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September 9, 2015
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Asia is the fastest moving market for C-RAN, followed by North America
September 9, 2015
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September 9, 2015
Monica Paolini
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monica.paolini@senzafiliconsulting.com
September 9, 2015
Dr. Chih-Lin I
Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies
China Mobile Research Institute
C-RAN Webinar, September 9, 2015
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Virtual BS Pool
Collaborative Radio
RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
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Key findings:
C-RAN greatly speeds up the network deployment and
saves the TCO
FH solutions are mature and diverse for different
scenarios
C-RAN greatly helps the system performance
improvement
Beijing
HetNet
15 sites in 4 super cell
Data rate improved by 50%
Hefei
CPRI over OTN in an area of 1.9km^2
20 sites centralization at 1st stage
more than 100 sites on 2nd stage
Beijing
Fuzhou
Guangz
hou
Qingdao
World-first WDM outdoor version
7 sites, 2-antenna RRUs
Verification of C-RAN UL CoMP with
cell-edge data rate improved by 50 300%
20% saving of CAPEX in overall
Fuzhou
KT
C-RAN commercialization in
2011
Around 12 central offices in
Seoul with each supporting
1000 FDD LTE and 1200
7200 WCDMA carriers
SKT
C-RAN commercial deployment
since 2011
Similar centralization scale to KT
L2/L3 processing on x86 platform
one server to support 144 carriers
Softbank
PRDOCOMO Verifies
Advanced C-RAN in outdoor
environment
EPC
PCIe
FrontEnd
CPRI
SmarTile
Commercial
UE
(Samsung)
Spectrum
analyzer
(Keysight)
EPC
soft BBU
Commercial EPC, UE
20MHz, 2 antennas
4*2-ant SmarTile,
CPRI@2.4576Gbps
SmarTile
Based on OAI *, yet significant improvements via SW architecture redesign & various
optimization
Live migration
Host -> VM
https://svn.eurecom.fr/openairsvn/openair4G/branches/cran)
*: OAI: http://www.openairinterface.org/
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Highlights:
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NGFI considerations
Virtual BS Pool
CPRI NGFI
RRU
RRU
Distributed RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
Massive carriers
(9.8Gbps for each carrier2 with 20M&8 Ant.)
RRU
P2P connection
Low-efficiency,
High consumption,
Inflexibility
White Paper of
Next Generation Fronthaul Interface
1.0
201564
http://labs.chinamobile.com/cran/
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IEEE
IEEE 1904.3 TF: newly founded to address the CPRI encapsulation in the form of Ethernet packet
IEEE TSN: work item under preparation
IEEE 1588WG: considering specialized solutions to improved synchronization accuracy
A NGFI working group (WG) under preparation under the sponsorship of an IEEE-SA Standards
Sponsor with founding members of CMCC, AT&T, Huawei, Broadcom (more to join)
CCSA:
Newly founded project in CCSA to study the requirements, scenarios and the key technologies
NGMN:
Initial analysis on function split for LTE
NGFI as a key building block for 5G
ITU-T:
Initial discussion on how to support synchronization for NGFI
ITU-T FG for IMT-2020, FH being one of the key topics
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PTN
Transportation
network
PON
based on CRAN/NGFI
SDAI(Adaptive radio access)
Low Freq. evolved
RIT
Low Freq. New RIT
Seamless wide-area
coverage
Massive-MTC RIT
Mission-Critical RIT
Low-latency &
high-reliability
Senza Fili Consulting LLC 2015
Cell specific
Common broadcast
Access, Sync, Scheduling and etc
Mobility: hard handover
Rethink cellular: towards No More Cell in Ultra Dense Network (UDN)
Macro AP
Broadcast all system information over SFN
User2
vBBU2
BBU Pool
RRU BBU
Switch and Forward
RRU1
RRU2
RRU3
RRU4
RRU5
vCell2
vCell1
User 1
User 2
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virtualization
Various SDOs and initiatives: NGMN, IEEE, ITU-T, ETSI, EU S7FP project, OAI,
ETSI etc.
