Next Generation Wireless Systems and Smart Antennas
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Next Generation Wireless Systems and Smart Antennas
Jack H. Winters
April 25, 2003
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Goal
• Wireless communications, anywhere, in any form
• In any form:
– high-speed data (Internet)
– voice
– audio (music)
– video
• Anywhere:
– home
– buildings (office)
– pedestrian
– vehicles
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OUTLINE
• Current Systems
• Current Trends
• Technical Issues
– Smart Antennas
– Radio Resource Management
• ITRI Study on China
• Conclusions
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Current Systems
10 feet 100 feet 1 mile 10 miles
100 kbps
1 Mbps
10 Mbps
100 Mbps
3G Wireless~ 2GHz
BlueTooth2.4GHz
802.11a5.5GHz Unlicensed
802.11b2.4GHz Unlicensed
Peak Data Rate
Range
2 mph 10 mph 30 mph 60 mph
$ 500,000
$ 1000
$ 100
$ 500
$ 100
$ 10
$/Cell $/SubHigh performance/price
High ubiquity and mobility
Mobile Speed
UWB3.1-10.6 GHz
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Cellular Data
• CDPD (US) < 10 kbps
• GPRS = 30-40 kbps
• EDGE/1xRTT = 80 kbps
• WCDMA = 100 kbps (starting in Japan, but not for several years in US)
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Data rate: • 1, 2, 5.5, 11 MbpsModulation/Spreading: • Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
• DBPSK, DQPSK with 11-chip Barker code (1, 2 Mbps) (this mode stems from the original 802.11 standard)• 8-chip complementary code keying (CCK) (5.5, 11 Mbps)• optional: packet binary convolutional coding (PBCC), 64 state, rate 1/2 CC (BPSK 5.5 Mbps, QPSK 11 Mbps)
Barker
Key 802.11b Physical Layer Parameters:
Chip rate: 11 MHzFrequency band: Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM, unlicensed) 2.4 - 2.4835 GHz
Bandwidth: 22 MHz - TDDChannel spacing: 5 MHz
Total of 14 (but only the first 11 are used in the US), with only 3 nonoverlapping channels
Number of channels:
Transmission modes:(dynamic rate shifting)
CCK
1 s11 chips
Barker
727 ns8 chips
CCK
WLANs: 802.11b
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Unlicensed national infrastructure (U-NII), 5.5 GHz
Total of 12 in three blocks between 5 and 6 GHz
Data rate: 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54 MbpsModulation: BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
Coding rate: 1/2, 2/3, 3/4Subcarriers: 52
Pilot subcarriers: 4
G
3.2 s
4 s
FFT
52=48+4 tones64 point FFT
Key 802.11a Physical Layer Parameters:
Symbol duration: 4 sGuard interval: 800 ns
Subcarrier spacing: 312.5 kHzBandwidth: 16.56 MHz - TDD
Channel spacing: 20 MHz
FFT size: 64
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BPSK QPSK QAM16 QAM64
6 12 24R=1/2
48R=2/3
9 18 36 54R=3/4
User data rates (Mbps):
Frequency band:
Number of channels:
WLANs: 802.11a (g in 2.4 GHz band)
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WLAN Evolution
• Start with wireless data access (802.11b) (hotspots)
– Extend range and migrate to:
• Voice
• Audio (music)
• Video
• Mobility
• Higher data rates (54 Mbps - 802.11a and higher)
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Technical Issues
• Voice/Music streaming/Video streaming (802.11e)
• Universal coverage (Internet roaming)
• Range
• Higher data rates
• Capacity/Interference
• Key constraint: Stay within existing standards/standard evolution (enhance performance within standards and drive standards evolution)
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Internet Roaming
• Seamless handoffs between WLAN and WAN
– high-performance when possible
– ubiquity with reduced throughput
• Management/brokering of consolidated WLAN and WAN access
• Adaptive or performance-aware applications
• Nokia GPRS/802.11b PCMCIA card
• NTT DoCoMo WLAN/WCDMA trial
Cellular Wireless
EnterpriseHome
Public
Internet
Wireless LAN’s
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Technical Issues
• Voice/Music streaming/Video streaming (802.11e)
• Universal coverage (Internet roaming)
• Range
• Higher data rates
• Capacity/Interference
• Key constraint: Stay within existing standards/standard evolution (enhance performance within standards and drive standards evolution)
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Wireless System Enhancements
10 feet 100 feet 1 mile 10 miles
100 kbps
1 Mbps
10 Mbps
100 Mbps
3G Wireless~ 2GHz
BlueTooth2.4GHz
802.11a5.5GHz Unlicensed
802.11b2.4GHz Unlicensed
Peak Data Rate
Range
2 mph 10 mph 30 mph 60 mph
$ 500,000
$ 1000
$ 100
$ 500
$ 100
$ 10
$/Cell $/SubHigh performance/price
High ubiquity and mobility
Mobile Speed
Enhanced
UWB3.1-10.6 GHz
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Enhancements
• Smart Antennas (keeping within standards):
– Range increase
– Interference suppression
– Capacity increase
– Data rate increase using multiple transmit/receive antennas (MIMO)
• Radio resource management techniques (using cellular techniques in WLANs):
– Dynamic packet assignment
– Power control
– Adaptive coding/modulation/smart antennas
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Smart AntennasSmart Antennas
Smart Antennas significantly improve performance:
• Higher antenna gain with multipath mitigation (gain of M with M-fold diversity) Range extension
• Interference suppression (suppress M-1 interferers) Quality and capacity improvement
• With smart antennas at Tx/Rx MIMO capacity increase(M-fold)
