Third Generation Developments

A presentation for the Mobile Services Committee

RA2/PTN Radiocommunications Agency

RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS AGENCY

WARC-92 outcome
At WARC-92 the following bands were
identified on a wordwide basis for IMT-2000 applications:
1900 2000 2100 2200

IMT - 2000 1885 1980

MSS 2010 2025

IMT - 2000 2110 2170

MSS 2200

UK spectrum allocations
The IMT-2000 spectrum identified at WARC92 has been allocated in the UK as follows:
1900 2000 2100 2200

TDD Licensed

TDD Exempt

1880 1900 1920

DECT

FDD Licensed

MSS

FDD Licensed 2110

MSS

1980 2010 2025

2170

2200

UK licences
Following a spectrum auction in the spring of
2000 five UK UMTS licences were awarded as follows:
Hutchinson 3G- 2 x 15 MHz FDD + 5 MHz TDD BT Cellnet - 2 x 10 MHz FDD + 5 MHz TDD Vodafone - 2 x 15 MHz FDD One2One - 2 x 10 MHz FDD + 5 MHz TDD Orange - 2 x 10 MHz FDD + 5 MHz TDD

IMT-2000 Terrestrial Radio Interfaces

IMT-2000 CDMA Direct Spread (UTRA FDD) IMT-2000 CDMA Multi-Carrier (cdma 2000) IMT-2000 CDMA TDD (UTRA TDD) IMT-2000 TDMA Single Carrier (UWC-136) IMT-2000 FDMA/TDMA (DECT)

WRC-2000 outcome
Three additional frequency bands were
identified for IMT-2000 applications as follows:
806 - 960 MHz 1710 - 1885 MHz 2500 - 2590 MHz RR Footnote S5.317A RR Footnote S5.384A RR Footnote S5.384A

WRC-2000 also maintained the status of the

original WARC-92 IMT-2000 bands

Development post WRC-2000

Three key Groups
Within Europe ERC PT1 has been charged with developing the CEPT positions on spectrum packaging and related issues - e.g. global circulation Within the ITU-R Working Party 8F has responsibility within SG8 for IMT-2000 and systems beyond Standardisation
3GPP 3GPP2

ITU-R WP8F structure

WP8F is organised into six working groups:
WG Spectrum WG Radio Technology (M.1457) WG Vision WG Circulation (now closed) WG Satellite Co-ordination WG Developing IMT

ITU-R WP8F post WRC-2000

WP8F continue to develop work on the
preferred frequency options for both the WARC-92 and WRC-2000 bands The general approach has been to maintain flexibility and facilitate migration from 2G to 3G services by maintaining duplex directions and spacings as far as possible

Preferred frequency options 1710 - 2200 MHz

190 MHz duplex separation
1 920 1 980 2 110 2 170

1 1 700
1 710

95 MHz duplex separation

1 755 1 785 1 805
3

2 200
1 850 1 880
3

2 1 700
80 MHz duplex separation
1 850 1 910 1 930 1 990

2 200

3 1 700
355 MHz duplex separation
1 755 [1 805] 2 110 [2 160]

2 200

4 1 700
400 MHz duplex separation
1 710 1 770 2 110 2 170

2 200

5 1 700 2 200

Preferred frequency options 806 - 960 MHz Band

806 960 MHz 800 824 849 869 900 894 MHz 900 880 915 925 960 IMT-2000 Spectrum (Below 1GHz)

MStx
800

BStx

Frequency Arrangement A

MStx
800 900

BStx

MHz

Frequency Arrangement B

MStx = Mobile Transmit band

BStx = Base Transmit Band

Preferred frequency options 2500 - 2690 MHz band

The following three basic arrangements or
combinations of them are expected to meet the demand for additional traffic; the aggregate asymmetry is as yet unknown but is assumed to be biased towards the downlink: a) FDD Up- and Downlink operation b) FDD Downlink operation c) TDD operation

Generic principle for 2500 - 2690 MHz band

2500 MHz 2690 MHz

Different scenarios in the band 2500-2690 MHz

Freq.block -> Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4 Scenario 5 A FDD UL FDD UL FDD DL (external) TDD FDD DL (external) TDD FDD DL (external) FDD DL (external) TDD FDD DL (external) B TDD FDD DL (external) TDD TDD FDD DL (external) C D FDD DL (internal) FDD DL (internal) TDD TDD FDD DL (external)

It should be noted that the edges of sub-bands A and D may be influenced by the use of the bands 2500-2520 MHz and 2670-2690 MHz by the satellite component of IMT-2000 (resolves 2 of Resolution 225).

Vision of systems beyond IMT-2000

Mobility High

Systems beyond IMT-2000

New Elements of Systems Beyond
BS digital Broadcasting Terrestrial digital broadcasting

IMT-2000
Medium

Enhanced IMT-2000

Mobile Access

Enhancement

Nomadic / Local area wireless access

Low 10 100 Communication speed ( Mbit/s ) denotes interconnection between systems via networks or the like, which allows flexible use in any environments without making users aware of constituent systems. 1

EU Mandate 4 to CEPT
On 9 March 2000 the European Commission
issued a mandate to CEPT to:
harmonise frequency usage in order to facilitate a co-ordinated implementation in the community of third generation mobile and wireless communications systems operating in additional frequency bands as identified by the WRC-2000 for IMT-2000 systems.

Further mandates are expected at a later

stage to establish the spectrum channelling arrangements for additional spectrum

Mandate deliverables
Report from CEPT by November 2001 with initial
proposals for:
amount of additional spectrum needed; frequency bands to accommodate additional spectrum; reference date to make additional spectrum available analysis of global roaming implications

CEPT Report by November 2002

validation of initial proposals, confirmation of reference date

CEPT Decision by March 2003

designation of additional spectrum to be used for IMT-2000 as from reference date

PT1 response to EU Mandate

The main conclusion from the executive
summary to the initial report from CEPT are:
CEPT confirms the preferred band for additional terrestrial spectrum is the 2500 - 2690 MHz band the 2500 - 2690 MHz band should be made available from 2008 within CEPT (though due to current uncertainty in real availability of services, flexibility should be maintained on the definition of this date.) channelling arrangements for the 2500 - 2690 MHz band should not be fixed until the 2004/2005 timeframe.

3rd Generation Partnership Project

Release 99
W-CDMA and TD-CDMA radio interfaces circuit-switched data up to 64 kbit/s packet-switched data up to 384 kbit/s core network compatible with GSM Phase 2+ R99

Release 4
enhancements beyond Release 99 1.28 Mcps TDD base station classification FDD repeaters

3rd Generation Partnership Project

Current work
Corrections and clarifications for Release 99 and Release 4 High Speed Downlink Packet Access IP Multimedia Subsystem
First IMS elements to appear in Release 5 Further IMS elements in Release 6 Further studies ongoing beyond Release 6 (e.g. IPv4/v6)