Technical 5G performance requirements set by the ITU-R in its ITU-R M.2410-0 report released in November 2017
5G performance
- The minimum requirements for downlink peak data rate: 20 Gbps
- The minimum requirements for uplink peak data rate: 10 Gbps
- Target downlink “user experienced data rate”: 100 Mbps
- Target uplink “user experienced data rate”: 50 Mbps
- Downlink peak spectral efficiency is 30 bps/Hz
- Uplink peak spectral efficiency: 15 bps/Hz
- Minimum requirement for user plane latency for eMBB: 4ms
- Minimum requirement for user plane latency for uRLLC: 1ms
- Minimum requirement for control plane latency: 20ms
- A lower control plane latency of around 10 ms is encouraged though
- Minimum requirement for connection density: 1 million devices per km2.
- Requirement for bandwidth: at least 100 MHz
- Bandwidths up to 1 GHz are required for higher frequencies (above 6 GHz)
- Four classes of mobility defined:
- Stationary: 0 km/h
- Pedestrian: 0km/h to 10 km/h
- Vehicular: 10km/h to 120 km/h
- High-speed vehicular: 120 km/h to 500 km/h
Commercial 5G networks
- Verizon Wireless (10/2018): average downlink speed of 300 Mbps (and depending on location up to 1 Gbps) without any data caps
