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3GPP LTE-Advanced Overview


And LTE-Advanced Measurement
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Evolution LTE Overview of wireless standards

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LTE _A Overview
LTE Release 9 summary

LTE _A Measurement

LTE Release 10 summary

LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More

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Wireless Evolution 1990 - 2011


Increasing efficiency, bandwidth and data rates

Technology evolution Market evolution

W-LAN

2G

PDC
(Japan)

GSM
(Europe)

IS-136
(US TDMA)

IS-95A
(US CDMA)

802.11b 802.11a/g

2.5G

iMODE

HSCSD

GPRS

IS-95B
(US CDMA)

802.11h
3G

W-CDMA
(FDD & TDD)

TD-SCDMA
(China)

E-GPRS
(EDGE)

cdma2000
(1x RTT)

802.11n

3.5G

HSDPA HSUPA HSPA+ / E-HSPA

EDGE Evolution LTE


(R8/9 FDD & TDD)

1x EV-DO 0AB 802.16e


(Mobile WiMAX)

802.16d
(Fixed WiMAX)

WiBRO
3.9G/ 4G
(Korea)

4G / IMTAdvanced

LTE-Advanced
(R10 & beyond)

802.16m / WiMAX2
WirelessMAN-Advanced

802.11ac 802.11ad

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UMTS Long Term Evolution


Release Stage 3: Core Main feature of Release specs complete
March 2000 March 2001 June 2002 March 2005 Dec 2007 Dec 2008 UMTS 3.84 Mcps (W-CDMA FDD & TDD) 1.28 Mcps TDD (aka TD-SCDMA) HSDPA HSUPA (E-DCH) HSPA+ (64QAM DL, MIMO, 16QAM UL). LTE & SAE Feasibility Study, Edge Evolution LTE Work item OFDMA air interface SAE Work item New IP core network UMTS Femtocells, Dual Carrier HSDPA Multi-standard Radio (MSR), Dual Carrier HSUPA, Dual Band HSDPA, SON, LTE Femtocells (HeNB) LTE-Advanced feasibility study LTE-Advanced (4G) work item, CoMP Study Four carrier HSDPA CoMP, eDL MIMO, eCA, MIMO OTA, HSUPA TxD & 64QAM MIMO, HSDPA 8C & 4x4 MIMO, MB MSR
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1999

Rel-99 Rel-4 Rel-5 Rel-6 Rel-7 Rel-8

Rel-9

Dec 2009

Rel-10 Rel-11

March 2011 Sept 2012?

2012

Confused About the Term 4G?


The ITUs 3G program was officially called IMT-2000
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The ITUs 4G program is officially called IMT-Advanced


The term 3.9G was widely used to describe LTE since it was developed prior to the ITU defining IMT-Advanced (aka 4G) LTE-A was intended to be 3GPPs official 4G technology

The term 4G was informally used to describe WiMAXTM (802.16e)


More recently, some operators have described the evolution of HSPA as 4G The ITU initially stuck to an interpretation of 4G as being just for IMT-Advanced but have recently stepped back from this and recently stated IMT-Advanced is considered as 4G, although it is recognized that this term, while undefined, may also be applied to the forerunners of these technologies, LTE and WiMAX and other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial level of improvement in performance.

In summary 4G has lost any useful meaning so should be used accordingly


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UMTS Long LTE Overview Term Evolution

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LTE _A Overview
LTE Release 9 summary

LTE _A Measurement

LTE Release 10 summary

LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More

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Release 9 Radio Aspects Summary


Release 9 has many small enhancements to UMTS and LTE including:
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Completion of MBSFN, new frequency bands, adding the 8th downlink Tx mode (MIMO plus beamsteering), addition of Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) for Observed Time Difference Of Arrival (OTDOA) positioning The most significant for Agilent is the introduction of Multi-Standard Radio (MSR) which is performance requirements and tests for base stations that support more than one radio carrier which may be of different formats MSR is a dont care for the UE but is a big deal for the BS Most of the work to date has been in harmonizing the GERAN and 3GPP specifications MSR performance requirements and tests for single band are now largely drafted. Multi-band MSR shows up in Rel-11

