HSPA+/LTE from Standard to Market Simon Hsieh / Frank Wu

HSPA+/LTE from Standard to Market Simon Hsieh / Frank Wu

Agenda Evolution of 3GPP Technologies HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) Success of 3GPP Technologies LTE (Long Term Evolution) LTE deployment status LTE-Advanced

Evolution of 3GPP Technologies 1999 2002 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 R99 Rel-4 Rel-5 Rel-6 Rel-7 Rel-8 Rel-9 Rel-10 WCDMA HSDPA HSPA HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) LTE LTE-Advanced 4G

Evolution of 3GPP Technologies Release Release 8 Functional freeze date Stage 1 freeze March 2008 Stage 2 freeze June 2008 Stage 3 freeze December 2008 Release 9 Stage 1 freeze December 2008 Stage 2 June 2009 Stage 3 freeze December 2009 Release 10 Stage 1 freeze March 2010 Stage 2 September 2010 Stage 3 March 2011 (RAN: December 2010 except ASN.1)

HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) Required by operators to keeping enhancement to HSPA technology with a low cost Exploit the full potential of a CDMA approach before moving to an OFDM platform in 3GPP LTE Achieve performance close to LTE in 5 MHz of spectrum Reduced latency To 25 ms round-trip times between UE and BS, and To < 200 ms transition times from inactive to active

HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) Continuous Packet Connectivity (CPC) Release 7 High Order Modulation DL: 64 QAM, UL: 16QAM Release 7 DL MIMO: 2x2 Release 7 Lower UE power consumption Higher peak data throughput Higher peak data throughput and data capacity Dual Carrier (DL/UL) Release 8 Higher peak data throughput CS over HSPA Release 8 L2 optimization (Flexible RLC PDU size) Release 7 (DL)/Release 8 (UL) Lower UE power consumption and Higher voice capacity Higher L2 throughput and less processing requirements Enhanced CELL_FACH Release 7 Lower latency for transition to CELL_DCH; More efficient common channels

HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) Technology Downlink Peak Data Rate (Mbps) Uplink Peak Data Rate (Mbps) HSPA as defined in Release 6 14.4 5.76 Release 7 HSPA+ DL 64 QAM, UL 16 QAM 21 11.5 Release 7 HSPA+ 2X2 MIMO, DL 16 QAM, UL 16 QAM 28 11.5 Release 8 HSPA+ 2X2 MIMO DL 64 QAM, UL 16 QAM 42 11.5 Release 8 HSPA+ Dual Carrier (DL), DL 64 QAM, UL 16 QAM 42 11.5 Release 9 HSPA+ 2X2 MIMO, Dual Carrier (DL/UL), DL 64 QAM, UL 16 QAM 84 23

HSPA Evolution (HSPA+) HSPA is still being evolved in 3GPP Release 10 Enhancement to DL data rate with four carriers (WI: 4C-HSDPA) 4C-HSDPA WI starts on December 2009 4C-DSDPA stage-3 specification work will be finalized on December 2010

Success of 3GPP Technologies 531 EDGE networks commercially launched in 196 countries 357 WCDMA networks commercially launched in 148 countries 353 commercial HSPA networks in 147 countries HSDPA networks supporting 3.6 Mbps or higher: 81.5% HSDPA networks supporting 7.2 Mbps or higher: 58% Commercial HSUPA networks: 118 Source: GSA (the Global mobile Suppliers Association), Mobile Broadband Status August 2010

Success of 3GPP Technologies 116 HSPA+ network commitments 63 networks launched in 54 countries HSPA+ is now commercially launched on 18% of HSPA networks 42 Mbps will supported WCDMA subscribers (incl. HSPA) Q2, 2010: 530 million => 3GPP technologies are the most successful wireless technologies in the world! Source: GSA (the Global mobile Suppliers Association), Mobile Broadband Status August 2010

Success of 3GPP Technologies HTC products First GPRS smart phone launched in 2002 First EDGE smart phone launched in 2005 First WCDMA (R99) smart phone launched in 2005 First HSDPA (Rel-5) smart phone launched in 2006 First HSUPA (Rel-6) smart phone launched in 2008 First HSPA+ (Rel-7) smart phone launched in 2010

LTE (Long Term Evolution) - Standardization Work on LTE began in 2004 Requirements of LTE (TR25.913) are approved at 3GPP TSG RAN #28 meeting in June, 2005. Requirements: Reduce C-plane latency: idle to active < 100 ms Peak data rate e.g. 100 Mbps (downlink) and 50 Mbps (uplink) Increase data rate in cell edge Scalable bandwidth to support multiple bandwidths Spectrum efficiency (e.g. 2~4 times than Rel-6, i.e. HSPA) Optimized for low mobility but also support high mobility Operation in paired and unpaired spectrum (i.e. FDD and TDD) Efficient support of the various types of services, especially from the PS domain (e.g. Voice over IP, Presence) Interworking with 3GPP system and non-3gpp system

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Standardization An official work item started in 2006 The first release of LTE specifications (Release 8) are released in March, 2008 2008 Dec or 2009 March versions are considered stable for implementation Positioning (LCS/LPP) and MBMS are added in LTE specifications in 3GPP release 9

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Standardization 3GPP TSG GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access Network RAN Radio Access Network SA Services & System Aspects CT Core Network & Terminals GERAN WG1 Radio Aspects RAN WG1 Radio Layer 1 spec SA WG1 Services CT WG1 MM/CC/SM GERAN WG2 Protocol Aspects RAN WG2 Radio Layer 2 spec & Radio Layer 3 RR spec SA WG2 Architecture CT WG3 Interworking with external networks GERAN WG3 Terminal Testing GERAN WG3 Terminal Testing SA WG3 Security CT WG4 MAP/GTP/BCH/SS GERAN WG2 Protocol Aspects SA WG4 Codec CT WG6 Smart Card Application Aspects GERAN WG3 Terminal Testing SA WG5 Telecom Management

