Dr. Howard Benn

Head of Standards and Industrial Affairs, Samsung Electronics

October 31st, 2018

4G vs. 5G

2

1

0.1 1 10

100x 10x

1x

10

10 1

10

350 400

1x 3

500

1

20

4G

5G, the New Frontier

3 (Source : 3GPP NR Frequency Band)

(Above 6GHz) (Below 6GHz)

Bandwidth

Center Frequency

Up to 3.25GHz Bandwidth

(26/28/39GHz)

Below 6GHz Above 6GHz

USA

Europe

Korea

Japan

India

194MHz

400MHz

280MHz

Max 500MHz

275MHz

3.4 3.8

3.42 3.7

3.6 4.2

3.3 3.6

2.496 2.69

3.5

4.4 4.9

China 500MHz 3.3 3.6 4.8 5.0

5.5 4.5 2.5

4

25 30 35 40 65 70

850MHz

3.25GHz

2.4GHz

2GHz

3GHz 27.5 28.35

24.25 27.5

26.5 28.9

27.5 29.5

37 40

2.75GHz 24.75 27.5

5.5GHz 37 42.5

7GHz 64 71

5GHz 66 71

Unlicensed

Unlicensed

24.25 25.25

700MHz 47.2 48.2

1GHz

28

* Based on Operators’ Public Announcement

5G Commercial Timelines

5

3GPP Standard

Korea (KT)

5G Pre Commercial (Winter Sports Games)

NSA

US (Verizon)

5G FWA

(28GHz) NSA

Korea

5G Mobile (3.5GHz)

NSA

China

5G Mobile

SA

US

5G Mobile

NSA

Feb. 2H Dec.

5G Mobile

NSA

Japan

6

Fixed

Mobile

7

8

CPE

NRU

CPE

NRU

CPE

NRU

CPE

NRU

CPE

NRU ※ Independent & detailed measurement report can be seen from Signals Ahead from Signals Research Group, "5G: The Greatest Show on Earth! Volume 1: Bending Light Feb 2018"

(Jun. 2017~ Mar. 2018)

Subframe 0.25ms

Frame 12.5ms

Subcarrier Spacing

60 kHz

Bandwidth 80 MHz x 2

Below 6GHz 5G Mobile Trials in Korea

9

NR Key Features

10

... 50m ?

Actual Results

1.2km (Residential area, LOS, 40m Height)

1200m

41

0m

TX

800m (Residential area, LOS, 2m Height)

800m (2660ft)

Concern

11

CPE CPE CPE

460m 460m (1530ft) 800m

AU Height : 2m AU Height : 7m

CPE CPE CPE

Outdoor Main Road Coverage

19 5G & LTE 1:1 Co-Location

(Inter Site Distance : 120m)

Dense Urban (Seoul, May 2018)

940m

65

0m

>99% of LTE Coverage

28GHz CPE on the car

>94% of LTE Coverage

28GHz Tablet at sidewalk

-70 ≥ RSRP

-80 ≤ RSRP < -70

-90 ≤ RSRP < -80

-100 ≤ RSRP < -90

-110 ≤ RSRP < -100

RSRP -110

12

Step 1

Samsung RF Planning Tool

13

Semantic 3D Map Generation

RF Planning & Site Optimization

Foliage/Materials from Real Images

Semantic 3D Map

Coverage & Throughput Simulation

AU Location Optimization

mmWave Analysis by Ray-tracing

Ray & Foliage Effect Analysis

Radio Map Analysis

Step 2 Step 3

14

Rooftop Installation

Wall Installation

Cable Wall Penetration

Window Installation

Flat Cable

Pole Installation

World’s Fastest Multi-cell Handover

15

300m

Handover

Handover

400m

Stable 5G Service at Over 200 km/h

NDU, vCore,vRAN

(Korea, 2017)

16

Initial Commercial Launch (4 Markets by 2018)

5G Access Unit (RU+DU)

Outdoor CPE

Indoor CPE

17

5G FWA Technology & Expertise

will Accelerate Commercial NR Mobile

5G NR Mobile Early Commercial

World’s 1st 5G FWA

18 18

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The Vision – Next-Gen Network Management

Data Collection

• Real time data collection

• Service, virtual/physical

resources

• Holistic analysis based on

big-data and AI

• Context-aware

• Prediction

Analysis Perception/Prediction

AI-Based Automation

Decision making by human operator Traditional

• Autonomous system

• Personalization, optimization

Self-Management

Automation System

Context

Analysis

Decision

AI

Model

Big-data

5G Physical Network

Network Slice 3 (Smart Factory)

Network Slice 2 (IoT)

Network Slice 1 (Autonomous driving)

Virtualization

Edge Cloud Core

Cloud

Monitoring

Command/ Recommendation

Monitoring

Command/ Recommendation

<AI-Based Network>

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SA2 – Service-Based Architecture (SBA, TS23.501)

UE (R)AN UPF

AF

AMF SMF

PCF UDM

DNN6

NRFNEF

N3

N2 N4

AUSF

Nausf Namf Nsmf

NpcfNnrfNnef Nudm Naf

NSSF

NnssfSBA entities

Authentication Server Function (AUSF)

Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF)

Session Management Function (SMF)

Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF)

Network Exposure Function (NEF)

NF Repository Function (NRF)

Policy Control Function (PCF)

Unified Data Management (UDM)

Application Function (AF)

Other Functions defined in SA2 but not shown

Unified Data Repository (UDR)

Unstructured Data Storage Function (UDSF)

5G-Equipment Identity Register (5G-EIR)

Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP)

Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF)

User Plane Function (UPF)

Data Network (DN), e.g. operator services, Internet

access or 3rd party services

User Equipment (UE)

(Radio) Access Network ((R)AN)

User Plane entities

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SA5 – Orchestration of slices (TS28.533)

NFV Orchestrator

(NFVO)

VNF Manager(VNFM)

Virtualised Infrastructure

Manager(VIM)

NSSMF

NFV-MANO

PNF VNF

Os-Ma-nfvo

Ve-Vnfm-em

Ve-Vnfm-vnf

Or-Vnfm

Vi-Vnfm

Or-ViNFMF

NSS Management service

NF provisioning service

NF provisioning

service

NF provisioning service

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AI as ‘glue’ across domains

NSMF MDAF NSSF NEF NRF PCF UDM UDR AF

CSMF EGMF NFMF AUSF AMF SMF UDSF NWDAF

SEPP

UE (R)AN UPF DN

5G-EIR

NSSMF

AI layer

NFVO

VNFM

VIM

All NFs

Underlying Infrastructure

Orchestration

Management

Control Plane

User Plane

THANK YOU