AFRICA DAY WORKSHOP

Johannesburg, South Africa 14 November 2001

Global Standardization by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) within the IMT 2000 Framework

Adrian Scrase
Head of the Mobile Competence Centre European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) & 3GPP Project Coordination Group Secretary
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October 2001

Contents
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 3GPPs involvement in the IMT-2000 framework The evolution paths from 2G to IMT 2000 (3G, UMTS) The organization of 3GPP? Progress made so far by 3GPP What does the future hold? What resources are made available to 3GPP and who are the stakeholders? Conclusions

3GPPs involvement in the IMT-2000 framework

IMT-2000
The 5 IMT 2000 terrestrial interfaces agreed by ITU-R (in 1999)
Direct Sequence Time Code Single Carrier Multi-Carrier Frequency Time

DS
UTRA FDD

TC
UTRA TDD High & low chip rates

SC
UWC 136

MC
cdma2000

FT
DECT

3GPP

UWCC TR45

3GPP2

ETSI

The evolution paths from 2G to IMT2000 (3G, UMTS)

The paths to UTRA

GSM
(inc HSCSD)

EDGE GPRS

UTRA
FDD TDD High Low

IMT-2000 family

DS TC

(aka: TD-SCDMA) Voice & low-speed data Voice & medium-speed data Voice & high-speed data

Circuit Switched

Packet Switched

IP (option)

Paths from other technologies, e.g. IS-136, PDC

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Summary of 3GPP Technologies

In the evolution from 2G to 3G, 3GPP is responsible for delivering the Technical Specifications for the following technologies:
GSM GSM - HSCSD GSM - GPRS GSM - EDGE W-CDMA - FDD mode W-CDMA - TDD mode with both high and low chip rate variants (low chip rate = TD SCDMA), W-CDMA - HSDPA
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The organization of 3GPP

What is 3GPP ?
3GPP is: A collaborative agreement between Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and other related bodies for the production of a complete set of globally applicable Technical Specifications and Reports that: build on the success of the GSM Standard which currently serves over 590 Million users in more than 172 countries form the basis of IMT 2000 family members defines the evolution of the GSM platform to 3G and beyond

Organizational Partners
3GPP is: Open to all national/regional Standards Development Organizations irrespective of their geographical location (Organizational Partners)

CWTS

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Market Representation Partners

3GPP is: Open to all organizations that can offer market advice and a consensus view of market requirements (Market Representation Partners)

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Observers
Observers are Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) who have the qualifications to become future Organizational Partners. 3GPP currently has three Observers: Telecommunications Industries Association (TIA) Telecommunications Standards Advisory Council of Canada (TSACC) Australian Communications Industry Forum (ACIF)

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Individual Members
3GPP is: Open to the members who belong to each Organizational Partner Currently, more than 450 Individual Member companies are actively engaged in the work of 3GPP

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3GPP internal structure

Project Co-ordination Group

TSG
Radio Access Network

TSG
Core Network

TSG
Terminals

TSG
Service and System Aspects

TSG
GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network

Technical Specifications

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3GPP Releases
Specifications are grouped into Releases
A mobile system can be constructed based on the set of all specifications which comprise a given Release A Release differs from the previous Release by having added functionality introduced as a result of ongoing standardization work

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The 3GPP Specification Releases

Release 99
content frozen December 1999

Release 4
content frozen March 2001

Release 5
content expected to be frozen March 2002

Release 6
content expected to be frozen June 2003

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Progress made so far by 3GPP

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Release 99

GSM
Phase 1 Phase 2 Rel 96 Rel 97 Rel 98

3G
Rel 99 Rel 4 Rel 5

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
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Release 99
Main feature:
Creation of the Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) both in FDD and TDD (3.84 Mcps) modes. (Fully referenced in ITU-R M.1457)

Other features:
CAMEL phase 3 Open Service Architecture (basic version) Location Services (LCS): improvements and corrections of the basic version Narrowband AMR (new codec)

Lot of other smaller uncorrelated improvements (multicall, HSCSD for 2G, etc)
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Release 4

GSM
Phase 1 Phase 2 Rel 96 Rel 97 Rel 98

3G
Rel 99 Rel 4 Rel 5

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
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Release 4
Main features:
Low Chip Rate TDD (1,28 Mcps) GERAN concept established (EDGE/GPRS Iu interface) Bearer independent Circuit Switched network architecture
the MSC is split in Media Gateway for transport and MSC server for signalling

Streaming
Retrieval of real time video (e.g. movie playback)

Multimedia messaging
Enhanced messaging (rich text formatting and still image) Multimedia messaging (multimedia attachments)

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What does the future hold?

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Release 5

GSM
Phase 1 Phase 2 Rel 96 Rel 97 Rel 98

3G
Rel 99 Rel 4 Rel 5

1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
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Release 5
Main features:
IP-based Multimedia Services (IMS)
handling of multimedia services using SIP signalling and the bearers offered by the PS domain. (Note: dependant on availability of IETF RFCs. IMS security will not be available until June 2002).

High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) with downlink speeds in the order 8-10 Mbit/s (Included in latest ITU-R update of M.1457) Wideband AMR (new 16 kHz codec) CAMEL Phase 4
new functions as mid-call procedures, Interactions with Optimal Routing, etc.

End-to-end QoS in the PS domain (subject to confirmation) Global Text Telephony (GTT) (i.e. real time text)

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New work agreed at TSG#13

TSG#13 (Beijing, Sept 2001) agreed to study the following new subjects:
Distributed Speech Recognition (e.g. results of the Aurora Project) Digital Rights Management Wireless Lan /3G interworking (but not limited to 802.11b) UE functionality split (i.e. fuctional split of the radio and terminal functions)

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Release 6
Currently planned for June 2003:
Content to be defined

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What resources are made available to 3GPP and who are the stakeholders?

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Who are the stakeholders ?

By Region Individual Members
(Companies) ETSI (Europe) North America Asia (350) (28) (80)
80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

Total
As at 9 August 2001

458

30%

20%

10%

0% ETSI USA ASIA

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The Mobile Competence Centre

3GPP has a Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) providing comprehensive project support MCC: is located at the ETSI HQ in Sophia Antipolis, France has 27 full time personnel is an International team of 14 nationalities from 4 continents has an annual budget of approximately 7 Million $ US is ISO 9002 compliant

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Influencing the work

3GPP is contribution driven
Is your company interested in 3GPP Technologies? If so, are you participating in 3GPP? If not, then why not! All progress is the result of contributions Progress can be accelerated by more input New Features may be proposed by 3GPP Individual Members, so Make sure your interests are taken care of.

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Conclusions
Release 99 firmly established
more than 300 Technical Specifications and Reports an unprecedented achievement in standardization!

Release 4 stable (March 2001) Release 5 on target for early 2002 bringing added functionality Release 6 in the planning process 3GPP is the principal driver in IMT 2000

http://www.3gpp.org
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