3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview

Thomas MOOSBURGER Head of R&D 3G Protocol Testers

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3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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Is LTE-Advanced another new Technology?

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Experience from GSM and WCDMA confirms

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The first release after introduction of a new technology includes only few leftovers not finalized in the initial release. The second release after introduction of a new technology includes more significant features / improvements.
Feature Richness Rel-6 Rel-5

R99

UMTS FDD

2000

2001

+ TDD

+ HSDPA IMS

Rel-4

2002

+ HSUPA MBMS
2004 Specification freeze

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Is LTE-Advanced another new Technology?

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The same holds true for LTE Significant features will be added into LTE Rel-10 in order to meet IMT-Advanced requirements In consequence LTE-Advanced is not a new technology but an evolution of LTE Rel-8.
IMT-Advanced

Rel-9 Rel-8 LTE LTE Enhancements

2009

2010

2011

201x

LTE-Advanced Enhancements Rel-11 Specification freeze

Feature Richness

Rel-10 LTE-Advanced

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IMT-Advanced Key Requirements

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The ITU has coined the term IMT-Advanced to identify mobile broadband systems whose capabilities go beyond those of IMT 2000. Requirements l Enhanced peak data rates to support advanced services and applications 100 Mbps DL for high mobility 1 Gbps DL / 500 Mbps UL for low mobility l Increased spectrum efficieny (> 30 bps/Hz) Other requirements include l Compatibility of services within IMT and with fixed networks, l Capability of interworking with other radio access systems, l High quality mobile services, l User equipment suitable for worldwide use, l User-friendly applications, services and equipment, l Worldwide roaming capability, l Etc.

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3GPP Release 10 and ITU Schedule

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3GPP and ITU standardisation schedule are aligned

3GPP LTE-Advanced (Rel-10 and beyond) meets these requirements and has been submitted as a candidate radio interface technology for IMT-Advanced.

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Outline
3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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LTE-Advanced
Feature overview
Coordinated Multiple Point Transmission & Reception

MIMO (DL) 8x8 MIMO (UL) 4x4

Relaying

CoMP

Carrier Aggregation Enhanced SC-FDMA

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LTE-Advanced
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Carrier Aggregation Basics

Wider LTE transmission bandwidth by aggregating several frequency blocks (component carriers)
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Support for contiguous (inter-band) and non-contiguous (intra-band) component carriers Up to 100 MHz transmission bandwidth when aggregating 5 component carriers Each component carrier is backwards compatible with Rel-8 LTE
LTE bandwidth Aggregated bandwidth

Contiguous component carriers

Non-contiguous component carriersFrequency

Benefits
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High peak data rate of 1 Gbps Backwards compatible with Rel-8 LTE Flexible spectrum usage and deployment
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LTE-Advanced
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Carrier Aggregation - Deployment

Initial LTE-Advanced deployments will likely be limited to the use of two component carriers 3GPP have identified 4 deployment scenarios

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LTE-Advanced
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Carrier Aggregation - Details

Primary cell / secondary cell Activation / de-activation of CCs Scheduling
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RLC transmission buffer Dynamic switching Channel coding HARQ Data mod. Mapping Channel coding HARQ Data mod. Mapping Channel coding HARQ Data mod. Mapping Channel coding HARQ Data mod. Mapping

Parallel transmission of multiple component carriers There is one transport block (in absence of spatial multiplexing) and one HARQ entity per scheduled component carrier (from the UE perspective), Two different approaches are discussed how to inform the UE about the scheduling for each band,
Separate PDCCH for each carrier, Common PDCCH for multiple carrier,

e.g. 20 MHz

UL: Parallel transmission of multiple Rel-8 component carriers

[frequency in MHz]

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LTE-Advanced
CoMP - Basics
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Coordinated multiple point transmission & reception CoMP aims to turn the inter-cell interference into a useful signal specifically at the cell border to enhance cell edge throughput
Multiple geographically separated eNBs

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LTE-Advanced
CoMP - Basics
CoMP Transmission (Downlink) Joint Processing Coordinated Scheduling / Beamforming Dynamic cell selection Data available at serving cell only Data transmitted from one eNB but user scheduling / beamforming decisions are made with coordination among cells

Joint transmission

Data available at each transmission point Data transmitted simultaneously from multiple eNBs Data transmitted from one eNB at a time

CoMP Reception (Uplink) UE UL signal (PUSCH) is received and processed by multiple eNBs Scheduling is coordinated among cells

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LTE-Advanced
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Enhanced MIMO Schemes

LTE-Advanced specifies
Up to MIMO 8x8 in downlink Up to MIMO 4x4 in uplink to increase spectrum efficiency and throughput

Downlink reference signal structure enhanced

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UE specific demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) targeting PDSCH demodulation Cell specific channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) for CQI, PMI, RI single antenna port mode multi antenna port mode
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New Rel-10 specific uplink transmission modes

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LTE-Advanced
Relaying
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Relaying enhances cell coverage and capacity UE communicates with a relay eNB, which in turn communicates with a donor eNB LTE-Advanced defines 2 types of relay nodes Type 1 Type 2

Inband relay node Outband relay node

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LTE-Advanced

Enhanced uplink SC-FDMA

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scheme in Rel-10 LTE-Advanced remains SC-FDMA.

l Two enhancements l Control-data decoupling (simultaneous PUSCH and PUCCH transmission) l Non-contiguous data transmission (clusters of subcarriers can be allocated)

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Outline
3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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3GPP Rel-10 Standardisation Status

2009 12.09 3.10 2010 6.10 9.10 12.10 2011 3.11 6.11

RAN #46 meeting

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#52 3GPP 3GPPRel-10 Rel-10Specifications Specifications

RAN1 has to complete their specification by Sept. 10 (only 9 month)

Expected Functional freeze In RAN1

RAN2/3/4 have to complete their specification by Dec. 10 (only 12 month) reflecting RAN1 agreements

Core spec Functional freeze

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Outline
3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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Solutions for the Mobile Device / Chip Set Industry

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LTEAdvanced Test Solutions from R&S

Test Setup for Band Aggregation

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LTEAdvanced Test Solutions from R&S

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Date: 8.OCT.2009

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Outline
3GPP Rel-10 LTE-Advanced Technology Overview
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Introduction
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Motivation Requirements Carrier Aggregation CoMP Enhanded MIMO Schemes Relaying Enhanced UL SC-FDMA Summary

Key Features

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3GPP Standardisation Status Test Equipment Conclusion & Further Information

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Conclusion
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Further Information on LTE-Advanced

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Thank you for your attention

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