[Music] [Music] hi i'm mike mcdonald from huawei technologies welcome to part 1 of this course on 5g in this series we will learn what 5g is how 5g standards are set the importance of spectrum and how modern 5g network architecture differs from previous generations we will also discuss health concerns once fully deployed 5g networks will provide unprecedented levels of connectivity but already with 4g we become used to being online at all times checking directions keeping up with friends ordering food from an app just grab the smartphone but how do we get here mobile phones have been around for only 40 years or so before you reached out to someone by dialing on a fixed landline it did the job but it had limitations chatting was literally a chat you could only use a phone for talking and because the lines were fixed you were unreachable if you were on the move then came the 70s platform shoes colorful clothes disco music and a whole lot of freedom the u.s firm bell labs an r d subsidiary of at t that's now part of nokia free telephones from landlines when it introduced the idea of cellular networks [Applause] welcome to 1g in cellular networks coverage areas are divided into cells each cell has a radio based station providing signal coverage that enables connections between a mobile phone and an operator's fixed network the world's first commercial cellular network was launched in tokyo in 1979 by nippon telegraph and telephone or ntt it was based on a standard called advanced mobile phone system or amps in europe the first cell network used was the nordic mobile telephone standard it was set up in 1981 in scandinavian countries [Music] in the u.s chicago was the first city to provide cell phone coverage in 1983. the network also used amp standard but not quite the same as the one deployed in japan with 1g users could be reached while on the move but there was room for improvement with top speeds of 2.4 kilobits per second 1g only supported voice calls 1g was entirely analog meaning that calls connected like radio signals sound quality was subject to interference and it was hard to guard against unauthorized eavesdropping calling was also expensive and battery life was short and the devices were really bulky the first japanese mobiles were shoulder phones weighing three kilograms yet despite all this early mobile phones were status symbols if you had one you must have been special mobile phones went digital in the late 80s enter the 2g era aside from voice calls 2g had two key features one it offered a 160 character short message service or sms two it had a low speed data transfer service known as mms or multimedia messaging with these two features instant messaging was born this is either a blessing or a curse depending on ah sorry should have solved my phone but as with 1g 2g standards weren't united europe deployed gsm mobile networks while the us and a few other countries went with cdma japan meanwhile turned to a technology called pdc for its 2g services throughout the 1990s the number of internet users boomed as more and more homes and businesses got either dial up or adsl connections around the year 2000 3g appeared it offered one megabit per second data connectivity this made online access possible while on the move with 3g the mobile industry moved decisively towards interoperability 3g wasn't a unified global standard but at least it was based on compatible versions of cdma technology it wasn't always easy to get online access while traveling but with a few exceptions like japan and south korea travelers could use the same handset to make or receive calls on different continents it's during the 3g era that smartphones with color screens became common and database services like mobile banking movie ticketing and social media began to multiply around 2009 global standards were fully united by lte technology or long-term evolution when 3g gave way to 4g instead of cdma lte implemented a new architecture that allowed data rates of about 100 megabits per second now you could enjoy voice text high resolution images and high definition video services in 2011 the standard setting organization third generation partnership project or 3gpp approved lte advanced a technology that boosted data transfer speeds by 10 times to 1 gigabits per second lte a is also called 4.5 g because it's somewhere between 4g and 5g in fact wireless technology generations tend to advance in half steps between 2g and 3g there was a standard called gprs that was referred to as 2.5 g and between 3g and 4g a technology called high speed downlink packet access or 3.5 g boosted data rates while lowering latency and now we're in the early days of the 5g era what are the big changes from 4g or should i say 4.5 g well an obvious capability is more bandwidth 5g offers up to 20 gigabits per second to give a sense of scale downloading a 4k movie takes a few seconds on a 5g phone compared with 5 to 10 minutes in 4g 5g provides more reliable connections and nearly instantaneous network response it can be deployed in latency critical applications like remote controlling heavy machinery and 5g has such a fast response times if you lose an online game you can't blame a slow internet well that was five generations of mobile standards across five decades i hope you enjoyed this brief history of wireless communications in the next episode we'll look at our rising expectations of what wireless networks should deliver and how 5g will meet those needs [Music] [Music] you [Music] welcome back the previous chapter was a short history of mobile communications we're now going to look at how 5g is positioned to handle future telecommunication needs or more simply what 5g will offer that 4g doesn't 20 years ago we were amazed just to be able to view short grainy videos on our laptops today with 4g we use our phones to watch live broadcasts of sports events from anywhere at any time and we can make video calls with friends and family overseas using apps like wechat whatsapp or line so what more do we need from mobile networks the international telecommunications union has been looking into that based in geneva itu is an agency of the united nations responsible for all communications and information technologies it's part of itu's job to anticipate our future telecommunications needs and point their way forward itu started in 2012 to sketch out imt 2020 5g's formal name by 2015 it would come up with the broad lines of what 5g should be in its vision itu called for five to deliver three things as mobile broadband dmbb massive machine type communications mmtc and ultra reliable low latency communications or ur llc let's review those three requirements starting with enhanced mobile broadband industries ranging from mining to entertainment need more bandwidth to implement their digital transformation as we saw in the previous lesson lte advanced 5g currently peaks at 1 gigabit per second that's fast but it's not fast enough for several emerging applications for example search and rescue drones equipped with high definition cameras need to connect to machine vision ai while in the air or in the healthcare sector paper is giving way to digital for patients records this assumes that wireless networks can quickly download large medical files viably and instantly enbb is itunes requirement at 5g but i say imt 2020 deliver up to 20 gigabits per second in downlink speed and 10 gigabits per second uplink with that kind of bandwidth hospitals can go paperless and drones can upload 4k video in real time we talk more and more about the internet of things it sounds like something that's in the distant future but it's been taking shape for example many homes are already fitted with smart electricity meters connected to the utility servers our companies use this data to optimize their power generation and distribution down the line street lamps cars forklifts factory machinery and countless other things will also be networked eventually all these connections would overload networks the mmtc requirement mandates 5g to reliably support at least 1 million machine connections per square kilometer that's 10 times 4g it's enough to create not only smart cities but also smart hospitals where patients always get the correct drug medical supplies are tracked so they never run out and where remotely monitored patients can be called in before they need to rush to emergency you probably heard that 5g networks offer lower latency meaning faster response times than 4g a variety of emerging network deployment scenarios depend on low latency and high connection reliability manufacturers for example are making their production lines smarter by synchronizing multiple robots to make them work together on complex tasks and this can't be done without low latency and extremely high reliability of connections smart cars are another low latency high reliability scenario here the internet of vehicles cars will increasingly communicate with each other about the condition of the roads they're traveling on or in an emergency if they're going to suddenly break to a stop ur llc is itu's requirement that latency and 5g be sharply produced to 110th out of 4g at the same time connection reliability is boosted to a near perfect 99.9999 the downside of course is that you won't be able to blame a bad network connection when hanging up on someone you don't want to talk to okay well that's it for this lesson on how 5g surpasses 4g in the next chapter we'll see how industry standards enable the rapid deployment of new networks [Music] you [Music] [Music] let's continue in the previous lesson we saw how 5g goes far beyond 4g in delivering new levels of network performance we're now going to look at the role of industry standards in making this possible clear standards lead to smoother and faster network deployments in 2021 176 operators in 72 countries had launched 5g services and about 600 5g devices phones laptops industrial routers were on the market the number of 5g subscribers worldwide exceeded 300 million and was expected to reach 3.5 billion by 2026. this is the fastest mobile network rollout ever and a testament to the power of global standardization standards are like the rules of the roads a commonly recognized code that provides safety and clarity equipment manufacturers refer to standards when designing and making communications products without standards a huawei phone might not connect to an iphone standards also detail how infrastructure equipment like base stations should be installed to deliver optimal performance safely two organizations set the majority of mobile network standards one is itu the other one is the third generation partnership project or 3gpp we talked about the itu in the previous chapter it's been around since 1865. back then the initials stood for international telegraph union the united nations entrusts itu to handle all matters related to information and communications technologies in practice itu focuses on the big