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Showing posts with label Technical Details. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technical Details. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Energy Efficiency Improvements in 3GPP Technologies: From LTE to 5G-Advanced

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Energy efficiency has become one of the most important topics in mobile networks. Operators need to support growing traffic, wider bandwidth...
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Next Generation eCall Finally Moves to 4G and 5G

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Back in 2022, I wrote about the transition from the original eCall system to Next Generation eCall, or NG eCall. At the time, one of the bi...
Thursday, April 9, 2026

3GPP Release 19 Description and Summary of Work Items

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As the journey towards 3GPP Release 20 and 6G (3GPP Rel-21) continues to gather pace, the recently concluded Release 19 comes with a clearer...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Low Latency Power Saving with Low Power-Wake Up Signal/Receiver (LP-WUS/LP-WUR)

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Power-saving methodologies have been integral to all generations of 3GPP technologies, aimed at reducing the power consumption of user equip...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

UE Assistance Information in LTE and 5G

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I have been asked about the UE Assistance Information  (UAI) RRC message a few times before. Generally I have always pointed people back to ...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Authentication and Key Management for Applications (AKMA) based on 3GPP credentials in the 5G System (5GS)

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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...
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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Four Ways 5G Can Improve the Battery Life of User Equipment (UE)

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We have looked at different approaches in this blog and the 3G4G website on reducing the power consumption (see related posts below). In a...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

CUPS for Flexible U-Plane Processing Based on Traffic Characteristics

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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 ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Tutorial on 4G/5G Mobile Network Uplink Working and Challenges

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People involved with mobile technology know the challenges with uplink for any generation of mobile network. With increasing data rates in 4...
Monday, May 16, 2022

Lawful Intelligence and Interception in 5G World with Data and OTT Apps

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Not long ago we looked at the 'Impact of 5G on Lawful Interception and Law Enforcement' by SS8. David Anstiss, Senior Solutions Arc...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

QoS Flow Establishments in 5G Standalone RAN and Core

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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...