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Transcript of LTE Basics
Introduction to 3GPP UMTS/LTE389.168 Advanced Wireless Communications 1
Contents
1 Historical Development
2 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
3 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
4 Summary
Slide 2 / 48 Contents
Contents
1 Historical Development
2 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
3 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
4 Summary
Slide 3 / 48 Historical Development
History of UMTS/LTE
1G (analog)
A, B, C Netz
GSM
GPRS
EDGE
1991 1997 1998
Creation of the 3GPP
UMTS
HSPA
HSPA+
2G 3G
1999
LTE
LTE advanced
2009 20102004 2007
4G
5G
(ETSI)
First generation (1G) cellular networks: analog telephony
Second generation (2G) era: digital networks
Global system for mobile communications (GSM): circuit-switched, timedivision multiple access (TDMA), frequency division duplex (FDD)
General packet radio service (GPRS): packet-switched data traffic
Enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE): max. 472 kbit/s throughhigher order modulation (8 PSK instead of GMSK)
200 kHz bandwidth
Standardized by the European telecommunications standard institute (ETSI)
Slide 4 / 48 Historical Development
History of UMTS/LTE (2)
1G (analog)
A, B, C Netz
GSM
GPRS
EDGE
1991 1997 1998
Creation of the 3GPP
UMTS
HSPA
HSPA+
2G 3G
1999
LTE
LTE advanced
2009 20102004 2007
4G
5G
(ETSI)
Worldwide standardization: third generation partnership project (3GPP)
Universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS): release 99
Wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA)
First release: 384 kbit/s
5 MHz bandwidth
High speed packet access (HSPA) and HSPA+ (release 5 and 7)
Up to 4× 4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
Up to 20 MHz (carrier aggregation)
Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC)
⇒ 330 Mbit/s (release 11)
Slide 5 / 48 Historical Development
History of UMTS/LTE (3)
1G (analog)
A, B, C Netz
GSM
GPRS
EDGE
1991 1997 1998
Creation of the 3GPP
UMTS
HSPA
HSPA+
2G 3G
1999
LTE
LTE advanced
2009 20102004 2007
4G
5G
(ETSI)
UMTS long term evolution (LTE) release 8 (3.75G)
Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
Up to 4× 4 MIMO
Up to 20 MHz
First release: 300 Mbit/s
LTE advanced release 10 (4G)
Up to 8× 8 MIMO
Up to 100 MHz⇒ > 1 Gbit/s
Slide 6 / 48 Historical Development
Technology Utilization
201820172016201520142013201220112010
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
Year
Bill
ion
subc
ribe
rs
Worldwide subcriptions (Source: Ericsson, June 2013)
LTEWCDMA/HSPAGSM/EDGECDMAothers
GSM still dominates the market
HSPA will become dominant around 2017
LTE still has to gain momentum
Slide 7 / 48 Historical Development
Contents
1 Historical Development
2 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
3 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
4 Summary
Slide 8 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE PHY Overview
Modulation and multiple-accessDownlink: orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation
Sharing of subcarriers between users
Advantages: flexibility, efficiency, complexity
Disadvantages: overhead, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR)
Uplink: single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SCFDMA)
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-precoded OFDM
Sharing of consecutive subcarriers between users
Advantage: lower PAPR
Disadvantage: reduced efficiency (multi-user diversity)
7.5 kHz and 15 kHz subcarrier spacing (impact of Doppler spread)
Two cyclic prefix (CP) length (normal/extended 4.7µs/16.7µs @ 15 kHz)
Time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) support
Slide 9 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE PHY Overview
Modulation and multiple-accessDownlink: orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation
Sharing of subcarriers between users
Advantages: flexibility, efficiency, complexity
