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TSG RAN · TR 38.914

Study on 6G Scenarios and requirements

The radio side's founding document, and the one written for an outside audience. Approved v1.0.0 at RAN#112 in Singapore on 14 June 2026 under RP-261565.

Specification
TR 38.914
Work item
FS_6G_RAN_Scen_Req
Group
RAN TSG RAN
Rapporteur
Xiaoran Zhang — China Mobile Com. Corporation
WID
RP-251395
Runs
8 Dec 2024 → 6 Jun 2026
Latest
v20.0.0 (7 Jul 2026)
Status
Complete

Read this before quoting the page

The widely-repeated "five dimensions / six design drivers" framing is NOT 3GPP's — it is Monzon Baeza and Chatzinotas's own taxonomy from an April 2026 arXiv paper. Useful, but always attribute it to those authors, never to 3GPP.

Where it stands

Its audience is ITU-R, not 3GPP
Approval "aligns the work to ITU-R's 6G Framework (M.2160)" and allows the study to be shared with ITU-R as a contribution to IMT-2030. That is the key to reading it — and why it carries no numeric targets.
Two content pillars, verbatim
"6G Deployment scenarios" and "6G Requirements and technical principles (KPI, architecture and migration, operational requirements, new and existing services, testing and conformance)".
Origin
SID approved at RAN#106, Madrid, 12 December 2024 (RP-243327), co-signed by over fifty companies.
Release
Initially planned for Release 19; moved to Release 20.

Covered in

Edition 06, Edition 07

Sources

← All RAN studies