Emerging from the FS_SMARTER work [2], the present document aims to identify and document the use cases and consolidated potential requirements, and to capture desired system requirements and capabilities to enable 3GPP network operators to support the needs of enhanced mobile Broadband.
The focus of this work is on the use cases and requirements that cannot be met with EPS.
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[1]
TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2]
TR 22.891: " Feasibility Study on New Services and Markets Technology Enablers; Stage 1".
[3]
NGMN 5G White Paper: v1.0
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in
TR 21.905.
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in
TR 21.905 and the following apply.
An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in
TR 21.905.
Emerging from the SA1 FS_SMARTER study, this building block study aims to identify and document the use cases and to consolidate the potential requirements for the following families for the enhanced Mobile Broadband scenario:
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Higher Data Rates
This family focuses on identifying key scenarios from which eMBB primary data rate requirements for peak, experienced, downlink, uplink, etc. data rates can be derived, as well as associated requirements pertaining to latency when applicable with UEs relative speed to ground up to 10 km/h (pedestrian).
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Higher Density:
This family covers scenarios with system requirement for the transport of high volume of data traffic per area (traffic density) or transport of data for high number of connections (devices density or connection density) with UEs relative speed to ground up to 60 km/h (pedestrian or users moving on urban vehicle).
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Deployment and Coverage:
This family covers scenarios with system requirement considering the deployment and coverage scenario e.g. indoor/outdoor, local area connectivity, wide area connectivity, with UEs relative speed to ground up to [120] km/h.
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Higher User Mobility:
This family focuses on identifying key scenarios from which eMBB mobility requirements can be derived, with UEs relative speed to ground up to 1000 km/h.
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Devices with highly variable data rates
This family focuses on identifying key scenarios from which eMBB requirements can be derived, for UEs having multiple applications which exchange small amount of data and large amount of data.
The focus of this study is on the use cases and requirements that cannot be met with EPS.