Chapter 6 - 5G Cellular and New Radio

5G Cellular and New Radio

Satisying growing traffic demands

Is 4G enough

  • 1000Mbps for all subscribers in a cell
    • Cell radius ~500m to 2Km
    • Density of users : city centre -0.1 to 0.1 humans/m2
  • The traffic growth is so huge
    • Global mobile data traffic (EB per month)
  • Performance metrics
    • Shannon Channel capacity
      • $C=Blog_2(1+S)$
      • B is the bandwidth
      • S is the SINR(signal-to-interference plus noise ratio)
        • $S=\frac{P_R}{BN+I} $
        • $P_R$ is the signal power at the receiver
        • $N$ is the thermal noise, constant
        • I is the aggregated interference
    • Signal power at the receiver
      • $P_r = P_TAd^{-Y}$
      • $P_T$ is the emitter power at the transmier
      • A is the constant that depends on antennas/frequency
      • Y is the “path loss exponent” deponds on environment
  • FINAL VERISON = $C=Blog_2{(1+\frac{P_R}{BN+I})}$
    • PHY Layer mechanisms
      • FEC,MIMO,ARQ, 90% to shannon
    • Increse emitted power
      • may increase interference
    • Decrease thermal noise
      • Constant up to 0.6Thz
      • may use superconductor
    • Decrease interference
      • Logarithmic increase of C
    • Increase bandwidth
      • Almost linear increase of C
    • Network Mechanisms
      • Better Spatial frequency reuse

Increasing bandwidth

  • buy more licenced frequencies
    • Commercial netwoks(cellular networks)
    • Exclusive access
    • Ablity to use higher transmission power >1mW
    • High costs and risks
    • Less than 100-500Mhz overall in a country(less than 3Ghz )
  • Use the unlicensed spectrum
    • ISM bands (Industrial, scientific, medical bands)
    • Extreme interference from Wi-Fi-s
  • Spectral Efficiency
    • the information rate that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth in a specific communication system
  • Quadrature Amplitude Modulation
    • PSK+ASK :S(t)= $Acos(wt+\phi)$, modulating $w $and $\phi$
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  • Higher frequency then more bandwidth available
  • 5G: millimeter wave (mmWave)
    • 28Ghz
    • 60Ghz(802.11ad)
    • 72Ghz
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    • Postives
      • Highly directional antennas
    • Negative
    • Blockage by humans
    • Large propagation losses
    • Realistically up to 100m
  • B5G,6G: teraherz(sub-mmWave)
    • 275-325 GHz: 50Ghz of bandwidth
    • IEEE 802.15 3d”100Gbps wireless”
    • Positive
      • Even more directivity
      • Hugh channel capacity
    • Negative
      • Atmospheric absorption(大氣吸收)
      • Blockage by Human
      • Extreme propagation losses
    • up to 10-20m realstically

      5G and New Radio Interface

5G/5G+ systems as enablers

  • Resembles properties of CPS
    • CPS is Technological systems where physical and cyber components are tightly integrated(smartphone)
  • Moves us closer to tactile Internet(觸覺互聯網) conecpt, next IoT
  • Has to be supoorted by 5G/5G+ mobile cellular systems
  • At least two of the following are required
    • High throughput
    • High reliability
    • Low latency
  • Reliable service over inherently unreliable medium

Envisioned 3GPP 5G services

  • Enhanced mobile broadband(eMBB)
    • data-driven use cases requiring high data rates across a wide coverage area.
  • Massive machine-type communications(mMTC)
    • NB-IoT technology
  • Ultra-reliable low-latency services (URLLC)
    • Not yet available and no dates annouced

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5G evolution or revolution

  • 5G/5G+ systems are heterogeneous(同質) in nature
    • New Radio(NR) RAT(28,38,72GHz)
      • RAT (Radio Access Technology)
    • Multi Rat support,,BT,WIFI,3G,4G,LTE
    • Advanced features: D2D, relays, femto/micro BSs.
      • D2D : Device to Device
    • SDN/NFV capabilities for control plane
      • SDN: Software Defined Networking
      • NVF: Network Virtualization Function
  • NR is expected to support URLLC service
  • delivery up to 10Gps per AP
  • upper bound latency
  • provide reliability

Propagation in mmWave band

  • Highly complex compared to microwaves
    • Multiple paths
    • Material dependent
    • Spatial correlation
      • the channels between different antennas are often correlated and therefore the potential multi antenna gains may not always be obtainable
    • Temporal correlation

Path blockage phenomenon

  • Very small wavelengths
    • 30Ghz ~1mm
      • Cannot penetrate through objects
      • Cannot travel around
  • Blockage happens at sub-second scales
    • Models for various environments needed

Beam tracking(波束追蹤)

  • Massive MIMO to form directional radiation patterns
    • Linear arrays HPBW~102/N
  • directional radiation patterns

  • Positive effects
    • Much less interference
    • Noise-limited regime?
  • Negative effects
    • Beam alignment needed
    • Array swtiching time ~2us
    • Exhaustive vs hierarchical
    • Delay and loss in capacity ?

Extreme and complex path loss

  • pathloss

Addressing Latency

  • Main chanllenge
    • NR frame duration : 1ms
    • Latency <1ms
    • How to conform?
  • Two principle ways
    • Reservation/priorities
    • Non-Orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
      • International overlapping of data
      • Enable by flexible NR slot numberology

Addressing Reliability

  • Bloackage may or may not lead to outage(中斷)
    • Case 1: blockage leads to lower MSC scheme - MSC: Mobile Switching Service Centre
      • Case 2: bloackage leads to outage
  • Solution
    • Case 1: provide more resources
      • Bandwidth reservation
      • Isolated deployments
    • Case 2: find a new path
      • 3GPP multi-connectivity
      • Dense deployments

Author | Billy Chan

Currently studying Information Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.