Towards 5G Networks..

Updates from MWC 2018

Dr. Mohamed Nadder

Director of Network Engineering
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1. Massive MIMO
2. Fixed Wireless Access
3. Spectrum Access System
4. Indoor Era Evolution
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 Turning smart..

Smart Antennas are

adaptive beamformers.
They possess some “super
powers” to dynamically
change their patterns’ main
beam and nulls directions.

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 Macro Cell: Deployment Scenario
m
5G would allow for widespread adoption of 3.5 GHz
Massive MIMO products at the macro site level.

(MU) MIMO: RAN-CU 1.7 KM inter-site

distance.

 data streams = min( BS Key Technologies:

Massive MIMO and
Beamforming

antenna elements,  UE
antenna elements Key Technologies:
Beam scanning
80 MHz Bandwidth
with LTE-TDD

Beam k

MaMi(Marzetta): N-Antenna
Base Station
UE K

Number of antenna Key Technologies:

Beamformed Control Channel
elements at the BS reaches +10 dB
Beam 1
dozens or hundreds. Key Technologies:
Supplemental Uplink
• Extend DL by increasing
power at high band.
• Extend UL by using low
Adapted from on infrastructure in Yang and Quek (2017), band.
User
and specifications in Qualcomm (2016). Equipment 1
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30o

8 (4 x-pol columns)

Steering Beam
(Horizontal Pattern)

• TDD 2.3 GHz, 2.6 GHz, 3.5 GHz

Stage1: • 8 RF Chains from Radio to Antenna (8T8R)
Planar Arrays • Radio Applies Phase and Amplitude shifts
8T8R • Horizontal Only Beam steering

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 Radio Unit
band1

Internal
element
Diplexers

Radio Unit
band2
16 (8 cross.pol columns)

• FDD 1.9 GHz & 2.1 GHz

Stage2: • 16+16 RF chains from Radio (NOKIA)
Integrated Radios • 224 Antenna Elements
32T32R • Horizontal Only Beam steering

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Stage3: • 28 GHz, 60 dBm EIRP

Massive MIMO (FWA) • NBS =256 Antenna Elements
256AE • X-RAN open BBU interface

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 Hybrid MIMO beamforming

• Each beam services

multiple users
4 • Beam direction & width
independently dynamically adapts every
steerable beams time slot
per sector
• Increases gain and
directivity

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 Open Ecosystem
Driving down costs with multi-vendor interoperability and open standards

Software-based, extensible Software-based, cloud

Radio Access Network (RAN) native network solutions
standards development 5G modems and chipsets including vEPC and vRAN
Fronthaul Working Group for the industry facilitates
CPE interoperability

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 mmWave Signal & Network Analyzers
RRH
Positioner

CommScope
mmWave
Laboratory
20 GSa/sec Oscilloscope
mmWave Anechoic Chamber

5G mmWave Waveform Generators

10/40/100 GbE Optical Tester

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 Spectrum Access
System - SAS

• For U.S. CBRS band (150MHz

at 3.5GHz)

• Three Priority Tiers

1. Incumbent: Coastal Navy radars
2. Priority: Licensed Auction users
3. General: Private nets, WISP, ..etc

• Uses ESC (Environment

Sensing Capability)
• 3550–3650 MHz (Navy radars)

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 The EraTM Indoor C-RAN System

Access Point
Transport Extension (Licensed & Unlicensed)
Node (TEN)

Transport Extension
Node (TEN)
Central Area
CPRI CPRI RF RF Node (CAN)
Operator BBUs/BTSs

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 Era provides a path to 5G indoors

5G RAN Evolution

RF and CPRI C-RAN Virtualization

5G Service Evolution
2G/3G Wi-Fi LTE LAA CBRS 5GNR

End-to-end Digital Fiber/WDM Fronthaul Soft Sectorization Network Power

Era Future-Ready Infrastructure

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Thank You !

Dr. Mohamed Nadder Hamdy

mohamed.nadder@commscope.com