3GPP Overview

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Focusing on Release 12 features for Small Cells

Adrian Scrase, Head of 3GPP Mobile
Competence Centre, ETSI CTO

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The 3GPP eco-system

Developing internet
protocol specs

Developing
Recommendations

Referring to specs

ITU-R/T

Input
specs

Referring to 3GPP specs

(contributed by individual
members)

Developing Mobile
application specs

Developing Wireless
LAN/MAN specs

Cross reference

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Cross reference of
specs

Requirements

Market
Partners

Terminal certification
based on 3GPP specs

Partners of 3GPP
Referring to 3GPP specs for
the local specs

Terminal
Certification

Organisational Partners
EU

Japan

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Korea

China

North America

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Continued Growth

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Release schedule & RAN features

1999
Release 99

2001

2003

2005

2009

2007

IMT-2000 Recommendation
Release 4

LCR TDD

Release 5

HSDPA

Release 6

HSUPA, MBMS

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HSPA+ (MIMO, etc.)

Release 7

Release 8

3GPP aligned to ITU-R IMT process

3GPP Releases evolve to meet:

Future Requirements for IMT

Future operator and end-user
requirements

2013

2015

3GPP work is structured in releases

(REL) of 1-3 years duration
each release consists of several work
items (WI) and study items (SI)
even if a REL is completed corrections
are possible later
existing features of one REL can be
enhanced in a future REL

ITU-R M.1457

W-CDMA

2011

LTE

Release 9

LTE
enhancements

Release 10

LTE-Advanced

Release 11

ITU-R M.2012 [IMT.RSPEC]

Further LTE
enhancements

IMT-Advanced Recommendation
Release 12

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Release 12
Improving network capacity and cell-edge performance:

Small Cells
Multi-antenna technology advancements
Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) operation with non ideal-backhaul
Advanced interference suppression techniques at the terminal

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Making more spectrum available
at the terminal:

Carrier Aggregation advancements

LTE/UMTS-WiFi radio interworking

New services:
Low-cost and long-range for MTC
Device-to-device
Group Communications
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Small Cell Releases

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Release 12 - Small Cell enhancements

Drivers
Cost effective dense small cell deployments
Improved mobility management in dense small cell deployments
Need for Interference management

Key Release 12 features

Dual connectivity for LTE
small cell on/off
256QAM

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3GPP Studies:
TR 36.932 - Scenarios and requirements for small cell enhancements for LTE
TR 36.872 - Study on Small Cell Enhancements for LTE Physical-layer aspects
TR 36.842 - Study on Small Cell Enhancements for LTE Higher-layer aspects
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Dual connectivity for LTE

TR 36.842 looks at:
Inter-node radio resource
aggregation, using radio resources
in more than one eNB in Scenario
#1 - Improving cell edge
throughput
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Inter-node radio resource
aggregation, anchoring
connection to the macro cell while
boosting data-rate via the small
cell in Scenario #2
Faster transitions for small cell
on/off to be based on discovery
enhancement and dual
connectivity (TR 36.872)
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Small cell on/off

More eNBs implies higher interference level in the air
interface and more power consumption of the networks
Having dormant nodes will help address these challenges and
will allow available capacity to match the load
TR 36.872 considers the following
schemes:
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Baseline schemes without any on/off

Long-term on/off schemes for energy saving
Semi-static on/off schemes
Ideal, dynamic on/off schemes
New Carrier Type study and introduction

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Higher order modulation scheme

(256 QAM)

Small cells proximity to UE brings opportunity for

higher order modulation, at 256 QAM downlink
TR 36.872 contains evaluation results of 256QAM
Concludes that downlink higher order modulation
(256QAM) is beneficial in evaluated indoor sparse
small cell scenarios with low mobility
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Multi-antenna technology
3GPP finalising enabler for 3D channel model
Allows evaluation of features such as:
UE-specific elevation beamforming
vertical sectorisation
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full-dimension MIMO with large number of antennas

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LTE Carrier Aggregation

Higher peak data rates
Mitigates challenge of
fragmented spectrum
Release 12 defines up to 3carrier downlink band
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combinations

Higher peak data rate

20 MHz

150 Mbps

10 MHz

75 Mbps

20 MHz

375 Mbps

150 Mbps

Aggregation between FDD and TDD bands

With 3 carriers, the maximum amount of spectrum to be
aggregated is 60 MHz

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MTC low-cost and long-range

Aim to reduce modem cost and improve range for low data
rate, delay tolerant usage
Low cost enablers

