LTE vs WiMAX

Which is the Best Solution for Mobile Broadband?

IET Hot Topics September 2007

Stephen Lowe Chairman - Broadband Wireless Association

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The services in demand now

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The boundaries of the eco-systems are blurring

Broadcast Broadband - Network Centric

?
?

Broadband - Network Agnostic

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The growth in communications in the last 1000 years

2006 UCC Speed of Smog Smog Encoding?

At the Millennium it erupted

2004 Web2.0

2001 BLOG
1970 ARPANET 1936 BBC TV 1993 Browser

AD1000
Printing

1500

2000
1920 Radio

1895 Wireless 1876 Bell Tel.

1844 Morse

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And in the last 200 years

2006 3.5G,WiMax

2004 Web2.0 2001 BLOG VC1,H.264 2000 MPEG4 DSL

Year
1800 1844 Morse 1876 Bell Tel. 1900 1920 Radio 2000 1936 1993 1970 TV Web Internet Browser

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Growth potential for mobile broadband

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Mobile is the Key Growth Platform

60% Penetration 50%

40%

30% 20%

10%

0% 2004 Mobile (Population Pen) Total Pay TV Broadband 26.7% 25.2% 8.8% 2005 34.2% 26.6% 11.8% 2006 40.1% 27.9% 15.3% 2007 45.2% 29.2% 18.7% 2008 49.1% 30.5% 21.4% 2009 52.1% 31.8% 24.3% 2010 54.8% 32.7% 26.3% 2011 56.6% 33.5% 27.8%

NB: Mobile Penetration is based on Population, Pay TV & Broadband is households

Source:Understanding & Solutions Ltd

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Services go Mobile

CHANGE IN CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Free-to-air Stationary Passive

Free-to-air Mobile Interactive-capable

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Paid Special content Mobile Interactive

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Revenues will come from new business models

Mobile Video

Handheld Media

Broadband Entertainment

User Content

Source: IBM

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Applications that consumers wish to use when on the move

70% 60% 60% 50% 40% 30% 30% 20% 10% 0% Email Browsing Banking 45%

Source: Point Topic BBUS Survey may 2007

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If You Could Only Have One, Which Would You Keep?

IPOD Male Female 30-39 Years Old 18-29 Years Old Rural Urban
0%
Source: Wi-Fi Alliance

Home Wi-Fi

20%

40%

60%

80%

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Yet another form of convergence

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Spectrum options
Some say its all very clear and there is a shortage

Band III

UHF

2G

L-Band

3G

Satellite

174MHz to 230MHz

400MHz to 800MHz

850MHz 900MHz

1.4GHz

1.8GHz 1.9GHz

2.1-2.2 GHz

2.6 GHz

3 GHz

Others that its all very confused and there is a surplus

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Current 3.5 GHz European allocations

Country
UK

3.4 - 3.8GHz Spectrum Holders

UK Broadband and Pipex

Ireland
Belgium Spain Austria Denmark Sweden Netherlands Poland Bulgaria Norway Switzerland France Romania Croatia Germany Luxembourg Greece
Source:

Clearwire, Irish Broadband, DigiWeb and others

Clearwire Iberbanda/Telefonica WiMAX Telecom Clearwire/Danske Telecom Savannah Networks, ARE Networks and others Worldmax Clearwire Clearwire Telenor Swisscom Mobile Multiple including Altitude Telecom (owned by Illiad) Clearwire, Mobifon, Equant, Astral and others VIPNet, WIMAX Telecom Clearwire, DBD and Inquam Skybernet Craig Wireless, OTE, Cosmo Telco and Q Telecom

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There has to be a compare chart

Speed per user fixed Very high
Fiber

portable

mobile

xDSL

High
Cable Satellite

WiMAX

WiFi

HSDPA UMTS
Mobility

Medium
DEVICES
PC Home Office Fixed Laptop PDA High-end handset Handset

LOCATION
SCENARIOS

Hotspots
Park and connect

Hotzones
Always on

Global coverage
on the move

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Is there a problem?

Network usage for mobile data traffic [3G] will eventually overtake voice and text traffic, with bottlenecks already beginning to emerge in mature markets The first part of the network to fill up is typically the transmission side
Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg
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The contenders - 3G/UMTS & Mobile WiMAX

Source: WiMAX Forum

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Some seem to have decided

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Differences
Foundation
3G an evolution from a voice traffic design WiMAX based on IP

Deployment
3G has a substantial base station population WiMAX has yet to deploy in volume
(128 commercial High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) networks rolled out and over 300 HSPA devices)

Maturity
3G technology is maturing 3G customer base is established by evolution from GSM Mobile WiMAX has yet to be ratified Mobile WiMAX has to win a customer base

User devices
3G uses dedicated hardware or plug in cards WiMAX will be part of existing hardware such as laptops and PDAs

