Small Cells

a Vital Part of Building a No-Edge

Network

Xiangjun Zhang/George Zhao

Huawei SmallCell Production Line
5 Nov. 2013

Trends

The Next Wave MBB, Everything on Wireless

Everything on wireless, MBB is changing peoples life
Connection (Bil.)

Digitalization
People to
people
50

Internet-formation
People to
people
People to PC
3 minutes/day
online

40

30

20

10

1980

Mobilization
People to
people
People to
machine
M2M
20 minutes /
day online

Intelligent

7*24 online

95%+
connection
on wireless

People
Things

Data

10 million
APP
mobile internet user
ratio: 50%+
2020
1 million mobile
APP
2013
iPhone launched
2011
Mobile user ratio:
2007
50%
1990

2000

2010
2020
2030
Resource: KPCB, comScore, IDC, Google, Apple, ITU

Mobile Network Transforming to Experience Oriented

Voice business

Coverage = Service
Voice requirement 12kbps

Data business

Experience = Service
Normal video (240p) 300kbps
HD Video (1080p) = 5Mbps

Operators Voted for important issue on MBB Network

Others

Source: Huawei user group meeting 2013, 300+ customers from 103
operators /organizations

Unbalanced Service Lead Challenges for

Experience
Sharp Capacity Demand in Hot Zone
Tokyo Hotspot traffic will increase 2000
3000 times, in Tokyo, therere more than
100 site per KM2

Indoor Takes Up 90% Data Traffic.

Small cell will be 50 times more than Macro

Voice Service

69.7%

30.3% Outdoor

Data Service

90%

10% Outdoor

Indoor

In China, 60% traffic in 20% cell and 60%

users in 20% cell

60%

60% traffic in 20% cell

40%

60% user in 20% cell

Indoor

Traffic load ratio

SmallCell+WiFi Co-Deployment to Capture Traffic

on Hot Area
A typical MBB network traffic load distribution
Statistics 8000 Cells network

Hotspot
Dense urban

Urban / Sub-Urban

80 Traffic

Rural

scenarios

20 traffic

SmallCell+WiFi
LTE
UMTS
GSM

Small+Wifi Co-deployment: Economical MBB Solution in valuable Hot Zone

SmallCell+Wi-Fi Complement Each Other for Better

MBB Experience
Spectrum and deployment decide quality of
network

Small Cell + Wi-Fi : 1+1>2

License spectrum

Mobility

Fetmo
(Home)

User deployed

Small Cell
(Hotspot +
public)

5
4
3
2
1
0

Terminal

QoS

Operator
controlled

Wi-Fi
(Home)

Wi-Fi
(Hotspot +
Enterprise)

Unlicensed spectrum

Coverage

Small Cell
WiFi

Capacity

Huawei SmallCell Solution

Main Concerns for SmallCell Outdoor

Implementations
1. Installation: How SmallCell to Satisfy Complex and Comprehensive Site Scenarios?
2. Transmission: How to Provide Flexible Backhaul for Complex and Comprehensive Site
Scenarios?

3. Experience: How to guarantee user experience among macro & micro, cellular & wifi?

Street Pole Street Tel-booth Roof-top

Gymnasium Metro-line Residential Indoor

Penetration

Installation: AtomCell Micro, One Box for Easy

Deployment
one site, one box, one cable:
Quick Deployment:30 minutes install,1 Engineer

Mounting

Dock

BTS

3 PoE
output

Compact Design: 5L/6kg

Dock: power, Lighten protection, backhaul

AAS Beamforming: adaption for

target area

Transmission: multi Backhaul for all senarios

V-band:
The smallest MW backhaul

TDD eRelay:
Leading industry
NLOS
PtMP

RRN

2.1L
PoE
400m@300Mbps

eRelay
BS

RRN

M2000

Complete Backhaul Solution

FE/GE

Macro site

Microwave/Wi-Fi/eRelay

xDSL

xPON

xPON intergation
Dock

FE/GE optical
Integration with
SFP ONU (xPON)
xDSL

Experience: provide Always-Best-Connection

Enhance operation
experience

MSA solution:
Multi service aggregation

Unified authorization
Unified Charging

SRC
(Single Radio
Controller)