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UMTS Long LTE Overview Term Evolution

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LTE _A Overview
LTE Release 9 summary

LTE _A Measurement

LTE Release 10 summary

LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More

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LTE-Advanced Timeline

ITU-R Submission Sept 2009

Agilent Introduces Industrys first LTE-A Solution TR36.912 v 2.2.0 R1-093731, Characteristic template Design Tool/Signal Generation/Signal Analysis
R1-093682, Compliance template R1-093741, Link Budget template
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Release 10 Overall aspects

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A comprehensive summary of the entire LTE-Advanced proposals including radio, network and system can be found in the 3GPP submissions to the first IMT-Advanced evaluation workshop. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/workshop/2009-12-17_ITU-R_IMTAdv_eval/docs/

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Release 10 LTE Radio Aspects


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Carrier aggregation Enhanced uplink multiple access -. Clustered SC-FDMA

-. Simultaneous Control and Data


Enhanced multiple antenna transmission -. Downlink 8 antennas, 8 streams -. Uplink 4 antennas, 4 streams

Rel 10 LTE-A proposed to ITU

Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) study item


Relaying Home eNB mobility enhancements Customer Premises Equipment Heterogeneous network support Self Organized networks (SON)

Other Release 10

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Carrier Aggregation
Lack of sufficient contiguous spectrum up to 100 MHz forces use of carrier aggregation to meet peak data rate targets Able to be implemented with a mix of terminals Backward compatibility with legacy system (LTE) System scheduler operating across multiple bands Component carriers (CC) - Max 110 RB (TBD) May be able to mix different CC types Contiguous and non-contiguous CC is allowed
PUCCH
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PUSCH

PUSCH

Contiguous aggregation of two uplink component carriers

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Carrier Aggregation
One of RAN WG4s most intense activities is in the area of creating RF requirements for specific band combinations. In theory there could be as many as 5 carriers but so far all the activity is around dual carrier combinations
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The original CA work in Rel-10 was limited to three combinations


Uplink (UL) band Band E-UTRA operatin g Band 40 1 5 3 7 UE transmit / BS receive FUL_low (MHz) FUL_high (MHz) 2300 2400 1920 1980 824 849 Downlink (DL) band Duple UE receive / BS Channel Channel x transmit BW BW mode FDL_low (MHz) FDL_high MHz MHz (MHz) [TBD] 2300 2400 [TBD] TDD [TBD] [TBD] 2110 2170 869 894 [TBD] [TBD] FDD FDD

CA_40 CA_1-5 CA_3-7

1710 1788 2500 2570

20 20

1805 1880 2620 2690

20 20

In Rel-11 there are now up to 18 CA combinations being specified. The lead company indicates the interested parties

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Carrier Aggregation Rel-11 Carrier Aggregation Combinations


Band
CA-B3_B7 CA-B4_B17 CA-B4_B13 CA-B4_B12 CA-B20_B7 CA-B2_B17 CA-B4_B5 CA-B5_B12 CA-B5_B17 CA-B20_B3

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Lead
TeliaSonera AT&T Ericsson (Verizon) Cox Communications Huawei (Orange) AT&T AT&T US Cellular AT&T Vodafone

Uplink
1710 - 1785 1710 1755 1710 1755 1710 1755 832 862 1850 1910 1710 1755 824 849 824 849 832 862

Downlink
1805 - 1880 2110 - 2155 2110 - 2155 2110 - 2155 791 - 821 1930 - 1990 2110 - 2155 869 - 894 869 - 894 791 - 821

Uplink
2500 - 2570 704 716 777 - 787 698 716 2500 - 2570 704 716 824 849 698 716 704 716 1710 - 1785

Downlink
2620 - 2690 734 - 746 746 - 756 728 - 746 2620 - 2690 734 - 746 869 - 894 728 - 746 734 - 746 1805 - 1880

