Wireless Blog posts on Small Cells.
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Wireless Blog posts on Small Cells.
Since my first post on fifth generation (5G) mobile networks, in August 2013, there has been a dramatic upsurge in activity and publicity on the topic. Leading organisations in the mobile industry have become increasingly vocal, in white papers, conferences and press releases, about the benefits of 5G, the technologies they expect to feature and the… Read more
A few months ago I wrote a summary of facts and figures on HSPA+, LTE and LTE-Advanced, based on the 3GPP Release 11 standard. With Release 12 due to be finalised in the middle of 2014, I thought I would write about some of the developments in the pipeline in the 3GPP work programme. The expected… Read more
One of the major themes of 3GPP Release 12 (due for completion in 2014) is enhanced support for small cells in LTE. With mobile network traffic expected to increase dramatically over the coming years, the ability to reuse spectrum many times in dense usage areas will make small cells crucial. In a previous post on… Read more
Working in the UK, where commercial LTE services are still not available, it is easy to forget that standardisation of LTE has been underway for many years. The first 3GPP standards were frozen way back in 2008, in 3GPP Release 8, and no fewer than five 3GPP releases containing LTE aspects have now received attention… Read more
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