EuropeSub-6 and mmWave(mmW in 2H19)
North AmericaSub-6 and mmWave
JapanSub-6 and mmWave
South KoreaSub-6 and mmWave(mmW in 2H19)
Australia / SEASub-6
ChinaSub-6
Deployments happeningin regions across the globe2019 is the year of 5G
Middle EastSub-6
22
5G is Here75+ design wins and growing …
LG V50 ThinQ 5G
Samsung Galaxy S10 5G
Samsung Galaxy Fold
XiaomiMi MIX 5G
HTC 5G Hub NetgearNighthawk 5G
Inseego MiFi 5G NR
Askey 5G CPE
ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G
Motorola moto z3
+ 5G moto mod
Sierra Wireless 5G M.2 module
Quectel 5G modules
Telit 5G modules
Nubia Mini 5G
WNC 5G NR mobile hotspot
WNC 5G NR outdoor CPE
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3
5G NR mmWaveQualcomm®
Reference Design
mmWave (60 GHz)viability in handset
form factor11ad in Asus
Zenfone 4 Pro
Qualcomm®
5G NR mmWaveprototype
Qualcomm®
5G NR mobiletest device
Commercializing mmWavein a smartphone form factor
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73.8 mm
160 mm
9.5 mm
4
5G NR standards compliant
Sub-6 + mmWave
Premium-tier
smartphones in 2019
World’s first announced
5G NR multimode modems
5G Modem family
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™
Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
5
5G NR standards compliant
Sub-6 + mmWave
Premium-tier smartphones in 2019
World’s first announced 5G NR modems
October2017
2H2018
5G NR Interoperability and field trials
using form factor mobile test device
Providing Qualcomm® Reference Design to accelerate commercial devices
1H2019
February2018
1.24First 5G NR mmWaveover-the-air data call, with Ericsson
First 5G NR Sub 6 GHzover-the-air data call, with Ericsson
September2018
October2018
4.51
Multi-Gigabit over mmWave on
working Qualcomm® Snapdragon™
X50 modem silicon
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family
More than 30 commercial 5G mobile devices scheduled to launch in 2019
6
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 modem mmWave solution
ModemSDR051
Integrated Circuit
Antenna module
5G mmWave antenna
modules and
transceiver chips
mmWave
Digital Transceiver Power
Amps
Low Noise
Amps
Switches
Intermediate Frequency
Baseband
Snapdragon X50 5G
mmWave architecture
Integrated antenna array
and RFFE for performance
and ease-of-use
Architecture allows flexible
placements and multiple modules
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7
July 2018 October 2018
Qualcomm® QTM052 5G mmWave antenna module
Qualcomm® 5G NR reference design (partially assembled state)
Rapid miniaturization of mmWave
modules
Qualcomm QTM052 is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
Qualcomm 5G NR Reference Design is a program of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
2017
October 2018
25% smaller
July 2018
8
The inevitable evolution of mmWave!mmWave is different from 4G in its small cell nature → Dense deployment of nodes
Cost, energy consumption, technology challenges → Tremendous opportunity for a “capability” continuum
Industrial IoT,
Private network,
5G NR C-V2X
Integrated Access and Backhaul,
Unlicensed/shared spectrum, …
Continued eMBB evolution
Expanded ecosystem:
Private networks,
Indoor mmW for enterprises,
Boundless XR, …
Rel -17+
20182017 20202019 20222021
Rel -17+ evolutionRel-16Rel-15
Rel -16Commercialization
Rel -15CommercializationNR
Field trialsIoDTs
Standalone (SA)
eMBB deployments in both
mmWave and sub-6 GHz.New 5G NR technologies to evolve
and expand the 5G ecosystem
Continue to evolve LTE in parallel as essential part of the 5G Platform
Non-Standalone (NSA)
We are here
Smartphone form factor,
Connected laptops,
CPE fixed access
2023+
9
Evolution of mmWave: Opportunities for focusBefore 5G and After 5G: RF capabilities and antennas → System level design abstractions and constraints →
System design intended for the appropriate channel structure
• Relative to 4G, making the RF and antennas work as desired with practical constraints (cost, power, process node variations,
etc.) is hard!
• Network/deployment planning/optimization is incredibly harder!!!
• 5G mmWave PHY design is simpler!!
>1,000
>10,000
Early 4G
4G today
4G carrier aggregation combinations
Early 5G combinations
Number of RF bandsand band combinationsBy technology generation
49
16
Role of academia/engineering research in mmWave could be in
making “non-sexy,” yet practically relevant problems worth
pursuing!
General advise to a beginning graduate student in wireless:
• mmWave is not just theory, almost all of it is measurements-driven!
• MIMO principles are easy to describe in a party chatter, but
mathematically understanding how MIMO precisely works is a
lot of hard work!
• Systems do not exist in vacuum, so learn some (a lot of!) physics!
•
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