LTE & WiMAX Evolution to 4G

Israel Mobile Association Event LTE vs. WiMAX: Complementing or Competing?

29 October 2008 Ehud Reshef, WiMAX Product Marketing Director

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About Comsys
Cellular baseband fabless company
Field-proven solutions over 30 million handsets use Comsys 2G/3G technologies

Focused on 4G
Unique Mobile-WiMAX / cellular chip Advanced multimode and multi-RAT co-existence techniques Developing 3GPP-LTE device

Over 30 million handsets enabled by Comsys cellular technology

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Comsys Solutions

2000

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

Silicon

ComMAX
Mobile WiMAX, LTE Silicon / System

IP

2G/3G System IP 2.5G PHY IP EDGEware

UEware EGGware

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Mobile
Managed network OoS guarantee Full mobility Easy worldwide roaming

Broadband
All-IP network

4G

Always on Multiple device form factors Internet connectivity

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Access Technologies Positioning

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Mobile Broadband Technology Evolution

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

WCDMA 3GPP

R99

HSDPA

HSPA

LTE

LTE Advanced

CDMA 2000 3GPP2

EVDO Rev A

EVDO Rev B

4G IMT-Advanced

Mobile WiMAX

802.16e R 1.0

802.16e R 1.5

802.16m R 2.0

CDMA based

OFDMA based

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So What is 4G?
Still need to be defined by ITU IMT-Advanced Expected targets
True Mobile Broadband 1Gbps peak data rate for fixed services 100Mbps data rate for mobile services High mobility to 500Km/H Flat All-IP network architecture

Specific Technologies and Spectrum allocations not identified WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE are not 4G technologies
WiMAX TDD is part of the IMT-2000 family of standards 3GPP LTE expected to become part of IMT-2000

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Technical Comparison Overview

Aspect Air Interface Duplexing Mobility / Vehicular Speed Bandwidth Peak Data Rates LTE (3GPP R8)
DL: OFDMA UL: SC-FDMA FDD, TDD 350 Km/H

WiMAX R 1.0 (16e)

DL: OFDMA UL: OFDMA TDD 60-120 Km/H

WiMAX R 2.0 (16m)

DL: OFDMA UL: OFDMA TDD, FDD 350 Km/H

1.25, 1.6, 2.5, 5, 10, 15, 20 MHz DL: 302 Mbps (4x4) UL: 75 Mbps (2x4) @ 20 MHz FDD DL: 1.91 bps/Hz (2x2) UL: 0.72 bps/Hz (1x2) Link layer < 5 mSec Handoff < 50 mSec 80 users / sector / FDD MHz

3.5, 5, 7, 8.75, 10 MHz

5, 10, 20, 40 MHz

DL: 46Mbps (2x2) UL: 4Mbps (1x2) @ 10MHz TDD 3:1 DL: 1.91 bps/Hz (2x2) UL: 0.84 bps/Hz (1x2) Link layer ~ 20 mSec Handoff 35-50 mSec 20 users / sector / TDD MHz

DL > 350 Mbps (4x4) UL > 200 Mbps (2x4) @ 20 MHz FDD DL > 2.6bps/Hz (4x2) UL > 1.3bps/Hz (2x4) Link layer < 10 mSec Handoff < 30 mSec > 30 users / sector / TDD MHz

Average Sector Spectral Efficiency Latency VoIP Capacity

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Other Interesting Aspects

Aspect Air Interface Allocation Schemes Core Network Persistent Allocations Multicast/Broadcast UL PAPR Reduction Forward Error Correction H-ARQ MIMO Models 3GPP LTE
OFDMA based QPSK 64QAM Contiguous allocation blocks All-IP Release 8.0 Release 9.0 SC-FDMA Control: CC, K=7, R=1/3 Data: CTC, K=4, R=1/3, 6144 bits/block Incremental Redundancy

Mobile WiMAX
OFDMA based QPSK 64QAM Multiple formats PUSC, FUSC, AMC All-IP Release 1.5 Release 1.0 N/A FCH: CC, K=7, R= Control+Data: CTC, K=4, R=2/6, 480 bits/block Release 1.0 Chase Release 1.5 Chase or IR Spatial Multiplexing Transmit Diversity (Alamouti) CDD R 1.5 UE specific beam-forming Collaborative UL SM CDMA, GERAN, UTRAN, WLAN CMIP, PMIP, IMS

Spatial Multiplexing Transmit Diversity (Alamouti, CDD) UE specific beam-forming

Multi Technology Support

GERAN, UTRAN, non-3GPP Non 3GPP: CDMA, WLAN, (WiMAX) PMIP and IMS/VCC

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WiMAX Network Architecture

R2

NAP

vNSP

hNSP

BS R1

ASN
R6

ASN GW R3
AAA Proxy HA PF

CSN
R5
AAA PF

CSN

MS

BS

R6

R4
BS

R3

ASN
R6

ASN GW

R6 BS

Internet

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Simplified 3GPP LTE Network Architecture

eNB
LTE-Uu S1-u

Serving GW

S5

SAE Anchor

SGi

PDN GW

UE
X2 S1-u S11 S1-c

eNB
S1-c

MME

Internet

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Converged Network Architecture

GERAN

GSM/EDGE
Gb

UTRAN

Iu

GPRS Core
S3

SGSN

UMTS

S4

eNB
S1-u

Serving GW

S5

SAE Anchor

HSS

LTE
eNB

X2

S1-u

S11

S5-b

S6-a PCRF

S1-MME

IMS Core

MME
S1-MME

S5-a

3GPP Anchor

S7 PDN GW

BS

ASN
R6

ASN GW

CSN
R3

WiMAX
R6

Internet
BS

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IMS Centric Network Architecture

SIP Application Server

IMS Framework
Home Subscriber Server (HSS) Media Resource Function Control SIP Media Resource Gateway Control

Diameter Call Session Control Function (CSCF) (SIP Proxy)

UMTS Packet Core Network

WiMAX

WLAN

DSL/Cable

Multiple Possible Access Networks

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IMS Centric Device Architecture

IMS Applications
VoIP, VCC Multimedia Video IM Presence Gaming

IMS Service Enablers IMS Enabling Protocol Layer IMS Socket API TCP/IP

Non-IMS Applications

Multi-Standard Baseband RFIC RFIC RFIC

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Example Reference Platform

Smartphone evaluation platform Multi-RF support, including WiMAX/WLAN/EDGE Mobile IP and IMS/VCC for service continuity
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Conclusion
Broadband
All-IP network

Mobile
Managed network OoS guarantee Full mobility Easy worldwide roaming

4G

Always on Multiple device form factors Internet connectivity

LTE and WiMAX Mobile have strong commonalities in technology Containing many technologies that we will see with 4G systems Specific differences relate to mobile vs. broadband origins

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WiMAX: Ehud.reshef@comsysmobile.com LTE: Avi.Sharon@comsysmboile.com

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