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5G Architecture Overview
2020

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Agenda
• NSA/SA - Nodes and Interfaces
• Architecture (Sub6 and mmWave)
• gNB CU-CP Architecture
• gNB CU-UP Architecture
• gNB DU Architecture (Sub6)
• Deployment Options (Sub6 and mmWave)
• gNB Auto commissioning

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NSA - Nodes and Interfaces

MME SGW

S1U

S1C S1U

E1
X2 gNB vCU User
ENodeB gNB vCU Control Plane Plane
E1

F1C F1C
gNB vCU User
F1U
Plane
Software
Upgrade
F1U

New
Software gNB DU gNB DU

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SA - Nodes and Interfaces

AMF UPF

NG-C NG-U

E1
X2 gNB vCU User
EnodeB gNB vCU Control Plane Plane
E1

F1C F1C
gNB vCU User
F1U Plane

gNB DU gNB DU

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Architecture Sub6
CORE

S1C &S1U S1U

vCU X2 CU_CP(Altiostar SW) E1 CU_UP(Altiostar SW)

mh (proprietary) F1C F1U

vDU ODU(Altiostar SW)

e-cpri (proprietary)

RIU STU (Dasan)

cpri e-cpri (open front haul)

RRH ORU (NEC)

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Architecture mmWave
CORE

S1C &S1U S1U

vCU X2 CU_CP(Altiostar SW) E1 CU_UP(Altiostar SW)

mh (proprietary) F1C F1U

vDU STU (Dasan)

e-cpri (proprietary)

RIU DU
cpri (Airspan HW, L2 altiostar, L1 QC)

RRH

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5G gNB NS High Level view

gNB CU CP gNB CU UP
gNB CU UPNF
gNB CU UP
NF

gNB
gNB DU
DU
gNB
gNB DU
DU
gNB
gNB DU
DU
NF
gNB

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5G gNB CU CP NF – uS View

OAM uS nrRRM uS nrF1C uS nrXnC uS

PM uS FM uS Log uS CM uS nrF1C uS nrXnC uS
nrTM E1 uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrRRM uS nrNGC uS nrTM E1 uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM XN uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM XN uS Node 1
Node 1

OAM uS nrRRM uS nrF1C uS nrXnC uS

PM uS FM uS Log uS CM uS nrF1C uS nrXnC uS
nrTM E1 uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrRRM uS nrNGC uS nrTM E1 uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM XN uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM XN uS Node 21
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5G gNB CU CP NF – Networking View
Internal OAM
Non SRIOV NW K8S
Internal UE Signalling
NW
FM NW Log NW PM NW CM NW Internal Non UE Signalling

FM uS Log uS PM uS CM uS

nrE1C uS
nrSM uS nrRRM uS

nrTM E1 uS

nrF1C uS nrNGC uS nrX2C uS nrXnC uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM XN uS

F1 NW BH NW BH NW BH NW E1 NW
SRIOV NW
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5G gNB CU UP NF – uS View

nrTM E1 uS
nrE1C uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS
OAM uS nrDP uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM nrTM

XN uSE1 uS
Node 1

nrTM E1 uS
nrE1C uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS
OAM uS nrDP uS

nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM nrTM

XN uSE1 uS
Node 2

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5G gNB CU UP NF – Networking View
Non SRIOV NW
SRIOV NW
FM NW Log NW PM NW CM NW BH NW

FM uS Log uS PM uS CM uS nrE1C uS
nrDP uS

nrTM E1 uS

F1U NW E1 NW

SRIOV NW

Internal OAM K8S

NW
Internal Non UE Signaling

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5G gNB DU NF – uS View

nrTM E1 uS
nrF1C uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS
OAM uS BaseBand uS
L2 and L1
nrTM F1 uS nrTM NG uS nrTM X2 uS nrTM nrTM
XN uSF1 uS
Node 1

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5G gNB DU NF – Networking View
Non SRIOV NW

FM NW Log NW PM NW CM NW

FM uS Log uS PM uS CM uS nrF1C uS
nrTM E1 uS
nrSM uS nrE1C uS nrX2C uS nrNGC uS

BaseBand uS
nrTM F1 uS nrTM X2 uS
nrTM NG uS L2 and L1 nrTM nrTM
XN uSF1 uS

F1U NW FH NW F1C NW

SRIOV NW

Internal OAM K8S

NW
Internal Signaling

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 SARF ID
XXXXX GC Sub6 RDC

Sector 1 CNF
RU vDU -1
Azimuth 0 (100Mhz) (SITE 1)

Sector 2 RU vDU -2
(100Mhz) (SITE 2) CNF
Azimuth 120
CU

Sector 3 RU vDU - 3
Azimuth 240 (100Mhz) (SITE 3)

vDU -85
(Site 85)

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 SARF ID
XXXXX
mmW
RDC
100M
Sector 1 hz PNF
Sector 2
100M (400Mhz)
Azimuth 0 Sector 3
hz
100M 4 Sectors DU -1
hz
Sector 4 100M
hz

Sector 5
PNF
Azimuth 120 Sector 6 (400Mhz)
DU -2
Sector 7 4 Sectors CNF
Sector 8
CU
Sector 9
PNF
Azimuth 240 Sector 10 (400Mhz)
DU -3
Sector 11 4 Sectors
Sector 12

PNF
(400Mhz)
DU -64
4 Sectors
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 PLATFORM OVERVIEW

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Differences between VM and Docker/Containers
• VM: Application VM instantiated on CVIM/OpenStack – It is like a entire computing
machine including OS
• Container: Container/mircro service based application instantiated on Robin platform
– Only application and minimum set of library, etc. would be contained and built on docker engine
platform
– Robin will provide the auto instantiation, network and storage service in K8s based architecture

Segregating
Segregating Application
Guest from OS
OS/Application
from host

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 General benefit of container based deployment
• Less system resource is required than virtual machine
• Application SW is decoupled from OS . OS overhead is reduced
• Containers are lightweight, portable, scalable and secure
• Provide greater efficiency
• Microservice base upgradation, enhancement , healing, etc

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 Kubernetes = K8s
 Kubernetes is container orchestrator
 A Kubernetes cluster consists of a set of worker machines, called nodes.
 Cluster consists of master node and set of worker nodes. sometimes only master
can act as cluster
 In general, the worker node(s) host the Pods (Point of Delivery) that are the
components of the application workload – vDU/vCU application deployed in Pods
 Robin.io is providing Kubernetes base container platform , noted as Robin
platform Worker node
Pod#1 Pod#2 Pod#3
CLI container
container container
container

Master node
Pod#1 Pod#2
container container

GUI container container

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 From Kiba Lab setup…
Robin cluster
Present test ongoing on SKU5 HW. Production plan is SKU10 HW

SW to install application PODs on Robin cluster

 Docker images – Images for different application container

 Robin Bundle – Application configuration files and Installation scripts available.

e.g. - robin_bundle_0.0.M0FR1_RC1.tar.gz

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 From Kiba Lab setup…
 vCU Application

 vCU PODs

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5G GC Deployment Model
Type-E/F Type-D

RDC
vCU

Mgmt traffic flow Compute overview:

Data traffic flow vDU: SKU#5 (Cascade Lake, 384GB memory)
vCU: SKU#10 (= CDC SKU#2 + 3.8TB SSD*2)

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5G GC Network Design

Sub-6

mmW

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