picture as for 3gpp it issues detailed technical specifications for mobile networks the organization was formed in 1998 with the initial goal to harmonize 3g specifications worldwide based in france the 3gpp is actually a consortium of seven national and regional telecommunications standard-setting organizations its membership also includes major equipment vendors like huawei the 3gpp has a vast experience with standards over the past 20 years it lit 14 different standardizations for wireless communication protocols including gsm wcdma lte and now 5g itu and 3gpp complement one another with regards to 5g itu set its vision in 2015. then industry stakeholders used 3gpp as a forum to discuss how that vision would be realized through the development of specific new technologies as these technologies became more and more real 3gpp standardized them 3gpp issues standards through a system of releases that are the outcome of discussions among members when a new release comes out it remains open for revisions for an agreed period of time after which it becomes frozen pre-gpp's first release early in the 3g era was called release 1999 named after the year was issued free gpp later switched to numbering its standards instead of dating them as we were putting this video together 3gpp was finalizing release 17. when setting standards one of the main concerns of three gpp members is to make them globally recognized this provides economies of scale during r d and manufacturing and also maximizes equipment interoperability when standards aren't harmonized it brings us back to situations like the 1990s europe had the gsm standard while the u.s a few other countries had cbma a divided world making 5g reality requires that a great number of technologies work together to deliver the performance expectations set out by itu as you can imagine deciding on standards for something as groundbreaking and complex as 5g is quite an undertaking the radio access network devices and network core all need their own detailed set of specifications owing to the huge size of this task 3gpp members are working out 5g standards over several releases the first set of 5g standards was release 15 issued in december 2017. release 15 mostly focused on the standardization of technologies enabling embb 3gpp completed release 16 in the summer of 2020. it includes new performance standards for massive mimo a type of antenna that we'll talk about in chapter 5. release 16 also clarified that reliability in ur llc must reach 99.9999 and latency go as low as 1 millisecond essential targets for certain applications like smart manufacturing the next batch of 5g standards really 70 will cover a broad range of technologies including additional standards for massive mimo as well as more detailed specifications for urlc 3gpp members have begun discussing release 18. release 18 will mark the point at which 5g evolves into 5.5 g or 5g advanced 5.5 g will likely power lower latency than 5g faster uplink and more precise location of connected devices and that's it for this lesson in the next chapter we'll talk about spectrum [Music] [Music] you [Music] spectrum just as you need ground under your feet if you want to walk or water to swim mobile networks require spectrum to operate in the telecommunications industry spectrum refers to specific ranges of frequencies that operators can legally use for their wireless networks mobile network operators typically buy spectrum at government auctions as we were making this video 5g spectrum was being auctioned in many countries mobile phone frequencies occupy a narrow range in the electromagnetic spectrum the frequencies are relatively low well below visible light in its release 15 3gpp grouped 5g radio frequencies into two ranges fr1 where 5g operates in frequencies below 7.1 gigahertz and fr2 higher frequencies that are new to mobile networks fr1 the range of frequencies that 5g is first deployed out worldwide further subdivides into two sub bands sub three gigahertz and three to seven point one gigahertz as a result people talk about 5g being deployed in three frequency bands the low band the mid band and the new fr2 high band let's talk about the low band first the sub 3 gigahertz frequencies in practice the low band really includes frequencies below 1 gigahertz the big advantage of the low band is that sub gigahertz radio waves can travel a long way and get around obstacles this makes the low band suitable for rural coverage in a low density area one cell tower operating the low band can cover hundreds of square kilometers the low band has a big downside however even though sub gigahertz 5g offers rural users high quality broadband the performance is a fraction of the 20 gigabits per second that 5g is supposed to be capable of so that's for the low band let's skip the mid band for now and look at the other end of the range the fr2 frequencies also called millimeter wave high band 5g operates in frequencies ranging between 25 and 42 gigahertz and possibly higher and future simultaneously the main disadvantage of high band frequencies is the short range of about 1.5 kilometers out in the open radio signal emitted in millimeter wave frequencies also attenuates sharply when it encounters obstacles like windows trees or even falling snow that makes the high band the mirror image of the low band from an infrastructure point of view fr2 frequencies will be covered by small cell sites mostly indoors so what about the mid band then also referred to as c