This is a whitepaper of the GSMA 5G IoT Community.

Link to the full GSMA white paper is here.

The initial 5G 3GPP Release (Release 15) targeted applications in three service categories – enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low latency communications (uRLLC) and the low-throughput and battery-efficient massive machine-type communication (mMTC), as defined by the ITU Radiocommunication Sector’s IMT-2020 specification. After the commercial roll-out of numerous 5G networks across the globe, a need has emerged for a variant of 5G in which the performance and costs are optimised for use cases that fall in-between these initial service categories. To fill this gap, 5G RedCap (Reduced Capability1 ) was introduced in 3GPP Release 17 as a 5G variant (see Figure 1), and was followed by the even leaner 5G eRedCap (Enhanced Reduced Capability), specified in Release 18. Mobile network operators (MNOs) can now service the full spectrum of IoT use cases with the 5G standard, including those applications which are either too demanding to implement with the low power wide area (LPWA) connectivity of 5G mMTC (NB-IoT and LTE-M), or too basic for the over-performing eMBB and uRLLC capabilities of 5G New Radio.

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Figure 1. RedCap/eRedCap positioning against 5G use case groups defined in IMT-2020

RedCap and eRedCap are based on the 5G standalone (SA) architecture, and can thus convey a multitude of benefits to IoT applications, such as:

— Higher peak data rates: Superior data rates are offered than mMTC, comparable to lower LTE categories, meaning 5G RedCap can support smart grid monitoring, video surveillance and other more demanding applications.

— Reduced latency: Round-trip delays are lower than, or match those, of LTE, enabling applications that require the near real-time exchange of data, such as industrial automation, wireless sensors, wearables and even low-end extended reality devices.

— Reduced power consumption: Improved power efficiency enables an extended lifetime in batterypowered devices. This is extremely important for devices, such as wearables or sensors, for which the original 5G NR consumes too much energy.

These enhancements, also come with a considerable reduction in device complexity and cost, making RedCap/eRedCap the new technology of choice for a range of IoT applications, such as: — Wireless industrial sensors: Monitoring and controlling remote equipment to improve efficiency and safety in industrial settings.

— Video surveillance: Transmitting real-time video feeds to improve security and deter crime.

— Smart grids: Monitoring and managing the power grid to help improve the efficiency and reliability of energy supplies.

— Smart wearables: Connecting wearable devices for lone workers, public safety officers, and assisted living, or health and fitness trackers.

Finally, 5G RedCap and eRedCap are well-positioned to play an important role in future IoT deployments, emerging as the primary migration path for services still communicating today over legacy 2G, 3G and 4G networks. As RedCap will only gradually become widely available, and roaming frameworks still to be put in place for global coverage, both RedCap and LTE will co-exist for a while, catering to the needs of the aforementioned IoT applications. The pace of technology migration will largely depend on individual MNOs’ strategies and some regions will adopt RedCap faster than others.

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5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is now a commercial reality in developed and developing countries around the world. While FWA solutions have been around for more than two decades, the massive performance improvements enabled by 5G and the use of mmWave spectrum (enabling speeds that are over 10 times that of 4G) make 5G FWA a competitive solution compared to the predominant technologies in the fixed broadband market.

This report forms part of a research series that reviews the implications and costs associated with deploying 5G FWA services in several regions around the world. In this second report, we focus on the scenario of a mobile operator that has an existing 5G network for mobile services and is looking to deploy a fixed broadband offering. The operator has limited sub‑6 GHz spectrum available (40 MHz) and a reasonable amount of mmWave spectrum in the 26–28 GHz bands (400 MHz). We use our unique TCO model to establish under what conditions deploying 5G FWA can be a cost-effective connectivity option. The scenario is relevant to mid-band constrained mobile operators that do not have a fixed offering, or mid-band constrained converged operators looking to complement or upgrade their wireline networks in underserved areas.

The link for the report is here: https://data.gsmaintelligence.com/research/research/research-2022/the-5g-fwa-opportunity-a-tco-model-for-a-5g-mmwave-fwa-network

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An assessment of total cost of ownership in the period to 2025

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5G is now a commercial reality. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, adoption of 5G will reach 200 million connections by the end of 2020; this is forecast to grow to more than 1 billion connections by the end of 2023 and nearly 2 billion globally by the end of 2025. 5G can deliver 10× faster data rates and 100× more capacity, at latencies up to 10× shorter, compared to 4G networks, allowing it to handle growing mobile data traffic. The 5G opportunity for enterprise digital transformation is massive and includes industrial applications, automotive, robotics and healthcare, to cite a few examples. But 5G will also have a profound impact on consumers. It will enable higher-quality services, such as in video streaming and video conferencing, the possibility of fast home broadband services through fixed wireless access (FWA), and new consumer and business services such as edge computing and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR).

