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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 ..

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 ..