UMTS: Alive and Well - 4G Americas
UMTS: Alive and Well - 4G Americas
UMTS: Alive and Well - 4G Americas
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3GPP plays an important role in IMT-Advanced <strong>and</strong> has had a program underway for developingtechnology solutions for IMT-Advanced beginning with 3GPP workshops on the “Systems BeyondIMT-2000.”The purpose of these workshops was to contribute to the international underst<strong>and</strong>ing of IMT-Advanced, <strong>and</strong> to further the development of LTE-Advanced. The first workshop was held onNovember, 26, 2007, as an informational <strong>and</strong> educational session to inform 3GPP of relevantinformation related to IMT-Advanced in the ITU-R. A more detailed second workshop on IMT-Advanced <strong>and</strong> LTE-Advanced on was held on April 7 <strong>and</strong> 8, 2008, attended by over 160international participants <strong>and</strong> addressed 58 documents. During this workshop, operators’ <strong>and</strong>manufacturers’ views on possible requirements for LTE-Advanced as well as ideas <strong>and</strong> proposalsfor LTE-Advanced were exchanged <strong>and</strong> discussed. On May 27, 2008, 3GPP held a thirdworkshop to focus specifically on the 3GPP requirements for LTE-Advanced.3GPP continues with its working assumption that the 3GPP proposal for IMT-Advanced shallbe based on E-UTRAN capabilities <strong>and</strong> the requirements for IMT-Advanced in ITU-R shall initiallybe not less than those contained in 3GPP TR 25.913 119 .Furthermore, 3GPP has set an objective to establish (in Study <strong>and</strong> Work Items) requirements <strong>and</strong>capabilities higher than those contained in TR 25.913 towards meeting ITU-R requirements forIMT-Advanced.In this regard, 3GPP has initiated, under the LTE-Advanced Study Item work, document TR36.913, 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio AccessNetwork; Requirements for Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced).7.3 REFERENCESThroughout this section, references are made to 3GPP <strong>and</strong> ITU-R Working Party 5D <strong>and</strong> to theITU-R webpage for the IMT-Advanced submission <strong>and</strong> evaluation process. The following are therelevant entry point links:• The 3GPP homepage: http://www.3gpp.org.• The ITU-R Working Party 5D homepage: http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=study-groups&rlink=rwp5d&lang=en• The ITU-R homepage for IMT-Advanced submission <strong>and</strong> evaluation process:http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/index.asp?category=study-groups&rlink=rsg5-imtadvanced&lang=en1193GPP Technical Report 25.913. Requirements for Evolved UTRA (E-UTRA) <strong>and</strong> Evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN)(Release 7).www.3G<strong>Americas</strong>.org February 2010 Page 78
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