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3GPP Release 17 introduced a new feature called AKMA (Authentication and Key Management for Applications), the goal of which is to enable t...

When we made our 5G Service Based Architecture (SBA) tutorial some four years back, it was based on Release-15 of the 3GPP standards. All N...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has been touted to automate the network and simplify the identification and debug of ...

I recently participated in a webinar, discussing one of my favourite topics, 5G Standalone (5G SA). If you do not know about 5G SA, you may ...

One of the common questions that we encounter is why are 5G speeds so low as we were promised 5G downlink speeds of 20 Gbps. Most people do ...

Not long ago we looked at the 'Impact of 5G on Lawful Interception and Law Enforcement' by SS8. David Anstiss, Senior Solutions Arc...

I looked at IMS briefly in my LTE voice tutorial here . The Nokia Lectures covered IMS in-depth in part 5 of the video. I recently came acr...

Pentests or Penetration testing is ethical hacking that is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate ...

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, ...

I have argued a few times now that it would make much more sense to be able to make access and core independent of each other. 3GPP 5G Stand...

Google announced that its latest smartphone OS will include support for 5G network slicing. Last week Telecom TV brought this news to my att...

Today I launched a new video on my YouTube channel that explains how QoS Flows are established in 5G RAN and Core. It also highlights the ma...

Cross posting from LinkedIn , please post any comments there! One of the advantages of having been in the industry for a very long time is o...

A sub-set of 3GPP Market Representation Partners hosted a 2-part webinar series in April 2021 looking at edge computing for industry vertica...

We looked at the 5G Enhanced URLLC ( eURLLC ) earlier. One of the ways to improve reliability is to have redundancy in the user plane. This ...

We often get questions about 5G Service Based Architecture. Luckily, we have a tutorial that we can redirect people to. It's available h...

We looked at Network Data Analytics Function, NWDAF, in detail here . While the 3GPP Release-16 work just starting back then, we have now co...