In December 2019, the scope of 3GPP Release 17 was decided in the Plenary meeting in Spain. This presentation outlines the details of this 3rd release of 5G standards.

1. December, 2019
Accelerating our 5G Future
A first look at 3GPP Rel-17 and beyond
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2. 2
Mobile has made a leap every ~10 years
Mobile broadband and
emerging expansion
Mobile voice
communication
Focus shifts
to mobile data
Efficient voice to
reach billions
A unified future-proof
platform
1990s
Digital voice
D-AMPS, GSM,
IS-95 (CDMA)
2000s
Wireless Internet
CDMA2000/EV-DO
WCDMA/HSPA+,
1980s
Analog voice
AMPS, NMT,
TACS
2010s
Mobile broadband
LTE, LTE Advanced,
Gigabit LTE
2020s
Wireless Edge
5G New Radio
(NR)

3. 3
1993: Wireless Internet
first OTA demo over CDMA
2012: Cellular in
unlicensed spectrum
2007: Device to device
proximity services
1998: EV-DO as we realized
a new design was needed
Foundation to 3G and 4G
mobile broadband
1985: Qualcomm founded to
solve system-level problems
2002: Integration
of low-power compute
The 5G foundation started long ago
Foundational
to 5G
2014: Flexible framework,
scalable OFDM, spatial
design, mobile mmWave

4. 4
Delivering
on the 5G vision
$13.2 Trillion in goods & services by 2035*

5. 5
North America
South Korea
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
China
Australia
United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Italy
Finland
Switzerland
Romania
Qatar
Russia (soon)
Japan (soon)
Sub-6 + mmWave
Sub-6
Comparison of Year 1
announcements
4 Operators launched
3 OEMs launched
40+ Operators launching
40+ OEMs launching
Ireland
Bahrain
Philippines
South Africa
Monaco

6. 66
Askey
Inseego
Compal
Fibocom
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LG
V50 ThinQ
5G
Nubia
Mini 5G
Samsung
Galaxy
S10 5G
Lenovo
Z6 Pro 5G
Motorola
moto z4/z3
+ 5G moto mod
OnePlus
7 Pro 5G
OPPO
Reno 5G
5G devices launched
or in development
230+
Samsung
Galaxy Fold
Xiaomi
Mi MIX 5G
Vivo
iQOO
5G Edition
ZTE
Axon 10 Pro
5G
Samsung
A90 5G
Samsung
Galaxy
Note10+ 5G
Vivo
NEX 3 5G
Netgear
Nokia
Sierra
Wireless
SIMcom
Telit
Longsung
Quectel
WNC
ZTE
HTC
Netcomm
5G
modules
Hotspots
and CPEs
5G smartphones
Xiaomi
Mi 9 Pro 5G
Xiaomi
Mi MIX Alpha

7. Rel-15 commercialization Rel-16 commercialization Rel-17 commercialization
Delivering on
the 5G vision
Continue expansion to new verticals,
deployments, use cases, spectrum
Rel-161
Rel-18+ evolution
Rel-171
Future-proof
platform
LTE essential part
of the 5G platform
2018 20202019 20222021 2023+
Rel-15
Driving the 5G expansion
1. 3GPP start date indicates approval of study package (study item->work item->specifications), previous release continues beyond start of next release with functional freezes and ASN.1
2020 eMBB expansion
• Beyond smartphone (PC, FWA, …)
• New markets/regions
• Nationwide coverage & SA migration
Longer term expansion
• Industrial IoT, enterprise, automotive network
• Private networks
• Unlicensed spectrum
2019 eMBB
• Global smartphone
launches
• Fixed wireless access
NR

8. 8
What’s included in
3GPP Release 17?
Rel-15 Rel-16
3GPP Rel-17
Rel-18 and beyond

9. 91. Further improvements to capacity, power consumption, spectral efficiency; 2. Including eMTC and NB-IoT in 5G NR; 3. mixed-mode multicast, small data transmission, multi-SIM, satellite, multimedia
Accelerating the expansion of 5G
New services, deployments, and spectrum bands
3GPP Rel-17
Continued eMBB
enhancements, e.g.,
mobility, coverage, more1
New spectrum
above 52.6 GHz
More capable,
flexible IAB
Enhancements to
5G NR IIoT
Expanded sidelink, e.g.,
V2X reliability, P2V
Rel-15 deployment
learning, others3
Extended
reality
Unlicensed spectrum
across all use cases
NR-Light for wearables,
industrial sensors, and
enhanced massive IoT2
Positioning with
cm-level accuracy

