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5G, IoT, MEC

NG-PON2 Solution for 10G Internet Service: SK’s Development & Deployment

07/13/2018

Gigabit Internet, SK Telecom

Brief Survey on 5G RAN Practical Deployment Scenario: From 2-tier (4G) to 3-tier (5G)

Brief Survey on 5G RAN Practical Deployment Scenario: From 2-tier (4G: BBU and RRH) to 3-tier (5G...

01/18/2018

5G, C-RAN/Fronthaul

Open vs. Proprietary 5G Fronthaul Interface: SK Telecom Case

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01/11/2018

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Pay TV market in South Korea: IPTV, Cable TV and Satellite TV - December 2017

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12/14/2017

IPTV, Korea

Korea Mobile Communications Market Report Q2 2017

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09/25/2017

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Netmanias Interview with Juniper Networks: Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

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08/01/2017

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

Netmanias Interview with Nuage/Nokia - Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN)

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06/14/2017

SD-WAN, SDN/NFV

Samsung Cloud Native 5G Core

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5G, Cloud Native, Core

Samsung 5G Core Vision - Revolutionary changes in core with the arrival of 5G

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VoLTE Call Setup Flow - PDN Connection (including PCAP)

VoLTE Call Setup Flow - PDN Connection

LTE, VoLTE

Who & How: Making 5G NR Standards

Understanding Key Features of 5G NR Standards and Samsung’s Contribution

5G, New Radio, Samsung

Towards Achieving High Performance in 5G Mobile Packet Core’s User Plane Function

This paper presents architecture for a user plane function (UPF) in the mobile packet core (MPC)...

5G, SDN/NFV, Sk Telecom

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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CDN

Key Industry Challenges and devising new models for Business enablement using End to End Network Slicing

Network Slice is a concept within 3GPP CT and its history can be traced back to R13/R14 with the...

5G, SDN/NFV

5G Core Architecture - Evolution || Use Cases || Services

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Roaming in 5G Network

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02/24/2020

VR Changes the Landscape for Mobile App Development

Virtual reality has been gaining popularity for the last five years running and the momentum does...

11/16/2019

Artificial Intelligence - The opportunities for Mobile Operators

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11/04/2019

7 Deployment Scenarios of Private 5G Networks

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10/21/2019

5G, EDGE, KT, SK Telecom

Comparison of Commercial 5G Network Architecture: KT vs. SK Telecom

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10/11/2019

5G, IoT, KT, SK Telecom

Basics of Telecom Offline Charging

Offline Charging allows Subscribers to consume the service without an upfront balance check or ba...

10/11/2019

Is the traditional IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) fitting into 5G World?

All these years, IMS is predominantly used for delivering Voice & Video based multimedia services...

07/01/2019

5G Orchestration - The missing brick

With many operators starting to launch 5G, it became clear that Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)...

06/26/2019

SK Telecom's 5G Network Slicing

07/21/2020

5G, SDN/NFV, SK Telecom

SK Telecom/SK Broadband's 10 Gigabit Internet Network Architecture

01/23/2020

Gigabit Internet, SK Telecom

SK Telecom 5G MEC Deployment Architecture

11/08/2019

5G, MEC, SK Telecom

SK Telecom/SK Broadband's 5G and 10 Gigabit Internet Ecosystem

11/05/2019

5G, Gigabit Internet, SK Telecom

SK Telecom 5G Network Architecture: 5G Core, 5G RAN and 5G Edge Cloud (MEC)

10/11/2019

5G, IoT, SK Telecom

5G NSA Option 3a/3x - Generic Operation

10/11/2019

Integration of multi-RAT access

09/20/2019

4G LTE, 5G

Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS)

09/20/2019

4G LTE, 5G


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07/29/2020

Why there is no BMC layer in LTE?

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07/27/2020

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07/23/2020

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07/21/2020

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07/21/2020

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07/20/2020

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KOREA ICT RESEARCH REPORT

Open vs. Proprietary 5G Fronthaul Interface: SK Telecom Case

Published: January 11, 2018

Table of Contents

• Abbreviations

• [SK Telecom PR] SK Telecom’s fronthaul technology for 5G adopted as Korean national standard

• RAN architecture: 4G RAN – Problem statements

• RAN architecture: 5G RAN

• 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (RoE, eCPRI)

• Lower layer function split: Radio over Ethernet vs. eCPRI

• Open 5G fronthaul interface: IEEE 1914, xRAN and Telecom Infra Project (TIP)

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: Open fronthaul interface

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (Fx) (1)

• SK Telecom 5G RAN architecture: High-layer split (F1) and low layer split (Fx) (2)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (1)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (2)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (3)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (4)

• Comparison between IEEE RoE (D3.0) and SK Telecom open F/H interface specification (5)

• Netmanias comments on SK Telecom’s strategy

• Open 5G RAN and fronthaul architecture of SK Telecom

• Milestone of 5G technology development of SK Telecom

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5G COMPARISON

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SKT Commercial 5G Network

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KT Commercial 5G Network

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5G COMMERCIALIZATION STATUS - KT

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REPORT

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Analysis of Global 5G Development (2) - Korea: KT

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Analysis of Global 5G Development (1) - 5G Standardization so far

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SK Telecom's Massive IoT Deployment

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SK Telecom 4G LTE Network

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03/29/2020

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03/11/2020

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03/04/2020

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03/01/2020

Samsung’s CDU50 Next Generation Baseband Unit Advances 5G Evolution with Cutting-Edge Technologies

Samsung Electronics today announced the commercial availability of its next generation Baseband Unit (BBU), the CDU50. The new solution was first c...

02/27/2020

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02/21/2020

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01/21/2020

KT and Samsung Medical Center to Build 5G Smart Hospital

KT Corporation, Korea’s largest telecommunications company, and the Samsung Medical Center (SMC) announced last week that they have jointly develop...

01/20/2020

SK Telecom Achieves World’s First Standalone 5G Over-the-Air Data Transmission on Multi-Vendor Commercial 5G Network

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01/20/2020

Samsung Acquires Network Services Provider TeleWorld Solutions to Accelerate U.S. 5G Network Expansion

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LTE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS

25	LTE IP Address Allocation Schemes II: A Case for Two Cities
24	LTE IP Address Allocation Schemes I: Basic
23	LTE Charging I: Offline
22	LTE Policy and Charging Control (PCC)
21	EMM Procedure 10 & 11. Move to Another City and Attach
20	EMM Procedure 8 & 9. Handover and Cell Reselection with TAU
19	EMM Procedure 7. Cell Reselection without TAU
18	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 3. S1 Handover
17	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 2. X2 Handover
16	EMM Procedure 6. Handover without TAU - Part 1. Overview of LTE Handover
15	EMM Procedure 5. Periodic TAU
14	EMM Procedure 4. Service Request
13	EMM Procedure 3. S1 Release
12	EMM Procedure 2. Detach
11	EMM Procedure 1. Initial Attach - Part 2. Call Flow of Initial Attach
10	EMM Procedure 1. Initial Attach - Part 1. Cases of Initial Attach
9	Eleven EMM Cases in an EMM Scenario
8	LTE EMM and ECM States
7	LTE QoS: SDF and EPS Bearer QoS
6	LTE Identification III: EPS Session/Bearer Identifiers
5	LTE Identification II: NE and Location Identifiers
4	LTE Identification I: UE and ME Identifiers
3	LTE Security II: NAS and AS Security
2	LTE Security I: Concept and Authentication
1	LTE Network Architecture: Basic

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