Disadvantages: overhead, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR)
Uplink: single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SCFDMA)
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-precoded OFDM
Sharing of consecutive subcarriers between users
Advantage: lower PAPR
Disadvantage: reduced efficiency (multi-user diversity)
7.5 kHz and 15 kHz subcarrier spacing (impact of Doppler spread)
Two cyclic prefix (CP) length (normal/extended 4.7µs/16.7µs @ 15 kHz)
Time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) support
Slide 9 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE PHY Overview
Modulation and multiple-accessDownlink: orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation
Sharing of subcarriers between users
Advantages: flexibility, efficiency, complexity
Disadvantages: overhead, peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR)
Uplink: single-carrier frequency division multiple access (SCFDMA)
Discrete Fourier transform (DFT)-precoded OFDM
Sharing of consecutive subcarriers between users
Advantage: lower PAPR
Disadvantage: reduced efficiency (multi-user diversity)
7.5 kHz and 15 kHz subcarrier spacing (impact of Doppler spread)
Two cyclic prefix (CP) length (normal/extended 4.7µs/16.7µs @ 15 kHz)
Time division duplex (TDD) and frequency division duplex (FDD) support
Slide 9 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE PHY Overview (2)
Channel coding and modulation-alphabetsMother channel code: rate 1/3 Turbo code
Puncturing and repetition to obtain code rates between 0.08 and 0.93
Strong interleaving for robustness against error bursts
24 bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for error detection
Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with soft-combining
Quadratur amplitude modulation (QAM) symbol alphabets
4/16/64 QAM (256 is considered)
Bit-interleaved coded-modulation (BICM) architecture
channelcoding
modulationmapping
coded bits
bitinterleaving
modulated symbolsdata bits interleaved bits
Slide 10 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE PHY Overview (3)spatial multiplexing
diversity
error probability
beamforming
receive power
MIMO key dataSupported MIMO schemes
Transmit diversity
Beamforming
Spatial multiplexing
Antenna configurations
Up to eight base station antennas (LTE-A Rel. 10, before up to four)
Downlink: up to eight (four) spatial streams (layers)
Uplink: up to four (one) spatial streams
See [Dahlman et al., 2011, Rupp, 2012] for details on the PHY
Slide 11 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
OFDM Processing
IDFT + CP
OFDM-TX
-CP + DFT
OFDM-RX x[n,k] y[n,k]
h[n,k]
subcarriers n
x[1,k] x[N,k]
subcarriers n
h[1,k] h[N,k]
subcarriers n
y[1,k] y[N,k]
(I)DFT... (inverse) discrete Fourier transform
CP... cyclic pre!x
Transmit symbol on OFDM subcarrier n at OFDM symbol k : x [n, k ] ∈ C
Channel gain on subcarrier n at symbol k : h[n, k ] ∈ C
Noisy input-output relationship
y [n, k ] = h[n, k ]x [n, k ] + z[n, k ] (1)
Receiver noise z[n, k ] ∈ C
Slide 12 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
OFDM Processing (2)
Implicit assumptions:Perfect timing and frequency synchronization⇒ synchronization signals: 0.2%− 3% overhead in LTE
Sufficient CP length⇒ normal/extended CP: 7%− 25% overhead in LTE
Negligible temporal channel variation during OFDM symbols (≈ 72µs)
If one of these is violated:Inter-carrier interference
Inter-symbol interference
(Can be considered in the noise)
For details, please visit 389.133 Wireless OFDM Systems
Slide 13 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
MIMO-OFDM
IDFT + CP
OFDM-TX
-CP + DFT
OFDM-RX
y[n,k]
H[n,k]
IDFT + CP -CP + DFT
x[n,k]
Nt Nr
Transmit symbol vector on subcarrier n at symbol k
x[n, k ] =[x (1)[n, k ], . . . , x (Nt )[n, k ]
]T(2)
Channel matrix: H[n, k ] ∈ CNr×Nt
H[n, k ] =
h(1,1)[n, k ] h(1,2)[n, k ] . . . h(1,Nt )[n, k ]h(2,1)[n, k ] h(2,2)[n, k ] . . . h(2,Nt )[n, k ]
.... . .