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Similarities
OFDMA supports advanced antenna technologies, such as MIMO, STC, and Beamforming
OFDMA is adopted as the basis of mobile WiMAX. 3GPP's Long-Term Evolution (LTE) project plans to incorporate OFDMA7

IP
LTE is moving from a circuit-switched to all-IP IP is built into mobile WiMAX based on the IEEE 802.16 air interface standard

Customers
Want the same experience when mobile as the have when at home or in the office

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We need:
Technical Report (TR) 25.913 contains detailed requirements for the following criteria: Peak data rate
Instantaneous downlink peak data rate of 100 Mb/s within a 20 MHz downlink spectrum allocation (5 bps/Hz) Instantaneous uplink peak data rate of 50 Mb/s (2.5 bps/Hz) within a 20MHz uplink spectrum allocation) At least 200 users per cell should be supported in the active state for spectrum allocations up to 5 MHz Less than 5 ms Downlink: average user throughput per MHz Uplink: average user throughput per MHz E-UTRAN should be optimized for low mobile speed from 0 to 15 km/h Higher mobile speed between 15 and 120 km/h should be supported with high performance Mobility across the cellular network shall be maintained at speeds from 120 km/h to 350 km/h (or even up to 500 km/h depending on the frequency band) Throughput, spectrum efficiency and mobility targets above should be met for 5 km cells, and with a slight degradation for 30 km cells. Cells range up to 100 km should not be precluded.

Cell capacity

Latency User throughput Mobility

Coverage

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Net throughput per Channel/Sector

Source: WiMAX Forum

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Spectral efficiency

Source: WiMAX Forum

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Purchase Intention vs. Usage

75%

Most people purchase

because its fun

50%

25%

100% 75%

0% Fun Useful Fashion Other

50% 25%

And later find it

VERY USEFUL
Source: Weijie Yun WWW.TELEGENT.COM

0% Very useful Not useful Cool Fun

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Mobile TV is a driver for some

Volume

We want TV!!

Im busy.

Handset ASP Feature phones are the sweet spot for Mobile TV 25 35 euros increase in handset ASP for TV feature
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Source: Weijie Yun WWW.TELEGENT.COM

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Usage Behavior for TV

Viewing Time
40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

Viewing Location
40% 30% 20% 10% 0%

8 10 -10 am am -1 2p 12 m -2 pm 24p m 46p m 68p 8- m 10 pm

H om e O ffi ce

50% viewership in the morning Average 3 times a week and 10 minutes per session
More frequent than MP3 function on handsets
Source: Weijie Yun WWW.TELEGENT.COM

New prime time for advertisement?!

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Picture Quality
100% 75% 50% 25% 0%

Recommend to Family and Friends

100% 75% 50% 25% 0%

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Over 80% consumers satisfy with analog TV quality

Source: Weijie Yun WWW.TELEGENT.COM

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Many features a complex device costly to provide

Best in class processor performance Multi-radio connectivity:
6 radios operating on 10 frequency bands
WLAN HQ Audio UI Keyboard FLASH
RF

Bluetooth

GPS

Camera

SD/MMC/ Mass Memory

HWA

Mobile 3D graphics capability

Hi-performance applications processor

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Compression improvements may resolve congestion

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 1995 1998 2000 2002
MPEG4
MPEG1
ADSL

Digital Video (DVD) Bit Rate (Mbps)

xDSL

10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
H.264
H.264 WM9

Internet 9 Speed (Mbps)

MPEG2

2005

2007

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But can compression match demand

Is this the viewing experience you wish for ?

Or would you wish for this ?

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Mobile WiMAX deployment in 3.5 GHz

Build for Non Line-of-Sight and full in-house penetration for PCMCIA cards! Deployment includes 3 Base stations with 4 sectors each Covering 10 km2 Live since April 2007

Up scaling towards coverage of Amsterdam City Eo07

Source: www.Worldmax.nl

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Conclusions
Key network design features are:
wire-speed performance, traffic engineering and point-to-multipoint capabilities

When designing a global network, latency is a major issue To obtain a high performance network, it is necessary to use high performance routers and video encapsulation devices For file transfer applications there are solutions to improve performance
Michael Firth, BT

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Challenges for mobile broadband

High level requirements:
Reduced cost per bit

Increased service provisioning more services at lower cost with better user experience
Flexibility of use of existing and new frequency bands Simplified architecture Open interfaces Reasonable terminal power consumption
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Consumer choice is well catered for

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WiMAX is positioned to deliver low cost per bit

National coverage City-wide

3G WiMAX

Home/Office WiFi

Source:

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The choice between LTE or WiMAX

Is not an open and shut case

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And though we may think we havemeet everyof mobile There are already new devices to the future need broadband in the palm of our hand

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slowe@broadband-wireless.org

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