Massive MIMO AHR (TDD)

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Overview
The AHR solution improves user experience and capacity in TDD massive MIMO cells by enhancing
channel estimation, weight adjustment, and UE pairing performance, and by enabling link adaptation
and adaptive service scheduling policies.

Number of TDD
antennas: Channel estimation Weight adjustment
32T32R/64T64R
• Adaptive CSI-RS multi-beam • SRS interference
AAU adjustment coordination

• · SRS interference
coordination

UE pairing performance Scheduling policies

BBU • High-resolution MU pairing • Adaptive multi-stream

perception
• Adaptive MU resource
management • Precise AMC

Key Technologies

1 Adaptive CSI-RS Multi-Beam Adjustment

Adaptive CSI-RS multi-beam adjustment performs CSI-RS beam densification to improve the accuracy
of CSI reporting, better matching traffic channel characteristics and improving user experience.

Before After
(horizontal direction) (horizontal direction)

1 Th
e
the gNode
CSI-
RS. B sends
2 T
he U
E
gNodeB the CSI reports
.

UE

3 The gNodeB determines the MCS.

2 Adaptive Multi-Stream Perception
Adaptive multi-stream perception selects optimal UEs and scheduling schemes for MU pairing based
on UE service and channel characteristics, reducing the scheduling delay and increasing the average
downlink UE throughput.

Before After
MU MU MU MU MU MU
pairing pairing pairing pairing pairing pairing
Frequency Frequency
domain domain
UE UE UE
3 4 2
UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE UE
1 2 1 5 1 2 1 4 5
UE UE UE
4 2 3

Time Time
Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 domain Slot 1 Slot 2 Slot 3 domain

-------- Scheduling delay ------- -------- Scheduling delay -------

UE 1 Slot 1 + Slot 2 UE 1 Slot 1 + Slot 2

UE 2 Slot 1 + Slot 2 + Slot 3 UE 2 Slot 1 + Slot 2 Shortened

UE 3 Slot 1 + Slot 2 UE 3 Slot 1 + Slot 2

UE 4 Slot 1 + Slot 2 + Slot 3 UE 4 Slot 1 + Slot 2 + Slot 3
UE 5 Slot 1 + Slot 2 + Slot 3 UE 5 Slot 1 + Slot 2 + Slot 3

3 SRS Interference Coordination

SRS interference coordination uses multiple antennas to identify and detect strong and burst SRS
interference from neighboring cells. After identifying and detecting the interference, SRS IC
technologies, such as power control, IC, interference suppression, and interference coordination, are
adopted to reduce the SRS interference and improve SRS quality and weight accuracy, thereby
increasing the average downlink UE throughput.

3 Reduced SRS interference

1 SRS in
te
measure rference
men t

Massive MIMO SR SR S Neighboring

serving cell S cell
Interfering
UE UE

2 SRS information transmission

over Xn/eXn
 4 Precise AMC
Precise AMC optimizes link performance, time-frequency resources, and other aspects for massive
MIMO UEs. It improves the MCS accuracy and improves the spectral efficiency and downlink user
experience.
Before After

MCS MCS The actual MCS approaching

Optimal MCS the optimal one

Actual MCS

Time Time

5 High-Resolution MU Pairing
High-resolution MU pairing optimizes MU pairing from multiple dimensions, such as UE grouping,
admission, and number of layers, so that UEs of different DMRS types can participate in MU pairing.
This increases the numbers of UEs and PRBs for MU pairing, thereby improving the cell capacity and
user experience.
Before After
Number Number Increased cell
of paired of paired
layers layers capacity
Paired Paired Paired
UE 3 UE 3 UE 8
Paired Paired
UE 2 UE 5 Not Not Not UE 2 UE 7 UE 6
paired paired paired
UE 1 UE 4 UE 6 UE 7 UE 8 UE 1 UE 4 UE 5
Frequency Frequency
domain domain
PDSCH DMRS type 1 PDSCH DMRS type 2

6 Adaptive MU Resource Management

Adaptive MU resource management selects the optimal ranks and resource allocation schemes for
UEs involved in MU pairing to increase the resource usage in a massive MIMO cell, thereby
improving cell capacity and user experience.
Before After

Rank 2 Rank 2

Rank 1 Fewer symbols for Rank 1

DMRS, more symbols
for data
Rank 2 Rank 1
Rank 1
(two DMRS Rank 1 Rank 1 Rank 1
symbols) (one DMRS symbol) (one DMRS symbol) (one DMRS symbol)
 Engineering Deployment

Base station models

• 3900 and 5900 series base stations, and DBS3900 LampSite and DBS5900
LampSite

Boards
Hardware • All NR-capable main control boards and NR TDD-capable baseband
processing units

RF modules
• All NR TDD-capable low-frequency RF modules with 32T32R and above

Contiguous networking for common cells

Networking

AHR-related feature licenses: AHR Introduction, AHR Experience Turbo 2.0,

and AHR Capacity Upgrade 2.0
License

• Prerequisite functions: MU-MIMO and distributed massive MIMO

• Mutually exclusive functions: High-speed Railway Superior Experience,
Software Cell Combination, and so on

1. Turn on the switch for AHR Introduction.

2. Turn on the switch
related parameters.
3. Turn on the switch
parameters.
4. Turn on the switch
5. Turn on the switch
Activation parameters.
6. Turn on the switch
7. Turn on the switch
8. Turn on the switch
parameters.
9. Turn on the switch
related parameters.
for adaptive CSI-RS multi-beam adjustment and set
for adaptive multi-stream perception and set related
for AHR Experience Turbo 2.0.
for SRS interference coordination and set related
for precise AMC and set related parameters.
for AHR Capacity Upgrade 2.0.
for high-resolution MU pairing and set related
for adaptive MU resource management and set

Glossary AHR Adaptive High Resolution AMC adaptive modulation and coding CQI channel quality indicator
CSI-RS channel state information reference signal DMRS demodulation reference signal
IC interference cancellation MCS modulation and coding scheme SRS sounding reference signal

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