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5G: From Concept to RealityJames Kimery

Director of Marketing, Wireless Research

@jameskimery

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Hyper Connected Everything

Data rate

Capacity

Power Consumption

Coexistence

Security

Monitoring

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5G

5G 5G

Wireless Requires Massive Platform Expansion

> 10 Gbps

peak rates

> 100K

connections

per cell

< 1 ms

latency

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Prototyping Is Critical for Algorithm Research

“Experience shows that the real world often breaks some of the assumptions made in theoretical research, so testbeds are an important tool for evaluation under very realistic operating conditions”

“…development of a testbed that is able to test radical ideas in a complete, working system is crucial”

1NSF Workshop on Future Wireless

Communication Research

Platforms Enabling Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR)

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Approaching The Pivotal Moment

We are here

Source: www.gsmhistory.com/who_created-gsm

Technical ideas from a huge number of sources

Implementation by a large number of suppliers & operators

5G

Broad Based Adoption

Pivotal Moment of Standardization 1987

1982-85

1988-91

Birth of GSM The Pivotal Year

GSM

Billions of Devices

Multiple Ideas

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Proposed 3GPP Release 15 / 5G Timeline

RAN#72

Jun 16

RAN#69

Sep 15

Channel Modeling

RAN1 SI Evaluation of Solutions RAN1 WG Specification of Solutions

RAN1 Scope / Req’s

RAN#75

Mar 17

RAN#75

Dec 17

SA R15

RAN#79

Jun 18

RAN#79

Mar 18

WI Rel 15

NSA

R15“New Radio” Phase 1

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RF Communications Lead User Program

• Established in 2010• Goals: Further wireless research through prototyping

• Research Institutions• Academic

• Industry

• Over 100 research papers published

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Utilize potential of

extremely wide bandwidths

at frequency ranges once

thought impractical for

commercial wireless.

Consistent connectivity

meeting the 1000x traffic

demand for 5G

Dramatically increased

number of antenna

elements on base station.

5G Vectors

Improve bandwidth

utilization through evolving

PHY Level and flexible

numerology

Multi-RAT

Enhanced PHYMassive MIMOAdvanced

Wireless Networks mmWave

• Densification

• SDN

• NFV

• CRAN

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NI 5G Research Initiatives

Massive MIMO Wireless Networks Multi-RAT mmWave

USRP RIOPXI SystemsPersonal Computers

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Utilize potential of

extremely wide bandwidths

at frequency ranges once

thought impractical for

commercial wireless.

Consistent connectivity

meeting the 1000x traffic

demand for 5G

Dramatically increased

number of antenna

elements on base station.

5G Vectors

Improve bandwidth

utilization through evolving

PHY Level and flexible

numerology

Multi-RAT

Enhanced PHYMassive MIMOAdvanced

Wireless Networks mmWave

• Densification

• SDN

• NFV

• CRAN

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NI and Lund University Collaborate on Massive MIMO

Goal:

Build a massive MIMO prototype 100 antenna system with real time processing capabilities

Challenges:

System complexity

100 Synchronized Tx / Rx chains

Data throughput for processing

Aggregation of multiple channels

Heterogeneous computation

Prof Ove Edfors Prof Fredrik Tufvesson

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Facebook announces ARIES

Testbed

71 bits/Second/Hz

96 Antennas, 24 Users(USRP RIO, LV, Custom LV Code Base)

April 2016

Bristol Smashes Spectral Efficiency

Record

>146.4 bits/Second/Hz

128 Antennas, 22 Users(USRP RIO, LV, NI LU Code Base)

May 2016

Massive MIMO Successes

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Hardware Architecture:

128 Base Station Antennas x 12 UE Antennas @ 20 MHz

NI PCIe Switch Boxes for Data

NI Octoclocks for Clocking

…

Laptops+USRP RIO

As UEs

NI FlexRIOs or Atrox for

MIMO Co-processing

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Utilize potential of

extremely wide bandwidths

at frequency ranges once

thought impractical for

commercial wireless.

Consistent connectivity

meeting the 1000x traffic

demand for 5G

Dramatically increased

number of antenna

elements on base station.