...h(Nr ,1)[n, k ] h(Nr ,2)[n, k ] . . . h(Nr ,Nt )[n, k ]
(3)
Noisy input-output relationship
y[n, k ] = H[n, k ]x[n, k ] + z[n, k ] ∈ CNr×1 (4)
Slide 14 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Frame Structure (FDD)
1 frame: 10 ms
1 subframe: 1ms
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
14 OFDM symbols
slot 1 slot 2
The subframe duration (1 ms) is the basic transmission time interval (TTI)
Each subframe is processed individually
e.g., the user-data within each subframe is jointly channel coded
The frame is used to organize the allocation of subframes to traffic channels
Physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)
Physical broadcast channel (PBCH)
Physical multicast channel (PMCH)
. . .
Slide 15 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Time-Frequency Grid
......
12 subcarriers
180 kHz (15 kHz subcarrier spacing)
freq
time one resource
element
slot (0.5ms)
subframe: 1ms
14 OFDM symbols
......
......
one resource block
Resource element (RE): one subcarrier during one OFDM symbol
Resource block (RB): 7 OFDM symbols in time, 12 subcarriers in frequency
Slot: 7 OFDM symbols over the full bandwidth
Subframe: two slots in time over the full bandwidth
Slide 16 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
Resource Allocation
spa
ce
freq
uency
time
} spatial streamsor layers
UE 1 UE 2 UE 3
resource block
Based on (multiples of) RBs
Handled by the scheduler
Exploit multi-user diversity: double-logarithmic rate-growth with the numberof users for independent fading [Viswanath, 2006]
Fulfill quality of service (QoS) requirements (max. delay, min. rate)
Potentially varying over space, time and frequency
Slide 17 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Transmit Signal Processing Chain
Adaptive modulation and coding
precoded signal
Nt dimensional
channel
coding
interleaving
scrambling
modulation
mapping
MIMO processing
layer
mapping
(+pilot insertion)precoding
user data bits coded bits
up to 2 codewords
modulated symbols
Transmit signal
composition
resource element
mappingIDFT/CP
+ RF
precoded signal user transmit signal
multi-user
multiplexing
+ pilot insertion
other users’ signals
transmit signal
Nt dimensional
wireless
channel
spatial streams
up to 8 layers
AMC: 15 combinations of code rates and modulation alphabets are supported(0.15 bit/symbol – 5.55 bit/symbol)
Scrambling: inter-cell interference whitening
Pilot insertion for channel sounding and channel estimation
Channel state information (CSI) calculation for AMC and MIMO
Channel equalization and data detection
Slide 18 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Receive Signal Processing Chain
wireless
channelRF +
DFT/CP
receive signal
Nr dimensional
user signal
and pilot
extraction
channel
estimation
+ feedback
calculation
equalization
spatial streams
up to 8 layers
data detection
+ symbol
demapping
descrambling
deinterleaving
decoding
HARQ combining
coded bits
up to 2 codewords
estimated user
data bits
CRC check
ACK/NACK
Channel estimation: estimate the channel matrices using pilot signals
Equalization: invert the distortions of the channel (per subcarrier)
Data detection: soft/hard symbol detection (log-likelihood ratios)
HARQ combining in case of retransmission
Slide 19 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Performance
2520151050-5-10SNR [dB]
Blo
ck e
rror
ratio
SISO_1.4MHz_AWGN_TU
MCS1 MCS15
100
10-1
10-2
10-3
242220181614121086420-2-4-6
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
SNR [dB]
Spec
tral
eff
icie
ncy
[bit/
s/H
z]
SISO_AWGN
Shannon capacity
BICM 64 capacity
BICM 16 capacity
BICM 4 capacity LTE efficiency
Transmission over single-input single-output (SISO) additive white Gaussiannoise (AWGN) channel
Performance of LTE’s 15 modulation and coding schemes (MCSs)
