ETSI TR 138 913 V17.0.0 (2022-05)

5G; Study on scenarios and requirements for next generation access technologies (3GPP TR 38.913 version 17.0.0 Release 17)

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• Technical Committee: 3GPP RAN - Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Completion Date: 02-May-2022

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ETSI TR 138 913 V17.0.0 (2022-05)






TECHNICAL REPORT
5G;
Study on scenarios and requirements
for next generation access technologies
(3GPP TR 38.913 version 17.0.0 Release 17)

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal Notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations . 7
3.1 Definitions . 7
3.2 Symbols . 7
3.3 Abbreviations . 7
4 Introduction . 8
5 Objectives . 8
6 Scenarios . 9
6.0 General . 9
6.1 Deployment scenarios . 9
6.1.1 Indoor hotspot . 10
6.1.2 Dense urban . 11
6.1.3 Rural . 12
6.1.4 Urban macro . 13
6.1.5 High speed . 14
6.1.6 Extreme long distance coverage in low density areas . 16
6.1.7 Urban coverage for massive connection . 16
6.1.8 Highway Scenario . 17
6.1.9 Urban Grid for Connected Car . 19
6.1.10 Commercial Air to Ground scenario . 21
6.1.11 Light aircraft scenario . 21
6.1.12 Satellite extension to Terrestrial . 21
7 Key performance indicators . 23
7.1 Peak data rate . 23
7.2 Peak Spectral efficiency . 23
7.3 Bandwidth . 23
7.4 Control plane late nc y . 23
7.5 User plane latency . 24
7.6 Latency for infrequent small packets. 24
7.7 Mobility interruption time . 24
7.8 Inter-system mobility . 24
7.9 Reliability . 25
7.10 Coverage. 25
7.10.1 Extreme Coverage. 25
7.11 UE battery life . 26
7.12 UE energy efficiency . 26
7.13 Cell/Transmission Point/TRxP spectral efficiency . 27
7.14 Area traffic capacity . 27
7.15 User experienced data rate. 27
7.16 5th percentile user spectrum efficiency . 28
7.17 Connection density . 29
7.18 Mobility . 29
7.19 Network energy efficiency . 29
8 Requirements for architecture and migration of Next Generation Radio Access Technologies . 31
9 Supplementary-Service related requirements . 32
9.1 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service . 32
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9.2 Location/Positioning Service. 32
9.3 Critical Communications services . 33
9.3.1 Public safety communications . 33
9.3.2 Emergency communications . 33
9.3.3 Public warning/emergency alert systems . 33
9.4 V2X communication . 33
10 Operational requirements . 34
10.0 General . 34
10.1 Spectrum. 34
10.1.1 Void . 34
10.1.2 Channel bandwidth scalability . 34
10.1.3 Void . 34
10.1.4 Duplexing flexibility . 34
10.1.5 Support of shared spectrum . 34
10.1.6 Spectrum range . 34
10.2 UL Link Budget . 34
10.3 Support for wide range of services . 34
10.4 Co-existence and interworking with legacy RATs . 35
10.4.1 Co-existence with LTE . 35
10.4.2 Co-existence with UMTS and GSM/EDGE . 35
10.4.3 V2X communication . 35
10.5 Void . 35
10.6 Interworking with non-3GPP systems . 35
10.6.1 General . 35
10.6.2 Interworking with WLAN . 35
10.6.3 Void . 36
10.7 Void . 36
10.8 Easy operation and Self Organization requirements . 36
10.9 Void . 36
10.10 Cost-related requirements . 36
10.10.1 Balance of complexity and performance . 36
10.10.2 Low-cost requirements . 36
10.11 Energy-related requirements . 36
10.12 Security and Privacy related requirement relevant for Radio Access . 36
10.13 Void . 37
10.14 Lawful Interception . 37
10.15 Backhaul and signalling optimization requirements . 37
10.16 Relay requirements . 37
10.17 High availability . 37
10.18 Void . 37
11 Testing and Conformance Requirements . 38
Annex A: Change history . 39
History . 41

