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Happening in 5G,  AT&T with Intel and Ericsson kick off 5G trials aim at enterprise use cases; startup VisBit shows off Mobile AR, VR, 3-D Video; at MIT, work to incorporate Network Coding  for 5G virtualization; In Europe, Huawei is behind the latest 5G deals with BT for research in areas covering from basestations to network slicing, and with FastWeb for the first 5G MVNO using smallcells; Finally, 5G mmWave links in the 60 GHz band being tested in San Diego reach up to a record 800 meters, and deliver content to eight homes at a time at up to 300 m coverage.

“Mobile Is a Shifting Landscape, Know the Terrain” – 5 Things Happening in 5G

AT&T with Ericsson & Intel Trials 5G Enterprise Markets

AT&T has launched what it calls a 5G business customer trial. It is partnering with Intel, which is hosting the trial in one of their offices in Austin, and with Ericsson. AT&T is saying that the trial delivers more than a gigabit per second bandwidth, enabling Internet access, VPN, Unified Communications apps and 4K HD video streaming. The ultimate goal is to look at future enterprise use cases of 5G VoIP in the 15GHz and 28GHz spectrum bands to validate how millimeter wave (mmWave) powers a 5G network experience. The trial builds upon a prior first public 5G demo featuring streaming 4K HD video, real-time camera feeds and reaching speeds of nearly 14 Gbps conducted with Ericsson. Now, AT&T is taking that demo and exploring what benefits it can provide to real-world business customers. “The future of video is mobile. And the future of mobile is video,” said Tom Keathley, senior vice president, wireless network architecture and design, AT&T. “Mobile video streaming continues to be a vital aspect of our 5G work, and this trial gives us an opportunity to test 4K HD video streaming across further physical distances between pieces of equipment. With our 5G and 4G LTE advancements, we expect speeds rivaling what we see from cable providers. Our path to 5G will help make this vision a reality faster.”

Source: AT&T News Room

AR, VR & 3-D Video CordCutting with WiFi, LTE Today, with 5G Tomorrow

Today’s AR, VR and 3-D Video experiences are largely tight to fixed platforms like consoles, TVs and PCs. However these experiences are migrating to mobile platforms to provide mobile experiences like AR game PokemonGo. Startup Visbit is one of the companies that during the VRX Conference (December 8-9, 2016, San Francisco) was showcasing 3D-Video, VR and AR experiences in mobile platforms. The company said that they already stream 4K HD and 3D-Video to mobile devices over WiFi and LTE with “near zero latency” and they achieve this with focus on managing view-switch latency. This type of latency is defined in the context of 3D Video foveated streaming/rendering. Both Oculus Dynamic Streaming and Visbit “View Optimized Streaming” belong to foveated streaming. In foveated streaming, the visible section of a 360º video is streamed in high resolution, and the non-visible section in low resolution. If the user turns the head, that low resolution stream is switched to high resolution.
For immersive mobile AR,VR and 3D-Video streaming in real-time as envisioned in some 5G use cases, additional type of latencies need to be considered, and the most important is Motion-to-Photon. This latency refers to the time it takes an image to match the movement of a user. Ideally, this time would be 0 msec. for a flawless user experience, in reality Today’s mobile platforms aim at approximately 16 msec. To move this number closer to the ideal 0 msec., device, content delivery (video player streaming the content) and network platforms need readiness. Visbit’s LTE capability shows great progress towards realizing this readiness in 5G.

Source: VisBit, VRX2016

Virtualization in 5G with Network Coding 

MIT is looking at a new approach to virtualization that combines Software Defined Networks (SDN) ,Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Content Centric Networks (CCN), WebRTC, wireless mesh networks, reliable Multicast, and many more with a new technology called Network Coding (NC) for 5G. NC is a new paradigm that breaks from the store–and–forward approach currently used in communications networks. NC allows intermediate nodes in the network to recode incoming data packets, thus providing a store–code–forward paradigm. This ability to code within the network contrasts with traditional end-to-end erasure correcting codes such as Reed-Solomon, LT codes, and Raptor codes, and gives networks the ability to generate redundant packets where they are needed instead of injecting them end–to–end as other erasure codes would do.

This new Network Coding paradigm would require redesign of network protocols, and researchers have already started looking at practical implementation aspects of adding network codes to the future Internet and 5G network protocols and tools. There is already a real-world prototype that uses OpenStack and OpenFlow on the SDN side, and the Kodo Library on the NC side. The prototype shows NC’s capabilities to mask packet losses in the network on single and multi path transmissions. Comparing the results to standard TCP and Multi–Path TCP (MPTCP) as specified by IETF, it shows attainable 3 to 11 fold gains in terms of throughput and reliability even with moderate losses on single–hop, multi–hop, and multi–path scenarios.

Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Huawei Inks 5G Deals with UK’s BT and  Italy’s FastWeb

UK’s British Telecom (BT) and Huawei have announced that they will work together to research various 5G topics, including: network architecture; a new air interface between devices and base stations; ‘network slicing’ – which will allow operators to allocate network resources to specific services; machine-to-machine communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications; and security technologies. “We are determined to maximise the potential of 5G for our customers, so collaborative research has a key role to play as the technology develops. This partnership with Huawei will see us explore the potential uses and make sure 5G is designed to meet the needs of our consumer and business customers throughout the world” said Gavin Patterson, CEO of BT. Italy’s MVNO Fastweb has announced that as part of its plans to exploit 5G technology for fixed wireless, it plans to make use of small cell technology to build a “5G ready” network with a fiber backhaul for 5G small cells (mini-basestations) placed throughout cities. FastWeb has inked a deal with Huawei for the provision of these 5G small cells. Fastweb is planning to cover 5 million households with the technology by 2020.

Source: British Telecom, UBB2020

5G mmWave 60 GHz Link Reaches up to 800 Meters

University of California San Diego is announcing the world’s longest bidirectional phased-array link in the 60 GHz band. At a link distance of 300 m, the 32-element array achieved 2 Gbps over all scan angles up to ±45 degrees. Data rates were 4 Gbps at 100 m and 500 Mbps at 800 m over most scan angles. A leading wireless operator is suggesting the system can deliver content to eight homes at a time at up to 300 m. The entire phased array consumed just 3-4 Watts of DC power due to the high-performance system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs UC San Diego created using the third-generation silicon germanium BiCMOS. “This is the second time UC San Diego has worked with Keysight to demonstrate high-performing phased-array 5G communication links, now achieving gigabit-per-second speeds at previously unimagined ranges and with extremely low power consumption,” said Gabriel M. Rebeiz, member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, distinguished professor and wireless communications industry chair at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

Source: BusinessWire

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Happening in 5G, major technology realization announcements from NEC – a prototype mmWave antenna for 5G basestations –  and from Deutsche Telekom – a demo with Huawei of end-to-end network slicing. On the commercial front, China confirms its 5G network built-out will start in 2019 with an allocated $73B budget. As far as 5G patents and licensing, we are highlighting some remarks from the EU Commission. The last item this week is an overview of the internet protocol evolution to 5G out of the IETF 97 meeting.

“Mobile Is a Shifting Landscape, Know the Terrain”

On the Way to a 5G Basestation, NEC Says mmWave Antennas Are Ready

With 5G expected to support high capacity, high-speed services like HD video, augmented reality and virtual reality, it is important to build a mobile network that is capable to deliver to these requirements competitively over millimeter frequencies (mmWave). Japan’s NEC says that it has developed a prototype 500 massive-element active antenna system (AAS) for the 28GHz band, and with the capability of achieving long distance communications on high radio frequency bands with low power consumption. In a news release, NEC says that the prototype antenna has proved capable of achieving up to one kilometer in long-distance communication in 16 separate directions, at a speed of 30Gbps or faster per cell, in the 28 GHz band, and achieving a spectral efficiency 20 times greater than LTE.

Source: ElenaNeira

IETF Charters Internet Protocol Evolution to 5G

Network slicing, mobile edge computing, machine learning, and LPWA are the high profile 5G related use cases that IETF is looking at to enable the next generation of mobile communication systems. A redesign and/or evolution of the internet protocol (IP) could be needed to meet the requirements of these use cases, and during its November 2016 meeting (IETF97) different threads of work and initiatives took place to kick off design and/or prepare specifications. The IETF is doing the 5G work under different groups. The most relevant outcomes and discussion are a new 5Gangip special group looking at the needs of fixed and mobile next generation 5G protocols; the nmlgr Group looking at applying machine learning for 5G at network level; the first network slicing draft; and ETSI’s  MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) training introduction.

Source: ElenaNeira

China Confirms 5G Network Built-Out Plan for 2019 with $73B Budget 

China aims at realizing 5G commercial service as early as 2020 with the backing of its regulatory body as well as the backing of business plans at several local and global companies. Insiders from IMT-2020(5G) promotion group, which is dedicated to supporting and promoting  5G technology, said that the planned second-phase of technology testing will commence in 2017 as scheduled. The promotion group also disclosed that the experimental stage of 5G will last three years, from 2016 to 2018. Finally the group said that the construction of a 5G network in China will begin in 2019, and it will have a total dedicated budget of $73B.

