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Nakamura DoCoMo RAN Evolution Beyond Release 12 LTEWS 250613
Nakamura DoCoMo RAN Evolution Beyond Release 12 LTEWS 250613
FRA concept
Support for traffic explosion
Beyond 500x in 10 years
Future Radio Access (FRA) will provide a total solution to satisfy the requirements by future drivers
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Capacity
Higher system capacity:
Report ITU-R M.2243 (IMT.UPDATE): 1530 times traffic growth is envisioned between 2010 and 2015 Mobile data traffic is continuously growing over DOCOMO network
Approx. 1.6 times per year (2004 2009) Approx. 2 times per year (2010 2011) Approx. 12 times traffic growth is envisioned between 2011 and 2015 Traffic volume
The main drivers are smartphones, video services and high-speed data access
~ 12x
~ 2x
2010 2011
WiFi
Controller
Current capacity
Network densification
Hotspot Dense urban Shopping mall Cellular network assists local area radio access
Spectrum extension
Existing cellular bands Very wide
Frequency
LTE-C
Performance
LTE-B
LTE-Advanced LTE Rel-8/9
Pico/Femto
Rel-14/15,
Further LTE enhancements
Rel-12/13
Rel-10/11
CA/eICIC/CoMP for HetNet
WRC-15
~2020
~2015
Year
No coverage issue any more Can provide very high throughput using wider bandwidth Big offloading gain from existing cellular bands
Phantom cell
Higher frequency bands
C-plane: Macro cell maintains good connectivity and mobility using lower frequency bands
(RRC: Radio Resource Control)
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throughput and more flexible/costenergy efficient operations using higher/wider frequency bands
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Increasing number of antenna elements by X 4GHz 1) Increase of BF gain by X 2) Decrease of BF width by 1/X
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Distance between antenna elements /2 reduced by half doubles the number of antenna elements (/2)/2
min /2 2G
Improved coverage and spectrum Massive MIMO efficiency for super dense small cells in higher freqeuncy bands
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Link adaptation
Multiple access image
Fast TPC
(TPC: Transmission Power Control)
AMC
(AMC: Adaptive Modulation & Coding)
MUPA/AMC
(MUPA: Multi-User Power Allocation)
Why NOMA? Multiple access using interference cancellation itself is very old technology (for uplink in particular) Evolution of device processing capabilities for interference cancellation Moores law: 100x processing power after 10 years In OFDMA, frequency-domain signal processing becomes possible Exploitation of path loss difference among users Multi-path fading was exploited by OFDMA, but path loss still needs to be further exploited
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Summary
We presented our views on requirements and potential key techologies for Future Radio Access (FRA):
Macro-assisted small cell, i.e., Phantom cell, and Massive MIMO are promising approaches for higher/wider frequency bands towards the long-term future Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technology for future cellular enhancements
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