Work to Start This Summer on Next 3GPP 5G Release
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project's Release 18 is the start of the second phase of 5G, 5G-advanced, though work is about to start on Release 19, industry experts said Thursday during an ATIS webinar. As industry starts a new phase…
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it should look at current commercial deployment needs, plus “the long-term 5G vision,” said Wanshi Chen, chair of the 3GPP radio access network plenary and Qualcomm senior director-technology. 3GPP in-person meetings restarted last year, which was “quite an achievement” following the COVID-19 pandemic, though the pandemic slowed the group’s work by several months, he said. It’s important to “evolve 5G” so industry can address current use cases better or even create new use cases, he said. Work on Release 19 is expected to start in Q1 of 2024, though preparation will start with the first workshop in June in Taiwan, Chen said: “We’ll have the first collection of information that people have in mind for Release 19. It will be interesting to see how things will be proposed.” Puneet Jain, chair of the 3GPP System Architecture Group (SA-2), said at the start of Release 18 SA-2 approved a record 27 study items, all of which are now complete. Release 18 “expands the market reach of 5G technology by adding new features, such as artificial intelligence and extended reality to enable highly intelligent network solutions that can support a wider variety of use cases than ever before,” said Jain, also a senior principal engineer at Intel. The latest release includes features for public safety and satellite communications and the IoT, he said. These requirements couldn’t be addressed in Release 17 because of limited time, he said. Jain expects the timeline for Release 19 to start to take shape in March and be finalized at the meeting in Taiwan. “We have to have a timeline decided first and then, basically, move on to the content discussion,” he said.