5G Advanced Features Include Accurate Timing, AI Support
SearchNetworking, Friday, November 17,2023
5G Advanced is the latest 5G specification, aiming to deliver enhanced massive MIMO, 5G integration with AI and accurate location positioning. Here's more about recent developments.
The next major chapter of 5G development focuses on the arrival of 5G Advanced.
Essentially, 5G Advanced is another name for the upcoming Release 18 of the 5G cellular specification and its future releases. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) revealed the concept of 5G Advanced in 2021 with its proposed Release 18 package. The previous specification, Release 17, introduced enhancements for beam management and enhanced mobile broadband. Release 18 and the future Release 19 build on those specifications and aim to better support AI, extended reality (XR) and energy efficiency.