10. 10
Continue to enhance the eMBB foundation
Foundational areas
Coverage, capacity, latency,
power saving, mobility
Expanded deployments
New spectrum, topologies,
integrated backhaul, ….
New services
Latency, reliability, positioning,
use cases like XR
Enhanced
eMBB in
3GPP Rel-17
Further enhanced mobility
for mixed topologies
Others such as, >4 Rx
and multi-SIM
Further improved MIMO
for e.g., better mobility
Enhanced IAB with full-duplex
and spatial multiplexing
Further power saving for idle,
connected and small data
Supporting even higher
bands of up to 71 GHz1
DSS
enhancements
Multicast for
content delivery
Enhanced coverage for
sub-7 GHz & mmWave
1. Also a Study Item on waveforms for up to 114.25 GHz

11. Expanding mmWave spectrum with the common framework
Further mmWave expansion
in future 3GPP releases
Potential 5G
band for future
study
Potential 5G
band in study
Prioritized expansion of
mmWave in Rel-172
Supported mmWave
bands in Rel-15
Expansion of low/mid
band spectrum1
Prioritizing the expansion to
71 GHz, then to 114.25 GHz
Common
framework
Common
framework
Sub-7 GHz
(e.g., 3.5 GHz)
Millimeter wave
(e.g., 28, 39 GHz)
1. Rel-15 supported 450 MHz to 6 GHz; 2 To support global unlicensed 60 GHz bands, SCS scaling from 24.25-52.6 GHz band with same characteristics (e.g., waveforms)
7.125 GHz 24.25 GHz 52.6 GHz 71 GHz 114.25 GHz410 MHz

12. 12
Continued evolution to expand 5G broadcast capabilities
Rel-17 to add support for 5G Core network and mixed-mode broadcast
1 5G broadcast requirements defined in 3GPP TS 38.913
Terrestrial broadcast Mixed-mode broadcast
Dedicated broadcasting network to provide a common delivery
platform for different contents/services
Building on Rel-14 LTE enTV and evolving to meet all 5G
broadcast requirements1, including coverage extension and more
Broadcast only
5G Core
Network
Dynamic mode switching between unicast and broadcast to more
efficiently deliver identical content
Supporting a wide range of 5G NR use cases, including media
delivery, SW/FW update, IoT multicast, efficient V2N, public safety
5G Core
Network
Broadcast
and unicast

13. 13
Connecting the
Internet of Things
5G
From low-complexity to high-
performance, and virtually
everything in between

14. 14
Expanding the 5G device ecosystem with NR-Light
Efficiently support more device types: wearables, IoT, …
1 Also including satellite access; 2 Data rate of 150 Mbps DL / 50 Mbps UL, latency of 10-30 ms, 10-3 to 10-5 reliability, coverage MCL of 143 dB; 3 For example, 20 MHz
5G NR-Light
Lower complexity devices2 — e.g., with half-duplex,
improved control channel design for lower bandwidth3
5G NR — a unified, scalable air interface
Allowing coexistence of a wide range of 5G device classes
5G IoT1 — eMTC/NB-IoT
Lowest complexity devices — e.g., low
complexity, low power, delay tolerant
eMBB and URLLC
Higher performance devices — e.g.,
high throughput, low latency
High-end
smartphones
Connected
laptops
High-end industrial
IoT (e.g., robotics)
Extended
Reality (XR)
Smart city
(e.g., meters)
Low-end
wearables
Low-end industrial
IoT (e.g., sensors)
Low-end
asset trackers
High-end
wearables
Smart
grid
High-end
logistic trackers
Healthcare
monitoring
Industrial
cameras

15. 15
Enhanced
mobile broadband
Massive
IoT
Ultra-reliable
low-latency
Automated guided vehicle (AGV)
Wireless edge analytics
Computer vision
Sensors
Head mounted display
Industrial robot
Handheld terminal

16. 1616
Scalable wireless connectivity
on a future proof platform
Dedicated and reliable networks
optimized for local services
Capabilities for new use cases
e.g. wireless Industrial Ethernet
Private 5G network
Ultra-reliable low-latency
communication (URLLC)
Time Sensitive
Networking (TSN)
Licensed, shared and
unlicensed spectrum
Positioning
Continued enhancements in 3GPP Release 17
to better support industrial IoT requirements
3GPP Rel-16
Foundation

17. 17
• For both indoor & outdoor positioning
• Complementing existing positioning
technologies, such as GNSS1,
beacons, sensors, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
• Targeting accuracy and latency that
meet diverse service requirements2
Supporting a
wide range of
new vertical
use cases
1 Global Navigation Satellite System including Beidou, Galileo, GPS, Glonass;
2 5G positioning requirements defined in TS 22.261
Supply chain visibility
Connected enterprises Drone tracking Smart retail
Public safety
Connected healthcareSmart manufacturingIndoor navigation
5G NR
Positioning

