DOCOMO’s standardization activity
As a continued effort in providing comfortable, safe and secure mobile network and services, DOCOMO is actively contributing to international standardization activities including 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).In this section, international standardization is explained generally, and also DOCOMO’s contributions and international standardization activities for future innovations are introduced.
What is standardization?
Standardization is an activity to establish a unified specification within an industry to enable interoperability among products manufactured by different manufacturers. In mobile communications industry, the scope of standardization covers spectrum, radio technologies, communication procedures, signal interfaces, etc.
As a result of standardization, any terminals all over the world can connect to networks in any country, enabling mobile communications around the world. Further, by adopting products based on the same specification, terminals and network equipment can be commonized globally, which is expected to reduce their prices.
Although there are multiple standardization organizations such as 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), ITU (International Telecommunication Union) and OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), we would like to introduce 3GPP which establishes cellular technologies’ specifications.
- Articles on ITU and OMA in NTT DOCOMO Technical Journal.
What is 3GPP?
3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) was founded in December 1998 aimed to establish the third generation mobile communication systems (3G). It is headquartered in Sophia Antipolis, France. After completion of the standardization of 3G, Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE-Advanced and 5G was standardized, and currently, 5G Evolution and 6G are being standardized.
Technical Journal featuring standardization
The following are the Technical Journals featuring ‘standardization’.
For ‘higher data rates and higher capacity’, see the pages introducing corresponding technologies.
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