Effective Deployment Options to Meet

High Capacity Demand in LTE Networks

Marie Ma
Director, Product Marketing
Comba Telecom International

www.comba-telecom.com

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 Drivers Behind the Evolution

Wireless technology is causing “disruption” in every business

The top two strategic technology trends for 2014: Mobile
Device Diversity & Management, and Mobile Apps &
Applications (According to Gartner)
All these leads to an exploding data demand esp. @ indoors

The 4G era has come, and couldn’t wait!

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 Growth in Peak / Average Spectral Efficiency

100
Peak efficiency lies
LTE around this line
Spectral Efficiency (bits/sec/Hz)

802.16e
10 HSDPA
Average efficiency
1xEV-DO
and hence capacity
growth of deployed
W-CDMA
systems lags well
1 IS-95C behind and will
EDGE LTE target level off due to inter-cell
GPRS interference
1xEV-DO (A)
0.1 GSM EGPRS2 1/3
AMPS HSDPA (R7)
HSDPA (R5) Peak efficiency drives
W-CDMA (R99) EGPRS 1/3 (R99) up air interface cost &
EGPRS 4/12 (R99)
0.01 complexity
1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 You pay for the peak
but experience the
Peak efficiency average
Average efficiency

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 Interference Management is Key
Outdoor: Inter-cell interference degrade the performance at cell
boundaries
Indoor: in-building penetration loss degrade performance further
Interference reduction
Frequency Re-use, smaller cells
ICIC techniques
In-building DAS design

Low SNR
High SNR
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 Challenges in Effective LTE Deployment

High
Capacity for
Indoor

Inter-cell MIMO
The findings:
InterferenceNew network topologies
Inbuilding and
deployment strategies offer more gain than new
technologies and HW
Multi-band
Backhaul
Multi-
for Smaller
Technology
Cells
Coexist

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 High Density Areas Hungry for Capacity

Home, enterprise, small- High street, downtown, large

medium venues public areas

Large venues: shopping centers, stadiums, airports, high rise buildings

Salvador Stadium, Bolshoy Ice Dome, Sochi

Galaxy Casino Mega Resort
FIFA 2014 Brazil Winter Games

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 Finding the Right Solution

There is no “one-size-fits-all solution”

But each technology will have its particular sweet spots
An example: what technology to choose for an medium-large
enterprise for indoor coverage + capacity?
Multi-technology, multi-band
in-building DAS?
Picocell/Metrocell (Base
Station) + passive DAS?
Small Cells that support single
or multiple technologies?
Managed Wi-Fi standalone or
integrated with DAS?

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Let’s Speak Technical!

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 Typical Scenario: Large Venues
Areas with very high capacity and
ubiquitous coverage
RU1
A single infrastructure heterogeneous
system supporting multiple operators
and multiple bands almost a must
Solution: multi-sector Base station +
Indoor/Outdoor DAS, and the RUs are RU2
connected to an array of antennas
installed on all areas of interest

eNodeB
Sect 1 POIs ●
●
MU ● Up to 8 RU
FO ●
eNodeB ●
Sect 2

●
●
RU8
●
●

eNodeB
Sect N BTS Hotel
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 Case Reference: FIFA Stadiums

Indoor + outdoor DAS: Phase I

4 (out of 6) stadiums hosting the World
Cup + Car Parks
Sites:
(Phase 1 completed for 2013
Confederations Cup)
3x full turnkey (project, material supply,
Scope: infrastructure, installation and tests)
1x equipment supply
Comba High Power & Low Power DAS
Equipment
solutions including 80+ master units and
Installed:
150+ remote units
GSM / WCDMA / LTE (MIMO)/ Wi-Fi
Technology 850 / 1900 / AWS bands
Support upgrade to a new band (700MHz)
Frequencies (Mhz)
City Stadium Capacity 700 800 850 1800 2100 2600
Brasília Mané Garrincha 71.000 √ √ √ √ √ √
Fortaleza Castelão 66.700 √ √ √ √ √
Recife Arena Capibaribe 45.000 √ √ √ √ √
Salvador Arena Fonte Nova 50.433 √ √ √ √ √

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 Case Reference: FIFA Stadiums

Indoor + outdoor DAS: Phase II

All together 8 (out of 12) stadiums hosting
the World Cup + Car Parks
Sites:
Phase II also added more sectors in the first
4 stadiums
4 x full turnkey (project, material supply,
Scope:
infrastructure, installation and tests)
Equipment Comba High Power & Low Power DAS
Installed: solutions
GSM / WCDMA / LTE (MIMO) / Wi-Fi
Technology 850 / 1900 / AWS bands
Support upgrade to a new band (700MHz)
Frequencies (Mhz)
City Stadium Capacity 700 800 850 1800 2100 2600
Sao Paulo Arena de Sao Paulo 65,807 √ √ √ √ √ √
Curitiba Arena da Baixada 41,456 √ √ √ √ √ √
Manaus Arena Amazonia 42,374 √ √ √ √ √ √
Porto Estadio Beira-Rio 48,849
Alegre √ √ √ √ √ √

