Minimum Technical Performance

Requirements for IMT-2020 radio

interface(s)

Eiman Mohyeldin
ITU-R Workshop on IMT-2020 terrestrial
radio interfaces
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Introduction

➢ The capabilities of IMT-2020 are identified such that IMT-2020 is more flexible, reliable and secure than
previous IMT and providing diverse services
➢ IMT-2020 can be considered from multiple perspectives, including the users, manufacturers, application
developers, network operators, and service and content providers. Therefore, it is recognized that technologies
for IMT-2020 can be applied in a variety of deployment scenarios and can support a range of
environments, service capabilities, and technology options.
➢ The key minimum technical performance requirements are defined for the purpose of consistent definition,
specification, and evaluation of the candidate IMT-2020 radio interface technologies (RITs)/Set of radio
interface technologies (SRIT)
➢ The intent of these requirements is to ensure that IMT-2020 technologies are able to fulfil the objectives of
IMT-2020 and to set a specific level of performance that each proposed RIT/SRIT needs to achieve in order to
be considered by ITU-R for IMT-2020.
➢ These requirements are not intended to restrict the full range of capabilities or performance that
candidate RITs/SRITs for IMT-2020 might achieve, nor are they intended to describe how the RITs/SRITs might
perform in actual deployments under operating conditions that could be different from those presented in other
ITU-R Recommendations and Reports on IMT-2020.
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Usage scenarios of IMT for 2020 and the key performance requirements

Bandwidth is the capability of the RIT/SRIT, hence it is a generic requirements and applicable to the IMT-
2020
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Minimum Technical Performance Requirement in nutshell (1/2)
Technical
requirement
Usage scenario applicability Target value
eMBB mMTC URLLC General/
Non-specific

4.1 Peak date √ DL: 20 Gbps

rate UL: 10 Gbps
4.2 Peak √ DL: 30 bps/Hz
spectral UL: 15 bps/Hz
efficiency
4.3 User √ DL 100 Mbps
experienced UL 50 Mbps
data rate
4.4 5th √ TE DL UL
percentile user (bit/s/Hz) (bit/s/Hz)
spectral InH 0.3 0.21
efficiency DU 0.225 0.15
RU 0.12 0.045
4.5 Average √ TE DL UL
spectral (bit/s/Hz) (bit/s/Hz)
efficiency InH 9 6.75
DU 7.8 5.4
RU 3.3 1.6
4.6 Area traffic √ 10 Mbit/s/m2
capacity
4.7.1 User plane √ √ URLLC: 1ms
latency eMBB: 4ms
4 4.7.2 Control
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plane latency
Minimum Technical Performance Requirement in nutshell (2/2)
Technical Usage scenario applicability Target value
requirement eMBB mMTC URLLC General/
Non-specific

4.8 Connection √ 1,000,000 devices/km2

density
4.9 Energy √ Qualitative measure
efficiency

4.10 Reliability √ 1-10-5 Success Probability for TX 32B in 1ms

4.11 Mobility √ TE TCDL(bits/s/Hz) Mobility(km/h)
InH 1.5 10
DU 1.12 30
RU 0.8 120
RU 0.45 500
4.12 Mobility √ √ 0 ms
interruption time

4.13 Bandwidth √ At least 100MHz, up to 1GHz for higher frequency bands

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 Key Technical Performance
Requirements in details

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 Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (1/5)
Peak data rate: is the maximum achievable data rate under ideal conditions (in bit/s), which is the received data bits assuming error-free
conditions assignable to a single mobile station, when all assignable radio resources for the corresponding link direction are utilized (i.e.,
excluding radio resources that are used for physical layer synchronization, reference signals or pilots, guard bands and guard times).
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario. The minimum requirements for peak data rate are as
follows:
– Downlink peak data rate is 20 Gbit/s.
– Uplink peak data rate is 10 Gbit/s
Peak spectral efficiency: is the maximum data rate under ideal conditions normalised by channel bandwidth (in bit/s/Hz), where the
maximum data rate is the received data bits assuming error-free conditions assignable to a single mobile station, when all assignable radio
resources for the corresponding link direction are utilized (i.e. excluding radio resources that are used for physical layer synchronization,
reference signals or pilots, guard bands and guard times).
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario.The minimum requirements for peak spectral efficiencies
are as follows:
– Downlink peak spectral efficiency is 30 bit/s/Hz.
– Uplink peak spectral efficiency is 15 bit/s/Hz.

User experienced data rate: is the 5% point of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the user throughput. User throughput
(during active time) is defined as the number of correctly received bits, i.e. the number of bits contained in the service data units (SDUs)
delivered to Layer 3, over a certain period of time
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the related eMBB test environment.
The target values for the user experienced data rate are as follows in the Dense Urban – eMBB test environment:
– Downlink user experienced data rate is 100 Mbit/s.
– Uplink user experienced data rate is 50 Mbit/s.
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 Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (2/5)
Area traffic capacity: is the total traffic throughput served per geographic area (in Mbit/s/m2). The throughput is the number of
correctly received bits, i.e. the number of bits contained in the SDUs delivered to Layer 3, over a certain period of time.
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the related eMBB test environment.
The target value for Area traffic capacity in downlink is 10 Mbit/s/m2 in the Indoor Hotspot – eMBB test environment.

