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5th Generation Non-Orthogonal Waveforms for Asynchronous Signalling

5GNOW: Challenging the LTE Design Paradigms of

Orthogonality and Synchronicity
What is 5GNOW? 5GNOW Approach
5GNOW is an European collaborative research project
supported by the European Commission within FP7 ICT 5GNOW is an explorative research proposal:
Call 8. The obedience of LTE and LTE-Advanced to strict synchronism
and orthogonality will be challenged
Vision: In this paradigm change we will introduce non-orthogonal
5GNOW is the physical layer evolution of waveforms that carry the data on the physical layer:
mobile communication network technology
1) Abandon synchronism and orthogonality altogether, thereby
such as LTE-Advanced towards emerging
admitting some crosstalk or interference, and to
application challenges.
2) control these impairments by a suitable, most likely, more complex
Coordinator: Dr. Gerhard Wunder, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin
Technical Coordinator: Dr. Stephan ten Brink, Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs Germany, Stuttgart transceiver structure and transmission technique with a boost
from Moores law.
Wireless transmission networks will be better prepared
Application Challenges
1) to meet the manifoldness of services, device classes (like in
flexible fine-grained sharing of
fragmented spectrum
smart cities)
2) The per-user experience will be more uniform and satisfying.

heterogeneous networks,
vertical layering, frequency
reuse > 1

super-high rate, low latency,

increased signaling

vast # M2M devices

low rate, low complexity, low
cost

Service differentiation and Gigabit wireless connectivity

MBps/month/user
Mbit/month/user
Bandwidth-hungry applications such as 3,000
video streaming Gaming
2,500
Latency-sensitive applications such as Web Browsing
Audio Streaming
networked online gaming, 2,000
Downloads

Challenges are higher per-user rates, 1,500 All Video

increasing overall required bandwidth, 1,000

service differentiation and uniform service Cloud (non-Video)
500
experience provision under the premises P2P
SMS/MMS/IM/Voice
Reference Scenarios And KPIs
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Fast dormancy and sporadic access

Frequent automatic updates
(weather, mail, social networks,
user position)
Fast dormancy effect
Control signaling spent for an
uplink message that occupies
100 REs easily adds up to more
than 2000 additional REs
Fragmented Spectrum and Carrier aggregation
Variable usage of aggregated non-contiguous frequency bands
Major issues are regulation of shared spectrum, interference i.e.
spectrum sensing or geolocalization based, and RF issues such as
frequency localization, PAPR etc.
5GNOW considers the following reference scenarios (May 2013):
Status LTE (1) Tactile Internet
(2) Uplink/Downlink CoMP
The transport mechanisms in LTE have been tailored to maximize
(3) Fragmented Spectrum
performance by enforcing strict synchronism and orthogonality.
(4) MTC PRACH
Various emerging trends reveal major shortcomings of those design
(5) Robustness Framework
criteria:
MTC communications suffer from bulky procedures necessary to
ensure strict synchronisms. References
Collaborative schemes have been introduced and wireless networks
[1] G. Wunder, M. Kasparick, S. t. Brink, F. Schaich, T. Wild, I. Gaspar, E. Ohlmer, S. Krone, N.
are becoming more heterogeneous. Tremendous effort must be spent Michailow, A. Navarro, G. Fettweis, D. Ktenas, V. Berg, M. Dryjanski, S. Pietrzyk, and B. Eged,
to collect gains under the premise of strict synchronism and 5GNOW: Challenging the LTE Design Paradigms of Orthogonality and Synchronicity, Mobile
and Wireless Communication Systems for 2020 and beyond, Workshop at IEEE VTC
orthogonality. 2013 Spring
Digital Agenda and the introduction of carrier aggregation are forcing [2] G. Wunder, M. Kasparick, T. Wild, F. Schaich, Y. Chen, S. t. Brink, I. Gaspar, N. Michailow,
transmission systems to deal with fragmented spectrum. A. Navarro, G. Fettweis, N. Cassiau, D. Ktenas, M. Dryjanski, S. Pietrzyk, and B. Eged,
5GNOW: Application Challenges and Initial Waveform Results, Proceedings Future Network
& Mobile Summit , Lisbon, July 2013, Poster Paper
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