5G Research Alexsander Loula
RF Business Development
Overview
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What 5G is about?
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Cellular Standards Evolution
1G – Freedom to call someone
2G – Digitalization and SMS introduction
Greater flow data
3G – Multimedia and Internet
4G – High throughput and video access
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5G Chronogram
Source: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/study-groups/rsg5/rwp5d/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspx
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5G Challenges
The Cloud
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Source: GFDM Team – TUD Vodafone Chair
5G Scenarios
Bitpipe Communication
High data throughput
Dense networks
Low interference
Fragmented spectrum
Tactile Internet
Low latency
Short time frame
Robustness
IoT/MTC
Crowd devices
Relaxed synchronization
Long life battery duration
WRAN
Wide coverage
Long delay profiles
Dispersed Base Stations
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Source: GFDM Team – TUD Vodafone Chair
5G Requirements
Bitpipe: throughput up to10 Gpbs
Tactile Internet: latency less than 1 ms
WRAN: coverage up to 100 km
IoT: 50,000 devices by cell
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Source: GFDM Team – TUD Vodafone Chair
How to address these issues?
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5G Vectors
Multi Radio
Access Wireless
Massive MIMO mmWave
Technologies Networks
(RAT)
Dramatically increased Utilize potential of Improve bandwidth Consistent connectivity
number of antenna extremely wide utilization through meeting the 1000x
elements on base bandwidths evolving PHY Level and traffic demand for 5G
station enabling at frequency ranges flexible numerology
beamforming. once thought • Densification
• CRAN
impractical for
• SDN
commercial wireless. • NFV
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Platform-Based Design for 5G
Massive MIMO mmWave Access Wireless
Technologies Networks
Software mmWave High Reconfigurable
Defined Radio Prototyping Performance IO Instruments
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Platform Enabled Design Flow
Real-time prototyping of 5G Wireless Systems
Develop New Real-time Get Real
Algorithms Prototyping Results Fast
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LTE and 802.11 Application Frameworks
Real-time wireless system implementation
Ready to run PHY and basic MAC
Communicate between devices or in loop-back mode
Open and Modular Source Code
~50% of FPGA resources available for customization
Replace existing blocks with your own waveform designs
Fastest path from algorithm to prototype
Single language for host and FPGA design in LabVIEW
Documented for ease of use and understanding
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Scalable Platform for RF and Wireless Communications
mmWave
Transceiver
High Performance
VSA
Software Designed mmWave
Performance
Instrumentation 2 GHz BW
High Performance
76 GHz Fc
RF and Baseband
Transceivers VSA
High Performance
Host Based SDR Prototyping 765 MHz BW
SDR Prototyping 26.5 GHz Fc
VST
200 MHz BW
FlexRIO 6 GHz Fc
200 MHz BW
USRP RIO
4.4 GHz Fc
USRP 160 MHz BW
20 MHz BW 6 GHz Fc
6 GHz Fc
Price
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What Is Massive MIMO?
Dramatically More Antennas, Enabling Beamforming
• 10x Capacity
• 100x Energy Efficiency
• Lower Latency
• More Robust to Interference
• Higher Reliability
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Massive MIMO Successes
Facebook announces ARIES Bristol Smashes Record Again
Testbed >146.4 bits/Second/Hz
71 bits/Second/Hz 128 Antennas, 22 Users
96 Antennas, 24 Users (USRP RIO, LV, NI LU Code Base)
(USRP RIO, LV, Custom LV Code Base)
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MIMO Prototyping System
Q2 2016
The world’s first real-time Massive MIMO testbed with software reference
design and hardware that scales from 4-128 antennas.
Applications
• Cellular
• Wi-Fi
Capabilities
• 4-128 antennas
• 50 MHz – 6 GHz
• 20 MHz bandwidth
• Real-time 2-way communication 16 Channel
Mini-Massive MIMO
Demonstrator
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MIMO Software Features
• Real-time operation with no bottlenecks
• Fully reconfigurable LTE-like frame structure
• MMSE, ZF and MRC MIMO precoder and decoder
on FPGA
• Bidirectional TDD operation
• QAM, 16-QAM, 64-QAM and 256-QAM
modulations
• Channel reciprocity compensation per RF channel
• Easily scales from 4-128 BS channels, and 1-12
UEs
Real-time Throughput Information Displayed in
the MIMO Application Framework
Runs Out of the Box. Completely Open and Reconfigurable.
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NI mmWave Transceiver System
Q2 2016
The world’s first 2 GHz bandwidth mmWave transceiver covering the 71-76 GHz frequency
band for channel sounding and real-time 2-way MIMO communications with coding.
