Communication Mobility

Samsung Electronics’ research engineers demonstrate a high-speed 5G mobile communication technology in a car going more than 100kph in Oct. last year.
Samsung Electronics’ research engineers demonstrate a high-speed 5G mobile communication technology in a car going more than 100kph in Oct. last year.

 

While many countries in the world such as China, Japan, and the U.S. are in tough competition to commercialize 5G mobile communication technology and dominate market in advance, Samsung Electronics has suggested the technology to a private organization that sets up global telecommunications technology standards.

Samsung Electronics announced that it has proposed a vision of 5G mobile communication systems and next-generation mobile communication technology at the 3GPP RAN 5G Workshop held in Phoenix, the U.S., for two days from Sept. 17 (local time). 3GPP is a private organization that actually decides technical standards and includes the world’s major mobile communication service providers and equipment firms.

The 3GPP RAN 5G workshop was meaningful in that 3GPP, which is in charge of settling global mobile communication technological standards, started a discussion about 5G network standardization for the first time.

The workshop was attended by 500 officials in the mobile communications technology industry and included contributions from 60 mobile carriers.

Samsung Electronics took the lead in drawing up a joint contribution through strategic cooperation with major companies of 3GPP, and proposed to the workshop. The joint contribution was written by 23 major mobile communication-related groups, including global producers such as Samsung Electronics, Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm, KT, SK Telecom, NTT DoCoMo, and research institutes such as The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Korea.

The joint contribution proposes a phased standardization schedule to complete the first standard of the 5G network, including technologies of higher frequency bands above 6 GHz, by Sept. 2018, and its second standard by Dec. 2019.

The phased standardization formed a consensus from many participating firms, since it can effectively proceed with the standardization of the 5G mobile communication technologies which include various service options.

Also, the participating companies set a goal to comprehensively satisfy not only the maximum transfer rates and improve frequency efficiency, which have been important in existing 3G and 4G network systems, but also improve energy efficiency, increase the number of devices possible per unit area, and decrease transmission delays for Internet of Things services in 5G mobile communication technology.

Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics has initiatively started 5G technology research and development from 2011 and succeeded in the world's first demonstration of gigabit-level (1.2 Gbps) seamless data transmissions using the microwave frequency in 2013.

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