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3G and 4G Wireless – Advances and Challenges. Suresh R. Borkar Adjunct Faculty, Dept of ECE, Ill Instt. of Tech. sureshbo@hotmail.com Apr 14, 2006. 3G and 4G Wireless – Advances and Challenges. Where are we? 3G Wireless Summary Where do we Want to go? Evolution to Seamless Networking
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3G and 4G Wireless – Advances and Challenges Suresh R. Borkar Adjunct Faculty, Dept of ECE, Ill Instt. of Tech. sureshbo@hotmail.com Apr 14, 2006
3G and 4G Wireless – Advances and Challenges • Where are we? • 3G Wireless Summary • Where do we Want to go? • Evolution to Seamless Networking • 4G Wireless • Challenges The one who stays still is left behind
Where are We? • Classic Wireline MaBell Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) • US Universal coverage achieved early 1980’s • “Wireless” First Generation Analog Systems • Speech • AMPS, TACS • Second Generation Digital Systems • Enhanced Capacity • CDMA, D-AMPS, TDMA, GSM, DECT, PDC • 2.5 Generation Systems • Low Speed Data • GPRS, EDGE • Third Generation Systems • “INTERNET” on Wireless • WiFi/HyperLAN <-> WiMAX/HyperWAN <-> CDMA2000/WCDMA • Evolution to All IP Network including VoIP
Representative Wireless Standards • GSM/TDMA • Time Division Multiplexing based access • CDMA • Code Division Multiplexing based access • OFDM • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Many toys to play with
TDMA/FDMA Give the same air to all
CDMA X I I I Channelization code: Separate xmissions from a single source from each other Scrambling code: separate different sources from each other Spreading Code = Channelization code x Scrambling code All persons are created equal
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) • Successor to Frequency Hopping and Direct Sequence CDMA • Capability to cancel multipath distortion in a spectrally efficient manner without requiring multiple local oscillators (802.11a and 802.16) • Based on use of IFFT and FFT • Frequency orthogonality as compared to code orthogonality in CDMA using Walsh Code
3G Services Who is first? – the customer; who is second? - No one
Key Mobility Services • Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) • Text, sounds, images, and video • Transition from Short Message Service (SMS) • Open Internet standards for messaging • Web Applications • Information portals • Wireless Markup Language (WML) with signals using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) • Location Communications Services • Location Awareness Based • Personalization of information presentation format • Service capability negotiations (MExE environment)
Customized Application for Mobile Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) • CAMEL = IN + Service portability (incl mobility and roaming) • Virtual Private Network (VPN) • Mobile user <-> ISP <-> corporate server • Mobility, Security, Capacity and quality • Prepaid, Usage Limitations, Advanced Routing Services • Virtual Home Environment (VHE) • Subscriber profile, charging information, Service information, numbering information • Integration of array of services, content conversion to heterogeneous services, network user profile, location aware services Take the claims with a grain of salt
GSM Network Billing Center STP HLRAuC BSS SCP gsm SCF SSP PSTN/ISDN IN ISUP C Gw-MSC C, D E, ISUP Call SMS-GW VLR MSC GSM04.08 A UE Circuit domain
GSM & GPRS Billing Center STP HLRAuC BSS SCP gsm SCF SSP IP Services PDN PSTN/ISDN IN ISUP Gi Gc C Gw-MSC GGSN Data, voice, video call Ga CGw C, D E, ISUP Gn Call Ga SMS-GW Gr VLR MSC SGSN GSM04.08+ GSM04.08+ A Gb UE Packet domain Circuit domain
WCDMA/UMTS Billing Center STP HLR+AuC UTRAN SCP gsm SCF SSP IP Services PDN PSTN/ISDN IN, CAMEL ISUP Gi+ Gc+ C Gw-MSC GGSN Data, voice, video call Ga+ C+, D+ CGw E+, ISUP Gn+ Call Ga+ SMS-GW Gr+ VLR 3G-MSC 3G-SGSN GSM04.08++ GSM04.08++ Iu-cs Iu-ps UE Packet domain Circuit domain
EDGE UMTS GSM/UMTS Bit rate, Mobility and Services High (Car / Train) GSM HSCSD GPRS Mobility Voice Text Messaging CS Data Fax Low (stationary) Bit Rate, Kbps 384.0 EDGE UMTS 2 Mb/s 9.6 14.4 76.0 GPRS HSCSD
3G Evolution 2.5G 3.5G GPRS 170 kbps EDGE 473 kbps GSM HSCSD 15.2 kbps EDGE Ph2 GRAN 473 kbps TDMA CDPD 43.2 kbps TD-SCDMA Ph 2 2 Mbps TD-SCDMA 284 kbps WCDMA TDD 2 Mbps WCDMA FDD 2 Mbps PDA/PDC-P 14.4 kbps WCDMA HSDPA 10 Mbps 1XEV-DO (HDR) 2.4 Mbps CDMA2000 1x 307 kps cdmaOne 76.8 kbps 1XEV-DV (HDR) 5.4 Mbps HyperLAN2 54 Mbps Harmonized HyperLAN2 And IEEE 802.11a WLAN IEEE 802.11b 11 Mbps IEEE 802.11 a/h 54 Mbps WiMAX/HyperMAN also in the mix Ref: Honkasalo et al, WCDMA and WLAN for 3G and Beyond, IEEE Wireless Communication, Apr 2002
