DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DOCOMO Euro-Labs) was established in November 2000 in Munich, Germany. DOCOMO Euro-Labs' mission is to contribute to the evolution of future mobile systems. Important research areas include 5G technologies, emerging network technologies and architecture. As a part of its research, DOCOMO Euro-Labs participates in standardization activities as well as technology investigation and technology scouting. To achieve our mission, DOCOMO Euro-Labs takes advantage of its location and collaborates with European operators, vendors, venture companies and universities and contributes to standardization activities (mainly 3GPP and ETSI).

As part of the 5G-ACIA Web Seminar series, a panel on "Industrial 5G - Myths and Reality" was held on September 9th, 2020. Speakers were 5G-ACIA Board members Dr. Christian Bauer (TRUMPF), Joseph Eichinger (Huawei), Riccardo Guerzoni (NTT docomo), Sylvia Lu (u-blox), Dr. Andreas Müller (Bosch), Andreas Pfaff (Mitsubishi) and Benedikt Rauscher (Pepperl & Fuchs).

ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) is the home of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ETSI NFV has delivered and continuous to work on informative reports and normative specifications that enable the telecom industry to adopt virtualization and Cloud technologies, which facilitate network operators to make the deployment and operations of telco networks more efficient.

How relevant is NFV to current network operator strategies? What have
operators gained from their investments in virtualization platforms? How do
the various elements of NFV – the NFVi, VNFs, MANO etc – fit into the world
of 5G?

The 5G-ACIA General Assembly elected the new Board members: NTT DOCOMO is represented in the Board.

The 5GAA 6th General Assembly held electronically the 27th of May 2020 elected the new Board Members and Governance. NTT DOCOMO was successfully re-elected as Board Member for the next term until GA#7 July 2021.

Mobile communication systems generally evolve to the next generation over a period of around ten years. The company has researching the sixth generation (6G) mobile communication system that NTT DOCOMO plans to introduce on a commercial basis by 2030. This white paper summarizes the expected 6G use cases with related technical concepts and performance targets.

NTT DOCOMO announces that it has agreed with OMRON Corporation and Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy to collaborate in trials of 5G mobile communication technology inside factories, with the aim of significantly enhancing future manufacturing productivity.

NTT DOCOMO joins the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) with the aim of further advancing the use of 5G technology in the manufacturing sector.

Be part of it: www.fuseco-forum.org

Standard-essential patent applications for next-generation mobile communications

3GPP has approved and published a set of stage 2 level specifications for the 5G system architecture

Recently, two of the open source projects DOCOMO Euro-Labs is actively working on have achieved key milestones in their project lifecycle.

In DOCOMO Euro-Labs, the new operational structure will become effective by January 1, 2018 at the latest. DOCOMO Euro-Labs, as a part of globally optimized NTT DOCOMO’s R&D, will continue to play an important role in core network standardization.

DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DOCOMO Euro-Labs), based in Munich, is being strategically refined to become the European center of competence for core network standardization. This is supposed to happen as part of the global optimization of NTT DOCOMO’s research and development activities.

Colleagues from NTT DOCOMO and DOCOMO Euro-Labs have been participating in the OPNFV Summit 2016.

NGMN published white paper on “5G prospects – key capabilities to unlock digital opportunities”

One of our employees, Dr. Mikio Iwamura, received a Certificate of Appreciation from NGMN in recognition of his invaluable contributions and dedication to the global NGMN 5G Initiative. 

We're happy to announce that DOCOMO and Ericsson successfully completed a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) of dynamic network slicing technology for 5G core networks.

The first global 5G event took place from May 31 – June 1 in Beijing, China.

On 24 May,  DOCOMO Euro-Labs' member Dr. Wolfgang Kiess is joining the "5G Architecture" industry panel organized by the IEEE International Conference on Communications held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On March 1st, OPNFV announced the availability of OPNFV Brahmaputra, the community’s second platform release. It delivers enhanced testing capabilities, improved automation and operator required feature enhancements such as fault detection and recovery, IPv6, layer-3 VPN, resource reservation, etc.. 

OPNFV is a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform for NFV to accelerate the introduction of new NFV products and services.

View DOCOMO's sustainability report, which aims to provide a comprehensive disclosure of information, in PDF format.

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The press release below was submitted by NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

TOKYO, JAPAN, May 27, 2014 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., a personalized mobile solutions provider for smarter living, announced today that working separately with three different world-leading vendors — Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and NEC — it has completed proof-of-concept (PoC) trials verifying the feasibility of network functions virtualization (NFV).

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The SASER (Safe & Secure European Routing)  is a Public-Private Partnership project of 58 companies including DOCOMO Euro-Labs, research organizations, and universities from all over Europe.

Disclaimer:
The press release below was submitted by NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
 
Press Release
May 08, 2014

The MEDIEVAL (MultimEDia transport for mobile Video AppLications) project, a 3 year project partially funded by the EU under the STREP umbrella has received an excellent feedback for its final audit in October 2013.

Disclaimer:
The press release below was submitted by METIS, an EU research project for which DOCOMO Euro-labs is one of the partner contributors.

Press Release
September 5th 2013

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From today a selection of patents can be found on the website docomolab-euro.com. Patents can be can be filtered by any keyword and an entry can be exported with one click - using the common BibTeX format.

TOKYO, JAPAN, February 19, 2013 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan’s leading mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility, announced today that subscribers to Xi™ (pronounced “crossy”), the company’s extra-high-speed LTE mobile service offering a maximum downlink of 100 Mbps, surpassed ten million on February 18.

NTT DOCOMO today announced that it will exhibit a variety of mobile products, services and technologies, including NFC international roaming and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), a new global standard for video compression, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain from February 25 to 28.

Congratulations to our CSO, Dr. Hendrik Berndt for his recent election as a WWRF Vice President Europe/Middle East/ Africa. Below you can find a press release published by WWRF of its current activities.

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The press release below was submitted by METIS, an EU research project for which DOCOMO Euro-labs is one of the partner contributors.
 
Press Release EU
November 27th 2012