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Huawei Confidential
Dr. Jianglei Ma
Huawei Wireless Research
October 24
th
, 2012
Virtualizing the Future
Radio Access
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Motivation
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Bits/Hz/Sec
Current radio access network performance is limited by mutual interference
of transmit nodes and created cell edge
Can we completely eliminate cell or cell boundary to solve the
interference issue in a fundamental way and significantly boost radio access
capacity?

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Radio Access Virtualization
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Wireless
Access
Network
Virtualize cell and dynamically configure virtual data pipes to meet
different QoS requirements
Enablers of radio access virtualization:
Cloud Radio Access Network (CRAN)
UE Direct Communications
Scalable
Virtual
Data
Pipes
Hyper Transceiver

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Centralize Baseband Processing with Cloud RAN
To leverage the advances of cloud computing, multi-core processor, fiber
connectivity and intelligent radio system technologies to virtualize
transmit nodes

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CRAN: A Step from Transmit Node Centric Access
to UE Centric Access
Create a lot of
cell boundary
UEs
Eliminate cell
boundaries within
CRAN cluster
UE centric transmit
node optimization
within CRAN cluster
Fixed UE and
cell association
Existing
cellular
network
CRAN
Hyper Cell
UE centric
virtual RAN
Boundary-less radio
access
Eliminate cell
boundaries in whole
wireless network

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CRAN Hyper Cell Concept
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Hyper Cell-2
Belong to
hyper cell 1&2
Controller
Hyper Cell-1
Belong to Hyper Cell 1&2
Controller
A logic network access point
A virtual entity for data and control signalling transmission
Dynamically configurable
Overlapped hyper cells to handle inter hyper cell interference

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Low Cost Hierarchical CRAN Structure
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Dynamically configure virtual transmit nodes
Dramatically reduce cooperative scheduling & transmission complexity

Network
Hyper Cell-1 Hyper Cell-2
Virtual Transmit Node
Virtual Transmit Node
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UE Centric Transmit Node Optimization
UE centric cooperative transmission set selection to eliminate
cell edge UE
Scheduling
Resource-1
Scheduling
Resource-2
Scheduling
Resource-3
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Transmission Virtualization (Hyper-Transmit)
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Transmit node optimization to maximize the system capacity/coverage and
reduce energy consumption.
Transparent virtual data pipes scalable to different traffic demands

Silent
transmit points
Data pipe
for UE-2
Data pipe
for UE-1
Data pipe
for UE-3
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Reception Virtualization (Hyper-Receive)
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Virtual Receiver
More and more terminals in future
UE direct communication UE cooperation -> virtual receiver

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Radio Access Virtualization
Help UE
Target UE
Virtual transmitter communicates with virtual receiver border-
less wireless network
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Low Cost Hyper Transceiver
UE centric transmit node optimization and reception node optimization
dramatically reduce the complexity.

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Conclusions
Radio access virtualization Boundary-less wireless
network
Virtual Cell and Hyper Transceiver technologies
dramatically enhance network performance.
Higher Spectrum Efficiency
Higher Network Capacity
More fair UE experience
Lower energy consumption

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