EMERGING 5G TECHNOLOGIES AND INSIGHTS

FROM EXPERIMENTS WITH SELECTED VERTICAL

DOMAINS

Prof. Panagiotis Demestichas, University of Piraeus

Dr. Andreas Georgakopoulos, WINGS ICT Solutions

5G Summit, Thessaloniki, 11 July 2017

Outline

A. Fundamentals

Requirements

Technology

Trends

Phase I (2015-17)

Phase II (2017-18)

Phase III (2018-20)

Fundamentals:Requirements/

Technology Trends

5G-PPP: Enabling EU Leadership

Co-funding by EC (and private sources)

B. Current

technology

enablers

Ongoing

projects

C. Emerging

technology

activities

New projects

D. Future Evolution-Experiments-Pilots-Trials

Technology fine-tuning

Fundamentals: Requirements on 5G

1000x more capacity

and data rates

Towards 0-5ms E2E

latency

1M/km2 devices

500km/h high mobility

99.999% reliability

<90mins service

deployment time

90% energy efficiency

Source: 5G-PPP (https://5g-ppp.eu/)

Fundamentals: 5G Technology Trends

Macro

MicroPico

Femto

4. No-cell (e.g., certain D2D,

M2M constructs)

300GHz60GHz

30GHz6GHz 4GHz 2GHz

Data Centers

Repository of virtualized functions

‐ Activation of functional components‐ Functional components deployment

to physical elements‐ Physical element interconnection

Communication, computing, storage resources

Potential for sharing between operators (e.g., spectrum, network elements, network segments)

6. 5G, WMB infrastructures:Cloud platforms offering services through abstractions, on demand, with elasticity,

scalability, fairness

Core

Applications connecting everyone and everything,

anywhere, anytime, involving all types of media

Reference: P. Demestichas, A. Georgakopoulos, K. Tsagkaris, S. Kotrotsos, "Intelligent 5G Networks: Managing 5G Wireless/Mobile Broadband,"

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol.10, no.3, pp.41-50, Sept. 2015

1. RAT evolution

2. Spectrum

3-4. Cell

5. Software Nets

6. Cloudification

5G-PPP Phase 1: Selected achievements

New Radiobelow 6GHz

Hardware/Softwareimplementation aspects

QoS provision and capacity expansion - Advanced spectrum

management

Phase I (2015-17)

Phase II (2017-18)

Phase III (2018-20)

Requirements/ Technology

Trends

35+ projects

funded by EC

for 5G research

FANTASTIC-5G: New Air Interface below 6GHz

Evaluation

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000

Late

ncy

(ms)

Average Request Rate (requests/s/cell)

Latency ARP (LTE-A)-PRACH 1ms 1STAGE (Fantastic)-TTI 1ms

1STAGE (Fantastic)-TTI 0.5ms 1STAGE (Fantastic)-TTI 0.25ms

Features

New waveforms

Frame design

Advanced coding

Advanced modulation

Massive MIMO

Enhanced RRM0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.50

Ret

ran

mis

sio

ns

per

req

ues

t

Offered load / cell (Mbps)

Data retranmissions (MMC)SC1 (OFDM, GB=2sc)

SC1 (P-OFDM, GB=2sc)

SC2 (OFDM, GB=4sc)

SC2 (P-OFDM, GB=4sc)

SC3 (OFDM, GB=1sc)

SC3 (P-OFDM, GB=1sc)

SC4 (OFDM, GB=4sc)

SC4 (P-OFDM, GB=4sc)

New waveforms: QoS achievement with 30-50% less cost (e.g. retransmissions) compared to OFDM

WINGS system-

level simulator

Sample achievements: Over 20 patents filed, standardization etc.

Flexible frame: ~50% reduced latency compared to LTE-A

SPEED-5G: Spectrum optimization

Features

Novel spectrum

management

Extended

Dynamic Spectrum

Assignment (eDSA)

Lightly-licensed

spectrum and

licensed/unlicensed

New MAC/RRM

Evaluation

Achievement of 5G performance with up to 70% less cost (signalling due to hierarchical RAT/spectrum management)

Hardware evaluation– Hardware in the loop

USRPsTraffic

generatorResults/

Visualization

Flex5Gware - Flexible and efficient HW/SW

Features

HW versatility and reconfigurability

HW-agnostic, flexible and cost-effective SW platforms

More capacity of 5G communication platforms

Less energy consumed by 5G communication platforms

Evaluation

20 ms, up to 300 ms less reconfiguration time, in

terms of optimization execution, compared to

current optimization solutions

10% less power consumption, when moving

more functions to SW implementation

5G-PHOS

Integrated optical technologies

Enhancing Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) convergence

Joint optical/wireless network optimization

Cost-effective & energy-efficient 5G network solutions

Media delivery in smart venues

5G-PPP Phase 2Verticals and technology

One5G

Megacities and Under-served areas

E2E-aware optimizations

Clear5G

Factories of the Future (FoF)

Towards “zero” latency

Ultra-reliable services

Advanced link technologies and enhancements beyond Rel.15

Multi-service operation

Advanced massive MIMO and RRM

Configure and optimize radio network architectures

Energy and spectral efficiency

Protocol enhancements

MATILDA

Operational framework

where software for 5G-

ready applications

Supporting virtual and physical network functions

Development of micro-services & VNFs

Automotive, Smart cities, Industry 4.0, Media

5G-PPP Phase 3Evolution-Experiments-Pilots-Trials

Verticals

Advanced automation

Energy management

Water management

Trials

Beyond Phase 3

Exploitation

Innovation

Management

Funding instruments in

conjunction with market

forces

Acknowledgment-References

5G-PPP: https://5g-ppp.eu/

One5G: https://5g-ppp.eu/one5g/

FANTASTIC-5G: http://fantastic-5g.eu/

SPEED-5G: http://speed-5g.eu/

Flex5Gware: http://www.flex5gware.eu/

The work is supported by the European Commission and 5G Public-Private

Partnership (5G-PPP) and received funding from the EC H2020/5G-PPP

programme One5G, FANTASTIC-5G, SPEED-5G, Flex5Gware projects

Thank You!