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5G is just on the cusp of deployment, with most mobile networks still operating on 4G-LTE technology. So, is it a bit early to be talking about 6G? Given that telecommunications service providers and technology developers have somewhat settled on a new generation of cellular wireless technology every 10 years, this means that 6G is ..

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 ..

The rise of emerging millimeter-wave applications has begun to change the landscape of millimeter-wave device and system testing. In previous years, millimeter-wave applications were the purview of scientific research, military/defense, and satellite communications. These applications are typically comfortable with low-volume production, high single-unit costs, long lead times, custom solutions, and labor-intensive testing/quality/verification methods. Unlike previous ..

Given the stringent timing requirements of 5G network and wireless applications, RF oscillator performance is of increasingly critical importance. Noise and phase noise are among the most significant of these requirements, as these parameters have the greatest impact on communication signal quality and receiver capability. Though noise and phase noise have always been RF oscillator ..

Though 5G comes with many promises of a ubiquitous high-speed experience with dramatically improved performance over 4G systems, there are several necessary upgrades to underlying technology and infrastructure that are necessary to achieve those desired ends. One such area is with timing and synchronization. In order to realize the desired 5G network responsiveness for high ..

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 ..