GU Refarming Solution

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SingleRAN GU900 Refarming Solution
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Contents
1 GU900MHz Refarming Market Update
2 GU900M Refarming Solution
3 GU900M Refarming Applications of Urban Deployment

GU900 Refarming Perfect for Rural MBB and Urban Indoor Coverage
UMTS 2100 1Mbps

UMTS 2100 Voice
GSM1800 Voice
2100MHz UTMS 900 1Mbps
900MHz UMTS 900 Voice
GSM900 Voice
0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0
Cell Area(Km2)
U900 radiation loss is 17~21dB less than U2100 • UMTS 900Mhz 2.5~3 times larger than UMTS
(equals to 1 wall or 1 cars penetration loss) 2.1GHz
• UMTS 900Mhz 50% ~ 70% less than UMTS 2.1GHz
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U900 Industry Chain is Mature, all Popular UEs can Support U900
Apple Huawei
978 iPhone 5 iPad (mini) P1 D1
iPhone 4/4s
UMTS900 terminals announced
GU Terminal Proportion
100% 1.50%
90% 7%
12%
80% 15%
70%
60%
50% 98%
Samsung Galaxy Blackberry HTC
90%
40% 80% i9220 9380 9700 One X One S 8S
70%
30% 7100/7101
20%
10%
0%
2012 2013 2014 2015
GSM Only U2.1 Only U900&U2.1
Source: GSA All star terminals support U900 & U2100

U900 & U2100 Dual Band Network is Becoming Industry Standard
More Operator Choose U900 Huawei share 44% Market

186 U900 Networks will 32 of 57 commercial network by 2012
be Commercial at 2015 186
1%
10%
117
78 Huawei
44 57 22% 44% Ericsson
NSN
ZTE
2012Q2 2012 2013 2014 2015 ALU
Source ： mLab
Some networks 23%
by 2 vendors
Based on GSA Report and Huawei MI
 Industry largest U900 Refarming Network: France SFR

 1st Commercial 4.2M U900 Network ： Australia Optus
 1st Commercial 3.8M U900 Network ： Poland P4
 Most 3.4MHz~4.2MHz application: P4 ,Optus, H3G Hongkong, Bell Canada, VF Egypt

GU900MHz Refarming is the Best Solution for MBB
• Cell Coverage: UMTS 900Mhz 2.5~3 times larger than UMTS 2.1Ghz
• Site Quantity : UMTS 900Mhz 50% ~ 70% less than UMTS 2.1Ghz
Coverage
• Indoor Coverage : UMTS 900Mhz 10dB better than UMTS 2.1Ghz
Capacity • UMTS spectrum efficiency is much higher than GSM
• TCO (UMTS 900Mhz) << TCO (UMTS 2.1GHz)

TCO • For the same coverage, 30% of U2100 NB can meet the requirement.
• Release more 900MHz frequencies for U900 to improve the user

Evolution experience

Contents

Configurable GU900MHz Refarming Bandwidth
2.6MHz 2.2MHz 2.0MHz
UMTS 5.0MHz GSM UMTS 4.2MHz GSM GSM UMTS 3.8MHz GSM
2007 Optus, Australia ; 2010 SFR, France P4, Poland in 2011
Key Benefits :
Average cell Throughput loss vs. U5.0M
 Flexible UMTS carrier 3.8M, 4.2M, 4.4M,4.6M, 4.8M ,
↓5%
↓15% 5M
↓5%
↓18%
 Up to 1.2Mhz spectrum saved
 Little impacts to GSM network
U5.0M U4.2M U3.8M U5.0M U4.2M U3.8M  Supported with standard 3G terminals
HSDPA HSUPA  No risk, it’s verified in commercial networks
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Successive GU900MHz Refarming Evolution Path
2U 5.0M
UMTS Data Throughput
Recommended 2U 4.6M GSM S1/1/0

