June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks Enabling Rural Broadband Wireless Access Using Cognitive Radio Technology IEEE P802.22 Wireless RANs Date: 2010-06-15 Authors: Name Company Apurva N. Mody BAE Systems Gerald Chouinard Address Phone email P. O. Box 868, MER 15-2350, Nashua, NH 03061 1-404-8190314, 1-603885-2621 apurva.mody@baesyst ems.com, apurva_mody@yahoo. com 1-613-9982500 Gerald.chouinard@crc .ca Communication s Research Center, Canada Notice: This document has been prepared to assist IEEE 802.22. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. 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If you have questions, contact the IEEE Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@iee.org. > Submission Slide 1 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 Outline • IEEE 802.22 Standard Overview – – – – – – – – – – – – IEEE Standards and IEEE 802.22 Overview of the IEEE 802.22 CONOPS Reference Architecture Frame Structure PHY MAC Cognitive Radio Capabilities Spectrum Sensing Geo-location Interface to Incumbent Database Service Security Submission Slide 2 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE Standards Association Hierarchy Courtesy, Paul Nikolich, Chair, IEEE 802 802.22 WRAN Submission More than 300 Standards Being Developed Under the IEEE SA Umbrella 802.11 WLAN Slide 3 802.15 WPAN June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 Overview of the IEEE 802.22 Standard • Focus - Rural Broadband Wireless Access • Core Technology - Cognitive radio technology based un-licensed use, primarily designed to operate in the TV Whitespaces from 54-862 MHz, on a noninterfering basis with the primary users (incumbents). Cognitive radio based unlicensed usage, ideally suited for regional and rural broadband wireless access MAC provides compensation for long round trip delays • Representation – Commercial industry, Broadcasters, Govt., regulators, and Academia • Membership – 40 on an average PHY optimized to tolerate long channel response and frequency selective fading channel • Projects – IEEE 802.22, IEEE 802.22.1, IEEE 802.22.1 • CONOPS - VHF and UHF band operation allows long range propagation and cell radius of 17 – 33 km. Approx 280 MHz of Bandwidth with 47 TV channels. • PHY - Optimized for long channel response times and highly frequency selective fading channels. • MAC – Provides compensation for long round trip delays • Unique features introduced for Cognitive Radio based operation: spectrum sensing, spectrum management, intra-system co-existence, geo-location and security Submission • Mobility and Portability - Portability – IEEE 802.22 allows portability (nomadic use). In case the rules do change, IEEE 802.22 PHY is designed to support mobility of up to 114 km/hr (no hand-off is included in the current version). Slide 4 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 CONOPS Sensing and GPS Antennas Directional Tx / Rx Antenna at the Subscriber • Operation in the VHF / UHF Bands. Frequency Allocation for the United States – 54 – 60, 76 – 88, 174 – 216, 470 - 608 and 614 – 698 MHz => Total of 282 MHz or 47 Channels • Network Topology – Point-to-Multipoint (PMP) • Max EIRP and Cell Radius – Fixed BS and Fixed Subscribers using 4W EIRP, Cell Radius 10 – 100 km. Portable Subscribers Station Supported. (Higher power BS allowed in other countries) • Tx / Rx antenna – BS uses sectorized or omni-directional antenna. At the subscriber Tx /Rx antenna is directional with 14 dB of frontto-back lobe suppression, • Sensing antenna - Requires horizontal and vertical polarization sensitivities to sense TV and microphone signals respectively, with omni-directional pattern. • Geo-location - GPS based geo-location is mandatory, but terrestrial geo-location (triangulation) is supported. Submission Slide 5 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 June 2010 IEEE 802.22 Cognitive Node: Reference Architecture • The proposed Protocol Reference Model (PRM) separates the Cognitive Plane from the Data, Control and Management planes IEEE 802.22 Provides Three Mechanisms for Incumbent Protection • Sensing • Database Access • Specially Designed Beacon One or more protection mechanisms can be adopted based on the regulatory domain requirements. Submission