Friday, May 21, 2021

3GPP Release 18 is 5G-Advanced, is a Steppingstone to 6G

5G Advanced, 3GPP release 18, is expected to focus on commercial needs, both near term and long term, including support for vertical industry applications, such as news gathering


Qualcomm believes 5G-Advanced will feature six key elements, many of which already are surfacing, but are not a formal part of the 3GPP set of 5G standards:

  • Network designs featuring edge and cloud computing

  • New radio designs that support technologies including full duplex communications

  • Resilient technologies that block hacks and other threats

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies

  • Coordinated spectrum sharing techniques

  • Services that merge the physical and digital worlds


Those are important themes because they will create the foundation for 6G. In fact, it is possible one or more mobile operators might refer to 5G Advanced, as a commercial service as something related to “early 6G,” as AT&T marketed advanced 4G as “5G E.”

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