GSM S1/1/1
Standard 2U 4.2M
GSM S2/1/1
Optional
100 ％
90 ％
2U 3.8M
80 ％
GSM S2/2/1
15 ％
5% 1U 5.0M
GSM S3/3/2
1U 4.2M
GSM S3/3/3
1U 3.8M
GSM S4/3/3
12MHz
S555
Start 26% 33% 40% 60% 67% 74% 80%
U900 UE Penetration
 Assuming U900 absorbs the traffic of all U900 UE, and GSM TFR is 4*3, and best GSM performance is guaranteed;
 U900 capacity keeps increasing because of more 900M frequency can be used for UMTS.
GU900MHz Refarming Challenges
Challenge 1: How to process GU Interference Challenge 2: How to handle GSM Capacity with limited frequency
After ~5 MHz of the G900 frequency After ~5 MHz of the G900
are allocated to U900, the density G900
frequency are allocated to
of GSM frequency is reduced and U900, there will be less
interference increases. G900 frequency, how to
 Higher GSM internal interference. handle the limited remained
U900 G900 frequency becoming a
 Bigger GU Inter-system critical problem.
Interference GU900
Challenge 4: How to build an high efficiency network Challenge 3: How to Simplify Site
G900 U900 L800
G1800 L2600 U2100
LTE 2300
LTE 2600
LTE 800
UMTS2100 UMTS2100
GSM 1800 GSM 1800 GSM /LTE1800
GSM 900 GSM 900 GSM /UMTS900
GSM UMTS GU LTE Power Battery
Key Solutions of GU900MHz Urban Deployment
 Adjacent channel interference analysis 1  Traffic migration solution

 GU bufferzone solution
2
Interference High
Mitigation Capacity
High Efficiency
Simplify
Network
Site
 GUL inter-Rat mobility solution 4 3  GU antenna solution
Interference Sources in GU900M Refarming Interference
Mitigation
GSM BTS UMTS NodeB In Urban, the major interference comes

from the following 4 sources,
① UMTS NodeB interfering with the
GSM downlink
② GSM MS interfering with the
UMTS uplink
③ GSM BTS interfering with the
④ ②
GSM UMTS UMTS downlink
Downlink Uplink
④ UMTS UE interfering with the GSM
GSM UMTS
Uplink Downlink
uplink
① ③
Innovative Huawei Technologies to Reduce Interference Interference
Mitigation
GSM Inter-RAT interference UMTS
Adjacent channel Co-channel

Interference Interference
• GSM power control U4.2M/3.8M advanced filter and

GU Co site • GSM Network planing algorithms to reduce interference Buffer Zone
and optimization between GU
Minimum Interference
for G/U 100% co site UMTS2100
UMTS2100 UMTS 900
Original Modified Modified

GSM900 GSM900 GSM900
Rural Buffer Zone Urban & Suburban
Creative Huawei “Buffer Zone” Interference
Mitigation
GSM900 Area1 Area 1

All the 900MHz bandwidth can be
GSM900 configured for GSM900.
GSM900 Area2: Buffer Zone
Area 2
The UMTS frequency in area 3 will
not be used in buffer zone, in order
GSM900 GSM900 to reduce GSM and UMTS same
frequency interference.
UMTS900
Area 3
GSM and UMTS frequency re-
UMTS900 Area3 planned after refarming .
GSM900 GSM900
 By these Buffer zones introduced, the co-channel interference can be reduced effectively
Huawei Buffer Zone Planning Methods Interference
Mitigation
Method 1: Based on experience Method 2: Based on simulation Method 3: Based on MR data

Buffer zone size: 157 cells Buffer zone size: 123 cells Buffer zone size: 71 cells
Method is based on engineer Method is based on UNET Method is based on MR data, used for
experience, mainly used for initial simulation, used for initial or network optimized stage.
network deployment stage. optimized stage.
 Buffer zone size can be reduced dramatically by method 2 & 3;

 Only Huawei can use method 2 & 3 to plan buffer zone;
Traffic Migration - Effective Way to Solve High G900 Traff
ic High
Capacity
Method: Method:
Method: RF Hopping
 G900&G1800 joint capacity plan  G900&U900 Joint Capacity plan
 GU interworking solution  VAMOS
 G1800 Extension  UISS+IBCA
 UMTS multi-carrier solution
 ICC/EICC/SAIC
Traffic to G1800 Traffic to U900 G900 TFR solution
Refarming will reduce the G900 frequency, in order to guarantee the G900 network quality, traffic must be
transferred from G900 to other band. There are three methods, traffic to G1800, traffic to U900, G900 TFR
feature.
Traffic Migration – Great Result in Real
Applications High
Capacity
Hongkong Traffic Ratio Australia CS Traffic

