Introducing 5G Advanced
Olof Liberg, Christian Hoymann, Claes Tidestav, Daniel Chen Larsson, Imadur Mohamed Rahman, Ricardo Blasco, Sorour Falahati, Yufei W. Blankenship · IEEE Communications Standards Magazine · 2024
The third generation partnership project (3GPP) Release 18 marks the start of 5G Advanced. 5G Advanced builds on the 5G system developed during 3GPP Releases 15, 16, and 17. It is the next step in the cellular evolution on the path to 6G. This article introduces a set of 5G Advanced signature features that will accelerate 3GPP's focus on sustainability and automation while enhancing and enriching the support for use cases, such as mobile broadband, time-critical communication, and internet of things.