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5G WIRELESS FOR 2020 AND BEYOND

Charlie (Jianzhong) Zhang

Samsung Research America Dallas

5G Panel Globecom 2014 Workshop on “Standards: From Research to Standards”

December 2014

The World in Year 2020

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Tokyo Summer Olympics (stadium

pictured here)

World Expo in Dubai

Cross-continent bridge links Africa

and Middle East

Glacier National Park will be ice-free

Euclid scope launch to detect dark

matter Sustainable food security for the

world population

Stem-cell organ replacement

Texting by thinking

Where will telecom industry be in 2020?

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Comprehensive Requirements of “New IMT (5G)” in 7 Categories, Dubbed as

100

Mobility

High

Future IMT

1000 Peak Data Rate (Mbit/s)

10000 10 1

Low

IMT-2000 IMT-Adv.

Enhanced IMT-Adv.

New radio local area network (RLAN)

50000

ITU-R WP5D/TEMP/390-E

Samsung Vision on 5G Requirements

Peak Data Rate

Cell Edge Data Rate

Cell Spectral Efficiency

Mobility

Cost Efficiency

Simultaneous Connection

Latency

Peak Rate 50 Gbps

Peak Rate 1 Gbps

4G frequencies

New higher frequencies

Frequency band

Technology for Above 6 GHz

Coding/Modulation & Multiple Access

Advanced MIMO & BF

Filter-Bank Multi-Carrier

FSK QAM

FQAM

Half -wavelength

BF : Beamforming

Peak Data Rate Increase

Spectral Efficiency & Cell Edge Enhancement

Cell Capacity Enhancement

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Enabling Technologies - RAN (1/2) Enabling Technologies : RAN

Disruptive RAN Technologies for Significant Performance Enhancements

Enhanced D2D

Advanced Small Cell

Interference Management

Capacity & Cell Edge Enhancement

Cell Edge Data Rate Enhancement

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Enhancing areal spectral efficiency

Interference alignment

Areal Spectral Efficiency Increase

Peak Data Rate

Cell Edge Data Rate

Cell Spectral Efficiency

Mobility

Cost Efficiency

Simultaneous Connection

Latency

D2D : Device-to-Device

No cell boundary

Increased density

Wireless backhaul

Enabling Technologies - RAN (2/2) Enabling Technologies : RAN

Disruptive RAN Technologies for Significant Performance Enhancements

• Higher pathloss at higher frequency

• Atmosphere, rain attenuation, foliage blocking

• Outdoor to indoor penetration loss

• Fast beam tracking with narrow beams from large array

• Semiconductor readiness, PA efficiency, power consumption

Many identified challenges for mmWave

• Samsung developed world’s first mmWave mobile prototype to verify the

feasibility of mmWave mobile communications

• Global collaborative effort on mmWave channel modeling

First step toward realizing mmWave mobile in 5G

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MmWave Challenges and Opportunties

Innovate and Incubate Prototype and Demo Global Standards

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Peak Data Rate 7.5Gbps

5G Mobility Test 1.2Gbps @110km/h

World’s First 5G Data Transmission at Highway Speeds (Oct, 2014)

Record-breaking 1.2Gbps data transmission at over 100km/h, and 7.5Gbps in stationary conditions using 28GHz spectrum

mmWave Testbed - Recent Updates

[1] “Samsung Electronics Sets 5G Speed Record at 7.5Gbps, Over 30 Times Faster Than 4G LTE”, Samsung Tomorrow, 15 Oct 2014. (http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=43349)

Collaborations on mmW Channel Modeling

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KAIST [~15.2Q] NYU [~14.1Q]

Durham Univ. [~15.3Q] ETRI [~15.3Q]

USC [~16.2Q]

Standards and Projects

- Freq. : 28 GHz

- Scenario : ① In-building ② Campus ③ Urban

- Method : ① Sounder (Horn) ② Ray-Tracing

- Model : ① Large Scale ② Small Scale

- Freq. : 28 GHz

- Scenario : ① Dense Urban (Los Angeles, CA) ② Sub-urban ③ Campus

- Method : ① Sounder (Array)