SIGNAL
INTERFERENCE
INTERFERENCEBEAMFORMER
WEIGHTS
SIGNAL OUTPUT
In 1999, combining at base stations changed from MRC to MMSE for capacity increase
Downlink Switched Beam Antenna
INTERFERENCE
SIGNAL
SIGNALOUTPUT
BEAMFORMERWEIGHTS
Uplink Adaptive Antenna
SIGNALOUTPUT
SIGNAL
INTERFERENCE
BE
AM
FO
RM
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BEAMSELECT
Smart Antennas for Cellular
• Key enhancement technique to increase system capacity, extend coverage, and improve user experience in cellular (IS-136)
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Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) Radio
• With M transmit and M receive antennas, can provide M independent channels, to increase data rate M-fold with no increase in total transmit power (with sufficient multipath) – only an increase in DSP
– Indoors – up to 150-fold increase in theory
– Outdoors – 8-12-fold increase typical
• AT&T measurements show 4x data rate & capacity increase in all mobile & indoor/outdoor environments (4 Tx and 4 Rx antennas)
– 216 Mbps 802.11a (4X 54 Mbps)
– 1.5 Mbps EDGE
– 19 Mbps WCDMA
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Rx
Rx
Rx
MIMO Channel Testing
W1
W2
W3
W4
LO
Synchronoustest
sequences
Rx
• Perform timing recovery and symbol synchronization
• Record 4x4 complex channel matrix
• Evaluate capacity and channel correlation
LO
Mobile Transmitters Test Bed Receivers with RooftopAntennas
Terminal Antennas on a Laptop
Tx
Tx
Tx
Tx
Rooftop Base Station Antennas
11.3 ft
Prototype Dual Antenna Handset
Mobile Transmitters
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DIVERSITY TYPES
Spatial: Separation – only ¼ wavelength needed at terminal
Polarization: Dual polarization (doubles number of antennas in one location
Pattern: Allows even closer than ¼ wavelength
4 or more antennas on a PCMCIA card
16 on a handset
Even more on a laptop
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MIMO Antennas
Base Station Antennas
Laptop Prototype • Antennas mounted on 60 foot tower on 5 story office building
• Dual-polarized slant 45 1900 MHz sector antennas and fixed multibeam antenna with 4 - 30 beams
• 4 patch antennas at 1900 MHz separated by 3 inches (/2 wavelengths)
• Laptop prototype made of brass with adjustable PCB lid
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• Measured capacity distribution is close to the ideal for 4 transmit and 4 receive antennas
MIMO Field Test Results
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Smart Antennas for WLANs
• TDD operation (only need smart antenna at access point or terminal for performance improvement in both directions)
• Interference suppression Improve system capacity and throughput– Supports aggressive frequency re-use for higher spectrum efficiency, robustness in the ISM band (microwave
ovens, outdoor lights)
• Higher antenna gain Extend range (outdoor coverage)• Multipath diversity gain Improve reliability• MIMO (multiple antennas at AP and laptop) Increase data rates
APSmart
Antenna
Interference
Smart Antennas can significantly improve the performance of WLANs
APSmart
Antenna
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Smart Antennas
• Adaptive MIMO
– Adapt among:
• antenna gain for range extension
• interference suppression for capacity (with frequency reuse)
• MIMO for data rate increase
• With 4 antennas at access point and terminal, in 802.11a have the potential to provide up to 216 Mbps in 20 MHz bandwidth within the standard
• In EDGE/GPRS, 4 antennas provide 4-fold data rate increase (to 1.5 Mbps in EDGE)
• In WCDMA, BLAST techniques proposed by Lucent, with 19 Mbps demonstrated
• In UWB, smart antennas at receiver provide range increase at data rates of 100’s Mbps
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Radio Resource Management
• Use cellular radio resource management techniques in WLANs: Adaptive coding/modulation, dynamic packet assignment, power control
• Use software on controller PC for multiple access points to analyze data and control system
• Power control to permit cell ‘breathing’ (for traffic spikes)
• Dynamic AP channel assignment
– Combination of radio resource management and smart antennas yields greater gains than sum of gains
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International Technology Research Institute
Study on Wireless Communication Technology and Systems
• ITRI Wireless Comm. Technology (EU, Japan, 2000)• ITRI Asian Telecomm. Update (HK, Taiwan, 2001)• ITRI Asian Telecomm. Update (PRC, March-April, 2003)
http://itri2.org
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Asia Telecommunications Study
• Growing activities to support development of Asia’s expertise in 3G systems are questionable
Comparing the observed R&D trends in Asia with those from the previous wireless study in Europe and Japan we may conclude:
• Magnitude of R&D activities in Europe and Japan is much larger
• System-based R&D is limited in Asia
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Conclusions
• We are evolving toward our goal of universal high-speed wireless access, but technical challenges remain
• These challenges can be overcome by the use of:
– Smart antennas to reduce interference, extend range, increase data rate, and improve quality, without standards changes
– Radio resource management techniques, in combination with smart antennas, and multiband/multimode devices