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3GPP 38-series — Radio Technology beyond LTE


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5G New Radio —
User Equipment Radio Transmission and Reception


TS 38.104
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Base Station Radio Transmission and Reception

TS 38.106
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
Repeater Radio Transmission and Reception

TS 38.108
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
Satellite Access Node Radio Transmission and Reception

TS 38.113
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Base Station ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

TS 38.114
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
Repeaters ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

5G New Radio —
Repeater Conformance Testing


TS 38.124
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
ElectroMagnetic Compatibility requirements
for Mobile Terminals and Ancillary Equipment

TS 38.133
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Requirements for support of Radio Resource Management

5G New Radio —
Base Station Conformance Testing


TS 38.151
REL  17
5G New Radio —
UE Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Over-the-Air (OTA) Performance requirements

TS 38.161
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
UE TRP (Total Radiated Power) and TRS (Total Radiated Sensitivity) requirements;
Range 1 Standalone and Range 1 Interworking operation with other radios

TS 38.171
REL  15 → 17
5G New Radio —
Requirements for Support of A-GNSS

TS 38.174
REL  16 → 18
5G New Radio —
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Radio Transmission and Reception

TS 38.175
REL  16 → 17
5G New Radio —
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

5G New Radio —
Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) Conformance Testing


TS 38.181
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
Satellite Access Node Conformance Testing

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TS 38.201
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Physical Layer General Description

TS 38.202
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Services provided by the Physical Layer

TS 38.211
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Physical Channels and Modulation

TS 38.212
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Multiplexing and Channel Coding

TS 38.213
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Physical Layer Procedures for Control

TS 38.214
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Physical Layer Procedures for Data

TS 38.215
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Physical Layer Measurements

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TS 38.300
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
NR and NG-RAN Overall Description – Stage 2

TS 38.304
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
User Equipment Procedures in Idle mode and RRC Inactive state

TS 38.305
REL  15 → 18
User Equipment Positioning in NG-RAN – Stage 2

TS 38.306
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
User Equipment Radio Access Capabilities

TS 38.307
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Requirements on UEs supporting a Release-independent Frequency Band

TS 38.314
REL  16 → 17
5G New Radio —
Layer 2 Measurements

TS 38.321
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol specification

TS 38.322
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Radio Link Control (RLC) Protocol specification

TS 38.323
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification

TS 38.331
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
Radio Resource Control (RRC) Protocol specification

TS 38.340
REL  16 → 18
5G New Radio —
Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) specification

TS 38.351
REL  17 → 18
5G New Radio —
Sidelink Relay Adaptation Protocol (SRAP) specification

TS 38.355
REL  18
5G New Radio —
Sidelink Positioning Protocol (SLPP) Specification

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TS 38.401
REL  15 → 18
NG-RAN —
Architecture Description

NG-RAN —
NG Interface


NG-RAN —
Xn Interface


TS 38.455
REL  15 → 18
NG-RAN —
5G New Radio Positioning Protocol A (NRPPa)

NG-RAN —
E1 Interface


NG-RAN —
F1 Interface


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5G System —
User Equipment Conformance Specification


TS 38.509
REL  15 → 17
5GS —
Special Conformance Testing Functions for UE

5G New Radio —
User Equipment Conformance Specification —
Radio Transmission and Reception


TS 38.522
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
User Equipment Conformance Specification —
Applicability of Radio Transmission, Radio Reception and Radio Resource Management Test Cases

5G System —
User Equipment Conformance Specification


TS 38.533
REL  15 → 18
5G New Radio —
User Equipment Conformance Specification
Radio Resource Management (RRM)

TS 38.551
REL  17
5G New Radio —
User Equipment Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Over-the-Air (OTA) performance;
Conformance testing

TS 38.561
REL  17
UE TRP (Total Radiated Power) and TRS (Total Radiated Sensitivity)
requirements and test methodologies for FR1 (NR SA and EN-DC);
User Equipment (UE) conformance specification

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TR 38.716-01-01
REL  16
NR intra-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) Rel-16 for xCC Down Link (DL) / yCC Up Link (UL) including contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum (x ≥ y)

TR 38.716-02-00
REL  16
NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) / Dual Connectivity (DC) Rel-16 for 2 bands Down Link (DL) / x bands Up Link (UL) (x = 1, 2)

TR 38.716-03-01
REL  16
NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) / Dual Connectivity (DC) Rel-16 for 3 bands Down Link (DL) / 1 bands Up Link (UL)

TR 38.716-03-02
REL  16
NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) / Dual Connectivity (DC) Rel-16 for 3 bands Down Link (DL) / 2 bands Up Link (UL)

TR 38.716-04-01
REL  16
NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) Rel-16 for 4 bands Down Link (DL) / 1 bands Up Link (UL)

TR 38.717-01-01
REL  17
Rel-17 NR intra-band Carrier Aggregation for xCC DL/yCC UL including contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum (x ≥ y)

TR 38.717-02-01
REL  17
Rel-17 NR Inter-band Carrier Aggregation/Dual Connectivity for 2 bands DL with x bands UL (x=1,2)

