OBAN Public document

OBANOpen Broadband Access Networks

IST 6FP Contract No 001889

Deliverable D2Project Presentation

27. June, 2004 D2 Project Presentation 2

OBAN in brief

Duration: 3 years 2004/1 – 2006/12

Budget/EC cont: 11/5 M€14 partners coordinated by Telenor• 4 telecom operators

(Telenor, Telefonica, Swisscom, France Telecom)

• 6 industrial partners (Lucent(NL), Birdstep(N), ObexCode(N), Motorola(I), EuroConcepts(I), Lucent(UK)

• 3 univercities/institutes Sintef(N), Techn. Univ. Berlin(D), ISMB(I)

• 1 national telecom regulatorNPT(N)

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Project administration

IST Programme organisationOBAN Project Officer

Over-all project policiesResource commitmentsTechnical and administrative decisions with external impacts

Resource utilisationTechn & admin decisions with WP impact

Technical decisions within the activities

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6

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Workpackages and their interrelations

WP2 OAN

Architecture

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WP3 Prototyping & integration

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Main objective

ADSL modems VDSL modems optical cables, cable modems

Any wireless

LAN

To explore how a high performance broadband mobile networkbased upon inexpensive wireless LAN technology and unused capacity in the fixed access networks can be established

By-passing user

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Rational behind

• Most users will in few years have broadband access over the fixed network

• The capacity of these access line is poorly exploited

• Wireless LAN technology is getting popular as the dominant home networking technology.

• Wireless LANs have large capacity and are often poorly exploited

• OBAN intends to investigate how the public can obtain access to these resources and what kind of services can be provided over this network.

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Rational behind (cont’d)

Coverage per base station in mobile networks:

• GSM (14 kb/s) - 50 km2 (r < 4 km)

• UMTS1 (384 kb/s) - 3 km2 (r < 1 km)

• UMTS2 (2 Mb/s) - 1 km2 (r < 600 m)

• 4G (< 20 Mb/s) - 0,03 km2 (r < 100 m)

GSMUMTS

1 4G

No of base stations

>100 000(Norway)

2

The high number of base stations in broadband mobile networks requires a new broadband infrastructure to feed all base stations. The required invest-ments will therefore be extremely high. The OBAN project introduces an alternative way to achieve the same, but at much lower cost.

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Areas of foci toreach the main objective

Security: because we are opening up today’s privately disposed access lines and wireless LANs for public use

Mobility: because we need to know what degree of mobility can be provided in areas of randomly located WLAN access points connected overthe fixed networks access lines

QoS: because we want to know how to provide QoSto users in a heterogeneous network composed by technologies with limited QoS abilities

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Areas of foci toreach the main objective

3G/B3G to explore and evaluate how the OBAN concept can be integrated with the 3G/B3G visions.

Coverage: to estimate potential coverage and capacity of an OBAN network. Smart antennas are investigatedin order to improve network performance

Commercial: to investigate how the OBAN concept may be utilised commercially and how legal and regulatory issues may affect deployment in large scale

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Areas of foci toreach the main objective

The RG is the key component in the system and need extensive investigation through implementationto verify the concept

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..the wireless RG.. ..a key component in the concept

Broadband access line (xDSL)

wRG

Open Access capacity

Guest

GSM, UMTS, ….Local traffic (inhouse and external)

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Contact information

Coordinator: Telenor R&DSnarøyveien 30, N-1331 Fornebu, Norway

+47 6789 0000

Project manager: Einar Edvardsen

+47 915 29029

einar-paul.edvardsen@ telenor.com

URL: www.ist-oban.org