IMT-2020


International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 are the requirements issued by the ITU Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union in 2015 for 5G networks, devices and services.
The standard is expected to be completed in 2020, but parts of it have been finalized earlier. For example the requirements for radio access technologies listed below were adopted in November 2017. Following the publication of the requirements the developers of radio access technologies such as 3GPP were expected to develop 5G technologies meeting these requirements. 3GPP is developing radio access technologies NR, LTE-M and NB-IoT that together are expected to meet all requirements.

Requirements

The following parameters are the requirements for IMT-2020 5G candidate radio access technologies. Note that these requirements are not intended to restrict the full range of capabilities or performance that candidate for IMT-2020 might achieve, nor are they intended to describe how the technologies might perform in actual deployments.
CapabilityDescription5G requirementUsage scenario
Downlink peak data rateMinimum maximum data rate technology must support20 Gbit/seMBB
Uplink peak data rateMinimum maximum data rate technology must support10 Gbit/seMBB
User experienced downlink data rateData rate in dense urban test environment 95% of time100 Mbit/seMBB
User experienced uplink data rateData rate in dense urban test environment 95% of time50 Mbit/seMBB
LatencyRadio network contribution to packet travel time4 mseMBB
LatencyRadio network contribution to packet travel time1 msURLLC
MobilityMaximum speed for handoff and QoS requirements500 km/heMBB/URLLC
Connection densityTotal number of devices per unit area106/km2mMTC
Energy efficiencyData sent/received per unit energy consumption Equal to 4GeMBB
Area traffic capacityTotal traffic across coverage area10 Mbps/m2eMBB
Peak downlink spectrum efficiencyThroughput per unit wireless bandwidth and per network cell30 bit/s/HzeMBB