3GPP technical experts have attended the recent IMT-Advanced workshop, in Beijing, China, hosted by the China MIIT Institute of Communication Standards Research (CATR) and China Mobile.

The workshop was chaired by the 3GPP TSG RAN chairman, Takehiro Nakamura, with the first day given over to 3GPP RAN working group presentations and the second to the twelve IMT-Advanced evaluation groups.

3GPP Presentations:

• LTE technologies (Takehiro Nakamura: TSG-RAN Chair, NTT DOCOMO)

• Physical layer aspects (Matthew Baker: RAN WG1 Chair, Alcatel-Lucent)

• Layer 2 and 3 aspects (Magnus Lindström: RAN WG2, Ericsson)

• RAN architecture aspects (Dino Flore: RAN WG3 Chair, Qualcomm)

• RF aspects (Takaharu Nakamura: RAN WG4 Chair, Fujitsu)

• 3GPP Self evaluation methodology and results (Tetsushi Abe: RAN WG1 Vice-Chair, NTT DOCOMO)

Status reports from the IMT-Advanced Independent Evaluation Groups (IEG):

• ARIB

• ATIS WTSC Evaluation Group

• CEG

• ChEG (Part I) (Part II)

• ETSI

• REG

• TCOE India

• TR 45 (Presentation not available)

• TTA PG707

• WFEG

• WINNER+ (Part I)(Part II