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Hspa Carrier Aggregation Evolution
Hspa Carrier Aggregation Evolution
Evolution of HSPA+
Carrier Aggregation
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HSPA+ carrier aggregation evolution
HSPA+ 5MHz CARRIERS
Carrier aggregation enhances broadband experience
1 All users in the cell improved with higher data rates and lower latencies
Carrier #1
Carrier #4
2
Carrier #2
Carrier #3
Aggregation across bands, across carriers (multiflow), more carriers, and uplink,
AGGREGATED
Expanded chipset support for carrier aggregation DATA PIPE
4 Carrier aggregation across bands, uplink and beyond two carriers
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HSPA+ Dual-carrier is main-stream
Supporting 42 Mbps downlink peak data rate
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NETWORKS
83
COUNTRIES
Deployment of 42 Mbps
DC-HSPA+ technology
continues as the major
trend in 2014
– GSA, Mar 2014
1Defined in Rel 9; 2 Originally defined in Rel 9, more carriers and combinations added in Rel 11; 3Defined in Rel 9, band combinations being defined by 3GPP; 4Dual-carrier in Rel 8, 4-carrier in Rel 10, and 8-carriers in Rel11; Defined in Rel 11
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Carrier aggregation enhances user experience
84 Mbps
63 Mbps Future
in 2015
42 Mbps
Commercial
Carrier 4
Carrier 3
Up to
20 MHz
Carrier 2
Carrier 1
2x CA 3x CA 4x CA
R8 Carrier aggregation
(Dual-Carrier 2X)
Single Carrier
12.7 (Same number of users per carrier, for fair comparison
Mbps 11.7 user data rate experienced during a burst)
Mbps
6.5
Mbps
6.6
4.8
Mbps
3.3 Mbps
Mbps 2.8
Mbps 1.4
Mbps
Best Users
(10% percentile) Cell Edge Users
Median Users
* Not only users with carrier aggregation devices in the cell (as shown in the chart) see improved performance but also users with legacy devices (not shown in the chart) because the former will free-up resources if the total traffic remains the same
Qualcomm simulations. Each scenario is based on the same total number of users (eight users) per carrier. Shows the burst data rate for the 10% best users , the median users and the 10% worst (cell edge) users.
MIMO with Carrier aggregations part of R9 and R10, but MIMO has not been considered in this simulation. 7
Carrier aggregation combinations—standard progress
3GPP R12 expected to be completed toward the end of 2014
Band I – 2.1 GHz; Band II – 1900 MHz; Band IV – 2.1GHz (AWS); Band V – 850 MHz; Band VIII – 900 MHz; Band XI – 1500 MHz; Band XXXII – 1.4 GHz (L-Band)
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Brining benefits of dual-carrier to uplink
Addressing the needs of today’s smartphones and media sharing (e.g. photo and video uploads)
Higher Uplink data rates Higher uplink capacity for bursty apps
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(Similar to downlink)
Mbps (peak) 10
HSPA+ Dual-Carrier (10 MHz)
6 Doubles
Burst Rate1
4
Uplink Carrier #1
10 Partially Capacity Gain
MHz 2 loaded
carriers —Can exceed 2x Fully
Uplink Carrier #2 loaded
carriers
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Capacity (Number of Bursty Application Users)
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Leveraging unpaired spectrum with supplemental downlink
Boosts downlink capacity
Unpaired FDD Paired FDD Paired
(Supplemental Downlink) (Downlink) (Uplink)
F1
1 L-Band in Europe: 1452 MHz to 1492 MHz, sometimes referred to as 1.4GHz or 1.5GHz spectrum.
2 Aggregation across bands is supported in HSPA+ R9 for two downlink carriers, but each specific band combination, e.g. combination of band 1 and L-band, has to be defined in 3GPP.
3 subject to timely completion of standard with reasonable technical specifications 10
Multiflow - carrier aggregation across cells
Enabling carrier aggregation in all deployments
Higher cell-edge data rates Better network load balancing Higher network capacity
1With
11
the evolution to supporting 4 carrier aggregation, multiflow can aggregate up to 3 carriers from one site/cell and one carrier from the other cells in the future
Multiflow Improves cell-edge data rates and network capacity
Higher cell-edge data rates
1.4X
1.2X
1X
1.7X
1.5X
1X
Range Expansion
Reduce second carrier
Macro Power (F2)
Carrier 2
Carrier 1
Macro
Small cell Dual-carrier
Devices
Enabling features: reduced power on second macro carrier , dual carrier devices (or dual frequency Multiflow), and mitigating uplink and downlink imbalance (3dB Cell-individual offset (CIO) and pico noise-figure pad) 13
Expanded HSPA+ carrier chipset aggregation support
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ and Qualcomm® Gobi™ are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. ; Snapdragon 800 includes 8974 14
Four carrier multiflow demo at MWC 2014
Aggregating across four cells (and two frequencies)
Carrier #1
Carrier #4
2
Carrier #2
Carrier #3
Aggregation across bands, across carriers (multiflow), more carriers, and uplink,
AGGREGATED
Expanded chipset support for carrier aggregation DATA PIPE
4 Carrier aggregation across bands, uplink and beyond two carriers
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