Without question, 5G wireless communications continues to dominate the headlines, as a host of companies are involved with the standard in some capacity. Last December, the non-standalone (NSA) 5G New Radio (NR) specification was released by the 3GPP. And very soon, the 5G standalone (SA) version will be completed.
“The 3GPP standards are specified in periodic releases,” explained Ken Karnofsky, senior strategist for signal processing applications at MathWorks. “Release 15 marks the start of the 5G standard. Release 15 has been further divided into two phases: 5G NSA (December 2017) and 5G SA (June 2018).