23-04-18

IMT-2000IMT-2000

3GPP status update

1 GSC-9, Seoul

SOURCE: ETSI

TITLE: 3GPP Status update

AGENDA ITEM: 4.1 (Joint GTSC/GRSC)

CONTACT: Adrian Scrase, CTO ETSI, adrian.scrase@etsi.org

GSC9/JOINT_023

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ContentsContents

Structure and Leadership

Project Support

Technical Progress

Understanding 3GPP Releases

Cooperating with other bodies

Referencing of results by the ITU

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The following Organizational Partner changes have taken (or are in the process of taking) place:

• As a result of reorganization, the partner CWTS has changed to CCSA (China Communications Standards Association) • As a result of reorganization, the partner Committee T1 has changed to ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions)

These changes were formalised at the PCG/OP meeting which took place on 14/15 April 2004

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Organizational PartnersOrganizational Partners

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The following Market Representation Partner has joined 3GPP:

• TD-SCDMA Forum

This change will be formalised at the next PCG/OP meeting to take

place in October 2004

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For 2003, the Project Coordination Group had the following elected officials:

Chairman: Dr Asok Chatterjee (T1, US)Vice Chairman: Mr Nobuhiro Horisaki (TTC, Japan)Vice Chairman: Mr Karl Heinz Rosenbrock (ETSI)

For 2004, the Project Coordination Group has the following elected officials:

Chairman: Dr Kyu-Jin Wee (TTA, Korea)Vice Chairman: Dr Asok Chatterjee (ATIS, US)Vice Chairman: Mr Karl Heinz Rosenbrock (ETSI)

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TSG Elected OfficialsTSG Elected Officials

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In 2003, TSG GERAN rationalised their structure with the following result:

TSG GERAN WG 1: Radio AspectsTSG GERAN WG 2: Protocol AspectsTSG GERAN WG 3: Terminal Aspects

In June 2004, TSG CN will merge Working Group 2 and Working Group 4

Both of the above cases lead to cost savings in 3GPP

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W G T3U n ive rsa l S u b sc rib e r

Id e n tity M o d u le (U S IM )

W G T2M o b ile Te rm in a l S e rv ices

& C a p ab ilit ies

W G T1M o b ile Te rm in a l

C o n fo rm a nce Te s ting

TSG TTerminals

W G CN5O S A (O p e n S e rvice A rch itec tu re )

W G CN4M A P / G T P / B CH / S S

(w ill m e rg e w ith C N 2 , 0 6 2 0 0 4)

W G CN3In te rw o rk in g w ith

E x te rn a l N e tw o rks

W G CN2C A M E L

(w ill m e rg e w ith C N 4 , 0 6 2 0 0 4)

W G CN1M M /C C /S M (Iu )

TSG CNCore Netw ork

W G RAN4R a d io p e rfo rm a nce &

p ro to co l a spe c ts

W G RAN3Iu b sp e c'n , Iu r sp e c'n , Iu spe c 'n& U T R A N O & M re qu ire m e n ts

W G RAN2R a d io L a yer 2 sp e c if ica tion

& R a d io L aye r 3 R R sp e c ifica tion

W G RAN1R a d io L a yer 1 sp e c if ica tion

TSG RANRadio Access Netw ork

W G SA5T e le co m M a na g e m e nt

W G SA4C o d ec

W G SA3S e cu rity

W G SA2A rch ite c tu re

W G SA1S e rv ices

TSG SAServices & Systems Aspects

W G G ERAN3 T e rm in a l T e s ting

W G G ERAN2P ro toco l A sp e c ts

W G G ERAN1R a d io A sp e c ts

TSG G ERANG SM EDGE Radio Access

Current TSG StructureCurrent TSG Structure

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The Mobile Competence Centre continues to provide dedicated support to 3GPP.

A number of staff changes have occurred during the last 12 months, with seconded experts returning to their home organizations.

Vacancies have been filled by open “calls for candidates” and these calls attract high quality candidates.

