
110 - User Equipment Platform for Positioning with 5G/6G Non-Terrestrial Networks
DESCRIPTION
The future 5G and 6G non-terrestrial networks (NTN) will offer continuous and ubiquitous coverage, serving predominantly terrestrial users in remote and underserved areas. The latest 3GPP releases imply that the user equipment (UE) must be equipped with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver determining its position, velocity, and time (PVT) to be able to connect to NTN. To alleviate the dependence of UE on GNSS, the use of 5G NTN signals for positioning is being actively studied. Although various concepts and solutions to provide PVT with NTN have been identified, the development and prototyping of representative user side solutions remain to be addressed in detail. Current NTN system studies would greatly benefit from design, evaluation, and breadboarding of realistic user equipment algorithms and solutions.
The objective of the activity is to design and develop a user equipment (UE) platform to evaluate and trade off user-side processing solutions and algorithms for positioning with 5G/6G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN).
The tasks to be performed shall include:
- design and develop a generic user equipment platform in the form of hardware and software to evaluate and trade off user-side processing solutions and algorithms for PVT with NTN
- Validate the positioning performance of the UE using a representative NTN simulator.
The main outputs of the activity will consist of:
- technical notes summarizing the UE solutions and algorithms
- a UE platform capable of implementing and evaluating various user-side processing solutions and algorithms
- a validation report summarizing the achievable positioning performance, and recommendations for future development.