Release 12 was largely completed on-time in March 2015, with a few exceptional features allowed an extension to later in the year.

3GPP is a consortium with seven national or regional telecommunication standards organizations as primary members ("organizational partners") and a variety of other organizations as associate …

Oct 23, 2022 · From package approval (December 2021) to protocol coding freeze (March 2024), the duration is 2 years and 3 months. Conceptualizing new features or enhancements for the release …

To enhance mobility in heterogeneous networks, LTE-A requirements were frozen as Release 12 stage 1 in March ‘12. The second stage for Release 12 was frozen in Dec. ‘13 and stage 3 (final LTE-A …

In order to provide developers with a stable platform for implementation while at the same time allowing the addition of new features, the 3GPP uses a system of parallel "releases", all of which are listed in …

This presentation will attempt to summarize Release 12 and the work to date in Release 13 – perhaps 50,000 documents! There will only be time to discuss a few features but links and navigation help is …

Rel-12 includes features for network and services enhancements for MTC, public safety, Wi-Fi integration, system capacity and stability, Web Real-time Communication (WebRTC), further network …

"Freezing" is applied successively for each of the three stages (see below), with stage 3 normally being frozen one or two TSG meetings earlier than the "end" date.

Release frozen in December 2009. Built on Release 8 with these initial LTE enhancements: PWS (Public Warning System): Introduced Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS). MIMO Beam …

It details the content definition, specification development, freeze dates and drop dates for each release. The timeline is revised regularly by 3GPP to coordinate the multi-year development of 5G network …