April 2017

The Japan-Turkey 5G Workshop in Turkey
The Joint Statement on cooperation on information and communication technologies had
been signed on 7 October 2015 between the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications (MIC) of Japan and the Information and Communication Technologies
Authority (ICTA) of the Republic of Turkey. This Joint Statement had containedcooperation in discussions at international organizations such as ITU and 3GPP andreinforcement of relations between the private sectors of both countries in order tostrengthen cooperation on the next generation mobile communication system (5G)
between Japan and Turkey.
Based on the above Joint Statement, the 5G workshop was held as follows.
1. Overview of the workshop
Sponsor

MIC of Japan and ICTA of the Republic of Turkey

Date

10 January 2017

Location

Large conference room of ICTA (Ankara, Turkey)

Participants

10:00 -18:00

Turkey: Approximately 250 people from the Turkish Administration,
telecommunications carriers, manufacturers, universities
and research institutes(Connected local offices of ICTA by TV conference)
Japan : 5 people headed by Mr. Tominaga (Director-General of theTelecommunications Bureau, MIC)
※Dr. Kohei Satoh participated from ARIB as the Secretary General of the
5th Generation Mobile Communications Promotion Forum (5GMF).

12. Outline of each session in the workshop(1) Opening session
After welcome address and explanation of the purposeof holding the workshop, Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan(President of ICTA) explained the circumstances of thecooperation between Japan and Turkey, together withthe development situation of Turkey's economy andtechnology. Also, he mentioned that the Turkish 5G
Forum (5GTR Forum) had been established in April

Dr. Sayan

2016, so he wanted to cooperate toward the 5G(President of ICTA)

standardization.
After that, the guest speech by Dr. Davut Kavranoğlu
(the Chief Adviser to the President of Turkey) andgreeting and presentation of the outline of 5G's R&D
situation in Japan by Mr. Tominaga (Director-General of
the Telecommunications Bureau, MIC of Japan) were

Mr. Tominaga(Director-General of theTelecommunications Bureau, MIC)

carried out.
(2) Government officials’ session

Presentation about the technology and policy trends related to 5G in Turkey was
carried out by Mr. R. Yilmaz (Director of the Market Surveillance Institute of ICTA),
and presentation about the development situation of mobile communication systemand efforts to realize 5G, etc. in Japan was carried out by Mr. Fumitake Takahashi(Deputy Director of Land Mobile Communications Division, MIC).
(3) Private sector session
Presentation about the status of participation in R&D and standardization activities
of 4G / 5G was carried out by ASELSAN Elektronik (Manufacturer of radio equipment
and electronic systems in Turkey).
Presentation about the background and outline of the establishment of 5GMF and thelatest activity status focusing on white paper was carried out by Dr. Kohei Satoh (theSecretary General of 5GMF). In addition to considering cooperation with the 5GTR
Forum in Turkey positively, announcement to invite a representative of the 5GTR
Forum to the 3rd Global 5G Event which would be organized by 5GMF in Tokyo in
May was made.
(4) Special session on research and development
Presentation about the outline of TÜBİTAK and activity situation, 5G vision and R &D situation was carried out by BİLGEM （ Informatics and Information Security
Research Center of TÜBİTAK), and presentation about DOCOMO's 5G deployment
2strategy and frequency consideration for 5G, and outline of demonstration experimentwith domestic and overseas companies to realize 5G was carried out by Mr. Takehiro
Nakamura (Acting Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee (NTT DOCOMO)).

Lecturers with Japan and Turkey officials

The 8th Study Group Meeting on Private wireless communication
The Study Group on Private wireless communication was established on April 2015 inorder to provide a place to investigate technologies and usage trends of the private wirelesscommunication, domestic and worldwide, and study the enhancement of Private wirelesscommunication.
On 17 January 2017, the 8th study group meeting was held attended by 92 people.
In the study group meeting, following presentations had been carried out.
(1) "Start of consideration on technical conditions related to advancement of 920 MHz low
power radio system" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(2) "Current status of the Tokyo Fire Department wireless communications network" byTokyo Fire Department(3) "Trends in foreign countries on public safety communication networks utilizing the
public network" by the Foundation for MultiMedia Communications (FMMC)(4) " Possibility of public safety communication service utilizing public network" by NTT
DOCOMO and KDDI
After the presentation, lively free discussion was carried out.

