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Cellular IoT (CIoT) or LoRa?
Back in September, 3GPP reached a decision to standardise NarrowBand IOT (NB-IOT). Now people familiar with the evolution of LTE-A UE categories may be a bit surprised with this. Upto Release-11, the...
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'Mobile Edge Computing' (MEC) or 'Fog Computing' (fogging) and 5G & IoT
Picture Source: CiscoThe clouds are up in the sky whereas the fog is low, on the ground. This is how Fog Computing is referred to as opposed to the cloud. Fog sits at the edge (that is why edge...
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5G, NFV and Network Slicing
5G networks have multifaceted requirements where the network needs to be optimised for data rate, delay and connection numbers. While some industry analysts suspect that these requirements cannot be...
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Mobility challenges in Future Cities
I got an opportunity this week to attend an interesting 'Sir Henry Royce Memorial Lecture 2015' organised by The IET. The topic of the presentation was "Mobility for the 21st Century".Professor John...
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ITU Workshop on VoLTE and ViLTE Interoperability
ITU recently held a workshop on "Voice and Video Services Interoperability Over Fixed-Mobile Hybrid Environments,Including IMT-Advanced (LTE)" in Geneva, Switzerland on 1st December 2015.The following...
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LTE-Advanced Pro (a.k.a. 4.5G)
3GPP announced back in October that the next evolution of the 3GPP LTE standards will be known as LTE-Advanced Pro. I am sure this will be shortened to LTE-AP in presentations and discussions but...
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ADS-B to enable global flight tracking
One of the things that the World Radio Conference 2015 (WRC-15) enabled was to provide a universal spectrum allocation for flight tracking. What this means in simple terms is that once completely...
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Top 10 posts for 2015
Here are the top 10 posts for 2015:Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) technical detailsLTE-Hetnet (LTE-H) a.k.a. LTE Wi-Fi Link Aggregation (LWA)New LTE UE Categories: 11, 12, 13 and 14 in 3GPP Rel-12LTE...
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End to end and top to bottom network design…
A good way to start 2016 is by a lecture delivered by Andy Sutton, EE at the IET conference 'Towards 5G Mobile Technology – Vision to Reality'. The slides and the video are both embedded below. The...
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5G Spectrum Discussions
While most people are looking at 5G from the point of new technologies, innovative use cases and even lumping everything under sun as part of 5G, many are unaware of the importance of spectrum and the...
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Interesting gadgets from CES 2016
Here are some gadgets from the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016. These are all collected from the tweets and there is a Youtube video below if you are interested. There are just...
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IET Lecture: 5G – Getting Closer to Answers?
I was fortunate to be able to hear the IET Appleton lecture last week. The good thing about these lectures are that the speakers get plenty of time to talk about the subject of interest and as a result...
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SDN & NFV lecture
I have been meaning to add this interesting lecture delivered by Dr. Yaakov Stein of RAD at IETF.The video, which cannot be embedded, is available here. If you cant wait to get into the main...
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The Art of Disguising Cellular Antennas
When I did a blog post 'Disguising Small Cells in Rural areas' last year, many people were surprised to see these things. So here is another post showing how the antennas looks like and how they have...
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Possible 5G Network Architecture Evolution
Came across this interesting Network Architecture evolution Roadmap by Netmanias. Its embedded below and available to download from the Netmanias website.
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The Internet of Me: It’s all about my screens - Bob Schukai
I had the pleasure of attending the IET Turing lecture last week and listening to Robert Schukai. He gave a brilliant talk on how Smartphones are changing the way we do things. Its a very interesting...
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The role of satellites in 5G world
While many of us have been focussing purely on wireless and mobile / 5G, the coverage and capacity provided by satellites is increasing and is set to dramatically transform connectivity in hard to...
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State of LTE & Connectivity
There are some reports that have been recently published on connectivity and connection numbers. This post intends to provide this info.Facebook released "State of connectivity 2015" report. As can be...
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5G Study Item (SI) for RAN Working Groups Approved
This is from a Linkedin post by Eiko Seidel.Earlier this month (7-10 March 2016), 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary RAN Meeting #71 took place in Göteborg, Sweden. The first 5G study item for the working groups is...
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Smartphones: It came, It saw, It conquered
Smartphones have replaced so many of our gadgets. The picture above is a witness to how all the gadgets have now been replaced by smartphones. To some extent hardware requirements have been transferred...
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