{"id":2402,"date":"2020-06-07T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T19:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2020-06-07T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T19:40:43","slug":"5g-nr-light-in-release-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"5G NR Light in Release 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is 5G NR Light ?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic massive MTC use cases, characterized by requirements on very low device cost and very low device energy consumption in combination with wide-area coverage, are assumed to be provided by means of LTE-based LTE-MTC and NB-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> also in the 5G era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are several use cases that require lower device complexity and reduced energy consumption compared what can be provided by NR Release 15\/16 and which, at the same time, has higher requirements in terms of latency and data rates compared to what can be provided with Nb-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> and\u00a0 LTE-M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address such use cases, 3GPP has initiated Release-17 activities on <em>reduced-capability NR devices <\/em>referred to also as <strong>NR Light<\/strong>, those type of devices have UE capability\/complexity trade-off in-between the conventional eMBB services and the low-complexity services enabled NB-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> and LTE-M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reduced Device complexity and energy consumption<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of reduced device complexity, the following modifications have been considered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Support for reduced number of Transmission\/Reception antennas at the device side<\/li>\n<li>Reduction of the minimum required device bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>Support for devices only capable of half-duplex operation (no simultaneous Transmission\/Reception) in paired spectrum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of reduced device energy consumption, the following modifications have been considered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reduced complexity in PDCCH monitoring by reducing the number of required blind decoding<\/li>\n<li>Extended DRX functionality<\/li>\n<li>The aim is to achieve the reduced device complexity and energy consumption without compromising the achievable coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expected capabilities of NR-Light devices<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The characteristics required for these categories of devices, compared with full 5G NR devices and low-power wide-area (LPWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> devices, are illustrated schematically in this figure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"897\" height=\"578\" class=\"wp-image-2403\" src=\"https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight.png 897w, https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight-768x495.png 768w, https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight-652x420.png 652w, https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight-150x97.png 150w, https:\/\/new.5gworldpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/nrlight-696x448.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adressing new types of use cases:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As we said this Release-17 technology capability is not intended to replace NB-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> and LTE-M devices, but to address new type of use cases in Industrial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/iot-in-4g-and-5g\">IoT<\/a> and other verticals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Industrial wireless sensors with low latency (5-10ms) and medium data rate (&lt;2 Mbps)<\/li>\n<li>Medium to high data rate (2-25 Mbps) video transmission<\/li>\n<li>High data-rate wearables (5-50 Mbps) with long battery life (1-2 weeks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is 5G NR Light ? 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