5G: from service requirements to candidate technologies Mérouane Debbah Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Huawei, France June 13th, 2016
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Huawei at a Glance
228
79,000
Ranking in the Fortune Global 500
16
R&D employees
170+
176,000
Countries
Employees
R&D centers
36
Joint innovation centers
Continuous Effective Growth Sales Revenue
R&D Investment 60.8
USD Billion
32.4
46.5 35.4
9.2 USD in Billion
39.5
6.6 5.1 4.8
0.6 0.8 2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Achieved sustainable and effective growth in core business units through focused strategy
1.2
1.6
2.1
2.7
3.8
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
R&D investment accounts for about 10% of annual revenue.
Global R&D Enables Cutting-Edge Technology 15000+ R&D Employees on Wireless Stockholm
Moscow
Ottawa Paris Santa Clara
New Jersey
Milan
Munich
Beijing
Tokyo Shanghai
Xi An
Hangzhou
Chengdu
Ottawa, Canada
Shenzhen
• • • • • •
• 5G Santa Clara, US New Jersey, US • Chipset • MBB Innovation Stockholm, Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden • System Architecture • BTS System • Algorithms • BB • IRF
China R&D Center
Shanghai Shenzhen Beijing Chengdu Xi ‘an Hangzhou
Munich, Germany
Moscow, Russia
Tokyo, Japan
• Antenna
• Fundamental Algorithms
• New Material
Milan, Italy
Paris, France
• mmWave component
• Mathematics & Design
Driving Industry Innovation in Past Decade 2004
2008
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
1st Distributed Base Station
1st SingleRAN
1st Active Antenna
1st LampSite
1st Easy Macro
1st NB-IoT
1st CloudRAN
GSM&UMTS& CDMA<E in one
Clean Site & Performance +
Site Room Free
Cellul ar IoT
Cost-Effective & Fast deployment
Indoor Digitizati on
In-House Chipset Makes Competitiveness In-House Antenna Benefits Future Evolution to Converge Antenna and RRU
Common Network Architecture
Trends & Insights
4.5G: new benchmark for 5G? 5G Revolution and Challenges
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Better Connected World on Mobile 50 Million APPs 10Gbps 100Billion IOT 5 Million Apps 300Mbps 2Billion Smart Phone
2025
1K APPs 3.6Mbps Smart Phone 2 APPs 12.2Kbps Feature Phone
Network
Voice Oriented
7
2015 2007
Data Oriented
Service Oriented
Ultra HD Video Drives Ultra Throughput Requirement
4K >1Gbps
>5Mbps 720P 8
>10Mbps 1080P
>30Mbps
4K
VR
Cellular IoT All Online World
Total connections 25.6B
M2M 10.5B
6.9B
195M 2013 2020
Connected Cars Wearable Devices
9
Connected Home Smart Metering
…
2013 2020 Source : www.gsma.com
Trends & Insights
4.5G: new benchmark for 5G? 5G Revolution and Challenges
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4.5G Vision Opening Giga Mobile World, Empowering Vertical Markets People Giga World
4G
Things IoT Market
MBB2020
4.5G
6.7b
2x MBB Users
10x Data Usage/month
2009
2015
5G 2020
11
3b
7.5x C-IoT Conn.
4.5G, Engine of New Services, New Experience, New Markets
Experience 4.0 HD
Gbps
Cloud 2K/4K VR/A Video R
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Voice
HD Vide o
HD Voice
HD Video
4.5G
Connection+
NB-IoT, MC PTT
…
Latest Milestones of 4.5G NB-IoT Standardizing
4.5G Officially Named
World 1st 4.5G Launch
Sep. 2015
Oct 22, 2015
Dec 14, 2015
3GPP approved Work Item for NB-IoT
Standard will be frozen in Q1 2016.