After Refarming
The ratio of G900 and G1800 can reach 20%:80% More than 30% G900 CS Traffic is migrated to U900 and G1800
 U900 terminals penetration is key factor to determine the percentage of traffic

transfer;
 Huawei services is an important guarantee for a successful Traffic transfer
Huawei Tighter Frequency Reuse Technique
S444
FR Load = 90%
• UISS+IBCA
• VAMOS
• AMR HR
S433
FR Load = 70%
• RF Hopping
S332
• ICC/EICC/SAIC
FR Load = 50% • AMR
• DTX
S222 •
4.4MHz Power Control
FR Load = 30% • ……
High Spectrum Efficiency with TFR High
Capacity
Traditional Solution Huawei Solution

KPI Preserved
Double the configuration

Double the configuration
• Large number of population

• Limited spectrum resource
Legacy site configuration Current site configuration:
S222 With 4.4MHz Spectrum S444
 Capacity increased ,expand the sites from S222/BTS to S444/BTS site type with only 4.4MHz.
 Generally S444 needs minimum 9.6MHz without Tighter Frequency Reuse solution.
“5-Band 3-Mode 1-Cabinet” SingleRAN Solution Site
LTE 2600 Large SingleRAN Site
UMTS2100
Indoor BTS3900L Outdoor BTS3900AL
LTE 800
GL1800 L800
U2100 GU900
GSM 1800
L2600
GSM /UMTS900
L800 G900 G1800 U2100

L2600 BTS3900
L
12RFU + 6RRU+2BBU
• 12RFU+6RRU • 9RFU+9RRU
• 2BBU • 2BBU
 GigaSite capacity
 Easy deployment
GSM UMTS LTE  TCO saving
GU Refarming Antenna Deployment Evolution Site
G/U 900M Refarming Traditional Antenna Co-antenna Solution

Network Deployment Replacing Solution
or SASU
or
GSM UMTS UMTS GSM
GSM NodeB MBTS
BTS NodeB NodeB BTS
BTS
GSM
BTS 4 port antenna
Separate 2 port antenna
antenna Solution sharing soluiton
 GU Co-antenna turns into an mainstream trend with SDR MBTS

 For co-antenna solution in typical urban or rural area, UMTS will suffer the average cell capacity loss ~5%, it is acceptable.
Mobility Management High Efficiency
Network
IDLE RRC
L2600
L2600 L2600
L2600
U2100
U2100 U2100
U2100
U900
U900 U900
U900 U900
U900 U900
U900
GSM900/1800
GSM900/1800 GSM900
GSM900 GSM900/1800
GSM900/1800 GSM900
GSM900
Urban Rural Urban Rural
 Urban Area: G900+G1800+U2100+U900+L2600 Cell reselection based on priority (high priority for high technology)
G900 continuous coverage; G1800 hot area covering; U900MHz Handover based on coverage
coverage in Urban Area; U2100 urban capacity, L2600 city hot PS re-selection based on coverage （ G->U)
Inter-frequency Handover based on coverage
area covering;
CSFB （ L->U ， L->G)
 Rural Area: G900+U900
PS redirection based on coverage (L->U ， L->G)
GU900: 1:1 Common station to achieve continuous coverage.
IM3 impact and solution
Description:
When the frequency separation between U900
and GSM is bigger than 22.4MHz, and U900 signal
and GSM signal is in the same RF channel, due to
low IM3 performance in antenna, the IM3
interference will have big impact in the reception
which will cause high interference.
Interference to GSM reception interference to UMTS reception
Solution:
The low interference is due to low IM3 performance in the antenna, and it couldn’t solve through antenna modification.
The solution is as bellow:
 In the big frequency separation scenario, it is better to choose 2T module, like RRU3929 and RRU3928.
 Configure the difference signals whose frequency separation is bigger than 22.4MHz to different RF channel and
antenna channel.
Contents

