5G Terminologies and Node Names

04 Oct 2018

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 5G – Driving factors

Enhanced Mobile
Broadband (eMBB)

Massive Machine-Type
Communications (IoT)

Ultra-Reliable Low
Latency Communication
(URLLC)

(Source: Qualcomm)
Nokia Internal
2 Use
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Typical 4G Architecture

RF Module AirScale System Module

Antenna (Internal name: FSM4, SM4, S4) EPC
CABINET NAME = AMIA
2 Half Sub-racks
Smallest Configuration : 1 ASIA + 1
ABIA
Highest Configuration : 2 ASIA + 6
ABIA

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 Typical 5G Architecture compared to 4G Architecture

AirScale System Module

Antenna RF Module (Internal name: FSM4, SM4, S4) EPC

CABINET NAME = AMIA (Common for 4G and 5G)

2 Half Sub-racks (Common for 4G and 5G)

ASIA for 4G, ASIK for 5G

ABIA for 4G, ABIL for 5G

Radio Unit EPC in NSA

RAU Radio or
5G Core in SA
Acess
Cloud
Logical Name DU = RAU + RU CU Core

Physical Name RU RAU RAC Core

Nokia Product Name AirScale

MAA SM NCIR ….
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AirScale MAA  AirScale Massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna ;
NCIR  Nokia AirFrame Cloud Infrastructure for Real-time applications
5G Node B Architecture

Logical Physical Nokia Product Name

Entities Entities

gNB RAC
NCIR
gNB-CU

RAU

gNB-DU
AirScale System Module

RU

RAP AirScale MAA*

AirScale MAA  AirScale Massive MIMO Adaptive Antenna

5 © Nokia 2018 RAP  Radio Access Point
NCIR  Nokia AirFrame Cloud Infrastructure for Real-time applications
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