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Standardization HTC have joined 3GPP LTE standardization work since May 2008 Working groups joined by HTC: RAN WG1 & WG2 CT WG1 SA WG2

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Standardization Weakness of Taiwan company joining standardization activities: Meeting skills on argument and discussion Technical skills on leading technologies Not capable of predicting the direction Always be a follower No much R&D resource is put in standardization <= may be due to ODM Datang has more than 200 engineers in 3GPP standardization Huawei has at least 10 delegates in each RAN2 meeting and 20 delegates in each RAN1 meeting

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Feature and Function Downlink: OFDMA Uplink: Single Carrier (SC)-FDMA Sub-carrier: 15 KHz Flexible bandwidth: 1.4 ~ 20 MHz (1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20) 72 sub-carriers for cell operation in minimum transmission bandwidth (i.e. 1.4 MHz) MIMO: max 4 x 4 (i.e. 4 antenna), DL only Modulation: QPSK, 16QAM and 64 QAM

LTE (Long Term Evolution) Feature and Function Maximum data rate: DL: 300 Mbps UL: 75 Mbps TTI (Transmission Time Interval): 1 ms <= reduce latency Flatter architecture <= reduce latency UMTS: CN, RNC, Node B LTE: CN, enode B Packet switch only GSM/UMTS support both Circuit Switch and Packet Switch Interworking with 2G/3G/CDMA Home enode B support (i.e. femto cell)

LTE (Long Term Evolution) UE Category (DL) UE Category (Downlink) Maximum number of DL-SCH transport block bits received within a TTI Maximum number of bits of a DL-SCH transport block received within a TTI Maximum number of supported layers for spatial multiplexing in DL (i.e. number of antenna) Category 1 10296 10296 1 Category 2 51024 51024 2 Category 3 102048 75376 2 <= Most UEs support this category Category 4 150752 75376 2 Category 5 299552 149776 4 Source: 3GPP TS 36.306

LTE (Long Term Evolution) UE Category (UL) UE Category (Uplink) Maximum number of bits of an UL- SCH transport block transmitted within a TTI Support for 64QAM in UL Category 1 5160 No Category 2 25456 No Category 3 51024 No Category 4 51024 No Category 5 75376 Yes Source: 3GPP TS 36.306

LTE Deployment Status 101 LTE network commitments in 41 countries TeliaSonera commercially launch LTE in Stockholm, Sweden Data-only service for data card 19 LTE networks are expected to be in commercial service by end 2010 or 2011 Verizon Wireless Vodafone DE NTT DoCoMo Source: GSA (the Global mobile Suppliers Association), Mobile broadband status August 2010

LTE Deployment Status Operator Strategy Data-only services on LTE Quickly deployment of LTE because of no voice support Data card, wireless router/gateway supporting single mode or multimode (LTE/3G/2G) Data-only services on LTE with 2G-3G voice Voice is supported by CS fallback to GSM/UMTS/CDMA2000 Mobile phone supporting multi-mode (LTE/3G/2G) Voice and data services on LTE. Voice is supported by IMS Mobile phone supporting multi-mode (LTE/3G/2G) SRVCC may be required to support handover IMS call in LTE to CS call in 2G/3G

LTE Deployment Status Operator Strategy Operator may offer LTE data service only in the initial deployment (for data card only) Operator may offer LTE data services with voice services on the 2G-3G network first and later migrate their voice traffic to LTE. Alternatively, operator may decide to jump straight to the third strategy, offering all voice and data services on LTE without ever deploying the first two options.

LTE - Advanced Carrier Aggregation (CA) Maximum five Rel-8 20 MHz carriers aggregated to support maximum 100 MHz bandwidth Contiguous or non-contiguous carriers can be aggregated Higher order MIMO DL :8x8, UL: 4x4 LTE-Advanced system supporting CA and MIMO DL data rate up to 1Gbps, UL data rate up to 500 Mbps LTE-Advanced meet ITU-R 4G requirement LTE and WiMAX 16e are not 4G because they don t meet ITU-R 4G requirement

LTE - Advanced Item Spectrum Allocation IMT-Advanced Requirement Up to 40 MHz LTE-Advanced Projected Capability Up to 100 MHz Latency User Plane 10 ms 10 ms Latency Control Plane 100 ms 50 ms Peak Spectral Efficiency DL 15 bps/hz 30 bps/hz Peak Spectral Efficiency UL 6.75 bps/hz 15 bps/hz Average Spectral Efficiency DL 2.2 bps/hz 2.6 bps/hz Average Spectral Efficiency UL 1.4 bps/hz 2.0 bps/hz Cell-Edge Spectral Efficiency DL 0.06 bps/hz 0.09 bps/hz Cell-Edge Spectral Efficiency UL 0.03 bps/hz 0.07 bps/hz

LTE - Advanced Relay function Improve coverage to have better in-building penetration, better signal quality and user rates will be much improved LTE-Advanced will be defined in 3GPP Release 10 Stage-1: feature study starts in 2008 Stage-2: functionalities lock down in Dec, 2010 Stage-3: LTE-Advanced specifications will be completed in 2011 LTE-Advanced will be deployed soon once LTE is deployed widely Similar to WCDMA to HSPA