5G System Design

2Use Cases, Scenarios, and their Impact on the Mobile Network Ecosystem

Salah Eddine Elayoubi¹, Michał Maternia², Jose F. Monserrat³, Frederic Pujol⁴, Panagiotis Spapis⁵, Valerio Frascolla⁶ and Davide Sorbara⁷

¹ Orange Labs, France (now CentraleSupélec, France)

² Nokia, Poland

³ Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

⁴ iDATE, France

⁵ Huawei German Research Center, Germany

⁶ Intel, Germany

⁷ Telecom Italia, Italy

With contributions from Damiano Rapone⁷, and Marco Caretti⁷.

2.1 Introduction

This chapter delves in detail into the use cases (UCs) widely assumed to be addressed by the 5th generation (5G) wireless and mobile communications system, and the related requirements. In particular, this chapter takes into consideration and aggregates the requirements from different bodies like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN), and the 5G Public Private Partnership (5G PPP). The next part of the chapter is an analysis of the 5G ecosystem evolutions that are needed, and the novel value chains that can be expected for some UCs.

The chapter is structured as follows. The main service types considered for 5G are initially introduced in Section 2.2, before their detailed requirements are discussed in Section 2.3. Section 2.4 then presents key 5G UCs as considered by NGMN and different 5G PPP research projects, and Section 2.5 elaborates particularly in the UCs further discussed in specific parts of this book. Section 2.6 then delves into the likely ecosystem ...