Design Requirements on Coexistence of

LTE800 with

Wireless Microphones, DVB-C, DOCSIS & DVB-T

Volker Hoehn, VF-TSO – Access-Design

Michael Wiemeler; VF-DE

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Coexistence of LTE800 with WIMI, DVB-C, DOCSIS & DVB-T

Digital Dividend Understand

- Band plan on LTE800.

Wireless Microphone
Understand
coexistence - Coexistence of LTE800 and Wireless Microphones .

DVB-C and DOCSIS

Understand
coexistence - LTE800 and DVB-C, DOCSIS coexistence requirements.

DVB-T coexistence Understand

- Potential interference scenarios of LTE800 with DVB-T

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 Digital Dividend (UHF – TV Bands) Digital Dividend

• Total spectrum 791-862 MHz, 11 MHz duplex gap, 41 MHz duplex distance
• Enables 2x30 MHz FDD operation in 5 MHz frequency blocks
• 3 operators, each having 10 MHz LTE FDD carrier
Current frequency channel allocation for LTE800 FDD:

791- 796- 801- 806- 811- 816- 832- 837- 842- 847- 852- 857-
821 - 832
796 801 806 811 816 821 837 842 847 852 857 862
Duplex
Downlink gap Uplink
30 MHz (6 blocks of 5 MHz) 11 MHz 30 MHz (6 blocks of 5 MHz)

DTT:
3
Digital TerrestrialDesign
LTE Radio&Transport TVStandard Confidentiality level: C2
Volker Hoehn,,VTN-A-Design
25 August 2014
 Wireless Microphone
Potential Wireless Microphone interference scenario coexistence

Height
~30m Ups
…

LTE site (existing

cellular location)

Interference distance: 500 – 700m LTE User Equipment used by the audience
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 Design requirements –Coexistence LTE800 with Wireless Microphones
• Frequency gaps between TV channels are used for Wireless Microphones

Conclusions:
• In case of distortion of the audio signal – switch off
• Co-channel & adjacent channel interference: Interference distances are needed
• Around 600 m Indoor interference distance in urban area for LTE in adjacent channel
• The locations for wireless microphones and their Base Stations need to be coordinated
carefully
• Usage of the frequency band below 791 MHz only for Wireless Microphones
• Switch the frequency channels for Wireless Microphones to other frequency bands

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 LTE Radio&Transport Design Standard
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 Potential DVB-C, DOCSIS and DVB-T interference scenarios
Height >150m

external antenna
for DVB-T

DOCSIS box

DVB-T TV
set top
box

Cable TV
Height ~30m &
>10 km Data
DVB-C set top box
Over cable
(DOCSIS)
DVB-T LTE UE indoor
Broadcast Site LTE site
(existing cellular
site location)

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 DVB-C
Design requirements – Coexistence LTE800 with DVB-C coexistence

• Co-channel interference –UL only

• Cable Network not affected only
Set top boxes due to low immunity
• 64QAM more robust than 256QAM
• large dependency on direction of
polarisation (horizontal-strong
impact)
• 64QAM with medium and large
DVB-C signal level no problem up
to a power of 23dBm
• 256QAM impact starts with 12-13dBm
• Analog TV shows from 10dBm strong distortion

Conclusions from field measurements with UMTS/HSPA 850:

• The immunity of the DVB-C set top boxes has to be improved also in the standard.
• Increase of the DVB-C signal level inthe Cable Network to 74 dBμV (around -30dBm)
• Potential CPE should apply vertical polarisation (antenna has to be vertical oriented)
• Interference distance of at least 3m between LTE-UE and DVB-C receiver necessary
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Design requirements – Coexistence LTE800 with DOCSIS
coexistence
DOCSIS1.1

• Similar design of the DOCSIS receiver like the DVB-C receiver

• 256QAM mostly used
• Therefore strong impact. Reset and new synchronisation needed which takes
minutes.

Conclusions:
• The immunity of the set top boxes has to be improved.
• The immunity requirements need to be improved also in the
corresponding standard.
• Increase of the DVB-C signal level inthe Cable Network to 74 dBμV
(around -30dBm)
• Interference distance of at least 3m between LTE-UE and DOCSIS
receiver necessary

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 Principle DVB-T interference scenarios DVB-T coexistence

Current frequency channel allocation for LTE800 FDD:

59 60 791- 796- 801- 806- 811- 816- 832- 837- 842- 847- 852- 857-
821 - 832
774-782 782-790 796 801 806 811 816 821 837 842 847 852 857 862
Duplex
Downlink gap Uplink
30 MHz (6 blocks of 5 MHz) 11 MHz 30 MHz (6 blocks of 5 MHz)
DVB-T DVB-T
Second Adjacent LTE 800 Downlink (DL) LTE 800 Uplink (UL)
Adjacent channel
channel to LTE
to LTE Image frequency issue

NDVB-T = NLTE - 72 MHz NDVB-T = NLTE - 72 MHz

Interfered Interfered
52 53 54 55 57 58 59 60
DVB-T DVB-T
channels channels
by by
LTE800 DL LTE800 UL

718 MHz 750MHz 758 MHz 790 MHz

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 Design requirements BS

Design requirements – coexistence LTE800 eNode B and DVB-T

• Check the DVB-T coverage and allocation of DVB-T frequency channels from 472 to 790
MHz (channel 21-60) in the LTE coverage area

• Take into account regulatiory rules on frequency band utilization: e.g. VF-DE: OOB
EIRP: 0dBm (BS), DVB-T (min.level): 41dBμV/m Æ -95dBm, interference distance of
1.1km)

• Additional filter in the LTE BS to reduce adjacent channel transmission

• Power reduction of the LTE 800 eNode B

• Co-located re-transmission of DVB-T at each LTE site e.g. from cellular site locations
close to the edge of DVB-T coverage in case no DVB-T channel switching to a different
channel is possible - on.channel repeater
The power difference between LTE and DVB-T should not exceed 30dB on adjacent
channel case and 36dB on image channel case .

• In case of adjacent and/or image channel case and none co-located transmission of
DVB-T and LTE at the DVB-T cell edge the choice of the location of LTE sites should
take into account interference distances with and without polarisation decoupling listed
in the tables in the annex.
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Interference created by Intermodulation products from active DVB-T Receive antennas

Clean DVB-T channel signals

Slide interfered DVB-T

channel signals

Strong interfered DVB-T

channel signals

Not only the N+1 and N+9 channels have to be considered but the entire DVB-T band.

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 Results from field measurements at DVB-T cell edge on
interference distance required between LTE800 UE and
DVB-T receiver

Based on measurements
In the field with various
DVB-T receivers using an
Active antenna

- Mainly caused by intermodulation

- lack of immunity of the DVB-T
receiver

STB: SetTopBox

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 Design requirements – coexistence LTE800 UE and DVB-T
• LTE reject filter (low pass filter: 20 dB across 20MHz) to be installed at the front end of the
affected DVB-T receivers (offered and sold by VF or Broadcasters???) to improve ACS
and in particular in case of DVB-T indoor systems (e.g. DVB-T received on the rooftop of
the building and distributed across the building by cable).
• Interference distance of at least 2m needed between LTE UE and DVB-T receiver in
particular in case of stationary LTE800 devices like LTE CPEs based on measurements
and field test.
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ACS: Adjacent Channel Selectivity