AES workshop, Oslo 12.-14.06.1999 Research and development of a UMTS demonstrator in Norway Josef Noll 1, Per Hjalmar Lehne 1, Geir Øien 2, Andrew Perkis 2, Knut Grythe 3, Lars Lundheim 3, Norvald Stol 2 1 Telenor R & D, Post-box 83, N 2027 Kjeller, Norway Ph: +47-6384 8690, Fax: +47-6381 0076, Email: josef.noll@telenor.com 2 NTNU, Trondheim 3 Sintef, Trondheim Page 1, Josef Noll 19990610
Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS phase 2 requirements Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef A phase 2 UTRA/ WIRAC: Wideband radio access Specifications Research items Related international research Future work Page 2, Josef Noll 19990610
The (?) IN, WEB, FMC/FMI over WAP, JINI, Corba Smart UTRA, man Antennas - USRA, machine, GSM++, machine DECT, - machine WLAN, Hiperlan, IN, WEB, FMC/FMI applications Applications Channel Bluetooth, (Mobile) measurements HomeRF ATM, IP, ISDN 1.8-40 GHz (GSM to MBS) (Mobile) WAP, JINI, ATM, Corba IP Capacity link IN, level TINA, simulations simulation, MAP hand-over Core network man - machine, machine - machine field trial UTRA, USRA, GSM++, DECT, WLAN, Hiperlan, end-to-end Bluetooth, HomeRF Basic Access Access technologies network Applications network Core network Smart Antennas, Channel measurements, Capacity Basic technologies Page 3, Josef Noll 19990610
Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS phase 2 requirements Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef A phase 2 UTRA/ WIRAC: Wideband radio access Specifications Research items Related international research Future work Page 4, Josef Noll 19990610
Phase 2 core network Potential phase 2 core network: IP Access provided by GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, Hiperlan etc. GSM, UTRA, WLAN service provision IP based core network UMTS phase 2 public Internet UTRA, WLAN, Hiperlan Page 5, Josef Noll 19990610
The future access networks Mobile: GSM++, UTRA WLAN Hiperlan SAT broadcast Fixed: ISDN, xdsl Device: HomeRF Bluetooth Requirements: Mobile services WLAN, DECT LMDS, DVB, DAB, WLL WLAN, DECT GSM, GPRS, UTRA, WLAN, DECT CATV, el. power Page 6, Josef Noll 19990610
Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS phase 2 requirements Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef A phase 2 UTRA/ WIRAC: Wideband radio access Specifications Research items Related international research Future work Page 7, Josef Noll 19990610
Co-operation Telenor, NTNU & Sintef Telenor: Network operator, highest worldwide ISDN penetration, ADSL introduced in 06.1999 The Norwegian Technical University NTNU: Educates > 90 % of all Norwegian telecom engineers Sintef: Technology research institut Research: WIRAC (Wideband Radio ACcess) ACTS: Sarepta, SINUS, SUMO, TOMAS, SORT Esprit: EUROSTILL, SPEAR, EUROJPEG EURESCOM: P919, P920, P921 Page 8, Josef Noll 19990610
HEWLETT PACKARD HEWLETT PACKARD VectraOffice UTRA++ demonstrator channel sounder UTRA simulator Vectra Office : simulate applications via UTRA, WLAN/Hiperlan GSM to UMTS evolution (GPRS, EDGE) based on SW radio SW radio WLAN simulator Radio channel sounding and channel modeling Page 9, Josef Noll 19990610
Objectives - UTRA++ demonstrator Applications development platform Network functions studies Multimode operation: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UTRA Radio interface performance Channel soundings - smart antenna simulations Page 10, Josef Noll 19990610
Overview of UMTS++ demonstrator Page 11, Josef Noll 19990610
Concept based on SW radio Universal RF part A/D conversion to fulfill multiple purposes fast baseband processing for real time processing General purpose processor for near-real-time processing Page 12, Josef Noll 19990610
RF characteristics UTRA Transmitter Receiver f [MHz] 1900-1980 FDD + TDD 2110-2170 FDD only BW [MHz] 80, (5) FDD + TDD 60 Max BW Signal 80 75 Ref. < -25 dbm level range [db] Receiver sensitivity [dbm] -100 5 MHz BW, SNR=-2dB BRAN Hiperlan 1 Hiperlan 2 f [MHz] 5150-5300 5150-5300 BW [MHz] 150, (23.5) Modulation GMSK, BT=0.5 OFDMA FSK Receiver sensitivity [dbm] -50 - -70 Page 13, Josef Noll 19990610
RealFAST Reconfigurable FPGA-based Signal Processing Terminal COM PORT Bus to all FPGAs DSP Subystem Technology: RAM FPGA RAM DSPs: 2 x TI C-40 Technology: FPGAs: COM PORT FPGA FPGA FPGA COM PORT RAM: 6 Mbytes SRAM 5 x Altera FLEX10k100 RAM: RAM FPGA RAM 4 x 128 kbyte 25 ns Dual port SRAM modules COM PORT Page 14, Josef Noll 19990610
WIRAC research topics Multi-user detection (MUD) for MC-CDMA and W-CDMA Flexible multi-rate trellis coded modulation (TCM) Turbo coding MUD with Turbo decoding Adaptive antennas/sdma Performance evaluation under dynamic channel- and user load-situations. Page 15, Josef Noll 19990610
Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS phase 2 requirements Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef A phase 2 UTRA/ WIRAC: Wideband radio access Specifications Research items Related international research Future work Page 16, Josef Noll 19990610
Demonstrator co-operation Ericsson, SUN: Smart house, WAP/Jini IN, WEB, FMC/FMI over WAP, JINI, Corba AT&T: service platform man - machine, machine - machine Applications (Mobile) ATM, IPEricsson: Mobile IP, Core network Ericsson: GPRS, WLAN, P921: Cselt, Telefonica UTRA, USRA, NTNU: GSM++, WLAN, DECT, MM, TurboCoding WLAN, Hiperlan, Bluetooth, HomeRF Access network Smart Antennas, ESPRIT: Channel Metamorp, measurements, ACTS: SAMBA Capacity Ericsson: Ebox, SUN: WAP/Jini Basic technologies Page 17, Josef Noll 19990610
Conclusions & Future Work UMTS phase 2 needs interworking between different access networks: DECT, GSM, UTRA, USRA WLAN, Hiperlan Service mobility over FMI networks Co-operation of Telenor: national: NTNU, Sintef international: Ericsson, SUN, BT, EURESCOM Stepwise HW design - HW receiver part - Include transmitter - Extend to full UMTS International co-operation for full demonstrator: EURESCOM ACTS: SORT Final goal cheap demonstrator for research and development open architecture open API Page 18, Josef Noll 19990610