Fig. 1. 3GPP timeline for the development of NTN (Mar. 2020, https://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Information/WORK_PLAN/). 2.1 Standardisation As previously discussed, 3GPP recognised SatCom systems to be a valuable solution to complement and integrate terrestrial NR networks. To this aim, several SI an...
for 5G standardization: 1) Initial 5G technology- by the 32nd ITU-R WP5D meeting (June 2019) 2) Detailed 5G specification- by the 36th ITU-R WP5D meeting (October 2020) The tentative timeline which was set by 3GPP to meet the IMT-2020 deadlines is given in Figure 1 (Flynn, 2018)....
13.1.2 Towards Multi-Cell Coordination and Cooperation Unlike the divide-and-conquer approach, the approach taken with Multi-Cell MIMO (MC-MIMO) is to jointly allocate resources across the whole network (and not for each cell independently) and use the antennas of multiple cells in such a way...