The Journey to 5G Francis Chow VP & GM, Communications Business - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Journey to 5G Francis Chow VP & GM, Communications Business Unit

Standards and Key Technologies

The Targets for 5G 1,000x mobile data volumes Evolutionary Component Disruptive Evolutionary New 100x connected device 4G Waveforms Evolutions Architecture M2M 100x end-user data rates (low latency) Massive Virtualisation MIMO Disruptive Network 5x lower latency Architectures MMW Access 10x longer battery life 4

The Evolution of Long Term Evolution 4.5G and 5G will have a proliferation of standards to meet diverse requirements  e.g. coverage vs capacity vs latency 5

5G Building Blocks (1) New Network deployments Massive MIMO Radio architecture’s that enable computationally intensive/adaptive air interfaces for higher Ultra-dense radio networking, Device to device, dynamic spectrum re-farming speed/capacity Integration with Wi-Fi Maximizing Spectrum availability 5G Network CN AP BS AP BS Collocated Non - collocated Utilizing any spectrum Licensed and Unlicensed to Utilizing any access technology to improve Mobility increase coverage and throughput Energy & cost efficiency 6

5G Building Blocks (2) Advanced coding & modulation mmWave System Integration Peak Rate 1 Gbps Peak Rate 50 Gbps Frequency band Increased integration of access node and backhaul design for peak data rate or simultaneous connections Advances in coding & modulation to improve spectral efficiency lower latency Interference management Cloud, SDN/NFV integration Additional low latency coordinated processing to A flexible and adaptive virtual network reducing improve cell edge data rate & spectral efficiency cost and time to market 7

5G Timeline Consensus required across multiple standards bodies  Multiple vendors targeting 2018 Winter Olympics for first 5G target 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Requirements, system Standardization and architecture and key Trial Deployment prototyping technology studies WRC12 WRC15 WRC18/19 Standardisation, Development, Trial's & Testing 5G Whitepaper Meet 5G requirements 5G Lite 5G Rel 13 Rel 12 Rel 14/15/16… 2018 Korea 2020 Tokyo Winter Olympics Summer Olympics 8

Overcoming 5G Challenges

The ABC Curve of Telecom Source: Huawei 10

Future Direction of Operators Build Smart Pipe Not Only any Time any Where …  But also Any Speed Any Service … Intelligence of Network  Smart capacity allocation  Coordinated communication  Application awareness User Capacity Network Experience Increase Efficiency Provide Cloud Service  OTT competition  Ultra Low-latency and high bandwidth  Move cloud to mobile edge  Hardware Platform Standardization Business Market Network Model Creation Virtualization Figure source:: ZTE 11

CRAN Centralized RAN  BBU Sites Reduction UHD Video Steaming Cloud Storage Low Latency App  Lower Cooling cost  Lower Blocking Rate Coordinated RAN  Coordinated Multipoint Transmission and Reception (CoMP)  Inter-cell interference coordination Cloud RAN  Network Virtualization  Load Balance  Multi-RAT Dynamic BaseStation  Enable low latency Services Source: CMRI Interference Cancellation 12

Key Technologies • Virtualization • Real-time Cloud • Acceleration • Switching • Interconnect • CPRI (Compression) Fronthaul Network • Optical Transport • mmWave (E/V band) • Distributed RRU RRU RRU • Digital Front end RRU RRU • L1 Processing RRU 13

What Is a PLD? A programmable logic device (PLD) is Non-PLDs a type of semiconductor ASSP ASIC Most semiconductors can be programmed only once to perform a Application Specific Application Specific specific function Integrated Circuit Standard Product PLDs PLDs are reprogrammable—functions can be changed or enhanced during development or after manufacturing CPLD FPGA Complex Programmable Field Programmable Logic Device Gate Array Flexibility Makes PLDs Low er Risk and Faster to Design Than Other Types of Semiconductors 14

Virtualization on Real Time Cloud-RAN GSM TD- TD-LTE Low Other Multi-RAT stacks and new BTS Services BTS SCDMA Latency BTS Services services SW SW CloudM SW CDN Stack Stack Stack vEPC Cache Scalable load-balancing VM VM VM VM soft solution Hypervisor High bandwidth interfaces/ PCIe/QPI/AXI/… connections CPU Interconnect Meet real-time challenges PCIe/QPI/AXI/… with virtualization by FPGA Priority Management for peripherals, switch and acceleration. Switch connectivity connectivity Egress External External Ingress L1 Accelerator L2/3 Accelerator Video/Security Accelerator Other Services Accelerator FPGA 15

Acceleration with FPGA Performance/Latency  Accelerate your design or application by up to 35X faster vs. CPU  L1 example: Turbo decoder Greener  Much Lower power Portability  Reuse as SW Flexibility  Services Agnostic  Time to Market  New business model 16

Switching and Interconnect Connectivity Switching/Bridge Network Topology • Various Protocols • Scheduling • Scalability • Load Balancing • Flexible/Programmable • Backplane management Fat tree Butterfly Torus 17

CPRI and CPRI Compression CPRI (Common Public Radio interfaces)  High speed data link between Base Band Unit (BB) and Remote Radio Unit (RRU)  Stringent requirement latency and jitter, while retain flexibility => FPGA with Transceivers. RRU CPRI CPRI CPRI RRU CPRI BBU RRU RRU CPRI Compression  Reduce data throughput between radio and baseband Support more carriers and capacity with the limited fiber resources Latency and performance challenges  Proprietary algorithms FPGA is the Evolution Enabling Technology 18

Fronthaul over Fiber or mmWave Bandwidth and Latency Critical Fronthaul Potentials  Conventional CPRI optical link  CPRI over OTU multiplexing into DWM  CPRI over mmWave modulation. CPRI CPRI over OTN Test Result RRU E/V Band mmWave Altera Microwave Solution CPRI RRU RRU RRU OTN CPRI RRU RRU RRU RRU RRU 19

Distributed RRU ARM SOC Sub-system CPU Integration reduces size and DDR3 Interface ARM ARM Ethernet power Processor Processor DPD O&M Volume drives lower system cost Functions Algorithm  OEMs need to develop products with multiple variables Data Converter Interface Digital Baseband Interface CFR DPD  Scalable solutions across Hardware and Up conversion (CPRI, OBSAI) Framer Software Flexibility for upgrade and PAs Digital  TDS-CDMA => TD-LTE Downconversion High-bandwidth interconnects DDR3 Host Debug Interface Interface Proliferation of hardware requirements Favor FPGA Flexibility and Scalability 20

Summary The Journey to 5G  5G innovations  4.5G LTE Path ( LTE- A, U, V, M) in the mean time C-RAN enables operators to answer some 5G challenges  Reducing Opex and Manage Capex  Enhance both spectrum and platform efficiency and capacity  Reuse investment for new business FPGA enables Future Wireless  Time to market  Scalability and Flexibility 21

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