5G • 5G-Advanced (Rel-18)
SBFD Industrial Campus Network
Sub-Band Full Duplex for Deterministic Factory Automation
SBFD deployment tailored for smart manufacturing, delivering continuous ultra-low latency uplink telemetry while simultaneously streaming high-bandwidth downlink AR video.
Technical Explanation
Industrial factory floors feature conflicting requirements: hundreds of robotic arms and programmable logic controllers (PLCs) require continuous sub-millisecond uplink telemetry reporting, while maintenance technicians need 4K AR video streams. SBFD provides dedicated non-conflicting sub-bands on a single private TDD carrier, satisfying both demands simultaneously without expensive separate carriers.
Key Functions
- Delivers simultaneous sub-1 ms uplink cycle times and 500 Mbps downlink video streams
- Eliminates TDD frame scheduling delays for mission-critical PLC automation loops
- Provides deterministic bounded latency for industrial Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
- Maximizes spectrum efficiency in private enterprise-allocated 5G spectrum
Specifications
3GPP TR 38.858, TS 22.104 (Rel-18)
Interfaces
Uu (Private 5G)N6
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