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Summary
Revolutionary Evolution of RAN
Thank you!
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Wireless
fronthaul
picks up...
...where fiber
leaves off
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Network evolution
and densification
From distribution
RRU
x10
Mobile
core
RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
RRU
RR
U
LTE A / 5G / C-RAN
RRU
C-RAN
Mobile
core
BBU
BBU
BBU
BBU
BBU
BBU
BBU
RR
U
RR
U
RR
U
to centralization
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RRU
Macro RRU
RRU
Wireless
Backhaul
Fronthaul
Fiber
Optical fronthaul network
RRU
Macro RRU
RRU
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Turn every site into a local C-RAN and add remote macro & micro sectors
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~510M
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www.e-blink.com / gael.derven@e-blink.com
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Confidential
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Fronthaul
Baseband
to RRH (Local)
CPRI over Fiber
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Confidential
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Fronthaul
Baseband
to RRH (Local)
CPRI over Fiber
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Confidential
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C-RAN
Distributed RAN
Traditional Baseband
Centralized RAN
Traditional Baseband
SAME Appliances:
Non-agile
Fronthaul
High CAPEX
Fronthaul
Transport
Baseband
to RRH (Local)
CPRI over Fiber
Baseband to RRH
CPRI over Fiber
Centralization:
Centralized
Baseband Pool
Improved OPEX
Backhaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Improved scalability
EPC
Confidential
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C-RAN
vRAN
Distributed RAN
Traditional Baseband
Centralized RAN
Traditional Baseband
Virtualized RAN
Virtual Baseband
Air-interface agnostic
Fronthaul
Baseband
to RRH (Local)
CPRI over Fiber
Fronthaul
Transport
Fronthaul
Transport
Max scalability
Baseband to RRH
CPRI over Fiber
Baseband to RRH
CPRI over Fiber
Low CAPEX
Low OPEX
Virtualized
Baseband Pool
Backhaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Centralized
Baseband Pool
EPC
Confidential
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Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Confidential
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Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
High OPEX
Air-interface, configuration specific
Non-agile
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Confidential
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Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
High OPEX
Air-interface, configuration specific
Non-agile
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Confidential
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D-RAN Split
Distributed RAN
Traditional Baseband
Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
Non-Scalable
High CAPEX
High OPEX
Backhaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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EPC
Confidential
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D-RAN Split
vRAN
Distributed RAN
Traditional Baseband
Virtualized RAN
Virtual Baseband
Air-interface agnostic
Centralization and Virtualization
Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
Max agility
Max scalability
Fronthaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport to
Proprietary RRH
Baseband to RRH
CPRI over Fiber
Low CAPEX
Virtualized
Baseband Pool
Low OPEX
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
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Backhaul
Transport
Backhaul
Transport
EPC
Confidential
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vRAN
Virtualized RAN
Virtual Baseband
Air-interface agnostic
Fronthaul
Transport
Neutral Host
Fronthaul
Wide Band
Baseband to RRH
CPRI over Fiber
Transport
Virtual
Base Station
(vBS)
RRH
Baseband
Fulltoagility
Full scalability
Baseband Pool
Backhaul
Transport
Virtualized
Pool
LowBaseband
CAPEX
Low OPEXBackhaul
Transport
EPC
EPC
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Confidential
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RAN Use-cases
Rural area
Distributed RAN
Virtual RAN
Traditional Macro
Base Stations
High Power
Small Cells
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In-building Residential
and Small to Mid-size
Enterprise
In-building Mid-size to
Large Venues and
Enterprise
WiFi
WiFi
Femto Cells
Virtual RAN
Confidential
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Confidential
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Confidential
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Confidential
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vBS
vCD
vEPC N
vSEC
Confidential
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CoMP
Single
Antenna
sector
Multi
Antenna
sector
MIMO
Confidential
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Summary
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Confidential
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Thank You!
www.asocsnetworks.com
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