02/06/2015 IMT GPP status update 1GSC-9, Seoul SOURCE:ETSI TITLE:3GPP Status update AGENDA ITEM:4.1 (Joint GTSC/GRSC) CONTACT:Adrian Scrase, CTO ETSI, GSC9/JOINT_023

GSC-9, Seoul Contents Structure and Leadership Project Support Technical Progress Understanding 3GPP Releases Cooperating with other bodies Referencing of results by the ITU

GSC-9, Seoul 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 Structure and Leadership

GSC-9, Seoul Organizational Partners

GSC-9, Seoul 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 Structure and Leadership

GSC-9, Seoul Market Representation Partners

GSC-9, Seoul 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) Structure and Leadership

GSC-9, Seoul Structure and Leadership TSG Elected Officials

GSC-9, Seoul In 2003, TSG GERAN rationalised their structure with the following result: TSG GERAN WG 1:Radio Aspects TSG GERAN WG 2:Protocol Aspects TSG 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 Structure and Leadership

GSC-9, Seoul Structure and Leadership Current TSG Structure

GSC-9, Seoul 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. Project Support

GSC-9, Seoul The Mobile Competence Centre is composed as follows: Project Support

GSC-9, Seoul The workload remains high, with more than 5000 Change Requests having been implemented in 2003 Project Support

GSC-9, Seoul and nearly 3000 specifications currently being maintained Project Support CLASSIFICATIONNUMBER OF ACTIVE SPECS Phase1121 Phase 2183 Release Release Release Release Release 4511 Release 5566 Release 6383 Release 71 TOTAL SPECIFICATIONS2905

GSC-9, Seoul Technical Progress The following Releases have already been completed and are the basis of current commercial launches: Release '99 –functionally frozen December Defines UTRA and many other initial features The basis for early 3G deployment Release 4 –functionally frozen March 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 In addition to further enhancements, this release introduces: IMS - IP-based Multimedia Services HSDPA - High Speed Downlink Packet Access

GSC-9, Seoul Technical Progress Focus now on completion of Release 6 Functional freeze expected September/December 2004 Expected 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…

GSC-9, Seoul Technical 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 – 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 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

GSC-9, Seoul Technical 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 ) 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

GSC-9, Seoul Understanding 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/Re l5_features_v_2003_09_09.zip), ftp://ftp.3gpp.org//Information/WORK_PLAN/Description_Releases/Re l5_features_v_2003_09_09.zip –3GPP Release 99 (available as final draft SP ) –3GPP Release 4 (available as first draft SP ) –3GPP Release 6 (under construction) Those having an interest in 3GPP Releases may wish to consult these informal documents

GSC-9, Seoul Cooperating with other bodies 3GPP (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 (Java tm 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 bodies

GSC-9, Seoul 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 IETF

GSC-9, Seoul 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 OMA

GSC-9, Seoul Referencing 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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