New low data rate UE category (~1Mbps max throughput)

1 RX antenna operation
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Narrowband data channel operation
Half-duplex operation

Coverage enhancements
Receiver, repetition and bundling techniques to extend coverage of
control and data channel

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Public Safety
LTE chosen as next-generation nationwide public safety
broadband network in the USA beyond the current P.25 system
TCCA/TETRA community also settled on LTE as the next step
beyond the current TETRA system
Opportunity to unify global 3GPP
public
safety footprint
2012
TC TCCE

Requirements & Technical Input

LTE Enhancements

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Proximity-based Services (ProSe)

Enable devices to detect
other devices in proximity
and allows devices in
proximity to communicate
directly

Network

Cell Site

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Enable communication
without network coverage
Reduce network load
Increase capacity in given
bandwidth
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Critical
Communications
only

Also of
interest for
consumer
applications

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Group communication enablers

Enable efficient group communication
Dynamic groups with mobile users and dispatchers
Support for large groups (perhaps up to 5000)
Service continuity for transitions between
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unicast and multicast bearers
Group Call
application
server

Network
Dispatcher
Cell Site

Cell Site

Group
Members

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Release 13 Isolated E-UTRAN operation

(FS_IOPS)
Enable locally routed
communication
for nomadic eNodeBs
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operating without backhaul
connectivity
for regular eNodeBs
experiencing temporary loss of
backhaul connectivity

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Network

Cell
Site

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Release 13 Mission Critical Push-to-Talk

(MCPTT)
Requirements include:
Floor control aspects
Group and individual PTT calls
Associated services including talker ID, location and
emergency alerting
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Interworking with other voice systems including
PSTN and LMR/PMR

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Release 13 Still under consideration

3GPP RAN workshop on LTE in unlicensed spectrum, June 13,
2014
Looking at public /corporate environment
Possible Focus on 5.8 GHz band: widely available globally
Discussion on the combinations of licensed and unlicensed band
operation, Examples:
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LTE-U as TDD cell with FDD-TDD Carrier Aggregation

LTE-U as Supplemental Downlink (SDL), Thus no uplink in unlicensed band

Considering outdoor and indoor public small cells

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Future Trends
Virtualization and SDN

3GPP discussions have started 03/2014, two potential areas impacted:

Management interfaces OAM needs to support virtualized infrastructure (SW
decoupled from HW)
Core architecture and future development trends Potential decomposition of some
functional elements
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5G An integration of evolved and new technologies

Ultra dense small cells
Wide area coverage
Architecture evolution

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Approved

Beyond Release 12
2013

2014

2015

Potential

2016

2017

2020
Ready
System

Release 12
Release 13
Release 14

Release 15

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Rel 12

Rel 13

Small Cell enhancements

Rel 14/15

PubSaf contd, Push-to-talk

Carrier aggregation
WiFi Offload and Interworking

Public Safety, D2D

Security Assurance

SDN, Virtualization & Cloud

Userplane Congestion
LTE-U (LTE Unlicensed)

5G

Carrier Aggregation contd

Source Balazs Bertenyi (NSN) 3GPP SA

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Some Conclusions
LTE and LTE-Advanced bring new
opportunities for Operators and a
growing number of segments
Small Cells are vital to sustainability
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and growth
Band Aggregation provides the
necessary bandwidth to sustain
capacity and performance
5G is on the horizon and 3GPP
systems will be central to that
development
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Thank You !

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Resources
3GPP Radio Access Network : Rel-12 and beyond - Dino Flore, 3GPP RAN Chair
(December 2013)
Developments in 3GPP Release 12 and beyond - Balazs Bertenyi, 3GPP TSG-SA
Chair (May 2014)
3GPP Core Network & Services Evolution - Atle Monrad, 3GPP CT Chair (December
2013)
3GPP 2012for Small Cells in 3GPP Matthew Baker,
From Macro to Small Cells: Enhancements
3GPP RAN WG1 Chair (2013)
3GPP Standards Development Mona Mustapha, 3GPP SA WG1 Chair (2014)
Future 3GPP RAN standardization activities for LTE - Joern Krause, 3GPP RAN
Secretary, MCC ETSI (2012)
3GPP work items on Small Cells v0.0.3 (2014-03) - Adrian Zoicas, Work Plan
Coordinator, MCC ETSI

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