Macro
Enhance terminal
experience
Small Cell & Wi-Fi
Convergence

wifi

Small Cell

Intelligent Wi-Fi Discovery

Smart Traffic Steering

Dual-stream
High Speed Reception

Case 1: SmallCell for LTE Capacity Layer in Korea

LTE Subscriber Increase 9 Fold in
2012

Micro for capacity layer Deployment: Lamppost +

PON
Hotspot capacity
1

Lamppost
for easy site
acquisition

LTE occupy 50%+ in Total Wireless Traffic

55963

60000
47581

50000
40000
30000

41985

33900

29748

27687

Rich EPON
resource for
backhaul

Micro L2100

19532

20000
10000

Independent deployment
with dedicated carrier
Macro L800

12578
2838

SFP ONU
insert to
BTS

5525

201201 201203 201206 201209 201212

Wireless Traffice(TB)

LTE Traffic(TB)

Case 2: Macro/Micro Co-Channel Deployment in

Barcelona
Enhance Outdoor Coverage & Capacity by Outdoor Small Cell

4 Macro + 6 Micro lasted for 1.5

months

Outdoor RSCP
-70

Macro3

-90

Macro
-4

Cluster Traffic

10000

79%

33%

Macro1

S0

S1

HSUPA

mW per Mbps
1.6

10%

f2

11%

1.1

Power Consumption
Saved

f3

Macro Baseline Shared Carrier

Scenario 0
(S0)

Scenario1
(S1)

Seprate-Carrier
Scenario 2
(S2)

0.6
S0

S1

S2

Data Traffic
Increased

~50%

0
HSDPA

f1

S2

46%
24%

5000

Macro-2

13dB

Scenario Scenario Scenario

0
1
2

15000

Coverage improved

-80

12.8dB 13.3dB

S3

10%

Case 3 : Provide Best Experience for Bullfighting

Event in Madrid
Small Cell hidden in the ceiling
eRelay backhaul

Micro expand capacity 250%

Macro capacity limited
by Connections & congestions

120m
HSDPA&HSUPA Volume (MB/hour)
eRelay BS 1
600m
eRelay BS2

RRN1

small cell1 small cell2 small cell3

RRN2

small cell4 small cell5

RRN3

small cell6 small cell7small cell8

350m

Operator: SmallCells deployed shall manage 100% traffic created by events in Las

Ventas

Huawei Solution: LampSite for Indoor

Coverage&Capacity
On wall

On ceiling

pRRU

pRRU

Multi Mode
MIMO
Only 2.5L,3kg

Cat5/6
Ethernet

High Capacity
Support UL,WiFi evolution

rHUB
Optical
Fibre

CPRI Hub for

pRRU
4 level cascade
8pRRU/rHUB

Capacity expansion by Software

LTE 2*2 MIMO
rHub

BBU
Multimode
Share BB with Macro
SingleOSS

Fast Deployment
3box, Ethernet+Fibre
Ethernet replace RF cable
60% labor cost saving

Manageable
E2E OM, same M2000 as
macrocell

LampSite Deliver Services to Enterprise: New

Customer, New Revenue

IP PBX
Location
Analytics

LIPA
Mobile

Fixed

Cloud service
enabler

Coverage &
Capacity
2013, 3G & LTE

Value Added
Services
Location
Analytics
IP PBX
Wi-Fi

LIPA for FMC

Cloud services

Summary: AtomCell+WiFi Portfolios Satisfy

Multiple Scenarios
U+L Pico
RRU, Wi-Fi

Office Area

Enterprise

UMTS
Micro, Wi-Fi

Commercial
Squares

shopping
Street

Public

LTE
Micro,
Wi-Fi

Large scale
Indoor

LTE Pico,
Wi-Fi
Office

Residential
area

Family

Hotel

Cafe

Shopping Mall

Residential

Suburban

Gymnasium

Opera house

Downtown
Street

Airport Terminal

Rural

Campus

Cellular/Wi-Fi Coordination HetNet

Macro/Micro
Co-Carrier
Interference
Control

Indoor/Outdoor
Share BBU
Reduce the
interference

Carrier Grade WiFi

Convergent with
RAN

70% Traffic generated from indoor

Single BBU serve outdoor and
indoor

High utilization of
Frequency
double capacity

WiFi/3GPP

WiFi as 4th mode

eCordinator ,Share controller
with GUL

WiFi

WiFi

LTE
Same BBU

Micro

UMTS

GSM

Macro
pRRU by LampSite

eCo

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