In-Building Service (IBS) Solution

Huawei is dedicated to resolve the in-building network coverage problems for operators.
With years of effort, Huawei has developed a series of IBS Solutions. Huawei IBS
Solution adopts the designing concept of indoor-outdoor coordinated planning and
provides customized IBS solutions for customers according to the delivery scenarios. As
a world-leading wireless solution supplier, Huawei is able to provide customers with E2E
service assurance with its industrial-leading system checking and optimization
measures.
Challenges
The in-building service domain has become the main battleground for the mobile
telecommunications service. Figures show that 70% of the voice services and 90% of
the data service are generated indoor. With the development of MBB network, there will
be more changes on user behaviors and proportion of in-building services will further
increase.
With these changes, network coverage provided by macro Node B can no longer meet
the requirement. The problem exists in two aspects. Firstly, outdoor signals may not
penetrate through building shelters, which leads to weak coverage or no coverage inside
buildings and lowers customer perception. Secondly, because many BTSs are located
around buildings, subscribers inside buildings may face problems such as frequent
network handover and frequency overlap, which reduce user perception. As indoor traffic
increases, operators need to increase the number of BTSs and narrow down their
coverage to meet the indoor traffic requirement.
In future, telecommunications system will have to bearer data services in higher
frequencies. Higher frequency will bring higher signal loss and deteriorate the indoor
signal. The IBS quality is becoming more and more important to operators as they strive
to gain market share and increase revenue.
Our Solution
Huawei has a series of mature products, powerful R&D platform, and abundant network
roll-out experience in the IBS domain, which enables Huawei to provide highly
customized solutions and implement E2E delivery in high quality.
With the consideration of the whole-network KPI, Huawei IBS Solution makes proper
plans and designs on the basis of indoor-outdoor coordinated planning, and ensures the
quality of indoor signals by considering the network capacity, interference, and handover
comprehensively.
Huawei is able to provide multiple IBS solutions to provide customized solution to
customers in different scenarios. Considering all the factors from the customer's
perspective comprehensively, Huawei recommends the passive distribution system +
RRU solution.
Passive distribution system is an integrated solution using splitters, couplers, and
antennas, and other passive broadband devices as application units, power distribution
designs, and RF cables.
RRU devices are used to separate baseband signals from RF signals and use fiber
cable to reduce the path loss caused by long-distance transmission. As a source
signaling device, RRU can be installed in different ways (wall, hold pole, and ground)
according to the installation scenario to save the space of the equipment room. With the
passive distribution system + RRU solution, Huawei is able to give full play to the
advantages of the fiber network and passive broadband network system.
With the passive distribution system + RRU solution, Huawei is able to resolve
customers' problems at any place any time. By adopting the coverage principle of
"multiple antennas and low power", Huawei is able to send the RRU signal to all required
areas to achieve the balance between coverage and capacity. By implementing
frequency planning and adjusting the priority-level parameter, operators can avoid
frequency interferences generated by outdoor networks and frequent network handover.
These services together increases subscriber perception significantly.
When developing the IBS solution, Huawei also takes the difficulty level of building
access into consideration and is able to take advantages of the spaces to extend the
coverage range, reduce engineering construction difficulties, and lay a foundation for
future technology evolutions (such as LTE).
Years of practice have proven that with the adoption of passive distribution system, the
system faulty rate and power consumption are significantly reduced and the system
lifecycle is extended to as long as ten years. With the solution, existing distribution
system can be reused for system expansion and technology evolution to reduce the
cost.
Applications & Benefits
Huawei has successfully implemented IBS service in 25 countries across the globe. By
the end of 2010, Huawei has implement IBS service for over 7,000 sites. With the
professional IBS Solution, Huawei helps customers save cost, resolve network
problems, promote the brand image, and increase their revenues.
The IBS Solution for landmark buildings, transportation junctions, and government
facilities focuses on the evolution capability of the system, return on investment, and
other factors. Huawei uses flexible solutions to help customers resolve coverage
problem, save cost, promote brand image, and attract more subscribers.
The IBS solution for large stadiums, shopping malls, and office buildings and other
crowded places focuses on network capacity, interference, and coverage factors
comprehensively. With Huawei's professional network planning and design service,
operators can increase their network capacity, ensure the coverage quality, absorb
traffic, and increase their revenues.
For Node B receiving customer complaints, Huawei uses professional analysis tools and
various IBS solutions to avoid network interferences and achieve higher KPIs.