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Though 2020 has posed many challenges for economies and consumers around the world, 5G deployments and developments continued. Many industries are putting a substantial amount of their stock in the economic potential that 5G services should provide. Given the remote working/work-from-home and remote schooling situations many continue to find themselves in, there may be an ..

Even though 3GPP Release 16 and Release 17 freeze dates have been moved back 3 months due to global events, there is still a good emerging picture of what 3GPP Release 17 specifications will tackle. Where the goal of Release 16 is to introduce standalone millimeter-wave 5G specifications, the focus of Release 17 is to ..

Third generation partnership project (3GPP) is a standards body that is responsible for the major cellular telecommunication standards used to fuel cellular communication around the world. The latest standards release from 3GPP (Release 15) unleashed 5G new radio (NR) non-standalone (NSA) with enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) features that add additional sub-6 GHz frequency bands and ..

Ultra-reliable Low-latency Communications (URLLC) is a special use case of cellular communications that includes a set of features suited to low latency and ultra-high reliability applications. This includes mission critical applications, such as industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, smart grid, intelligent transportation/freight, and even augmented/virtual reality or remote medical or industrial procedures. It is commonly assumed ..

With the advent of the later 4G LTE releases (3GPP Release 13 and 14) and the latest 5G standard (3GPP Release 15), antennas for wireless telecommunications have begun to change substantially. Beyond the addition of sub-6 GHz frequencies for 5G, there are other technologies for enabling 5G use cases that are being developed that generate ..

5G critical communications is one of the most sought after features of upcoming 5G networks. There are many industries, such as industrial robotics/factory automation, autonomous vehicles, traffic, public safety, fire, operations, emergency medical services, and even military/defense that all may benefit from enabling features and technology capabilities offered by mission critical 5G functions. One of ..

The goal of facilitating the growing data-centric behaviors of global society has led to new classifications of wireless communications. One of these new classifications defined in the 3GPP Release 13 is massive machine-type communications (mMTC). A new wireless technology, known as narrow-band Internet of things (NB-IoT) was created to enable communication between large numbers of ..

The planned technical expectations of 5G services are extreme in many ways. One of the most extreme use cases is the planned enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services, which are being designed to meet users growing demand for high speed data. The main features of eMBB are a massive increase in beak data rates, the ability ..

Many countries have yet to release, or license, mm-Wave spectrum for service providers to use or lease. The US, via the FCC, just auctioned seven 100 MHz blocks of spectrum in the FCC Auction 102. This mm-Wave spectrum covers the lower and upper 24 GHz spectrum, between 24.25 GHz and 24.45 GHz, and 24.75 GHz ..

Though the hype train of 5G may have some believing that true mm-Wave 5G will be showing up at your door any minute, the reality is that most 5G services will likely take years before they become viable. 3GPP Release 15 brought a new aspect to 5G beyond what many were expecting (other than the ..