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© 2012 Agilent Technologies

Wireless Communications

Greater insight. Greater confidence. Accelerate next-generation wireless.

3GPP LTE-Advanced Overview

And LTE-Advanced Measurement

Lee, Young-poong Agilent Technologies



2 © 2012 Agilent Technologies


Greater insight. Greater confidence. Accelerate next-generation wireless. LTE Overview

LTE _A

Overview

Evolution of wireless standards

LTE Release 9 summary


LTE Release 11 prioritization

Deployment update More…

LTE _A

Measurement



TD-SCDMA (China)

802.16e (Mobile WiMAX)

WiBRO (Korea)

802.16d (Fixed WiMAX)

802.11n

Wireless Evolution 1990 - 2011

GSM (Europe)

IS-136 (US TDMA)

PDC (Japan)

IS-95A (US CDMA)

HSCSD GPRS iMODE IS-95B (US CDMA)

W-CDMA (FDD & TDD)

E-GPRS (EDGE)

HSDPA HSUPA

EDGE Evolution

1x EV-DO 0 A B

HSPA+ / E-HSPA

LTE (R8/9 FDD & TDD)

LTE-Advanced (R10 & beyond)

802.16m / WiMAX2 WirelessMAN-Advanced

802.11h

802.11ac 802.11ad

cdma2000 (1x RTT)

802.11a/g

802.11b 2G

W-LAN

2.5G

3G

3.5G

3.9G/ 4G

4G / IMT-Advanced

Market evolution

Technology evolution

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UMTS Long Term Evolution

1999

2012

Release Stage 3: Core

specs complete

Main feature of Release

Rel-99 March 2000 UMTS 3.84 Mcps (W-CDMA FDD & TDD)

Rel-4 March 2001 1.28 Mcps TDD (aka TD-SCDMA)

Rel-5 June 2002 HSDPA

Rel-6 March 2005 HSUPA (E-DCH)

Rel-7 Dec 2007 HSPA+ (64QAM DL, MIMO, 16QAM UL). LTE & SAE

Feasibility Study, Edge Evolution

Rel-8 Dec 2008 LTE Work item – OFDMA air interface

SAE Work item – New IP core network

UMTS Femtocells, Dual Carrier HSDPA

Rel-9 Dec 2009 Multi-standard Radio (MSR), Dual Carrier HSUPA,

Dual Band HSDPA, SON, LTE Femtocells (HeNB)

LTE-Advanced feasibility study

Rel-10 March 2011 LTE-Advanced (4G) work item, CoMP Study

Four carrier HSDPA

Rel-11 Sept 2012? CoMP, eDL MIMO, eCA, MIMO OTA, HSUPA TxD &

64QAM MIMO, HSDPA 8C & 4x4 MIMO, MB MSR






Confused About the Term 4G?

The ITU’s “3G” program was officially called IMT-2000

The ITU’s “4G” program is officially called IMT-Advanced

The term 3.9G was widely used to describe LTE since it was developed prior to

the ITU defining IMT-Advanced (aka 4G)

LTE-A was intended to be 3GPP’s “official” 4G technology

The term 4G was informally used to describe WiMAXTM (802.16e)

More recently, some operators have described the evolution of HSPA as 4G

The ITU initially stuck to an interpretation of 4G as being just for IMT-Advanced

but have recently stepped back from this and recently stated

– “IMT-Advanced is considered as “4G”, although it is recognized that this term,

while undefined, may also be applied to the forerunners of these technologies,

LTE and WiMAX and other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial

level of improvement in performance.”

In summary “4G” has lost any useful meaning so should be used accordingly






LTE _A

Overview






LTE _A

Measurement






Release 9 Radio Aspects Summary

Release 9 has many small enhancements to UMTS and LTE including:

Completion of MBSFN, new frequency bands, adding the 8th downlink Tx mode

(MIMO plus beamsteering), addition of Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) for

Observed Time Difference Of Arrival (OTDOA) positioning

The most significant for Agilent is the introduction of Multi-Standard Radio

(MSR) which is performance requirements and tests for base stations that

support more than one radio carrier which may be of different formats

MSR is a don’t care for the UE but is a big deal for the BS

Most of the work to date has been in harmonizing the GERAN and 3GPP

specifications

MSR performance requirements and tests for single band are now largely

drafted.

