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The 3GPP has told the industry to get cracking on standardising the air interface for 5G.
The standards body wants the “5G New Radio” (NR) to be frozen by June 2018, which should help vendors have devices ready for the planned 2020 date for 5G standards to be ready to fly.
Behind the radio, there will be two architectures: one, called standalone, will be all-5G with a new control plane; the other, non-standalone, will graft the new air interfaces onto the LTE control plane.
The air interfaces will have to support both sub-6 GHz frequency, and the emerging bands above 6 GHz.
The standardisation effort will target “enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), and “ultra-reliable and low latency communications” (URLCC) applications. The latter, Vulture South believes, is a cumbersome way of describing the much-touted Internet of Things.
By September 2016, the 3GPP work plan stipulates that the requirements for the radio interfaces be completed. Layer 1 and Layer 2 specs would then be completed by December 2017, with an initial focus on licensed bands.
The 3GPP announcement stresses that both radio and protocol design be forward compatible, “as this will be key for phasing-in the necessary features, enabling all identified usecases, in subsequent releases of the 5G specification”. ®
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday July 02 2016, @11:53PM
Why are we chasing yet another handset obsoleting technology when carriers are just barely getting LTE to most of the towers. And nowhere have I ever seen the promised speeds from any architecture. Certainly not LTE speed. [androidauthority.com]
Maybe its time to enforce promises made in the past before we let them set new standards.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 03 2016, @12:30AM
5G seems like an attempt to kill Wi-Fi (the high bandwidth part) with Internet of Things thrown in (on a different band).
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2016, @04:19AM
Why are we chasing yet another handset obsoleting technology when carriers are just barely getting LTE to most of the towers.
They're pretty much ubiquitous in Australia. Even in high-density CBD areas during peak hours I can pull an easy 40Mbit. 120Mbit most of the rest of the time. Just steer clear of Optus and their MVNOs.
I'm pretty sure Europe and Asia are in similar situations. Get a move on.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday July 03 2016, @07:26PM
pretty much ubiquitous in Australia.
And a look at the deployment map in the link I posted above will show why. Most of Australia is using category 11 standard, and most of the US is using category 4.
From the chart (scroll up from the map):
Category 12 600 Mbps download 100 Mbps upload
Category 10 450 Mbps download 100 Mbps upload
Category 4 150 Mbps download 50 Mbps upload
(Australia is the only country that uses Category 11. You have to guess its exact speed specs because the article doesn't even have it in the tables. Its probably between 10 and 12, perhaps with slower upload speed).
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(Score: 2) by Celestial on Sunday July 03 2016, @06:04PM
That's America. From what I understand, North America has poor 4G because it was the first continent to implement it. The speeds aren't as fast and the equipment is older. Europe, Asia, and Australia have a much better 4G implementation because they implemented it after North America, so things were more standardized and faster. It looks like that may be the case for 5G as well.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday July 03 2016, @07:05PM
That may have been true of the entire cellular development for the last 20 years.
But You have to wonder why it is true today.
First, 4g means nothing anymore because the term was never nailed down, and the carriers each decide it was something different. LTE was copyrighted and officially defined, BUT still you will not find anywhere in the US that you are actually capable of receiving data at the specified rate. It just doesn't happen in real life. (Where I live I found out that LTE was being tested two months before it was turned up, and cajoled the APN settings from my friend at At&T. My then-new phone was capable, and it was astoundingly fast, easily meeting the specs. Two months later when it went live it was limited to less than 1/4 of the test speeds. Today its crap).
Density of handsets may also play a part. But with cheaper cell service in the EU, I can't believe the handset density is any less there.
Personally I believe the carriers rate-limit intentionally, to allow for future demand, The price for service has been going down lately, so you can't say they are holding it back so they can charge more.
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