June 8, 2015

Dino Flore, the Chairman of the 3GPP RAN Group, has delivered a presentation to the ATIS 5G Symposium - providing an outline of the main features for the evolution of LTE in Release 13 and our initial plans for 5G.

3GPP Release 13 advances include the following highlights:

• Offload to unlicensed spectrum, considering both LTE/Wi-Fi interworking and LTE over unlicensed (LAA)
• Enhancements for Carrier Aggregation (up to 32 CCs)
• Elevation Beamforming / Full-Dimension MIMO
• Study of downlink multi-user transmissions using superposition coding
• M2M (in 3GPP this is MTC) enhancements
• New radio optimized for the low end of the IoT market
• D2D Enhancements

Speaking at the Symposium, co-located with the "Big Telecom Event" in Chicago on June 8, Dino Flore moved from the now towards the future giving delegates an idea of the timeline for the 3GPP standardization effort for next generation cellular technology, aka 5G. 

This part of the presentation covered:

• IMT 2020 submission deadlines
• 5G timeline in 3GPP
• Next generation radio technology
• Operation above 6 GHz
• Service & system aspects

In closing, the RAN Chairman predicted that the "Next generation 3GPP platform needs to enable a broad range of new services and connectivity paradigms -
besides simply addressing the future mobile broadband demand." This may need a new system architecture for 5G based on radio and new service and system
requirements also.

There will be a 3GPP RAN 5G workshop on September 17-18 in Phoenix (Arizona), US and a 3GPP workshop on system architecture aspects to follow in the 2nd half of 2016.

More information

• Download Dino Flores' Presentation "LTE Release 13 and road to 5G"

About the ATIS 5G Symposium

The ATIS 5G Symposium focuses on the North American as well as the international opportunity 5G presents, addressing new business opportunities and the transition into what is expected to be a defining revolutionary and evolutionary technology.

About ATIS

ATIS is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). ATIS is the North American Organizational Partner for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a founding Partner of oneM2M, a member and major U.S. contributor to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio and Telecommunications sectors, and a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL).

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