Introduction to 5G-Advanced

Introduction to 5G-Advanced is a 2-day course where participants will receive an insightful overview of 5G-Advanced technology as well as learn about its specific features and improvements over 5G.

5G-Advanced, often viewed as the steppingstone to 6G, is expected this year.

5G–Advanced is the next evolutionary step in 5G technology and will bring out the richest capabilities of 5G over the coming decade, breaking down boundaries and expanding connectivity.

5G-Advanced focuses on energy efficiency, enhanced coverage, improved positioning, and other core infrastructure improvements.

Additional focus areas that might impact on enterprise services include enhanced mobility support (for service continuity between cell handovers), and multicast and broadcast, increasing the efficiency of 5G connections for TV broadcasting, live video, and public safety use cases.

Increased AI involvement is also often mentioned as what to expect with 5G-Advanced. But experts in this area say the connection between AI and 5G-Advanced goes much deeper than a casual mention.

Many feel 5G-Advanced represents 5G and AI working together, supported by a Release-18 scope which includes AI/ML-enabled air interface design and an extension of ML to the RAN, device and air interface layers.

In other words, 5G-Advanced will support the rollout of new AI applications, but also will require AI for its own operation.

A major aim of 5G Advanced is to derive more energy-efficient networks. Implementing AI and ML updates on the network should make this possible. 3GPP said it will define a base station energy consumption model as part of the Release 18 specification, as well as determine power reduction methods for the upcoming standard.

5G-Advanced will also provide further enhancements of the architecture for analytics and on ML model life-cycle management, for example, to improve correctness of the models.

Introduction to 5G-Advanced Course by Tonex

5G-Advanced enhancements will unleash a diversity of new capabilities for fixed/mobile broadband as well as vertical industries powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and full duplex technologies based on a single platform. 5G Advanced Release 18 will set the stage for entirely new possibilities.  Yi Huang, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm Technologies

Learn how 5G-Advanced is the next evolutionary step in 5G technology and the evolution to 6G.  5G-Advanced will bring a new level of enhanced capabilities beyond 5G connectivity and enable solutions for advanced use cases in variety of verticals. The 5G-Advanced training course, will cover topics related to advanced applications with enhanced mobility, high reliability, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), blockchain, network performance, improvements in spectral efficiency, energy savings, non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), high-altitude platforms (HAPs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

Learn how non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) will be integrated with terrestrial networks to create a hybrid terrestrial/non-terrestrial 5G-Advanced mobile infrastructure serving consumers, enterprises, military and government agencies.

Course Agenda

5G-Advanced 101

• Introduction to 5G-Advanced
• Advanced use cases and applications
• New use cases for 5G-Advanced
• New capabilities of 5G-Advanced
• Immersive extended reality (XR)
• High-precision location
• Presence and timing technologies
• AI/ML data collection and analytics c
• Use of AI/ML technologies in CORE, RAN and network management
• Overview of 3GPP 5G-Advanced Release 18 (2024)

Key Enhancements in 5G-Advanced

• Use of XR, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR)
• Indoors and outdoors positioning
• Improving throughput in the uplink
• Reducing service interruption time
• AI/ML enablers
• 5G-Advanced synchronization as a service
• 5G-Enhanced positioning with sub-10cm accuracy
• Improved coverage
• Enhanced low-cost massive IoT
• Support for non-terrestrial networks (NTN) and drones
• Wireline and wireless convergence
• Improved resiliency
• Energy efficiency enhancements
• Network optimization

5G-Advanced Features

• The current 5G technology
• Key improvements
• enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)
• ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC)
• massive machine-type communications (mMTC)
• 3GPP Releases 16 and 17
• Enhancements for Industrial IoT (IIoT)
• Time-sensitive communication (TSC)
• Enhanced MIMO
• Small data transmission (SDT)
• UE energy-saving
• Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
• Support for extended reality (XR)
• AI and ML enhancements across the RAN, Core, and network management

Key Enhancements in 5G-Advanced

• 5G-Advanced and XR (AR, VR, gaming)
• Enhanced coverage and MIMO performance
• Replacement of GSM-R and Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS)
• Evolution beyond smartphone
• Reduced Capability (RedCap) devices
• Full-capability
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones
• Autonomous vehicles
• Robots
• Automated Ground Vehicles (AGVs)
• Outdoor global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)
• Resilient timing
• Network operation efficiency
• Integration of non-3GPP access technologies
• Enhanced sidelink
• Device-to-device (UE-to-UE) relay
• Enhanced mobility
• Enhancements for latency-critical services such as XR, IIoT, and URLLC

3GPP Roadmap for 5G-Advanced

• Review of 5G Rel-17 and Rel-18
• Overview of Radio-Access Technologies (RAN) enhancements
• 5G-Advanced MIMO Evolution for Downlink and Uplink
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) for NR Air Interface and NG-RAN
• Evolution of NR Duplex Operation
• NR sidelink evolution
• NR sidelink relay enhancements
• expanded and improved NR positioning
• NR RedCap UE complexity/cost reduction
• Network energy savings
• NR Network-Controlled Repeaters aka smart repeaters
• Enhancement of NR Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS)
• Low-power Wake-up Signal and Receiver for NR
• Multi-carrier enhancements for NR
• NR NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) enhancements
• IoT NTN enhancements
• NR Support for UAV
• Dual Tx/Rx MUSIM
• Enhancements of NR Multicast and Broadcast Services
• Mobile IAB (VMR)
• Enhancement of data collection for SON (Self-Organizing Networks)
• MDT (Minimization of Drive Tests) in NR and EN-DC
• Enhancements for XR
• New spectrum
• Sub-THz
• Coverage Enhancement

5G-Advanced System Architecture

• 5G-Advanced RAN
• 5G-Advanced Core Networks
• 5G-Advanced Advanced Services
• 5G-Advanced Enhancements for Edge Computing
• Personal IoT and Residential Networks
• 5G-Advanced Enhancement of RAN slicing
• Overview of Microservices and Kubbernettes in 5G-Advanced