Understanding the Numbers - Contextualization and Impact Factors of 5G Performance Results

Autor: Kosmatos, Evangelos, Dieudonné, Michael, Lorenzo, Manuel, Tsolkas, Dimitris, Gavras, Anastasius, Cattoni, Andrea F., Valcarenghi, Luca, Díaz Zayas, Almudena, Grøndalen, Ole, Srinivasan, Gokul, Kansala, Ilkka, Mikkelsen, Lars, Houatra, Drissa
Rok vydání: 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5094972
Popis: The facilities developed in the three ICT-17 projects and further enhanced with on-site deployments and additional equipment in the ICT-19 projects provide all the required means to the experimenters to validate their applications in a fully operational 5G environment. In addition, they provide the opportunity to the verticals originated from several sectors to trial and validate their services in a real 5G deployment. In the aforementioned facilities a large number of 5G performance results are collected (mainly in the three ICT-17 projects), while other trials are ongoing and initial results are going to become available soon (in the ICT-19 projects). The first questions that emerge from the experts and non-experts (verticals) and tried to be answered using the outcome are the following: a) are the results close to the 5G theoretical values and the KPI targets promised by the 5G domain? b) can we identify some factors that practically affects the results, while others not? c) does the results fulfill the application requirements or better does the results satisfy the expectations of the verticals? In this whitepaper, we tried to give answers to the first and second questions, while the third question can be answered when the results from the ICT-19 projects will become available (as a next version of the current document and in cooperation with the vertical KPI Task Force). Therefore, in the current white paper the effort is focused on trying to clarify the details behind the performance numbers and provide a series of interpretation guidelines that could help the reader better understanding the 5G domain. In addition, based on the analysis of performance results, the main impact factors that affect the results are identified, while a high-level explanation is provided that is clearly understandable by non-experts. The motivation is to create a first bridge between the telecommunications and verticals domains and reach a common understanding in explaining what they can really expect from 5G. The plan is this whitepaper to be updated regularly as new projects are onboarding and new results are collected.
Databáze: OpenAIRE