Why 5G is important for the Satellite

Industry

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March 23rd, 2017

The world is becoming more Wireless & Mobile Centric

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Smartphone traffic will overtake PC traffic by 2021 (Source: Cisco VNI)

Why Is 5G A

Transformative Force?

1980s

• 1G

• Analog

• Voice

1990s

• 2G

• Digital

• >Voice Capacity

2000s

• 3G

•CDMA2000, WCDMA

• Voice & Data

2010s

• 4G

• LTE/LTE-A

• Video & Broadband Data

2020s

• 5G

“5G is an end-to-end ecosystem to enable a fully mobile and connected society.

It empowers value creation towards customers and partners, through existing

and emerging use cases, delivered with consistent experience, and enabled by

sustainable business models.”

1. Increase Peak Data to 1Gbps per device

2. Increase Spectral Efficiency by 200%

3. Advanced Mobility

4. Improve Network Energy Efficiency

5. Increase Connection Density by 200%

6. Reduce transmission latency by 94%

7. Reduce Signalling Overhead by 81%

8. Dynamic Application Centric Networking

9. IoT Support

10. Autonomous Vehicles Support

11. Ultra-accurate positioning applications

12. Network Softwareization & Programmability

iDirect Five Year Unified Technology TransformationConvergent with 5G

Satellite and Terrestrial 5GAn Horizon 2020 Phase 2 project of the EU

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► Overall objectives

► Contributing to the 5GPPP use case “Broadband access

everywhere”, SaT5G will foster the implementation of solutions

enabling the “plug and play” integration of satcom components into 5G

networks.

► To this aim, SaT5G will research and validate the key technology

enablers through validation and demonstration in live 5G

testbeds.

► SaT5G impact is for the satellite industry to join the European initiative

in the deployment of a competitive and ubiquitous 5G network

globally.

► Schedule

► 30 months duration

► Consortium

► AVA coordination, TAS technical management

► 16 partners (satellite/terrestrial operators, vendors, universities and

research centres)

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Research Pillars1. 5G NFV & SDN in SatCom2. Network Management &

Orchestration3. Multi-link Transport4. 5G-Satcom CP/UP functions5. 5G Security in Satcoms6. M/cast & caching for

content distribution

Satellite and Terrestrial 5GArchitecture & Use Cases

Questions ?

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SaT5G

Objectives

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SaT5G Architecture & Research Pillars

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S1(UP/MME),S1(UP-MEC)OSS(CM)

5G TestMEC Svr

5G TestMEC Svr

iDirect Proposes we lead RP1