TR 38.717-03-01
REL  17
Rel-17 NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation for 3 bands DL with 1 band UL

TR 38.717-03-02
REL  17
Rel-17 NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation/Dual Connectivity for 3 bands DL with 2 bands UL

TR 38.717-04-01
REL  17
Rel-17 NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation for 4 bands DL with 1 band UL

TR 38.717-04-02
REL  17
Rel-17 NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation/Dual connectivity for DL 4 bands and 2UL bands

TR 38.717-05-01
REL  17
Rel-17 NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation for 5 bands DL with x bands UL (x=1, 2)

TR 38.741
REL  18
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) L-/S-band for NR

TR 38.751
REL  18
UE RF requirement for NR frequency range 2 (FR2) multi-Rx chain DL reception

TR 38.761
REL  18
Measurements of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Over-the-Air (OTA) performance of UE

TR 38.785
REL  17
UE radio transmission and reception for enhanced NR sidelink

TR 38.786
REL  18
UE radio transmission and reception for NR sidelink evolution

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TR 38.801
REL  14
Radio Access Architecture and Interface

TR 38.802
REL  14
Physical Layer Aspects

TR 38.803
REL  14
RF and co-existence aspects

TR 38.804
REL  14
Radio Interface Protocol Aspects

TR 38.805
REL  14
60 GHz Unlicensed Spectrum

TR 38.806
REL  15
Study of Separation of NR Control Plane (CP) and User Plane (UP) for Split Option 2

TR 38.807
REL  16
Study on Requirements for NR beyond 52.6 GHz

TR 38.808
REL  17
Study on supporting NR from 52.6 GHz to 71 GHz

TR 38.809
REL  16
Background for Integrated Access and Backhaul Radio Transmission and Reception

TR 38.810
REL  16
NR – Study on Test Methods

TR 38.811
REL  15
Study on NR to support non-Terrestrial Networks

TR 38.812
REL  16
Study on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for NR

TR 38.813
REL  15
New Frequency Range for NR (3.3 – 4.2 GHz)

TR 38.814
REL  15
New Frequency Range for NR (4.4 – 5.0 GHz)

TR 38.815
REL  15
New Frequency Range for NR (24.25 – 29.5 GHz)

TR 38.816
REL  15
Study on CU-DU Lower Layer Split for NR

TR 38.817-01
REL  15 → 16
General aspects for UE RF for NR

TR 38.817-02
REL  15
General aspects for BS RF for NR

TR 38.819
REL  16
LTE Band 65 for NR (n65)

TR 38.820
REL  16
Study on the 7 to 24 GHz frequency range for NR

TR 38.821
REL  16
Solutions for NR to support non-Terrestrial Networks

TR 38.822
REL  15 → 17
NR – UE Feature List

TR 38.823
REL  16
Study of further enhancement for disaggregated gNB

TR 38.824
REL  16
Study on Physical Layer enhancements for NR URLLC

TR 38.825
REL  16
Study on NR Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

TR 38.826
REL  16
Study on Evaluation for 2 Receiver Exception
in Rel-15 Vehicle Mounted UE for NR

TR 38.827
REL  16
Study on radiated metrics and test methodology for the verification of multi-antenna reception performance of NR User Equipment

TR 38.828
REL  16
Cross Link Interference (CLI) handling and Remote Interference Management (RIM) for NR

TR 38.830
REL  17
Study on NR coverage enhancements

TR 38.831
REL  16
User Equipment Radio Frequency requirements for Frequency Range 2

TR 38.832
REL  17
Study on enhancement of Radio Access Network (RAN) Slicing

TR 38.833
REL  17
Further enhancement on NR Demodulation performance

TR 38.834
REL  17
Measurements of User Equipment (UE) Over-the-Air (OTA) performance for NR FR1;
Total Radiated Power (TRP) and Total Radiated Sensitivity (TRS) test methodology

TR 38.835
REL  18
Study on XR enhancements for NR

TR 38.836
REL  17
Study on NR sidelink relay

TR 38.837
REL  17
UE RF Requirements for Transparent Tx Diversity (TxD) for NR

TR 38.838
REL  17
Study on XR (Extended Reality) evaluations for NR

TR 38.839
REL  17
Principles and requirements for simultaneous Rx/Tx band combinations for NR CA/DC, NR SUL and LTE/NR DC

TR 38.840
REL  16
Study on UE Power Saving in NR

TR 38.841
REL  17
High power UE for NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation with 2 bands downlink and x bands uplink (x =1,2)

TR 38.842
REL  17
High power User Equipment (UE) (power class 2) for NR inter-band Carrier Aggregation (CA) and Supplementary Uplink (SUL) configurations with x (x > 2) bands DL and y (y=1, 2) bands UL

TR 38.843
REL  18
Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) for NR air interface

TR 38.844
REL  18
Study on Efficient utilization of licensed spectrum that is not aligned with existing NR channel bandwidth

