The 3G4G Blog

Over the years we have looked at the standards development, infrastructure development and even country specific mission critical solutions ...

I looked at Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) in a tutorial, nearly five years back here . Since then most focus has been on 5G, not ...

Rohde & Schwarz recently uploaded a webinar video on their YouTube channel. I found it really useful. It's embedded below. Top...

It's been a while since I last wrote about eMBMS . A report by GSA last month identified: - 41 operators known to have been investi...

As a continuation of ' Control and User Plane Separation of EPC nodes (CUPS) in 3GPP Release-14', here is another tutorial on S...

Satellites has been an area of interest of mine for a while as some of you know that I used to work as Satellite Applications & Se...

One of the items in 3GPP Rel-14 is Control and User Plane Separation of EPC nodes (CUPS). I have made a video explaining this concept t...

With all focus on 5G (Release-15), looks like Rel-14 has been feeling a bit neglected. There are some important updates though as it lay...

A good list of 3GPP Evolution of SON features. Whitepaper available here . You may also like the earlier post here . See also : Self-O...

In an earlier post I discussed briefly about the sidelink:  V2V communications are based on D2D communications defined as part of ProSe...

3GPP has published an overview of what has been achieved so far in the Mission Critical and also provides an outlook of what can be expe...

A presentation (embedded below) by 3GPP RAN3 Chairman - Philippe Reininger - at the IoT Business & Technologies Congress (November 3...

3GPP has recently completed the Initial Cellular V2X standard. The following from the news item : The initial Cellular Vehicle-to-Everyt...