3GPP LTE Standards Update

THE Mobile Broadband Standard
3GPP 2012 LTE MENA 2012, Dubai, 29th-30th April 2012

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3GPP LTE Standards Update

Issam Toufik

Technical Officer, 3GPP RAN4
Mobile Competence Centre

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Outline
Short introduction to 3GPP
LTE, the UMTS Long Term Evolution, Rel-8 and Rel-9
LTE-Advanced, Rel-10
Further Enhancements for LTE-Advanced, Rel-11 and
beyond
Conclusions
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The Role of 3GPP

Maintenance and evolution of Radio Technologies:
GSM, GPRS, W-CDMA, UMTS, EDGE, HSPA and LTE
Maintenance and evolution of the related Core Network and Systems Architecture

Partnership Consists of
Regional standards organizations
(Asia, Europe & North America):

Market partners representing the broader industry: NGN Forum (IMS Forum), TD-Forum, GSA,
GSMA, IPv6 Forum, UMTS Forum, 4G Americas, TD-SCDMA Industry Alliance, ICU, Femto Forum,
CDG, COAI, NGMN Alliance
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LTE, the UMTS Long Term Evolution
Rel-8, Rel-9
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Core Network
Evolution
Node B
RNC
SGSN
GGSN
MSC
PSTN
eNode B
S-GW
P-GW
Operators
IP Services
(e.g., IMS, PSS etc)
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11
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07
05
09
99
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Circuit/GPRS
Core Network
Evolved Packet
Core Network
MME
Operators
IP Services
(e.g., IMS, PSS etc)
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LTE Release 8 Key Features
High spectral efficiency
OFDM in Downlink
Robust against multipath interference
High affinity to advanced techniques
Frequency domain channel-dependent scheduling
MIMO
DFTS-OFDM(Single-Carrier FDMA) in Uplink
Low PAPR
User orthogonality in frequency domain
Multi-antenna application
Very low latency
Short setup time & Short transfer delay
Short HO latency and interruption time
Short TTI
RRC procedure
Simple RRC states
Support of variable bandwidth
1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz
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Release 9 LTE Features
Small enhancements from LTE Release 8 mainly for higher layer
HeNB (Home eNode B)
HeNB Access Mode
Rel-8: Closed Access Mode
Rel-9: Open and Hybrid Mode
HeNB Mobility between HeNB and macro
Rel-8: Out-bound HO
Rel-9: in-bound and inter-CSG HO
SON (self-organizing networks)
Rel-8: Self configuration, Basic self-optimization
Rel-9: RACH optimization, etc
MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service)
Rel-8: Radio physical layer specs
Rel-9: Radio higher layer and NW interface specs
LCS (Location Services)
Rel-8: U-Plane solutions
Rel-9: C-Plane solutions, e.g. OTDOA
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LTE-Advanced
Rel-10 and beyond
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1999
Release 99
Release 4
Release 5
Release 6
1.28Mcps TDD
HSDPA
W-CDMA
HSUPA, MBMS
Release 7
HSPA+ (MIMO, HOM etc.)
Release 8
LTE
Release 9
Release 10
LTE
enhancements
Release 11+
ITU-R M.1457
IMT-2000 Recommendation
ITU-R M.[IMT.RSPEC]
IMT-Advanced Recommendation
Motivation for LTE-Advanced
LTE-Advanced
2011
3GPP aligned to ITU-R IMT process
Allows Coordinated approach to
WRC: Additional IMT spectrum band identified in
WRC07
3GPP Releases evolve to meet:
Future Requirements for IMT
Future operator and end-user
requirements
Further LTE
enhancements
3 Gbps
64QAM
8x8 MIMO 100MHz BW
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Future requirements

Significant increase in data Traffic
Driven by Video
Spread of smart-phones
New applications and traffic patterns
Traffic is no longer dominated
by traditional voice services
Requirement for data rates
comparable to the fixed internet
Diverse QoS
Energy Saving
Economical reasons
Ecological concerns
Backward compatibility
Market Trends

Very high network capacity
With a reduced cost per bit
High Spectral efficiency
Improved user experience
Low latency
Fairness of user throughput
Cell edge vs cell center
Urban vs rural
Users: Less system impact
from heavy users
Low CAPEX and OPEX
Energy saving
Self Optimization
Technology requirements
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Evolution directions
Current
capacity
Required Network Capacity
Spectrum Efficiency
Techniques to increase
the bits/Hz/s
Bandwidth extension
depends on the future
allocations and UE capabilities
Traffic offloading
offloading of the traffic
away from the Evolved
Packet Core network
Network density
- Heterogeneous deployments
- architectures to reduce the
cost per bit are required
Conventional approach
for capacity improvement
Emerging solutions
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Key Requirements for
LTE-Advanced
LTE-Advanced shall be deployed as an evolution of LTE Release 8 and on new
bands.
LTE-Advanced shall be backwards compatible with LTE Release 8
Smooth and flexible system migration from Rel-8 LTE to LTE-Advanced

