It is a mobile
broadband system that will provide higher performance than is available today’s
most advanced 4G networks. These performance improvements will be
measurable in terms of speed, latency, reliability, scale and openness.
The 5G system will achieve this higher performance by integrating many new
devices over multiple wireless technologies with new management and
orchestration systems. A 5G system will include existing and new
technologies such as: LTE, new radio technology, highly variable end devices
especially for M2M, virtualized software and management and orchestration
systems. There will be a single global 5G standard to ensure global
coverage. It will be deployed in commercial service by 2020, but components
may be ready earlier.
The main
focus is now on research where evolution of existing technologies is on-going
in parallel with innovation of new technologies. A lot of research is done in
cooperation with universities and partners. By join forces, we can together
understand the new use cases and the new requirements that will be put on 5G.
Pre-standardization
and technology development will be on-going until 2017. Standardization
activities to set the requirements and make 5G a global standard starts at
2017. In parallel, trials and test systems will be up and running. First
commercial system will most likely be deployed by 2020.
Requirements on 5G
The exact performance
levels and requirements that systems and equipment will need to meet to label
themselves 5G are yet to be defined by the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU). This will take place somewhere around 2016-2018.
At this
stage, we are using expectations levels that where set in the METIS project*).
These expectations are:
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Handle 1000 times the mobile data traffic
of today
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Billions of connected devices
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100 times user data rates
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Latency reduced by up to a factor of 5
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10 times the battery life
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Different devices: from mobiles, tablets
and wearables, to cars, trucks, bikes, cereal packets… anything
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Data integrity