L’ascesa del mobile broadband

Scenari tecnologici

Maurizio Dècina
Politecnico di Milano

Convegno Between
La banda: tra l’uovo e la gallina
Capri, 9 Ottobre 2009
 Wireless towards 1 Gbit/s

CABLE UltraWideBand
WPAN ZigBee Bluetooth
REPLACEMENT 802.15.3
802.15.4 802.15.1
HOME, OFFICE

LIMITED
Wi-Fi
PUBLIC ACCESS WLAN 802.11b
802.11a/g/n/ac/ad

Mobility
Range

CITY, WiMAX
WMAN
SUBURBS
802.16a/e/m
COUNTRY,

FULL
REGION WAN GSM GPRS ED
EDGE UMTS HSPA LTE/LTE-A
WIDE

1 kbit/s 10 kbit/s 100 kbit/s 1 Mbit/s 10 Mbit/s 100 Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s

Bit Rate
Source: Dècina, 2008

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 Traffic grows…
• Mobile complexity grows
5 bn people connected by 2015 • Internet of things
• Broadband is going to be ubiquitous

Source: NSN
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 The “iPhone” effect 01 million sold in one 01 million sold in two ?
week (05/07) months (09/07)

• The advent of laptops and high-end handsets into

mobile networks is a key driver of traffic growth
– Content and applications not supported by the
previous generation of mobile devices
• A single laptop can generate as much traffic as 450
basic-feature phones 19$ 499-599$ 20-600$

• A high-end handset such as an iPhone or Blackberry •

•
Emerging markets
Voice/SMS
•
•
Developped markets
Voice and BB
• All segments ?
• Voice and BB
• ARPU <10$/month • ARPU >50/month • ARPU > ?
device generates as much traffic as 30 basic-feature • Prepaid voice • Postpaid voice and
Flatrate data
• Postpaid/Prepaid
voice and flat rate
phones data

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 Application Store approach

All smartphone vendors have deployed a virtual shop for applications

Single point of contact between SW developers and users
Revenue splitting: 40% Smartphone supplier, 60% SW developer
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 Mobile end user Survey:
No brodaband Killer App!
Email

Information searching

General online browsing

Social networking

Online shopping

Music streaming

Music downloading

Video streaming

Business use (e.g. VPN)

Video downloading

Online gaming

Mobile TV

Video call

Mobile blogging

Online betting / gambling

2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Relative preference level
Source: Ovum Survey, 2008 Current preferred level Expected future increase

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 What is the Killer Application?

Anything the Internet can

provide!

PersianBlog.Com

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 The challenge for Mobile Telco
Traffic and Revenue Challenge Key Requirements
• User Experience: Development of key
Mobile operator enablers for mass market success
Traffic revenue & traffic • Devices & Applications: Utilization of all
Voice Dominant
de-coupled assets to generate additional revenues
• Network Architecture: Significant
reduction of cost per bit

Revenues
• Technology challenges in the
Data Dominant  “Flat Rates” short/mid term:
– IP backbone for mobile Telco
Time – Mobile backhauling

Source: Alcatel-Lucent – Spectrum shortage

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 All-IP Mobile Network
Ad UC Policy HLR
Billing NMS
Server Video Control Radius HSS
Pres
TAS SIP OSS
ence
VOD
IMS Core

Data Centre

MSC
3G/HSPA MME
IP
Networks
eNodeB SGW IP/MPLS
Carrier PDN
LTE Ethernet GW
Femto
ePDG GW
Security
GW
HNodeB Evolved Packet
Femto Core (EPC)
All IP Network, Converged Services, FemtoCell to expand Capacities

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 Mobile Backhaul and NGAN
• Mobile backhauling represents the major cost component of the RAN (Radio Access Network)
• The creation of a future proof mobile backhaul plays a key role in the development of technologies HSPA and in the
future of ultra mobile broadband LTE (Long Term Evolution)
• Mobile backhaul upgrade can take advantage of fiber optical infrastructure of the emerging NGAN, with possible
connections to all the protocol levels: fiber transmission, Ethernet and IP
• The adoption of IP/Ethernet as transport technology for the mobile backhaul allows better bandwidth scalability and
important cost reduction vs traditional solution (ATM, SDH…)

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 Analog-digital TV transition and its
• In every service area (e.g.: Rome):
“dividends”
– Analogue TV: 1 frequency  1 program
– Digital TV tech.: 1 frequency  6 programs (or 2 in HD)
• From transition, expected results are:
– Increase of television programs numbers
TV ecosystem internal
– Increase of reception quality (High Definition)
dividend
– New "broadcasters" entrance in the market
External dividend for
• Release of large segments of TV spectrum Telecommunications
– Best frequencies for broadband in mobility

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 New frequencies at the horizon…
Frequency Propagation Current apps
High
3G (1.9 GHz) FM Radio
~ 160 M€/MHz
ANALOGUE TV
WiMax (3.5 GHz)
~ 70 k€/MHz Digital Spectrum
Dividend
Analogue TV (800 MHz) EU 790-862 MHz
refarming
~ 80 M€/MHz?

refarming
Average Licencing
Fees in Europe ISM
(FR-I-ES-DE-UK) 2,690 Mhz IMT-2000
Low
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 3G/HSPA Femtocells
What?
3G/HSPA • The broadband access lines used for
Macro the Femtocells backhauling, enable a
network strong capacity increase (per surface
unit) of the mobile network
• It is possible to assign a “dedicated
cell” to each user
- Femtocells 3G/HSPA
Why?
• Low investments in Opex and Capex for
backhauling
• Improved efficiency in the bandwidth
DSL & FTTx use
Access Network • Lower client attainment costs
Internet • Churn reduction
Femtocell
• Integration with fixed-network services
(like HDTV)
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 Using Femtocells – Technology issues
• Interference • Standardization
– Deployments will use the same – Today is difficult to grant interoperability
frequencies for both the femtocell and the between femtocells from different operators
macro networks
– Proximity of femtocell base stations in
multi-dwelling units generates femto-to-
femto interference
• Handover between femtocell and
macrocell owned by the same Telco in the
indoor/outdoor transitions
• Complexity of management
– Need to manage a large number of
femtocells (millions?) – Need of a “Femtocell Gateway” able to
permit the interoperability between
femtocells from different vendor
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 Using Femtocells – Regulatory issues
• Public or private usage?
• Private usage cell needs SIMs authentication. Is it legal to use the licensed spectrum for such as
usage?
• Public usage cell can be accessed as Macrocells. Can Mobile Telco use the fixed broadband
access subscribed by the user?
• Femto data transport across DSL/NGAN owned by a different Telco operator
– Bitstreaming the femto Service-VLAN?
WWW,
User owns a BB link other
from another Telco
Telco…

Op. #2 Op. #1
Op. #1 Femtocell
NGAN Network
Femtocell
AP

Creation of a Service VLAN for

Telco operator #1 area Telco operator #2 area
all the femto traffic directed to
Op.#1 network
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