As shown in Fig. 3, the recommendation for the IMT Vision will be completed in advance of WRC-15; the above mentioned two reports will then serve as input for completing the recommendation.
This initial work within ITU-R ties in well with the ongoing global exploratory research activities on 5G in METIS and other projects. The next steps after WRC-15 are for WP5D to set technical performance requirements and to develop an evaluation process for 5G. Following the evaluation, a consensus-building process will result in radio interface specifications for 5G, similar to the ones for IMT-2000 and IMT-Advanced . Note that so far no official name has been chosen for 5G in ITU-R.