November 2021
No.0031

The 11th Annual General Assembly andthe 33rd Board of Directors Meeting of ARIB
The 11th Annual General Assembly and the 33rd Board of Directors meeting of ARIB were
held on 30 June 2021 at Hotel New Otani in Tokyo.
Business and financial reports of the fiscal year 2020 (from April 2020 to March 2021) alongwith the appointment of officers and Management Advisory Committee members wereapproved at the General Assembly. At the Board of Directors meeting held after the General
Assembly, Mr. ENDO Nobuhiro was elected as a new chairman taking after Mr. NOMURAKatsuaki.

The 11th Annual General Meeting

The 32nd Radio Achievement AwardThe 32nd Radio Achievement Award was released on 30 June 2021. This award ispresented every year by the MIC and the Chairman of the Board of ARIB to individuals
1and groups who have made a significant achievement relating to effective and proper useof radio wave.
The award ceremony which is held in late June every year on the same day with the Annual
General Assembly of ARIB was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
This year’s winners are as follows.
1. The Award of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications(1) Carrier Aggregation of 5G Frequency Bands Realized by Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO, INC(2) Development and Demonstration of 5G V2V URLLC System for Truck Platooning
SoftBank Corp., Wireless City Planning Inc.
2. The Award of the Chairman of the Board of ARIB
(1) Practical application of Wireless LAN for construction sites using 5GHz-band
waveguide communication system
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD, TODA CORPORATION(2) Development of an optically transparent dual-band meta-surface reflector
KDDI Research, Inc., National Defense Academy,
Nihon Dengyo Kosaku, Co., LTD(3) Implementation of 5G system on 4G frequencies
KDDI CORPORATION, SoftBank Corp.
(4) Completion of radio wave propagation measures in the tunnels of the Shinkansenbullet train nationwide
Japan Mobile Communications Infrastructure Association, SoftBank Corp.,
NTT DOCOMO, INC, KDDI CORPORATION(5) Providing of the "Mieru Denwa" service supporting users with hearing impairment
NTT DOCOMO, INC., DOCOMO Technology, Inc.

The Fiscal 2021 General Assembly of 5GMF
The fiscal 2021 General Assembly of the 5GMF (The Fifth Generation Mobile
Communications Promotion Forum) was held online due to the pandemic on 7 July.
About 120 members from telecommunication operators, equipment vendors, research
institutionssuchasuniversities

andMIC(MinistryofInternalAffairsandCommunications) participated.
The income and expenditure settlement for FY2020, the business plan and income andexpenditure budget for FY2021, the dissolution of the "5G Demonstration Test Promotion
Group" due to completion of its mission, and the appointment of officers, were approved asproposed.
The following plans were explained.
(1) Conduct surveys through questionnaires, hearings, etc. to formulate measures topromote the spread of local 5G and revise existing documents.
(2) Introduce nationwide trial cases using commercial 5G on the 5GMF web site.
(3) The reserve budget for 2021 will be used for the invitation to Japan for the 9th2

Global 5G Event scheduled for 2022.
At the end of the agenda, the current status of the "Local 5G Promotion Public-Private
Liaison Committee", by which full scale activities are scheduled to begin in August thisyear, was reported.

Frequency Resource Development Symposium 2021
"Frequency Resource Development Symposium 2021" on the theme of "5G and Beyond Next generation information and telecommunication society" was held in Akasaka, Tokyo
on 9 July 2021. The event was co-organized by the Association of Radio Industries andBusinesses (ARIB) and the National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC).
At the symposium, presentations were delivered on technologies, standardization trends,
applications, policies by the specialists from government, industry and academia, focusing
on wireless communication technologies that will lead to the use of these new frequencies.

 Program
Title(Opening address)(Guest address)
Recent trend in radio policy
Mobile communication systems for theSociety 5.0 era
Deployment of Local 5G to society
5G Evolution & 6GPresenter
Dr. KADOWAKI Naoto
Vice President, NICT
Mr. NOZAKI Masatoshi
Director-General of the Radio Department, MIC
Mr. OGIHARA Naohiko
Director of Radio Policy Division, MIC
Dr. SAMPEI Seiichi
Professor, Osaka University
Mr. GOTO Tomonori
Senior Vice President, Fujitsu Limited
Dr. NAKAMURA Takehiro
Senior Vice President, NTT DOCOMO, INC.

