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Small Cells:
Enterprise, Metro & Rural
Femtocells for 3G
Mindspeed Technologies
Mobile World Congress
Feb 27 - March 1, 2012
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Enterprise and Metro 3G Small Cells
Requirements for Enterprise and Metro 3G Baseband
Stable PHY
RX Diversity Support (uplink user count)
MIMO/Dual Carrier Support
Multiple SKUs supported off of common SW and minimum PCB variants
SmartSignaling
Wide cell radius for rural applications (3km)
High mobility for rural and metro (120km/h)
Soft Handover support
Required for outdoor cells
Best customer experience for indoor
Wide range of user counts
Low cost and low power
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Small Cell Platform: Femtocell Economics
Serves wide range of applications
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8 users
PC3024
PC3008
PC3032
SOHO
Enterprise
Metro
Rural
16-24 users
64 users
32 users
PC3064
Enterprise Femtocell Public Space Picocell Residential Femtocell
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PC30xx Low Cost Femto Products
Single PCB, Single SW load

PC3008
Next Generation Femto
8-users
RX Diversity
13-20dBm

PC3016
Small Office Femto
16 Users
2TX + RX Diversity
20dBm
PC3008
Residential Femto
8-users
SISO
13-20dBm


PC3016
Small Office Femto
16 Users
RX Diversity
20dBm

PC30xx
Low Cost
User Count
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PC3032
Metro
32 Users
LABS
2TX + RX Diversity
24dBm
PC3024
Enterprise
24-users
2TX + RX Diversity
24dBm


PC30xx
High
Performance
One PCB, 4 product SKUs
One PCB, 2 product SKUs
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smartSignaling Benefits

Reduced Signaling Traffic in the Network
Higher Effective User Count
Improved UE Battery Life
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smartSignaling Reduced Signaling
Before smartSignaling
- UEs cycle between Idle and cell_DCH states to save power
- Connection is created and torn down for each transition

Idle
Mode
cell_DCH
cell_FACH
cell_PCH/
URA_PCH
Data
Inactivity
Data
Inactivity
Large Data
Exchange
Date/Control
To be Sent
Small Data
Exchange
RRC
Connection
Request
RRC
Connection
Release
15-20
messages to
the network



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smartSignaling Reduced Signaling Load
Enhanced cell_FACH
New states supported in the UE
- Cell_FACH/cell_PCH/URA_PCH
- UE connection state is maintained
- Less messaging traffic as
connection is not torn down



- Data transmission still occurs using
common channels
RACH/FACH (low speed UL/DL)
Common E-DCH (high speed UL)
HSPDA is shared (high speed DL)
Idle
Mode
cell_DCH
cell_FACH
cell_PCH/
URA_PCH
Data
Inactivity
Data
Inactivity
Large Data
Exchange
Date/Control
To be Sent
Small Data
Exchange
RRC
Connection
Request
RRC
Connection
Release
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smartSignaling Higher Effective User Count

Dedicated channels are not used to
maintain connection
Data users not limited by dedicated
channel capacity
- Traditional user count
Limited instead by RACH/FACH
capacity, common channel capacity
Results in 100s of users being
supported

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100s of UEs
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smartSignaling Improved UE battery life
Enhanced cell_FACH states use
lower power on PA

Much improved battery life
compared to connections with
dedicated channels
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Idle
Mode
cell_DCH
cell_FACH
cell_PCH/
URA_PCH
Data
Inactivity
Data
Inactivity
Large Data
Exchange
Date/Control
To be Sent
Small Data
Exchange
RRC
Connection
Request
RRC
Connection
Release
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Rx Diversity
Two antennas with maximal ratio combining
- Improved performance relative to simple antenna switching
No loss of user/channel capacity
Improves reception and uplink performance
Improves pole capacity of the UE
- Vital in order to support capacity much above 8 users

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DC Dual Cell/Dual Carrier
What is Dual Cell or Dual Carrier?
- Use of 2 adjacent 5 MHz channels in DL and/or UL (release 8)
- Non-adjacent channels (Release 9)
Why
- Better data rates where radio conditions dont favour MIMO
MIMO requires good channel conditions and low correlation between
antennas
- Scheduling gains improve user experience
Throughput
Latency
Cell balancing
- Better capacity than with separate NodeB implementation
- Better throughput and capacity than MIMO
- Macrocell parity
- UE categories 21-24 required
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PC3032 Public Network / Picocell
Local Area Basestation defined class in 3GPP -- Picocell
- High data rates and user capacity
- Maximum Tx power 24 dBm
- 120 km/h UE mobility
PC3032M enables a Picocell
- 32 users
- TX MIMO or Dual Carrier
- RX Diversity
- Soft Handover
- Metro / City centre
- Rural
Femtocell Economics
- SoC Baseband
- Multiple RF Providers
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Soft-Handover Solves Problems in the Enterprise/Metro
In Soft Handover overlapping NodeBs
Communicate simultaneously with UE.
DL signal is summed at UE. Similar for UL
Case which reduces UE UL interference.

Without Soft Handover calls can
get dropped

Enterprise Femtocells must support
Soft Handover to work effectively in
dense deployments