Release Rel-16
5G NREnhances 5G NR with unlicensed spectrum, vehicle-to-everything, and private network support.
Frozen 2020-07-031,303 specifications
Key features: NR-U unlicensed, V2X, industrial IoT, integrated access backhaul
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TS 38.824
Study on physical layer enhancements for NR ultra-reliable and low latency case (URLLC)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.825
Study on NR industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.826
Study on evaluation for 2 receiver exception in Rel-15 vehicle mounted User Equipment (UE) for NR
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.827
Study on radiated metrics and test methodology for the verification of multi-antenna reception performance of NR User Equipment (UE)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.828
Cross Link Interference (CLI) handling and Remote Interference Management (RIM) for NR
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.831
User Equipment (UE) Radio Frequency (RF) requirements for Frequency Range 2 (FR2)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.840
Study on User Equipment (UE) power saving in NR
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.855
Study on NR positioning support
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.856
Study on local NR positioning in NG-RAN
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.866
Study on remote interference management for NR
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.873
Time Division Duplex (TDD) operating band in Band n48
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.874
NR; Study on integrated access and backhaul
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.883
Study on support of NR downlink 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) for frequency range 2 (FR2)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.885
Study on NR Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X)
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.886
V2X Services based on NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.887
TDD operating band in Band n259
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.888
Adding wider channel bandwidth in NR band n28
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.889
Study on NR-based access to unlicensed spectrum
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.901
Study on channel model for frequencies from 0.5 to 100 GHz
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25
TS 38.903
NR; Derivation of test tolerances and measurement uncertainty for User Equipment (UE) conformance test cases
Architecture
Rel-16TS5G NRUpdated 2026-07-25