5G-Range Project

1. 5G-Range : Remote area
Access Network for 5th
Generation

2. Motivations – Remote Areas
Applications
• Huge social impacts:
 3.9 billion people are unconnected
• Smart farms
 Farms automation
 Machinery control
 Environment and cattle monitoring
• Road coverage
 Entreteniment
 V2I

3. 5G Scenarios
mMTC
URLL

4. Peak Rate > 20 Gbps
Latency
< 1ms
Connections per sector > 100k
Coverage radius
>= 50 km

5. 5G-RANGE Project Goals
• Large Coverage
Low population density regions demands for large cells
5G-RANGE target: 50 km
• Broadband connection
Reliable and high quality broadband connection.
5G-RANGE target: 100 Mbps @ cell edge
• Mobility
Support for drones, cars and trains
5G-Range target: 120km/h

6. 5G-RANGE Project Applications
• Smart farms
Drone control
Unmanned vehicles
Automated processes

7. 5G-RANGE Project Applications
• Mining industry
Safer machinery
Alert network

8. 5G-RANGE Project Applications
• Digital inclusion
E-Gov
Education
Remote Health Care

9. 5G-RANGE Partners

10. 5G-RANGE Main Technologies
• Waveform:
Flexibility to cover all 5G Scenarios
Low out-of-band emission and high spectrum efficiency
Robustness against time and frequency dispersive
channels
Integration with advanced communication techniques

11. 5G-RANGE Main Technologies
• Polar Coding
several coding rates
 easy adaptability
robustness
high spectrum efficiency
low complexity

12. 5G-RANGE Main Technologies
• MIMO:
diversity gain
multiplexing gain
Multi-user MIMO
higher spectrum efficiency
robustness against dispersive channels
range enhancement

13. 5G-RANGE Main Technologies
• Cognitive Radio:
Spectrum sensing
Dynamic spectrum allocation
Fragmented carrier aggregation
robustness against dispersive channels
range enhancement

14. Transceiver Implementation
• Development Platform requirements
Flexibility to use several programming languages
Environment to integrate the efforts developed in different ways
High processing capability
Ability to handle software and hardware processing.
USRP 2952R PXI with FlexRio (Kintex-7) transceptor NI 579

15. Transceiver Implementation

16. • Clock Driven Logic
Very flexible implementation
Efficient FPGA footprint
Complex design
 HDL
Requires expertise
Very flexible implementation
Efficient FPGA footprint
Transceiver Implementation
 Multirate Diagram
 Very easy to implement
 Easy to follow
 Not very flexible

17. Demos and Performance

18. Demonstrations – Public DEMO in
Brasilia 5G BS
5G MS

19. Field test
• Coverage
Measurements up to 50 km.
• Throughput.
Reliable Broadband access.
• Robustness
MIMO and Polar Coding.

20. Performance Analysis in Lab
• Goal: how much do we lose?
• AWGN Channel Noisy channel estimation
Implementation loss

21. Performance Analysis in Lab
• Goal: how much do we lose?
• Rayleigh Channel Noisy channel estimation
Implementation loss