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Network Slicing using User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP)
Google announced that its latest smartphone OS will include support for 5G network slicing. Last week Telecom TV brought this news to my attention. The article explains:It's a move designed to leverage...
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5G-Advanced Flagship Features
I am starting to get a feeling that people may be becoming overwhelmed with all the new 5G features and standards update. That is why this presentation by Mikael Höök, Director Radio Research at...
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3GPP Presentations from CEATEC Japan 2021
3GPP and its Japanese Organizational Partners TTC (Telecommunication Technology Committee) and ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) hosted a “3GPP Summit” online workshop at CEATEC...
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Will Wi-Fi Help 3GPP Bring Reliable Connectivity Indoors?
I have argued a few times now that it would make much more sense to be able to make access and core independent of each other. 3GPP 5G Standards already have a feature available from Release-16 onwards...
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What will 5G Standalone deliver?
Surely you have heard me talk about the benefits of 5G Standalone and why is it needed. At Telecoms Europe 5G 2021, Dr. Kim K Larsen, CTIO, T-Mobile Netherlands, presented a talk on what exactly will...
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5G & AI Powered Smart Hospitals
5G Telehealth has been one of the main driving use cases for upgrading the infrastructure. While some use cases definitely make sense, some others like remote surgery will most likely never happen, at...
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Impact of 5G on Lawful Interception and Law Enforcement.
At Telecoms Europe 5G 2021 event, David Anstiss, Senior Solutions Architect, SS8 Networks gave a talk on Impact of 5G on lawful interception and law enforcement. The talk provided an insight into how...
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Top 10 Posts for 2021 and Top 5 Videos
Here are the top posts from this year, from most popular to the tenth most popular, in descending order of popularity:1. A look at 5G Applications, Application Functions & Application Servers,...
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What is RF Front-End (RFFE) and why is it so Important?
As more technologies, frequency bands, antennas, etc., are crammed in our smartphones and tablets, it becomes essential for these devices to keep performing despite what technologies and spectrum are...
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An Introduction to Minimization of Drive Testing (MDT)
Over the last few years, Ralf Kreher has done some fantastic posts on Minimization of Drive Testing (MDT) on this blog (links at the bottom of this post). To complement that, here is a basic...
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3GPP 5G Non Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Standardization Update
We have looked at 5G Non Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in many different posts in our blogs. If you are new to this topic then this tutorial with a video is a good place to start or just follow this IEEE...
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3GPP Release-18 Work Moves Into Focus as Release-17 Reaches Maturity
In early December 2021, 3GPP reached a consensus on the scope of 5G NR Release-18. With the 3GPP Rel-17 functional freeze set for March 2022, Release-18 work is moving into focus. This is being billed...
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Bug hunting in 5G Networks and Devices
Pentests or Penetration testing is ethical hacking that is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system. They are performed to identify...
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Extending 5G TDD Coverage With XDD (Cross Division Duplex)
A new 3GPP Technical report, TR 38.858 (draft not available yet) will look at Study on evolution of NR duplex operation (FS_NR_duplex_evo) in Rel-18. RP-213591 provides a justification on why this new...
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What Is the Role of AI and ML in the Open RAN and 5G Future?
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have moved on from just being buzzwords to bringing much needed optimization and intelligence in devices, networks and infrastructure; whether on site, on...
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IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Support for Service Based Architecture (SBA)
I looked at IMS briefly in my LTE voice tutorial here. The Nokia Lectures covered IMS in-depth in part 5 of the video. I recently came across a short overview of IMS for SBA. You can see our old...
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GSMA Releases Mobile Economy Report 2022
The GSMA Mobile Economy report series provides the latest insights on the state of the mobile industry worldwide. Produced by GSMA's in-house research team, GSMA Intelligence, these reports contain a...
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5G Network Slicing for Beginners
Network Slicing is a hot topic on our blogs and it looks like people can't get enough of it. So here is a short introductory tutorial from Wray Castle.The video embedded below explores what Network...
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Realizing Zero Trust Architecture for 5G Networks
Over the last couple of years, I keep on coming across Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA). A simple way to explain is that the standard model of security is known as perimeter security model, where...
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3GPP Release-17 5G NR Reaches Completion
In the last week of March 2022, 3GPP Release 17 reached stage 3 functional freeze. Now the ASN work is ongoing and it will be frozen in June 2022. After that point, any changes will need to be...
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