Deliverable D2.1 - Trends, Status and Plans for advanced wireless

The EMPOWER project, since its launch in November 2018, has been following closely all developments around

5G and its evolution in the short, medium and long terms. This is with the aim to develop a comprehensive

advanced wireless technology roadmap synthesizing all the views from all the stakeholder R&D communities.

This first WP2 public deliverable D2.1 of the EMPOWER project comes therefore to capture in brief the emerging

wireless technology trends, which will constitute the basis of the first EMPOWER B5G technology roadmap

release due in D2.2 in October 2019.

The following summarizes the key topics presented in this deliverable D2.1:

1) Identification of key stakeholders in the R&D communities, in Europe, the USA, and globally, covering

various forums, alliances, and organizations that have been followed by the EMPOWER roadmap team

to capture and analyse the trends.

2) Targeted KPIs for the evolution of 5G in the short, medium and long terms, despite the figures presented

being speculative as there doesn’t exist yet an international industry effort (e.g. ITU-R) to set the

requirements for future B5G systems.

3) B5G wireless technology trends captured from the studies around the next batch of future wireless

standard releases in 3GPP (e.g. Release 17 and Release 18), and in IEEE (evolution of IEEE 802.11 and

IEEE 802.15).

4) Longer term B5G/6G wireless technology trends captured from the scientific visions around 6G, which

are deemed more disruptive and less mature for consideration in the forthcoming wireless standards.

5) Wireless spectrum trends for 5G and B5G including trends for unlicensed spectrum, dedicated spectrum

for verticals, spectrum sharing, and very high frequencies (up to THz).