No imperfections considered (channel estimation, synchronization)
Shannon capacity: log2(1 + SNR)
BICM capacity [Caire et al., 1996]
Slide 20 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Reference Signals
time
freq
uenc
y
time
freq
uenc
y
time
freq
uenc
y
antenna port 0antenna port 3antenna port 2
antenna port 1
one antenna two antennas
four antennas
Two types of reference signals:
Non-precoded reference signals (cell-specific, sounding)
Precoded reference signals (UE-specific, demodulation)
Employed for channel sounding and estimation
Pilot-symbols are known to users
Pilots are non-overlapping in time/frequency
Channel distortions can be estimated
Slide 21 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Channel Estimation [Simko, 2013]
0
5
10
0
5
100
0.5
1
OFDM symbol indexsubcarrier index
cha
nn
el
pilot 2
pilot 1
pilot 3 data symbol
Least squares channel estimation plus linear interpolation (triangulation)
hLS[np, kp] =y [np, kp]
r [np, kp](5)
r [np, kp] reference symbol at pilot position [np, kp]
Linear minimum squared error channel estimation
min E(∥∥∥h− hLMMSE
∥∥∥2
2
), subject to hLMMSE = ALMMSEhLS (6)
Requires second-order channel and noise statistics
Slide 22 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE Downlink Channel Estimation [Simko, 2013]
0
5
10
0
5
100
0.5
1
OFDM symbol indexsubcarrier index
cha
nn
el
pilot 2
pilot 1
pilot 3 data symbol
Least squares channel estimation plus linear interpolation (triangulation)
hLS[np, kp] =y [np, kp]
r [np, kp](5)
r [np, kp] reference symbol at pilot position [np, kp]
Linear minimum squared error channel estimation
min E(∥∥∥h− hLMMSE
∥∥∥2
2
), subject to hLMMSE = ALMMSEhLS (6)
Requires second-order channel and noise statistics
Slide 22 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
Performance of Channel Estimation employing LTE’s ReferenceSignals [Simko, 2013]
Doppler frequency
0 Hz
200 Hz
400 Hz
600 Hz
800 Hz
1000 Hz
1200 Hz
0 5 10 15 20 25 3010-4
10-3
10-2
10-1
100
SNR [dB]
MSE
0 5 10 15 20 25 3010-4
10-3
10-2
10-1
100
SNR [dB]
MSE
Doppler frequency
0 Hz
200 Hz
400 Hz
600 Hz
800 Hz
1000 Hz
1200 Hz
Least squares channel estimator Linear minimum mean-squared error channel estimator
Channel estimation for a noisy SISO channel
Performance degradation with increasing channel Doppler frequency fd due togrowing channel variation in time
Corresponding speed v at center frequency fc
v =cfc
fd , e.g. fc = 2 GHz, fd = 500 Hz⇒ v = 270 km/h (7)
Slide 23 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE’s HARQ Protocol
} equal retransmissions
reconstructed code block (chase combining)punctured bitscombined bits
} differentversions
reconstructed code block (incremental redundancy)combined bits
original code block
original code block
Fast PHY/MAC retransmission using ACK/NACK feedback
Higher layers not involved (transparent, reduced delay/latency)
Two possible types:
Chase combining (repetition gain)
Incremental redundancy (coding gain and repetition gain)
LTE employs incremental redundancy with soft combining
Slide 24 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE’s HARQ Protocol Performance [Colom-Ikuno, 2013]
−10 −5 0 5 10 1510 −3
10 −2
10 −1
10 0
BL
ER
SNR [dB]
m=0m=1m=2m=3
. . . . 5.7 dB
HARQgain
2.5 dB
1.4 dB
10% BLER
Improvement of block error ratio (BLER) with retransmissions due to bitrepetitions and code rate reduction
Up to three retransmissions are supported in LTE
Slide 25 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
Simplified System Model
precoding
Hu
equalization
Fu Gu
x yusu su^
precoding
F1
s1
precoding
FU
sU
+
+
Assume perfect operation of OFDM and consider a specific RE [n, k ]
Omit channel coding and modulation mapping
Neglect channel estimation errors, synchronization errors, etc.