Mode
FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD

CA-B20_B8
CA-B3_B5 CA-B7 CA-B1_B7 CA-B4_B7 CA-B25_25 CA-B38 CA-B41

Vodafone
SK Telecom China Unicom China Telecomm Rogers Wireless Sprint Huawei (CMCC) Clearwire

832 862
1710 - 1785 2500 - 2570 1920 - 1980 1710 1755 1850 - 1915 2570 - 2620 3600 - 3800

791 - 821
1805 - 1880 2620 - 2690 2110 - 2170 2110 - 2155 1930 - 1995 2570 - 2620 3600 - 3800

880 915
824 849 2500 - 2570 2500 - 2570 2500 - 2570 1850 - 1915 2570 - 2620 3600 - 3800

925 - 960
869 - 894 2620 - 2690 2620 - 2690 2620 - 2690 1930 - 1995 2570 - 2620 3600 - 3800

FDD
FDD FDD FDD FDD FDD TDD TDD

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Enhanced Uplink
PUSCH+PUCCH Simultaneous Transmission
Release 8: SC-FDMA with alternating PUSCH/PUCCH (Inherently single carrier)
Partially allocated PUSCH Partially allocated PUSCH Lower PUCCH

Proposed Release 10: Clustered SC-FDMA with simultaneous PUSCH/PUCCH (Potentially multi-carrier)
Partially allocated PUSCH + PUCCH Partially allocated PUSCH + PUCCH Partially allocated PUSCH + 2 PUCCH Partially allocated PUSCH only Fully allocated PUSCH + PUCCH
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Upper PUCCH

Fully allocated PUSCH


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Enhanced MIMO
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Up to 8x8 Downlink (from 4x2 for Rel-8)


Baseline being 4x4 with 4 UE Receive Antennae Peak data rate reached with 8x8 SU-MIMO

Rel-8 LTE
Max 4 layers

Up to 4x4 Uplink (from 1x2 for Rel-8)


Baseline being 2x2 with 2 UE Transmit Antennae Peak data rate reached with 4x4 SU-MIMO
Max 1 layer

Use of beamforming with spatial multiplexing to increase data rate, coverage and capacity Challenges of higher order MIMO
Need for tower-mounted radio heads Increased power consumption Increased product costs Physical space for the antennae at both eNB and UE
LTE-Advanced
Max 8 layers

Max 4 layers

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Enhanced MIMO
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CoMP (Coordinated multipoint transmission and reception)


Traditional MIMO co-located transmission
eNB UE eNB 1

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Coordinated Multipoint
UE

Downlink

eNB 2

Joint processing (JP)


Joint transmission : PDSCH is transmitted from multiple cells with precoding among coordinated cells Dynamic cell selection: PDSCH is transmitted from one cell, which is dynamically selected Coordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB) PDSCH transmitted only from 1 cell; scheduling/beamforming is coordinated among cells Uplink Simultaneous reception requires coordinated scheduling
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Relay
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Basic in-channel relaying uses a relay node (RN) that receives, amplifies and then retransmits DL and UL signals to improve coverage Advanced relaying performs L2 or L3 decoding of transmissions before transmitting only what is required for the local UE
eNB
Over The Air backhaul

eNB

RN
Cell Edge

RN RN
Multi-hop relaying
Area of poor coverage with no cabled backhaul

OFDMA makes it possible to split a channel into UE and backhaul traffic The link budget between the eNB and relay station can be engineered to be good enough to allow MBSFN subframes to be used for backhaul of the relay traffic Main use cases: Urban/indoor for throughput or dead zone Rural for coverage
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Heterogeneous Network
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LTE-Advanced intends to address the support needs of heterogeneous networks that combine low power nodes (such as picocells, femtocells, repeaters, and relay nodes) within a macrocell. Deployment scenarios under evaluation are detailed in TR 36.814 Annex A.

