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Your 5G Strategy
Wednesday March 4th 2020
• Introduction
• Why 5G matters
• The state of 5G globally and in Africa
• CommScope presentation
• Q&A
a) Spectrum availability
b) Network upgrade cost
c) Handsets/Devices availability
d) Lack of applications/use cases
e) Users awareness and low ARPU
• a) Low bands (Sub 1GHz FDD) for maximum coverage with least capacity.
• b) Mid bands (Sub 6 GHz TDD) for medium capacity and coverage
• c) High bands (mmWaves TDD) for maximum capacity with least coverage.
Operators investing in 5G
By end of 2019..
Mid
10 Mbps/m2
Area Traffic Spectral
Capacity Low Efficiency
3x 4G
➢ Peak Data Rate: 20Gbps
➢ Spectral Efficiency: 3x 4G
➢ Latency (UP): 1ms
Energy
Mobility
Efficiency
➢ Connection Density: 106/Km2 100x 4G
500 Km/h
Connection Latency
Density 1 ms
Spectrum BW and Spectral Efficiencies are Key enablers 1M Dev./Km2
Information
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PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL General
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Why New Antennas
Generations? More Capacity
Information
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PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL General
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World Radiocommunication
Conference
Held every three to four years.
WRC-15
• C-band (3.4-3.6GHz)
• L-band (1427-1518MHz)
• 700-band (694-790MHz)
WRC-19
• AI 1.13 :
• IMT Future Bands
• Between 24.25 and 86 GHz
• AI 1.16
• WAS/RLAN Vs Mobile Services
• Between 5150 MHz and 5925 MHz
Information
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Calling for
Beamformers
heroes
Beamforming Antennas are like
legendary Transformers …
Possess “super powers” to
dynamically transform their
patterns’ main beam and nulls
directions…
We like to call them Beamformers
…Fighting back interferences, and
bringing better SINR to planet
Earth, for the benefit of mankind!
Beamformers • Digital / Analog Beamforming
Under the hood.. • Active / Passive Arrays
• Transceivers Configuration
Beamforming
Analog Phase Shift Array
Analog Beamforming
1. Analog
• Beam is controlled by RF Chain
1. Digital RF Chain
digitally controlled by
baseband processing.
• Best beam control with higher RF Chain
Splitter
cost, power consumption and Digital Baseband
Processing
signaling overheads. Splitter
RF Chain
1. Hybrid
Analog Phase Shift Sub Arrays
Hybrid Beamforming
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Building a Passive Beamformer
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Passive Beamformers
OEM’s radios supporting the calibration
functionality and ports
no. AE/Pol/Subarray
x x x x
x x x x
11AE x x x x
Vertical BW (e-Tilt)
x x x x
no. Subarray/Column
x x x x
…
…
…
…
8 (4 x-pol columns)
x x x x
= 2 Subarrays
(Co & Cross Pol ±45o)
4x2AE
11AE
A Passive 8T8R BF panel gain..
• Exceeds 32T32R, with a = 2 4 Subarrays
1.4-6 GHz
1. Spectrum MIMO
Coverage & link budgets 4T4R
>6 GHz
MIMO BF
=
8T8R
High Rise
(FD BF)
Low traffic MaMIMO BF
32T32R
Urban/Suburbs
(AZ/FD BF) 2. Clutter 3.Financials Mid-High
Transceivers and MaMIMO BF
Rural Beam Steering Patterns
Capacity Hotspots 64T64R
(AZ BF)
Beamformers Configuration
Selection Factors
I. Spectrum
Coverage and Link Budgets
Spectrum effect Low Bands (Sub 1 GHz)
• Largest coverage
• Low bandwidth users
Relative Bandwidths
Sub 1 GHz Mid Bands (1.4 to 6 GHz)
• Small bandwidth • Medium range
• Best coverage • Medium BW and capacity
High Bands (mmWave)
1.4-6 GHz
• Medium bandwidth
• Medium coverage • Short range
• High BW and capacity
>6 GHz mmWaves
Cell Range
• Huge bandwidth
• Worst coverage
Massive MIMO and
Beamforming
5GNR on Existing
Macro Cell Sites Beam scanning
Beam k
5G-NR @3.5 GHz in NSA modes. N-Antenna
Base Station
DL Coverage UE K
Cell Edge is at
Transmit power - pathloss =
Rx Sensitivity
?
the subscriber distribution
Less added benefit in flat terrains
• Suburban
• Rural
Capacity Simulation x x x x x x x x x x x x … x
(64T64R) 32AE
0.5λ
• 32Hx1V shows best MU- Overlap
MIMO performance in x x x x x x x x
Horizontal domain x x x x x x x x
4AE
0.5λ x x x x x x x x
• 8Hx4V shows good MU-
x x x x x x x x
MIMO performance in
8AE
Horizontal with overlapping
vertical 0.5λ
Overlap
32H x 1V 6.27
8H x 4V (2λ) 5.47
Commercial Value 8
7
6
Decision Factor 5
4
3
2
Cell Loading
• MaMIMO challenges: Normalized site capacity DL (~)
Normalized weighted cost
• Infrastructure
(power, space, load, etc.)
Curve shifts to right with
• ROI increasing traffic
• EMF guidelines (many countries)
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…
…
…
• 4AE both x x x x
= 2RF Chains x x x x
• Similar horizontal pattern shapes. 4AE
0.5λ
• Similar Spectral Efficiency for
horizontally spread users
Elevation beam
• 11AE provide narrower elevation
pattern (e-tilt adjustable)
• 32TR’s is wider with overlaps and
less gain
Cost Implications
• 4x number of transceivers Azimuth Elevation
-30o, 0o, +30o -30o, 0o, +30o
• Power Consumption
Financial Selection Flow
Revenue
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45 CommScope, Inc.
Passive Vs Active
beamformers, who
wins?
Each can win depending on the
battle field environment
• Spectrum
• Terrain
• Cost and Revenue
Nascar Mexico 2019