5G Americas Offers Update on Latest Release for LTE
A new 5G Americas paper provides an update on 3rd Generation Partnership Project Release 13 and its many updates for LTE. The release “supports Active Antenna Systems (AAS), including beamforming, Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) and Self-Organizing Network (SON) aspects, enhanced signaling…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
to support inter-site Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP), Carrier Aggregation (CA) enhancements to support up to 32 component carriers and Dual Connectivity (DC) enhancements to better support multi-vendor deployments with improved traffic steering,” the paper said. “Improvements in Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing have also [been] worked on as part of Rel-13. Work on enhancements to Machine Type Communication (MTC) and Proximity Services (ProSe) continued from Rel-12.” The paper emphasizes that “LTE is not a yesterday story,” Chris Pearson, president of 5G Americas, said in a Wednesday news release. “It is a technology for today and tomorrow.” Work continues toward 5G, the group said: "The 3GPP standards have many innovations remaining for LTE to create a foundation for 5G."