Slide 6 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 • 802.22 supports Time Division Duplex (TDD) frame structure IEEE 802.22 – Frame Structure • Super-frame: 160 ms, Frame: 10 ms • Each frame consists of downlink (DL) sub-frame, uplink (UL) subframe, and the Co-existence Beacon Protocol (CBP) burst • Lengths of DL and UL sub-frames can be adjusted . • Self Co-existence Window: BS commands subscribers to send out CBPs for 802.22 • self co-existence – CBP bursts contain information about the backup channel sets and sensing times • terrestrial geo-location and • whitespace device identification as required by the regulatory domain rules. Co-existence Beacon Protocol (CBP) burst used for 802.22 self co-existence and terrestrial geo-location Submission Slide 7 A CBP B Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – PHY Features • PHY Transport - 802.22 uses Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) as transport mechanism. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) is used in the UL • Modulation - QPSK, 16-QAM and 64-QAM supported • Coding – Convolutional Code is Mandatory. Turbo, LDPC or Shortened Block Turbo Code are Optional but recommended. • Pilot Pattern - Each OFDM / OFDMA symbol is divided into subchannels of 28 sub-carriers of which 4 are pilots. Pilot symbols are inserted once every 7 sub-carriers. Pilots cycle through all 7 sub-carriers over 7 symbol duration. No frequency domain interpolation is required. • Net Spectral Efficiency - 0.624 bits/s/Hz – 3.12 bits/s/Hz • Spectral Mask - 802.22 has adopted the Spectral Mask requirements proposed by FCC. (200 tap FIR filter may be needed for implementation). PHY capacity Mod. Rate 1/2 2/3 QPSK 3/4 5/6 1/2 2/3 16QAM 3/4 5/6 1/2 2/3 64QAM 3/4 5/6 Submission Slide 8 Mbit/s bit/(s*Hz) CP= 1/8 3.74 0.624 4.99 0.832 5.62 0.936 6.24 1.04 7.49 1.248 9.98 1.664 11.23 1.872 12.48 2.08 11.23 1.872 14.98 2.496 16.85 2.808 18.72 3.12 PHY performance: SNR (dB) Mod. Rate SNR 1/2 4.3 2/3 6.1 QPSK 3/4 7.1 5/6 8.1 1/2 10.2 2/3 12.4 16QAM 3/4 13.5 5/6 14.8 1/2 15.6 2/3 18.3 64QAM 3/4 19.7 5/6 20.9 Note: includes phase noise: -80dBc/Hz at 1 kHz and 10 kHz and -105 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – MAC Features • Connection-oriented MAC, establishes connection IDs and service flows which are dynamically created • QoS – Various types of QoS services are supported (See below). ARQ supported. Uni-cast, Multi-cast and broadcast services are supported. • Cognitive functionality – • Dynamic and adaptive scheduling of quiet periods to allow the system to balance QoS requirements of users with the need to quiet down the network to support spectrum sensing. Quiet periods range from 1 symbol (approx. 1/3 ms) to one super-frame • Subscribers can alert the BS, the presence of incumbents in a number of ways. Dedicated - Urgent Co-existence Situation (UCS) messages or low priority MAC messages • BS can ask one or more subscribers to move to another channel in a number of ways using 160 ms Frame Control Header (FCH) or dedicated MAC messages ... Time ... Superframe n-1 Superframe n Superframe n+1 10 ms frame 0 QoS Application UGS VoIP, T1 / E1 rtPS MPEG video streaming 10 ms 10 ms . . . frame 1 frame 15 Quiet Period Quiet Period Intra-frame quiet period scheduling 160 ms nrtPS FTP BE E-mail Contention BW request etc. ... Superframe n-1 Superframe n+1 ... Quiet Period 10 ms 10 ms frame 0 10 ms . . . frame 1 frame 15 Quiet Period Inter frame quiet period scheduling Submission Slide 9 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems Time June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Cognitive Radio Capability Channel Set Management Policies Subscriber Registration and Tracking Spectrum Manager Geo-location Self Co-existence Super-frame N+1 (16 Frames) Super-frame N (16 Frames) TV Channel X Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 3 … Cell 3 Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 1 Cell 1 … Cell 2 Cell 3 … time Data Frames Spectrum Sensing Incumbent Database Service RF sensing performance Probability of misdetection (Pmd) 100.0% Incumbent 10.0% Energy - 1dB Pfa=10% 5 ms Energy - 0.5dB Pfa=10% 5 ms Energy - 0dB Pfa=10% 5ms 1.0% Thomson-Segment Pfa=10% 4 ms I2R Pfa=0.1% 4ms I2R Pfa= 1% 4ms I2R Pfa=10% 