Standardization status of ITU-R: IMTAdvanced and beyond

Yoshio Honda
Chairman of SWG Coordination in Working Party 5D, Nippon Ericsson K.K.
International Workshop for the IMT-Advanced and Beyond September 10, 2010

CONTENTS
Introduction Overview of IMT and IMT-Advanced ITU-R WP 5D status for IMT-Advanced standardization ITU-R WP 5D status for beyond IMT-Advanced Next Step Conclusion
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Introduction

IMT A well accepted and growing global solution...

IMT - both the IMT-2000 (3G) and IMT-Advanced (4G) are well developed technologies to meet global needs and enjoy significant worldwide critical mass and support and acceptance....
Globally coordinated frequency bands Global technology acceptance and roaming Voice and broadband high speed data High performance systems Mass market consumer pricing Demonstrated on-going commitment and support from operators and manufacturers to evolve, grow and increase performance and services of IMT Significant consumer and business acceptance of the service and products offered though IMT systems
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Overview of IMT and IMT-Advanced

IMT-Advanced Capabilities
IMT-Advanced will encompass the capabilities of previous systems New capabilities of IMT-Advanced
High

Mobility

IMT-2000

Enhanced IMT-2000

New Mobile Access

This is This is generally generally known as known as the van the van diagram diagram

Enhancement t Enhancemen

Low

New Nomadic / Local Area Wireless Access

1 10 100 Peak useful data rate (Mbit/s) 1000

Interconnection

Nomadic / Local Area Access Systems

Digital Broadcast Systems 6

What is IMT-Advanced within the IMT family?

IMT-Advanced systems are mobile systems that include new capabilities that go beyond those of IMT-2000. They will:
provide access to a wide range of telecommunication services including advanced mobile services, supported by mobile and fixed networks, which are increasingly packet-based. support low to high mobility applications including fixed applications and a wide range of data rates in accordance with user and service demands in multiple user environments. provide for high quality multimedia applications within a wide range of services and platforms, providing a significant improvement in performance and quality of service.
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Key features of IMT-Advanced

a high degree of commonality of functionality worldwide while retaining the flexibility to support a wide range of services and applications in a cost efficient manner; compatibility of services within IMT and with fixed networks; capability of interworking with other radio access systems; high quality mobile services; user equipment suitable for worldwide use; user-friendly applications, services and equipment; worldwide roaming capability; and, enhanced peak data rates to support advanced services and applications (100 Mbit/s for high and 1 Gbit/s for low mobility were established as targets for research)*.
* See Recommendation ITU-R M.1645
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ITU-R WP 5D status for IMT-Advanced standardization

The IMT-Advanced Process addresses elements needed for a global marketplace

Market/ Services view Technology view Vision Rec ITU-R M.1645 Spectrum view Name

Spectrum identification Process definition Open invitation for proposals

Proposals, Evaluation, & Consensus Building

Radio Framework & Core Specifications

2002-2003

2005-2007

2006-2008

2008-2010

2010-2011

5 -2/ 008 9 22 03-2 Q. 20 Setting the stage for the future: 00 0 2 Vision, spectrum, and technology views

Defining the technology

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Schedule for the technology development specifics of IMT-Advanced

2007
WP8F #21 #22
Invitation for proposals 5/LCCE/2 Services framework
Rec ITU-R M.1822

2008
#1 #2 #3 #4

2009
WP5D #5 #6 #7

2010
#8 #9

2011
#10

Add#1 Add#2

PROPOSALS PROPOSALS
Preliminary

EVALUATION

EVALUATION Revise proposals CONSENSUS BUILDING

inside & outside of ITU revise proposals /

Technical requirements
Rep ITU-R M.2134

Evaluation criteria and methodology

Rep ITU-R M.2135

Framework and key characteristics

Rec ITU-R M.[IMT.RADIO]

Detailed specifications of the radio interfaces

Rec ITU-R M.[IMT.RSPEC] 12

Technology proposals for IMT-Advanced

WP 5D received two technology proposals in October 2009.
IEEE Technology: Candidate IMT-Advanced Radio Interface Technology based on IEEE 802.16 3GPP Technology: 3GPP LTE Release 10 & beyond (LTE-Advanced)
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Technology proposals for IMT-Advanced

Submitter Submission in Doc. 5D/ IEEE 542 (based on IEEE 802.16) Japan 544 (based on IEEE 802.16) IEEE Japan 545 (based on LTEAdvanced) 3GPP TTA 560 (based on IEEE 802.16) IEEE 3GPP 564 (LTEAdvanced) China 580 (TD-LTEAdvanced)