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The Mobile Competence Centre is composed as follows:

Project SupportProject Support

SUPPORT ASSISTANTS

Florence Ravoire Karen Hughes Susanna KooistraEmmanuelle Wurffel

Cesar Gutierrez

Adrian Zoicas

Maurice Pope

GERAN 2

GERAN 3

GERAN 1

GERAN

RAN 3

CN 5

CN 4

CN 2

CN

CN 3

CN 1

RAN 1

RAN 2

SA 5

SA 2

SA 4

SA 1

SA

SA 3

T 1

T

T 2

TC MSG EP RT

EP SCPT 3

Tsukasa Sasaki

Claude Arzelier

RAN 4

RAN

Per J ohan Jorgensen

Paolo Usai

David Boswarthick

Alain Sultan

Andrijana Jurisic

Michael Clayton

Sang Ui Yoon

Friedhelm Rodermund

Kimmo Kymalainen

Gert Thomasen

Priya Kakkad - Trainee

Godmothers

CN- Emmanuelle

GERAN – Karen

RAN – Florence

SA – Susanna

T - Karen

Godfathers

CN -David

GERAN - Paolo

RAN – Cesar

SA – Maurice

T- Friendhelm

Last updated: 2004 - 02 - 17

Adrian ScraseHead of MCC

Alain Sultan Technical Coordinator

Shicheng Hu TTCN Support

John M Mererdith MCC Team LeaderSpecifications manager

Maurice Pope IT Coordinator

Juergen Caldenhoven

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The workload remains high, with more than 5000 Change Requests having been implemented in 2003

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Rel 7 Specifications

Rel 6 Specifications

Rel-5 Specifications

Rel-4 Specifications

Rel 99 Specifications

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and nearly 3000 specifications currently being maintained

Project SupportProject Support

CLASSIFICATION NUMBER OF ACTIVE SPECS

Phase1 121

Phase 2 183

Release 96 201

Release 97 219

Release 98 281

Release 99 439

Release 4 511

Release 5 566

Release 6 383

Release 7 1

TOTAL SPECIFICATIONS 2905

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Technical ProgressTechnical Progress

The following Releases have already been completed and are the basis of current commercial launches: Release '99

– functionally frozen December 1999. Defines UTRA and many other initial features

• The basis for early 3G deploymentRelease 4

– functionally frozen March 2001. Enhancements to Release '99 plus separation of control plane from user plan in core network

• First steps towards IP-based operation– Also defines the low chip rate TDD mode (aka TD SCDMA)

Release 5– functionally frozen March/June 2002. In addition to further enhancements,

this release introduces:• IMS - IP-based Multimedia Services• HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access

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Technical ProgressTechnical Progress

Focus now on completion of Release 6Functional freeze expected September/December 2004Expected to contain many new (revenue generating) features, including:

– Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)– Push to Talk over Cellular– Wireless LAN/UMTS interworking– Presence and Availability– Speech recognition and speech enabled services – MMS enhancements– IMS "Phase 2" (incl. IMS Messaging, Conferencing, Group

Management)

… continued…

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Technical ProgressTechnical Progress

And…– Interoperability between IMS using different IP-connectivity networks

(e.g., 3GPP and 3GPP2 compliant networks)– Use of UTRA in other spectrum arrangements

• Contributions already prepared for ITU-R WP8/F– FDD & TDD in 850MHz, 1.7/2.1 GHz for USA– and 800 MHz for Japan– 2500-2690 MHz

– Network sharing– Radio improvements– Fast uplink– New radio modulation techniques (feasibility study)And many more (in fact there are 50 new elements

expected to be included in Rel6)…

Technical ProgressTechnical Progress

Thorough testing:• Major investment is also being made in TTCN (Tree and Tabular

Combined Notation) testing for 3GPP terminals• Interoperability is paramount

• More than 1 M€ already invested in TTCN development• Permanent team to draft and deploy TTCN• More than a standards issue• Work performed in cooperation with industry players, in particular the

Global Certification Forum (GCF)• Vital feedback into the specification work• ETSI “Plugtest™” events feature 3G interop testing• China (Datang) are providing considerable voluntary resources

(minimum of 4 permanent experts based at ETSI HQ) to accelerate the development of Low Chip rate TDD mode TTCN

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Technical ProgressTechnical Progress

So what happens after Release 6?

