Roads to a Super-Connected World

Why

What

How

Why Do We Need 5G ?

Connections Latency Speed

Connections

per cell

4G Thousands

10X

1000X

3G Hundreds

per cell

5G Million

per KM 2

100B Smart Nodes

Latency

3G 100ms

4G 50ms

M

CM

4G

5G

Latency

3G 100ms

4G 50ms

5G 1ms

Speed 5G 10G

4G 150M LTE cat 4 3G 14M

HSDPA 10X

66X

8Gb HD movie

download

70 min 7 min 6 sec

100 billion connections

1 millisecond ultra-low latency

10 Gbit/s ultra-fast speed

A platform for

new applications,

new business models,

new industries

An enabler of disruption

Open collaboration across industries

Heavy investment in technological innovations

Evolutionary commercialization strategy

Open collaboration across industries

Health Edu. Gov. Other

Sectors Telecom

Silos in the past

Telecom

Health

Edu. Gov.

Other

Sectors

Key

Founder

5GVIA 5GIC

Key

Founder

Board

Member

5GPPP

Board

Member

METIS

182 Papers

……

on 5G new air

technology,

new architecture, etc

(by 2014)

Heavy investment in technological innovations

Stockholm, Sweden •System Architecture

•Algorithms

Paris, France •Standardization

Munich, Germany •Verticals

New Jersey, USA •5G Transmission

Ottawa, Canada •5G Radio

•Network Architecture

5G Research Centers in China •Shen zhen

•Shang hai

•Cheng du

Moscow, Russia •Fundamental

Algorithms

500+

9

One Physical Network

Multiple Industries

Virtualized

architecture

Flexibility &

Spectrum Efficiency

New Air Interface

Aggregate All Available

Bands

All spectrum access

Intensive technological innovations

Intensive technological innovations

New air interface

SCMA

F-OFDM

Polar Code

Full Duplex Massive MIMO

Mobile

Internet

Internet of

Things

One air interface fits many applications with high flexibility, at least 3x spectrum efficiency improvement

Adaptive

Air Interface

Mobile broadband

.....

Internet of Vehicles

Smart grids

5G SDN / NFV …

Single physical network for different applications

Virtualized architecture

Intensive technological innovations

Slicing

Single wireless access network

with

Unified access technologies

All spectrum access

5G Complementary Bands for Capacity, 45GHz available 5G Primary bands

WRC15

Allocate >500MHz for ITU-2020

WRC19 45GHz available

for future Cellular Access and Self-Backhaul

Visible

Light 1 4 2 6 3 5 10 50 40 30 20 60 80 70 90 GHz

Cellular

Bands

Intensive technological innovations

How to evolve from 4G to 5G ?

Evolutionary commercialization strategies

• 4.5G Pave the Road to 5G • Maximize ROI of 4G

• Stimulate demand for 5G

• Extend market leadership from 4G to 5G

Here Comes 4.5G!

Faster Speed

1 Gbps 3x 4G

More Connections

100K / KM² 100x 4G

Lower Latency

10ms 1/5 4G

5G 10G

4G 300M

4.5G 1G

5G 1ms

4G 50ms

4.5G 10ms

4G 4.5G 5G

2010 2015 2020

5G 1Million

4G 1000

4.5G 100k

4.5G Technology innovations

Cloud EPC, Apps

Shorter RTT

Lower

Latency

LTE-D

LTE-M

Massive

Connections

SOMA

256 QAM

Massive

MIMO/

3D BF

Faster Speed

(1Gbps)

LAA

Flexible Bandwi

dth

Massive

CA

Sep 2014

R12 256QAM(WI)

D2D(WI)

R13 SOMA/NOMA(SI)

Massive CA (WI)

D2D enhancement(WI)

R13 LAA (SI)

3D Beamforming (SI)

LTE-M (SI)

Dec 2014

R13 0.5ms TTI (SI)

March 2015 2016

First Commercial

Launch

4.5G Industry Progress

Operator System Chipset/Module

… …

700 781 852

540 610 630 680 704 630 640 370 370

550 550 360 360

New Licensed

Spectrum

Need to be

Doubled by

2020

In Use

IMT2020 Requirement

Gap

Unit: MHz

Spectrum Status (<6GHz) by Regions and Countries

Source: ITU，GSMA, Huawei m-Lab

Huge Spectrum Gap for 4.5/5G by 2020

WRC-15: C-Band/L-Band Spectrum,

500MHz ~1000MHz in Sub-6GHz for IMT

Candidate Bands

in Sub-6GHz

1960

Glance of Europe Spectrums for 4.5G

Low frequencies: Premium bands for cIoT

Existing 2/3/4G spectrum: Fundamental layer for 4.5G

TDD spectrum: Unlash TDD potential

Unlicensed spectrum: Creating More Capacity

3.5GHz TDD (Band 42)

2.6GHz TDD (Band 38)

2.3GHz TDD (Band 40)

2.1GHz (Band 1)

1.8GHz (Band 3)

900MHz (Band 8)

800MHz (Band 20)

700MHz (Band 28)

450Mhz (Band 32)

2.4/5GHz Unlicensed

2.6GHz (Band 7)

1.9GHz TDD (Band 39)

1.4GHz (Band 32)

3.7GHz TDD (Band 43)

General In use

Partial In use

Rare In use 100M

1G

6G

3.5G

“We are just at the beginning of the beginning”

Kevin Kelly