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| Samsung Electronics Digital Media and Communications Research and Development Center official Kim Yun-sun speaks during the opening ceremony of an international meeting for the discussion on standardization of fifth-generation network technologies at the Grand Hotel in Busan, Monday. / Courtesy of Samsung Electronics |
By Yoon Sung-won
Samsung Electronics said Monday it will lead the global standardization of fifth-generation (5G) network technologies for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Radio Access Network 1 (3GPP RAN1).
At an international meeting scheduled to run for the next five days in Busan, the company will discuss how to integrate diverse services including the Internet of Things (IoT) into the faster and broader 5G network.
"We expect to create new business opportunities by providing an improved user experience through 5G network services," Samsung Electronics Digital Media and Communications R&D Center Executive Vice President Kim Chang-yeong said in a statement. "As Samsung Electronics has led the standardization of the fourth-generation long-term evolution network, we will do the same for the 5G network by collaborating with global partners to meet the schedule."
As a member of the 3GPP, Samsung Electronics will announce its plans for integrating diverse IoT services to the 5G network and securing compatibility with future 5G technologies that will be further improved by June next year. Based on such research, the company said it will complete the first standardization phase of the 5G network in June 2018.
The 3GPP is the world's largest technology standardization organization, dedicated to mobile networks. The RAN is an affiliated technology group under the 3GPP working on interfaces connecting mobile devices and base stations.
The 3GPP started discussions on 5G network technology standardization last September at a workshop in Phoenix in the U.S. More detailed research projects on candidate technologies for the 5G network will begin at the meeting in Busan, Samsung said.
About 400 technology experts from more than 80 telecom companies are participating in the meeting, it said.
Samsung Electronics started developing 5G technology in 2011 and succeeded in demonstrating 1.2 gigabit-per-second data transmission using ultrahigh frequency for the first time in the world in 2013.
During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) earlier this year in February, the company unveiled the world's first handover technology connecting 5G base stations and pushed for partnerships with global telecom operators and network equipment makers.
