Proceedings of ICCT2003
4G Vision and Technology Development in Korea
Seung-Ku Hwang, Deuk-Su Lyu, and KyungHi Chang
Radio Transmission Technology Research Dept.
Mobile TelecommunicationsResearch Laboratoly
Electmnics and Telecommunications Research Institute
161 Gajong-Dong, Yusong-Gu, Taejon, 305-350, Korea
skhwang@etri.re .kr,dslyn@etxi.re.kr, khchang@etri.re.kr,
Abstract
With increasing end user demands for wider
service due to the rapid growth and variety of IT
(information technology) industry, the service with
the data rate of 3 0 M p s cannot accommodate the
future mobile multimedia environment. Therefore,
worldwide radio and mobile communication
institutes and companies started the R & D of 4 6
mobile communications system prior to completing
the implementation of IMT-2000 system and
providing its service * ETRI is one of those
organizations endeavoring for the future 4 6
system with capabilities beyond IMT-2000. With
the establishment of R&D project for 4 6 radio
transmission system in January of 2002, ETRI is
actively working to develop 4 6 high-tier system,
HMM(High-speed Mobile Multi-media), and 4 6
low-tier systems, HMIpigh-speed Mobile
Internet), and HPi(Bigb-speed Portable Internet).
In this paper, E m ’ s 4 6 vision and enabling
technologies to achieve this vision is described.
Keywords : 46, Beyond IMT-2000, Mobile
Communications
1.Introduction
Recently, ITU-R made a survey of IMT-2000 system
such as the system is evolved gradually by 2010 and its
service will provide the maximum data rate of 30Mbps
until around 2020[2]. According to ITU-R,it is expected
that the IMT-2000will continue to evolve until 2010,
and will be in service until the year of 2020 with
maximum data rate of 3OMbps[2].
However, the with increasing end user demands much
for wider service due to the rapid growth and variety of
IT (information technology) indusy, and thus, the
setvice with the data rate of 30Mbps cannot
accommodate the coming future mobile multimedia
environment. Therefore, worldwide radio and mobile
communication institutes and companies started the R &
D of 4G mobile communications system prior to
completing the implementation of IMT-2000 system and
providing its service.
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MCRL ‘MobileCommunication Research Laboratoly)
of ETRI also staaed the R & .D of the 4G radio
transmission system R&D for high-speed packet service
from January 2002. The E m ’ s . R & D project has
consists of two.main areas: radio transmission system
and All IF’ network and further, the radio transmission
system area is separated by three areas: HMI system for
low-tier cellular service, HMM system for high-tier
cellular sewice, m i system for hot-spot cells [1][3].
These systems have been developing for the purpose of
having the superior competitiveness compared to other
4G systems, securing the COP? techniques, and taking the
leadership in the international standardization and market
for 4G mobile communications. We discuss the planning,
directions and goals of R L D of the HMM system. With
the development of radio lransmission system and All IF’
nehvork for 4G mobile communications system, it is
ETRl‘s goal to provide a solid 4G standard candidate
system technology. In the full paper , we will provide
the vision for 4G from ITU-R and ETRI’s view point and
further, Uuee ETRI’s systems grounded from the vision.
2. Vision of 4 6 radio mobile communications (The
Visions of ITU-R and ETRI)
According to ITU-R,two systems are envisioned for
the future systems beyond IMT-2000: Future
Development of IMT-2000 (FDIMT) and Systems
Beyond IMT-2000 (SBIMT). The goal of OUT system
development is to satisfy the vision of SBIMT and, also,
have common base with the FDIMT system. The ITU-R
vision for the SBIMT systems has three gradual phases
of IMT-2000 enhancement, convergence with other radio
access systems, and future system beyond IMT-2OOO.
FDIMT is based on cdma2000 1xEV-DV of 3GPP2
cdma2000 and HSDPA of 3GPP W-CDMA to provide
maximum data rate of 30Mbps until 2010. As for
SBIMT, the data rate up to IOOMbps for high mobility
and up to lGbps for low mobility are expected [Z].
From January of 2002, ETRI MCRL initiated 4G R &
D project to satisfy various user demand for high quality
multimedia services and increasing’datatraffic. E m ’ s
4G system will meet the SBIMT’s data rate requirement
of IOOMbps at high mobility environment and provide
high data rate multimedia services. This system will
provide various services from 16kbps voice services to
lOOMbps data services. With SBIMT system, mobile
terminal users can access 20Mbps high-speed data
services that were available only with wirelindwireless
LAN. 2Mbps digital audio service and 23Mbps digital
video service are also expected in the future [IO]. To
provide such services, P address must be allocated to
each mobile terminals and all IP system must be
established. Circuit based voice service will be replace ,
with V o P based packet service. These fitwe mobile
terminals will have capabilities of voice. service, game,
digital broadcast, and intemet service to replace PCs.
Furthermore, with mobile capabilities, these mobile
terminals will create new services that were not possible
before.

3. The Systems for 4 6 radio mobile communications -

HMm, HMi, and HF'I System

For the HMm system, whose target is ECSUS

(Enhanced Cellular System for Universal Service), the
objective is to function as a 4th generation cellular
system that can provide high data rate transmission
capability of maximum 100 Mbps and support vehicular
speed of up to 250 km/h as described by the ITUX
vision for Systems Beyond LMT-2000. In the
presentation, we will show the basic operating
environment for ECSUS system The system uses FH
(Frequency Hopping) - OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency
Division Multiplexing) -FDMA (Fquency Division
Multiple Access) method in FDD (Frequency Division
Duplexing) mode. In the full paper, the HMM,HMi and
HPi system will be introduced more detail as their
feature, frame structure, top level arcbitecture, and so OR

4.Conclusions
Various organizations related to 4G R&D around the
world are currently engaged on establishing the vision
for the systems beyond IMT-2000. However, clear
vision of the 4G system is still incomplete. R&D of
few keyenabling technologies to realize the 4G systems
are the main activities in these organizations. However,
in ETRI,4G R&D project, "High -speed Packet Radio
Transmission Technology Research" was initiated in
January of 2002. The vision consists of 4th generation
system development to provide high quality service for
low-tier and high-tier cellular systems. It is OUT hope
that this project will be the starting point for worldwide
effort for 4G realization.

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