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Long Term Evolution (LTE) - A Tutorial
Ahmed [email protected]
Network Systems LaboratorySimon Fraser University
October 13, 2009
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Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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Introduction
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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Introduction
Introduction
In November 2004 3GPP began a project to define the long-termevolution of UMTS cellular technology.Related pecifications are formally known as the evolved UMTSterrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) and evolved UMTS terrestrialradio access network (E-UTRAN).First version is documented in Release 8 of the 3GPPspecifications.Commercial deployment not expected before 2010, but there arecurrently many field trials.
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Introduction
LTE Development Timeline
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Introduction
Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance
19 worldwide leading mobile operators
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Introduction
LTE Targets
Higher performance100 Mbit/s peak downlink, 50 Mbit/s peak uplink
1G for LTE AdvancedFaster cell edge performanceReduced latency (to 10 ms) for better user experienceScalable bandwidth up to 20 MHz
Backwards compatibleWorks with GSM/EDGE/UMTS systemsUtilizes existing 2G and 3G spectrum and new spectrumSupports hand-over and roaming to existing mobile networks
Reduced capex/opex via simple architecturereuse of existing sites and multi-vendor sourcing
Wide applicationTDD (unpaired) and FDD (paired) spectrum modesMobility up to 350kphLarge range of terminals (phones and PCs to cameras)
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LTE Architecture
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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LTE Architecture
LTE Architecture
LTE encompasses the evolution of:the radio access through the E-UTRANthe non-radio aspects under the term System ArchitectureEvolution (SAE)
Entire system composed of both LTE and SAE is called theEvolved Packet System (EPS)At a high-level, the network is comprised of:
Core Network (CN), called Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in SAEaccess network (E-UTRAN)
A bearer is an IP packet flow with a defined QoS between thegateway and the User Terminal (UE)CN is responsible for overall control of UE and establishment ofthe bearers
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LTE Architecture
LTE Architecture
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LTE Architecture
LTE Architecture
Main logical nodes in EPC are:PDN Gateway (P-GW)Serving Gateway (S-GW)Mobility Management Entity (MME)
EPC also includes other nodes and functions, such:Home Subscriber Server (HSS)Policy Control and Charging Rules Function (PCRF)
EPS only provides a bearer path of a certain QoS, control ofmultimedia applications is provided by the IP MultimediaSubsystem (IMS), which considered outside of EPSE-UTRAN solely contains the evolved base stations, calledeNodeB or eNB
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LTE Architecture
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LTE Radio Interface
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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LTE Radio Interface
LTE Radio Interface Architecture
eNB and UE have control plane and data plane protocol layers
Data entersprocessing chain inthe form of IPpackets on one ofthe SAE bearers
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LTE Radio Interface
Protocol Layers
IP packets are passed through multiple protocol entities:Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP)
IP header compression based on Robust Header Compression(ROHC)ciphering and integrity protection of transmitted data
Radio Link Control (RLC)segmentation/concatenationretransmission handlingin-sequence delivery to higher layers
Medium Access Control (MAC)handles hybrid-ARQ retransmissionsuplink and downlink scheduling at the eNodeB
Physical Layer (PHY)coding/decodingmodulation/demodulation (OFDM)multi-antenna mappingother typical physical layer functions
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LTE Radio Interface
Communication Channels
RLC offers services to PDCP in the form of radio bearersMAC offers services to RLC in the form of logical channelsPHY offers services to MAC in the form of transport channelsA logical channel is defined by the type of information it carries.Generally classified as:
a control channel, used for transmission of control andconfiguration information necessary for operating an LTE systema traffic channel, used for the user data
A transport channel is defined by how andwith what characteristics the information is transmitted over theradio interface
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LTE Radio Interface
Channel Mapping
BCCH: Broadcast
CCCH: Common
PCCH: Paging
MCCH: Multicast
DCCH: Dedicated
DTCH: Dedicated Traffic
MTCH: Multicast Traffic
DL-SCH: Downlink Shared
MCH: Multicast
BCH: Broadcast
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LTE Radio Interface
Radio Link Control (RLC) Layer
Depending on the scheduler decision, a certain amount of data isselected for transmission from the RLC SDU buffer and the SDUsare segmented/concatenated to create the RLC PDU. Thus, forLTE the RLC PDU size varies dynamicallyEach RLC PDU includes a header, containing, among otherthings, a sequence number used for in-sequence delivery and bythe retransmission mechanismA retransmission protocol operates between the RLC entities inthe receiver and transmitter.
Receiver monitors sequence numbers and identifies missing PDUs
Although the RLC is capable of handling transmission errors,error-free delivery is in most cases handled by the MAC-basedhybrid-ARQ protocol
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LTE Radio Interface
Medium Access Control (MAC) Layer
Data on a transport channel is organized into transport blocks.Each Transmission Time Interval (TTI), at most one transportblock of a certain size is transmitted over the radio interfaceto/from a mobile terminal (in absence of spatial multiplexing)Each transport block has an associated Transport Format (TF)
specifies how the block is to be transmitted over the radio interface(e.g. transport-block size, modulation scheme, and antennamapping)
By varying the transport format, the MAC layer can realizedifferent data rates.
