5G: Can it Do the Splits?

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5G: Can it Do the Splits?

Dave Wolter

Assistant Vice President

Radio Technology & Architecture

AT&T Labs

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

Agenda

• Standardization

• Requirements and Expectations

• AT&T Testbed and Trial

WiFi

Pico

Sub 6GHz

Macro

Sub 6GHz

Pico mmWave

Healthcare

Smart Grid

Sensor Network

IoT

Unlicensed mmWave Access

Massive

Connectivit y

1000x Traffic

Throughput

& Capacity

4G

5G

>100 Mbps Everywhere

4K Video

Augmented Reality

Cloud Computing

Industrial Automation

V2V

Latency

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

5G in 3GPP

What do we know now?

Estimated Standards Timeline

• 3GPP Phase 1: 2018

• 3GPP Phase 2: end of 2019

• Expected widespread industry deployments: Phase 2 and beyond

Use Case Opportunities

• Enhanced mobile broadband

• Throughput of 5 Gbps +

• Massive IoT

• Connection Density

• Long battery life

• High reliability / low latency

• Industrial control

• Remote manipulation

Highly Flexible RAT Design

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

5G Estimated Timeline

2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

Standards

Commerc mobile network launch

Phase 1: eMBB Phase 2

Pre-standard Enhanced mobile Full standard

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Forward Compatibility Is Critical

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AT&T and is subject to change.

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Path to 5G

(Don’t Forget LTE-Adv.)

Pre-Deployment 5G Industry Expectations

LTE-Advanced Evolution (R13&14)

• FD-MIMO

• Improved densification management

• Dual connectivity

• Improved latency

• Higher order modulation

• Virtualization

Narrowband LTE

• Designed for low-power devices, with 10year battery life

• Standards this summer; deployment late

2017 / early 2018

So much more than speed

• Multi-gigabit speeds and high capacity

• Connectionless Massive IoT

• Ultra-Low Latency and high reliability

• Sub 6 GHz for wide area coverage with improved spectral efficiency

• Flexible, lean carrier design

• Multi-RAT network using sub 6 GHz, mmWave and unlicensed bands in concert

• Massive MIMO

Densification with self-backhaul

SDN/NFV based architecture

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

New Frequency Regimes

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• Sub 6 GHz

• Wider bandwidth

• CA at layer 1

• IoT optimization

• mmWave

• New propagation characteristics

• Extremely wide channels

• New channel models

• New interference analysis, coordination, and mitigation

• Channel sounding needed in multiple parts of the world

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Key Technology Building Blocks of 5G

Self-Backhauling

Massive MIMO

UE Specific Cell mmWave Spectrum

80 – 400 MHz

Flexible Lean Carrier guard time freq

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Many components of 5G such as dual connectivity, massive MIMO, spectrum sharing are already being developed for LTE-advanced

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New 5G Core Network

• Core Needs

• Low end-to-end latency

• Diverse and highly varied requirements

• Flexibility in network design and operations (it needs to do the splits too)

• Key Enablers

• Virtualization – NFV

• SDN – software centric control

• Open source (OpenDaylight, OpenStack, OPNFV, ON.lab,

Linux Foundation, etc.)

• Big Data

• “Network Slicing”

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Core Network Requirements

• New RAN-CN Interface

• SDN based policy framework for operator policies

• NFV implementation

• Mobility on demand

• Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)

• Access agnostic

• Control plane separated from the user plane

Mobility/Session Management

Control Plane MME SGW-

C 4G CP-UP

Separation

3GPP R14, 2017

Not defined yet. eNode b

User

Plane

User Plane

PGW-

C

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5G

5G

RA

N

Control

Plane

5G CP

Mobility SDN Controller

5G User Plane

User

Plane

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

AT&T’s 5G Trials

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• Extension of current Lab testing – Austin, TX

• Channel sounding, testbed, trial

• Detailed channel sounding including small scale parameters

• Propagation/performance with foliage and weather

• Indoor and Outdoor Testbed

• Freqs: 4 GHz, 15 GHz, 28 GHz

• Antenna technologies

• Coverage and throughput

• Fixed and mobile

• Latency

• Virtual cell

• Multi-RAT

• Friendly User Trial – EOY 2016

• Fixed broadband

• 28 GHz

• Gbps+ connectivity to fixed locations

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

Next Steps

• Trials and Testing

• Standardization

• Key Architecture Components:

• NFV / SDN

• Big Data / Analytics

• Architecture Considerations:

• X-RAN

• Transport

• Core Network Development

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“New experiences like virtual reality, self-driving cars, robotics, smart cities and more are about to test networks like never before,”

“Our approach is simple – deliver a unified experience built with

5G, software-defined networking (SDN), Big Data, security and open source software.”

John Donovan

Chief Strategy Officer and Group President

AT&T Technology and Operations

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ATIS 5G Workshop 2016

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