Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi

Seminar Presentation

Cellular and WiFi Co-design for 5G User Equipment

by

TEJASWINI T M: 1AY15EC103

Under the guidance of

Mr. Siddesh M.B

Asst. Professor
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Acharya Institute of Technology
Soladevenahalli, Bengaluru
 Contents
1. What is 5G
2. 5G New Radio
3. How to Implement
4. Wireless User Equipment design
5. Circuit and system implementation n of DPA-MIMO
6. DPA-MIMO
7. A 5G UE design example based on DPA-MIMO architecture.
8. A 5G UE design example based on DPA-MIMO architecture.
9. 5g Cellular and WiFi co-design
10. 5g Cellular and WiFi co-design
11. Conclusion
 What is 5G?
5th Generation is the latest generation of mobile communications and a successor of 4G. It targets higher data rates
in terms of Gb/s(20Gb/s), reduced latency, energy saving, cost reduction, higher system capacity, and massive
device connectivity(massive IOT) which can be achievable by massive MIMO and wide channel bandwidth.
5G New Radio
 5G New Radio

5G NR is a new air interface being developed for 5G. An air interface is the radio frequency portion of
the circuit between the mobile device and the active base station. The active base station can change
as the user is on the move, with each changeover known as a handoff.

● Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)

● Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC)

● Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)

● Spectrum Latency reduction with grant free access

 5G New Radio
MIMO: MIMO (multiple input, multiple output)
is an antenna technology for wireless
communications in which multiple antennas are
used at both the source (transmitter) and the
destination (receiver)

● mMIMO (massive MIMO)

● MU-MIMO

Beamforming uses multiple antennas to control

the direction of a wave-front by appropriately
weighting the magnitude and phase of individual
antenna signals in an array of multiple antennas.
 How to Implement?

Implementing as many wireless standards and technologies as possible on one single base
station (BS) or user equipment (UE) is ultimately desired, but technically challenging and
commercially expensive.

5G UE design is complicated in terms of

● Antenna design
● Radio Frequency design,
● Baseband (modem) design, and
● PHY-MAC codesign.
 Wireless User Equipment Design
With respect to UE cellular design, employing
mmWave as 5G high bands brings up several
major technical challenges including,

● High propagation loss

● Serious human blockage
● Human shadowing issues
● High penetration loss
conventional beamforming design
Consequently, several techniques such as
Beamforming and DPA-MIMO are utilized
to deal with these challenges.

DPA-MIMO architecture
Circuit and system implementation n of DPA-MIMO
 DPA-MIMO
1. IF radio modules: The cellular IF-radio modules produces intermediate radio
frequency and process signals between radio frequencies (RF) and a baseband
frequency.
2. BF modules and Baseband functional modules: realize conversion between 5G
high bands and intermediate frequencies (IF).
3. Co axial cables: Coaxial cables are used to connect BF modules with IF-radio and
baseband functional modules all are accommodated on main logic board and handles
transmission precoding and reception combination
A 5G UE design example based on DPA-MIMO architecture.
 A 5G UE design example based on DPA-MIMO architecture.
● The split architecture shown is highly
reconfigurable.

● The quantity and placement of BF modules are

flexible as long as a necessary edge-to-edge
spacing is maintained to guarantee enough
spatial isolation and channel capacity.

● Separating BF and IF modules could also

facilitate the reuse of BF and IF modules for
other wireless standards.

● 5G LAAco-exist mmWave cellular, mmWave

WiFi, and 5G-LAA altogether, to handle various
application and usage scenarios.

5G mmWave DPA-MIMO proof-of-concept system design.

 5g Cellular and WiFi co-design

● A cellular/WiGig mode switch is inserted between coax cables and

cellular IF-radios, as well as WiGig IF-radios. As a result, the mmWave
BF module can be multiplexed for either WiFi WiGig or 5G cellular
functionality.
 5g Cellular and WiFi co-design

● Number of BF modules must be greater than WiGig IF radio modules

● WiGig and 2.4/5GHz WiFi have different modems and low-layer MAC designs.
● The cellular modem will be complex as it needs to provide backward compatibility to
3GPP legacy standards, as well as also support 5G NR that may employ several
candidate waveforms such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
based multicarrier waveforms.
5G cellular WiFi cooperation
 Conclusion
This paper introduces a series of cellular-WiFi co-design and co-enabling techniques, on
top of the cellular-WiFi functional reuse with multiplexing hardware architecture and
PHY- MAC cross-layer designs. Furthermore, detailed circuits, system designs, and
implementations are specified with detailed cellular-WiFi cooperation details within 5G
heterogeneous networks. With the said techniques and architectures, very rich and diverse
5G application and usage scenarios can be facilitated, which address future 5G design and
application challenges.