su = GuHuFusu + GuHu
U∑j=1,j 6=u
Fj sj + Guzu , (8)
Gu ∈ CLu×Nr , Hu ∈ CNr×Nt , Fu ∈ CNt×Lu (9)
The noise zu also contains interference from other base stations
Slide 26 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE’s Transmission Modes
IDFT + CP
+ CPCDD
+
=
PDP frequency response
Single antenna transmission (Nt = 1), single user U = 1, single stream Lu = 1
su = gHu husu + zu , gu ,hu ∈ CNr×1 (10)
Transmit diversity (Nt > 1), U = 1, Lu = 1
Alamouti space-time (-frequency) coding [Alamouti, 1998]
Open-loop spatial multiplexing (Nt > 1), U = 1, Lu ≥ 1
Cyclic delay diversity (CDD) precoding⇒ transforms spatial diversity to frequency diversity
Slide 27 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
LTE’s Transmission Modes (2)
0 45 90 135 1800
2
4
6
8
Steering Angle [°]
An
ten
na
ga
in
UE1 UE2
Closed-loop spatial multiplexing (Nt > 1), U = 1, Lu ≥ 1
Adaptive precoding utilizing CSI feedback
Adaptive transmission rank (layers) – beamforming vs. multiplexing
Multi-user MIMO (Nt > 1), U = 2, Lu = 1
Based on predefined precoders (codebook)
Powerful receivers required to cancel residual inter-user interference
Details to come...
Slide 28 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
Performance Comparison of LTE’s Single-User Transmission Modes
403020100-10
10
8
6
4
2
0
SNR [dB]
aver
age
user
thro
ughp
ut [M
bit/s
]
4x2 CLSM 2x2 OLSM
1x1 SISO
2x2 TxD
4x2 CLSM 2x2 OLSM
1x1 SISO
2x2 TxD
Transmission over independent Rayleigh fading channels
Saturation at high signal to noise ratio (SNR) due to limitation to 64 QAM(6 bit/symbol)
Different saturation values because of growing reference symbol overhead withincreasing number of transmit antennas
Slide 29 / 48 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
Contents
1 Historical Development
2 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
3 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
4 Summary
Slide 30 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
Reasons for Further Enhancements
201820172016201520142013201220112010
15
12
9
6
3
0
Year
Glo
bal t
raff
ic [E
xaby
tes/
mon
th]
Global traffic voice and data (Source: Ericsson, June 2013)
Data: mobile PCs, tablets, mobile routersData: smartphonesVoice
Estimated growth of mobile traffic (1 Exabyte = 1018 bytes); source: Ericsson traffic exploration tool, June 2013
Mobile data traffic in 2012 was twelve times the size of the Internet in 2000
Average smart phone usage grew 81 percent in 2012
Smart phones represented only 18 percent of total global handsets in use in2012, but represented 92 percent of total global handset traffic
[Cisco Systems Inc., 2013, Ericsson, 2013]
Slide 31 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Enhanced MIMO
Higher-order single-user MIMOImproved peak spectral efficiency: up to eight spatial streams
Gains in cell edge spectral efficiency: high signal to interference and noise ratio(SINR) through beamforming
Support of uplink single-user MIMO (up to four streams)
Reduced reference signal overhead (UE-specific vs. cell-specific)
Improved multi-user MIMONon-codebook based precoding
Up to eight users in parallel
Improved CSI feedback using nested codebooks
e.g., given a valid rank 2 precoder F = [f1, f2] ∈ CNt×2
⇒ f1, f2 ∈ CNt×1 are valid rank 1 precoders
Slide 32 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Carrier Aggregation
1.4 MHz 1.4 MHz 1.4 MHz
frequency band 1 (800 MHz)
5 MHz
frequency band 2 (2 GHz)
scenario A scenario B scenario C
Enables up to 100 MHz bandwidth
Better utilization of fragmented spectrum
Contiguous/non-contiguous aggregation
Inter-/Intra-band aggregation
Slide 33 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Carrier Aggregation Scenarios
F1
F2
F1
F2
F1
F2 Low-latency high-bandwidth connectionBase station Remote radio unit
Cover the same area – peak capacity enhancement
Potentially different coverage area depending on carrier frequency
Cover each others’ cell-edge – cell edge improvement
Hot-spot coverage using remote radio heads (RRHs)
Slide 34 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Relaying
coverage improvement
cell-edge improvement
Base station Relay node User