Technology label

IEEE

3GPP

3GPP

ITU-R document with acknowledgement

IMT-ADV-4

IMT-ADV-5

IMT-ADV-6

IMT-ADV-7

IMT-ADV-8

IMT-ADV-9

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Evaluation by Evaluation Groups

The Registered Independent Evaluation Groups evaluated the technologies against ITU-R minimum requirements during October 2009 and June 2010.
Evaluation Groups ARIB ATIS WTSC Canada China ETSI Israel Russia TCOE India TR-45 TTA PG707 UADE WiMAX Forum WCAI WINNER+ Evaluations IEEE Technology 3GPP Technology
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Preliminary Evaluation results

All the evaluation reports indicate that both of IEEE and 3GPP Technologies meet the minimum requirements for all the test environments. WP 5D has not yet completed its own evaluation results.

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ITU-R WP 5D status for beyond IMTAdvanced

Rapid Growth of Mobile Broadband Subscriptions

M2M connections to be added on top

Fixed and mobile broadband subscriptions

4,500 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 500 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Subscriptions (million)

Mobile

Fixed 2015

Source: Ericsson Mobile Broadband includes: CDMA2000 EV-DO, HSPA, LTE, Mobile WiMAX & TDSCDMA. It includes handsets, USB dongles, embedded modules etc. The vast majority is handsets. Please note that mobile broadband access could be used for fixed applications Fixed broadband includes DSL, Cable and Fiber This slide contains forward looking statements

Strong Traffic Growth in Mobile Broadband

250

2007

2008

2009

Estimated BH Traffic (TB/h)

200

150

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0 GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA WCDMA GSM

mar 07 jun 07 sep 07 dec 07 mar 08 jun 08 sep 08 dec 08 mar 09 jun 09 sep 09 dec 09 mar 10

Total BH Speech Traffic

Speech

Total BH Packet Traffic

Source: Ericsson, Apr-2010

Packet Data

Spectrum Requirements
the Need for Additional Spectrum was identified Already In the work towards ITU WRC-07
Spectrum Requirements for pre-IMT-Advanced
Y2010 Y2015 Y2020

Market Setting

Spectrum Requirements for IMT-Advanced

Y2010 Y2015 Y2020

Total Spectrum Requirements

Y2010 Y2015 Y2020

Higher Market Setting Lower Market Setting

840 760

880 800

880 800

0 0

500 420

840 480

840 760

1300 1220

1720 1280

REPORT ITU-R M.2078 Estimated spectrum bandwidth requirements for the future development of IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced

Minimum 1280 mhz total spectrum needed by the year 2020

IMT.UPDATE activities
WP 5D started drafting a report IMT.UPDATE since February 2010. To Review the vision and market forecast developed a number of years ago to make an assessment of the current perspectives of the future needs of mobile broadband wireless to be supported by IMT for the next decade (2010-2020)
Framework (Recommendation ITU-R M.1645) Services (Recommendation ITU-R M.1822) Market forecast (Report ITU-R M.2072) Spectrum estimation (Report ITU-R M.2078)
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ITU-R WP 5D Workshop
WP 5D plans to have a workshop for IMT for the decade 2010 -2020 in 2011.
The workshop would focus on the topics related to a refreshment of the vision and market forecasts that were developed a number of years ago and to make an assessment of the current perspectives of the future needs of mobile broadband wireless to be supported by IMT for the next decade (2010-2020). Consideration of technology evolution of the IMT-Advanced technologies and a view of future spectrum needs could also be part of this workshop. The workshop should invite expert views from the industry at large including the views of application developers, endusers, industry forecasters, and visionaries.
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Next Step

Next Step for IMT-Advanced

Decision in China meeting, October 2010
3GPP technology and IEEE technology are candidate technologies for ITU-R Recommendation ITU-R Report IMT.RADIO

ITU-R Recommendation for radio interface specifications

Adoption by SG 5 in November 2011 Approval by RA in January 2012
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Conclusion

Conclusions
IMT-Advanced process is on track in ITU-R, to have the Recommendation in January 2012. Discussions on Beyond IMT-Advanced have just started in ITU-R WP 5D, and it is not yet mature.

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Web Links
The ITU-R Working Party 5D homepage
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=study-groups&rlink=rwp5d&lang=en

Information on IMT-Advanced
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/go/imt-advanced

The ITU-R homepage for IMT-Advanced submission and evaluation process

http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=study-groups&rlink=rsg5-imtadvanced&lang=en

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Thank you

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