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Foreword
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1 Scope
This document is related to the technical report for this study item "Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation
Access Technologies" [1]. The objective of the study item is to identify the typical deployment scenarios associated
with attributes such as carrier frequency, inter-site distance, user density, maximum mobility speed, etc, and to develop
requirements for next generation access technologies for the identified deployment scenarios taking into account, but
not limited to, the ITU-R discussion on IMT-2020 requirements.
This document contains scenarios and requirements for next generation access technologies, which can be used as not
only guidance to the technical work to be performed in 3GPP RAN WGs, but also input for ITU-R to take into account
when developing IMT-2020 technical performance requirements.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
[1] 3GPP SID FS_NG_SReq: "Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation Access
Technologies" RP-152257, “New Study Item Proposal - Study on Scenarios and Requirements for
Next Generation Access Technologies”, CMCC, RAN#70, Sitges, Spain, Dec. 7 - 11, 2015.
[2] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[3] 3GPP TR 22.891: "Feasibility Study on New Services and Markets Technology Enablers".
[4] Recommendation ITU-R M.2083: IMT Vision - "Framework and overall objectives of the future
development of IMT for 2020 and beyond" (September 2015).
[5] ITU-R report M.2135, Guidelines for evaluation of radio interface technologies for IMT-
Advanced.
[6] 3GPP TR 36.878: "Study on performance enhancements for high speed scenario in LTE".
[7] 3GPP TR 23.799: " Study on Architecture for Next Generation System".
[8] 3GPP TS 23.303: " Proximity-based services (ProSe); Stage 2".
[9] 3GPP TS 22.179: "Mission Critical Push To Talk (MCPTT) over LTE; Stage 1".
[10] 3GPP TS 22.468: "Group Communication System Enablers for LTE (GCSE_LTE)".
[11] 3GPP TR 36.890: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Study on single-cell
point-to-multipoint transmission for E-UTRA".
[12] 3GPP TS 22.101: "Service aspects; Service principles".
[13] 3GPP TS 22.071 "Location Services (LCS); Service description; Stage 1".
[14] 3GPP TS 22.153: "Multimedia priority service".
[15] 3GPP TS 22.268: "Public Warning System (PWS) requirements".
[16] 3GPP TS 33.106: "3G security; Lawful interception requirements".
[17] 3GPP TS 22.185: "Service requirements for V2X services".
[18] 3GPP TS 22.886: "Study on enhancement of 3GPP Support for 5G V2X Services".
[19] 3GPP TR 33.899: "Study on the security aspects of the next generation system".
[20] 3GPP TS 22.280: "Mission Critical Services Common Requirements (MCCoRe); Stage 1".
[21] 3GPP TS 22.281: "Mission Critical Video services over LTE".
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[22] 3GPP TS 22.282: "Mission Critical Data services over LTE".
[23] 3GPP TS 22.346: "Isolated Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN)
operation for public safety; Stage 1".

3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [1] and the following
apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in 3GPP
TR 21.905 [1].
Transmission Reception Point (TRxP): Antenna array with one or more antenna elements available to the network
located at a specific geographical location for a specific area.
3.2 Symbols
For the purposes of the present document, the following symbols apply:
t_gen The time during which data or access request is generated
t_sendrx The time during which data or access request is sent or received
3.3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [2] and the following apply.
An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any,
in 3GPP TR 21.905 [2].
ARPU Average Revenue Per User
BBU Baseband Unit
BS Base Station
CAPEX Capital Expenditure
CDF Cumulative Distribution Function
CN Core Network
D2D Device to Device
DL Downlink
DRX Discontinuous Reception
EE Energy Efficiency
eMBB enhanced Mobile BroadBand
EMF Electric and Magnetic Fields
eNB evolved Node B
eV2X enhanced Vehicle to Everything
FDD Frequency Division Duplex
GCSE_LTE Group Communication System Enablers for LTE
GEO Geostationary orbit
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
HEO High Earth Orbit
IMT International Mobile Telecommunicationss
InH Indoor Hotspot
ISD Inter-Site Distance
ITU International Telecommunication Union
ITU-R International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LEO Low Earth Orbit
MEO Medium Earth Orbit
MBB Mobile BroadBand
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MaxCL Maximum Coupling Loss
MCPTT Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk
mMTC massive Machine Type Communications
NR New Radio
OPEX Operational Expenditure
ProSe Proximity Services
QoE Quality of Experience
QoS Quality of Service
RAN Radio Access Network
RAT Radio Access Technology
RF Radio Frequency
RMa Rural Macro
RRH Remote Radio Head
RSU Roadside Unit
RTT Round Trip Time
Rx Receiver
SA Service and System Aspect
SC-PTM Single-Cell Point-to-Multipoint transmission
SDU Service Data Unit
SFN Single Frequency Network
SINR Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio
SON Self Organized Network
TDD Time Division Duplex
TR Technical Report
TRxP Transmission Reception Point
Tx Transmitter
UE User Equipment
UL Uplink
UMa Urban Macro
UMi Urban Micro
URLLC Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications
V2X Vehicle to Everything
WG Working Group
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
WRC World Radiocommunication Conference
4 Introduction
At the 3GPP TSG RAN #70 meeting, the Study Item description on "Scenarios and Requirements for Next Generation
Access Technologies" was approved [1].
The justification of the Study Item was that a fully mobile and connected society is expected in the near future, which
will be characterized by a tremendous amount of growth in connectivity, traffic volume and a much broader range of
usage scenarios. Some typical trends include explosive growth of data traffic, great increase of connected devices and
continuous emergence of new services. Besides the market requirements, the mobile communication society itself also
requires a sustainable development of the eco-system, which produces the needs to further improve system efficiencies,
such as spectrum efficiency, ene
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