5G RAN Sharing

VF MIC

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 1. The Concept of RAN Sharing
 2. The BBU Configuration of RAN Sharing
 3. The VF UK live network

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MORAN and MOCN Network
According to 3GPP,
RAN Sharing 5G RAN Sharing follow 4G, which includes
MORAN and MOCN .
MORAN MOCN

HLR, Service
The differences between MOCN and
Platform, SMF+UDM+UPF MORAN
MOCN MORAN
MME/AMF
Cell Sharing Independent
Spectrum Sharing Independent
eNodeB/gNodeB

PLMN Independent Independent

Cell

PLMN A PLMN B Shared Resource

Basic MORAN and MOCN supported by SRAN15.1

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Four RAN Sharing combinations are supported in NSA（Option 3X）
#1 4G MORAN, 5G MORAN #3 4G MORAN, 5G MOCN
EPC(A) EPC(B) EPC(A) EPC(B)

eNB(A+B) gNB(A+B) eNB(A+B) gNB(A+B)

F1=A f1=A F=A +B
f1=A f2=B
F1 F2=B F2 F1 F2
f2=B f1 f1
f2 f2
UE A UE B UE A UE B

#2 4G MOCN, 5G MOCN #4 4G MOCN, 5G MORAN

EPC(A) EPC(B)
EPC(A) EPC(B)

eNB(A+B)
eNB(A+B) gNB(A+B) gNB(A+B)
f=A+B F=A+B f=A +B F1=A F2=B
F1 F1 F1 F2
f1
f1
f1 Data plane f2
UEA UE B
UE A UE B
Control plane
Hardware dependence : UMPTe and UMPTg ; UBBPg serial boards and UBBPfw1.
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 Contents
 1. The Concept of RAN Sharing
 2. The BBU Configuration of RAN Sharing
 MOCN
 MORAN#1 Separated-Baseband board
 MORAN#2 Co-Baseband board
 3. The VF UK live network

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MOCN ：Co-AAU Co-Baseband Board Co-MPT Co-EMS
BBU configuration rules:
1、MOCN shares the one cell, one cell must be configured in ONE Baseband board.
2、For ONE hardware（ AAU/RRU），it can only managed by ONE EMS.
3、If ONE RF hardware (AAU/RRU) is connected to different BBUs, inter-BBU Interconnection is needed(CI
interface) to keep sync. and control between BBUs.

UL 2100M GU 900M
UL 2100M GU 900M

BBU3900 GU(A+B) BBU3900 GU(A+B)

GTMU NR is GTMU
WBBPd2
introduced WBBPd2
WBBPb3 UMPTa1 UMPTa1
WBBPb3
BBU3900 LO(A+B) CI interconnection
BBU5900 LN(A+B) CI interconnection
UBBPd6
UBBPd6
UBBPd6 UBBPg3
UBBPd6 UMPTa2/b/e UMPTe (A/B)
25Gbps UBBPg3 :3*
Per interface 100M 64TRX
L 1800M L 800M NR 3500M(A+B)
L 1800M L 800M

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MORAN1：Co-AAU Co-EMS Separated-Baseband board
BBU configuration rules:
1、PLMN_A and PLMN_B have different cells, Same RAT cells must be configured in ONE Control board; Different RAT
Cell can have different Control board or same one.
2、For ONE hardware（ AAU /RRU）,it can only managed by ONE EMS.
3、If ONE RF hardware (AAU/RRU) is connected to different BBUs, inter-BBU Interconnection is needed(CI interface) to
keep sync. and control between BBUs.
4 、Different cells can be configured on different BBP, Co-BBP or separated BBP are both available.
UL 2100M GU 900M
UL 2100M GU 900M

BBU3900 GU(A+B） BBU3900 GU(A+B)

GTMU NR is GTMU
WBBPd2
WBBPb3 UMPTa1 introduced WBBPd2
UMPTa1
WBBPb3
BBU3900 LO（A+B）CI interconnection
BBU5900 LN(A+B) CI interconnection
UBBPd6
UBBPd6
UBBPd6 UBBPg3(A) UBBPg3(B)
UBBPd6 UMPTa2/b/e UMPTe (A/B)

When A+B bandwidth >100MHz,

two fibers are needed

L 1800M L 800M NR 3500M(A+B)

L 1800M L 800M
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MORAN2 ： Co-AAU Co-EMS Co-Baseband Board
BBU configuration rules:
1、PLMN_A and PLMN_B have different cells, Same RAT cells must be configured in ONE Control board;Different RAT
Cells can have different Control board or same one.
2、For ONE hardware（ AAU /RRU）,it can only managed by ONE EMS.
3、If ONE RF hardware (AAU/RRU) is connected to different BBUs, inter-BBU Interconnection is needed(CI interface)
to keep sync. and control between BBUs.
4 、Different cells can be configured on different BBP, Co-BBP or separated BBP are both available.
UL 2100M GU 900M
UL 2100M GU 900M

BBU3900 GU(A+B) BBU3900 GU(A+B)

GTMU NR is GTMU
WBBPd2
introduced WBBPd2
WBBPb3 UMPTa1 UMPTa1
WBBPb3
BBU3900 LO(A+B) CI interconnection
BBU5900 LN(A+B) CI interconnection
UBBPd6
UBBPd6
UBBPd6 UBBPg3(A)
UBBPd6 UMPTa2/b/e UMPTe (A/B)

When A+B bandwidth >100MHz,

two fibers are needed

L 1800M L 800M L 1800M L 800M NR 3500M(A+B)

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MOCN vs MORAN(two solutions) Configuration Summary
MOCN MORAN #1 MORAN #2
CellId Sharing Independent Independent

Spectrum Sharing Independent Independent Logical

Resource
PLMN Independent Independent Independent

Baseband Sharing Independent Sharing

Board
Hardware
Control Board Sharing Sharing Sharing
Resource

EMS Sharing Sharing Sharing

Under MORAN solution, We recommend scheme #1 with advantages:

1, independence of dimension of carrier, cell, BHCA and RRC connected users per
PLMN
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 Contents
 1. The Concept of RANSharing
 2. The BBU Configuration of RANSharing
 3. The VF UK live network

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VF_UK 5G MORAN : Co-AAU Co-EMS Separated-Baseband board
Based on the MORAN BBU configuration rules : Separated-Baseband board
is recommended.
UL 2100M GU 900M
UL 2100M GU 900M

BBU3900 GU MORAN BBU3900 GU MORAN

WBBPf GTMUb（VT）
NR WBBPf GTMUb(VT)
WBBPf
introduced WBBPf
WBBPf UMPTa1(VT) UMPTa1(VT)
WBBPf
BBU3910 LO MORAN CI interconnection
BBU5900 LN MORAN CI interconnection
UBBPd6 UBBPde4
UBBPe4 UBBPe5
UBBPd6 UBBPg3(V) UBBPg3(T)
UBBPe5 UMPTe2(VT) UMPTe (VT)

2G VT_G900
L 800M 3G TF_U2100&VT_U900
AAU NR 3500M(VT) VT_L800 & VT_L2100
L 800M
4G
5G VT B42（50M+40M）

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