5G Advanced: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, Third Edition follows the authors' highly celebrated books on 3G and 4G by providing a new level of insight into 5G NR. After an initial discussion of the background to 5G, including requirements, spectrum aspects and the standardization timeline, all technology features of the first phase of NR are described in detail. Included is a detailed description of the NR physical-layer structure and higher-layer protocols, RF and spectrum aspects and co-existence and interworking with LTE.

This book provides a good understanding of NR and the different NR technology components, giving insight into why a certain solution was selected.

• Covers the entire Release 17 in detail
• Includes the core elements of Release 18
• Contains three new chapters: NTN - describing NR operation over satellites (non-terrestrial networks) with a discussion on satellite communication, changes introduced in NR to support NTN operation (e.g., timing advance changes, HARQ enhancements); RedCap- describing NR reduced capability for (high-end) IoT applications; Broadcast- describing the NR broadcast operation

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is 5G?

Chapter 2: 5G standardization

Chapter 3: Spectrum for 5G

Chapter 4: LTE overview

Chapter 5: NR overview

Chapter 6: Radio-interface architecture

Chapter 7: Overall transmission structure

Chapter 8: Channel measurements

Chapter 9: Transport-channel processing

Chapter 10: Physical-layer control signaling

Chapter 11: Multi-antenna transmission

Chapter 12: Beam management

Chapter 13: Retransmission protocols

Chapter 14: Scheduling

Chapter 15: Uplink power and timing control

Chapter 16: Cell search and system information

Chapter 17: Random access

Chapter 18: LTE/NR interworking and coexistence

Chapter 19: Interference handling in TDD networks

Chapter 20: NR in unlicensed spectrum

Chapter 21: Industrial loT and URLLC enhancements

Chapter 22: RedCap and small data transmission

Chapter 23: Multicast-broadcast services

Chapter 24: Integrated access backhaul

Chapter 25: Non-terrestrial NR access

Chapter 26: Sidelink communication

Chapter 27: Positioning

Chapter 28: RF characteristics

Chapter 29: RF technologies at mm-wave frequencies

Chapter 30: Further SG evolution and the first step toward 6G

About the Authors

Erik Dahlman works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.

Stefan Parkvall works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.

Johan Skold works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.