Some Representative Current Wireless Options • 3G Cellular (WCDMA) • Frequency Division Duplex (FDD): Uplink and Downlink are separated in frequency – (“symmetric”) • Time Division Duplex (TDD): Uplink and Downlink are separated in time – allows “asymmetric” traffic (adjust time slots in uplink and downlink) • 3G Cellular (CDMA2000) • Wi Fi • 802.11a and 802.11b; HyperLAN2 • 2.4 GHz band • WiMAX • 802.16d (fixed); 802.16e (“portable”) • 5.8 GHz band; 10 – 20 Mbps symmetrical BW • Blue Tooth • RF based LAN technology; 20-30 feet coverage • 2.4 GHz band Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and Survival of the fittest
3G WCDMA • Release 99 • Release 4 • Release 5 • Domains, Protocols, and Channels • Radio Resource Management • Network Dimensioning and Optimization • Quality of Service (QoS0 and Location Services The favored twin sister of CDMA2000
Release 99 • Radio Bearer Negotiations • Traffic Classes • Complex Scrambling • Speech Codec – (eight) Adaptive Multi Rate (AMR) • Battery Life • Transmission “spatial/antenna” diversity • Compressed Mode • Measurements in multiple frequency • Use of transmission time reduction techniques • # PDP Contexts per IP Address • QPSK; coherent detection; Rake receiver • Short and Long Spreading Codes • Multicall – several simultaneous CS calls with dedicated bearers of independent traffic and performance characteristics • Customized Application for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) Phase 3 A lot to gobble
Release 4 • Bearer Independent Core Network • Tandem Free Operation (TFO), Transcoder Free Operation (TrFO), and Out of Band Transcoder Control (OoBTC) • Low Chip Rate TDD Operation • Network Assisted Cell Change • FDD Repeater • NodeB Synchronization for TDD • IPv6 packet switched network supporting both real time and non-real time traffic • Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) replacing SS7 • Home Subscriber Server (HSS) • MSC/VLR -> MSC server (mobility management) and MGW (Connection management subtasks) • Multimedia Message Service (MMS) environment
Release 5 • IP Transport in UTRAN • High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) (upto 10 Mbps) • Intra Domain Connection to Multiple CN Nodes (Iuflex) • IP Multimedia CN Subsystem (IMS) • “Guaranteed” End to End (E2E) QoS in the PS domain • Global Text Telephony • Support for Real Time Services in packet domain • CAMEL Phase 4
HSDPA • Peak Data rate > 10 Mbps • Same spectrum by both voice and data • Up to 12 spreading codes for High Speed DSCH (HS-DSCH) • Fast link Adaptation • Both code and time division for channel sharing • Transmission Time interval 2 ms • Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) • Automatic optimizations to Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) • QPSK and 16 QAM modulation at 3.84 Mhz symbol; spreading factor fixed to 16 • Incremental Redundancy or chase combining (CH) • New DPCCH2 in uplink primarily for HARQ channel state info
WCDMA Domains Standardization of architecture (domains) and standardization of protocols (strata)
WCDMA Channels Transport Channels: how information transferred over the radio interface Logical Channels: Type of information transferred over the radio interface Channels made by soft hats
Mapping Between Channels N to M
WCDMA Channel Usage Examples Flexibility comes with responsibility
Radio Resource Management • Power Control • Handover • Access Control • Load and Congestion Control • Packet Scheduling
WCDMA Power Control (near = far) Uplink and downlink (1500 Hz) Open Loop Power Control Closed Loop Power Control Outer Loop Power Control Equal Opportunity Administration (EOA)
WCDMA Handovers Softer Soft Hard and Inter-frequency handovers Intersystem cell-reselection “Equivalent PLMN mode” (autonomous cell re-selection (packet) idle mode)
Handover Algorithm A relay race with multiple batons
Network Dimensioning and Optimization • Dimensioning Criteria • Coverage, Capacity, Quality of Service • Dimensioning • Link budget, capacity (hard and soft) and load factor • Estimation of average interference power • Coverage end Outage probabilities • Optimization • Performance Requirements • Antenna adjustments, neighbor lists, scrambling codes Don’t force a round peg in a square hole
WCDMA Quality of Service (Qos) • Dynamic Negotiations of properties / Services of radio bearer • Thruput, transfer delay, data error rate • Authentications One way communications is no communications
Location Services (LCS) Cell ID based Observed Time Difference Arrival – Idle Period Downlink (OTDOA-IPDL) Network Assisted GPS You can run but you cannot hide
Why Move Towards 4G? • Limitation to meet expectations of applications like multimedia, full motion video, wireless teleconferencing • Wider Bandwidth • Difficult to move and interoperate due to different standards hampering global mobility and service portability • Primarily Cellular (WAN) with distinct LANs’; need a new integrated network • Limitations in applying recent advances in spectrally more efficient modulation schemes • Need all all digital network to fully utilize IP and converged video and data Incessant human desire to reach the sky