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SON-Self Organization Network


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Todays cellular systems are very much centrally planned, and the addition of new nodes to the network involves expensive and time-consuming work, site visits for optimization, and other deployment challenges. One of the enhancements being considered for LTE-Advanced is the selfoptimizing network (SON). The main aspects of SON can be summarized as follows: Self configuration Self optimization Self healing Some limited SON capability was introduced in Release 8 and is being further elaborated in Release 9 and Release 10.

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Home eNB
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The concept of Home eNB (femtocells) is not new to LTE-A In Release 8 femtocells were introduced for UMTS In Release 9 they were introduced for LTE (HeNB) In Release 9 only inbound mobility (macro to HeNB) was fully specified In Release 10 there will be further enhancements to enable HeNB to HeNB mobility This is very important for enterprise deployments

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New LTE-Advanced UE Categories


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To accommodate the higher data rates of LTE-A, three new UE categories have been defined
Max. Data rate (DL / UL) (Mbps) 10 / 5 50 / 25 100 / 50 150 / 50 300 / 75 300 / 50 300 / 150 1200 / 600 Downlink Max. # DLSCH TB bits / TTI 10296 51024 102048 150752 299552 [299552] [299552] [1200000] Max. # DLSCH bits / TB / TTI 10296 51024 75376 75376 149776 [TBD] [TBD] [TBD] Total. soft channel bits 250368 1237248 1237248 1827072 3667200 [3667200] [TBD] [TBD] Max. #. spatial layers 1 2 2 2 4 Max.# ULSCH TB bits / TTI 5160 25456 51024 51024 75376 [51024 ] [150752/ 102048 (Upto RAN4)] [600000] Uplink Max. # ULSCH bits / TB / TTI 5160 25456 51024 51024 75376 [TBD] [TBD] [TBD] Support for 64QAM No No No No Yes No Yes/No (Up-to RAN4) Yes

UE category

Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 Category 5 Category 6 Category 7 Category 8

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UMTS Long LTE Overview Term Evolution

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LTE _A Overview
LTE Release 9 summary

LTE _A Measurement

LTE Release 10 summary

LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More

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Release 11 Prioritization
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Due to the high workload in 3GPP RAN, and in particular the radio group RAN WG4, a new prioritization exercise was carried out to identify the most important features Each operator was awarded seven votes per working group to be assigned to the list of possible work items Excluded from the prioritization was any work related to new bands and specified combinations for carrier aggregation. This is an independently controversial area being handled separately Work or Study Item List for LTE Release 11
. CoMP . Advanced receiver . CA enhancements . Relay . eICIC(HetNet) enhancements . MDT enhancements . MTC enhancements

. MBMS enhancements . SON enhancements

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The Operators with Votes


AT&T Bell Mobility Cellular South China Mobile Com. China Tele- Accelerate next-generation wireless. China Unicom Corporation communications
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CHTTL

Clearwire

Cox DBSD Services Communication Ltd. s LG U+ LightSquared

Deutsche Telekom AG

eAccess Ltd

France Telecom

KDDI Corporation

NII Holdings

NTT DOCOMO INC.

Rogers Wireless Inc.

SK Telecom

SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

SouthernLINC Wireless

SPRINT

TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.


TerreStar Networks Inc.

Telefonica SA Telekom Austria TELENOR ASA TeliaSonera AB AG T-Mobile USA Inc. UK Broadband Ltd US Cellular Corporation Verizon Wireless

TELUS

VODAFONE Group Plc

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UMTS Long LTE Overview Term Evolution

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LTE _A Overview
LTE Release 9 summary

LTE _A Measurement

LTE Release 10 summary

LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More

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Status of LTE network launches 12th Oct 2011


http://www.gsacom.com/downloads/pdf/gsa_evolution_to_lte_report _121011.php4

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35 commercial FDD networks already launched - see table left 248 operators in 87 countries investing in deployment or trials 185 Networks planned in 66 countries 66 by the end of 2011 103 by 2012

