Copyright 2017 5G Americas- 5G Services and Use Cases Nov 2017TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction ........... 4
2. Market Drivers, Economics, Timelines and Trends .......... 5
2.1 Timeline and Evolution: From 1G to 5G .......... 5
2.2 Cellular Technology life cycles and trends ...... 7
2.3 Market drivers and economic implications for 5G ....... 9
3. Vertical Industries Transformation by 5G Technology .... 11
3.1 Automated Factories . 12
3.2 Automotive Industry ... 13
3.3 Energy ........... 15
3.4 HealthCare .... 15
3.5 Media and Entertainment ...... 17
4. 5G Use Cases and Services ....... 18
4.1 Taxonomy of Use Cases ....... 18
4.2 Use Case Categories19
4.2.1 Enhanced Mobile Broadband ..... 20
4.2.2 Connected Vehicles ........ 20
4.2.3 Enhanced Multi-Media .... 21
4.2.4 Massive Internet of THings ......... 22
4.2.5 Ultra Reliable Low Latency Applications22
4.2.6 Fixed Wireless Access .... 24
4.3 Use Case Requirements ....... 24
5.Technology Enablers and 5G Architecture ........ 26
5.1 5G Technology Enablers ....... 26
5.1.2 Air interface framework ... 26
5.1.3 LTE-NR Dual Connectivity .......... 28
5.1.4 Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Design......... 28
5.1.5 Strong Security ... 29
Copyright 2017 5G Americas- 5G Services and Use Cases Nov 20175.1.6 Network Function Virtualization (NFV).... 29
5.1.7 Software Defined Networking ..... 30
5.1.8 Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) .... 30
5.1.9 Carrier Aggregation ........ 30
5.1.10 Massive MIMO .. 31
5.2 3GPP 5G Core Network Architecture31
5.2.2 Uplink Classifier .. 32
5.2.2 IPv6 Multi-homing ........... 33
5.2.3 Local Area Data Network (LADN) ........... 34
5.3 5G Radio Network Architecture ......... 34
6. Network Topology for Core and RAN Deployment ......... 36
6.1 Need For Felixible, Scalable and Reliable Network for 5G.. 36
6.2 Centralization of Compute – Workload Convergence ........... 37
6.3 Control/User Plane Split ........ 38
6.4 Orchestration & Management ........... 40
6.4.1 Common Information Model ....... 41
6.4.2 Network Slicing ... 42
6.4.3 Towards Congnitive Analysis ...... 43
6.4.4 SDOs and Open Source Communities ... 44
6.4.5 Summary . 44
7. Network Deployment Challenges and Policy Implications .......... 45
7.1 Spectrum ....... 45
7.2 Infrastructure Development and deployment47
8.Conclusion ........... 48
Appendix ..... 49
Acknowledgements . 52
Copyright 2017 5G Americas- 5G Services and Use Cases Nov 20171. INTRODUCTION
5G wireless mobile technology promises to enable a fully mobile and connected society by addressing a
broad range of use cases and business models with disparate requirements. Therefore, 5G technology will
play a significant role in empowering socio-economic transformations, enhancing productivity,
sustainability, efficiency and overall well-being of communities. 5G technology is expected to bring
tremendous growth in connectivity, mobile traffic capacity, and new capabilities that enhance performance
by providing greater throughput, lower latency, ultra-high reliability, higher connectivity density and an
expanded range of mobility. An end-to-end transformation of network architecture will equip 5G with the
requisite flexibility to optimize the network usage and accommodate the wide range of current and future
use cases and services.
With the advent of 5G, vertical industries will use the enhanced technical capacity and tighter integration to
trigger new products and services. The expectation is that 5G will create an ecosystem for technical and
business innovation that will fundamentally alter entire vertical markets such as automotive, energy, food
and agriculture, city management, government, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and many more.
To make this a reality, there is a need for close collaboration between use case developers, vertical
industries and 5G system designers to maximize the impact and ensure mutually beneficial outcomes. As
an initial step towards making those connections and initiating the conversations, this paper will identify
new trends in different use case categories, their technical requirements and map them to 5G capabilities.
This paper will provide a methodical view of how 5G technology capabilities can meet the needs and
requirements for various use cases, many of which span across several industry verticals.
As cellular technology has evolved there has been increasing interest in different use cases from enhanced
Mobile Broadband (eMBB), to mission critical communication, and massive-scale connectivity for Internet
of Things (IoT) devices, such as sensors, wearables, smart vehicles. Mobile network operators face
deployment challenges to support these new services in a cost-efficient way. For example, mobile
broadband requires a significant increase in capacity over a macro-scale coverage area. At the same time,
sites along highways in close proximity are needed to support connected vehicles as the smart car becomes
even smarter as part of the evolution towards fully autonomous vehicles. Drones will also require
communication coverage at different heights that will support a new level of mobility. IoT devices and
sensors need deeper coverage to extend reach and improved battery life. It is critical to understand how to
build the mobile network of the future that will support these and a multitude of other use cases.
The mobile network of the future will also need to support the growing number of mission critical applications
that have stringent communication performance and reliability requirements. For example, communications
with vehicles, drones, and robots to enable safety and coordinated maneuvering applications, remote
monitoring and failure handling of critical infrastructure and real-time control for industrial and process
automations within a factory. These applications have high reliability (e.g. <10-5 packet drop rate), low
latency (e.g. around 1ms) and in many cases, strong security requirements. 5G will incorporate advanced
techniques under a unified 5G air interface framework and a flexible and scalable core network to support
a wide range of services which are very diverse in terms of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) requirements.
The existing generation of mobile networks have been designed for the basic purpose of providing a general
connectivity platform with no consideration for providing the differentiation needed to meet the needs of a
range of use cases. There is a need for deeper understanding of the performance and coverage
expectations of the expected 5G use cases and services. Particularly, features such as network topology
for the core network and Radio Access Network (RAN) deployment have a significant impact in the。