5G Time Synchronization: Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios

Muhammad Usman Hadi; Thomas Jacobsen; Renato Abreu; Troels Kolding

doi:10.1109/LATINCOM53176.2021.9647837

5G Time Synchronization: Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios

Muhammad Usman Hadi, Thomas Jacobsen, Renato Abreu, Troels Kolding

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Abstract

Absolute Time Synchronization (TS) over the air interface has been introduced with 3GPP 5G NR Release 16 which enables a wide set of applications requiring accurate time-of-day service. In this paper, we present a detailed evaluation of the achievable accuracy of Release 16 TS service considering user equipment (UE) impairments, multipath components, and deployment parameters. Additionally, we propose alternative reference signal and measuring settings required for different channel realizations and environments to meet requirements from a plethora of regulatory, commercial, and 5G industrial use cases. It is shown that wideband channel state information reference signal better supports TS for control to control use case at up to 60m of cell size in comparison to 10m if synchronization signal block is used for TS. The evaluation can be used as guidelines for reference signal configurations and how often the absolute timestamps should be delivered to the UE over the air interface for different deployment scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM)
Editors	Ramiro Velazquez
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665440356
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM53176.2021.9647837
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 23 Dec 2021
Event	2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021 - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Duration: 17 Nov 2021 → 19 Nov 2021

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Name	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021

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Conference	2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021
Country/Territory	Dominican Republic
City	Santo Domingo
Period	17/11/21 → 19/11/21

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5G NR
Time Synchronization

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Hadi, M. U., Jacobsen, T., Abreu, R., & Kolding, T. (2021). 5G Time Synchronization: Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios. In R. Velazquez (Ed.), Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM) (pp. 1-5). (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM53176.2021.9647837

Hadi, Muhammad Usman ; Jacobsen, Thomas ; Abreu, Renato et al. / 5G Time Synchronization : Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios. Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM). editor / Ramiro Velazquez. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. pp. 1-5 (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021).

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Hadi, MU, Jacobsen, T, Abreu, R & Kolding, T 2021, 5G Time Synchronization: Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios. in R Velazquez (ed.), Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM). Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1-5, 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 17/11/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/LATINCOM53176.2021.9647837

5G Time Synchronization: Performance Analysis and Enhancements for Multipath Scenarios. / Hadi, Muhammad Usman; Jacobsen, Thomas; Abreu, Renato et al.
Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM). ed. / Ramiro Velazquez. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. p. 1-5 (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021).

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