SFR National Wide U900 Refarming for Urban Indoor Coverage and
Rural MBB
Challenges and Needs Top cities: Montpellier,
Toulouse, Lyon,Toulon
 Indoor MBB user experience need to be improved
and St. Etienne
 U2100 can not provide good user experience for indoor
 Legacy GSM Equipment meet life cycle modernization 8000+ SingleRAN sites in
Huawei region (GU)
SFR strategy for the Elite MBB Network 17000+ sites for entire
 National wide deploy U900 netowrk
 U900 in urban area to improve indoor user experience
 U900 in rural for wide coverage SFR network performance get great improvement in
phase 1 after modernization by Huawei
4.00%
Voice Call Setup
3.50%
Solutions and Benefits 3.00%
Success Rate
Before GU900 Refarming

2.50%
 Field-proven outstanding network performance
2.00%
 Field -proven SDR solution save 50% TCO 1.50%

After GU900 Refarming
1.00%
 Field-proven 4.2MHz UMTS solution save 16% spectrum resource 0.50%
0.00%
day1
day2
day3
day4
day5
day6
day7
day1
day2
day3
day4
day5
day6
day7
SFR France U900 Refarming From Rural to Urban
U900
100% 93%
90%
90% 85%
80% 78%
83%
France SFR strategy:
70% 65%
60%
• UMTS population coverage to reach 90%
48%
50% geography coverage increase from 48% to 85%
40%
30% by introducing U900
19%
20%
10%
• All 3G terminals purchased from SFR support
0% U900 since 2010
2008 年 2009 年 2010 年 2011 年
geography
人口覆盖率地理覆盖率
population coverage coverage
U900 deploy strategy: from rural to the whole country

Early investment on U2100 U900 for rural U900 for city
U2100: Focusing in cities to To reach 90% of pop coverage To improve indoor

grab high-end users U900 terminals being introduced and coverage and
preparation for 2G users migration capacity
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

SFR France Lyon U900 Take Over All the Traffic of Refarmed G900
Lyon: Refarmed G900 traffic all migrate to U900

• 537 Refarming sites due to high U900 penetration rate
• 30%~40% U900 UE penetration rate
• G900 full coverage
Before refarming After refarming
• G1800 cover hot spot
U2100 preferred camping
U2100
Traffic
migrate
U900
Refarmed G900
G1800
Traffic migrate to G1800 only in
less than 20 hot sites

Balance Network Traffic & Improve Network Quality
Traffic distribution UMTS call drop rate GSM HQI

Refarming 4.00%
% UMTS Data Traffic
% GSM Data Traffic

3.50% Refarming
Refarming 2.0%
3.00%
2.50% 1.5%
Before RefarmingAfter Refarming
2.00% 1.0%
1.50%
0.5%
1.00%
0.50% 0
0.00%
U900 DL G900 DL U2100 DL Voice Call Setup Success Rate
U900 takes 20% of the total traffic Improved coverage by U900, Accurate planning & interference
less call dropped control keep drop rate stable

H3G U900 Refarming Bring 8% ARPU Incensement
H3G Challenges
 Poor indoor coverage, due to many high buildings in Hongkong
 No additional U2100 spectrum for expansion
Huawei U900 Solution Benefit

 8% ARPU incensement with great indoor coverage and user
experience improvement
 50% TCO saving with Huawei field-proven SDR solution
 Huawei U900 network overlap on NSN U2100 with a good
network performance
ARPU keep increasing 8%
260 256
30% traffic take over by U900 within 6 months
250 8%
240 238
Huawei U900 traffic
NSN U2100 traffic 230 8% Postpaid ARPU
220
220
210
6 month 200
2010 2011H1 2012H1
Source: H3G financial Report

