5G Vison and Research on Massive Mimo

Wu Xiang

Technology and Standards Research Institute,CAICT

2018-09
Evolution of Wireless Access Technologies
Outline
1 Scenarios of 5G

2 Research for 5G

3 Solid Step Toward 5G

5G- What Is the Industry Horizon
Amazingly Fast: Virtual Reality Office
Great Service in a Crowd:Stadium, Open
Air Festival
Ubiquitous Things Communication:M2M
Best Experience Follows You:Ubiquitous MBB
Super Real -Time and Reliable Connection:
Traffic Safety, Traffic Efficiency and Smart-Grid
Outline
1 Scenarios of 5G

2 Research for 5G
-Improved MBB
-New Services Extension

3 Solid Step Toward 5G

Outline
1 Scenarios of 5G

2 Research for 5G
-Improved MBB
-New Services Extension

3 Solid Step Toward 5G

Outline
1 Scenarios of 5G

2 Research for 5G
-Improved MBB
-New Services Extension

3 Solid Step Toward 5G

MIMO: Key Technology to Increase Spectrum Efficiency

More capacity is possible

Shannon Limit by Massive MIMO with spatial multiplexing

C = log2 (1 + PT / N0) bits/Hz/s C = min( nt, nr) log2 (1 + PT / N0)

LTE performance is close to Shannon Limit

Nt TX Nr RX
with given number of TRX
T1 R1
8
Spectrum efficiency

Transmitter
6 T2 R2

Receiver
4
2
SINR
0
Tm Rn
-4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
LTE实测
LTE test Shannon极限
Shannon limit
Beamforming Made Possible with Massive MIMO
Horizontal Pattern of 1/2/4/8 Half Wavelength Dipole
Beamforming
Horizontal Pattern of Different Number of Half Wavelength Dipole

Strengthen Point 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0

Vertical Pattern
Vertical Pattern ofof
Different
1/2/4/8 Number of Half Wavelength Dipole
1 dipole 2 dipoles separated by λ / 2 Half Wavelength
4 dipoles separated by λ /Dipole
2 8 dipoles separated by λ / 2
0 0 0 0

4 dipoles separated by λ / 2

8 dipoles separated by λ / 2
2 dipoles separated by λ / 2
-10 -10 -10 -10

-20 -20 -20 -20

-30 -30 -30 -30

1 dipole
-40 -40 -40 -40

-30 -30 -30 -30

Weaken Point -20 -20 -20 -20

-10 -10 -10 -10

0 0 0 0

Different Beam Direction with Phase Shift

Dipole Beams Dipole 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 0 -10 -20 -30 -40 -30 -20 -10 0

8 dipoles separated by λ / 2 8 dipoles separated by λ / 2 8 dipoles separated by λ / 2

-41° phase shift 0° phase shift 60° phase shift
Massive MIMO Increase Spectrum Efficiency In Several Ways

Massive MIMO
64T64R
• Multi-user beamforming
• Multiple streams
3
• Capacity gain

• Vertical beamforming
2
• SINR gain
2T2R
• Horizontal beamforming
1
• SINR gain
5G Massive MIMO Enhancement: Control Channels Support BF

LTE Broadcast beam is wide beam NR Broadcast beam is

narrow beam (sweeping)

CRS DMRS
LTE Cell Specific Reference 5G Demodulation Reference
Signal Signal

~9dB
Radio Front Radio Front
T1 T1 WideBeam
Broadcast
R1 Beam R1
eNodeB gNodeB
Baseband Baseband
TN TN
RN RN

PBCH/SS/PDCCH/PDSCH
all support beamforming
5G Massive MIMO Narrow Beam Design Enables 3D-Shaping

All Channels Beamforming in 5G NR 3D Shaping Improves H+V Coverage

64T64R
Horizontal Beamforming Vertical Beamforming
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×××××××× Beam Beamforming
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• Narrow beam by massive dipoles (64T/32T) • More precise beam & scanned area, more coverage gain
• Beamforming for BCH, SCH, CSI-RS to improve common • Higher user SINR and Better interference control
channel coverage
(Trainer information)
Trainer: Wu Xiang
E-mail: wuxiang@caict.ac.cn
Department: Institute 0f Technology and Standard Research
Address: No.52 Huayuan Bei Road, Haidian District, Beijing
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