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FEB 2019 VOL. 21 NO. 1 ISSUE 180
06 COAI’s Director
06 General
COAI’s Talks About
Director Opportunities
General and
Talks About Opportu
Challenges for India’s Telecom
Challenges forSector
India’sinTelecom
2019 Sector in 201
ZTE TECHNOLOGIES
ZTE TECHNOLOGIES Reporter: Sun Dong Re
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33Mobile
o Boost 5G AI to Network
Boost 5GOperations for Future
Mobile Network Operations for Future
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Expert Views
Considerations
for 5G
Network
Deployments
Duan Xiaowei
Wireless Solution Architect at ZTE
5
G will not only bring much faster access rates, but also penetrate into every corner of the
world through flexible network slicing. It will drive the digital transformation of vertical
industries and become the cornerstone of digital society.
With the freeze of R15 standard, the release of 5G spectrum, the maturity of 5G equipment
and the accelerated development of 5G terminal chip, 2019 will be the first year for 5G
commercialization. At this stage, the focus of mobile operators is gradually shifting from 5G equipment
testing and verification to more practical network deployment. This article will discuss the key
challenges in 5G network deployment, and give some suggestions to operators who are preparing for
5G deployment.
Choosing the Most Suitable Network operators have with SA architecture include
Architecture network coverage, SA terminal and 5GC
maturity.
5G deployment has two architecture options: From the 5G R&D roadmaps unfolded by
standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA). With 5G terminal chip vendors like Qualcomm, Intel
NSA, a first-mover advantage can be derived and MTK, chipsets released from 2019 onwards
from architecture maturity, but it is only will support both NSA and SA at the same
applicable to eMBB services and involves time; thus for operators starting 5G network
complex coupling with 4G network. SA, as the construction after 2019, terminal is not a
ultimate target network of 5G, has obvious decisive factor in choosing NSA or SA.
advantages in new service support, coverage, Considering the maturity of 5GC, there is no
performance, network flexibility and terminal need to have complete features in the initial
energy efficiency. At present, the major concerns stage of 5G deployment. Operators can adopt
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the target architecture in one step, open the downlink (supporting 2K/4K HD video and AR
interfaces step by step, and introduce the applications), 2 Mbps uplink (supporting 720p
functions in stages, so that the commercial time video upload anytime, anywhere), and also has
of 5GC can be advanced to Q1 2019. Therefore, enough investment to build a 5G continuous
5GC does not constitute a constraint factor to coverage network in dense urban areas, we
the commercialization of SA. believe that SA is a one-step and more suitable
Taking the obvious advantages of the SA network construction mode. According to ZTE's
architecture into account, if operators could field test data, in dense urban scenarios where
achieve continuous 5G coverage with the inter-site distance is less than 400 meters,
reasonable investment and build an it is possible to achieve continuous coverage
independent 5G network, operators are not of 5G through 4G/5G co-site deployment; in the
very motivated to choose the NSA architecture. area where the site spacing is more than 400
Therefore, besides the mandatory requirement meters, an appropriate number of 5G macro or
of new service, we believe that the coverage micro base stations can be added to meet the
capability of 5G base station and the operator’s uplink data rate requirement of 2 Mbps.
5G network investment are the key factors for Of course, if an operator has very limited
choosing SA or NSA, whether 4G and 5G co-site investment at the initial stage of 5G
deployment is feasible highly depends on the deployment, can only deploy a small number
cell edge speed requirement of 5G and the of 5G base stations in 4G network hotspots for
density of existing 4G base stations. marketing purpose, it is more economical and
Once the quantity of antenna elements, the practical to choose the NSA network
independent transceiver channels and the construction mode.
transmit power of the 5G AAU are determined, If the operator has higher requirements for
the coverage of the 5G base station mainly network edge performance, such as increasing
depends on the available 5G frequency bands, the uplink rate to 5 Mbps (supporting 1080p
the complexity of the wireless environments, video upload anytime, anywhere), it is
and the KPI requirements for 5G services, recommended to use carrier aggregation of
especially the cell-edge access rates. And the 3.5 GHz spectrum and 1800/900/700 MHz
planning of cell-edge access rates depends on spectrum. Since 1800/900/700 MHz bands have
the minimum network performance requirement been refarmed for 5G New Radio, the network
of 5G services, whether to support seamless construction mode is still SA. We think it is very
mobility, and the acceptable 5G network difficult to achieve 5 Mbps uplink data rate in
construction cost. NSA mode with around 400 meters inter-site
Based on the above principles, if an operator distance even if the uplink capability of both 4G
only has the millimeter-wave spectrum for 5G and 5G is utilized; deploying a large number of
construction, it is more appropriate to select the new base stations also involves high investment
NSA architecture because millimeter-wave has costs, and supplemental uplink solution is too
larger propagation loss and poor scattering or complex.
diffraction capabilities compared with 1.8 GHz
or 2.6 GHz band. When millimeter-wave Maximizing the Value of Existing Site
spectrum is used for mobile access service, it Infrastructure
can hardly achieve continuous coverage as 4G
network, so it’s better to rely on the 4G network Besides the network architecture, how to
coverage and only use it as a capacity layer to introduce 5G into the existing sites with
the ultra-high-speed service in hotspot areas. high-density of RAN equipment is also a major
If an operator can obtain the mainstream challenge for operators. At present, the majority
3.5 GHz spectrum, has reasonable cell edge of operators have multiple bands (such as
access rate requirement, for example 50 Mbps 900 MHz, 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz) and
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livers customized
that 5Gand
delivers
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threeslices. The above three Summary
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the introduction
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of AI the introduction of AI
O&M efficiency.
to improve O&M efficiency. Although operators will
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ology represented
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digitalization
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performance optimization, give operators
industries
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also give operators confidence
pacity prediction,
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the 5G profitability
era. in the 5G era.
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network-level
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O&M O&M a brilliant future!
create a brilliant future!
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Standalone
Standalone
or or
Non-Standalone,
Non-Standalone,
That That
Is NotIs Not
the Question
the Question
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Source: Light Reading Source: Light Reading Managing Director of 5G RAN
Managing
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Common
Common
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Facilitates
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pecification with
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CSMF CSMF
BSS/OSS BSS/OSS
NSMF NSMF
RAN RAN TN TN CN CN
18 18
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ZTE CloudStudio
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to core network will core network
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19 19
Special Topic Special Topic
Tapping
Tapping
Potential
Potential
of 5G
of Through
5G Through
Spectrum
Spectrum
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21 21
Special Topic
22
FEB 2019
UniSite:
Building a Simplified and
Convergent Site for 4G
to 5G Evolution
23
Special Topic
Uni-antenna Uni-BBU
Multi-band antenna + AAU Full-mode and virtualized BBU
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integrates virtual
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5G FWA:
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Progress
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37 37
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full-coverage
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