BROWSING: Release 18

Nokia said L4S greatly boosts the performance of real-time applications, particularly cloud-rendered extended reality (XR) services Finnish vendor Nokia announced a collaboration with Hololight to explore how L4S, an internet protocol invented by Nokia, can enable applications and networks to simultaneously achieve high throughput and...

AI and ML use for network energy saving, load balancing, and mobility optimization are key 3GPP Release 18 marks the first release of the 5G-Advanced standard. R16 and R17 exposed new functionality to help 5G address IoT and edge computing, enabling 5G to reach new...

According to a recent study by the GSMA, the industry is targeting commercialization of Rel.18 from 2024 onwards 3GPP approved its Release 18 (Rel.18) package at the December 2021 RAN plenary meeting. The package includes 27 diverse study or work items that will further boost...

3GPP approved its Rel. 18 5G Advanced package at the December 2021 RAN plenary meeting 3GPP's Release 18 (Rel.18) will certainly set the initial phase towards 5G-Advanced as the mid-point of 5G standardization. Indeed, the 3GPP has already announced its decision to recognize Rel.18 as...

Huawei noted that all spectrum bands can be used for the future provision of '5.5G' services BANGKOK, THAILAND- Operators currently lack enough spectrum resources in order to be in a position to launch future ‘5.5G’ networks, Yang Chaobin, Huawei’s president of ICT products and solutions...

The 3GPP has defined an enabling layer to facilitate communication between the Application Clients and the Edge Application Servers The latest iterations of 3GPP standards have placed added emphasis on support for edge computing, a distributed computing framework that brings computation and data storage...

France-based Eutelsat and UK-based OneWeb have signed a provisional takeover deal, which values OneWeb at $3.4 billion, and would, if pursued and passed, would create a European satellite rival for the likes of SpaceX-owned Starlink. The pair have agreed to combine their satellite connectivity...

This is article is taken from a recent editorial report on Industrial 5G Innovation – From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard; the previous instalment in this serialised version of the report is available here. Subsequent instalments are listed below (linking either to the original...

5G-Advanced will bring new enhancements to mobile network capabilities and use case-based support to help carriers with 5G commercialization Some 75% of 5G base stations will be upgraded to 5G-Advanced by 2030, five years after the estimated commercial launch, according to a report by global...

The wake-up signal was first introduced in 3GPP Release 15 In 3GPP Release 15, a paging signal sent over the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) that “wakes up” a user device from an idle state so that can prepare to receive data was first introduced....

Critical Communications World (CCW) in Vienna this week (June 20-23) told the now-familiar story of how an influential industrial sector, which has existed in a horizontal tech vacuum until now, is coming to terms with its future as an extreme vertical in a broader...

Quectel, Fibocom, Sunsea AIoT, Thales and Telit, hold 68% of the cellular IoT modules market in terms of revenues last year   European IoT analyst firm Berg Insight reported that annual shipments of cellular IoT modules reached 428 million units in 2021, an increase of 39%...

Note, for more on this topic, and to hear more from MFA and others, join the Enterprise IoT Insights webinar on Industrial 5G (From Setting Standard to Becoming Standard) on April 28 – also featuring speakers from ABI Research, Schneider Electric, and Vodafone; check...

 In early December, 3GPP has reached a consensus on the scope of 5G NR Release 18. This is a significant milestone marking the beginning of 5G Advanced — the second wave of wireless innovations that will fulfill the 5G vision. Release 18 will build on...

To further explore the intersection of 5G and manufacturing, register for the 5G Manufacturing Forum.  The development of Release 17 and 18 and its potential impact in 5G manufacturing   3GPP release 18 represents a major evolution of the 5G System and due to this the 3GPP...