EuropeSub-6 and mmWave(mmW in 2H19)

North AmericaSub-6 and mmWave

JapanSub-6 and mmWave

South KoreaSub-6 and mmWave(mmW in 2H19)

Australia / SEASub-6

ChinaSub-6

Deployments happeningin regions across the globe2019 is the year of 5G

Middle EastSub-6

22

5G is Here75+ design wins and growing …

LG V50 ThinQ 5G

Samsung Galaxy S10 5G

Samsung Galaxy Fold

XiaomiMi MIX 5G

HTC 5G Hub NetgearNighthawk 5G

Inseego MiFi 5G NR

Askey 5G CPE

ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G

Motorola moto z3

+ 5G moto mod

Sierra Wireless 5G M.2 module

Quectel 5G modules

Telit 5G modules

Nubia Mini 5G

WNC 5G NR mobile hotspot

WNC 5G NR outdoor CPE

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3

5G NR mmWaveQualcomm®

Reference Design

mmWave (60 GHz)viability in handset

form factor11ad in Asus

Zenfone 4 Pro

Qualcomm®

5G NR mmWaveprototype

Qualcomm®

5G NR mobiletest device

Commercializing mmWavein a smartphone form factor

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73.8 mm

160 mm

9.5 mm

4

5G NR standards compliant

Sub-6 + mmWave

Premium-tier

smartphones in 2019

World’s first announced

5G NR multimode modems

5G Modem family

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™

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5

5G NR standards compliant

Sub-6 + mmWave

Premium-tier smartphones in 2019

World’s first announced 5G NR modems

October2017

2H2018

5G NR Interoperability and field trials

using form factor mobile test device

Providing Qualcomm® Reference Design to accelerate commercial devices

1H2019

February2018

1.24First 5G NR mmWaveover-the-air data call, with Ericsson

First 5G NR Sub 6 GHzover-the-air data call, with Ericsson

September2018

October2018

4.51

Multi-Gigabit over mmWave on

working Qualcomm® Snapdragon™

X50 modem silicon

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family

More than 30 commercial 5G mobile devices scheduled to launch in 2019

6

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 modem mmWave solution

ModemSDR051

Integrated Circuit

Antenna module

5G mmWave antenna

modules and

transceiver chips

mmWave

Digital Transceiver Power

Amps

Low Noise

Amps

Switches

Intermediate Frequency

Baseband

Snapdragon X50 5G

mmWave architecture

Integrated antenna array

and RFFE for performance

and ease-of-use

Architecture allows flexible

placements and multiple modules

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7

July 2018 October 2018

Qualcomm® QTM052 5G mmWave antenna module

Qualcomm® 5G NR reference design (partially assembled state)

Rapid miniaturization of mmWave

modules

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2017

October 2018

25% smaller

July 2018

8

The inevitable evolution of mmWave!mmWave is different from 4G in its small cell nature → Dense deployment of nodes

Cost, energy consumption, technology challenges → Tremendous opportunity for a “capability” continuum

Industrial IoT,

Private network,

5G NR C-V2X

Integrated Access and Backhaul,

Unlicensed/shared spectrum, …

Continued eMBB evolution

Expanded ecosystem:

Private networks,

Indoor mmW for enterprises,

Boundless XR, …

Rel -17+

20182017 20202019 20222021

Rel -17+ evolutionRel-16Rel-15

Rel -16Commercialization

Rel -15CommercializationNR

Field trialsIoDTs

Standalone (SA)

eMBB deployments in both

mmWave and sub-6 GHz.New 5G NR technologies to evolve

and expand the 5G ecosystem

Continue to evolve LTE in parallel as essential part of the 5G Platform

Non-Standalone (NSA)

We are here

Smartphone form factor,

Connected laptops,

CPE fixed access

2023+

9

Evolution of mmWave: Opportunities for focusBefore 5G and After 5G: RF capabilities and antennas → System level design abstractions and constraints →

System design intended for the appropriate channel structure

• Relative to 4G, making the RF and antennas work as desired with practical constraints (cost, power, process node variations,

etc.) is hard!

• Network/deployment planning/optimization is incredibly harder!!!

• 5G mmWave PHY design is simpler!!

>1,000

>10,000

Early 4G

4G today

4G carrier aggregation combinations

Early 5G combinations

Number of RF bandsand band combinationsBy technology generation

49

16

Role of academia/engineering research in mmWave could be in

making “non-sexy,” yet practically relevant problems worth

pursuing!

General advise to a beginning graduate student in wireless:

• mmWave is not just theory, almost all of it is measurements-driven!

• MIMO principles are easy to describe in a party chatter, but

mathematically understanding how MIMO precisely works is a

lot of hard work!

• Systems do not exist in vacuum, so learn some (a lot of!) physics!

•