Multi-band MSR shows up in Rel-11






LTE _A

Overview






Page 8

LTE _A

Measurement



LTE-Advanced Timeline

ITU-R Submission Sept 2009

TR36.912 v 2.2.0

R1-093731, Characteristic template

R1-093682, Compliance template

R1-093741, Link Budget template

Agilent Introduces Industry’s first

LTE-A Solution

Design Tool/Signal Generation/Signal Analysis






Release 10

Overall aspects

A comprehensive summary of the entire LTE-Advanced proposals

including radio, network and system can be found in the 3GPP

submissions to the first IMT-Advanced evaluation workshop.

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/workshop/2009-12-17_ITU-R_IMT-

Adv_eval/docs/

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/workshop/2009-12-17_ITU-R_IMT-Adv_eval/docs/














Release 10 LTE Radio Aspects

Carrier aggregation

Enhanced uplink multiple access

-. Clustered SC-FDMA

-. Simultaneous Control and Data

Enhanced multiple antenna transmission

-. Downlink 8 antennas, 8 streams

-. Uplink 4 antennas, 4 streams

Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) – study item

Relaying

Home eNB mobility enhancements

Customer Premises Equipment

Heterogeneous network support

Self Organized networks (SON)

Rel 10 LTE-A

proposed to ITU

Other Release 10






Carrier Aggregation

Lack of sufficient contiguous spectrum up to 100 MHz forces use of

carrier aggregation to meet peak data rate targets

Able to be implemented with a mix of terminals

Backward compatibility with legacy system (LTE)

System scheduler operating across multiple bands

Component carriers (CC) - Max 110 RB (TBD)

May be able to mix different CC types

Contiguous and non-contiguous CC is allowed

Contiguous aggregation of two

uplink component carriers

PUCCH

PUSCH PUSCH






Carrier Aggregation

One of RAN WG4’s most intense activities is in the area of creating RF requirements for specific band combinations.

In theory there could be as many as 5 carriers but so far all the activity is around dual carrier combinations

The original CA work in Rel-10 was limited to three combinations

In Rel-11 there are now up to 18 CA combinations being specified. The lead company indicates the interested parties

Band

E-UTRA

operatin

g Band

Uplink (UL) band Downlink (DL) band

Duple

x

mode

UE transmit / BS receive Channel

BW

MHz

UE receive / BS

transmit Channel

BW

MHz FUL_low (MHz) – FUL_high

(MHz)

FDL_low (MHz) – FDL_high

(MHz)

CA_40 40 2300 – 2400 [TBD] 2300 – 2400 [TBD] TDD

CA_1-5 1 1920 – 1980 [TBD] 2110 – 2170 [TBD]

FDD 5 824 – 849 [TBD] 869 – 894 [TBD]

CA_3-7 3 1710 – 1788 20 1805 – 1880 20

FDD 7 2500 – 2570 20 2620 – 2690 20






Carrier Aggregation

Rel-11 Carrier Aggregation Combinations

Band Lead Uplink Downlink Uplink Downlink Mode

CA-B3_B7 TeliaSonera 1710 - 1785 1805 - 1880 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 FDD

CA-B4_B17 AT&T 1710 – 1755 2110 - 2155 704 – 716 734 - 746 FDD

CA-B4_B13 Ericsson (Verizon) 1710 – 1755 2110 - 2155 777 - 787 746 - 756 FDD

CA-B4_B12 Cox Communications 1710 – 1755 2110 - 2155 698 – 716 728 - 746 FDD

CA-B20_B7 Huawei (Orange) 832 – 862 791 - 821 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 FDD

