Zhongping Zhang ZTE Europe Marketing zhongping.zhang@zte.com.cn 2 Agenda Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success 3 Co-existence of Multi-frequency Bands S p e c t r u m
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( b p s / H z / s e c t o r ) Operators to get more frequency bands To increase the spectrum efficiency Operators to get more frequency bands To increase the spectrum efficiency 700 MHz 850 MHz 900 MHz 1800 MHz 1900 MHz 2.1 GHz 2.3 GHz 2.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
Increased user traffic leads to 4 Co-existence of Multiple Standards 2G 2.5G 2.75G 3G 3.5G 3.75G 3.9G GPRS EDGE eEDGE HSDPA R5 HSUPA R6 MBMS 4G MBMS CDMA 2000 1X EV-DO 802.16 e 802.16 m HSDPA HSPA+ R7 FDD/ TDD 4G GSM TD- SCDMA WCDMA R99 802.16 d CDMA IS95 CDMA 2000 1x LTE EV-DO Rev. A EV-DO Rev. B HSUPA 5 Pressure on Operators to reduce the TCO SDR related Lower TCO Decrease Sites Site Rental Power Saving RAN Total Cost of Ownership CAPEX OPEX Site Rental Leasing Line Power consumption O&M RAN Infra- structure Trans- mission Core Network Service Platform Service Trans- mission 6 Agenda Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success 7 Technological Challenges for SDR Applications 3G Wimax 2G LTE OFDM MIMO SDR Platform supporting all standards GPRS EDGE HSPA HSPA+ Smart Antenna IP Transport SDR accommodating: - Standards for 2G/3G/4G - All IP, Smart Antenna, OFDM, MIMO G/W/C/L/W BB R U R U R U R U R U R U R U R U R U R U R U R U 8 Agenda Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success 9 ZTE SDR Platform started in 2007 BP slots supports WCDMA, GSM, CDMA, WIMAX, TD-SCDMA Re-use concept for power, main control, interface CPRI Achieved: Multiple standards Multiple frequency bands Small unified module for Macro, Micro and Pico base stations High interface capacity (10G*12+1G*12) Flexibility in multi-tile, multi-size and multi-shelf) SDR BS Platform SDR BS Platform WCDMA TD-SCDMA CDMA WiMAX LTE UMB ZTE BTS Platform Evolution ZTE BTS Platform Evolution All In One All In One RF technology: CFR DPD (Doherty) High efficiency amplifier Broad bandwidth Supporting multi- standards ZTE is a member of SDR FORUM, started early research in SDR GSM 10 ZTE SDR Solution Advantages Easy capacity increase Smooth evolution Low TCO Compact structure Distributed Base Station 19 BBU for Multi- standards Optical Fiber RRU supports multi- standards on the same frequency band RF Unit Base Band Unit 2U One Cabinet Base Station 11 TCA Platform Control and Ethernet i/f: keep GE i/f keep SW upgrading to support LTE Same architecture for TD-SCDMA and LTE Unified Network management TD-SCDMA R4 HSPA TDD HSPA+ TDD SW Upgrade SW Upgrade TD-LTE SW Upgr. Add UPB & BP BBU Platform Supports Multi-standards Cellular band AWS band 700M band BBU RRU GSM Band TD Band LTE Band GSM, TD-SCDMA TD-LTE Add LTE BP board Add LTE UPB board 12 ZTEs SDR Implementation Structure Frequency selective Frequency independent 13 ZTEs SDR Base Station Supporting Multi-standards OneNetwork OneNetwork TM TM Solution: Meet the operators needs in frequency sharing and network sharing Improved network management and ease the network evolution to future 4G Iub/Abis RRU @900/1.8GHz BBU RRU @2.3GHz Dual-mode RNC RRU@2.6GHz S1 IP based backhaul Core Network & SAE LTE LTE & GSM LTE&TD-SCDMA CDMA<E 14 Decreasing TCO in Transmission Decreased CAPEX and OPEX GE E1 GE High speed interface SRIO BB - RF interface CPRI standard Support distributed mode Flexible installation, easier to acquire sites Improve the quality of network planning Transmission interface Support Ethernet (2*FE/GE) 10/100/1000M Electrical 1000M Optical Support PacketOver E1/T1 16*E1/T1 Support STM-1 Flexible connection via standard i/f for expansion across regions Flexible connection via standard i/f for expansion across regions Synchronization via Ethernet Synchronization via Ethernet Standardized interfaces enable large scale application and decrease cost Standardized interfaces enable large scale application and decrease cost CPRI 15 Agenda Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success Motivation and requirements from the market Technological challenges for SDR application The SDR solution in ZTE mobile base stations Achievements and success 16 16 5 Switching Centers: 12 RNC/47 BSC/8CS/6 PS/4HLR Hong Kong CSL Network Structure 2008 Over 2000 sites with 3 sets of equipments 3 separate RAN layers 2 separate CN networks 3 separate O&M systems Separate transmission network Large Large- -scale & Complex scale & Complex SGSN CN CN Iub TDM Network UMTS 2.1G CN CN CSL CSL NWM NWM GSM 1800M MSCS HLR SGSN MSCS HLR TDM Network Abis Abis VAS Platform VAS Platform GSM 900/1800M 17 17 17 SGSN Core Network Core Network ZTE Iub UMTS 2.1G/900M CSLNWM MSCS HLR Abis GSM 900/1800M IP Network O&M system O&M system ZTE VAS Platform ZTE VAS Platform 1 site, 1 set of equipments for multi-mode/band 1 consolidated CN network for 2G/3G 1 consolidated O&M system for 2G/3G All-IP transmission, 1 link/ 1site Efficiency & Simplicity Efficiency & Simplicity ZTE One Network Solution for Hong Kong CSL 18 18 18 CSL Network TCO Saving - Before and After After Before Antenna pole BTS rack 8,674 3,465 5,019 1,500 BBU in power rack, size E1 FE 7,679 - - 1,500 Include future expansion Remark Index Power Over 4KW 1.98KW Include new additional 900MHz UMTS 60.1% 70.1% - 90 % 50.5% MSCs rack 4 (6.4M Subs) SGSN rack HLR rack 75% 90% 12% 4 (6.4M Subs) 2 (7.7M Subs) 8 (3.1M Subs) 6 (0.79M Subs) 8 (3.5M Subs) ZTE SDR Series Node Bs Family Saved % 19 19 Over 200,000 SDR Base Stations by ZTE GSM (GSM, EDGE) UMTS (WCDMA, HSPA, HSPA+) CDMA2000 TD-SCDMA FDD LTE WiMAX TDD LTE November 16, 2009 20