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ETSI Launches New Group on Multiple Access Techniques for 6G Networks

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 January 2025

ETSI has announced the establishment of a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) focused on Multiple Access Techniques (MAT) for 6G mobile systems. The group aims to build industry consensus on innovative multiple access techniques, based on 3GPP specifications.

The ISG MAT will explore candidate techniques such as Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA), Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) that enhance the transmission efficiency across parameters such as spectrum efficiency, power consumption, latency and user fairness. Relevant deployment environments considered in the ISG MAT are indoor hotspot, urban macro (e.g., High Demand Density areas) and rural settings. The ISG MAT will concentrate on downlink multiple access techniques for the physical layer of the 3GPP radio interface.

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ETSI Open Source MANO announces Release SEVENTEEN

Sophia Antipolis, 15 January 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release SEVENTEEN, a Standard non‑LTS release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release SEVENTEEN means the consolidation of the new architecture and scope introduced in the previous release, positioning OSM as a generalized cloud‑native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms and services. The full cloud-native management of Kubernetes clusters introduced in Release SIXTEEN for public clouds has been extended to private clouds based on Openstack, following the same intent‑based GitOps model where every operation related to the clusters or the applications running on them is done through Git repositories.