Where Do We Want to Go? • Seamless Roaming • Integrated “standard” Networks • Mobile Intelligent Internet • Onwards to (Ultra) Wideband Wireless IP Networks We are no longer in Kansas, Toto
Upcoming • 3.5 G • Evolved radio Interface • IP based core network • 4G • New Air Interface • Very high bit rate services • Convergence of Wireline, Wireless, and IP worlds And Now for Something Completely Different
Legacy mobile signaling Network Alternative Access Network CSCF R-SGW Mw Mh Ms Mm HSS CSCF Mg Cx Mr MRF Gi MGCF T-SGW Gi Mc PSTN/ Legacy/External Gi MGW MGW Iu Nb Mc Mc MSC Server GMSC Server T-SGW Nc 3G All-IP Reference Architecture Applications & Services Multimedia IP Networks SCP HLR CAP Gi Gr Gc SGSN Gn GGSN Iu MT UTRAN TE R Uu Gp Signalling Interface GGSN Gn Signalling and Data Transfer Interface Other PLMN SGSN
Wireless Data Server Wireless Data Server PSTN/ISDN Internet/Intranet/ISP PSTN/ISDN Application servers Internet/Intranet/ISP Application servers www, email www, email IP Firewall IP Firewall IP IP PSTN/ISDN GGSN GGSN CSCF MGCF SGW HLRAuC HSS (G)MSC Server 3G-MSC 3G-MSC MGW MGW PCM PCM IP SS7 SS7 SGSN SGSN MRF GGSN ATM GTP+/IP ATM GTP+/IP Iur Iur Iub Iub Iub Iub RNC RNC RNC RNC N_B N_B N_B N_B WCDMA 3G Evolution to All-IP Network UTRAN
3.5G Radio Network Evolution • High Data rate, low latency, packet optimized radio access • Support flexible bandwidth upto 20 MHz, new transmission schemes, advanced multi-antenna technologies, and signaling optimization • Instantaneous peak DL 100 Mb/s and UP 50 Mb/S within 20 MHz spectrum • Control plane latency of < 100 ms (camped to active) and < 50 ms (dormant to active) • > 200 users per cell within 5 MHz spectrum • Spectrum flexibility from 1.25 MHz to 20 MHz • Eliminate “dedicated” channels; avoid macro diversity in DL • Migrate towards OFDM in DL and SC-FDMA in UL • Support voice services in the packet domain • Adaptive Modulation and Coding using Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) measurements
3.5G WCDMA Evolved System Architecture Source: www.3gpp.org
Key 4G Mobility Concepts • Mobile IP • VoIP • Ability to move around with the same IP address • IP tunnels • Intelligent Internet • Presence Awareness Technology • Knowing who is on line and where • Radio Router • Bringing IP to the base station • Smart Antennas • Unique spatial metric for each transmission Wireless IP <---> IP Wireless
4G Networks Advances • Seamless mobility (roaming) • Roam freely from one standard to another • Integrate different modes of wireless communications – indoor networks (e.g., wireless LANs and Bluetooth); cellular signals; radio and TV; satellite communications • 100 Mb/se full mobility (wide area); 1 Gbit/s low mobility (local area) • IP-based communications systems for integrated voice, data, and video • IP RAN • Open unified standards • Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) • Successor to “SS7”; replacement for TCP • Maintain several data streams within a single connection • Service Location Protocol (SLP) • Automatic resource discovery • Make all networked resources dynamically configurable through IP-based service and directory agents The demise of SS7
4G Networks Advances – cont’d • Diameter • Successor to “Radius” • Unified authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) • Integrated LAN card and Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) • HSS • Unified Subscriber Information • Application developers, Service providers, and content creators Expand beyond the circle
Key Challenges • Spectral Efficiencies • Challenge Shannon’s fundamental law of data communications (BW, Sig/No) • Hardware Frequency Synthesis techniques esp. for Frequency Hop (FH) systems • Traffic characteristics management (burstiness, directionality) • Multi Carrier Modulation (MCM) • Baseband process using parallel equal bandwidth subchannels • MC-CDMA; OFDM • Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK); Multilevel Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM); Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) • Add cyclic extension or guard band to data • Challenges of Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) and Peak to Average Ratio (PAVR) No pain, no gain
Key Challenges - cont’d - 1 • Signal Processing and optimizations • Handling extremely large number of users • Synchronous and asynchronous transmissions • Orthogonality / correlation of large number of codes • Spectrum Pollution • Multi path re-enforcement / interference • Multi User Detection (MUD) and Adaptive Interference suppression techniques (ISI and MAI)
Key Challenges - cont’d - 2 • Extremely Fast Arithmetic (esp. multiplication) • N Dimensional vector spaces • IFFT, FFT • Advanced DSP’s for parsing and processing data • Smart / Intelligent Antennas • Dynamically adjust beam pattern based on CQI • Switched beam Antennas; adaptive arrays • Coverage limitations due to high frequencies (> 5 GHz) Manage Entropy