Smart Industry 1/2016

tive to ultra-low latency applications,
and from best effort applications to
reliable and ultra-reliable ones such
as health and safety. NGMN is focusing
on eight families of use case:
● Broadband access in dense areas –
pervasive video
● Broadband access everywhere –
50+ Mbps in all areas
● Higher user mobility – high speed
train communications
● Massive Internet of Things – sensor
networks
● Extreme real-time communications
– tactile Internet
● Lifeline communications – natural
disaster
● Ultra-reliable communications – e-
health services.
5G also will expand to new business
models to support different types
of customers and partnerships. Operators
will be able to support vertical
industries by configuring individual
networks to actual user requirements.
Furthermore, 5G will use new network
technologies and infrastructures to
provide the actual capacities needed
to humans and machines.
In addition, 5G services will complement
and largely outperform the
current operational capabilities for
wide-area systems, reaching high-performance
indicators: such as guaranteed
user data rate everywhere of 50
Mbps, aggregate service reliability
of at least 99,999 percent, and the
ability to serve over 7 billion people.
Other benchmarks include:
● Mobility support at speeds ≥ 500
km/h for ground transportation
● Airplane connectivity – 80 per plane,
Demand will
far outstrip
supply in
terms of
capacity and
connectivity.
Volker Held,
Qhead of 5G Market
Development at Nokia
60 airplanes per 18.000 sqkm
● Accuracy of outdoor terminal location
of less than one meter.
This makes clear that 5G is not just another
generation of mobile networks;
it represents a whole new network
concept that will enable ubiquitous
access for cooperative, cognitive, and
heterogeneous wireless resources,
with fixed optical access reaching at
least the 10 Gbps range. In addition it
will make possible new functions and
functionalities that will allow simplified
and unified control.
There is a shared awareness among
stakeholders that the development
of new communication networks will
depend on the emergence of globally
accepted standards for interoperability,
offering economies of scale with
affordable cost for system deployers
and end users.
Standardization: work
in progress
In early 2012 the International Telecommunication
Union Radiocommunication
Sector (ITU-R) embarked
on an ambitious program to develop
“IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication)
for 2020 and beyond”,
setting the stage for 5G research activities
that are currently underway
around the world. Through its Working
Party 5D, ITU’s Radiocommunication
Sector has finalized its view
of a timeline towards IMT-2020. The
first 5G standard isn't expected before
the year 2020. The detailed
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