5G Vectors

Improve bandwidth

utilization through evolving

PHY Level and flexible

numerology

Multi-RAT

Enhanced PHYMassive MIMOAdvanced

Wireless Networks mmWave

• Densification

• SDN

• NFV

• CRAN

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Advanced Wireless Prototypes

Texas A&M

Advanced MAC

Research

NI Lead

User Group

Open LTEWiFi

Coexistence

Testbed

CROWD

SDN ABSF Network

System

NS-3

Intel

CRAN-Massive

MIMO

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5G Advanced Wireless Networks Research

• Hyper dense networks

• Software defined networking (SDN)

• Cloud radio access network (cRAN)

• Cellular/802.11 coexistence and co-ordination

• Next generation 802.11 stack

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Architecture for Protocol Stack Explorations

PHY/MAC Stack in LabVIEW

Open Source Upper Layer Stack (e.g. ns-3)

LTE802.11 MTC IoT

LTE Ref Design802.11 Ref Design

NI Hardware

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Real LTE OTA Experiments with NS-3 Network Simulator

L1-L2 API

PHY

L1-L2 API

eNBUE

L1-L2 API

MAC

PHY

L1-L2 API

UL

DL

RLC

PDCP

IP

APP

MAC

RLC

PDCP GTP

UDP

IP

GTP

UDP

IP

IP

SGW/PGW

DA/AD+RF DA/AD+RF

PHY

Emu

eNBUE

PHY

Emu

MAC

RLC

PDCP

IP

APP

MAC

RLC

PDCP GTP

UDP

IP

GTP

UDP

IP

IP

SGW/PGW

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Utilize potential of

extremely wide bandwidths

at frequency ranges once

thought impractical for

commercial wireless.

Consistent connectivity

meeting the 1000x traffic

demand for 5G

Dramatically increased

number of antenna

elements on base station.

5G Vectors

Improve bandwidth

utilization through evolving

PHY Level and flexible

numerology

Multi-RAT

Enhanced PHYMassive MIMOAdvanced

Wireless Networks mmWave

• Densification

• SDN

• NFV

• CRAN

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The Question of Frequency: WRC-15 Outcome

• The ITU released a list of globally viable frequencies for 5G mmWave

technologies

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FCC Embraces mmWave

37 to 38.6

Upper microwave flexible use

Unlicensed

27.5 - 28.3537 - 38.6

38.6 - 40 64 - 71

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM)

71 -76 81 -86

24.25 – 24.45

24.75 – 25.25

31.8 – 33.4

42 - 42.5

47.2 – 50.2

50.4 – 52.6

3

7

t

o

3

8

.

6

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Verizon “5G” Specification

• Adaption of “LTE” OFDM technology to cmWave/mmWave frequencies

• Fc = 28, 37, 39 GHz

• Adds control signaling for beam forming

• Applications

• Fixed, broadband wireless

• Mobility?

• Verizon contributing to 3GPP but this is NOT the 5G specification

∆fsc

[kHz]

Scaling

factor

BW

[MHz]

Slot dur.

[ms]

Sampling Rate

[MSps]

TX SRC factor

(fs / 3072 MSps)

TX SRC

factorization

Symb dur

[us]

CP dur

[us]

Symbols

per slot

75 5 100 0,100 153,60 20,00 5*2*2 13,33 0,9 7

150 10 200 0,100 307,20 10,00 5*2 6,67 0,5 14

300 20 400 0,100 614,40 5,00 5 3,33 0,2 28

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mmWave Prototypes and Channel Sounding

NYU Wireless

mmWave

Channel Sounding

NTT Docomo

73 GHz

BW = 1 GHz

Nokia

Multiple Prototypes

AT&T

Channel Sounding

Prof. Ted Rappaport

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Timeline w/ NI Platform

Brooklyn 5G

Summit 2014

NIWeek 2015 MWC 2016

73 GHz 73 GHz 73 GHz

1 GHz 2 GHz 2 GHz

1x1 2x2 2x2

16 QAM 16 QAM 64 QAM

2.3 Gbps >10 Gbps >14.5 Gbps

Frequency

Bandwidth

Streams

Modulation

Peak rate

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NI mmWave Transceiver System

The world’s first 2 GHz bandwidth mmWave transceiver covering the 71-76 GHz frequency band for channel sounding and real-time 2-way MIMO communications with coding.

Applications

• Cellular

• Wi-Fi

• Channel sounding

Capabilities

• 71 – 76 GHz

• 2 GHz Bandwidth

• MIMO

• Real-time 2-way communication

Q2 2016

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Software Defined Radio Architecture

CPU

GPP

FPGA

DSP

D/A

D/A

A/D

A/D

VCO

PLL

VCO

PLL

90

0

90

0

Host ConnectionDetermines Streaming

Bandwidth Ex. Gigabit

E-net, PCIe

Multi-Processor SubsystemReal-time signal processor

• Physical Layer (PHY)

• ex FPGA, DSP

Host processor

• Medium Access Control (MAC) –

Rx/Txcontrol

• ex. Host GPP, multi-core CPU

Baseband

Converters

RF Front End• General Purpose

RF

• Dual LOs

• Contiguous

Frequency Range

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