Applications
• Cellular
• Wi-Fi
• Channel sounding
Capabilities
• 71 – 76 GHz
• 2 GHz Bandwidth
• MIMO
• Real-time 2-way communication
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mmWave Application Areas
Channel Research Communications
• Channel sounding Prototyping
measurements • New physical layer/new air
• Creating channel models interface
• Validating channel models • Adapting existing
standards from 20 MHz
Channel bandwidth to 2 GHz
bandwidth
• Over the air testing at new
mmWave frequencies
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5G mmWave 14.5 Gb/S Link with Nokia
NI mmWave Transceiver System
NTT Docomo | Hall 1
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LabVIEW Communications Application Frameworks
Advanced FPGA IP for Real-Time, Over-The-Air, Wireless Communication System Prototyping
LTE 802.11 MIMO mmWave
Key Features Key Features Key Features Key Features
• 20 MHz Real-Time • 20/40 MHz Real-Time • 20 MHz Real-Time • 2 GHz Real-Time
Bandwidth Bandwidth Bandwidth Bandwidth
• TDD/FDD Uplink & • Fully Bidirectional • Supports up to 128 • Supports 2x2 MIMO
Downlink Modes Communication eNB Antennas and 12 • Fully Bidirectional
• Multi-UE & Multi-eNB • Real-Time Channel Single Antenna UE’s TDD Uplink &
Support Coding • TDD Uplink & Downlink Modes
Downlink Modes
Applications Applications Based Upon LTE Applications
• LTE & Wi-Fi • LTE & Wi-Fi • Enhance Mobile
Coexistence Coexistence Applications Broadband Research
• Cellular Network • MAC Layer Research • Massive MIMO • Ultra-Dense Cellular
Layer Research • 802.11ax Multi-User • Multi-User MIMO Research
• New Waveform Prototyping Research • Cellular Backhaul
Research
* New – Q4 2016 * * Lead User Availability *
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NI USRP RIO | 294x, 295x
High Speed, Low
Latency PCIe x4
Bus
Multi Device
Xilinx Kintex 7 Synchronizati
FPGA on
Applications
FM Radio Safety Radio
TV OFDM
GPS Passive Radar
GSM Dynamic Spectrum Access 2x Optimized
ZigBee Advanced DSP RF Front
Ends
Improved
Freq
Accuracy w/
Curren
tly
GPS Clock
LabVIEW
CommunicationsSuppo Up to 160 Option
rted User Mhz
Programmable Bandwidth /
Digital I/O Channel
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The NI Approach to Learning to be a
Communications Engineer
Research
Student
Under Design
Intro Graduate
DO ENGINEERING – FROM K TO 5G
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NI Wireless Communications Course Map
Introduction to
Signal Analogue and Digital Digital
Course Name and Systems Telecommunications
Communications
Communications
Systems
To give students a Introduce different Challenge students to
Allow students to explore
Course foundation for further study modulation schemes, the overcome real world
the fundamentals of radio
Objective into communications, control underlying mathematics effects on complex
hardware design.
or systems engineering. and system design. modulation schemes.
• Pulse Shaping
• Linear + Non-Linear • AM + FM
• Energy Detection
Systems • Mixing • Image Rejection
• Equalization
Concepts • Convolution • Adding • DSB
• Frame Detection
Covered • Integration • Side Bands • ASK, PSK, FSK
• Frequency Correction
• Fourier Series • Modulation • BPSK + QPSK
• OFDM, Channel
• Discrete Time Filters • QAM
Coding
NI ELVIS II + Emona NI USRP 2900, 2901 or
Hardware NI ELVIS II + Emona SIGEx
DATEx 2920
NI USRP 2920
LabVIEW LabVIEW
Software LabVIEW LabVIEW Communications System Communications System
Design Software Design Software
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Introduction to Communications Systems
Full semester lab course by Prof Bruce
Black, Rose-Hulman University.
12 Lab exercises with pre lab material for
students to begin at home.
Supplied with exercise code for students and
full solutions and answer guide for
instructors.
• AM • ASK • Image
• FM • FSK Rejection
• FDM • BPSK • Eye Diagram
• DSB-SC • QPSK • Equalization
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NI USRP | 292x, 293x
Signal Processing
and Synthesis
Tunable RF Transceiver NI LabVIEW to develop
Front Ends and explore algorithms
Frequency Range NI LabVIEW Modulation
Applications 50 MHz–2.2 GHz (NI USRP-2920) Toolkit and other
Safety Radio 2.4 GHz and 5.5 GHz (NI USRP- LabVIEW add-ons to
FM Radio
OFDM 2921) simulate or process live
TV
GPS Passive Radar signals
GSM Dynamic Spectrum Access
ZigBee
1 Gigabit Ethernet Connectivity
Curren
tly
Plug-and-play capability
LabVIEW
CommunicationsSuppo Up to 25 MS/s baseband I/Q
rted
streaming
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How users are solving 5G
challenges?
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mmWave Access Point
Cellular Access Point System User Device (Handset) System
LabVIEW LabVIEW
Host PC NI PXI NI mmWave NI mmWave NI PXI Host PC
baseband transceiver transceiver baseband
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Nokia at NIWeek 2015 video
64 x 8 MIMO System
Intel MIMO System showed at MWC
(Mobile World Congress) 2016
Intel Massive MIMO Video at MWC 2016
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100 x 10 Massive MIMO
Goal: Build a massive MIMO,100x10 antenna system
to validate theoretical results with real time processing
“Bristol & Lund claim world record
Figure 1: Some possible antenna configurations and deployment scenarios for a massive MIMO ba
station. •
in spectral efficiency,
demonstrating
feed them back to the base station. This will not be79.4
feasible bit/s/Hz”
in massive MIMO systems, at le
not when operating in a high-mobility environment, for two reasons. First, optimal downli
pilots should be mutually orthogonal between the antennas. This means that the amount of tim
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frequency resources needed for downlink pilots scales as the number of antennas, so a massi
MIMO system would require up to a hundred times more such resources than a convention
mmWave Channel Sounding
• Channel sounding at 28, 38,
and 72 GHz
• Prototype system uses NI FlexRIO
and LabVIEW software
Prof Ted Rappaport
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GFDM 5G Waveform
INATEL is researching new modulation
schemes for better spectrum efficiency
INATEL GFDM video
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www.ni.com/5g
www.ni.com/sdr
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