LTE-Advanced (3GPP Rel.

10 and beyond)
The advanced toolbox to make more out of 4G

Doha, July 28, 2011

Arno Koch
Third Generation Partnership Project “3GPP”
LTE Release Timeline

Rel-8 Rel-9 Rel-10 Rel-11

Carrier Aggregation CA Enhancements (incl.HSPA)
Introduction of Regulatory Voice DL & UL MIMO CoMP
LTE MBMS Relays Advanced UE receivers
Positioning
EPC for “All-IP” PWS SON SON and MDT Enhancements
Minimizing Drive Tests

ASN.1 03/09 ASN.1 03/10 ASN.1 06/11 ASN.1 est. 12/12

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LTE-Advanced toolbox: enhancing the LTE-network for
delivering more data efficiently to wide areas and hotspots
Heterogeneous
Enhance macro network performance Networks
Enables focused capacity
enhancement with small cells
Capacity and cell edge performance by interference coordination
enhancements by active Relaying
interference cancelation

Peak data rate scaling with antenna

paths for urban grid Coordinated Multipoint Enables focused coverage
and small cells extensions with small cells by
self-backhaul

Peak data rate and MIMO

8x MIMO 4x
throughput scaling with
aggregated bandwidth

Carrier Aggregation
up to 100 MHz
Enable efficient use of small cells
Carrier1 100 MHz
Carrier2
Carrier3 … Carrier5

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LTE-Advanced
First features standardized in 3GPP Release10
Key aspects in Heterogeneous networks • Simple intercell interference coordination (eICIC) in time domain
3GPP Rel.10 HetNet • Enhancements for office Femto handovers
• LIPA & SIPTO (Sel.IP-traffic offload) for local break out traffic
Relaying
Relaying • Single Relay Node architecture based on self-backhauling eNB
• Relay performance requirements have been shifted to Rel.11

Coordinated Multipoint • Only basic support in Release 10

CoMP
• Reference symbols for multi-cell channel estimation (CSI-RS)

• New codebook for downlink 8TX MIMO

MIMO 8x MIMO 4x
• Feedback enhancements for downlink 2TX/4TX Multiuser MIMO
• 2TX/4TX uplink Single/Multiuser MIMO
CA Carrier Aggregation
• Downlink: Up to 40 MHz bandwidth with 2x Rel.8 carriers
up to 40 MHz

Carrier1 Carrier2
• Uplink: Only single band carrier aggregation

Release 10 content is stable

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 Band MHz Uplink MHz Downlink MHz
3GPP Rel.10 band allocations 1
2
2x60
2x60
1920-1980
1850-1910
2110-2170
1930-1990
FDD
FDD
3 2x75 1710-1785 1805-1880 FDD
4 2x45 1710-1755 2110-2155 FDD
FDD LTE 5
7
2x25
2x70
824-849
2500-2570
869-894
2620-2690
FDD
FDD
8 2x35 880-915 925-960 FDD

• Early FDD LTE ecosystem (commercial networks) 9 2x35 1749-1784 1844-1879 FDD
10 2x60 1710-1770 2110-2170 FDD
 2600 (Europe, APAC) 11 2x25 1427-1452 1475-1500 FDD

 2100 (Japan) 12 2x18 698-716 728-746 FDD

13 2x10 777-787 746-756 FDD
 1800 (GSM refarming) 14 2x10 788-798 758-768 FDD

 1700/2100 AWS (North America) 17 2x12 704-716 734-746 FDD

18 2x15 815-830 860-875 FDD
 1600 (US – wholesale) 19 2x15 830-845 875-890 FDD

 850 (South Korea) 20 2x30 832-862 791-821 FDD

21 2x15 1448-1463 1496-1511 FDD
 800 Digital Dividend (Europe, MEA) 23 2x20 2000-2020 2180-2200 FDD

