3G Evolution

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History and Background IMT-Advanced Time Schedule in ITU LTE Advanced Fundamental requirements for LTE Advanced Extended Requirements Beyond ITU Requirements Technical components of LTE Advanced p
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Payam Amani Payam.Amani@eit.lth.se P A i@ it lth

Department of Electrical and Information Technology

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History and Background

1980: Early discussions on a global standard for 3G mobile communications within ITU (FPLMTS) i ti ithi (FPLMTS). FPLMTS later named IMT-2000. Isolated activity within ITU focusing on high level scenarios and requirements. Actual technical specification of 3G radio access technologies took place in 3GPP and 3GPP2 3GPP2. R Results submitted t IMT 2000 and received ITU approval. lt b itt d to IMT-2000 d i d l
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History and Background

IMT-2000 : not a radio access technology but a family of radio access technologies f lfilli requirements on IMT di t h l i fulfilling i t IMT2000 being approved by ITU. Late 1990s: While first phase of the 3G radio access technologies were being finalized, ITU considered a step finalized beyond IMT-2000. First named A system beyond IMT-2000, later called IMTAdvanced. d a ced During 2007, more detailed technical issues discussed in ITU.
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History and Background

March 2008, ITU issued a circular letter inviting for candidate radio i t f di interface t h l i f IMT advanced. technologies for d d S h submissions are expected t t k place d i 2009 Such b i i t d to take l during 2009. Evaluation of the submitted candidates till mid 2010 2010. Early 2011: Based of the outcome of the evaluation formal evaluation, ITU-R recommendations for the IMT-Advanced radio interface specification will be drafted. p LTE-Advanced: 3GPPs candidate radio access technology for gy IMT-Advanced.
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IMT-Advanced Time Schedule in ITU

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LTE Advanced
A study item on LTE-Advanced started in 3GPP in March 2008. 2008 Main tasks: Requirements definition and investigation and proposal of technology components to be part of LTEAdvanced. Advanced LTE Advanced: The next major step in evolution of LTE LTE-Advanced: LTE. LTE should provide the starting point for a smooth transition to 4G (IMT-Advanced) radio access.

LTE Advanced and ITU Advanced

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LTE-Advanced
April 2008: A workshop held by 3GPP to discuss different requirements and b i t h l i t d basic technology components f LTE t for LTEAdvanced. The study Item will follow till fall 2009 when all technical specifications will be finalized. Initialization of a work item to discuss detailed specification of p LTE-Advanced. Early 2011: Making LTE-Advanced ready for first commercial deployment will be finalized. Well alligned with IMT-Advancedfor Mobile Broadband 5/28/2009 3G Evolution - HSPA and LTE time line.
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Fundamental requirements for LTE Advanced

Complete fulfillment of the requirement for IMT-Advanced defined by ITU. ITU LTE-Advanced is an evolution of LTE and has to fulfill a set of backwards compatibility requirements.
Backward compatibility in terms of : 1: Spectrum coexistence:For a LTE release terminal, an LTE Advanced cell should appear as a LTE release 8 cell 2: Infrastructure: Upgrading already installed LTE infrastructure to LTE Advanced capabilities with a reasonable cost. 3. Terminal implementation: Possibility of introducing LTE Advanced functionality in mobile terminals with a reasonable incremental complexity and associated cost compared to current LTE capability.
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Fundamental requirements for LTE Advanced

Low cost and smooth t L t d th transition of LTE Ad iti f Advanced capabilities within th d biliti ithi the network.

Extended Requirements Beyond ITU Requirements

3GPPs LTE Advanced should not be limited to fulfillment of the th ITU IMT Ad IMT-Advanced requirements. d i t
Support for pic data rates upto 1 Gbpsin the downlink and 500 Mbps in the uplink. Substantial improvement in system performance such as cell and user throughput with target values significantly exceeding those of IMT-Advanced. Possibility for low cost infrastructure deployment and terminals terminals. High power efficiency, that is low power consumption for both terminals and infrastructure. Efficient spectrum utilization including efficient utilization of fragmented spectrum.

Self Optimising Networks

Enhanced Self Optimising and Self Configuring capabilities, to further reduce operational resources, complexity and cost. This should allow SON to work in a fully autonomous manner. SON and O&M to fully function in multi-vendor environment.

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Technical components of LTE Advanced

Wider bandwidth and carrier aggregation:
The targeted peak data rate for LTE Advanced can only be fulfilled in a reasonable way with a furthure increase of transmission bandwidth compared to what is supported by the first LTE release. Increase of maximum transmission bandwidth beyond 20 MHz, possibly up to 100 MHz or even beyond for both downlink and p Uplink.
Component carriers
(LTE Rel. 8 carriers)

Technical components of LTE Advanced

However, for many operators consecutive allocation of 100 MHz unlikely
optimised performance needed for smaller bandwidths of e.g. 50 MHz low cost/complexity (i.e. not fully flexible) resource aggregation to be considered

Extended multi-antenna solutions:

As a minimum, support for spatial multiplexing on the uplink is anticipated to be part of LTE Advanced. This is needed to fulfill the peak spectral efficiency requirements requirements.

