BROWSING: URLLC

URLLC key to autonomous 5G applications A new report from industry organization 5G Americas highlights how some of the longer-term goals of 5G--supporting widespread automation in verticals like manufacturing and transportation--hinge on the maturation of ultra-reliable, low-latency communications, or URLLC. “With the wide range of unique 5G services,...

Throughout the ‘ask-the-experts’ session at URLLC 2018 in London earlier this month, serialised here across a number of posts, the conversation circled back time and again to 5G use cases. What are the sync requirements? How many slices? Where is the edge? Every time,...

Network slicing, allowing for multiple network layers on top of a single shared infrastructure, is arguably the most significant capability of incoming 5G technologies. It brings brand new business opportunities to operators to serve enterprises and industries, each with conflicting requirements. One of the panel...

In the 5G firmament, the constellation of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) shines brightest and newest. The other star clusters, outlining enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC), do not cast the same light. They are familiar already. In essence, they will bring go-faster...

“5G will do the boring stuff first”. The low-latency pyrotechnics that will fire the industrial sector into a new gear for the first time will come much later. The version of 5G that radio engineers are preparing and network marketers are promoting is only...

The physics of time-division duplexing in radio communications means 5G could, in certain frequency bands, struggle to achieve the ultra low latencies it promises. Worse, in some markets, regulatory forces have compounded the challenge with backwards rules about 5G radio operations. As a consequence, radio...

The telecoms industry is at odds with the enterprise sector it is seeking to serve with ultra-reliable, low-latency (URLLC) 5G communications. Industrialists want both the control of private networks and the convenience of managed network services, and network operators want to bunch digital enterprises...