band the mid band is 5g's sweet spot in the mid band 5g transmits a lot more data much faster than 4g and 5g in that frequency range roughly from 3 to 7 gigahertz can cover longer distances while being much less affected by obstacles like walls or windows because it's a good compromise between the low band and the high band the c band is the frequency range which most operators are initially deploying their 5g networks and notable exception is the us where 5g initially became available in low and high bands over time in a lot of countries 5g will be deployed in all three bands the high band will provide coverage in places like sports stadiums and airports or any place that has a high density of users deployment scenarios like factories or hospitals that require the highest levels of performance we'll also use millimeter wave 5g the c-band meanwhile will reach most users in city cores or residential neighborhoods the low band as we saw is best for rural areas all things equal the more spectrum an operator has access to the better the performance of its 5g network the international telecommunications union or itu has called for a minimum of 100 megahertz of contiguous bandwidth per operator operators in future will need a lot more than 100 megahertz of spectrum according to the gsma the main entity association for mobile network operators many cities will need two to three gigahertz of spectrum between one and seven gigahertz by 2030 to operate their mobile network smoothly if that spectrum isn't available operating cost and energy consumption will rise creating that much spectrum won't be easy 2g 3g and 4g networks already take up space in the sub 3 gigahertz range in addition some c-band frequencies were earlier assigned to other users like satellite td providers green spectrum in the 1-7 gigahertz range will require migrating these incumbent users as you can see spectrum is valuable and in limited supply government communications authorities tend to sell spectrum to operators at auctions where the highest bidder wins intuitively this makes sense because the market is a great instrument for allocating scarce resources but there are downsides to auctions operators that spend a lot of money on spectrum may be forced to slow down the rollout of their 5g networks that means that 5g's benefits to consumers and industry have to wait even longer for this reason regulators in some countries chose to allocate spectrum at a low cost or even free of charge methodology in exchange for pledges from operators to deploy more quickly in those countries where spectrum is given away regulators look at wireless networks as essential infrastructure they expect that the revenue lost from not auctioning off spectrum will be made up for later through the taxation of new business activity that the availability of 5g will foster okay that was a lot of content on spectrum i hope you learned something in the next section we will talk about the new technologies that make 5g possible [Music] [Music] you [Music] in part three we talked about standardization and in lesson 4 about the importance of spectrum in this chapter we will discuss some of the new 5g technologies and how they depend on spectrum as you remember it requires that 5g provide enhanced mobile broadband ultra reliable low latency communications and massive machine type connections concretely these requirements will be met with the help of new technologies we'll now look at some that have been standardized or frozen by 3gpp release 15 and 60. we'll talk about new radio massive mimo polar coding and mobile edge computing these innovations work together to address two of the itu's requirements for 5g enhanced mobile broadband and ultra reliable low latency communications 3gbp standards for the third requirement massive machine type communications were not frozen as we were shooting this video new radio beam forming and massive mimo are closely related massive mimo enables new radio and one of the main features of new radio is beamforming so i'll describe these three together mimo an abbreviation for multiple input multiple output is a type of antenna that's been around since the 4g era in a nutshell mimo is a technology that maximizes the transmission and reception capabilities of multiple antennas to increase the quality capacity and strength of a radio signal originally mimo antenna units were made up of two or four antennas 5g mimos contain as many as 64 antennas and that's why they're called massive beamforming a technology for higher frequency transmissions is one of the capabilities of a massive mimo as we saw in the previous chapter 5g will need a lot of spectrum gigahertz of it some of that spectrum will be found in the low bed but the rest will be in the c band as well as in the super fast millimeter wave high band at higher frequencies radio transmissions have a shorter range moreover higher frequency transmissions can be more easily disrupted by physical objects like walls or trees or even rain beam helps to overcome that when a massive mimo detects that a terminal that's a smartphone or a cpe is located relatively far several antennas will send out the same signal but with different phases and amplitude if antennas produce light instead of radio signals a traditional antenna would brighten an entire room like a light bulb whereas massive mimo would illuminate objects like a flashlight beam forming is one of the main features of new radio one of 5g's key technologies new radio has