In this study, we evaluate the cost effectiveness of deploying millimetre wave (mmWave) 5G solutions in six different scenarios, including dense urban areas, FWA and indoor deployments. The results have clear implications for all actors in the mobile ecosystem. Operators that underestimate the role of mmWave in the short term run the risk of finding themselves at a disadvantage to competitors when offering 5G services. Governments looking to capitalise on 5G as a catalyst of economic growth need to make clear plans for the assignment of mmWave bands to mobile services. As broader economic benefits are realised and mmWave 5G solutions achieve greater scale, a wider choice of consumer devices and equipment is poised to further reduce deployment costs, increase the choice of affordable devices available and facilitate greater adoption.

Most 5G launches globally so far have relied on mid-band spectrum, with very few exceptions. But as adoption increases and more consumers and diverse services migrate to 5G networks, these will need spectrum across low (e.g. 700 MHz), mid (e.g. 3.5 GHz) and high (e.g. mmWave) bands in order to deliver enough capacity to support the full 5G experience. In particular, due to the massive spectral bandwidth available, mmWave bands are key to meeting high traffic demand and at the same time maintaining the performance and quality requirements of 5G services. So far, mobile operator bids in auctions for mmWave bands have not been as high as for lower frequency bands. This means that mmWave bands are at present generally cheaper in $/MHz/pop terms.

Despite its potential, the utilisation of mmWave in mobile has had to overcome major technical challenges: mmWave signals travel relatively short distances compared to signals of lower-frequency bands; can be susceptible to attenuation from trees and other obstacles; and have difficulties in penetrating concrete building walls (often necessary to reach indoors). However, the continued growth of mobile data traffic plays to the strengths of mmWave bands, as mmWave can accommodate more capacity and bandwidth than any other band.

Economics of mmWave 5G

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The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new service providers who are looking to develop new, innovative, connected products and services. Analysts have predicted that hundreds of thousands of new IoT services will connect billions of new IoT devices over the next decade. This rapid growth of the Internet of Things represents a major opportunity for all members of the new ecosystem to expand their service offerings and to increase their customer base.

Analysts have indicated that security issues are a significant inhibitor to the deployment of many new IoT services and, at the same time, the provision of wide area connectivity to an ever-widening variety of IoT services will increase the whole ecosystem’s exposure to fraud and attack. There is already much evidence to show that attackers are beginning to show ever greater interest in this area.

As these new service providers develop new and innovative services for particular market segments, they may be unaware of the threats their service may face.

The telecommunications industry, which the GSMA and GSA represents, has a long history of providing secure products and services to their customers. The provision of secure products and services is as much a process as it is a goal. Vigilance, innovation, responsiveness and continuous improvement are required to ensure the solutions address the threats.

To help ensure that the new IoT services coming to market are secure, the network operators together with their network, service and device equipment partners would like to share their security expertise with service providers who are looking to develop IoT services.

The GSMA has therefore created this set of security guidelines for the benefit of service providers who are looking to develop new IoT services.

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The scope of the document is limited to:

• Security guidelines related to IoT Services.
• Recommendations pertaining to the security services offered by a Network Operator.
• Cellular network technologies.

This document is not intended to create new IoT specifications or standards, but will refer to currently available solutions, standards and best practice.

This document is not intended to accelerate the obsolescence of existing IoT Services.

Backwards compatibility with the Network Operator’s existing IoT Services should be maintained when they are considered to be adequately secured.

This document does not address the security issues associated with the interfaces and APIs implemented on the IoT Service Platform (or IoT Connectivity Management Platform) in order for the IoT Service Platform to share its data with end users (for example to share data with an end user via a smartphone or PC application) or other entities within the ecosystem.

Such interfaces and APIs shall be secured using ‘best practice’ internet security technologies and protocols. It is noted that adherence to national laws and regulations for a particular territory may, where necessary, overrule the guidelines stated in this document.

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An assessment checklist is provided in document CLP.17. This document enables the suppliers of IoT products, services and components to self-assess the conformance of their products, services and components to the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines.

Completing a GSMA IoT Security Assessment Checklist will allow an entity to demonstrate the security measures they have taken to protect their products, services and components from cybersecurity risks.

Assessment declarations can be made by submitting a completed declaration to the GSMA.