- Model : ① Large Scale ② Small Scale

- Freq. : 28 / 73 GHz (+ 38 GHz)

- Scenario : ① Dense Urban (NY) ② Sub-Urban (Austin)

- Method : ① Sounder (Horn)

- Model : ① Large Scale ② Small Scale

- Freq. : 29~32 GHz

- Scenario : ① T.B.D

- Method : ① Sounder (Horn)

- Model : ① Large Scale ② Small Scale

- Freq. : 28 GHz

- Scenario : ① Dense Urban (GangNam Area) ② Airport / Station

- Method : ① Sounder (Horn)

- Model : ① Large Scale ② Small Scale

Samsung’s Global Collaboration Activities with Leading Universities/Research Centers

Higher Order MU-MIMO with 3D Beamforming - 3-5x network capacity gain

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Macro-Cell Small-Cell

Carrier Freq. 2.6GHz 3.5 GHz

BW 10 MHz 20 MHz

Max. Tx Pwr 40 dBm 33 dBm

Array Gain 21 dBi 15 dBi

# TXRUs 32 32

# MU-MIMO 4 8

30 cm

50

cm

Macro-Cell BS (LTE Rel.9)

Small-Cell BS (LTE Pre-Release)

FD-MIMO (Full-Dimension MIMO)

50 cm

10

0 c

m

CPRI

LTE Infrastructure

IP

FD-MIMO eNB

High order MU-MIMO transmission to more than 10 UEsAzimuth

Beamforming

Elevation Beamforming

MU-MIMO 3D Beamforming Indoor Lab. Test

FD-MIMO Prototypes Outdoor Field Test

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FD-MIMO in 3GPP Standards

R12 workshop • Samsung , Nokia, proposed FD-MIMO + 3D channel model

• Companies agreed to study 3D channel models first

3D channel model SI • Started from January 2013 to August 2014

• Samsung served as first Chairman for 3D

EBF/FD-MIMO SI • Started October 2014, co-rapporteurs Samsung, Nokia

2012 2013 2014 2015 2011 2016

AAS SI Started

RAN plenary R12 workshop: FD-MIMO introduced

3D Ch. Model SI Started

3D completed; FD-MIMO SI Started

FD-MIMO WI Expected

June 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Global R&D Activities Current Global 5G Research Initiatives and Samsung’s Active Engagements

5G Forum Executive Board Member

Member of Giga KOREA Project 5G PPP Association (Full Member) Project Leads

5GIC Founding Member

NYU Wireless Center (Board Member)

IMT-2020 Promotion Group

Member of Future Forum

Contributor to 863 Project

5GMF (5G Mobile Promotion Forum)

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EVAL. Meth. : Evaluation Methodology Req. : Requirement EVAL. : Evaluation Dvlp. of Rec. : Development of Recommendation

Standards in 3GPP, spectrum allocation in WRC-19, ITU approval in 2020

5G Standards

2015 2014 2017 2016 2019 2018 2020

3GPP

WRC WRC-19 WRC-15

Rel-13 Rel-14 Rel-15 Rel-16

ITU-R Vision EVAL. Meth., Req. Proposal EVAL. Dvlp. of Rec.

“IMT for 2020 and beyond ”

WRC : World Radiocommunications Conferences ITU-R : International Telecommunication Union Radiocommunication Sector

Expected 5G Timelines

Initial 5G Commercialization

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• Tech. for Above 6 GHz • Adv. Coding & Modulation • Adv. MIMO & Beamforming • Enhanced D2D • Adv. Small Cell • Interference Management • Flat Network • Multi-RAT Interworking • Mobile SDN

Key Technologies

Summary on 5G for 2020 and Beyond

“The Next Big Thing is Here” in Wireless Communications.