Sources at China Mobile Research Institute (deputy general manager Mr. Yuhong) said that the three biggest mobile operators in China are already working with OEMs for testing, and added that the first 5G standard will be announced in 2018. On the services and applications area, IMT-2020 5G promotion group is hosting 42 local companies that collaborate at the 5G Joint Innovation Center to research and develop IoT, connected cars, industrial Internet and other verticals. Reportedly some of their projects are close to entering commercial operation phase, ready to be tested.

Source: China People’s Daily 

EU Weights on 5G Intellectual Property and Licensing

During a conference in Belgium, EU Commissioner Vestager offered some remarks about the licensing and patent situation in the mobile sector. The Commissioner cited a recent study findings that $120 of the total cost of every smartphone goes to patent royalties. There were also references to patents essential to a standard and how for some OEMs it “could mean they end up paying unjustified royalties, and their customers have to pay more…” thus the need of a working framework where patent holders usually have to commit to making their technology available on fair terms. These remarks serve as a reminder of the many outstanding licensing and patent issues around 5G. In the past, the EU Commission has shown to favor certain improvements to enable easy and fair access to standards essential patents specially in the 5G IoT area which involves the convergence of many complex technologies. Among others, enhancements in transparency of access to reliable information on standards patent holders, patent scope, and standard essential patent declarations. The Commission has also been positive to facilitating efficient patent disputes to help remove commercial and legal uncertainty for smaller companies. The Commission intends to work with standard development organisations, patent offices, industry and the research community to clarify licensing principles.

Source: European Commission

DeutscheTelekom Demos 5G Network Slicing

Deutsche Telekom and Huawei report completing an autonomous E2E demo of dynamic real-time slicing of the 5G Radio Access network, the Data Center (DC), and the transport network. E2E network slicing is seeing as enabler of 5G services. It is an integral part of the 5G architecture where network classes such as Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC), Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (uRLLC) are ‘logical network’ slices of a unified physical network infrastructure. The demo conducted in DT’s lab in Bonn, Germany implements bandwidth based transport network slicing. The transport network consists of TSDN controllers and DWDM nodes. The controllers generate a series of specific data forwarding paths based on slice topology and service requirements. At radio level, the F-OFDM air interface technology is the key to the spectral granularity and also permits efficient co-existence and isolation of all 5G New Radio (5G NR) slices. In the demo, real-time dynamic adjustments of network slices on very fine spectral granularity, signal process and protocol stack were validated. The automatic implementation is possible with Service Oriented Network Auto Creation that uses software-defined topology, software defined protocol and software-defined resource allocation to ensure the automatic implementation of slice management, service deployment, resource scheduling, and fault recovery based strictly on a detailed and thorough network data analysis.

Source: Deutsche Telekom

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Connectivity Lab team announce a new point-to-point wireless transmission record of 20 Gbps in a 13 Km point-to-point link, with a spectral efficiency of 9.8 bps/hz, using the same amount of power it takes to light a single lightbulb. DoCoMo reports groundbreaking results in two of its 5G trials; one trial with Samsung’s 28 GHz equipment delivering 2.5 Gbps to a device moving in a train at 150 km/h; and the other trial with Huawei’s 4.5 GHz equipment delivering an spectral efficiency of 79.82 bps/hz/cell. Qualcomm announces a new 5G NR Spectrum Sharing testbed with LBT (Listen Before Talk) capabilities. Telefónica says that Huawei’s 5G UCNC PoC delivers 233% more per-cell connections, 78% reduction in signaling overhead, and 95% lower latency than state-of the-art LTE. Last but not least, the work to make the Internet 5G-ready during the IETF97 meeting.

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Telefónica and Huawei UCNC PoC Results in 5G Connections Per Cell Up 233%, Signaling Down 78%

Telefónica and Huawei have been testing CloudRAN UCNC (User Centric No Cell) with a hyper-cell network architecture that enables the large-area coordination of many base station nodes to eliminate handovers between cells and reduce interference from adjacent cells. UCNC reduces the over-the-air protocol signaling overhead and the access protocol latency, as well as increase the number of air-interface connection links. According to the results of PoC tests conducted at Telefónica-Huawei 5G joint lab, the number of 5G connections per cell increased by 233%, the signaling overhead decreased by 78%, and the latency decreased by 95% compared with state-of the-art LTE.