106 by 2013
79 with no firm date 63 additional trials in 21 further countries

Source: Global Suppliers Association report

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LTE1800 Initiative: Refarming Under-Used Source: Global Suppliers Association GSM


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LTE-1800 now deployed in 9 countries:

Plans in another 28 countries:

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LTE-A Deployment
The first question to ask when people are looking form information on LTE-A timing is which feature LTE-A, Release 10 etc. Is a large grouping of backwards-compatible features, none of which are mandatory The most likely contenders for early LTE-A deployment are: Some limited form of carrier aggregation to increase instantaneous bandwidth is particular local operator areas

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E.g. US operator combining 10 MHz at 700 with 10 MHz at 1700


Expensive requires two transceivers unless adjacent Requires two UE transmitters expensive, battery issues

Uplink MIMO

Enhanced downlink e.g. 8x2

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Agilent LTE-Advanced Measurement Solution


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LTE _A Overview

LTE Overview Carrier Aggregation

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N7109A Multi-channel
LTE _A Measurement

N7109A + 89600B Benefits Agilent LTE/LTE-A Solutions MIMO TX Test Solutions


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LTE-Advanced Release 10 at a Glance!


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Carrier aggregation
1

Support for up to 5 Aggregated Component Carriers (CCs) Up to 100 MHz Bandwidth

Enhanced uplink multiple access


2

Clustered SC-FDMA Simultaneous Control and Data

Higher order MIMO


3

Downlink 8x8 Uplink 4x4

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Carrier Aggregation
Component Carrier (CC)
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up to 20 MHz BW
Resource block

f
Band A

Intra or singleband contiguous allocation Intra or singleband noncontiguous allocation Inter or multiband noncontiguous allocation
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Band A

Resource block

f
Band A

Resource block

Band B

34

Carrier Aggregation: Intra-Band Contiguous Allocations Signal Analyzer Configuration


Component Carrier (CC)

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up to 20 MHz BW
Resource block

100 MHz system bandwidth.


Ex. 5 component carriers (CCs)

100 MHz case

100 MHz BW

Simultaneous analysis of all CCs. PXA with 160 MHz BW option Simultaneous analysis of multiple CCs within 40 MHz BW. P/M/EXA with 40 MHz BW option N7109A with standard 40 MHz BW Analyze one CC at a time.
PXA 25 MHz BW Option M/EXA: Standard 25 MHz BW N7109A with standard 40 MHz BW
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40 MHz case

40 MHz

20 MHz case

20 MHz

20 MHz

20 MHz

20 MHz

20 MHz

35

Carrier Aggregation: Intra-Band Non-Contiguous Allocations Signal Analyzer Configuration


Component Carrier (CC)

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up to 20 MHz BW
Resource block

f Band A

PXA with 160MHz covers intra-band non-contiguous use cases

MXA/EXA 40 MHz not wide enough for all use cases. However with 89600 v.15 (March 2012), dual MXA or EXA with B25 can be used. B40 (40 MHz) not supported today.
N7109A Multi-Channel Signal Analysis System each tuner supports up to 40 MHz bandwidth. 89600 v.15, multiple tuners can be used to cover non-contiguous use cases requiring more than 40 MHz span.
Dual MXAs or EXAs with B25

N7109A
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Carrier Aggregation: Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation


Component Carrier (CC)

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up to 20 MHz BW
Resource block

Dual-PXA not supported. It is in the roadmap for future release (late 2012)

Band A

Band B

Signal Studio doesnt support Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation configuration but you can use two instances of signal studio.

Dual MXAs or EXAs with B25 (Note: B40 not


supported today)

OR

N7109A

New with 89600 VSA v.15


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N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analyzer 4X4 today, 8x8 on the horizon


Wireless LAN 3X3 and 4X4 chipsets today

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Next-gen Gigabit WLAN will use 4X4 MIMO


WiMAX & LTE 2X2 deployed today; 4X4 being adopted Next-gen 802.16m WiMAX needs 4X4 LTE Advanced will need 8X8 (2012) N7109A provides leading 4x4 MIMO RF performance and fastest measurement speed at an attractive price for MIMO R&D applications, leveraging Agilents superb 89600B Vector Signal Analysis software!

