3GPP Release 16 Feature List
3GPP Release 16 Introduction The initial specifications of 5G, Release 15 also called the “5G Phase 1” introduced the 5G...
Category: 3GPP Specification
5G NR Layer 2 – Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Overview
Introduction 5G NR PDCP is a Layer 2 protocol and overall functionality is almost same as it was in 4G...
5G NR SDAP – Service Data Adaptation Protocol
The 5G NR has introduce new mechanism to manage the Quality of Service via QoS flow and to handle QoS...
Open RAN Integration – Where We Today
Open RAN is being deployed by multiple Service Providers around the world. These deployment are large scale deployments in some...
5G NR RLC – AM Mode Data Transmission
In 5G NR, RLC has 3 different modes of operations TM, UM and AM and each of the mode can...
3GPP Evolution for MIMO
Released 3GPP standards on MIMO are shown in below image. As you know, Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) is a type of Cooperative...
5G NR Transport Block Size (TBS) Calculation
Transport Block in 5G NR, is nothing but the payload which is passed between the MAC and Phy Layers, specifically...
3GPP Release 12
3 GPP Release 12 was largely completed on-time in March 2015, with a few exceptional features allowed an extension to...
3GPP Release 14
The 3GPP RAN group has started working on the evolution of LTE in 3GPP Release 14, targeting completion by June...
3GPP Release 13
3GPP Release 13 first release was frozen in March 2016. It was brought to reality with quite extensive set of new...