MWC 5G Panel Access Network

Asha Keddy, General Manager

Standards and Advanced Technology (SAT)
Mobile and Communications Group

The Evolution to 5G: Compute and

Communications
5G: Computing &
Communications
1G-4G were focused on
improving communications

Communications & processing

will be diffused across
networks and mobile devices
Scalability, Versatility, Energy
Efficiency
Capacity, Intelligence and UX
Basic Elements
2

5G Trend 1:
Overlay Networks for Spectrum and Energy Saving
700MHz

LTE

Excessive handovers in traditional

heterogeneous networks

WIiFi

mmWave

Hetnet+CA = Control plane anchored at macro-cell,

traffic channels from small cells

User Experience for Now, High Frequency Bands for Future

Off

Incremental small cell deployment

according to traffic growth

On

Off

Turn off selected cell sites at light traffic hours

Coverage for Now, Network Energy Saving for Future

5G Trend 2:
Underlay Networks for Proximity Services and Wearable's
Mesh

Data on WiFi Direct

Discovery and
control on LTE

D2D Cluster #4
D2D
Coordinator
Pico/Home
eNB

Pico/Home
eNB
D2D Unicast
Link
D2D Cluster #0
Spatial Reuse in
One Cell Area

Macro
eNB
D2D
Coordinator
D2D Unicast
Link

D2D Cluster #1

Multi-hop

D2D Unicast
Link
D2D
Broadcast
Link

D2D Cluster #2

Smart Apps

D2D Cluster #3

D2D
Coordinator
D2D Broadcasting

Storage

Context-based
Processing

Many Devices, Many Underlay Networks, One Intelligent Cloud

5G Trend 3: Cloud Expansion to Network Edge and to

Devices

Remote Cloud
Basic Terminal

Adaptive Control/ Collaboration

Sensing/
Proximity Services
5

Underlying Capabilities

User Plane

Control Plane

User Plane

Control Plane

5G

UMTS Radio Module

UMTS Radio Board

5G
Device + Access
Network Compute

Scalability, Versatility, Energy Efficiency

Technology evolution takes time and trials help perfect them

Module Slots:
PCIe WiFi Module
mSATASSD Module
Intel Processor Board

5G with Underlay
Networks and Local
Cloud

Bringing it all together: Capacity, Intelligence and UX

3x 5x
5x 10x

~20x

Air Interface

Spectrum

Coordinated Multi-Point Tx/Rx

3D/FD-MIMO
New modulation and/or coding schemes

More licensed and unlicensed spectrum,

mmWave bands
Licensed shared access
Unlicensed spectrum sharing
40x-50x
~25x
Network
Devices
IT for telecom

1x 2x
Last Decade

Next Decade

Cell densification
WLAN offloading
Integrated Multi-RAT operation
Device-to-device
Joint scheduling, NOMA
ICT coupling
Measured in bit/s/Hz/m2