Excellent Network Performance is the Precondition of Business
Success(KPI)
1.80%
HSDPA Setup Failure Rate
1.60%
1.40% A B C
1.20% HSDPA Setup Failure Rate
1.00% (NSN,F3)
0.80% HSDPA Setup Failure Rate
0.60% (HW,F4)
0.40%
0.20%
0.00%
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HSUPA Setup Failure Rate C:Phase 4 launch
20.00%
18.00%
A B C
16.00% HSUPA Setup Failure Rate
14.00% (NSN,F3)
12.00% HSUPA Setup Failure Rate
10.00% (HW,F4)
8.00%
6.00%
4.00%
2.00%
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Complete Overlay Solution Ensures Network Performance
UE Status Strategy
Camping Random Camping
(Balance between U900 and U2.1 cell load)
Accessing U900 Low cell load scenario: U900 Middle cell load scenario: U900 High cell load scenario:
Access directly RRC Re-direction based on RRC Re-direction based on
(All users to U900) service (Voice and streaming to load
U900 ， Interactive and background to (All users to U2.1)
U2.1)
Connecting Handover based on cell load or service type
 Mobility management and load sharing in overlay network is always a great challenge, which has
obvious impact on KPI and QoE.
 Huawei can provide complete overlay solution to guarantee the KPI and KQI
 U900 continuous coverage helps to reduce handover ratio and mobility management complexity.

All the Lists Contribute to H3G GU900 Refarming success
Compact bandwidth Refarming tech

(4.2M UMTS became possible)
Leading and mature SDR solution

(One cabinet did any)
Better KPI & QoE
than before makes
Effective interference control solutions the basis of
(Buffer zone, Sandwich configuration)
business success
Complete overlay solution
(Camping, Accessing, Load sharing)
Strong delivery ability

(RTWP abnormity, External Interference)

Thank you
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HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

1 GU900MHz Refarming Market Update

2 GU900M Refarming Solution

3 GU900M Refarming Applications of Urban Deployment

UMTS 2100 1Mbps

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 3

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 4

More Operator Choose U900 Huawei share 44% Market

 Industry largest U900 Refarming Network: France SFR

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 5

Capacity • UMTS spectrum efficiency is much higher than GSM

• TCO (UMTS 900Mhz) << TCO (UMTS 2.1GHz)

• Release more 900MHz frequencies for U900 to improve the user

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 6

1 GU900MHz Refarming Market Update

2 GU900M Refarming Solution

3 GU900M Refarming Applications of Urban Deployment

2.6MHz 2.2MHz 2.0MHz

2007 Optus, Australia ; 2010 SFR, France P4, Poland in 2011

Recommended 2U 4.6M GSM S1/1/0

 Adjacent channel interference analysis 1  Traffic migration solution

 GUL inter-Rat mobility solution 4 3  GU antenna solution

GSM BTS UMTS NodeB In Urban, the major interference comes

GSM Inter-RAT interference UMTS

Adjacent channel Co-channel

• GSM power control U4.2M/3.8M advanced filter and

UMTS2100 UMTS 900

Original Modified Modified

GSM900 Area1 Area 1

GSM900 Area2: Buffer Zone

Method 1: Based on experience Method 2: Based on simulation Method 3: Based on MR data

 Buffer zone size can be reduced dramatically by method 2 & 3;

Traffic to G1800 Traffic to U900 G900 TFR solution

Hongkong Traffic Ratio Australia CS Traffic

 U900 terminals penetration is key factor to determine the percentage of traffic

Traditional Solution Huawei Solution

Double the configuration

• Large number of population

Legacy site configuration Current site configuration:

S222 With 4.4MHz Spectrum S444

LTE 2600 Large SingleRAN Site

L800 G900 G1800 U2100

G/U 900M Refarming Traditional Antenna Co-antenna Solution

 GU Co-antenna turns into an mainstream trend with SDR MBTS

1 GU900MHz Refarming Market Update

2 GU900M Refarming Solution

3 GU900M Refarming Applications of Urban Deployment

Before GU900 Refarming

 Field -proven SDR solution save 50% TCO 1.50%

U900 deploy strategy: from rural to the whole country

U2100: Focusing in cities to To reach 90% of pop coverage To improve indoor

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 26

Lyon: Refarmed G900 traffic all migrate to U900

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 27

Traffic distribution UMTS call drop rate GSM HQI

% GSM Data Traffic

U900 DL G900 DL U2100 DL Voice Call Setup Success Rate

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 28

Huawei U900 Solution Benefit

Source: H3G financial Report

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. Page 29