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Technical components of LTE Advanced

Technical components of LTE Advanced

Introduction of carrier aggregation as part of LTE Advanced allows f spectrum aggregation which i simultaneous ll for t ti hi h is i lt usage of different non-contiguous spectrum fragments for communication to/from a single mobile terminal terminal. Major impact on terminal implementation.
Implementation:
Limmited number of aggregation scenarios. Aggregation over dispersed spectrum only being supported by most advanced t d d terminals. i l
Two aggregated carriers gg g Total bandwidth of 40 MHz

E t ti of d Extention f downlink spatial multiplexing t more th f li k ti l lti l i to than four l layers

Limitted application to high SNR scenarios as benefits of 8 layer spatial multiplexing are only present in these cases.

M lti l geographically di Multiple hi ll dispersed antennas connected t a central d t t d to t l baseband processing unit are used.

Coordinated multipoint transmission-reception beyond the traditional three sector sites. th t it

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Technical components of LTE Advanced

Coordinating the transmission from the multiple antennas can b used t i be d to increase th signal t noise ratio f users the i l to i ti for far from the antenna sites. Also can improve power amplifier utilization in the network network.

Advanced repeaters and relaying functionality

Link performance of LTE is quite close to Shannon limit. From a link budget prospective, very high data rates targeted by LTE Advanced require a higher SNR compared to the same for wide area cellular networks. Denser infrastructure deployment and/or various beamforming strategies strategies. Difference relaying solutions can also be used to provide very high data rates over large geographical areas.

Central unit

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Advanced repeaters and relaying functionality

A wide range of relay types can be envisioned, ranging from simple repeaters which are already used t d f f i l t hi h l d d today for coverage improvement in troublesom spots to more advanced solutions where the relay can be seen as a base station (self-backhauling: the transport network from the y ) relay uses the same air interface as the terminals.).

LTE Advanced Workshop

Draft LTE Advanced Requirements Source: 3GPP TSG RAN Chairman

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Draft LTE Advanced Requirements

General LTE Advanced shall be an evolution of LTE All requirements/targets in TR25.913 apply to LTE-Advanced LTE terminal shall be supported in LTE-advanced networks an LTE Advanced terminal can work in an LTE part of the LTE-Advanced network g g g Allow coverage ranging from Macro cells to indoor environment such as Home coverage Primary focus of LTE-Advanced is low mobility users Self-configuration and optimization shall be further enhanced F t Features already supported i previous releases are a prel d t d in i l requisite for being supported by LTE advanced Handovers with legacy RATs Network sharing
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Draft LTE Advanced Requirements

General
Non backward compatible elements introduction shall be subject to TSG RAN Decisions LTE advanced shall support FDD and TDD mode of operation with maximum commonality Cost reduction
Low cost of the infrastructure deployment and terminal for LTE advanced shall be an essential element Power efficiency in the infrastructure and terminal shall be an essential element Backhauling shall minimize cost per bit

Minimizing additional complexity for the terminal Multi-vendor support shall not be degraded from LTE Release 8
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Draft LTE Advanced Requirements

Spectrum
Aggregation of LTE spectrum
Non contiguous as well as contiguous

Draft LTE Advanced Requirements

Performances Fulfill IMT-Advanced requirements within the ITU-R time plan Target for Peak data rate: Peak data rate in DL: [up to] 1 Gbps Peak data rate in UL: [Greater than 500 Mbps] Target for spectrum efficiency P k Peak Uplink: [15] b/Hz/s Downlink: [30] b/Hz/s Average Uplink: [2] b/Hz/s Downlink: [3.2] b/Hz/s And at cell edge Uplink: [0.05] b/Hz/s p [ ] Downlink: [0.1] b/Hz/s Assumption: Minimum antenna configuration to be considered, 2x2 for Downlink, 1x2 for Uplink Deployment scenario considered for absolute values is case 1 in TR25.814 Similar relative gains are targeted for other system scenario in TR25.814 Additional indoor scenarios[TBD] should be considered
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Scalable Up to 100 MHz Potential bands in addition to the already allocated ones for
450470 MHz band, 698 862 698862 MHz band band, 790862 MHz band, 2.32.4 GHz band, 3.4 4.2 3 44 2 GHz band and band, 4.4-4.99 GHz band.

O Operation of LTE and LTE Ad ti f d LTE-Advanced i th same spectrum d in the t

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Performances
The same inter-RAT interworking capability with at least same performance as in LTE Release 8 Intra-RAT handover performance shall be same or better than LTE Release 8 Delay y
Not worse than LTE, i.e. control plane delay <100ms and (unloaded) user plane delay < [5 ms/10 ms]

Questions: Thanks for your attention :

Questions? Q ti ?

VoIP capacity
[300] concurrent VoIP @5MHz
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