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 Case Reference:
Domodedovo International Airport Russia
Domodedovo International Airport,
Site:
Domodedovo，Russia
Largest airport in Russia for passenger
Scope:
traffic
Equipment
1800+2100+2600 MIMO
Installed:
Coverage Basement, Level 1, Level 2, terminal
Area/Floor extensions and new facilities

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 Typical Scenario: Home, Enterprise, Shops

Small-Medium coverage range, single operator, multi-services

Blind spot coverage or capacity offload
Deployment challenges
Cost (CAPEX and OPEX)
Cabling and construction
Property negotiation
Backhaul
Solutions
Standalone small cells (small)
Small cells combining DAS (medium)
MicroBTS/Off-air repeater + DAS (large)
Wi-Fi integrated in small cells/DAS or separate
Backhaul through existing IP network

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 Case Study: Blind Spot Coverage

Basement, Remote site, Buildings with complex construction

1. Application Scenario 2. Solution
 Targeted area coverage
 Dedicated operator signal
provide
 High quality of capacity and
signal strength

Underground building, poor macro cell

coverage, DAS is not an option

3. Result

 Small Cell provided the best

signal in targeted area
 Good user experience
improve customer loyalty
 Cost efficient solution
comparing other technologies Small Cell Power

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 Case Study: High Capacity Offload
Retail Shop, Café, Enterprise, Campus, Public venues
1. Application Scenario 2. Solution

4G hotspot that needs high capacity solution Small Cell offloads macrocell data
for better user experience, complement Macro in hotspot areas

3. Result
LTE Speed in Cat4 Smartphone
 Backhaul: dedicated link from small cell to EPC
 Coverage: center of the hall, avoid signal leakage
 Handover: Neighbor list added in macro
 CSBF:2G/3G CSBF from 4G
 Power: AC power from business hall
 Synchronization: GPS/Listening/1588V2
6.69 Mbps 64.4 Mbps
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 Typical Scenario: High Street, Downtown

Single operator in need of capacity offload

Downtown hotspots with high density data usage
Challenges: site acquisition, backhauling, footprint, reliability
Mostly overlay macrocell, hence a heterogeneous network
where interference management and mobility are crucial
Solutions
Mount LTE outdoor small
cell (pico/metro) on
existing street furniture
Backhauling with full-
outdoor MW radio
Future: multi-band multi-
operator sharing &
hosting solution
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 Heterogeneous Networks

Macro

Outdoor Metro Cell Indoor Small Cell Small Cell + DAS

Outdoor or Indoor, Indoor, Outdoor or Indoor,

Street, medium venues Hotspots, Offices High rise buildings, venues

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 LTE Small Cell (Nanocell) Trials in China
Field trials running in 19 major cities
18+ Months Failure-free Operation
•20+ Nanocells Heilongjiang
• Office/Hotspot
• Hotspot Spotted Coverage

Liaoning
Beijing

Hebei
•60+ Nanocells
Shanxi Shandong •Campus/Offices
•Large-Scale Group Solution
Gansu
Shanxi Henan Jiangsu
Anhui
•190+ Nanocells
Sichuan
Chongqing Zhejiang • Office/Mall
Hunan Jiangxi • Small Cluster Solution

Guizhou
Yunnan Guangdong

•50+ Nanocells
• Hotel/ shopping mall
•50+ Nanocells
• Large-Scale Group Solution
•Outlet/Office/Department
•Large-Scale Group
•Hotspot Solution
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 Results from LTE Small Cell Trials

Nanocell provides coverage range up to

1000㎡ in open/semi-open environment
Powered by PoE, backhaul using UTP
cable, support different means of backhaul
Cell-reselection/handover support
Gateway
Support CS Fall Back to 2G/3G
With or W/Out Gateway deployment
GW supports S1-flex mechanism,
aggregates the control plane signaling,
offload MME for large scale deployment
GW terminates different backhaul
interfaces, make it transparent to EPC Macro

X2 proxy between macro and small cells

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 In Summary

Various means of coverage and capacity optimization

Small Achieve ubiquitous coverage and optimize the

Small Cell Cells network throughput both at cell center and edge
Integration

Wi-Fi Offload Target to offload 20-30% of the mobile traffic in

outdoor and indoor hotspots

Splitting the cell in horizontal and vertical

DAS Cell Splitting, Radio plane, optimize the radio parameters and RF
Network Optimization setting

BTS Hotel, Distributed Optimize the capacity distribution, support

multi-operator, multi-system deployment
System Deployment

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Beijing Summer Games 2008

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