CA-B2_B17 AT&T 1850 – 1910 1930 - 1990 704 – 716 734 - 746 FDD

CA-B4_B5 AT&T 1710 – 1755 2110 - 2155 824 – 849 869 - 894 FDD

CA-B5_B12 US Cellular 824 – 849 869 - 894 698 – 716 728 - 746 FDD

CA-B5_B17 AT&T 824 – 849 869 - 894 704 – 716 734 - 746 FDD

CA-B20_B3 Vodafone 832 – 862 791 - 821 1710 - 1785 1805 - 1880 FDD

CA-B20_B8 Vodafone 832 – 862 791 - 821 880 – 915 925 - 960 FDD

CA-B3_B5 SK Telecom 1710 - 1785 1805 - 1880 824 – 849 869 - 894 FDD

CA-B7 China Unicom 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 FDD

CA-B1_B7 China Telecomm 1920 - 1980 2110 - 2170 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 FDD

CA-B4_B7 Rogers Wireless 1710 – 1755 2110 - 2155 2500 - 2570 2620 - 2690 FDD

CA-B25_25 Sprint 1850 - 1915 1930 - 1995 1850 - 1915 1930 - 1995 FDD

CA-B38 Huawei (CMCC) 2570 - 2620 2570 - 2620 2570 - 2620 2570 - 2620 TDD

CA-B41 Clearwire 3600 - 3800 3600 - 3800 3600 - 3800 3600 - 3800 TDD



Enhanced Uplink

PUSCH+PUCCH Simultaneous Transmission

Partially allocated

PUSCH

Release 8: SC-FDMA with

alternating PUSCH/PUCCH

(Inherently single carrier)

Proposed Release 10: Clustered SC-FDMA

with simultaneous PUSCH/PUCCH

(Potentially multi-carrier)

Partially allocated

PUSCH

Upper PUCCH

Fully allocated

PUSCH

Lower PUCCH

Partially allocated

PUSCH + PUCCH

Partially allocated

PUSCH + PUCCH

Partially allocated

PUSCH + 2 PUCCH

Partially allocated

PUSCH only

Fully allocated

PUSCH + PUCCH

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Enhanced MIMO

Up to 8x8 Downlink (from 4x2 for Rel-8)

‒ Baseline being 4x4 with 4 UE Receive Antennae

‒ Peak data rate reached with 8x8 SU-MIMO

Up to 4x4 Uplink (from 1x2 for Rel-8)

‒ Baseline being 2x2 with 2 UE Transmit Antennae

‒ Peak data rate reached with 4x4 SU-MIMO

Use of beamforming with spatial multiplexing to increase data rate, coverage and capacity

Challenges of higher order MIMO

‒ Need for tower-mounted radio heads

‒ Increased power consumption

‒ Increased product costs

‒ Physical space for the antennae at both eNB and UE

Max 4 layers

Max 1 layer

Max 8 layers

Max 4 layers

Rel-8 LTE

LTE-Advanced






Enhanced MIMO






CoMP

(Coordinated multipoint transmission and reception)

Downlink

• Joint processing (JP)

• Joint transmission : PDSCH is transmitted from multiple cells with precoding among coordinated cells

• Dynamic cell selection: PDSCH is transmitted from one cell, which is dynamically selected

• Coordinated scheduling/beamforming (CS/CB)

• PDSCH transmitted only from 1 cell; scheduling/beamforming is coordinated among cells

Uplink

• Simultaneous reception requires coordinated scheduling

Traditional MIMO – co-located transmission Coordinated Multipoint

eNB

eNB 2

eNB 1 UE UE






Relay

• Basic in-channel relaying uses a relay node (RN) that receives, amplifies

and then retransmits DL and UL signals to improve coverage

• Advanced relaying performs L2 or L3 decoding of transmissions before

transmitting only what is required for the local UE

Cell Edge

Area of poor coverage with

no cabled backhaul

Multi-hop relaying

Over The Air

backhaul

eNB

eNB

RN

RN

RN

• OFDMA makes it possible to

split a channel into UE and

backhaul traffic

• The link budget between the

eNB and relay station can

be engineered to be good

enough to allow MBSFN

subframes to be used for

backhaul of the relay traffic

• Main use cases:

• Urban/indoor for

throughput or dead zone

• Rural for coverage






Heterogeneous Network

LTE-Advanced intends to address the support needs of

heterogeneous networks that combine low power nodes (such as

picocells, femtocells, repeaters, and relay nodes) within a macrocell.

Deployment scenarios under evaluation are detailed in TR 36.814

Annex A.