Rate control is therefore also known as transport-format selection
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LTE Radio Interface
Hybrid ARQ (HARQ)
In hybrid ARQ, multiple parallel stop-and-wait processes are used(this can result in data being delivered from the hybrid-ARQmechanism out-of-sequence, in-sequence delivery is ensured bythe RLC layer)Hybrid ARQ is not applicable for all types of traffic (broadcasttransmissions typically do not rely on hybrid ARQ). Hence, hybridARQ is only supported for the DL-SCH and the UL-SCH
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LTE Radio Interface
Physical (PHY) Layer
Based on OFDMA with cyclic prefix in downlink, and on SC-FDMAwith a cyclic prefix in the uplinkThree duplexing modes are supported: full duplex FDD, halfduplex FDD, and TDDTwo frame structure types:
Type-1 shared by both full- and half-duplex FDDType-2 applicable to TDD
A radio frame has a length of 10 ms and contains 20 slots (slotduration is 0.5 ms)Two adjacent slots constitute a subframe of length 1 msSupported modulation schemes are: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAMBroadcast channel only uses QPSKMaximum information block size = 6144 bitsCRC-24 used for error detection
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LTE Radio Interface
Type-1 Frame
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LTE Radio Interface
Type-2 Frame
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LTE Radio Interface
Scheduler in eNB (base station) allocates resource blocks (whichare the smallest elements of resource allocation) to users forpredetermined amount of timeSlots consist of either 6 (for long cyclic prefix) or 7 (for short cyclicprefix) OFDM symbolsLonger cyclic prefixes are desired to address longer fadingNumber of available subcarriers changes depending ontransmission bandwidth (but subcarrier spacing is fixed)
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LTE Radio Interface
Downlink Resource Block
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LTE Radio Interface
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LTE Radio Interface
To enable channel estimation in OFDM transmission, knownreference symbols are inserted into the OFDM time-frequencygrid.In LTE, these reference symbols are jointly referred to as downlinkreference signals.Three types of reference signals are defined for the LTE downlink:
Cell-specific downlink reference signalstransmitted in every downlink subframe, and span the entire downlinkcell bandwidth.
UE-specific reference signalonly transmitted within the resource blocks assigned for DL-SCHtransmission to that specific terminal
MBSFN reference signals
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LTE Radio Interface
MAC Scheduler
eNB scheduler controls the time/frequency resources for a giventime for uplink and downlink
dynamically controls the terminal(s) to transmit to and, for each ofthese terminals, the set of resource blocks upon which theterminal’s DL-SCH should be transmitted
Scheduler dynamically allocates resources to UEs at each TTIThe scheduling strategy is implementation specific and notspecified by 3GPP
scheduler selects best multiplexing for UE based on channelconditionspreferably schedule transmissions to a UE on resources withadvantageous channel condition
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LTE Radio Interface
Most scheduling strategies need information about:channel conditions at the terminalbuffer status and priorities of the different data flowsinterference situation in neighboring cells (if some form ofinterference coordination is implemented)
UE transmitschannel-status reports reflecting the instantaneous channel qualityin the time and frequency domainsinformation necessary to determine the appropriate antennaprocessing in case of spatial multiplexing
Downlink LTE considers the following schemes as a scheduleralgorithm:
Frequency Selective Scheduling (FSS)Frequency Diverse Scheduling (FDS)Proportional Fair Scheduling (PFS)
Interference coordination, which tries to control the inter-cellinterference on a slow basis, is also part of the scheduler
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
Introduced for WCDMA (UMTS) in Release 6Supports multicast/broadcast services in a cellular systemSame content is transmitted to multiple users located in a specificarea (MBMS service area) in a unidirectional fashionMBMS extends existing 3GPP architecture by introducing:
MBMS Bearer Servicedelivers IP multicast datagrams to multiple receivers using minimumradio and network resources and provides an efficient and scalablemeans to distribute multimedia content to mobile phones
MBMS User Servicesstreaming services - a continuous data flow of audio and/or video isdelivered to the user’s handsetdownload services - data for the file is delivered in a scheduledtransmission timeslot
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
QoS for transport of multimedia applications is not sufficiently highto support a significant portion of the users for either download orstreaming applications
The p-t-m MBMS Bearer Service does neither allow control, modeadaptation, nor retransmitting lost radio packets
Consequently, 3GPP included an application layer FEC based onRaptor codes for MBMSMBMS User Services may be distributed over p-t-p links (if moreefficient)Broadcast Multicast Service Center (BM-SC) node
responsible for authorization and authentication of content provider,charging, and overall data flow through Core Network (CN)
In case of multicast, a request to join the session has to be sent tobecome member of the corresponding MBMS service group
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
MBMS data streams are not split until necessaryMBMS services are power limited and maximize the diversitywithout relying on feedback from usersTwo techniques are used to provide diversity:
Macro-diversity: combining transmission from multiple cellsSoft combining: combines the soft bits received from the differentradio links prior to (Turbo) codingSelection combining: decoding the signal received from each cellindividually, and for each TTI selects one (if any) of the correctlydecoded data blocks for further processing by higher layers
