Evolving 5G and Challenges Ahead

From Design – Prototyping – Test

James Kimery
Director of Marketing

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 Software Defined Radio Architecture
Multi-Processor Subsystem RF Front End
Real-time signal processor Host processor • General Purpose
• Physical Layer (PHY) • Medium Access Control (MAC) – RF
• ex FPGA, DSP Rx/Tx control • Dual LOs
PLL
• ex. Host GPP, multi-core CPU • Contiguous
VCO
Frequency Range

D/A 0
90

D/A
CPU FPGA
GPP DSP
A/D
0

A/D 90

PLL
Host Connection Baseband
VCO
Determines Streaming Converters
Bandwidth Ex. Gigabit
E-net, PCIe

SDRs Enable Rapid Prototyping

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NI 5G Lead User Program has enabled critical research since
2010

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 Wireless Lead User Program Research Areas
Massive MIMO mmWave Multi Radio Access Wireless Networks
Technologies (RAT)

Dramatically increased Utilize potential of Improve bandwidth Consistent connectivity

number of antenna elements extremely wide bandwidths
on base station enabling at frequency ranges once
beamforming. thought impractical for
commercial wireless.
utilization through meeting the 1000x
evolving PHY Level and traffic demand for 5G
flexible numerology
 Densification  NFV
 SDN  CRAN

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SDR Platform Based Approach for 5G
 Bristol: Spectrum Efficiency Record Verizon 5GTF
BT Field Trials 5G NR
1st 100 antenna
Massive MIMO

Nokia: 1st E-band demo

10 Gb/s OTA

AT&T: World’s Fastest

Channel Sounder

Nokia: 15 Gb/s OTA. New Record!

Prof. Ted Rappaport Samsung: 1st FD

MIMO demo

World’s 1st Real-time GFDM system

1st CRAN Massive MIMO
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The Rise of Prototyping and Test Beds

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DARPA Spectrum Challenge

256 x 256 Channel Emulator

56,000+ Simultaneous Channel

Interactions

52+ TB/s System Throughput

“Designing a test bed as massive in scale as Colosseum from scratch would have required several years
of engineering time. Simply put, the alternatives to using NI’s off-the-shelf software radio tools presented
too much risk and cost.”
—Paul Tilghman , Program Manager, DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge

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 Platforms for Enabling Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR)

“Experience shows that the real world often breaks

some of the assumptions made in theoretical research,
so testbeds are an important tool for evaluation
under very realistic operating conditions”

“…development of a testbed that is able to test

radical ideas in a complete, working system is
crucial”

1NSFWorkshop on Future Wireless

Communication Research

Four “At Scale” Test Beds Planned for 4 different sites in the US- over $400M

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5G NR

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 RP-180649
5G Timeline 3GPP TSG-RAN#80

2017
2017 2018
2018 2019
2019 2020

Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1

Rel-15 Rel-15 NSA

NSA (option-3)
(option-3) ASN.1 Rel-15 SA Rel-15
freeze (option-2) SA
freeze (option- Rel-15 late Rel-15 late
2) drop freeze drop ASN.1
ASN.1

Rel-16 SI Rel-16 SI/WI phase

Rel-16
freeze
Rel-16
ASN.1

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64-antenna
phased arrays

Beamsteering
28 / 39 GHz Interface
Horizontal
polarization mmWave TRX Head
28 / 39 GHz
mmWave TRX Head with
horn antenna
Vertical polarization
UE Interface with video 2x2 BB/IF
streaming Chassis
Fsdaklf;

• 28 GHz, 2x2 MIMO, 8 CC, 100 MHz per carrier

• Flexible sub carrier spacing, 256 QAM
• Hybrid beamforming
• > 5 Gbps scalable to 20 Gpbs
 5G NR Phase 1 NSA – sub 6 GHz

EPC

eNodeB gNodeB

user
control
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 gNodeB Architecture for Option 3/3a/3x
IP

Data
Switch
5G NR Opt 3/3a/3x
NAS
LTE anchor
RRC RRC
RRC coordination
PDCP PDCP
Control Plane
User Plane

User Plane
RLC RLC
MAC MAC
PHY PHY
RF Front End RF Front End
LTE 5G NR
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Splitting the User and Control Plane
• 5G proposes:
• Flexible numerologies, frame structure and TDD architectures
• Distribution control and intelligence
• Multiple RAT and coexistence
• PHY prototypes abstract control exploration – develop only “part” of the system

user plane

Internet
SGW PGW Service
MME

control plane

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Network Slices
Network Slice – V2x, V2I

Network Slice – Factory Automation

Network Slice - eMBB
Virtual Network

EPC

Edge computing

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IIoT For Cellular
What is the E2E Latency?

Network Slice – Factory Automation

Virtual Network

Edge computing

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 5G NR Numerology – PHY Latency
Controlle
Process
r

Feedbac
k

1 10
0
1 Latency Considerations for the PHY
… • Slot duration and relationship between SCS
2
• Self Contained Subframes
• HARQ – ack / nack
Symbol
SCS Slot Duration
Duration (us) Each slot can be UL or DL. TTI based on symbol
15 kHz 1000 us 71.43 timing and slot assignment.
30 kHz 500 us 33.33 Multi-RAT capability provides the
60 kHz 250 us 17.86 framework for lower latency
120 kHz
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IIoT For Cellular
What is the E2E Latency?

Network Slice – Factory Automation

Virtual Network Process

Response

Edge computing
Latency is important
But the control topology may be more important
E2E latency is the round trip time

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5G Research Evolution – A Platform Approach
Smart Network Smart
Applications V2X
Cities Optimization Factories

Augmented
Satellite
IoT Reality

Machine
5G NR MAC Learning
Implementatio
n
5G NR PHY AI

Technologies

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