SON-Self Organization Network

Today’s cellular systems are very much centrally planned, and the addition of

new nodes to the network involves expensive and time-consuming work, site

visits for optimization, and other deployment challenges.

One of the enhancements being considered for LTE-Advanced is the self-

optimizing network (SON).

The main aspects of SON can be summarized as follows:

• Self configuration

• Self optimization

• Self healing

Some limited SON capability was introduced in Release 8 and is being

further elaborated in Release 9 and Release 10.






The concept of Home eNB (femtocells) is not new to LTE-A

In Release 8 femtocells were introduced for UMTS

In Release 9 they were introduced for LTE (HeNB)

In Release 9 only inbound mobility (macro to HeNB) was fully specified

In Release 10 there will be further enhancements to enable HeNB to HeNB mobility

This is very important for enterprise deployments

Home eNB






New LTE-Advanced UE Categories

To accommodate the higher data rates of LTE-A, three new UE

categories have been defined

UE category

Max. Data

rate

(DL / UL)

(Mbps)

Downlink Uplink

Max. # DL-

SCH TB bits /

TTI

Max. # DL-

SCH bits

/ TB / TTI

Total. soft

channel

bits

Max. #.

spatial

layers

Max.# UL-

SCH TB bits /

TTI

Max. # UL-

SCH bits

/ TB / TTI

Support

for

64QAM

Category 1 10 / 5 10296 10296 250368 1 5160 5160 No

Category 2 50 / 25 51024 51024 1237248 2 25456 25456 No

Category 3 100 / 50 102048 75376 1237248 2 51024 51024 No

Category 4 150 / 50 150752 75376 1827072 2 51024 51024 No

Category 5 300 / 75 299552 149776 3667200 4 75376 75376 Yes

Category 6 300 / 50 [299552] [TBD] [3667200] [51024 ] [TBD] No

Category 7 300 / 150 [299552] [TBD] [TBD]

[150752/

102048 (Up-

to RAN4)]

[TBD]

Yes/No

(Up-to

RAN4)

Category 8 1200 / 600 [1200000] [TBD] [TBD] [600000] [TBD] Yes






LTE _A

Overview






LTE _A

Measurement






Release 11 Prioritization

Due to the high workload in 3GPP RAN, and in particular the radio group

RAN WG4, a new prioritization exercise was carried out to identify the most

important features

Each operator was awarded seven votes per working group to be assigned

to the list of possible work items

Excluded from the prioritization was any work related to new bands and

specified combinations for carrier aggregation. This is an independently

controversial area being handled separately

Work or Study Item List for LTE Release 11

–. CoMP –. CA enhancements –. eICIC(HetNet) enhancements

–. Advanced receiver –. Relay –. MDT enhancements

–. MBMS enhancements –. SON enhancements –. MTC enhancements






The Operators with Votes

AT&T Bell Mobility Cellular South China Mobile Com.

Corporation

China Tele-

communications

China Unicom

CHTTL Clearwire Cox

Communication

s

DBSD Services

Ltd.

Deutsche

Telekom AG

eAccess Ltd

France Telecom KDDI

Corporation

LG U+ LightSquared NII Holdings NTT DOCOMO

INC.

Rogers Wireless

Inc.

SK Telecom SOFTBANK

MOBILE Corp.

SouthernLINC

Wireless

SPRINT TELECOM

ITALIA S.p.A.

Telefonica SA Telekom Austria

AG

TELENOR ASA TeliaSonera AB TELUS TerreStar

Networks Inc.

T-Mobile USA

Inc.

UK Broadband

Ltd

US Cellular

Corporation

Verizon

Wireless

VODAFONE

Group Plc






LTE _A

Overview






LTE _A

Measurement






Status of LTE network launches – 12th Oct

2011 http://www.gsacom.com/downloads/pdf/gsa_evolution_to_lte_report

_121011.php4 35 commercial FDD networks already

launched - see table left

248 operators in 87 countries investing in

deployment or trials

185 Networks planned in 66 countries

66 by the end of 2011

103 by 2012

106 by 2013

79 with no firm date

63 additional trials in 21 further countries

Source: Global Suppliers Association report

http://www.gsacom.com/downloads/pdf/gsa_evolution_to_lte_report_121011.php4

http://www.gsacom.com/downloads/pdf/gsa_evolution_to_lte_report_121011.php4






LTE1800 Initiative: Refarming Under-Used

GSM

LTE-1800 now deployed in 9 countries:

