5G-Advanced - Technologies, Timeline, and Relation to 6G
3GPP has named Release-18 as the starting point of 5G-Advanced, an intermediate step between current commercial 5G networks and future 6G networks. As such, it is expected that 5G-Advanced will introduce many technologies later being part of 6G. Some examples being mentioned as potential candidate for 5G-Advanced are AI/ML-based radio access and simultaneous transmission/reception on the same frequency (“full-duplex operation”). The content of 5G-Advanced is not yet decided upon although it is expected that 3GPP will have taken some decisions by the spring of 2022, making this panel a timely and highly relevant discussion for anyone interested in the evolution of 5G technologies towards 6G.