UCNC also defines the “ECO State” as a new device protocol state for sending short packets directly without the need of over-the-air signaling, thus making users be truly “always connected”. Another key technology is “SCMA-based Grant Free Access” to simplify uplink access procedures to reduce latency and increase the number of connected devices. In the next phase of the UCNC PoC, Telefónica and Huawei will target to enhance the cell edge spectral efficiency, in order to avoid end-user experience degradation at the cell edges and network service disruptions.

Source: Telefónica

Qualcomm Announces 5G NR Spectrum Sharing Prototype

Qualcomm announces its first 5G New Radio (NR) spectrum sharing prototype system and trial platform. It enables 5G is to reap the maximum benefits out of the broad range of spectrum – licensed, unlicensed and shared. This new spectrum prototype is an add-on to Qualcomm’s existing prototype systems featuring License Assisted Access (LAA) to aggregate across spectrum types, LTE Wi-Fi Aggregation (LWA) to be combined across technologies and CBRS/License Shared Access (LSA) to share spectrum with occupants. The new spectrum sharing test bed is being expanded to support Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) technology, wideband waveforms with low latency and enhancements in the radio and network protocols. Qualcomm says that “Spectrum sharing technology will not only benefit operators with licensed spectrum but will also open up scope for 5G NR utilization for those without licensed spectrum such as cable operators, enterprise or IoT verticals.”

Source: Qualcomm

Facebook’s Connectivity Lab in Record P2P mmWave Transmission of 20 Gbps over 13 km

Facebook Connectivity Lab as well as Mark Zuckerberg himself announced achieving 20 Gbps over 13 km in a P2P mmWave link using the same amount of power to light a single lightbulb of 105 DC Watts. The transmission used a bandwidth of 2 GHz, resulting in an overall spectral efficiency of 9.8 bps/Hz. Soon this technology will make it into Facebook’s solar-powered planes to beam internet access to areas of the world that aren’t connected. In general, Facebook’s Connectivity Lab sees it to be applicable to a number of solutions they are working on. Ford example, it could be used as a terrestrial backhaul network to support access solutions like OpenCellular, or as a reliable backup to free space optical solutions such as the laser communications gimbal and optical detector in case of fog and clouds. Ultimately, the point-to-point mmWave link is expected to serve as the connection between a ground station and Aquila, our solar powered UAV.

The next generation air-to-ground communication system capable of supporting 40 Gbps each on uplink and downlink between an aircraft and a ground station will be flight-tested in early 2017. Facebook will continue to push the limits of wireless capacity over long ranges while staying within the tough size, weight and power requirements of Aquila communication payloads.

Source: Facebook

Docomo New 5G Trials in 4.5 GHz and 28 GHz

DoCoMo reports groundbreaking results from two separate trials in the 4.5 GHz and the 28 GHz frequency bands. In the 28 GHz mmWave and as part of a joint trial with Samsung, DoCoMo reports achieving a data speed of over 2.5Gbps with a mobile device traveling at 150 km/h in a train. To date, no test had achieved a successful wireless data transmission to a fast-moving device due to the large path-loss of high-frequency radio signals using mmWave frequencies. In this trial, the problem was resolved with the use of massive MIMO with beamforming and beam tracking. In a separate trial, DOCOMO and Huawei report results of an outdoor trial using the 4.5 GHz frequency band in a 100,000 square-meter field. The trial combined multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) technology for simultaneous multiple access and a precoding algorithm that optimizes signals for maximized performance and limits inter-user interference. It achieved a MU-MIMO transmission of a maximum 79.82 bps/hz/cell, which was reportedly 1.8 times better than in the November 2015 outdoor trial conducted in China.

Read more: DoCoMo Trials with Samsung and Huawei 

Internet Roadmap to 5G and Beyond Out of IETF97

Network slicing, mobile edge computing, ultra-low latency, machine learning and massive IoT are among the 5G related use cases that IETF is looking to support in next generation mobile communications. A redesign and/or evolution of the internet protocol could be needed to meet the requirements of these use cases, and during its November 2016 meeting (IETF97) different threads of work and initiatives took place to discuss and prepare specifications. The most relevant are a new 5Gangip special group looking at the needs of fixed and mobile next generation 5G systems, the nmlgr group looking at applying machine learning 5G at network level, the first network slicing draft, and the introduction MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) presented by ETSI.

Source: IETF

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