The 8th Study Group on Private wireless communication
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The 48th CJK IMT WG MeetingCJK IMT Working Group Meeting is aiming to exchange information and views about theactivities of international IMT standardizations in ITU-R, APT, 3GPPs, and so on, among
members of SDOs in China, Japan and South Korea.
The 48th CJK IMT Working Group Meeting was held as follows.
1. Overview of the Meeting
Date

From 17 to 18, January 2017

Location

Busan, South Korea

Participants

9 members from ARIB, 9 members from CCSA (China) and 17
members from TTA (South Korea), as members of each country’s
standardization organization.

The 48th CJK IMT WG Meeting

2. Main results of the Meeting(1) Confirmed the results of the 20th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity
Wireless Group (AWG) held in September 2016 and the 25th ITU-R SG5 Working
Party 5D (WP5D) meeting held in October 2016, each SDO’s activity report and
3GPP discussion status report(2) Shared the information about the status of preparation towards the 25th WP5D
meeting, and based on the status of activities of three Special Interest Group(SIG-Spectrum,

SIG-Requirements

and

SIG-Evaluation),discussed

the

joint

contribution documents on the basis of the common part of the proposed contents ofeach SDO4

(3) Determined to promote the coordination of 6 contribution documents toward thejoint contribution(4) Elected Mr. Kato (Director of Land Mobile Communication Group of ARIB) as thechairman of the CJK IMT WG and Mr. Meng (CCSA) as a 3GPPs coordinator for one
year from the next 49th meeting
3. Next meeting schedule
The next CJK IMT Working Group Meeting was scheduled on 9 and 10 May 2017 inJapan.

Digital TV Summit 2017 in Philippines
The Digital TV Summit 2017 was held at the Novotel Manila Araneta Center on
February 14 and 15 in Manila, the Philippines.
About 400 people participated in the Summit, including the representatives from theFilipino government, academia, broadcasters, manufacturers, etc. The Japanesedelegation was headed by Mr. S. Suzuki, Vice Minister for Policy Coordination of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), and included representatives
from DiBEG member companies and ARIB/DiBEG secretariat.
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of thePhilippines officially announced their migration plan toward digital television; and at
this occasion DICT hosted this Digital TV Summit 2017.
During the Digital TV Summit on February 14th, there was a ceremony of "Digital
Switch On" performed to symbolize the migration from analog to digital television.
While there were plenary sessions going on for 2 days, outlining Filipino broadcasting
history up to the introduction of digital TV and the migration plan as well as futureplans toward nationwide digital terrestrial television, technical sessions and exhibition
were also going on in parallel introducing the ISDB-T technology for the afternoon of
February 14th and the whole day of 15th.
On the morning of the first day of the Summit on February 14th, an official
announcement was made at the Opening Ceremony, declaring that the digitalterrestrial TV services were now launched, attended by the executives from DICT and
the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), together with the Japanese Vice
Minister Mr. S. Suzuki, manipulating a lever together to migrate analog TV to digital on
the stage.

