The Vision of the Metis Project

METIS (Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society) is the EU flagship 5G project having the objective to lay the foundation for 5G systems and to build consensus prior to standardization. The METIS overall approach towards 5G builds upon the evolution of existing technologies complemented by new radio concepts that are designed to meet the new and challenging requirements of use cases today's radio access networks cannot support. The integration of these new radio concepts such as Massive MIMO, Ultra Dense Networks, Moving Networks, Device-to-Device, Ultra Reliable, and Massive Machine Communications will allow 5G to support the expected increase in the mobile data volume while broadening the range of application domains that mobile communications can support beyond 2020. In this paper, we describe the scenarios identified for the purpose of driving the 5G research direction. Further, we give initial directions for the technology components (such as link level components, multi node/multi antenna, multi-RAT (Radio Access Technology) and multi-layer networks and spectrum handling) that will allow fulfilling the requirements of the identified 5G scenarios.