User plane latency : is the contribution of the radio network to the time from when the source sends a packet to when the
destination receives it (in ms). It is defined as the one-way time it takes to successfully deliver an application layer packet/message from the
radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU ingress point to the radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU egress point of the radio interface in either uplink or downlink in
the network for a given service in unloaded conditions, assuming the mobile station is in the active state.
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB and URLLC usage scenarios.
The minimum requirements for user plane latency are
– 4 ms for eMBB
– 1 ms for URLLC

Control plane latency : refers to the transition time from a most “battery efficient” state (e.g. Idle state) to the start of continuous
data transfer (e.g. Active state).
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB and URLLC usage scenarios.
The minimum requirement for control plane latency is 20 ms. Proponents are encouraged to consider lower control plane latency, e.g. 10 ms.

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Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (3/5)
Mobility interruption time: is the shortest time duration supported by the system during which a user terminal cannot exchange
user plane packets with any base station during transitions. The mobility interruption time includes the time required to execute any radio
access network procedure, radio resource control signalling protocol, or other message exchanges between the mobile station and the radio
access network, as applicable to the candidate RIT/SRIT.
This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB and URLLC usage scenarios.. The minimum requirement for mobility
interruption time is 0 ms
5th percentile user spectral efficiency : is the 5% point of the CDF of the normalized user throughput. The normalized user throughput
is defined as the number of correctly received bits, i.e., the number of bits contained in the SDUs delivered to Layer 3, over a certain period of time, divided
by the channel bandwidth and is measured in bit/s/Hz. This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario. The minimum
requirements for 5th percentile user spectral efficiency for various test environments are summarized below
Test environment Downlink Uplink
(bit/s/Hz) (bit/s/Hz)
Indoor Hotspot – eMBB 0.3 0.21
Dense Urban – eMBB 0.225 0.15
Rural – eMBB 0.12 0.045

Average spectral efficiency: is the aggregate throughput of all users (the number of correctly received bits, i.e. the number of bits contained in the
SDUs delivered to Layer 3, over a certain period of time) divided by the channel bandwidth of a specific band divided by the number of TRxPs and is measured
in bit/s/Hz/TRxP. This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario.
The minimum requirements for average spectral efficiency for various test environments are summarized
Test environment Downlink (bit/s/Hz/TRxP) Uplink (bit/s/Hz/TRxP)
Indoor Hotspot – eMBB 9 6.75
Dense Urban – eMBB 7.8 5.4

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Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (4/5)
Connection density : is the total number of devices fulfilling a specific quality of service (QoS) per unit area (per km2). This
requirement should be achieved for a limited bandwidth and number of TRxPs. The target QoS is to support delivery of a message of a certain
size within a certain time and with a certain success probability. This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the mMTC usage
scenario. The minimum requirement for connection density is 1 000 000 devices per km2.
Reliability : is the success probability of transmitting a layer 2/3 packet within a required maximum time, which is the time it takes to
deliver a small data packet from the radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU ingress point to the radio protocol layer 2/3 SDU egress point of the radio
interface at a certain channel quality. This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the URLLC usage scenario.
The minimum requirement for the reliability is 1-10-5 success probability of transmitting a layer 2 PDU (protocol data unit) of 32 bytes within 1
ms in channel quality of coverage edge for the Urban Macro-URLLC test environment, assuming small application data (e.g. 20 bytes application
data + protocol overhead). Proponents are encouraged to consider larger packet sizes, e.g. layer 2 PDU size of up to 100 bytes.
Mobility : is the maximum mobile station speed at which a defined QoS can be achieved (in km/h), there are 4 different mobility classes
defined:
1- Stationary: 0 km/h
2- Pedestrian: 0 km/h to 10 km/h
3-Vehicular: 10 km/h to 120 km/h
4- High speed vehicular: 120 km/h to 500 km/h
A mobility class is supported if the traffic channel link data rate on the uplink, normalized by bandwidth, is as shown in table below. This
assumes the user is moving at the maximum speed in that mobility class in each of the test environments.. This requirement is defined for the
purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario

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Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (5/5)
Energy efficiency : Network energy efficiency is the capability of a RIT/SRIT to minimize the radio access network energy consumption
in relation to the traffic capacity provided. Device energy efficiency is the capability of the RIT/SRIT to minimize the power consumed by the
device modem in relation to the traffic characteristics. Energy efficiency of the network and the device can relate to the support for the
following two aspects:
a) Efficient data transmission in a loaded case;
b) Low energy consumption when there is no data.

This requirement is defined for the purpose of evaluation in the eMBB usage scenario.
The RIT/SRIT shall have the capability to support a high sleep ratio and long sleep duration. Proponents are encouraged to describe other
mechanisms of the RIT/SRIT that improve the support of energy efficient operation for both network and device.

Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum aggregated system bandwidth. The bandwidth may be supported by single or multiple radio
frequency (RF) carriers. The bandwidth capability of the RIT/SRIT is defined for the purpose of IMT-2020 evaluation.
The requirement for bandwidth is at least 100 MHz.
The RIT/SRIT shall support bandwidths up to 1 GHz for operation in higher frequency bands (e.g. above 6 GHz).
Proponents are encouraged to consider extensions to support operation in wider bandwidths considering the research targets expressed in
Recommendation ITU-R M.2083.The RIT/SRIT shall support scalable bandwidth. Scalable bandwidth is the ability of the candidate RIT/SRIT to
operate with different bandwidths.

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