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Last year I covered some information on temporary identities but never got a chance to continue on it. Here is one on RNTI's RNTI or ...

In summary: Release 8 - Minor change requests to it based on March 2009 freeze; Release 9 - an enhanced version of Release 8 and additional ...

Picture Source: http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-t/oth/21/05/T21050000010003PDFE.pdf This is a summary of a paper from IEEE Communication...

I had posted a table earlier about the LTE UE Categories here . Just came across the 3GPP official UE Categories table today as shown in th...

I have blogged about SON networks before . Now has published an educational report titled, The Benefits of SON in LTE , to increase unders...

Femtocells have been around since 2007 . Before Femtocells, the smallest possible cell was the picocell that was designed to serve a small ...

A new feature that was studied part of 3GPP Release 8 was PPAC ( Paging Permission with Access Control ). The aim of this feature was that ...

In R99, RLC packets had to be relatively small to avoid the retransmission of very large packets in case of transmission errors. Another rea...

Users should always be kept in the state that gives the best trade-off between data rate availability, latency, battery consumption and usag...

Self-Organising Networks popularly known as SON are feature of 3GPP Release 8 and Release 9. SON has been around for quite some time now and...

Qualcomm is offering its endorsement for the Third Generation Partnership Project’s (3GPP’s) recent approval of the eCall in-band modem spec...

An MS may be allocated three TMSIs, one for services provided through the MSC (TMSI), one for services provided through the SGSN (P-TMSI for...

The Architecture of Home e-NodeB's (popularly known as Femtocells) is as shown above. The E-UTRAN architecture may deploy a Home eNB Gat...

According to 3G Americas press release, 100 million new connections were added last year. On a worldwide basis, GSM totals 3.5 billion of th...

Some interesting developments are ongoing in the 3GPP standardisation from Release-8 onwards. You must be aware that the current bandwidth i...

From 3GPP TS 24.301, section 4.3: UE mode of operation A UE attached for EPS services may operate in one of the following operation modes:...

Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Service : is a service that delivers Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Notifications provided by Warning Notific...

Now with Release 8 frozen, if you are Femtocell follower then there are couple of specs that you can read: 3GPP TR 25.820 - 3G Home NodeB S...

According to 3GPP website : 3GPP has approved the functional freeze of LTE as part of Release 8. There is significant commitment from oper...