Provide coverage in dead zones and improve cell-edge performance
In-band versus out-band relays
Layer 1 relays: amplify and forward
Layer 2 relays: decode and forward
Layer 3 relays: appear to users as ordinary cells
Slide 35 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Coordinated Multipoint Transmission/Reception
Coordinated scheduling:Time/frequency sharingDynamic point selectionInter-cell interference coordinationICIC (Rel. 8), eICIC (Rel. 10), FeICIC (Rel. 11)
Advantage: low overhead (control info)
Coordinated beamforming:Spatial interference mitigationSignal to leakage and noise ratio (SLNR)[Sadek et al., 2007]Advantage: good trade-off (CSI only)
Joint transmission:Exploitation of interferenceDistributed antenna systemAdvantage: potentially highestperformanceDisadvantage: overhead (CSI and data)
Coordinatedscheduling
X2 interface or low-latency high-bandwidth dedicated connection
Base station User
Slide 36 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Coordinated Multipoint Transmission/Reception
Coordinated scheduling:Time/frequency sharingDynamic point selectionInter-cell interference coordinationICIC (Rel. 8), eICIC (Rel. 10), FeICIC (Rel. 11)
Advantage: low overhead (control info)
Coordinated beamforming:Spatial interference mitigationSignal to leakage and noise ratio (SLNR)[Sadek et al., 2007]Advantage: good trade-off (CSI only)
Joint transmission:Exploitation of interferenceDistributed antenna systemAdvantage: potentially highestperformanceDisadvantage: overhead (CSI and data)
Coordinatedscheduling
Coordinatedbeamforming
X2 interface or low-latency high-bandwidth dedicated connection
Base station User
Slide 36 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: Coordinated Multipoint Transmission/Reception
Coordinated scheduling:Time/frequency sharingDynamic point selectionInter-cell interference coordinationICIC (Rel. 8), eICIC (Rel. 10), FeICIC (Rel. 11)
Advantage: low overhead (control info)
Coordinated beamforming:Spatial interference mitigationSignal to leakage and noise ratio (SLNR)[Sadek et al., 2007]Advantage: good trade-off (CSI only)
Joint transmission:Exploitation of interferenceDistributed antenna systemAdvantage: potentially highestperformanceDisadvantage: overhead (CSI and data)
Coordinatedscheduling
Coordinatedbeamforming
Jointtransmission
X2 interface or low-latency high-bandwidth dedicated connection
Base station User
Slide 36 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: CoMP Scenarios
Scenario 1: Intra-site CoMP
Scenario 2: Inter-site CoMP
Scenario 3: HetNet CoMP 1 (different cell-IDs, small cells)
Scenario 4: HetNet CoMP 2 (same cell-IDs, RRHs and relays)
Low-latency high-bandwidth connection
Base station Remote radio unit
UserAccess point
Slide 37 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: CoMP Scenarios
Scenario 1: Intra-site CoMP
Scenario 2: Inter-site CoMP
Scenario 3: HetNet CoMP 1 (different cell-IDs, small cells)
Scenario 4: HetNet CoMP 2 (same cell-IDs, RRHs and relays)
Low-latency high-bandwidth connection
Base station Remote radio unit
UserAccess point
Slide 37 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: CoMP Scenarios
Scenario 1: Intra-site CoMP
Scenario 2: Inter-site CoMP
Scenario 3: HetNet CoMP 1 (different cell-IDs, small cells)
Scenario 4: HetNet CoMP 2 (same cell-IDs, RRHs and relays)
Low-latency high-bandwidth connection
Base station Remote radio unit
UserAccess point
Slide 37 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: CoMP Scenarios
Scenario 1: Intra-site CoMP
Scenario 2: Inter-site CoMP
Scenario 3: HetNet CoMP 1 (different cell-IDs, small cells)
Scenario 4: HetNet CoMP 2 (same cell-IDs, RRHs and relays)
Low-latency high-bandwidth connection
Base station Remote radio unit
UserAccess point
Slide 37 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
LTE-A Enhancements: CoMP Scenarios
Scenario 1: Intra-site CoMP
Scenario 2: Inter-site CoMP
Scenario 3: HetNet CoMP 1 (different cell-IDs, small cells)
Scenario 4: HetNet CoMP 2 (same cell-IDs, RRHs and relays)
Low-latency high-bandwidth connection
Base station Remote radio unit
UserAccess point
Slide 37 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