 Upper 700 MHz (Verizon) 24 2x34 1626-1660 1525-1559 FDD

 Lower 700 MHz, B/C (AT&T) 25 2x65 1850-1915 1930-1995 FDD LTE 3.5 GHz:
33 1x20 1900-1920 1900-1920 TDD TDD completed
34 1x15 2010-2025 2010-2025 TDD and included
TD-LTE 35
36
1x60
1x60
1850-1910
1930-1990
1850-1910
1930-1990
TDD
TDD
in
specifications
37 1x20 1910-1930 1910-1930 TDD (bands 42,43)
• Early TD-LTE ecosystem mainly building on 38 1x50 2570-2620 2570-2620 TDD
39 1x40 1880-1920 1880-1920 TDD
FDD remains
 2300 (India, China, APAC) open due to
40 1x100 2300-2400 2300-2400 TDD
 2600 (China, Europe, LAT-AM) late regulatory
41 1x194 2496-2690 2496-2690 TDD
42 1x200 3400-3600 3400-3600 TDD
decisions
43 1x200 3600-3800 3600-3800 TDD

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Carrier aggregation
More dynamic spectrum usage for better user experience
Peak data rate addition Resource allocation gain 1 Gbps
Example:

spectrum assets peak data rate 20MHz 300Mbps

on Cat.4 device with carrier

20MHz 300Mbps
aggregation
150 Mbps 20MHz 300Mbps 1.5Gbps

20MHz in 2.6GHz band 20MHz 300Mbps

225 Mbps

20MHz 300Mbps
75 Mbps

10MHz in 800MHz band

• Ultrafast resource allocation by
scheduler instead of handover
• enables competitive peak data
rates on non-contiguous spectrum • Users dynamically get the best
resources of aggregated carrier
• Mitigates the challenge of
fragmented spectrum • Higher average data rates
• Will be specified in 3GPP Rel.11
or later
• Most operators have significantly less
spectrum for LTE
• Even HD streaming services demand
less than 20Mbps

Relevant scenarios in mid-term future (3GPP Rel.10)  Our demonstration at MWC 2011

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Nokia Siemens Networks track record in LTE-Advanced

2004 World‘s first

2011 World‘s first
OFDM demonstration
LTE-A dynamic
of 1Gb/s over the air
carrier
•100MHz aggregated 2010 Relay trial aggregation
spectrum 2009 World‘s first for enhanced indoor demonstration on
•MIMO LTE-A field trial in network performance commercial LTE
Berlin BTS on a typical
Macro Relay Relay
(at window) outdoor carrier combination

2008 World‘s
first LTE-A relay Macro
demonstration
2003 OFDM TDD
demonstration
72Mbps
•20MHz
•Multihop

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LTE Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation Framework

• Within 3GPP Rel.10 only one Uplink is covered,

and this is also initial focus for 3GPP Rel.11
• This was agreed guidance to work with different band combinations for LTE
Carrier Aggregation in Q3/2011:

1. Start work on CA with one UL

2. Study two UL(s) in later phase of Rel-11

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LTE-A tool box: Carrier Aggregation Work Items

Carrier aggregation Work Items already agreed in 3GPP

Band j
Scenario A:
Intra-Band
Adjacent
combined
Band j
Scenario B:
Intra-Band
Non Adjacent Potential new candidates under discussion
combined
Band j

Scenario C: combine
Band k
Inter-Band d

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LTE Release 11 Carrier Aggregation between LTE & HSPA
• Now work starting on Release 11 carrier aggregation enhancements
• Release 11 work item raporteur is Nokia
• Nokia Siemens Networks have also submitted a proposal on LTE/HSPA DL carrier
aggregation, to be discussed in September 2011
• The key principle is to aggregate both LTE and HSDPA (with LTE as the uplink) to boost end user
downlink data performance
• More details available if desired. (Ref: RP-110678)

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LTE Release 11 priorization
Part of September 2011 RAN plenary is an operator priorization activity for Release 11 work
• Based on this priorization, TSG RAN will then pick the amount of topics fitting to the available
time in the next 6 months
– Necessary action to take to ensure reasonable work looad and keeping planned time-line for Rel.11
– In many cases separate resourcing for LTE and HSPA (parallel meetings)

