Security Level:

20/07/2017

CloudAIR
Breaking Air Interface Bottleneck

SRAN Product Line

Spectrum Cloudification:
Break Bottleneck of New RAT Introduction
Decouple RAT and Spectrum Smooth Evolution to New RAT

Fast Coverage Smooth Phase-out More Efficient Daily

GU@5MHz G&L Sharing L&NR Sharing of New RAT of Legacy RAT Spectrum Utilization

From “Refarming” to “Sharing” From partial sharing to full sharing

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GU@5MHz, First Step to Spectrum Cloudification

Traditional@7.4MHz Lean GU@6.2MHz Phase-I: GU@5MHz

G111 + U5M G111 + U5M G111 + U5M

7.4MHz 6.2MHz 5MHz

60%
Dynamical Sharing
Guard in-band No Guard UMTS Capacity
vs. 5MHz

UMTS UMTS UMTS

GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM GSM

Operator with 5MHz in 900MHz can deploy UMTS

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 GU@5MHz Enhanced for Extreme Performance

Dense Frequency Multiplexing Phase-II: GU@5MHz Enhanced

G111 + U5M G222 + U5M

Bandwidth
Reduced
5MHz 5MHz
Same Capacity 85% 60%
OR
UMTS Capacity UMTS Capacity
x2 Capacity Density vs. 5MHz vs. 5MHz
Density
x2
UMTS UMTS
Same Bandwidth GSM GSM GSM GSM

GU spectrum sharing, boosting the capacity

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GL Spectrum Cloudification, Reduce bandwidth threshold

Traditional@7.4MHz GL@6.2MHz

G111 + L5M G111 + L5M

7.4MHz 6.2MHz

Guard in-band +8.3%~ +58%

LTE Capacity Gain
… …
vs. 3MHz
LTE 5MHz
GSM LTE GSM
1.2MHz 5MHz 1.2MHz GSM GSM

Full use of the spectrum to solve the long-tail problem of legacy RAT

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Case Study of GL Spectrum Cloudification
Operator D, 15MHz@1800MHz

GSM Switch off

S555 S444 S333 S222 S111
Configuration GSM

GSM15M GSM10M+LTE 5M GSM5M+LTE 10M LTE 10M

Re-farming 5M 10M 15M
Solution 5M
15M 10M
Now

GSM 7.4M+LTE 10M GSM 2.4M + LTE 15M

One Time
10M 15M
GL Spectrum GL10M
Network Planning
5M
Cloudification
Deploy 10MHz LTE Deploy 15MHz LTE
Improve spectral efficiency Smooth Evolution

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