Samsung Electronics today announced that it is hosting the ‘3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) working group’ to complete the 5G mobile communication standards in Busan from May 21st to 25th. This meeting will finalize the relevant standard technologies for 5G commercialization.
The company announced that around 1,500 standard experts from handset and equipment vendors including Samsung, Qualcomm, as well as major mobile operators such as Verizon, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, KT and SK Telecom would attend to complete the 5G phase-1 standard. All the working groups will confirm the final technologies for 5G commercialization which includes 5G wireless access technology providing ultra-high speed data and ultra-low latency and the conformance testing method for 5G terminals.
The RAN4 working group will decide the performance requirements for 5G terminals and base stations including the 3.5GHz and 28GHz bands. They will also inform the radio regulations, which are important for the 5G spectrum when 5G commercialization starts in earnest in Korea, in the U.S. and Japan. Back in December, 3GPP first approved the 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) standard that will be on the lines with the existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a vehicle to connect to 5G.
It is also known that the company was successful in the world’s first 5G mobility demonstration between base stations over an ultra-high frequency (mmWave) band in 2015. Samsung and KDDI demos 5G on a train traveling over 200kmph achieve 1.7Gbps speed and has also demonstrated the world’s first 8K video download and 4K video upload on the bullet train.
Seunghwan Cho, Executive Vice President of Samsung Research said:
The first 5G standard, which includes innovative technologies developed by Samsung Electronics, will be completed at this 3GPP conference. This will lead the market to commercialize 5G communication to serve as the core infrastructure for the coming fourth industrial revolution.