4.5G, Bridging to 5G Chen Yifang

VP of LTE Product Line

Market is Growing, Business is Changing

5 GB

10x Data Usage

MBB 2020 A Better Connected

World

Online

Health Care

Cloud

Computing

IoT

Environment

Protection

Media Content

B2B Consultant

Tech City

Big

Data

What Should We Do before 5G Arrives?

Increase Speed

Increase Capacity

Faster

Speed

Better

Experience

More

Connections Flexible

Architecture

Improve Experience

HD Voice, HD Video

Enable Vertical Industries

Access to IoT Market

Redefine Architecture

Ready for 4.5G&5G

5G

2015 and Beyond

R15 and later

4.5G

4.5G, Step to MBB2020

2009

LTE-Advanced Pro

2012

4G

R8 R10 R13

Source: Huawei Wireless Report 2016

Connection+ Gbps

MBB2020

CloudRAN Experience 4.0

256QAM ~10% Gain

Flexible CA >3x Gain

FDD

FDD

FDD TDD

WiFi

Massive MIMO ~6x Gain

D-MIMO 3~4x Gain

L A A >3x Gain

Licensed

Unlicensed

Gbps, Empowers Ultra-Fast Services

Cloud Storage

70% data stored in cloud

2K/4K Video

everywhere

VR

in Mobile

Hologram

in Mobile

8x peak rate 6x capacity 10x cell edge throughput

Experience 4.0, Enables Dual HD Service Everywhere

On Site Experience

Hi-Fi Quality

Touch To Talk

No Latency

5.0

4.0

3.0 2.0

1.0

0 Concert Level

Acceptable Very Poor

MP3 Level

Unrecognizable

> 4.0 Speedvideo

APP

HD Voice HD Video

Initial

Booster

Speed

Variator

Resource

Equalizer

4.5G introduces EVS (Enhanced Voice Service) codec for FHD voice quality

EVS will be supported by UE chipset in 2016

Cellular-IoT, Explore Vertical Opportunities

Ads, CCTV …

Smart Home

POS

Auto Vending

Sensors

Metering

Tracing

Industry

Agriculture…

Small Packet <100Kb/s

Deep Coverage 20dB

Low Power 10 Years

Low Cost <$5

>10Mb/s

~1Mb/s

Low Power Consumption

Connections in 2020

(Billion)

Scenario

3G/4G

GSM/GPRS/CDMA

LTE MTC (R12, R13)

LPWA (NB-IoT, ..)

Sp

eed

Dem

an

d

eMTC:

Sep 2016 Frozen

NB-IoT:

Core Part

June 2016 Frozen

Performance

Sep 2016 Frozen

LPWA: Low Power Wide Area

0.2B

0.8B

2B

Requirement Standard

LiTRA, Creates Public Safety & Utilities Business

Rich Ecosystem

One Network

National Coverage

High Reliability

LTE Public Network

MCPTT 3GPP R12

3GPP R13

3GPP R14

Public Safety

Police

Fire

Ambulance

Civil Defence

Industrial complexes

Heavy Industries

Airport

Health care

Transportation.....

Public Utilities

LTE integrated Trunked Radio

From “Push to Talk” to “Push to Video”

LiTRA Server

3 Transformations of RAN Architecture to 5G

From

To

Single-Connectivity

Multi-

Connectivity

From

To

Silo-Architecture

Cloudified-

Architecture

Multi-Band

4G/4.5G

5G

WiFi

Sub

6GHz

Above

6GHz

Unlicense

d Band

Macro

Micro

Pico

Multi-RAT Multi-Layer Micro

WiFi 5G

Macro

LTE -FDD

Pico LampSite

LTE -TDD

AP

On-demand

Deployment

New RAT Fast

Introduction

Scalable to Meet

Growing Demand

Scalable Network for

New Services

Fast TTM

CloudRANTM , Common Architecture for 4G/4.5G/5G

CloudBB

LTE/5G Macro Micro WiFi AP AAU RRU AAU

D-GW AC

Cache …

Mobile

Cloud Engine

RAN-NRT

RAN-RT

RAN-RT RAN-RT

IP

Common Network Architecture across Different Technologies & Layers

1

Cloud-formation

Laying the foundation of elastic

architecture, bridge 4G & 5G

2

Multi-Connectivity

Native ability to integrate all

available resources and enable

ultimate experience

3

Layered Architecture

Balance the centralization &

distribution, enable on-demand

configuration & management of

network functions

RT: Real Time

NRT: Non Real Time

D-GW: Distributed Gateway

Two Phases for CloudRANTM Introduction

Phase I

Introducing CloudRANTM in LTE Network to Support

LTE Dual Connectivity LTE and WiFi Link Aggregation (LWA) License Assisted Access(LAA)

Phase 2

Introducing CloudRANTM to Support

5G New RAT

Architecture Ready for 5G

4.5G will Keep Evolving and Co-Exist with 5G for a Long Time

Architecture

Air Interface

Spectrum

EPC

4G 4.5G 5G

vEPC

Virtualization

SDN/NFV

Evolution

Introduce SDN/NFV architecture from 4.5G

Co-exist

6GHz

To Sub 6GHz

6GHz

New Spectrum + Existing Refarming

100GHz

Refarming

5G NW Functions

Virtualization +Cloud-Native

256QAM

M-MIMO

Massive CA

NB-IOT

LAA

……

LTE Advanced Pro

Waveform

Channel Coding

Multiple Access

Duplex

Frame ……

NR LTE

Ready for 5G

4.5G LTE–Advanced(Pro) is Now Mainstream Trend

4.5G Industry Video

NB-IoT

Gbps

Gbps

Gbps | NB-IoT

Gbps

Gbps

Gbps

Canada Germany

Norway

Kuwait

UAE

Turkey China

Hong Kong

Singapore

29 4.5G Commercial and Trial Networks (June 2016）

Over 60 Commercial Networks in 2016

Gbps

Australia

Thailand

Gbps

Gbps | NB-IoT

Gbps | NB-IoT

Korea

NB-IoT

Japan

Gbps

Saudi Arabia

Gbps

Italy

Gbps

Lithuanian

Gbps

Gbps Namibia

Gbps South Africa

All in One Cloud Architecture

Take Away

• 4.5G is bridging to 5G through 4 aspects: Speed, Experience,

Connection and Architecture.

• 4.5G will keep evolving and co-exist with 5G for a long time.

• 4.5G is required before 5G to accommodate fast market and business

changing.

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