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High Spectral Efficient and Flexible Next Generation Mobile Communications Simon Plass, Stephan Sand, Mikael Sternad, and Arne Svensson. Motivation. What are the requirements and challenges for next generation communications systems?
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High Spectral Efficient and Flexible Next Generation Mobile CommunicationsSimon Plass, Stephan Sand, Mikael Sternad, andArne Svensson
Motivation • What are the requirements and challenges for next generation communications systems? • How can these technical challenges be solved?Remark: The focus is on the physical layer (PHY) in this presentation
Analog systems1G UMTS3G ???4G GSM2G Evolution of Mobile Communications Digital systems
4G GMC Scenarios mobility high speed/ wide area medium speed/ within a city 2G TDMA FDMA 3G CDMA walking speed/ within a limited areas WLAN (IEEE 802.11) OFDM portable/ indoor data rate 0,1 1 10 100 Mbit/s
Main Requirements for 4G • Efficient use of the valuable spectrum • Flat IP architecture for low operational expenditure and less capital expenditure • Flexible spectrum allocation and sharing has to be included • New services based on real time applications, e.g., gaming or new trends of Web 2.0
IFFT IFFT Basic Transmission Technique:Generalized Multi Carrier (GMC) • Robust to multi-path environments • Efficient use of the available spectrum • Flexible allocation of user data to sub-carriers • Includes all OFDM based transmission techniques such as OFDMA, MC-CDMA, SS-MC-MA, IFDMA, etc. Cyclicprefix Space-Time-FrequencyPrecoding Data symbols Cyclicprefix
Predicted CSI Coding p Mod Predicted MIMO-CSI IFFT IFFT Adaptive BICM Cyclicprefix adaptiveSpace-Time-FrequencyPrecoding Data symbols Cyclicprefix Advanced Techniques for the PHY • Adaptive functionalities at the transmitter and receiver exploiting channel state information and user demands • Transmitter: • Adaptive bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) • Adaptive Space-time-frequency (STF) precoding
Advanced Techniques for the PHY • Receiver: • Iterative channel estimation, demodulation, and decoding • Improve bit estimates by toggle until regeneration brings optimality (TURBO) principle SISO CSI Inverse OFDMconverted signals STFDecod sink Decod p-1 Demod CSIPrediction ChannelEstimation MIMO CSI
Technical Highlights for 4G Systems • Spectrum Flexibility • Inter-cell Interference Handling • Relaying Concepts
Narrowband 4G I Cand.band Cand.band Candidateband Candidateband 2G & 3Gbands Shared by 4G Shared by 4G 900 MHz 2.6 GHz 3.4 GHz 5 GHz Cand.band Cand.band Candidateband 2G & 3Gbands Shared by 4G II 4G 900 MHz 2.6 GHz 3.4 GHz 5 GHz Cand.band 2G & 3Gbands Candidate band 4G III 900 MHz 2.6 GHz 3.4 GHz 5 GHz Spectrum Flexibility – Spectrum Assignment Concepts • Definition of new spectrum assignment at the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) in Oct/Nov 2007
Spectrum Flexibility – Spectrum Sharing Mechanisms • Sharing and Co-existence (spectrum sharing with fixed satellite systems (FSS)) • Use of geographical ‚exclusion zones‘ • Use of directional antennas and beamforming to avoid LOS transmissions towards FSS ground stations • Flexible Spectrum Usage • Long-term spectrum assignment • Short-term spectrum assignment • Resource partitioning
Inter-cell Interference Problem • Goal: High overall spectral efficiency in combination with high flexibility for packet data traffic • Method: Frequency reuse of one and generalized multi-carrier system • Result: Inter-cell interference problem at the cell borders
Inter-cell Interference Handling • Difficulties: • Fast and tight inter-cell coordination is required for maximal gains in interference avoidance • Complication with packet-switched channel-aware scheduled transmission • Possible approaches: • For high loads, allocate low SINR user to a separated frequency pool with frequency reuse of three, the others with reuse of one • For low loads, dynamic frequency assignment and/or coordinated beamforming can be used of the lower fraction of low SINR users • Inter-cell interference cancellation schemes at the receiver, if resources at receiver available
Conclusions We have shown: • The needs of next generation communications systems • The underlying transmission technique GMC • The adaptive components of the PHY • The need of spectrum flexibility and its mechanisms • The need of inter-cell interference handling and possible approaches