Plans in another 28 countries:

Source: Global Suppliers Association






LTE-A Deployment

The first question to ask when people are looking form information on

LTE-A timing is “which feature”

LTE-A, Release 10 etc. Is a large grouping of backwards-compatible

features, none of which are mandatory

The most likely contenders for early LTE-A deployment are:

Some limited form of carrier aggregation to increase instantaneous

bandwidth is particular local operator areas

‒ E.g. US operator combining 10 MHz at 700 with 10 MHz at 1700

‒ Expensive requires two transceivers unless adjacent

Uplink MIMO

Requires two UE transmitters – expensive, battery issues

Enhanced downlink e.g. 8x2



Agilent LTE-Advanced

Measurement Solution






LTE Overview LTE _A

Overview

LTE _A

Measurement

Carrier Aggregation

N7109A Multi-channel

N7109A + 89600B Benefits

Agilent LTE/LTE-A Solutions

MIMO TX Test Solutions






LTE-Advanced Release 10 at a Glance!

1

2

3

Carrier aggregation

• Support for up to 5 Aggregated Component Carriers (CCs)

• Up to 100 MHz Bandwidth

Enhanced uplink multiple access

• Clustered SC-FDMA

• Simultaneous Control and Data

Higher order MIMO

• Downlink 8x8

• Uplink 4x4






Carrier Aggregation

March 2011

LTE-Advanced ATD

Intra or single-

band contiguous

allocation

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lock

f

≈ Band A Band B

Reso

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lock

f

Intra or single-

band non-

contiguous

allocation

Inter or multi-

band non-

contiguous

allocation

Component Carrier (CC)– up to 20 MHz BW

Reso

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loc

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f

Band A

Band A






100 MHz system

bandwidth. Ex. 5 component

carriers (CCs)

Carrier Aggregation:

Intra-Band Contiguous Allocations

Signal Analyzer Configuration Component Carrier (CC)– up to 20 MHz BW

Reso

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loc

k

100 MHz BW

40 MHz

20 MHz 20 MHz 20 MHz 20 MHz 20 MHz

Simultaneous

analysis of all CCs.

PXA with 160 MHz

BW option

Simultaneous analysis

of multiple CCs within

40 MHz BW. P/M/EXA with 40 MHz

BW option

N7109A with standard

40 MHz BW

Analyze one CC at

a time. PXA 25 MHz BW

Option

M/EXA: Standard 25

MHz BW

N7109A with

standard 40 MHz BW

100

MHz

case

40

MHz

case

20

MHz

case





Intra-Band Non-Contiguous Allocations

Signal Analyzer Configuration

PXA with 160MHz covers intra-band non-contiguous use cases

MXA/EXA 40 MHz not wide enough for all use cases. However with 89600 v.15 (March 2012), dual MXA or EXA with B25 can be used. B40 (40 MHz) not supported today.

N7109A Multi-Channel Signal Analysis System – each tuner supports up to 40 MHz bandwidth. 89600 v.15, multiple tuners can be used to cover non-contiguous use cases requiring more than 40 MHz span.


Reso

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loc

k f

Band A

Dual MXAs or

EXAs with B25

N7109A







≈

Reso

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e b

lock


Inter-Band Carrier Aggregation

Band A Band B

Dual MXAs or EXAs

with B25 (Note: B40 not

supported today)

Signal Studio doesn’t

support Inter-Band Carrier

Aggregation configuration

but you can use two

instances of signal studio.

Dual-PXA not

supported. It is in the

roadmap for future

release (late 2012)

N7109A

OR

New with 89600 VSA v.15






N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analyzer

4X4 today, 8x8 on the horizon

Wireless LAN

– 3X3 and 4X4 chipsets today

– Next-gen Gigabit WLAN will use 4X4 MIMO

WiMAX & LTE

– 2X2 deployed today; 4X4 being adopted

– Next-gen 802.16m WiMAX needs 4X4

– LTE Advanced will need 8X8 (2012)

N7109A provides leading 4x4 MIMO RF performance and fastest

measurement speed at an attractive price for MIMO R&D applications,

leveraging Agilent’s superb 89600B Vector Signal Analysis software!