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6G - The Road Ahead
Development of 5G and the WirelessEmulator that supports it(Closing address)

Dr. LATVA-AHO Matti
Professor, University of Oulu
Dr. MATSUMURA Takeshi
Director of Wireless Systems Laboratory, NICTMr. KODAMA Syunsuke
Secretary General, ARIBCJK the 62nd IMT Working Group MeetingCJK IMT Working Group Meeting is aiming to exchange information and views about theactivities of international IMT standardizations in ITU-R, APT, 3GPP, and so on, among
members of SDOs in China, Korea and Japan.
1. Outline of the meeting
Schedule

18 and 19 August 2021

Meeting

OnlineParticipants

ARIB (Japan) 17, CCSA (China) 37, TTA (Korea) 17

2. Main results(1) The results of the 38th ITU-R SG5 WP5D meeting and the recent 3GPP meetingwere shared, views were exchanged on the future issues to be studied.
(2) For the 39th WP5D meeting scheduled to be held from 4 October, it was decided that
following issues were of high priority, on which discussion would be continued
including possibility of joint contribution.
• How to proceed with the discussion of IMT-2020 recommendation on unwantedemission• Development schedule on "IMT-2030 and beyond"• Update of the working document of C-V2X Report(3) Information on the progress of each country's study of Future Technology Trends
report and of Vision recommendation for Beyond 5G standardization were shared,and discussion was held on what should be included in the report / recommendationand how to proceed with the future studies.
(4) China and South Korea reported on 6G activities, where China (IMT-2030 PG)
introduced the 6G white paper (*) released in June.
* http://www.caict.ac.cn/english/news/202106/t20210608_378637.html(5) Japan reported that the Subcommittee of the Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium
started creating white papers in March and is planning to complete the Ver1.0 inMarch 2022.
3. Next meeting schedule
The next CJK IMT Working Group Meeting would be scheduled around January 2022.

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The 28th Meeting of APT Wireless Group (AWG-28)
The 28th Meeting of APT Wireless Group (AWG-28) was held in September.
 About the APT Wireless Group (AWG)
APT (Asia-Pacific Telecommunity) Wireless Group, AWG, studies the harmonization andstandardization of the frequency and technical matters aiming at enhancement anddissemination of Wireless telecommunication of wireless communication systems in theAsia-Pacific region. The meeting has been held usually about twice a year, and theexperts of the wireless technology of each country in this region join the meeting, whereMr. Le Van Tuan (Vietnam) works as a chairperson.
 Outline of the Meeting•Schedule:

6 - 14 September 2021

•Meeting:

Online•Participants:

520 people from administrations, private organizations andinternational organizations in the Asia-Pacific region,
77 people as the Japanese delegation headed by MIC including 5 fromARIB

 Main results
AWG has three working groups (WG: Frequency, Technology and Service/Application), ineach of which sub working groups or task groups have been established for the issues.
The main results of the meeting from each WG were as follows.
(1) WG Spectrum Aspects• The report " Mitigation measures to improve sharing and compatibility between
4G-LTE and 5G-NR systems and other systems operating in portions of 3300-4200
MHz" was completed.
(2) WG Technology Aspects• The report "Current status and future plan of implementation and deployment ofIMT-2020 (5G) in Asia-Pacific region" was completed.
• The report "Studies on implementation aspects of IMT-2020 in the frequency bands
below 6GHz in Asia-Pacific region" was completed.
(3) ITS, Railway• Regarding ITS, work for two kind of reports is underway. "CELLULAR BASED V2X
FOR ITS APPLICATIONS IN APT COUNTRIES" was revised reflecting
development of 3GPP Release17, and future expansion examples of road-to vehicleand road-to road network configuration were added to working report on"MILLIMETRE WAVE ITS APPLICATIONS IN APT COUNTRIES".
 Organization for study
Revision of the organization for study has been completed, and it will be applied from thenext AWG meeting (Figure below).

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Renewed Organization of AWG
Working Group on
Harmonization(WG Harmonization)

Working Group on
IMT(WG IMT)

Working Group on
Terrestrial(WG Terrestrial)

Sub Working Groupon Spectrum
Arrangement andHarmonization(Sub-WG SA&H)
Sub Working Groupon Sharing Studies(Sub-WG SS)

Sub Working Groupon
IMT Spectrum(Sub-WG IMTSpectrum)
Sub Working Groupon IMT Technologies(Sub-WG IMT Tech)

Sub Working Groupon Spectrum
Monitoring(Sub-WG SM)

Task Group on
Public Protection
and Disaster Relief(TG PPDR)
Task Group on High
Altitude Platform
Station(TG HAPS)

Task Group on Fixed
Wireless andGround-Based Radar
Systems(TG FWS/GBRS)Task Group onIntelligent
Transportation
Systems(TG ITS)
Task Group on
Wireless Power
Transmission(TG WPT)
Task Group on
Railway
Radiocommunications(TG RR)

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Working Group on
Space, Aeronauticaland Maritime(WG SAM)
Task Group on
Satellite Systems(TG Satellite)
Task Group on
Aeronautical andMaritime(TG A&M)

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