3GPP Release 10
3GPP release 10 driving force to further develop LTE technology towards LTE–Advanced. LTE Release 10 was to provide higher bit rates...
Category: LTE
Narrow Band LTE- NB-IoT
NB-IoT or NB-LTE is a new 3GPP radio-access technology. It is not fully backward compatible with existing 3GPP devices however...
Massive MIMO
In a wireless network, two wireless nodes communicate by transmitting and receiving data on a radio channel. This channel uses...
RF Sampling, making smaller base station for 3G, 4G, 5G Systems
“RF sampling” is the technology of digitizing an RF signal with an ADC directly, without an analog frequency conversion to...
Vector Network Analyzer
Vector network analyzer (VNA) is one of the most essential RF and microwave measurement instrument. VNA is commonly used to measure...
3GPP Release 15
In parallel to LTE evolution, Release 13 and Release 14 work already started. 3GPP Release-14 was focused mainly on 5G...
RSRQ (Reference Signal Received Quality)
RSRQ is th Reference Signal Received Quality and it can be defined using following. RSRQ= (N* RSRP)/RSSI As per the...
RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator)
RSSI represents the total received wide-band power measured over entire bandwidth by UE. RSSI is not reported to eNodeB. It is...
Structure of the 3GPP NR (5G) Specification
3GPP starts its work on 5G with its first meetings in the US next month. The work item approved by...
LTE Overview
LTE (Long Term Evolution) or the E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Access Network), introduced in 3GPP R8, is the access part...