5G Ericsson

Uplink Booster
Maximize uplink performance
starting today
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Extended coverage,
improved user throughput
and higher spectral efficiency
with Ericsson Uplink Booster
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Maximize uplink
performance

Most mobile network traffic has historically been on

the downlink as end-users have long craved high data
speeds to download their favorite videos. However, with
the anticipated growth of 5G, tight integrated hardware
and software solutions are needed to maximize uplink
performance. Why? To meet the demands of high-
demanding uplink applications across social media,
multi-player gaming, remote control of high-speed train,
augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR), cloud gaming,
360 cameras, remote driving and even high-definition
security video surveillance and high-definition
video conferencing.

This is the rationale for

developing software solu-
tions that boost the uplink,
as an inherent part of all Develop software
Ericsson´s 5G mid-band solutions that boost
(below 6GHz time division the uplink
duplex, TDD) Massive
multiple input, multiple
output (MIMO) antenna
integrated radios (AIR).
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The value of Ericsson

Uplink Booster

Ericsson Uplink Booster is a highly innovative solution based

on a superior architecture and sophisticated algorithms
to maximize uplink performance via extended coverage,
increased user throughput and higher spectral efficiency. At
the heart of Ericsson Uplink Booster, it is our Ericsson Silicon.

Tailor-made for Enhanced network

mobile networks performance

Modular architecture Enabler for innovation

for RAN products today and tomorrow

Security built in Optimized energy

from the start efficiency and footprint

Ericsson Silicon is a unique, tailor made, solution that allows to design products, both for present and future RAN needs. enabling advanced RAN processing.

Ericsson innovation
and design

Superior 5G architecture
Optimal eCPRI plus Ericsson
low layer split

Sophisticated algoritms
Instantaneous channel
estimation

Full dimension interference

rejection combining

Maximize and secure

uplink performance
Extended coverage

Improved uplink throughput

Higher spectral efficiency

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Beamforming and interference

suppression in the radio is vital

The uplink receiver funcionality, which

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Ericsson Uplink Booster maximizes Figure 1. Fronthaul based on CPRI implies high transport cost.
and secures uplink performance with
extended coverage, improved through-
put, and high spectral efficiency –
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solution: optimal physical layer split

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uplink receiver function in the Massive Figure 2. Reduced fronthaul reduces transport cost and sacrifices performance due to compressed data.
MIMO AIR for high performance and
optimal transport cost.

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Digital front-end processing
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Layer 1 processing
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Figure 3. Optimal physical layer split -Ericsson low layer split- with beamforming and interference suppression
in the Massive MIMO antenna integrated radio for high performance and optimal transport cost.
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Smart architecture design

As shown in the figure below, Ericsson´s Massive MIMO

mid-band AIR is built on evolved common packet radio
interface (eCPRI) and powered by Ericsson Silicon.
What’s more, the Ericsson Uplink Booster relies on real
time channel estimation, which is vital for interference
rejection to maximize uplink performance.

< 1 ms
Ericsson Silicon enabler Real time channel estimation Ericsson
for high Massive MIMO - Instant interference supression Uplink
processing needs - Ultra-precise beamforming Booster

Digital front-end processing

Beamforming processing eCPRI

Layer 1 processing
Layer 2 processing

Silicon

The eCPRI interface is an evolved
fronthaul standard agreed by industry
leaders and utilizes standard Ethernet
technology. Its bandwidth scales flexibly
with user traffic and allows for a 10x
reduction of bandwidth on the interface.
The real time channel estimation -in
less than one millisecond- and the
instant suppression of the interference
is performed in the radio using the full
receiver capability provided by Massive
MIMO radios, which generate ultra-
precise beamforming. This huge amount of
processing need is exceptionally run on the
antenna integrated radios, thanks to our
high-efficiency Ericsson Silicon.
The Ericsson Silicon range of System
on a Chip (SoC), is custom-made for
mobile networks and spans across the
entire Ericsson Radio System - RAN
Compute, Radio and Transport - to enable
communications service providers to
surpass the expectations of their
end-customers.
Ericsson Silicon uses tailor-made
Application Specific Integrated Circuits
(ASIC), containing hundreds of
specialized digital signal processors
(DSPs) and accelerators, to implement
the Ericsson Silicon, System on a Chip
(SoC). It is an advanced ASIC with
digital logic, mixed signal content, and
processors.
The main challenge in uplink is
that channel conditions change
instantaneously, where the interference
may vary significantly every transmission
time interval (TTI) and with potentially
users moving fast and consuming bursty
applications. Therefore, instantaneous
channel estimation and tracking of the
user is the key, as well as suppressing
interference from the non-desired users.
Real time channel
estimation is vital for
interference rejection
to maximize uplink
performance
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Ultra-precise beamforming eCPRI allows up to 90% Ericsson Silicon

with real time channel reduction of bandwidth industry-leading energy
estimation and instant versus CPRI efficiency, performance
interference suppression and innovation

Industry-standard receiver applies pre-filtering based on previous user detection.

Ericsson Uplink Booster enables instantaneous channel estimation and tracking of the user.
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Ericsson Uplink Booster

benefits in a nutshell

The key benefits of Ericsson Uplink Booster: extended coverage with up to 10dB gain, improved user throughput and higher spectral efficiency.

For more information:

Ericsson Uplink Booster

Ericsson Silicon

Read the blog post or listen to the blog cast:

The significance of the 5G Uplink Booster to the
new normal

Read the blog post:

How to build high-performing Massive MIMO systems

The Voice of 5G podcast:

“Soft 5G” Episode 56
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