3GPP announced official marker for 4.5G:
LTE-Advanced Pro
Oslo, Norway | World 1st LTE-Advanced Pro (4.5G) network World fastest network
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1Gbps
Leading Operators are Launching 4.5G Norway Canada
2015
Germany 4CC+4*4MIMO+256QAM
Germany Gbps
Turkey Gbps
Canada 5CC+4*4 MIMO+256QAM
China
Norway 4CC+4*4MIMO+256QAM
Gbps | NB-IoT
Kuwait Gbps NB-IoT UAE Gbps NB-IoT
Hong Kong
Turkey 5CC+4*4 MIMO Hong Kong 4CC+4*4MIMO+256QAM
Gbps
Singapore Gbps
Singapore 3CC+4*4 MIMO+256QAM Kuwait 4CC+4*4+256QAM UAE / China / Germany NB-IOT
2016 14
60
4.5G commercial networks
…
4.5G Ecosystem is Getting Mature Cat 9
Cat 12 + CAT13
DL: 450Mbps UL: 50Mbps
DL: 600Mbps UL: 150Mbps
Snapdragon 810
Snapdragon 820
3CC CA
3CC CA, 4T4R, 256QAM
Balong720 2CC CA CAT6
Balong750 4CC CA
2015
Cat 15 + CAT13 Cat 16 + CAT13 DL: 750/800Mbps UL: 150Mbps
DL: 1/1.05Gbps UL: 150Mbps
... DL 5CC + UL 2CC + 256QAM + 4x4 MIMO
2016+ Smartphone • 4x4 MIMO • 256QAM
World
15
1st
DL 4x4 MIMO CPE Nov. 2015
• 4CC/5CC CA
4.5G, New Benchmark for 5G?
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4.5G, New Benchmark for 5G?
Gbps
Experience 4.0 HD
Voice
Connection+
HD Vide o
Cloud
17
4K
VR
HD Voice
HD Video
Peak throughput >1Gbps
Dual HD
4x4 MIMO | >3CC CA | 256QAM
VoLTE Plus | Video Plus
NB-IoT
LiTRA
Massive connection Critical communication Narrow Band Internet of Things LTE integrated Trunked RAdio
Why Gbps?
6x Capacity
8x Peak Rate
10x Edge Speed 4.5G
30Mbps
1.2Gbps
4G
150Mbps
4G
3Mbps
4.5G
Virtual reality @ mobile is possible
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4G
4.5G
10 Channels 60 Channels FHD video
FHD Video
4K video everywhere
Gbps
| Experience 4.0 | Connection+
How to Reach Gbps
eCA
eMIMO
• Enhanced CA
• Enhanced 4T4R
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eModulation • Enhanced 256QAM
60MHz
3CC + 4x4MIMO@3CC + 256QAM
1.2 Gbps
80MHz
4CC + 4x4MIMO@1CC + 256QAM
1.0 Gbps
100MHz
5CC + 256QAM
1.0 Gbps
Gbps
| Experience 4.0 | Connection+
Experience 4.0
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1
VoLTE Plus
2
Video Plus
Gbps
| Experience 4.0 | Connection+
Drivers For VoLTE HD Voice Touch to Talk
Superior to OTT Voice VoLTE in Highest Priority
4.0
Current typical video experience
Initial Buffer Time
Screen Size
U-vMOS = 3.1
Stalling Times
3. 5
3. 5
Canada
3. 1
Nordic
2. 9
1. 8
EU
Stalling Duration
Middle East
2. 9
3. 1
South America
2. 9
3. 5
Japan
Hong Kong
Southeast Asia
Africa
3. 3
South Korea
3. 4 Mainland China
Mexico
Video Resolution
3. 8
3. 2 Australia
Mobile vMOS = f (sQuality, sLoading, sStalling)
Source: Huawei mLAB, Jan. 2016
ITU-T approved video MOS work item in Nov.2015. vMOS model will be released in Sep.2016
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Gbps
| Experience 4.0 | Connection+
Video Plus Improve vMOS to 4.0 “0” Waiting
“0” Stalling
WTCP Proxy
Video Load Balance
TCP proxy in eNodeB, cut latency by
20%
“0” Stalling Video Service Rate Adaption
Handover video users to light loaded cells
Guarantee video service rate, avoids video stalling
TCP Proxy
Priority
eNodeB
25
GW
Content
MLB based on video load
Differentiated scheduling based on video SGBR
Gbps
| Experience 4.0 | Connection+
Connection+ (NB-IoT & LiTRA)
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Connection + 1
NB-IoT
2
LiTRA --LTE integrated Trunked Radio
Macro
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NB-IoT Targeting LPWA Market of 3B Connections Market Segment Smart City, Electronic billboards…
Smart Home, Wearable M2M
Sensors, Meters, Smart Parking, Smart agriculture …
LPWA: Low Power Wide Area 28
Requirements
Connections in 2020
Technology
(Billion)
1B 2B
3B
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>10Mbps
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