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N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analyzer N7109A + 89600B Benefits


Supports all key MIMO measurements
RF parametric (PHY layer) measurements Channel/phase timing Isolation/crosstalk Flatness/frequency response Modulation quality (EVM)

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Supports all key MIMO analysis requirements


Matrix decoder function for MIMO signal separation Decode lower protocol layer (MAC) and signal elements

Key N7109A platform benefits


Ready for 8-ch with 89600B v15 (February 2012). Platform can support up to 12 phase synchronous channels. Fastest measurement speed with 89600B VSA application Phase coherent, time-aligned measurements Pre-selected tuner for excellent off-air RF measurements
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N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analyzer N7109A/89600B -- Whats NEW


8-ch TD-LTE Measurements
Agilent BeFirst Team currently integrating 89600B VSA alpha (v15) software Evaluations held with key customers during September. Very positive feedback. Planned for 89600B v15 (est. release Feb. 2012)
- TD-LTE TM7, single layer beamforming using Port 5 (8x1) - TD-LTE TM8, singe & dual layer BF using Ports 7&8 (8x2)

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Tentatively planned for 89600B v16


- LTE-A Transmission Mode 9 (8x8 MIMO Downlink) - LTE-A 4x4 MIMO Uplink

General 8-ch Measurements with 89600B


Multi-channel measurements for general device testing, including: coherence, cross correlation, cross spectrum, frequency response, impulse response

LTE-A Carrier Aggregation Investigation (Independent Tuning)


N7109A tuners can support independent center frequencies with spans up to 40MHz Investigation started to support LTE-A carrier aggregation of multiple spans at different center frequencies. Also useful for simultaneous uplink + downlink measurements. Aiming for 89600B VSA v16 (H2 2012)
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Agilent LTE Solutions Overview


Signal Studio Signal Generators ADS and SystemVue LTE VSA SW
For SAs, Scopes, LA, SystemVue and ADS

Scopes and Logic Analyzers

PXB BB Tester
RF Module Development RF Proto

RDX for DigRF v4

Spectrum Analyzers
with LTE Msmt Apps

Battery Drain Test Pre-Conformance

RF Chip/module

RF and BB Design Integration L1/PHY DigRF v4 BTS or Mobile

Design Simulation

BTS and Mobile BB Chipset Development L1/PHY FPGA and ASIC Protocol Development L2/L3

System Design Validation System Level RF Testing

Conformance

Manufacturing

Network Deployment
N9912A RF Analyzer

E6621A PXT Communications Test Set

Systems for RF and N6070A LTE Protocol signaling conformance Conformance test solutions

Cable antenna tester & Spectrum analyzer


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Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions Overview


Signal creation software 89600 WLA
SystemVue (BB) ADS/GG (RF/A)

89600 VSA Scopes and Logic Analyzers RDX for DigRF v4 Signal Analyzers with LTE Measurement Apps
Battery drain characterization

Signal Generators

Baseband Generator and Channel Emulator

RF Module Development RF Proto RF Chip/module

RF and BB Design Integration L1/PHY DigRF v4 BTS or Mobile

Pre-Conformance

Design Simulation

BTS and Mobile BB Chipset Development L1/PHY FPGA and ASIC Protocol Development L2/L3
RF & Protocol test platforms

System Design Validation System Level RF Testing

Conformance

Manufacturing

Network Deployment
Manufacturing test platforms

N6070A LTE signaling conformance test

N5971A IFT Software

Systems for RF and Protocol Conformance

N7109A Multi-Channel Signal Analysis System

RF Handheld Analyzers
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Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions Signal Studio and 89600B VSA Software


