These forward-looking features will help evolve 5G and 5G Advanced toward realizing 6G visions such as a connected, sustainable, digitalized, and programmable physical world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to 5G and 5G Advanced
2. 3GPP IoT connectivity landscape
3. Reduced capability devices
4. Industrial IoT
5. Extended reality
6. Non-terrestrial communication
7. Unmanned aerial vehicles
8. Small data transmissions
9. Wake up receivers
10. Ultra-low power IoT
Authors
Olof Liberg Ericsson Business Unit Networks, Sweden. Olof Liberg is a Master Researcher at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. After studies in Sweden, USA, Germany, and Switzerland, he received a bachelor's degree in Business and Economics and a master's degree in Engineering Physics, both from Uppsala University. He joined Ericsson in 2008 and has in recent years specialized in the design and standardization of cellular systems for machine-type communications and Internet of Things. He has, over the years, actively contributed to the work in several standardization bodies such as 3GPP, ETSI and the Multefire Alliance. He was the chairman of 3GPP TSG GERAN and its Working Group 1, during the 3GPP study on new radio access technologies for Internet of Things leading up to the specification of EC GSM IoT and NB IoT. Johan Bergman Ericsson Business Unit Networks, Ericsson, Sweden. Johan Bergman is a Master Researcher at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. He received his master's degree in Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He joined Ericsson in 1997, initially working with baseband receiver algorithm design for 3G cellular systems. Since 2005, he has been working with 3G/4G physical layer standardization in 3GPP TSG RAN Working Group 1. As Rapporteur of the 3GPP TSG RAN Work Items on LTE for machine-type communications (MTC) in Releases 13, 14, 15, and 16, he has led the technical work to standardize the new LTE-based features dedicated for Internet of Things. He was a corecipient of Ericsson's Inventor of the Year award for 2017. Eric Wang Ericsson Research, USA. Y.-P. Eric Wang is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson Research. He holds a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2001 and 2002, he was a member of the executive committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and served as the society's Secretary. Dr. Wang was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from 2003 to 2007. He is a technical leader in Ericsson Research in the area of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. Dr. Wang was a corecipient of Ericsson's Inventors of the Year award in 2006. He has contributed to more than 150 US patents and more than 50 IEEE articles. Andreas H�glund Ericsson Research, Sweden.Andreas H�glund has a Master of Science in engineering physics (2002) and a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Uppsala University (2007). He is a master researcher at Ericsson Research and has since he joined in 2008 worked on HSPA, LTE, system simulations, UE research projects, and the 3GPP standardization of LTE MTC (Cat-M1) and NB-IoT. He is currently working with 3GPP Rel-17 RedCap and Small Data Transmission (SDT), Rel-18 Wake-up receiver, eRedCap, MT-SDT, as well as IoT research for 6G. He has contributed to more than 25 academic papers and over 70 US patents.
Mohammad Mozaffari Ericsson Research, USA.Mohammad Mozaffari is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 2018. His research interests span diverse areas, including 5G and 6G wireless networks, UAV and drone communications, IoT, and machine learning. He has been actively contributing to 3GPP standardization for NB-IoT, LTE-MTC, RedCap, and wake-up radio. He is the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award and Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award. He is the author of a book on UAV Communications and over 40 IEEE journal and conference papers. He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu Ericsson Research, Sweden.Sandeep Narayanan Kadan Veedu is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson Research in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is involved in 5G and 6G research and standardization. He is also a standardization delegate for Ericsson in 3GPP. Prior to joining Ericsson in 2018, he was a research associate at King's College London, UK. He has also held various research positions at University College Dublin, Ireland, Northwestern University, USA, and the University of Edinburgh, UK. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Yufei Blankenship Ericsson Business Unit Networks, USA.Yufei Blankenship is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson Business Unit Networks. She has been actively participating in physical layer standardization with many years of experience in 3GPP. Her work spans numerous technical areas in 4G LTE and 5G NR, including channel coding, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Industry IoT (IIoT) and Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC). She is the (co-)inventor of more than 200 issued US patents and received the Ericsson Inventor of the Year award in 2020. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA.
