Wi-FAR® for 5G• Charles Oshunremi, Executive Advisor to WhiteSpace Alliance
• Dr. Apurva N. Mody, Chairman, WhiteSpace Alliance [email protected]
Middle Mile Connectivity Challenge
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UN Sustainable Development Goals Target 9c
“Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least development countries by 2020” LCDs = Least Developed Countries (48 countries)
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72.3% 79% 10.3%
649M 705.3M
33.4% 42% 12.7%
854.2M 1,703.6M
Poverty = <$1.25/dayInternet = ITU’s “Individual Internet Access”
TV Band WhiteSpaces using Wi-Fi, Wi-FAR® paired with SATCOM and LTE can solve this problem –Need sufficient spectrum in the TV Bands to be license-exempt
• LDCs – 48 Countries(Population: 897.5M)
• LCCs – 45 Countries(Population: 2,553.8M)
WhiteSpace Alliance Objective
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• WSA is Technology and Standards focused organization that also works on policy and educational outreach.
• WSA leverages unused Television Band Channels to provide Broadband connectivity using Advanced Cognitive Radio technologies – Current focus is on cost-effective Middle Mile, Backhaul connectivity and Industrial IoT.
• It improves Spectrum Efficiency using advanced modulations, state of the art spectrum management and interference mitigation techniques
• It creates testing and certification programs for the WSA developed technologies and specification
• It works with regulators all over the world to create right policy frameworks
Unused Channels
Wi-FAR®
Wi-Fi®
Wi-Fi®
Wi-FAR®
WSA Wi-FAR® Technology
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• Wi-FAR® / IEEE 802.22 Interoperability
Standard based Radio Technology
• Highlights
– Non-Line of Sight connectivity
– Point-to-Point & Point to Multi-point topology
– Wireless Back-Haul for long-range P2P links
– TDD (Time Division Duplex) or FDD (Frequency Division Duplex) modes
– Encryption and authentication
• Features
– Long range upto 20 km
– Frequency band: 300MHz to 700 MHz
– Configurable bandwidth: 1 to 8MHz
– Modulation Scheme:: OFDMA with coding support from BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM & 64-QAM with configurable code rate
– Max link rate: 30Mbps per 8-MHz channel
– Receiver sensitivity: -98dBm for QPSK
– RF Power: Upto 30dBm conducted power
– Adjacent & alternate channel blocker immunity
– Integrated PoE
e-Education
e-Health
Industrial Apps
Paragoan Tower
Wi-FAR Synergies
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Khamloli Tower
Optical fiber
Ganje TowerHaloli Tower
Maswan Tower
BahadoliVillage
600 m
Dhuktan Village
Tower at Dhuktan Hill
Dowli Pada at Dhuktan
Wi-Fi
Wi-FAR
WhiteSpace Projects in India – Using Wi-FAR®, Wi-Fi®, LTE as well as SATCOM and Optical Fiber
Wi-FAR
LTE Small Cell
• A single technology itself is unlikely to be able to meet the UN SDG Challenge 9c
• Need Wi-Fi®, WiFAR®, LTE, SATCOM and Optical Fiber connectivity Convergence
• Need adequate license exempt spectrum in TV Bands as well as other bands to make this happen.
Wi-Fi
SATCOM
WSAConnect® Technology
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TV broadcast area
TV White Space
The calculation of radio propagation is based on the FCC regulation.
TV data in Japan is taken from a data book.
• WSAConnect® is based on the IETF Protocol to Access WhiteSpaces (PAWS) Standard
• Enables WhiteSpace devices to access the database to determined the available channels at that location
• Enables various WhiteSpaceDatabases to communicate with each other
WSAConnect® inter-operability spec