Generate LTE-Advanced signals
Create physical layer coded signals for component test Compliant to Release 10 (Dec-2010) 3GPP standard LTE-Advanced FDD and TDD signal generation

Uplink and downlink carrier aggregation


Generate contiguous and non-contiguous uplink and downlink component carriers Supports LTE-Advanced scenarios proposed by 3GPP CSI-RS and DM-RS support

Enhanced uplink
Supports clustered SC-FDMA Simultaneous PUSCH and PUCCH configurations

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Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions Signal Studio and 89600B VSA Software


Compliant to 3GPP Release 10 Carrier Aggregation (CA)
Covers the various deployment scenarios proposed by 3GPP Downlink and Uplink carrier aggregation Carrier aggregation in contiguous bandwidth Carrier aggregation in non-contiguous bandwidth Analyze multiple component carriers (CCs) simultaneously

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Enhanced Uplink:
Clustered SC-FDMA

Simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH analysis

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MIMO Transmitter Test Solutions What hardware platform is best for the customer?

89600 VSA Software 90000 X-Series Oscilloscopes

MXA/EXA signal analyzer

Up to 2 Channels Best EVM/Dynamic Range Fully characterized RF specs General purpose application Price Up to 4 Channels Widest analysis BW General purpose application Phase Coherent

N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analysis System

8 Channels (8ch with VSA) Modular/extendable/scalable Best measurement speed Phase Coherent Pre-selected tuner, off-air measurements
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MIMO Transmitter Test Solutions - Agilent


Work in progress
Money Spec
Max Channels Frequency Range

Conditions

N7109A
8 Rx Channels (phase coherent) 20 MHz to 6 GHz -47 dB measured (WiMax 802.16e 20 MHz BW)

Infiniium 90000X
4 Rx Channels (phase coherent) DC to 16 GHz,32 GHz -46 dB measured (LTE SM composite EVM 5 MHz BW Fc=1.9 GHz) TBD

Infiniium 90000
4 Rx Channels (phase coherent) DC to 6 GHz,13 GHz -42 dB measured (LTE SM composite EVM 5 MHz BW Fc=1.9 GHz) TBD

MXA/EXA
2 Rx channels (with 2 MXA/EXA) 20 Hz to 3.6,8.4/7,13.6, 26.5 GHz

89641 VXI Discontinued


2 Rx Channels (coherent <2.7GHz) Baseband, 20MHz-6GHz

EVM floor 3rd Order Intercept Displayed Average Noise Level Noise 1 GHz Carrier Typical Offsets Amplitude Accuracy Analysis Bandwidth Preselected Tuner Max Time Capture
Msamples 2-ch 4-ch 8-ch 6 GHz

-49/-45 dB uplink -48/-45 dB downlink


+18/+17 dBm -151/-148 dBm -166/-161 dBm (w/ preamp) -106/-102 dBc/Hz -117/-114 dBc/Hz -136/-135 dBc/Hz 0.23/0.27 dB 0.5 dB calculated

-43 dB typical

+12 dBm

+5 dBm (2.7GHz)

2 GHz

-158 dBm/Hz

TBD

TBD

-158dBm/Hz (E2731)

10 kHz 100 kHz 1 MHz 1 GHz 6 GHz

-98 dBc/Hz -98 dBc/Hz -115 dBc/Hz 0.25 dB typical 0.5 dB typical

TBD

TBD

-99 dBc/Hz -110 dBc/Hz 2 dB typical 3 dB typical

TBD

TBD

Max. 40 MHz x 8 Yes 132 Msa $76k $96k ~$160k-$170k (future)

16-32 GHz No 2 GSa

6-13 GHz No 1 GSa

10 MHz, 25 MHz Opt. No $90k /61K (8.4GHz/25MHz BW) $73k/45K (3.6GHz/25MHz BW) 2-ch only

37.11 MHz Yes 48 Msa 384 Msa Discontinued (2-ch, $150k)

Pricing (Hardware)

$131k+

$67k+

Wireless Communications 2012 Agilent Technologies

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