5G is Real: Evaluating the Compliance of the 3GPP 5G New Radio System with the ITU IMT-2020 Requirements

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) submitted the 5G New Radio (NR) system specifications to International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a candidate fifth generation (5G) mobile communication system (formally denoted as IMT-2020 systems). As part of the submission, 3GPP provided a self-evaluation for the compliance of 5G NR systems with the ITU defined IMT-2020 performance requirements. This paper considers the defined 5G use case families, Ultra Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), and provides an independent evaluation of the compliance of the 3GPP 5G NR self-evaluation simulations with the IMT-2020 performance requirements for connection density, reliability, and spectral efficiency for future mobile broadband and emerging IoT applications. Independent evaluation indeed shows the compliance of the 3GPP 5G NR system with the ITU IMT-2020 performance requirements for all parameters evaluated by simulations.