5G Standards Frontline Report

The world is continuing to work on deploying a working fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system by 2020. Telecommunication firms as well as telecommunication component vendors are collaborating and conducting projects with global 5G promotion forums such as Korea’s 5G Forum, China’s IM-2020 (5G) Promotion Group, 5G Americas from the United States, Europe’s 5GPP, and, of course, the 5GMF of Japan to achieve this goal. Additionally, discussions on standards for 5G are progressing at the 3GPP.

The Frontline of 5G Standards Report will introduce issues being discussed in relation to 5G standards at the 3GPP as well as activities by 5G forums worldwide. These reports will be provided by Takehiro Nakamura, Deputy Chairman of the Strategy and Planning Committee and Satoshi Nagata, 3GPP TSG TSG-RAN WG1 Chairman, both of NTT DOCOMO. We hope to be able to provide our readers with an inside view of global trends in 5G standards discussions.

Table of Contents

The 1st report
High Speeds and High Capacity or Ultra High Confidence and Low Latency, Which Should Come First: Two Sides of a Debate at the 3GPP

Contributor Profiles

Takahiro Nakamura
Nakamura earned his Master’s degree from Yokohama National University in 1990 and joined NTT the same year. He began working at NTT DOCOMO in 1992, on projects including CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced, and 5G, as well as in R&D on connected cards and standards. Currently he is the project leader in the NTT DOCOMO 5G Laboratory Office. He joined the ARIB in 1997, working mobile communication system standards. He was the Advanced Wireless Communications Study Committee Mobile Partnership Subcommittee Chairman. He is currently the Advanced Wireless Communications Study Committee 2020 and Beyond AdHoc leader as well as the 5GMF Strategy and Planning Committee Deputy Chairman. He began working on standards at the 3GPP in 1999. From 2005 to 2009 he was the 3GPP TSG-RAN Vice Chairman, and from 2009 to 2013 was its Chairman.

Satoshi Nagata
Satoshi Nagata joined NTT DOCOMO while in the process of completing his Master’s degree at the Graduate School of Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Since joining NTT DOCOMO, Nagata has worked on R&D in LTE and LTE-Advanced networks as well as promoting standards. He now works in the NTT DOCOMO’s 5G Laboratory., doing R&D towards the establishment of standards for 5G. He was selected to be the Vice Chairman of the 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 in 2011 and its Chairman in 2013. He also provides regular commentary for Nikkei Technology Online about his work as Chairman at the 3GPP.