Please see the following process on the GSMA website:

https://www.gsma.com/iot/future-iot-networks/iot-security-guidelines/

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This document is one part of a set of GSMA security guideline documents that are intended to help the nascent “Internet of Things” (IoT) industry establish a common understanding of IoT security issues. The set of non-binding guideline documents promotes methodology for developing secure IoT Services to facilitate security best practices are implemented throughout the life cycle of the service. The documents provide recommendations on how to mitigate common security threats and weaknesses within IoT Services.

The structure of the GSMA security guideline document set is shown below. It is recommended that the overview document ‘CLP.11 IoT Security Guidelines Overview

Document’ [1] is read as a primer before reading the supporting documents.

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The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) and the GSMA today announced an agreement that will help pave the way for the development of 5G mobile broadband networks globally. Through this cooperation framework, the two organisations will share and collaborate on spectrum management issues with particular reference to the allocation, harmonisation and market availability of new bands.

In the run up to the ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019 (WRC-19), this partnership will be key. It will help ensure a coherent and consistent approach in support of new spectrum allocations for mobile broadband networks based on IMT technology. The cooperation will also include addressing already-identified spectrum, which must be assigned to meet current and future demand for mobile broadband services.

Following a successful joint 5G workshop at ITU Telecom World 2016 in Thailand, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at a meeting between the GSA and the GSMA in London.

Joe Barrett, President of the GSA noted: “Both GSA and the GSMA share a common interest in promoting advanced mobile services. Our collaboration and combined messaging on spectrum allocation will support the global deployment of 5G to meet industry expectations of extended coverage and gigabit data rates.”

“The GSMA is very pleased to be working with the GSA to champion citizens’ access to high-speed, high-quality 5G mobile services through the allocation of future spectrum. It is through close collaboration that we can raise awareness of the need to connect more and more consumers and businesses,” said John Giusti, Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA.

The MoU employs a multi-faceted approach that will prioritise sharing studies in support of frequency bands for future 5G deployments. In addition, the two organisations will jointly identify and support key countries to facilitate the timely availability of already allocated spectrum, carrying out in-country studies and technical analysis as required.

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GSA promotes the 3GPP technology roadmap 3G; 4G; 5G including NB-IoT, VoLTE, LTE-V, LTE-U, LTE Broadcast, mobile device availability and features, etc. and represents companies across the worldwide mobile ecosystem engaged in the supply of infrastructure, semiconductors, test equipment, devices, applications and mobile support services. The GSA Executive Board comprises of Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated, covering close to 100% of all mobile network infrastructure deployments.

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This presentation was given as part of the panel session at the ITU Telecom World event on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Jupiter 10

The first commercial 5G deployments may still be a few years away but what happens between now and 2020 will determine the success of the technology, as well as the many sectors of the economy that depend on broadband infrastructure. Alignment on spectrum from an early stage on deploying 5G globally will be equally important.

During this workshop, there was discussions focused on spectrum bands for 5G for mobile, and the effort made by policymakers, mobile operators and equipment manufacturers to create the right environment for the technology, and for mobile, to thrive.

Event Details

Moderator

Mr Peng Zhao, Regional Spectrum Policy Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, GSMA, United Kingdom

Opening Remark: Mr François Rancy, Director of the ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau, International Telecommunication Union, Switzerland

Keynote Speakers

Dr Ulrich Dropmann, Head of Standardization Bell Labs CTO, Nokia Solutions and Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Mr Quan Yu, Chief Strategy Officer, Wireless Product Line, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China

Panellists

Mr Robert Middlehurst, Vice President International Regulatory Affairs, Emirates Telecommunication Corporation – Etisalat, United Arab Emirates

Dr Hiroyuki Atarashi, Manager of Radio System Group in Radio Access Network Development Department, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan

Mr. Hakan Ohlsen, Director, Spectrum and Radio Technology Strategy, Ericsson GFTE Technology Strategy , Viet Nam

Mrs Julie Garcia Welch, Senior Director and Head, Government Affairs, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Pacific, Qualcomm, Inc., China, Hong Kong SAR

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The first commercial 5G deployments may still be a few years away but what happens between now and 2020 will determine the success of the technology, as well as the many sectors of the economy that depend on broadband infrastructure. Alignment on spectrum from an early stage on deploying 5G globally will be equally important.

During this workshop, there will be discussions focused on spectrum bands for 5G for mobile, and the effort made by policymakers, mobile operators and equipment manufacturers to create the right environment for the technology, and for mobile, to thrive.

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