Review of Coordinated Multipoint(CoMP)

Techniques for LTE-Advanced and Beyond

Amare Kassaw1,2

Instructor: Dr.-Ing Beyenaym B.1

1
AAiT-AAU
2
SPG-TUD

27 Dec, 2017

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 Outline

Introduction

CoMP:Theory of Operation

Benefits

Architecture and Scenarios

Implementation Challenges

Market Status

Conclusion

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 Introduction
Key LTE-A requirements

 LTE-A is meant to fulfill the key IMT-A requirements.

 Spectral Efficiency: Downlink-30 bps/Hz; uplink-15 bps/Hz
 Data Rate: Downlink-1Gbps; uplink-500 Mbps
 Bandwidth: Minimum 40 MHz BW and up to 100 MHz is possible
 Integration: Interworking with other RAT systems
 Latency: 10 ms for roundtrip packet transmission
 Mobility: Up to 350 km/h mobility support
 Throughput: Cell edge user throughput to be 2X that of LTE and
average user throughput to be 3X that of LTE

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 Introduction
TTE-A: Technologies

 Technologies inbuilt in LTE-A

 Deployment time-line of technologies in LTE-A [Qualcomm-2016] [1]

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 CoMP: Coordinated Multipoint Transmission [2, 3]

 A network MIMO to improve sector and cell-edge throughput via

collaborative processing, precoding, coordinated beamforming, and
interference nulling.
 Based on its location, UE may be able to transmit and receive
signals from multiple cell sites.

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 CoMP: Coordinated Multipoint Transmission [2, 3]

 Enables dynamically coordinated transmission and reception with

multiple eNBs.
 help for ICIC via coordinated message exchange among eNBs.
 It help to improve [2]:
 Coverage for high data rates
 Cell-edge throughput and
 System throughput

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 CoMP: Benefits [2, 3]

 Help to improve QoS and network utilization.

 Enhance throughput and coverage performance by reducing the
interference.
 Helps to increase the User Equipment’s (UE) data rate.
 Helps for universal structure of coordination and collaboration in
MIMO-OFDM

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 CoMP: Architecture and Scenarios
Architecture

 Based on transmission/reception techniques, CoMP scenarios can be

 Intra-eNB CoMP: Coordination is with in the cells. Does not require
backhaul links. Thus, large amount of data exchange is possible.
 Inter-eNB CoMP: coordination of multiple sites for CoMP
transmission. Coordination among eNBs is done via the fiber/X2
interface.

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 CoMP:Architecture and Scenarios
Architecture [4]

 Based on the network topologies and backhaul characteristics

 For homogeneous vs heterogeneous networks

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 CoMP:Architecture and Scenarios
Architecture

 Based on ways of coordination:

centralized and distributed architecture
 Centralized coordination
 use feedback information from eNB’s.
 Use advanced RMS techniques
 Has delay factor and backhaul
overhead
 Distributed Coordination
 All neighboring eNBs trade CSI and
UE information
 One of the cooperated eNB acts as a
master cell

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 CoMP:Architecture and Scenarios
Scenarios: Ways of Coordination, Where and How?

 Coordinated position: everywhere in the cell or only at the cell

edge.
 Coordinated nodes: intra-eNB and inter-eNB CoMP
 Coordination level [1, 2]:
 Coordinated scheduling(CS)/Beam forming(CB)
 Dynamic Cell Selection (DCS)
 Joint Processing (JP)

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 CoMP:Architecture and Scenarios
Scenarios : UL-DL CoMP types

 UL-DL CoMP types and its classification [2]

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 CoMP: Implementation Challenges [2, 3, 4, 5]

 Require strict coordination and synchronization b/n eNBs and UEs.

 Require efficient and advanced clustering techniques
 Large amount of feedback data exchange that need broadband
backhaul links.
 Unavailability of complete CSI
 Complex computation of joint precoding weights
 Performance effects due to backhaul interface and other latencies.

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 CoMP
Market Status

 For market status study, we should consider major issues such as

 Global LTE and LTE Advanced Market:
• Drivers
• Technological Segmentation
• Key Players
• Trends and Dynamics
• Issues and Challenges
• Supply and Demand Value Chain
• ...

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 CoMP
Market Status

 Driving market forces towards LTE-A [GSA-July, 2017]

 LTE/LTE-A user status

 28 % LTE subscribers
 601 LTE/LTE-Advanced networks
 2.16 billion LTE subscriber
 8,623 LTE user devices
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 CoMP
Market Status

 LTE user device growth  LTE device frequency bands

[GSA-July, 2017]

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 CoMP
Market Status

 Key players: Operators embracing LTE Network [Qualcomm-2016]

 Includes commercial launches, launch plans, trials, demos, and

commitments

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 Conclusion

 In CoMP network, multiple eNBs cooperate each other to eliminate

inter-cell interference or convert it into useful signal.
 Help to mitigate ICI, especially for the cell-edge users.
 CoMP technique helps to improve spectral efficiency, enhance
throughput, and coverage performance.

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 [3, 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

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 Thank You!

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