TR 38.845
REL  17
Study on scenarios and requirements of in-coverage, partial coverage, and out-of-coverage NR positioning use cases

TR 38.846
REL  18
Study on simplification of band combination specification

TR 38.847
REL  17
New frequency range for NR (47.2 - 48.2 GHz)

TR 38.848
REL  18
Study on Ambient IoT (Internet of Things) in RAN

TR 38.849
REL  17 → 18
UE RF Requirements for Transparent Tx Diversity (TxD) for NR

TR 38.851
REL  17
User Equipment (UE) Further enhancements of NR RF requirements for frequency range 2 (FR2)

TR 38.852
REL  17
Introduction of 1900MHz NR band for Europe for Rail Mobile Radio (RMR)

TR 38.853
REL  17
Introduction of 900MHz NR band for Europe for Rail Mobile Radio (RMR)

TR 38.854
REL  17 → 18
NR support for high speed train scenario in Frequency Range 2 (FR2)

TR 38.855
REL  16
Study on NR Positioning support

TR 38.856
REL  16
Study on local NR Positioning in NG-RAN

TR 38.857
REL  17
Study on NR positioning enhancements

TR 38.858
REL  18
Study on evolution of NR duplex operation

TR 38.859
REL  18
Study on expanded and improved NR positioning

TR 38.860
REL  17
Study on Extended 600 MHz NR band

TR 38.861
REL  17
Study on high power UE (power class 2) for one NR FDD band

TR 38.862
REL  17
Study on Band Combination handling in RAN4

TR 38.863
REL  17 → 18
Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) related RF and co-existence aspects

TR 38.864
REL  18
Study on network energy savings for NR

TR 38.865
REL  18
Study on further NR RedCap UE complexity reduction

TR 38.866
REL  16
Study on Remote Interference Management for NR

TR 38.867
REL  18
Study on NR Network-controlled Repeaters

TR 38.868
REL  17
Study on optimizations of pi/2 BPSK uplink power in NR

TR 38.869
REL  18
Study on low-power Wake-up Signal and Receiver for NR

TR 38.870
REL  18
Enhanced Over-the-Air (OTA) test methods for NR FR1 Total Radiated Power (TRP) and Total Radiated Sensitivity (TRS)

TR 38.871
REL  18
Study on NR frequency range 2 (FR2) Over-the-Air (OTA) testing enhancements

TR 38.872
REL  18
Study on enhancement for 700/800/900MHz band combinations

TR 38.873
REL  16
TDD Operating Band in Band n48

TR 38.874
REL  16
NR – Study on Integrated Access and Backhaul

TR 38.875
REL  17
Study on support of reduced capability NR devices

TR 38.876
REL  18
Air-to-ground network for NR

TR 38.877
REL  18
Study on NR mmWave MB-BS

TR 38.878
REL  18
NR Demodulation performance evolution

TR 38.879
REL  18
Study on enhancement for Resiliency of gNB-CU-CP

TR 38.881
REL  18
Lower MSD for inter-band CA/EN-DC/DC combinations

TR 38.882
REL  18
Study on requirements and use cases for network verified UE location for Non-Terrestrial-Networks (NTN) in NR

TR 38.883
REL  16
Study on support of NR downlink 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) for frequency range 2 (FR2)

TR 38.884
REL  18
Study on enhanced test methods for FR2 NR UE

TR 38.885
REL  16
Study on NR Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)

TR 38.886
REL  16
V2X Services based on NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception

TR 38.887
REL  16
TDD operating band in Band n259

TR 38.888
REL  16
Adding wider channel bandwidth in NR band n28

TR 38.889
REL  16
Study on NR-based Access to Unlicensed Spectrum

TR 38.890
REL  17
Study on NR QoE (Quality of Experience) management and optimizations for diverse services

TR 38.891
REL  18
UE further enhancements of NR RF requirements for frequency range 2 (FR2) for Rel-18

TR 38.892
REL  18
APT 600 MHz NR band

TR 38.893
REL  18
Study on UE support of regionally-defined subsets of an NR band

TR 38.895
REL  18
High power UE (power class 1.5) for NR FR1 TDD single band

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TR 38.900
REL  14 → 15
Study on Channel Model
for Frequency Spectrum above 6 GHz

TR 38.901
REL  14 → 17
Study on Channel Model
for Frequencies from 0.5 to 100 GHz

TR 38.903
REL  15 → 18
NR — Derivation of Test Tolerances
for RRM and UE Radio Reception Conformance Tests

TR 38.905
REL  15 → 18
NR — Derivation of Test Points
for Radio Transmission and Reception Conformance Test Cases

TR 38.912
REL  14 → 17
Study on New Radio Access Technology

TR 38.913
REL  14 → 17
Study on Scenarios and Requirements
for Next Generation Access Technologies

TR 38.918
REL  18
Study on 5G NR User Equipment (UE) full stack testing for Network Slicing

TR 38.921
REL  17
Study on International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) parameters
for 6.425 - 7.025 GHz, 7.025 - 7.125 GHz and 10.0 - 10.5 GHz

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