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News Release

Beyond 3G: �LTE-Advanced� Workshop, Shenzhen, China

 

11th April 2008

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has this week agreed plans for future work on Long Term Evolution (LTE) so that it can be considered within the ITU�s recent call for �IMT-Advanced� technologies.  The requirements for �LTE-Advanced� will be contained in a new Technical Report to be issued by 3GPP: TR 36.913 "Requirements for LTE-Advanced".

The workshop, organized by the 3GPP Technical Specification Group (TSG) RAN and hosted by ZTE Corporation in Shenzhen, China, was attended by over 200 experts. The 60 technical contributions presented at the workshop contained proposals for technical requirements and concepts for LTE-Advanced.

 Fran�ois Courau, Chairman of the LTE-Advanced Workshop said:

�The technical report (under the rapporteurship of NTT DoCoMo, Japan) will identify key requirements for LTE-Advanced; which is clearly designed as a further evolutionary step building on the existing LTE specifications and taking into account additional frequency spectrum.  Paramount within LTE-Advanced will be improvements to existing performance parameters whilst at the same time reducing the cost of delivering these improved services to the end customer.  Improved spectral efficiency will also be very high on the list of the benefits to be achieved through LTE-Advanced technologies.�

The conclusions drawn from this Workshop, which can be found in REV-080058 at: ftp://ftp.3gpp.org/workshop/2008-04-07_RAN_IMT_Advanced/Docs/  will be further debated during the next 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group meetings which will be held in Kansas City during May 2008 and by 3GPP TSG RAN up to the end of this year.

Notes to editors

About 3GPP (www.3gpp.org)

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is a collaboration between the members of telecommunications standards organizations and their market representation partners, to produce and maintain third generation (3G) mobile phone system specifications within the scope of the International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 project of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). 3GPP specifications are based on evolved Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) specifications.  

The Organizational Partners are ARIB, CCSA, ETSI, ATIS, TTA, and TTC (see http://www.3gpp.org/Management/OP.htm).  

The Market Representation Partners in 3GPP are;

Details about the work of The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) are available at http://www.3gpp.org/

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