Samsung holds final 3GPP meeting for 5G standard

Samsung Electronics today announced that it is hosting the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) working groups’ final meeting to complete the 5G mobile communication standards in Busan, South Korea from May 21st to 25th. The meeting will finalize the relevant standard technologies for 5G commercialization, the company said.

For those unaware, 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) is an organization that currently develops 5G communication standard technology. About 1,500 standards experts from chipset, handset and equipment vendors including Samsung, Qualcomm, as well as major mobile operators such as Verizon, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, KT and SK Telecom, are attending to complete the 5G phase-1 standard.

In December lat year, 3GPP first approved the 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) standard.

In December last year, 3GPP first approved the 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) standard that uses the existing 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) as the anchor for connecting to 5G. And as the 5G Standalone (SA) standard will be completed in this Busan meeting, the 5G phase-1 standard will be officially approved at the 3GPP plenary next month in the U.S.

All RAN working groups 1 to 5 that develop 5G wireless technology are expected to confirm the final technologies for 5G commercialization including 5G wireless access technology providing ultra-high speed data and ultra-low latency and the conformance testing method for 5G terminals. However, Samsung led RAN4 working group will decide the radio performance requirements for 5G terminals and base stations including the 3.5GHz and 28GHz bands. 

Samsung was successful in the world’s first 5G mobility demonstration between base stations over an ultra-high frequency (mmWave) band in 2015. Thereafter in 2017, the company succeeded in 5G communication on a high-speed vehicle traveling at 200km/h and demonstrated the world’s first 8K video download and 4K video upload on the bullet train.

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