3GPP Release 13 – Date 2016

3GPP Release 13 first release was frozen in March 2016. It was delivered to reality with quite extensive set of latest functionalities as compared to LTE-Advanced. They are summarized below.

LTE in unlicensed spectrum

Carrier Aggregation enhancements

LTE enhancements for Machine-Type Communications (MTC)

Enhancements for D2D

Elevation Beamforming / Full-Dimension MIMO

Indoor positioning

Single-cell Point-to-Multipoint (SC-PTM)

Reference

1 https://www.3gpp.org/news-events/1628-rel13

2 http://www.techplayon.com/3gpp-release-13/

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