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Evolution of 3GPP technologies in coming years will...

Evolution of 3GPP technologies in coming years will be driven by enhancements to HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced, and the expansion of connectivity into machine-to-machine and other vertical industries, said 4G Americas in an executive summary Monday of the “essential features” standardized…

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in its 3GPP Release 11 standards document. The 3GPP standards in Release 11 for HSPA+ and LTE-Advanced were “functionally frozen” in December, the month core network protocols were stable, and radio access network (RAN) protocols were stable in March, 4G Americas said. New capabilities in Release 11 include 8-carrier downlink operation for HSDPA, downlink (DL) 4-branch Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antennas, DL Multi-Flow Transmission, uplink (UL) dual antennas beamforming, UL MIMO with 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation and several CELL_FACH state enhancements for smartphone traffic and non-contiguous HSDPA carrier aggregation (http://bit.ly/14HPC5G).