A new SI "Study on RAN-centric data collection and utilization for LTE and NR" was approved for Release 16 at the 3GPP TSG RAN #80 meeting and updated in [2]. The study aims to investigate RAN-centric Data collection and utilization for NR and LTE.

The present document provides descriptions of use cases and solutions with regard to RAN-centric data collection and utilization and analysis of these solutions.