5G is Real: Evaluating the Compliance of the 3GPP 5G New Radio System With the ITU IMT-2020 Requirements

Samer Henry,Ahmed Alsohaily,Elvino S Sousa

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2977406

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Abstract

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) submitted the 5G New Radio (NR) system specifications to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a candidate fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system (formally denoted as IMT-2020 systems). As part of the submission, 3GPP provided a self-evaluation for the compliance of 5G NR systems with the ITU defined IMT-2020 performance requirements. This paper considers the defined 5G use case families, Ultra Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), and provides an independent evaluation of the compliance of the 3GPP 5G NR self-evaluation simulations with the IMT-2020 performance requirements for connection density, reliability, and spectral efficiency for future mobile broadband and emerging IoT applications. Independent evaluation indeed shows the compliance of the 3GPP 5G NR system with the ITU IMT-2020 performance requirements for all parameters evaluated by simulations.

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Mobile communication applications have shifted from basic voice telephony to empowering a wide range of verticals across various industries, most notably via the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and are expected to continue to grow, occupy an integral part of our lives and transform societies as a whole [1], [12], [13]
The prime IMT-2020 candidate system, the 5G New Radio (NR) system developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) [6]–[10], promises to fulfill the IMT2020 system requirements set out by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) [2]–[5] as detailed in the 3GPP self-evaluation submission [11]
This paper focuses on assessing the performance of the 3GPP 5G NR system for applications in the areas of massive Machine Type Communications, Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband, which are expected to play an integral role in future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with focus on key parameters evaluated by system simulations to providing an independent evaluation to the compliance of the 3GPP submitted 5G NR selfevaluation simulations [11] via a custom simulator, which considered numerous academic and industrial simulations [14], [18]–[21] and compares the results of 3GPP developed simulations by companies such as Huawei, Ericsson, Intel and NTT Docomo among others

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Introduction

Mobile communication applications have shifted from basic voice telephony to empowering a wide range of verticals across various industries, most notably via the rapidly expanding Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and are expected to continue to grow, occupy an integral part of our lives and transform societies as a whole [1], [12], [13]. This paper focuses on assessing the performance of the 3GPP 5G NR system for applications in the areas of massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), which are expected to play an integral role in future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, with focus on key parameters evaluated by system simulations to providing an independent evaluation to the compliance of the 3GPP submitted 5G NR selfevaluation simulations [11] via a custom simulator, which considered numerous academic and industrial simulations [14], [18]–[21] and compares the results of 3GPP developed simulations by companies such as Huawei, Ericsson, Intel and NTT Docomo among others.

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