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N7109A + 89600B Benefits

Supports all key MIMO measurements

– RF parametric (PHY layer) measurements

– Channel/phase timing

– Isolation/crosstalk

– Flatness/frequency response

– Modulation quality (EVM)

Supports all key MIMO analysis requirements

– Matrix decoder function for MIMO signal separation

– Decode lower protocol layer (MAC) and signal elements

Key N7109A platform benefits

– Ready for 8-ch with 89600B v15 (February 2012).

– Platform can support up to 12 phase synchronous channels.

– Fastest measurement speed with 89600B VSA application

– Phase coherent, time-aligned measurements

– Pre-selected tuner for excellent off-air RF measurements







N7109A/89600B -- What’s NEW

8-ch TD-LTE Measurements

– Agilent BeFirst Team currently integrating 89600B VSA alpha (v15) software

– Evaluations held with key customers during September. Very positive feedback.

– Planned for 89600B v15 (est. release Feb. 2012) - TD-LTE TM7, single layer beamforming using Port 5 (8x1) - TD-LTE TM8, singe & dual layer BF using Ports 7&8 (8x2)

– Tentatively planned for 89600B v16 - LTE-A Transmission Mode 9 (8x8 MIMO Downlink) - LTE-A 4x4 MIMO Uplink

General 8-ch Measurements with 89600B

– Multi-channel measurements for general device testing, including: coherence, cross correlation, cross spectrum, frequency response, impulse response

LTE-A Carrier Aggregation Investigation (Independent Tuning)

– N7109A tuners can support independent center frequencies with spans up to 40MHz

– Investigation started to support LTE-A carrier aggregation of multiple spans at different center frequencies. Also useful for simultaneous uplink + downlink measurements.

– Aiming for 89600B VSA v16 (H2 2012)



Agilent LTE Solutions Overview

ADS and

SystemVue

LTE VSA SW For SAs, Scopes, LA,

SystemVue and ADS

Spectrum Analyzers with LTE Msmt Apps

Signal

Studio

Signal

Generators

PXB BB

Tester

N9912A

RF Analyzer

RDX for

DigRF v4

E6621A PXT

Communications Test Set

N6070A LTE

signaling

conformance

test solutions Cable antenna tester &

Spectrum analyzer

Battery

Drain Test

Systems for

RF and

Protocol

Conformance

Scopes and

Logic Analyzers

RF Module Development

RF Proto RF Chip/module

Design

Simulation

BTS and Mobile

BB Chipset Development

L1/PHY

FPGA and ASIC

Conformance

RF and BB

Design

Integration

L1/PHY

System

Design

Validation

System Level

RF Testing

BTS

or

Mobile Protocol Development

L2/L3

DigRF v4

Pre-Conformance

Network Deployment

Manufacturing

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Signal

Generators

RDX for

DigRF v4

Systems for RF and

Protocol Conformance

RF Module Development

RF Proto RF Chip/module

Design

Simulation

BTS and Mobile

BB Chipset Development

L1/PHY

FPGA and ASIC

Conformance

RF and BB

Design

Integration

L1/PHY

System

Design

Validation

System Level

RF Testing

BTS

or

Mobile Protocol Development

L2/L3

DigRF v4

Pre-Conformance

Network Deployment

Manufacturing

89600 VSA

SystemVue (BB)

ADS/GG (RF/A)

N5971A IFT

Software

Scopes and

Logic Analyzers

Baseband Generator

and Channel Emulator

Signal creation

software

RF Handheld Analyzers

Manufacturing test platforms

N7109A Multi-Channel

Signal Analysis System

Battery drain

characterization

N6070A LTE signaling

conformance test

RF & Protocol test

platforms

Signal Analyzers with LTE Measurement Apps

89600 WLA

Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions Overview

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Generate LTE-Advanced signals