another important feature reducing the imbalance in the quality of coverage for uplink and downlink in mobile transmissions the downlink signal is stronger than the uplink because base stations have a much higher transmit power than mobile phones or other terminals as a result the coverage performance in downlink is much better this issue is magnified if you go higher in the spectrum of radio frequencies new radio can solve this problem by using different frequencies for uplink and downlink this is called decoupling in previous generations of mobile networks the frequencies were the same with 5g new radio they're still the same when the terminal is close to the base station and the uplink signal is strong when the terminal is further away and the quality of the signal isn't as strong the base station will trigger the terminal to switch to a lower uplink frequency as we saw in the previous chapter on spectrum lower frequencies have longer range so this is how 5g new radio helps to improve uplink coverage one of the main features of 5g is increased bandwidth as high as 20 gigabits per second new radio also makes that possible primarily through the use of the new control channel coding technology polar coding wireless telecommunications are limited by the constraints of a theorem from a u.s mathematician claude shannon who stated in 1948 that there is fixed limit at which information can be reliably transmitted at a given bandwidth but shannon also said that a channel coding a process for detecting and correcting errors provides the means to reach that limit polar coding was discovered by the turkish professor of electrical engineering erdell erickan in 2008. a breakthrough in wireless communications polar codes are so far the only channel coding scheme that has been proven to reach shannon's limit in a nutshell polar coding is a method for reducing the amount of redundant data that is sent over a radio signal to protect the integrity of a message reducing the amount of redundant data speeds up radio transmissions by simplifying the process of encoding and decoding if you were to think of data being sent wirelessly as fragile vases being shipped polar coating would be a method for minimizing the amount of padding material used to protect the vases in this scenario channel coating would be the process of packing and unpacking the vases the simpler the packaging the simpler the packing and unpacking this is what polar coating achieves it's now time for the last technology in this video mobile age computing this technology reduces the latency of 5g or to put it another way it helps to meet the ur llc requirement with 5g network latency can be as low as one millisecond one tenth that of 4g one of the main factors responsible for latency is terrestrial transmission under a pre-5g deployment scenario a base station has to connect to the network core which in some situations could be located hundreds of kilometers away this is fine if the base station connects to the core network through a fully optical connection but that's not always the case 5g moves part of the core near the base station in the form of mobile edge or multi-access edge computing edge computing also called cloud edge consists of data servers of various sizes some smaller than a desktop computer and others the size of cabinets that are located near the base station in distances varying from a few meters to a few kilometers mobile edge or multi-access edge is one of the main methods used for reducing latency in 5g and with this this chapter on the technologies the makeup 5g comes to an end [Music] so [Music] you [Music] [Music] for this lesson we'll look at another unique feature of 5g networks cloudification 5g is designed to provide extremely low latency and very large amounts of bandwidth it's also very flexible so that it can be deployed in a wide range of scenarios network clarification plays a key role in enabling 5g to meet those expectations all telecommunication networks have a network core the core is the part of the network that manages data the core works with two types of data first the core manages control data that means it recognizes who you are and what right you have to access the network secondly it recognizes user data like emails instant messages videos websites and applications you can think of the core as a package sorting station in a courier company like dhl user data are the packages to be delivered control data are the address labels identifying the sender and receiver in that analogy the function of the core is to ensure that each package gets on the correct truck ship or airplane on the way to its final destination before 5g core network functions were carried out in dedicated facilities well switching gear in the very early days of telecoms most of the course functions were actually executed manually users would dial into a phone company switching center and tell an operator whom they wanted to connect to these days obviously long gone some of you watching this video have probably never even talked to a phone operator for the past 20 years at least most network operations have been almost entirely automated like other industries the telecom sector has been undergoing a digital transformation in recent years by tapping into the processing power and flexibility of the cloud poor network clarification is one of the main reasons 5g can deliver so much performance while being able to adapt to so many user scenarios instead of running entirely on