• Many proposals under discussion for 3GPP Rel.11 work items:

– Carrier Aggregation Enhancements
 Incl. LTE/HSDPA study
– Co-operative multipoint transmisssion (CoMP to become a work item during 2H/2011)
– Further work on Self Organizing Networks and Drive test Minimization
(both were Release 10 topics under NSN leadership)
– Advanced UE receivers

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3GPP Release 10/11 Timeline Overview
Rel.11 ASN.1 freeze
Rel.10 complete
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

#43 #44 #45 #46 #47 #48 #49 #50 #51 #52 #53 #54 #55 #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 #61 #62 #63 #64 #65 #66
Release 10
Study Item Work Item
Work Item
Release 11
Study Item Work Item Work Item

Release 10 closing and Release 11 start as follows:

– RAN#50 (December 2010)
 Approve CRs for Release 10 specifications to be submitted to ITU-R toward M.[IMT.RSPEC]
 Approve necessary contributions to be submitted to ITU-R WP 5D#10 for IMT-Advanced standardization process
– RAN#51 (March 2011)
 Start to treat any new Release 11 WI/SI proposals
– RAN#52 (June 2011)
 Freeze Release 10 ASN.1
 Further new Release 11 WI/SI presented
– RAN#53 (September 2011)
 Release 11 priorization for next 6 months
Release 11 closure
– Content freeze June 2012
– ASN.1 freeze in December 2012

This timeline based on agreed 3GPP schedule

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Release 11 HSPA+ Progress
Several topics already on-going
• Eight carrier HSDPA
– Not needed in many of the markets
• Uplink Transmit Diversity
• Uplink MIMO (Study)
• HSDPA multipoint transmission (Study)
– expected to become a work item in September 2011
– Nokia Siemens Networks as the raporteur for this in 3GPP
– Study has progressed well, TR available for information
• Further Enhancements to CELL_FACH
– Smaller finetuning,
reselection issue (3G -> LTE) solved in Rel.10, but can be implemented in earlier releases as well

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Release 11 HSPA+ Proposals
No new work items approved as of now, but a number of proposals are on the table:
• Four Branch MIMO transmission for HSDPA
• 64QAM for HSUPA
• HSDPA multiflow data transmission
– being the ‘work item’ phase for HSDPA multipoint transmission

• Enhanced Automatic Neighbour Relation (EANR) for UTRAN

– Follow-up for the Release 10 UTRAN ANR
• CSG ANR for UTRAN
• HSPA Self Optimizing Networks
– It has been agreed to be merged to a common SON work item for LTE and HSPA
(Nokia Siemens Networks lead proposal)

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From End User Drivers to Requirements
User Expectation Operator Need Technology requirement

Flat Rate Lowest Spectral Efficiency

Mobile Cost per bit
Broadband Tput Enhancements

Flat Network
Capacity

“Always On” Self Organization

Flexibility Heterogeneous Deployments

Quality
of Scalability
Experience Traffic
Management Service Differentiation

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From Market Growth to Requirements
Market Growth Operator Need Technology requirement

New Types of Device Energy Efficiency

Devices Management
Service Management

E2E Security
New Services M2M etc
Local Networks

QoS aware Offloading

New Market Enterprise &
Segments Home Solutions Convergence with IT

Additional needs related to sparse (and limited) spectrum

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 Summary

 LTE-A will as part of 3GPP Rel10, Rel11, etc. provides a “tool box” for
enhancing the performance of the LTE-networks

 Key options to be included in the LTE-A “tool box” are:

1. Carrier Aggregation (specific band combinations)

2. Higher order MIMO (for up to 8 antennas)
3. Relaying (in-band backhaul)
4. HetNet (mixing layers of cells with different sizes)
5. Coordinated multipoint

 Carrier Aggregation likely one of the first parts to be actually deployed,

other parts of specifications may become just “standardisation items”

 Active Antenna Systems (AAS) not tied to LTE-A, but can be a viable
deployment option for enhancing the performance beyond the first phase LTE

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