• Create physical layer coded signals for component test

• Compliant to Release 10 (Dec-2010) 3GPP standard

• LTE-Advanced FDD and TDD signal generation

Uplink and downlink carrier aggregation

• Generate contiguous and non-contiguous uplink and

downlink component carriers

• Supports LTE-Advanced scenarios proposed by 3GPP

• CSI-RS and DM-RS support

Enhanced uplink

• Supports clustered SC-FDMA

• Simultaneous PUSCH and PUCCH configurations

Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions

Signal Studio and 89600B VSA Software






Agilent LTE-Advanced Solutions

Signal Studio and 89600B VSA Software

− Compliant to 3GPP Release 10

− Carrier Aggregation (CA)

• Covers the various deployment scenarios

proposed by 3GPP

• Downlink and Uplink carrier aggregation

• Carrier aggregation in contiguous bandwidth

• Carrier aggregation in non-contiguous

bandwidth

• Analyze multiple component carriers (CCs)

simultaneously

− Enhanced Uplink:

• Clustered SC-FDMA

• Simultaneous PUCCH and PUSCH analysis



MIMO Transmitter Test Solutions

What hardware platform is best for the customer?

• Up to 2 Channels

• Best EVM/Dynamic Range

• Fully characterized RF specs

• General purpose application

• Price

• Up to 4 Channels

• Widest analysis BW

• General purpose application

• Phase Coherent

• 8 Channels (8ch with VSA)

• Modular/extendable/scalable

• Best measurement speed

• Phase Coherent

• Pre-selected tuner, off-air

measurements

89600 VSA Software

MXA/EXA signal analyzer

90000 X-Series Oscilloscopes

N7109A Multi-channel Signal Analysis System

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MIMO Transmitter Test Solutions - Agilent

Money Spec Conditions N7109A Infiniium 90000X Infiniium 90000 MXA/EXA 89641 VXI

Discontinued

Max Channels 8 Rx Channels

(phase coherent)

4 Rx Channels

(phase coherent)

4 Rx Channels

(phase coherent)

2 Rx channels

(with 2 MXA/EXA)

2 Rx Channels

(coherent <2.7GHz)

Frequency Range 20 MHz to 6 GHz DC to 16 GHz,32 GHz DC to 6 GHz,13 GHz 20 Hz to

3.6,8.4/7,13.6, 26.5 GHz Baseband, 20MHz-6GHz

EVM floor

-47 dB measured

(WiMax 802.16e

20 MHz BW)

-46 dB measured

(LTE SM composite EVM

5 MHz BW Fc=1.9 GHz)

-42 dB measured

(LTE SM composite EVM

5 MHz BW Fc=1.9 GHz)

-49/-45 dB uplink

-48/-45 dB downlink -43 dB typical

3rd Order Intercept 6 GHz +12 dBm TBD TBD +18/+17 dBm +5 dBm (2.7GHz)

Displayed Average

Noise Level 2 GHz -158 dBm/Hz TBD TBD

-151/-148 dBm

-166/-161 dBm (w/ preamp) -158dBm/Hz (E2731)

Noise 1 GHz

Carrier

Typical Offsets

10 kHz

100 kHz

1 MHz

-98 dBc/Hz

-98 dBc/Hz

-115 dBc/Hz

TBD TBD

-106/-102 dBc/Hz

-117/-114 dBc/Hz

-136/-135 dBc/Hz

-

-99 dBc/Hz

-110 dBc/Hz

Amplitude

Accuracy

1 GHz

6 GHz

± 0.25 dB typical

± 0.5 dB typical TBD TBD

± 0.23/±0.27 dB

± 0.5 dB calculated

± 2 dB typical

± 3 dB typical

Analysis Bandwidth Max. 40 MHz x 8 16-32 GHz 6-13 GHz 10 MHz, 25 MHz Opt. 37.11 MHz

Preselected Tuner Yes No No No Yes

Max Time Capture Msamples 132 Msa 2 GSa 1 GSa - 48 Msa – 384 Msa

Pricing (Hardware)

2-ch

4-ch

8-ch

$76k

$96k

~$160k-$170k (future)

$131k+

$67k+

$90k /61K (8.4GHz/25MHz BW)

$73k/45K (3.6GHz/25MHz BW)

2-ch only

Discontinued

(2-ch, $150k)

Work in progress

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Documents

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