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Ceremony of Migration from Analog to Digital TV
At the Plenary Session, following the opening remarks by Mr. Rodolfo A. Salalima,
Secretary of DICT, substitute for Mr. Gamaliel Cordova, NTC Commissioner, Mr. S.
Suzuki, Vice Minister of MIC and Mr. Jose Ruperto Martin M. Andanar, Secretary of
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) each made a speechcelebrating the Summit at this occasion.
DICT also outlined their migration plan from analog to digital TV, whose official
announcement would be on March 31, 2017. DICT showed their intention to
implement the Analog Switch–Off (ASO) nationwide in the coming 4 to 6 years,
targeting the completion by the year 2023.
During the sessions the current status of the major broadcasters in the Philippines
toward digital terrestrial TV was introduced. According to ABS–CBN, one of thelargest broadcasting corporations, it started digital terrestrial TV as of February 11,2015, and are currently broadcasting as many as 6 channels of news, entertainment,
etc., with the accumulated sale of STBs of more than 2.4 million units.
There were also 2–day technical sessions on ISDB-T held at the venue. 3
representatives from DiBEG participated in these sessions, presenting "Transmission
Technology" by Mr. J. Abe, "Datacasting, EPG and Closed Caption" by Mr. O. Hashimoto,and "EWBS (Emergency Warning Broadcast System)" by Mr. Y. Sakaguchi.
In addition to the presentations by the above 3 Japanese experts, there were some morepresentations made by the Filipino engineering people, regarding the outline of ISDB-T
technology, SNF technology, considerations on STL/TTL. etc., where more than 80
people almost filled up the session room with standing participants, exchanging views
and opinions actively. The atmosphere in the hall strongly indicated that the people in
the field of broadcasting in the Philippines are eagerly tackling digital terrestrial TV,
and they enjoyed this invaluable opportunity.
There was also an exhibition area provided, where MIC, ARIB/DiBEG and some of the6

DiBEG member companies participated. At the ARIB/DiBEG booth a display of
prototype EWBS receiving module and a demonstration of EWBS reception were
performed.
ARIB/DiBEG participated in the exhibition under the auspices of MIC, showing theprototype unit of EWBS receiving module developed by NHK Itec, one of the DiBEG
member companies. Also at the ARIB/DiBEG booth pamphlets and leaflets showing
ARIB's recent broadcast standardization activities and DiBEG's international
promotional activities on ISDB-T were handed over to the Summit participants, while
also showing videos on the development of EWBS technology, international promotional
activities on ISDB-T, etc.
The EWBS receiving module, exhibited at the booth, attracted strong attention of thepeople from research institutions, DICT, broadcasters, manufacturers, etc.

Display at the ARIB/DiBEG BoothIn the exhibition area, not only MIC and DiBEG but also some of the Filipino affiliatesof DiBEG member companies such as Sharp Philippines, NEC Philippines, etc.
participated.

Also, Philippine Appliance Industry Association (PAIA), a tradeassociation of electro-domestic manufacturers of the Philippines, and some other localorganizations joined the exhibition.

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The 26th ITU-R WP5D Meeting
The 27th ITU-R WP5D Meeting was held as below.
1. Overview of the meeting
Schedule

From 14 to 22 February 2017

Venue

ITU headquarters

Participants

About 264 people from 45 countries

Participantsfrom Japan

20 people (including 3 people from ARIB) headed by Ms. Yamauchi(Deputy Director of Land Mobile Communications Division, MIC)

( Geneva , Switzerland )( 41 organizations )The 26th ITU-R WP5D Meeting
2. Main results(1) With regard to the radio interface requirements for the IMT-2020, all the requested
values were agreed and submitted to SG5 to seek for adoption as a new report of
ITU-R M. [IMT-2020.TECH PERF REQ].
(2) With regard to the parameters used for the radio interface evaluation of the IMT-2020,
conditions on Large Cell Low Mobility (LCLM) used in India were added. With regard
to the test environment of Rural High Speed, proposal that it was necessary to newly
examine at 30GHz was made from Japan at the Meeting, and it was decided tocontinue the layout study together with China's 4GHz. With regard to the Preliminary
Draft New Report of the ITU-R M. [IMT-2020.EVAL] which defined the evaluation
method and condition of the IMT-2020 radio interface, it was agreed to complete at
the next meeting.
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(3) With regard to the ITU-R M. [IMT-2020.SUBMISSION] that specified the method of
proposing the IMT-2020 radio interface was studied based on the Japan and South
Korea joint contribution document, and made it the status of the new report draft.
(4) With regard to the revision of the IMT-2020/2 document which defined thedevelopment process of the IMT-2020 radio interface, the sentence in Step 2 was
finalized, and completed the draft revision. This revision was approved at the WP5D
Plenary and will be posted on the Web Page.
(5) With regard to the revision toward the 3rd edition of IMT-Advanced Details WirelessInterface Recommendation ITU-R M.2012, confirmation of the input from the GCS
Proponent of LTE-Advanced was done, and the working document was created. With
regard to the IMT-2000 Details Wireless Interface Recommendation ITU-R M.1457, aschedule on the revision for the 14th edition (IMT-2000/7 document) and a liaison
document to external organizations were created and approved at the WP5D Plenary.
(6) Decision to send a liaison document telling the completion of the 2nd edition
Supplement of IMT-2020/2 to external organizations (5GMF, 5GIC, 3GPP, ARIB etc.)
was made. In the 2nd edition Supplement, documents describing the details of
external evaluation organizations (ITU members or standards bodies or otherindependent evaluation organizations) and recommending the early registration to
ITU-R were added. With regard to the IMT-2020 workshop to be held in October 2017,it was decided to provide the information as an attachment to the 2nd edition
Supplement.
(7) On the new report ITU-R M. [IMT.BY.INDUSTRIES] about the use of the terrestrial
IMT by the industry sector, issue of a liaison documents to WP5A which had thereview authority was agreed at the SWG level on the railway and ITS. However, atthe plenary, it was treated as carry forward because UAE (United Arab Emirates)
claimed it premature.
(8) The draft of liaison document to TG 5/1 on the frequency needs of WRC-19 agenda
item 1.13 was finalized. Based on the two methods (application, technicalperformance) and multiple assumptions as frequency need identification method, therequired bandwidth of IMT-2020 at the frequency of 24.25 - 86 GHz (an example isshown in the table below) was agreed. It was decided to compile information on
frequency demand from each country and provide information to TG 5/1 along withcalculation results based on the above.