4 ms Qualcomm Field Pfa=10% 24 ms Database Submission Coexistence Beacon Windows Qualcom Field Pfa=1% 24 ms Thomson Field Pfa=10% 24 ms Thomson Field Pfa=1% 24ms 0.1% -26 Slide 10 -24 -22 -20 -18 -16 -14 SNR (dB) -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems -2 June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Spectrum Sensing DTV Detection Results based Cyclostationary Feature Detection TV and Wireless Microphone Protection Using Spectrum Sensing • FCC R&O requires • DTV protection at -114 dBm in 6 MHz of bandwidth. This amounts to an SNR of -19 dB for equivalent receiver noise figure of 11 dB and 22 dB safety margin at edge of coverage • Wireless microphone protection at -114 dBm in 200 kHz bandwidth. This amounts to an SNR of -3 dB for equivalent. recceiver noise figure of 11 dB. • Several blind and signal specific feature-based sensing schemes have been proposed and thoroughly evaluated using TV Broadcaster supplied over-the-air collected signals ► Spectral correlation based sensing, Time domain cyclostationarity, Eigen value based sensing, FFT – based pilot sensing, Higher order statistics based sensing, etc. Pd = >99%, Pfa = 10%, -20dB Wireless Microphone Beacon Sensing Results -95 Wireless Microphone Protection Using Beacon (IEEE 802.22.1 Standard – Nearly Complete) -100 -105 Sensing threshold (dBm) • Many studies have suggested that FCC R&O target for wireless microphones is not sufficient to protect wearable microphones (where body attenuation of as much as 27dB is possible according to the manufacturers) • 802.22 has designed a beacon signal which will be transmitted from wireless microphone base stations with 250 mW (as compared to 10 mW for microphones). These beacon signals consist of repeated pseudo-noise (PN) sequences and occupy a bandwidth of 78 kHz. • Security features are provided for beacon authentication 1- En e rgy de tec ti on TG1 certificate -110 -114 dBm TG1 signature TG1 information (FEC encoded) -115 8-chip spreading sequence -120 1-E nerg y dete -125 ctio n co rrela Sync and index ted on s prea d sequ ence -130 0.1 1 10 Minimum sensing time (ms) Submission Slide 11 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems 100 June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Geo-location X ... Satellite-based geo-location Frequency • Requires GPS antenna at each terminal • NMEA 0183 data string used to report to BS • Poor accuracy in Northern hemispheres. Signal Processing Flow for the Terrestrial Geo-location OFDM carrier set 2048 carriers BPSK modulated by PN-sequence I PN-sequence Q I IDFT I Q Carrier phase reversal based on the PN-sequence Q I Terrestrially-based geo-location: Time ... I 2048 time domain samples Slide 12 Q Frequency Frequency domain response of a Dirac pulse distorted by channel 2048 carriers I Q Time Cyclic prefix Signal transmitted to terminal 2 I IDFT Q I I Real Convolution with the channel impulse response Q Q Channel impulse response relative to the sampling time 2048 I&Q samples at sampling period (i.e., every 180 degrees) times Sampling Ima gina ry I Q 1 Time τ 1 2048 samples Signal received by the user terminal I Real • A new scheme has been proposed requiring no additional hardware and using the characteristics and capabilities of the 802.22 standard. • Normal BS-CPE ranging process: provides coarse ranging to an accuracy of 147.8 ns (44.3 m) • Extended BS-CPE ranging process: augments the accuracy of the ranging process to 1 ns (0.3 m) by a more accurate scheme using the complex channel impulse response received at the CPE (Vernier-1) and at the BS (Vernier-2) • Extended CPE-CPE ranging process: new scheme using the preamble of the CBP burst transmitted by a CPE and captured by another CPE in the surrounding area to acquire the distance between CPEs with a high level of accuracy (Vernier-3) • Off-line geo-location calculation: All the information acquired at the CPEs is transmitted to the BS which can delegate the calculation of the CPE geo-location to a server. Calculation is based on usual triangulation using some CPEs as waypoints. Submission Y/X Q 0 Q I Q 0 Im aginary DFT I Y Frequency I Precise tim e sam ple I Q OFDM carrier set distorted by channel 2048 carriers 1 High resolution band limited impulse response (e.g., every 