An ad hoc study group has discussed the position on 3GPP's long term future.

Results contained in Technical Report (TR 21.902) published in September 2003:• Foresees long-term evolution of 3G towards

future generations• Foresees continued major role for 3GPP

well into the future

• Foresees continued/expanded collaboration

with other bodies

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Understanding 3GPP ReleasesUnderstanding 3GPP Releases

3GPP Releases are complex.3GPP Features are sometimes difficult to understand.MCC has prepared comprehensive explanatory descriptions of the Releases as follows:

– 3GPP Release 5 (completed) ftp://ftp.3gpp.org//Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Releases/Rel5_features_v_2003_09_09.zip), – 3GPP Release 99 (available as final draft SP-040200)

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/TSG_SA/TSGS_23/Docs/ZIP/– 3GPP Release 4 (available as first draft SP-040147)

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/tsg_sa/TSG_SA/TSGS_23/Docs/ZIP/– 3GPP Release 6 (under construction)

Those having an interest in 3GPP Releases may wish to consult these informal documents

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Cooperating with other bodiesCooperating with other bodies

• 3GPP2• 802.11 (IEEE)• Bluetooth SIG• International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) • CTIA 

(Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association) • Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project• ECMA International• Eurescom• European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical

Research (COST)... and in particular COST 273 (Towards Mobile Broadband multimedia networks) 

• European Radiocommunications Committee (ERC)• Global Certification Forum (GCF)• GSM Association• HomeRF Forum• IDB Forum• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)• IrDA• International Multimedia Telecomunications Consortium (IMTC)

• Internet Streaming Media Alliance

• ISO-ITU expert group• ISO MPEG / JPEG• JAIN tm (Javatm APIs for Integrated Networks)• Liberty Alliance Project• Multi Service Switching Forum• OMA (Open Mobile Alliance )• Object Management Group (OMG)• PCS Type Certification Review Board (PTCRB)• Portable Computer and Communications Association

(PCCA)• (The) Parlay Group• Presence and Availability Management (PAM) Forum• RSA Laboratories• SDR Forum• Sun Micro Systems Inc• SyncML Iniative• TeleManagement Forum (TMF)• TIA / TR45• TV-anytime Forum • Voice eXtensible Mark-up Language (VXML) Forum• Wireless LAN Smart Card Consortium• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

3GPP is currently working with 39 external bodies3GPP is currently working with 39 external bodies

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Harmonization of 3GPP work also being enhanced by adoption of external common specifications

– Notably, IETF RFCs (approx. 40)– RFC 3113 defines basis of co-operation between 3GPP & IETF– IMS based on SIP, defined by IETF…

• SIP in original form not adequate for 3GPP– signalling, voice and radio efficiency issues

• But 3GPP did not want a 3GPP specific version of SIP– would prevent interworking

• 3GPP-IETF collaboration has provided required SIP extensions and IETF interoperability changes

• Collaboration continues…

Cooperation with IETFCooperation with IETF

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The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is defining bearer-agnostic enablers for mobile services

• OMA work is of significant interest to 3GPP

• 3GPP has already passed responsibility for some work to OMA

– e.g. Digital Rights Management

• Further transfer of responsibilities hampered by legal issues (differences in IPR and Copyright rules)

• Discussions continue to find a practical solution…

Cooperation with OMACooperation with OMA

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Referencing of results by ITUReferencing of results by ITU

Until recently, updates were provided to ITU, when demanded by the ITU, as follows:

• ITU - R – Regular updates submitted to ITU-R Recommendation M.1457

• ITU - T– Regular updates submitted to ITU-T Recommendation Q.1741

Following discussion with the ITU, updates will now only be provided when 3GPP believe there is reason to do so.

This will reduce the administrative burden of frequent updating.

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