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Examples of spectrum needs for frequency ranges between 24.25 and 86 GHz

ExamplesAssociated conditions fordifferent examples (Fordetails, please see thecorresponding sections in
the Annex A)

Overcrowded, Dense
urban and Urban areas

Spectrum needs
in total (GHz)

Spectrum needs(GHz)
per range

18.7

3.3 (24.25-33.4
GHz range)
6.1 (37-52.6 GHz
range)
9.3 (66-86 GHz
range)

11.4

2.0 (24.25-33.4
GHz range)
3.7 (37-52.6 GHz
range)
5.7 (66-86 GHz
range)

3.7

0.67 (24.25-33.4
GHz range)
1.2 (37-52.6 GHz
range)
1.9 (66-86 GHz
range)

1.8

0.33 (24.25-33.4
GHz range)
0.61 (37-52.6
GHz range)
0.93 (66-86 GHz
range)

1
Dense urban and Urban
areas
Applicationbased
approachHighly crowded area2
Crowded area

(9) With regard to the coexistence study of WRC-19 Agenda 1.13, the draft of liaison
document to TG 5/1 on IMT side parameters was finalized. System parameter values
were discussed and agreed based on information provided by 3GPP. With regard to theintroduction parameters (typical operational values), "hot spot of suburban area", "hotspot of urban area" and "indoor" were agreed as basic deployment environments, andradio station density and radio station specifications (antenna height, transmission
power etc.) corresponding to each environment were agreed.
(10) It was described that the 31st WP5D Meeting to be held in October 2018 would be
invited by Japan.
(11) Sharing of the results of the previous studies on IMT-2020 and the future work plan
between WP5D and ITU-T SG13 was made.
3. Next meeting schedule
The next 27th meeting is scheduled to be held in Canada (Niagara Falls) on 13 to 21
June 2017.

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"oneM2M Showcase 2"(ARIB, NICT, TTC co-organized event)oneM2M is the global standards initiative that provides a common service platform that
supports various services / applications of IoT / M2M, and it is expected that oneM2M will
facilitate the collection of information from various devices and control of such devices, andnew IoT / M2M services will be able to be realized in a short period of time at low cost.
In oneM2M, Standard Specification Release 2 was enacted in August 2016. This Release 2
specification is a specification set that covers enough functions to construct the IoT platform,
including interworking and semantics with other IoT technologies. It supports various
services / applications of IoT, and has the necessary functions to create a new business.
"oneM2M Showcase 2" is regarded as the second step of oneM2M showcase event held forthe first time in Japan in May 2015. This event had been co-organized by ARIB, NICT and
TTC, and held as below in early March.