Potential Future Technologies
Significant bandwidth expansions cannot be expected in the near future
Possible long-term solution Millimeter Waves[Rappaport et al., 2013] (30 – 300 GHz⇔ 1 – 10 mm)
Increasing the network density
Heterogeneous networks [Andrews, 2013]
Inter-cell interference coordination
Potential PHY improvements with massive MIMO [Marzetta, 2010]
Hundreds to thousands of antennas per base station
Space division multiple access (SDMA)
Inter-cell interference mitigation/exploitation
More details in Prof. Rupp’s part
Slide 38 / 48 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
Potential Future Technologies: Full-Duplex Wireless
Digital Interference Cancellation
TXRX
Attenuation
& Delay
RF Baseband
ADC
Baseband RF
DAC
EncoderDecoder
Digital Interference
Reference
Balun Cancellation
TX Signal Path RX Signal Path
RF Reference
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RSSI
Control
Feedback
Channel
Estimate
Balun
[Jain et al., 2011]
Analog self-interference cancellation to avoid radio frequency (RF) amplifier andanalog to digital converter (ADC) overload
Digital cancellation of residual interference
Gain: factor 2
May help solving the CSI problematic
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Potential Future Technologies: Filter Bank Multicarrier Modulation
IDFT + CP
OFDM
IDFTdigital
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FBMC
OFDMFBMC
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Source: ICT-PHYDYAS, FP7 project
Avoid cyclic prefix overhead of OFDM
Reduce the side-lobes of OFDM to shrink the required guard bands⇒ improve spectral efficiency
Digital filter design based on Nyquist criterion to avoid inter-carrier interference
Higher complexity: inter-symbol interference, equalization
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Contents
1 Historical Development
2 Description of the LTE Downlink PHY
3 Enhancements of Legacy LTE – LTE-Advanced
4 Summary
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Summary
Evolution TDMA→WCDMA→ OFDMA ?→ FBMC
UMTS/LTE physical layer:
OFDMA modulation and multiple access
Channel coding based on rate 1/3 Turbo code
AMC utilizing BICM architecture
Fast HARQ retransmissions
MIMO beamforming/diversity/multiplexing
LTE-A enhancements:
Multi-user MIMO
Carrier aggregation
Relaying, CoMP
Potential enabling technologies for 5G cellular:
Millimeter wave
Network densification
Massive MIMO
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Introduction to 3GPP UMTS/LTE389.168 Advanced Wireless Communications 1
Abbreviations I
3GPP third generation partnership project
ADC analog to digital converter
AMC adaptive modulation and coding
AWGN additive white Gaussian noise
BICM bit-interleaved coded-modulation
BLER block error ratio
CDD cyclic delay diversity
CoMP coordinated multipoint transmission/reception
CP cyclic prefix
CRC cyclic redundancy check
CSI channel state information
DFT discrete Fourier transform
EDGE enhanced data rates for GSM evolution
ETSI European telecommunications standard institute
FBMC filter bank multicarrier modulation
FDD frequency division duplex
GPRS general packet radio service
GSM global system for mobile communications
Slide 44 / 48 Abbreviations
Abbreviations IIHARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
HSPA high speed packet access
LTE long term evolution
MAC medium access control
MCS modulation and coding scheme
MIMO multiple-input multiple-output
OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
PAPR peak-to-average power ratio
PHY physical layer
QAM quadratur amplitude modulation
QoS quality of service
RB resource block
RE resource element
RF radio frequency
RRH remote radio head
SCFDMA single-carrier frequency division multiple access
SDMA space division multiple access
SINR signal to interference and noise ratio
Slide 45 / 48 Abbreviations
Abbreviations III
SISO single-input single-output
SNR signal to noise ratio
TDD time division duplex
TDMA time division multiple access
TTI transmission time interval
UMTS universal mobile telecommunications system
WCDMA wideband code division multiple access
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