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5G and NFV
In my 5G: A 2020 vision presentation, I argued that some of the technologies that will be necessary for 5G is in fact independent of 5G. One such technology is NFV. Having said that, I also argue that...
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Static/Dynamic IP Address Allocation in LTE
I recently came across a discussion on how static and dynamic IP address are allocated in LTE for a UE. Luckily, there is a recent document from Netmanias that discussed this topic. The document is...
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3G vs 4G Power consumption
I added an answer on Quora but I think there can a a discussion on this. So here it is (embedded). Feel free to let me know what you think.Read Quote of Zahid Ghadialy's answer to What takes more...
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LTE Category-0 low power M2M devices
While we have talked about different LTE categories, especially higher speeds, we have not yet discussed Category-0 or Cat-0 for M2M.A recent news report stated the following:CAT-1 and CAT-0 are lower...
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Air-Ground-Air communications in Mission Critical scenarios
In-flight communications have always fascinated me. While earlier the only possibility was to use Satellites, a hot topic for in the last few years has been Air-Ground-Air communications.Some of you...
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Report on Spectrum Usage and Demand in the UK
Last week at work, we released a report titled "UK Spectrum Usage & Demand". The only time most people hear about spectrum is when there are some auctions going on. Often a small chunk of spectrum...
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Some interesting April Fools' Day 2015 Technology Jokes
Here is a quick roundup of some interesting tech #AprilFools day jokes from the web. Click on the links to learn moreSamsung Galaxy Blade Edge - Chef's editionSelfie Shoes by Miz Mooz -...
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LTE-Hetnet (LTE-H) a.k.a. LTE Wi-Fi Link Aggregation (LWA)
We have talked about the unlicensed LTE (LTE-U), re-branded as LTE-LAA many times on this blog and the 3G4G Small Cells blog. In fact some analysts have decided to call the current Rel-12...
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3GPP Release-13 work started in earnest
The 3GPP news from some months back listed the main RAN features that have been approved for Release-13 and the work has already started on them. The following are the main features (links contain .zip...
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Mobile Telecoms Technology & Market Disruptions
Sometimes its good to take a step back and look at the new applications and services that are already happening or may be happening sometime soon. Some of these have a possibility to disrupt the...
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New LTE UE Categories: 11, 12, 13 and 14 in 3GPP Rel-12
While checking 3GPP TS 36.306, I noticed some new LTE categories have been defined. We now have all the way up to category 14. I also noticed that Wikipedia page has up to Category 15, not sure...
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LTE-Broadcast making a push while Terrestrial broadcast still popular as ever
"TV isn't dying, it's having babies." This quote made my day. I have argued a few times in the past that terrestrial broadcasting will continue working and will be probably the most popular approach...
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Smart Homes of the Future and Technologies
Saw the above picture recently on Twitter. While its great to see how connected our future homes and even cities would be, it would be interesting to see what technologies are used for connecting these...
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The path from 4.5G to 5G
In the WiFi Global Congress last week, I heard this interesting talk from an ex-colleague who now works with Huawei. While there were a few interesting things, the one I want to highlight is 4.5G. The...
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'5G' talks from Johannesburg Summit 2015
The annual Johannesburg Summit took place May 10th-12th 2015. While it seems like there is a 5G related event every week, most of the events focus on different themes, use cases, applications and...
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'The Future Inter-connected Network' and Timing, Frequency & Phase requirements
I had the pleasure of doing a keynote at PhaseReady 2015 in London today. My presentation is embedded below along with some comments, followed by tweets some of which I think are important to think...
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Nuggets from Ericsson Mobility Report
Ericsson mobility report 2015 was released last week. Its interesting to see quite a few of these stats on devices, traffic, usage, etc. is getting released around this time. All of these reports are...
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Using 8T8R Antennas for TD-LTE
People often ask at various conferences if TD-LTE is a fad or is it something that will continue to exist along with the FDD networks. TDD networks were a bit tricky to implement in the past due to the...
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Have researchers moved on past 5G on to 6G Wireless?
As I am active on multiple social networks including blogs, twitter, facebook, linkedin, etc., Its always tricky to be able to share information from one on to another. Some time back I tweeted about...
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Broadband Access via Integrated Terrestrial & Satellite Systems
Last week I attended an event in the University of Surrey that was about providing high speed connectivity to un-served and under-served areas in future. While there is no arguing that satellites are a...
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