1. Overview of the event
Name

oneM2M Showcase 2

Schedule

2 March 2017 12:00 – 17:30

Organizers

ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses)
NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
TTC(Telecommunication Technology Committee)

Venue

Fukuracia Shinagawa Crystal Square (Tokyo)

Participants

About 260 people(Japan Time)

2. Result of the event
In this event, improvement of oneM2M specification and a big progress of its
implementation were shown by exhibiting oneM2M specification based equipment. At thelecture, the activities of industry, academia and government to realize the world of IoT and
expectations for oneM2M were introduced.
Applicants wishing to attend were beyond the initial assumptions and the event was a
successful with about 260 participants.
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Closing remarks from Mr. Fusaki Matsui(Secretary General of ARIB)

The lecture

Demonstration display

The 2nd Japan-Nicaragua JWG Meeting in Nicaragua
The 2nd Japan–Nicaragua Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting was held in Managua,
Nicaragua on March 9, 2017.

The Japanese delegation was headed by Mr. Y. Ando,

Ambassador of Japan to Nicaragua, with the representatives from Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications (MIC), ARIB/DiBEG, a JICA expert in Costa Rica, etc.
The Nicaraguan side was headed by Mr. Marvin Collado, Subdirector General Instituto
Nicaragüense

deTelecomunicacionesyCorreos(TELCOR), together

with therepresentatives from TELCOR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National TV (Channel
6).
When Nicaragua decided to adopt ISDB-T as its national standard of digital terrestrial
television in August 2015, the bilateral JWG was set up to support the implementationof digital TV in Nicaragua. ARIB/DiBEG has also been an active member to extend its
technical support for the introduction of digital TV in the country.

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The 2nd JWG meeting was held in Managua, the Nicaraguan capital this time, where
the Japanese delegation made detailed explanations on Japan's field experiences in thetransition to digital television, the outline of international activities of ARIB/DiBEG,
methodologies to set up nationwide channel planning, etc.
At the meeting Nicaraguan side made reference to the idea of starting up digitalterrestrial TV from the level of a small-scale pilot project, and expressed their
expectation on Japan in the technical support and cooperation, including the training of
human resources for the digital TV implementation.

Japan responded they would

study necessary support and cooperation to Nicaragua through a JICA expert as awindow of communications.

Joint Working Group Meeting

Headquarter of TELCOR

Monthly seminars on radio wave use
No.1483 March 2017

Title

Introduction of high resolution millimeter wave radar technology using
79 GHz band

Speaker

Summary

Mr. Yoichi Nakagawa
Innovation Center, AVC Networks Company, Panasonic Corporation
The seminar covered the verification experiment result performed in the
Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), in
addition to the explanation of the technical potential and international
trend of the 79 GHz band high resolution radar.

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1.

Newly established Standards at Standard Assembly on 24 March 2017
None

2.

Revised or abolished Standards at Standard Assembly on 24 March 2017

(1) Telecommunications field
STD
NumberStandard Name

VersionSTD-T63

IMT-2000 DS-CDMA and TDD-CDMA System

Ver.12.30

STD-T104

LTE-Advanced System

Ver.4.30

STD-T11179 GHz BAND HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR

Ver.1.1(2) Broadcasting field
STD
NumberStandard Name

VersionSTD-B10SERVICE INFORMATION FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTINGSYSTEM

Ver.5.10

STD-B43

PORTABLE MILLIMETER-WAVE DIGITAL TRANSMISSIONSYSTEM FOR TELEVISION PROGRAM CONTRIBUTION

Ver.2.0

STD-B60

MMT-BASED MEDIA TRANSPORT SCHEME IN DIGITAL
BROADCASTING SYSTEMS

Ver.1.9

STD-B61

CONDITIONAL ACCESS SYSTEM (SECOND GENERATION)ANDCAS
PROGRAMDOWNLOAD
SYSTEM
SPECIFICATIONS FOR DIGITAL BROADCASTING

Ver.1.3

STD-B69

EXCHANGE FORMAT OF THE DIGITAL CLOSED CAPTIONFILE FOR DIGITAL TELEVISION BROADCASTINGSYSTEM (SECOND GENERATION)

Ver.1.1

ARIB SEASON
Publishing

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