Time-diversity:using a long TTI and application-level coding to combat fast fading
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
Streaming data are encapsulated in RTP and transported usingthe FLUTE protocol when delivering over MBMS bearersMAC layer maps and multiplexes the RLC-PDUs to the transportchannel and selects the transport format depending on theinstantaneous source rateMBMS uses the Multimedia Traffic Channel (MTCH), whichenables p-t-m distribution. This channel is mapped to the ForwardAccess Channel (FACH), which is finally mapped to theSecondary-Common Control Physical Channel (S-CCPCH)The TTI is transport channel specific and can be selected from theset 10 ms, 20 ms, 40 ms, 80 ms for MBMS
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
LTE Evolved MBMS (eMBMS)
Will be defined in Release 9 of the 3GPP specificationscurrently in progress, expected to be frozen in Dec 2009
Multimedia service can be provided by either: single-cellbroadcast or multicell mode (aka MBMS Single FrequencyNetwork (MBSFN))In an MBSFN area, all eNBs are synchronized to performsimulcast transmission from multiple cells (each cell transmittingidentical waveform)If user is close to a base station, delay of arrival between two cellscould be quite large, so the subcarrier spacing is reduced to 7.5KHz and longer CP is usedMain advantages over technologies such as DVB-H or DMB:
no additional infrastructureoperator uses resources that are already purchaseduser interaction is possible
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Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
MCE coordinates the synchronous multi-cell transmissionThe MCE can physically be part of the eNB→ flat architecture
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LTE Deployment Considerations
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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LTE Deployment Considerations
LTE Deployment Considerations
Voice and SMS (main source of revenue for telecom companies)Circuit Switch Fallback (CS Fallback)IMS-based VoIPVoice over LTE via Generic Access (VoLGA)
Roaming revenues from current GSM networks (gone)Interoperability with existing legacy technologies (including GSM,WCDMA, CDMA2000, WiMAX and others)Leverage existing 3G capacity and coverage (make use of existingequipment)Service provision (not being a dumb bit pipe provider)Security (especially EPC)terminal devices (balancing battery life with MIMO support, andhow much legacy support)
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Work Related to Video Streaming
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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Work Related to Video Streaming
Mobile Video Transmission Using Scalable VideoCoding
Investigating per packet QoS would enable general packetmarking strategies (such as Differentiated Services). This can bedone by either:
Mapping SVC priority information to Differentiated Services CodePoint (DSCP) to introduce per packet QoSMaking the scheduler media-aware (e.g. by including someMANE-like functinality), and therefore able to use priorityinformation in the SVC NAL unit header
Many live-media distribution protocols are based on RTP,including p-t-m transmission (e.g. DVB-H or MBMS). Provision ofdifferent layers, on different multicast addresses for example,allows for applying protection strength on different layersBy providing signalling in the RTP payload header as well as in theSDP session signalling, adaptation (for bitrate or device capability)can be applied in the network by nodes typically known as MANE
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Work Related to Video Streaming
Downlink OFDM Scheduling and Resource Allocationfor Delay Constrained SVC Streaming
Problem Definition:Designing efficient multi-user video streaming protocols that fullyexploit the resource allocation flexibility in OFDM and performancescalabilities in SVC
Maximize average PSNR for all video users under a total downlinktransmission power constraint based on a stochasticsubgradient-based scheduling frameworkAuthors generalize their previous downlink OFDM resourceallocation algorithm for elastic data traffic to real-time videostreaming by further considering dynamically adjusted priorityweights based on the current video content, deadlinerequirements, and the previous transmission results
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Work Related to Video Streaming
Scalable and Media Aware Adaptive Video Streamingover Wireless Networks
A packet scheduling algorithm (in MANE) which operates on thedifferent substreams of the main scalable video streamExploit SVC coding to provide a subset of hierarchically organizedsubstreams at the RLC layer entry point and utilize the schedulingalgorithm to select scalable substreams to be transmitted to RCLlayer depending on the channel transmission conditionsGeneral idea:
perform fair scheduling between scalable substreams until deadlineof oldest unsent data units with higher priorities is approachingdo not maintain fairness if deadline is expected to be violated,packets with lower priorities are delayed in a first time and laterdropped if necessary
In addition, SVC coding is tuned, leading to a generalizedscalability scheme including regions of interest (ROI) (combiningROI coding with SNR and temporal scalability)
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Conclusions
Outline
1 Introduction
2 LTE Architecture
3 LTE Radio Interface
4 Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
5 LTE Deployment Considerations
6 Work Related to Video Streaming
7 Conclusions
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Conclusions
Conclusions
LTE and SAE will be the unified 4G wireless networkBackwards compatibleMultiple upgrade pathsSignificant carrier commitment
eMBMS seems promising for delivering multimedia content overLTE (at least in theory) and without the need for a separateinfrastructureLTE still faces some deployment challenges (but are currentlybeing studied)Research interest in optimized streaming video via eMBMS
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
Thank You
Questions?
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