18. 18
Evolving 5G NR positioning to fully meet 5G requirements1
Rel-17 will expand on the LTE and 5G NR Rel-16 foundation
1 5G positioning requirements defined in TS 22.261
Release 17
Enhancing capability and performance for a wide range of use cases
Release 16
Meeting initial accuracy requirements of 3m
(indoor) to 10m (outdoors) for 80% of time
Time difference of
arrival (TDOA)
Roundtrip
time (RTT)
Angel of arrival /
departure (AoA/AoD)
Single-cell
positioning
Radius based on RTT
Position along circumference
based on UL AoA
Centimeter level accuracy
Meeting absolute accuracy
requirements1 of down to 0.3m
Lower latency
Reducing positioning latency
to as low as 10 ms3
Higher capacity
Scaling to millions of simultaneous
devices for e.g., IoT, automotive
New evaluation scenarios
Supporting new channel models
for industrial IoT environment

19. 19
Sensors Utilities
Smart city
Enhanced network
communication
New direct
communication
Massive
Internet of Things
V2V, V2I, and V2P communications for
latency-sensitive use-cases, e.g.
collision avoidance
Deeper coverage to connect road
infrastructure (e.g. sensors and traffic
cameras)
Faster access to cloud for in-vehicle
experiences, car OEM services and
telematics
V2I
V2N V2N
Road safety Transportation efficiencyConnected car services In-vehicle experiences Connected road sensors
Speed
harmonization
Road hazard
waning
Evolution to 5G is designed to serve as the unified connectivity fabric
RSU
V2V

20. 2020
Accelerated network effect
Sensor sharing and infrastructure deployment bring
benefits, even during initial deployment rollouts
Advanced safety
Real-time situation awareness and sharing of new
kinds of sensor data take safety to the next level
Faster travel/energy efficiency
More coordinated driving for faster travel
and lower energy usage
5GNR C-V2X
Continued evolution to bring new benefits
Rel-17 to enhance C-V2X performance and expand to more road
users (e.g., bicycles, scooters) with new power saving features

21. 21
XR for closer collaborations
at the work place

22. 22
Optimizing 5G NR for Boundless XR experiences
Studying performance of XR use cases over 5G NR in Rel-17
1 For example, using File Error Rate (FER) and File Delay Budget (FDB) that are used by the app funcation vs. Packet Error Rate (PER) and Packet Delay Budget (PDB)
Traffic awareness
Optimizing XR traffic scheduling1 in the network to
improve user experience and network efficiency
Edge processing framework
Defining a standardized system architecture / interface
(e.g., APIs) for XR split processing over 5G NR
Distributed computing
Split rendering
Viewpoint dependent streaming
Conversational XR
Cloud gaming
Use cases in scope
Edge Cloud
System enhancements
Additional improvements tailoring to the XR use case
and device limitations (e.g., formfactor, power)

23. 23
Evolving towards a more intelligent radio access network
Radio Access Network
(RAN) slicing
3GPP Rel-17
Data collection for Self-
Organizing Network (SON)
Helping operators to more
cost-efficiently provide a
wide range of 5G services
Learning from current network
deployments to better facilitate
future SON-based 5G densification

24. 24
On-device AI
Augmented
by edge cloud
New experiences Privacy/security
New verticals
Immediacy
Private/public networks Personalization
Customized/
local value Reliability
The intelligent
wireless edge
Efficiency
Processing
over 5G
Edge cloud On-device

25. 25
Enriched user experiences,
new use case, new verticals
Compute, vision, sensing
AI powered use cases
Internal AI optimizations
5G low latency
Customized/local value
Content/storage/AI/processing
Longer latency
Big data/aggregated value
Content/storage/AI/processing
Distributed functionality
Distributed processing,
like boundless XR
New services
Cloud computing, storage,
instant access
Real time assisted
services like voice UI
Low-latency gaming
On-premise control for
ultra-low latency
On-device intelligence
assisted by cloud
On-device

26. 5G is the innovation platform for the next decade
Technology breakthroughs, hardware progress, new architectures, distribution of processing/AI/content,…
New deployments, new spectrum,
new use cases, new verticals,…
Delivering on the
5G vision
A unified future-
proof platform
Some future requirements only
possible on a new platform
Research: for 5G enhancements and for next generation leap
Rel-15
Initially eMBB
Rel-16 Rel-17
Expansion to new industries
Rel-18 Rel-19 Rel-20 Rel-21 and beyond Continued evolution
Market needs: enhanced/emerging/unknown services to 5G
Vision forming
Next technology leap
for new capabilities
and reduced cost
Historically 10 years
between generations

27. For more information on 3GPP Release 17
Blog post from Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP RAN Chair
https://www.3gpp.org/news-events/2098-5g-in-
release-17-–-strong-radio-evolution
My blog post on Qualcomm OnQ Blog
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2019/12/
13/3gpp-charts-next-chapter-5g-standards

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