estimated date of 5G arrival is 2020 and from mirror opinion : 

"major players such as Samsung and Nokia are already working towards it"

What brings 5G ?

• hologram calls, 
• virtual reality 
• broadcasting of live football games
• self-driving cars

5G - mirror.co.uk

source : http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/22/5g-is-coming-heres-what-the-new-phone-network-will-do-6084221/

10 open questions about 5G

10 open questions about 5G

1. 5G UE ?

• In 5G UE future market are Intel , Qualcomm ,  Samsung.
• Still 5G UE prototype has not been shown by any of future vendors.

2. Bandwith of 5G  cell ?

• In LTE according to 3GPP is 1.4MHz , 3MHz , 5MHz , 10MHz , 15MHz , 20MHz .
• For 5G there is lack of specification yet,
• Bandwith of 5G cell will be at least 10-30 times bigger.

3. Power  of 5G transmitters ?

• It depends of distance which should transmitter / receiver handles.

4. Expected 5G distance  ?

• Samsung made demonstration where was distance around 4.35km in outdoor enviroment  using a 28GHz antennas.

• Anyway 5G network is planned for ultra-high dense areas and expected distances can be rather low then 4km.

5. 5G Frequency ?

• Higher frequency in comparison to LTE. Up to 73GHz.

6. 5G Interaction  with legacy mobile networks ? 

• Still it's under discussion and analysis.

7. 5G antennas ?

• Because of MIMO 8x8 and higher antena is planned from scratch.

8. Core architecture of 5G ?

• cloud solution and virtualization and SDN ( software defined networks ).

9. Purpose of 5G ?

• hi data throughput
• new application of 5G network ( sensors , IoT )
• hi data peak rate
• immediate adaptation for enviroment conditions
• total new 5G devices ( more functionalities )

10. When first deployment ?

• Verizon

Verizon plans firstly deploy mobile hotspot and fixed wireless for start of the  5G mobile network in the United States  in 2017.

• AT&T

Approach of AT&T is to execute rapid 5G deployment shortly after 3GPP first release of the official specifications . 5G Specification should contains  basic rules and standards of 5G.

• Korea 

Winter Olympic will start  9th of February 2018 . Everyone is expecting 5G mobile network in Korea during Olympic.

AT&T aligning with vendors in 5G direction

AT&T aligning with vendors in 5G direction

AT&T wants to bring 5G maket in US as soon as possible.
Encourage operators and vendors to align efforts on 5G for the purpose to enable faster deployment.

Schedule of 5G deployments 

standard should be release in 2018  
commencial first deploymnets in 2020

AT&T connection in 5G market

AT&T said it is in touch about preliminary discussions with : 

China Mobile, 
Deutsche Telekom, 
Ericsson, 
Intel, 
KDDI, 
LG, 
Nokia, 
NTT Docomo, 
Qualcomm, 
Samsung, 
SK Telecom, 
Telstra
Vodafone.



source : http://www.mobileworldlive.com/

BT and Nokia started collaboration in 5G

research collaboration agreement on 5G technologies was signed between : BT telecom and Nokia.

Reason of that agreement is willing to develop 5G technologies together to meet requirements for :

• hi data traffic 
• handling amount of data 
• instant comminication in various ways
• the creation of 5G Proof of Concept (PoC)  
• development of the  technology standards and equipment.

Plans for collaboration are broad . We are looking forward for first steps and results of this plan.

source : http://www.itwire.com

SK Telecom and Verizon partnership in 5G

SK Telecom and Verizon partnership in 5G

In this week was announcement that SK Telecom and Verizon extend 5G partnership . 


It will related to scenarios : 

applications for 5G technology
specifications for 5G solutions

What are the 5G plans ?

Verizon : 

pre-commercial deployment in 2017

SKT :

pre-commercial deployment in 2017

5G UE ?

For the time being now there is no 5G UE are availabe , but as we see Intel is going very quickly with his proposals we will be what can be shown and proposed in 2017 for world market .

source :  http://www.zdnet.com

Intel 5G chipsets

Intel 5G chipsets

Intel is looking for place in 5G network.Delivery processors is a method . No 5G architecture inpact of Intel.Oportunity will be processors.In annual  Intel Developer Forum which was organized in San Francisco was discussion about 5G world.
Background was IOT , sensors , autonomous vehicles. 

One of the output from discussion is : “We don’t know what the future will look like. If you look back to 2G networks, it was all about phones and voice, and then we started having the data revolution. By the time we were rolling out LTE [4G networks], we started requiring things that hadn’t been planned for when LTE was originally designed” 
said Keddy. 

Assumption  5G architecture

•  software-defined networking (SDN)
•  network function virtualisation (NFV)

5G key aspects

•  air interfaces operating at millimetre wavelengths,
•  data rates measured in gigabits per second,
•  latency down to below 1ms for an end-to-end round trip delay.

source : http://www.computerweekly.com/

Intel Plans Commercial Deployment in 2020 , 5G Trials in 2018

Intel Plans Commercial Deployment 

Intel is staking much of its immediate future on 5G wireless technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT). At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, it showed off its latest efforts, including a new compute module called Joule that Intel customers will put to work inspecting aircraft, monitoring pedestrians .

source : http://www.pcmag.com/news/347093/intel-plans-5g-trials-in-2018-commercial-deployment-in-2020