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Continuing on the e MBMS theme. In the presentation in the last post , there was introduction to the eMBMS protocols and codecs and mentio...

Looks like I re-visit CoMP every Q1 of the year. Couple of years back, I had posted a primer on CoMP here  and last year I had a slide on s...

I posted on this topic couple of years back , so here is a quick update. There is also an article in IEEE Comsoc magazine if you can get...

Here is the latest Security Update from 3GPP, presented in the 8th ETSI Security Workshop Jan 16-17 2013. 3GPP Security Update - J...

The following is a presentation by 3GPP on Self-Organising Networks in the SON Conference 2012: 3GPP Standards Self Organizing Netwo...

M2M is going to be big. With the promise of 50 Billion devices by 2020 , the networks are already worried about the overloading due to sig...

Carrier Aggregation (CA) the promised feature of LTE-A that will make it compatible to IMT-A is not fully exploited in Rel-10. There are o...

An Interesting article from the NTT Docomo technical journal: 3GPP SA1 Release 11 Standardisation Trends from Zahid Ghadialy R...

From the 4G Americas white paper .

RAN priorities during beyond Release 11 from 3GPPlive on Vimeo . An interview with Takehiro Nakamura, 3GPP RAN Chairman, filmed December...

LIPA was defined as part of Release-10 that I have already blogged about. Imagine the situation where a user started accessing local networ...

LTE Release 11 Work and Study Items View more documents from Zahid Ghadialy Nice work by Nomor. Available to download from here .

From RP-111375 : HSPA based mobile internet offerings are becoming very popular and data usage is increasing rapidly. As a result, H...

Some forecasts put HSPA at over 3.5 billion subscribers by the end of 2016. Operators with HSPA and LTE infrastructure and users with HSPA a...

Another one from the 4G Americas whitepaper of Mobile Broadband explosion: Carrier aggregation will play an important role in providing ope...

At the moment, transition from RRC states from UMTS to LTE can happen from CELL_DCH to E-UTRA_RRC_CONNECTED state via Handover or from UTRA_...

Looks like Qualcomm is becoming my favourite company as the last few blog posts have been based on their documents and presentations. This o...