DUPLEX SPACING

Bill Alberth
July 2012
Motorola Mobility Internal

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Rules of Thumb for Duplex Filters
• Avoid Bandwidth > 4% of center frequency
–At 600MHz, like to keep filter bandwidth <24MHz

• Avoid Duplex gap < 1%

–7MHz gap at 700MHz, 26MHz gap at 2.6GHz

• Figure of Merit (bandwidth/duplex gap) < 4

• Distance to nearest interferer

–We need 6MHz to drop a filter skirt at 700MHz
–We need 12MHz to drop a filter skirt at 2.6GHz

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 AVOID LARGE DUPLEX GAPS
• Large gaps in uplink/downlink frequency result in large
differences in uplink/downlink effective cell sizes.
• Consider TDD allocations instead of pairing widely disparate
frequencies. 3GPP Path loss Model ‐ NLOS
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Urban case ‐ 50% il G
50%‐ile Geometry 
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e Distance (m)

1100 DL SINR= 3 dB
955 DL Data Rate = 3.7 Mbps
900
UL SINR= ‐5 dB
UL Data Rate = 0.92 Mbps
700
Inter‐Site

500
500
300
300

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500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000
Carrier Frequency (MHz)
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AVOID VARIABLE DUPLEX GAPS

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 THANK YOU

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