1 degree) ... Complex correlation -1 1 Q 2048 x 180 I&Q samples at every degree Q τ 2 τ τ 3 1 Channel impulse response relative to the sampling time Amplitude1 Amplitude2 Amplitude3 Amplitude4 etc... Delay 1 Delay 2 Delay 3 Delay 4 List of echo amplitudes and delays relative to the terminal 2 sampling time Resolution= sampling period / 180 Signal sent back to terminal 1 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems 12 June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Self Co-existence Requires that information on Spectrum Etiquette On Demand Frame operating, backup and candidate (Enough channels available) channels of each cell is shared Contention amongst WRAN cells: (Two or more cells need to co-exist on the same channel) exchanged by CBP bursts. Primary user appears Number x – represents operating channel Number y – represents backup channel Number z (double underline) – represents candidate channel Self-coexistence window (SCW) does not have to be allocated at each frame. Super-frame N+1 (16 Frames) Super-frame N (16 Frames) TV Channel Cell 1 X Cell 2 Cell 3 … Cell 3 Cell 1 Cell 2 Cell 1 Cell 1 … Cell 2 Cell 3 … time Data Frames Submission Coexistence Beacon Windows Slide 13 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Security Sub-layer 1 (Non-Cognitive) • Confidentiality and Privacy – AES (128) GCM is used for encryption and authentication • Network Authorization - RSA and ECC based X.509 certificates are used for mutual authentication / network entry authorization. • Integrity – AES-GCM is used to compute Integrity Check Vector (ICV). PN sequence numbers are appended to each packet. • Authentication – Signals such as wireless microphone beacon and CBP are authenticated using ECC based digital signatures. No encryption is provided for these packets • Key Management - Secure Control and Management Protocol is used for key management. • Management Messages – All management messages except for the broadcast, initial ranging and basic CID are protected. • Device Security - Trusted Computing Group, Trusted Platform Module specifications are recommended to enable tamper-proof capability for hardware and software. Submission Security Sub-layer 1 Slide 14 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 IEEE 802.22 – Security Sub-layer 2 (Cognitive) • Spectrum Availability • Spectrum Sensing used to ensure spectrum availability for primary users. • Various types of signal specific and feature based sensing algorithms have been included into the standard • Standard recommends sensing algorithms to determine the signal type (Signal Classification) • Collaborative Sensing - The group in general thinks that collaborative sensing will be useful. FCC R&O requires ‘OR’ rule based collaborative sensing. • Correlation with Geo-location Information – Closely tied to collaborative sensing. It tries to cross check the spectral footprint of the detected signal based on location of the sensor Security Sub-layer 2 • Spectrum Access Authorization – • BS is capable of de-authorizing a subscriber at any time. Sensing and incumbent database service used for spectrum access authorization • Capability Check – The Spectrum Manager (SM) is capable of prohibiting a subscriber from registering if it does not have adequate sensing capabilities. Signal classification and policy based behavior control of the 802.22 devices • Radio Behavior Control • IEEE 802.22 is policy driven. Policies are rulebased. Submission Slide 15 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems June 2010 doc.: IEEE 802.22-10/0073r03 References • IEEE 802.22 Working Group Website – www.ieee802.org/22 • J. Mitola, Cognitive Radio: An Integrated Agent Architecture for Software Defined Radio, Ph. D. Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Spring 2000. • Gerald Chouinard, Communications Research Center, 802.22 Overview presentation to the 802 Whitespaces Study Group https://mentor.ieee.org/802-sg-whitespace/dcn/09/sgwhitespace-09-0058-00-0000-802-22-presentation-to-ecsg.ppt • IEEE 802.22 Draftv3.0 – Members only Documents of the IEEE 802.22 Working Group (www.ieee802.org/22) • Other Contributions to the IEEE 802.22 Standard (www.ieee802.org/22) Submission Slide 16 Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems