Monday, December 27, 2021

Top 10 Posts for 2021 and Top 5 Videos

Here are the top posts from this year, from most popular to the tenth most popular, in descending order of popularity:

1. A look at 5G Applications, Application Functions & Application Servers, April 2021

2. Different Types of RAN Architectures - Distributed, Centralized & Cloud, July 2021

3. AT&T Cybersecurity Experts Provide 5G Security Overview, July 2021

4. Qualcomm Explains 5G mmWave Future & Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB), September 2021

5. 5G RAN Functional Splits, March 2021

6. O-RAN Introduction for Beginners, June 2021

7. Network Slicing using User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP), November 2021

8. Positioning in 5G networks, April 2021

9. An Early View of 3GPP Release-18 5G-Advanced Topics, October 2021

10. Introduction to 5G Reduced Capability (RedCap) Devices, July 2021

In addition, the following two posts from last year made it in the top 10 as well, so including them below:

⦿ EPS Fallback in 5G Standalone Deployments, Feb 2020

⦿ Positioning Techniques for 5G NR in 3GPP Release-16, October 2020

In addition to the above, we have a very popular and active YouTube channel, here are the top 5 videos that we posted this year: 

1. 5G Radio Access Network Architecture: The Dark Side of 5G, January 2021

2. Webinar: 5G Security Briefing, March 2021

3. Beginners: Open RAN Terminology – Virtualization, Disaggregation & Decomposition, June 2021

4. 6G Training Course Part 1: Introduction, January 2021

5. Beginners: Connecting Underground Railway Network, June 2021

Do you have a favourite 3G4G blog post or video? Please feel free to add in comments.

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Monday, December 20, 2021

Impact of 5G on Lawful Interception and Law Enforcement.

At Telecoms Europe 5G 2021 event, David Anstiss, Senior Solutions Architect, SS8 Networks gave a talk on Impact of 5G on lawful interception and law enforcement. The talk provided an insight in​to how 5G is impacting lawful interception, and the challenges faced by intelligences agencies as they work with communication service providers to gather information, to safeguard society.

The talk, followed by Q&A is embedded below:

You may also find this blog post titled, 'Five Challenges of Gathering Digital Evidence in a 5G World' by David Anstiss, interesting.

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Monday, December 13, 2021

5G & AI Powered Smart Hospitals

5G Telehealth has been one of the main driving use cases for upgrading the infrastructure. While some use cases definitely make sense, some others like remote surgery will most likely never happen, at least the way it's depicted today.

At the GSMA Mobile 360 APAC - 5G Industry Community Summit, Michael Fung, Chief Information Officer from CHUK Medical Centre presented a nice talk detailing how they see 5G & AI powered hospitals of the future. The video of his talk is embedded at the bottom of this post.

There have also been some other discussions on 5G & healthcare recently. Here are the links if you want to explore this topic further:

The US FDA recently published a one pager looking at how Service level agreements (SLAs) can enable 5G-enabled medical device use cases by documenting how a medical device communication requirement is met by the unique characteristics of 5G networks and the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in offering safe and effective 5G-enabled healthcare to patients.

IEEE Access has a detailed paper on this topic by the same authors. Quoting from the abstract:

Service level agreements (SLAs) can enable 5G-enabled medical device use cases by documenting how a medical device communication requirements are met by the unique characteristics of 5G networks and the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders involved in offering safe and effective 5G-enabled healthcare to patients. However, there are gaps in this space that should be addressed to facilitate the efficient implementation of 5G technology in healthcare. Current literature is scarce regarding SLAs for 5G and is absent regarding SLAs for 5G-enabled medical devices. This paper aims to bridge these gaps by identifying key challenges, providing insight, and describing open research questions related to SLAs in 5G and specifically 5G-healthcare systems. This is helpful to network service providers, users, and regulatory authorities in developing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating SLAs in 5G-enabled medical systems.

Here is the video from GSMA 5G Industry Community Summit Part 2:

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

What will 5G Standalone deliver?


Surely you have heard me talk about the benefits of 5G Standalone and why is it needed. At Telecoms Europe 5G 2021, Dr. Kim K Larsen, CTIO, T-Mobile Netherlands, presented a talk on what exactly will 5G Standalone deliver. The video of his talk and slides are embedded below.

If mobile economics is an area of interest, you may want to check out his old blog posts which are quite detailed. Here.

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