LTE Rel-8 cell
LTE Rel-8 terminal
LTE-Advanced terminal
LTE-Advanced cell
LTE Rel-8 terminal
LTE-Advanced terminal
LTE-Advanced backward compatibility with LTE Rel-8
An LTE-Advanced terminal can
work in an LTE Rel-8 cell
An LTE Rel-8 terminal can work
in an LTE-Advanced cell
LTE-Advanced contains all features of LTE Rel-
8&9 and additional features for further
evolution
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Key Features in LTE Release 10
Support of Wider Bandwidth(Carrier Aggregation)
Use of multiple component carriers (CC) to extend bandwidth up to 100 MHz
Common physical layer parameters between component carrier and LTE Rel-8 carrier
Improvement of peak data rate, backward compatibility with LTE Rel-8

Advanced MIMO techniques
Extension to up to 8-layer transmission in downlink
Introduction of single-user MIMO up to 4-layer transmission in uplink
Enhancements of multi-user MIMO
Improvement of peak data rate and capacity

Heterogeneous network and eICIC (enhanced Inter-Cell Interference
Coordination)
Interference coordination for overlaid deployment of cells with different Tx power
Improvement of cell-edge throughput and coverage

Relay
Type 1 relay supports radio backhaul and creates a separate cell and appear as Rel. 8 LTE eNB to
Rel. 8 LTE UEs
Improvement of coverage and flexibility of service area extension

100 MHz
f
CC

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Coordinated Multi-Point
transmission and reception (CoMP)
Support of multi-cell transmission and reception
Improvement of cell-edge throughput and coverage

Technical Topics:
Deployment scenarios
UE feedback enhancement
Control signaling and measurement procedures
UL sounding enhancements
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Multi-user MIMO
DL transmissions in the latest releases of LTE utilize
precoded reference signals.
Still a significant gap between the theoretical
promises of MU-MIMO and practice
Lack of accuracy of the CSIT.

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Relays
Coverage extension (including filling coverageholes)
Capacity boosting:
network coding: complex and dependent on high channel
estimation accuracy
Issues related to interference generated by the nodes

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Other Topics in rel-11 and to
come
Relays - part 2: Mobile relays, flow control,
Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) enhancements
Network Energy Saving for E-UTRAN
MBMS enhancements: Service continuity aspects
SON enhancements: LTE-A/HeNB specific aspects
Network-Based Positioning Support in LTE
Further Enhanced Non CA-based ICIC for LTE
LTE RAN Enhancements for Diverse Data Applications
CA enhancements

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Implementation Advances
Not all enhancements to LTE-Advanced will require
changes to the system specifications
Implementation advances are also to be expected:
Channel estimation, Interference cancellation,
UE side: tighter requirements to identify superior UEs
Network side: centralized processing, enhanced
algorithms for scheduling and coordination between
cells and between transmission/reception points.
Will not be standardized, but will have a major impact on
the performance and reliability offered by the LTE-
Advanced networks of the future.
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Spectrum Explosion in 3GPP
Recently standardized (Sep. 2011)
UMTS/LTE 3500MHz
Extending 850 MHz Upper Band (814 849 MHz)

Spectrum to be standardized by Sep. 2012
LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation of Band 3 and Band 7
LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation of Band 4 and Band 17
LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation Band 2 and Band 17
LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation in Band 41
LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation in Band 38
LTE Downlink FDD 716-728MHz
LTE E850 - Lower Band for Region 2 (non-US)
LTE for 700 MHz digital dividend
Study on Extending 850MHz
Study on Interference analysis between 800~900 MHz bands
Study on UMTS/LTE in 900 MHz band

E-UTRA operating bands in 3GPP TS 36.101
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Release 12 onward
A 2 days 3GPP workshop will take place:
11 - 12 Jun 2012, Ljubljana
Scope: investigate what are the main changes that
could be brought forward to evolve RAN toward
Release 12 and onward:
Requirements
Potential technologies
Technology roadmap for Releases 12, 13 and after
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Prospects
3GPP systems approach ensures
evolution to meet new service
requirements
Industrial input to 3GPP solid and
growing
LTE and LTE-Advanced are not the
end, 3GPP is now studying future
networks
LTE is an evolution path for non
3GPP systems, providing future
path for full coverage
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Thank You
www.3gpp.org
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