dedicated hardware sitting at an operator's central office the core 5g mostly relies on a new cloud-based architecture called network function virtualization or nfv this means that network functions are mostly provided by cloud-based software nfv enables the decoupling of the two core's main functions managing user data and managing control data in 5g the control data is still processed in a central office which depending on the operator can be located tens or even hundreds of kilometers away from the user user data however is processed in the cloud this feature of 5g is called control and user plane separation or cups cops sets the stage for multi-access edge computing or mec which as you know from previous chapters is one of the main reasons 5g networks are so responsive edge computing speeds up users access to the processing power of the cloud by deploying some of the cloud servers at sites close to where the processing power is most needed this could be in the heart of a dense residential neighborhood an airport or an industrial park those edge servers which vary widely in size are key to delivering the very low latencies required by applications like ar vr and cloud gaming one way to think of age computing is to think of say a laptop manufacturer with service centers and cities throughout the world when customers need to service their computer they can do so locally at one of those customer centers instead of having to ship it to one of the manufacturers factories something that would take much longer clarification is one of the most innovative features of 5g networks taking full advantage of its potential require close collaboration between industrial users network operators cloud service providers equipment manufacturers and application developers this story will unfold for years to come and that's it for this part in the next section we'll look at 5g network safety [Music] [Music] you [Music] as we saw 5g networks will make use of higher spectrum frequencies than previous generations of wireless networks and will also implement breakthrough technologies like new radio is that safe as the cartoon we're about to watch explains there's no plausible way that 5g missions could be unsafe are 5g missions safe [Music] as 5g networks are deployed around the world some concerns have been expressed about the safety of the technology could 5g hurt us or the environment there are only two ways that 5g could be unsafe that would be because of the frequencies the technology uses or the strength of the signal 5g uses higher frequencies than 4g when people worry about 5g they usually think that higher frequencies mean unsafe radiation radiation is a scary word and yes 5g emits radiation but a lot of things do light bulbs for example radiation that can damage living tissue at the molecular level is called ionizing radiation it includes ultraviolet light x-rays and gamma rays non-ionizing radiation that you get from standing under a light bulb does not cause damage so yes 5g frequencies are higher than 4g frequencies but compared to ionizing radiation levels there's still a very very long way from the harmful range let's turn to intensity or the strength of the signal microwave frequencies are too low to cause molecular damage but if they are strong enough they generate heat that's how we get microwave ovens so that mobile emissions don't heat up objects or organisms within their range government sets strict standards well below the thermal effect level the eu allows up to 10 watts per square meter but actual tests show that wireless emissions are far below that [Music] right under a base station 5g radiation is equivalent to that of a hair dryer [Music] and 15 feet away it's a tiny fraction of what you'd measure from a microwave oven the uk office of communications published the results of a countrywide study that looked at emissions from 5g mobile base stations at most they were 0.04 of the regulatory standard so neither 5g's intensity nor frequency are a problem and yet some alarming studies have concluded that electromagnetic radiation can hurt plants or lab animals under certain conditions okay but were these conditions in any way realistic and were the results ever replicated this is key with science it's important to look at the options are harmful this includes the world health organization in the u.s the fda reviewed the scientific literature published between 2008 and 2018 on mobile emission safety it found no reasons for concern icnirp a global organization based in germany is entirely focused on radiation protection research recently completed a seven year review of mobile wireless emissions including 5g frequencies ic and irp confirmed that there is no reason to think mobile wireless emissions cause diseases in the news hardly a day goes by that one study or other says that something coffee for example is bad for you the safety of mobile wireless technologies has been extensively researched over the past 40 years 5g is new and operates in a different range but it's the same as before as far as safety goes so our 5g emissions safe absolutely as safe as a light bulb [Music] so there you have it the safety of mobile emissions has been under the spotlight for several decades the world's largest health agencies have found nothing to worry about and 5g is no different [Music] and that concludes this course on 5g congratulations for making it to the end i look forward to seeing you in another siege of the future course [Music] you