5G NSA vs SA isn’t just industry jargon for “early” versus “mature” 5G — 3GPP formally defined multiple specific deployment architectures in TS 37.340 and TS 23.501, each with a…[...]
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5G spectrum FR1 FR2 designations aren’t informal shorthand — they’re precise 3GPP frequency range definitions in TS 38.104, each governing a completely different set of physical propagation behavior, and each…[...]
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5G design pillars are not a marketing slogan — they are formal, numerically defined requirements set by the ITU-R under the IMT-2020 framework, published in Recommendation ITU-R M.2083, and subsequently…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, October 2015 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. This was originally one of my longer technical write-ups, and I've kept…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. The radio retransmission mechanism in LTE is called Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ). HARQ…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, December 2015 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. This is one of the simplest concepts in LTE, but also one…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, February 2016 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. RACH planning sits at the intersection of theory and real network deployment…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, February 2016 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. Radio link failure detection is one of those mechanisms that operators rarely…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, March 2016 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. This is one of the more detailed pieces I wrote during my…[...]
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Originally published on 4GNation, March 2016 — republished here as part of the Telco & Beyond Engineering Archive. Some of the earliest technical writing I did was on the fundamentals…[...]
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