ETSI SUMMIT

ON
5G NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

5G Infrastructure Work in 3GPP
Presented by Georg Mayer, 3GPP CT Chairman

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 5G Ancestors
› 3G / UMTS 
› from CS‐Data to HSPA

› LTE 
› All IP
› Mobile Broadband
› Voice over LTE (IMS/VoLTE)

› LTE Advanced Pro
› Cellular InterNet of Things 
› Mission Critical Push To Talk
› Dedicated CoreNetworks, Traffic Steering, ...

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 5G Timeline & Phasing

› Release timing
Mar-17 Jun-18 Dec-19/ Mar-20

5G Study 5G Phase 1 5G Phase 2

› Two phases for the normative 5G work
› Phase 1 (Rel‐15) to be completed by June 2018
addresses the more urgent subset for commercial deployments

› Phase 2 (Rel‐16) to be completed by March 2020
IMT 2020 submission, addresses all identified use cases & requirements

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 5G Requirements Documentation
› Requirements
› General 5G Requirements
TS 22.261 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22261.htm

› Studies on Requirments
› mIOT ‐ massive Internet of Things 
TS 22.861 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22861.htm
› CRIC – critical communications 
TS 22.862 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22862.htm
› eMBB – enhanced mobile broadband 
TS 22.863 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22863.htm
› NEO – network operations 
TS 22.864 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22864.htm
› V2X – vehicle communication 
TS 22.886 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/22886.htm
› …

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 5G Phase 1 (Rel‐15) – Status & Documentation

› Architecture
› Completed study – TR 23.799 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23799.htm
› Architecture – TS 23.501 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23501.htm
› System Flows – TS 23.502 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23502.htm

› Security
› Ongoing study – TR 33.899 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/33899.htm
› Normative work – TS 33.501 http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/33.501.htm

› Protocols
› Study phase just started – normative work to follow in the next 3 to 6 months
› Normative work needs to be completed by June 2018

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 Requirements for a Basic 5G System

› Mobility Management & Roaming
› Session Management & Session Continuity
› QoS & Policy Frameworks
› Access Agnostic
› Interworking & Migration – “Option 3”
› IMS / VoLTE support 

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 5G – Enabler Platform for Different Services
› New Stakeholders …
› Critical Communications (MCC)
› Internet of Things (IoT)
› Automotive (e.g. 5GAA), Railways (e.g. UIC)
› Energy Providers, Broadcast Agencies, Satellite Operators, …

› … require a flexible enabler platform
› Open up the core – capability exposure
› On‐demand resource allocation – local and end‐2‐end
› Internal architecture of the core needs to be service based
› Low latency

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 Key Technologies

› Application Programming Interfaces (API)
› Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
› Network Slicing
› Multi‐Access Edge Computing (MEC)

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 Service Based Architecutre
NEF Network
NEF Exposure
Network Function
Exposure Function
NRF Network
NRF Repository
Network Function
Repository Function
PCF Policy
PCF Control
Policy Function
Control Function
UDM Unified
UDM DataData
Unified Management
Management
AF AFApplication
Application Function
Function
AUSF AUSF Authentication
Authentication Server
Server Function
Function
AMF AMF Access
Access and Mobility
&Mobility Management
Management Function
Function
SMF SMF Session
Session Management
Management Function
Function
UE UEUserUser Equipment
Equipment
(R)AN (R)AN (Radio)
(Radio) Access
Access Network
Network
UPF UPF
UserUser
PlanePlane Function
Function
DN DNDataData Network
Network

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 Reference Point Architecture

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 APIs – North & South
› Northbound APIs
› Capability Exposure
› Service specific
› e.g. oneM2M specific (NAPS)

› Service Based Architecture
› Network Functions communicate via APIs (“internal APIs”)
› Message Bus

› Open Issues (SBA)
› To what level will SBA replace common procedural approach?
› What is a service?
› Harmonized SBA/northbound API frameworks?

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 5G System (5GS) – Access Agnostic
N1

N2

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 5G Network Slicing
NSI: CC1
Data NW NEF
NST: Critical (CC1) (CC1)
Communications

UPF SMF UDM

(CC1) (CC1) (CC1)

AMF
(CC1 & IoT1)
AN

NST: Internet of
Things
UPF Data NW PCF
(IoT1) (IoT1) (IoT1)

NSI: IoT1
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 Protocol Challenges

› Technical
› Transport Layer Optimization
› Access Agnostic – one protocol to bind them all?
› Service Based Architecture vs Protocols

› Players
› IETF, ETSI, GSMA
› Verticals

› Time

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 Summary
› Software & Service centric transformation
› Telecoms ‐> Multiple Stakeholders
› Bit Pipe ‐> Enabler Platform
› Phones ‐> Things
› Procedures ‐> Services
› Protocols ‐> APIs
› Dedicated Hardware ‐> Orchestrated Resources 
› Network Function ‐> Virtualization
› Network ‐> Slice

› Challenges: Timeline, Interaction with other SDOs

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 Thank You!

Georg Mayer
3GPP CT Chairman
georg.mayer.huawei@gmx.com
+43 699 1900 5758 http://3gpp.org

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