The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) completed its Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) Release 16 and approved the OpenAPI specification in July 2020. The 5G NR technology is expected to support numerous future applications in one or a mix of three usage scenarios: enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). However, 5G is still lacking its killer applications. Which vertical applications will fully utilize the capabilities offered by 5G that cannot be provided by 4G? What is the unprecedented performance gain these applications can achieve with 5G in practice? To answer these and similar questions, the 3GPP started to focus on specific applications and field performance evaluations in Release 17, which includes communication service requirements for critical medical applications, enhancements for unmanned aerial vehicles, enhancements for cyber-physical control applications in vertical domains, enhanced relays for energy efficiency and extensive coverage.

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垂直行业的 5G：从理论到实践及超越 [客座社论]


第三代合作伙伴计划 (3GPP) 完成了第五代 (5G) 新无线电 (NR) 第 16 版，并于 2020 年 7 月批准了 OpenAPI 规范。5G NR 技术预计将支持多种未来应用的一种或三种用途的组合场景：增强型移动宽带（eMBB）、大规模机器类型通信（mMTC）和超可靠低延迟通信（URLLC）。但5G仍缺乏杀手级应用。哪些垂直应用将充分利用5G提供的4G无法提供的能力？这些应用程序在实践中通过 5G 可以实现哪些前所未有的性能提升？为了回答这些和类似的问题，3GPP 在 Release 17 中开始关注特定应用和现场性能评估，其中包括关键医疗应用的通信服务要求、无人机的增强、垂直领域网络物理控制应用的增强、增强型继电器可提高能源效率并扩大覆盖范围。