Category: Publications

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5G Prospects – Key Capabilities to Unlock Digital Opportunities

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To ensure that the capabilities delivered by 5G are meaningful and timely, this paper uncovers the mutual implications of technology and business drivers, highlighting the key capabilities that 5G must deliver, as well as key issues in realising the 5G vision as stipulated by the NGMN 5G White Paper. Insights are presented for the three major service categories, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communications (mMTC), and ultra-reliable and low latency communications (uRLLC).

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NGMN Perspectives on Vertical Industries and Implications for 5G

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The NGMN 5G White Paper, published in February 2015, outlines, among other things, a wide range of use cases, and discusses the requirements or the required considerations and studies in enabling them. In order to fully realize a sustainable ecosystem, both technical and economic realities need to be carefully assessed. This includes a prominent focus on “Verticals” requirements of 5G, in growing interaction with, engagement of, and input from the Verticals industries. This paper highlights the technical requirements for a number of selected use cases across the vertical industry and the external factors that need to be addressed to make these use cases economically viable.

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Recommendations for NGMN KPIs and Requirements for 5G

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The NGMN Requirements and Architecture team (P1) has now completed its work on key performance metrics relevant to 3GPP TSG RAN SI “Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation Access Technologies”. The attached document is a summary of the NGMN P1 recommendations.

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5G Security Recommendations Package #1

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The NGMN 5G security group has identified 2 series of threats and described those through 9 key issues. The first series focuses on the Access Network, while the second focuses on DoS attacks scenarios that could emerge as IoT market greatly expands with 5G. Each of these key issues contains a description section that explains the problem and why it could have an impact in 5G. Thus, a recommendation section describes for each key issue a solution to address the problem.

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5G Security Recommendations Package #2 : Network Slicing

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The NGMN Requirements and Architecture (P1) work stream on Security has been working with a focus on security threats or flaws that could emerge through the Network Slicing use in 5G.

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Further Elaboration on NGMN KPIs and Requirements for 5G

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The NGMN Requirements and Architecture (P1) is currently working on key performance metrics relevant to 3GPP TSG RAN SI “Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation Access Technologies”. The attached document is a summary from the ongoing NGMN P1 work, updating some KPIs and respective values, providing high level evaluation approach for KPIs.
The work has so far mainly focussed on eMBB, and that it is still investigating requirements for mMTC and URLCC. Therefore it is anticipated that there will be further requirements/KPIs developed as that work matures.

Download NGMN KPIs and Deployment Scenarios for Consideration for IMT2020

Download NGMN Liaison Statement to 3GPP TSG RAN

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Further Elaboration on NGMN Requirement Metrics and Deployment Scenarios for IMT-2020

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The NGMN Requirements and Architecture (P1) team is working on representative key performance indicators (KPIs) and representative deployment scenarios relevant to ITU-R WP5D’s work on General Technical Performance Requirements and Evaluation Criteria/Methods for IMT-2020. The attached document summarizes the KPIs currently considered by NGMN as relevant for the development of IMT-2020. In addition, the document also provides relevant deployment scenarios and high level guidance on how the identified KPIs could be evaluated.

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Further Elaboration on NGMN Requirement Metrics and Deployment Scenarios for 5G

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The NGMN Requirements and Architecture team is working on representative deployment scenarios and key performance metrics relevant to 3GPP TSG RAN SI “Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation Access Technologies”. The attached document is a summary from the ongoing NGMN work, updating some KPIs and respective definitions, providing high level evaluation approach for KPIs and describing main challenges for each deployment scenario and evaluation goals. The work has so far mainly focussed on eMBB.

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Description of Network Slicing Concept

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The NGMN 5G White Paper Version 1.0 published in February 2015 has positioned the demands and business requirements beyond 2020 and introduced the network service deployment concept of Network Slicing with some high level examples.

In order to enable SDOs to develop viable standards for Network Slicing there is a need to refine the concept and establish a common terminology for Network Slicing. This would also help actors across the industry to have a common understanding of the expectations and the characteristics of such important concept.

This document describes further details of the concept of Network Slicing and provides common terminology.

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Recommendations For Small Cell Development and Deployment

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This document is the final deliverable of the NGMN Small Cell project. It summarizes all the activities that have run in parallel in the 3 work streams of the project and it contains recommendations for cost effective Small Cell deployment and development.

In particular, this deliverable contains a summary of the most promising use cases and scenarios for Small Cell deployment that have been identified among the operators members of NGMN. Some technical solutions able to proper address the identified scenario, are also analysed. Moreover, a list of the most critical barriers for Small Cell deployment have been identified and some of those barriers have been addressed (i.e. traffic geolocalization in order to proper place Small Cells, macro-Small Cell mobility and load coordination, …).

This deliverable also contains the requirements for multi-vendor deployment of HetNet networks that are broadly addressed in dedicated deliverables [3, 4].

At last, also backhaul requirements for HetNet networks beyond release 8 are included, summarizing and complementing further requirements contained in other NGMN deliverables.

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