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I. LTE Introduction
II. LTE Protocol Layer
III. SAE Architecture
IV. NAS(Non Access Stratum) Protocols
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Introducing 3GPP approach to handover and handoff mechanisms.
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This presentation focuses on mobility management protocols such as GTP-C and GTP-U.
This slide for your understanding on LTE !
LTE, the wireless access protocol for 4G mobile network service, has evolved from GSM and WCDMA based on 3GPP!
The contents of this slide is below;
I. LTE Introduction
II. LTE Protocol Layer
III. SAE Architecture
IV. NAS(Non Access Stratum) Protocols
V. EPC Protocol Stacks
With my regards,
Guisun Han
Mobile Internet applications running on devices such as smart phones and tablets have dramatically changed the landscape of application-generated network traffic. Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Releases 8, 9, and 10 (LTE and LTE-Advanced) were proposed before many such applications. Now such applications are widely used in modern smart phones and other mobile devices.
In LTE’s power management model, where the user equipment (UE) is stays in radio resource control (RRC)-Connected state during active sessions and moves to RRC-Idle during Inactive sessions. It was well suited to the previous generation of popular applications and was effective at minimizing UE power consumption and other air interface resources.
However, newer applications generate a constant stream of autonomous and user generated traffic at all times. This has, thus erasing the previously clear demarcation between active and Inactive states. This means, a given mobile device often ends up moving between connected and idle states very frequently to send mostly short bursts of data. This is draining device battery and causing excessive signaling overhead in LTE networks. This problem has grown and attracted the research community’s attention to address the negative effects of frequent back and forth transitions between LTE radio states.
This seminar presents various methods for monitoring and controlling techniques for energy usages. Also explore the solution adopted by 3GPP is included in the latest development of release 11, to handle energy management issues. At the end, the future scope related to energy utilization is discussed
An introduction to Cellular communications Signaling, Specifically LTE Signaling.
Introducing 3GPP approach to handover and handoff mechanisms.
LTE architecture by alcatel-lucent included in this presentation.
This presentation focuses on mobility management protocols such as GTP-C and GTP-U.
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1. Long Term Evolution (LTE) - A Tutorial
Ahmed Hamza
aah10@cs.sfu.ca
Network Systems Laboratory
Simon Fraser University
October 13, 2009
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2. 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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3. 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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4. Introduction
Introduction
In November 2004 3GPP began a project to define the long-term
evolution of UMTS cellular technology.
Related pecifications are formally known as the evolved UMTS
terrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) and evolved UMTS terrestrial
radio access network (E-UTRAN).
First version is documented in Release 8 of the 3GPP
specifications.
Commercial deployment not expected before 2010, but there are
currently many field trials.
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6. Introduction
Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance
19 worldwide leading mobile operators
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7. Introduction
LTE Targets
Higher performance
100 Mbit/s peak downlink, 50 Mbit/s peak uplink
1G for LTE Advanced
Faster cell edge performance
Reduced latency (to 10 ms) for better user experience
Scalable bandwidth up to 20 MHz
Backwards compatible
Works with GSM/EDGE/UMTS systems
Utilizes existing 2G and 3G spectrum and new spectrum
Supports hand-over and roaming to existing mobile networks
Reduced capex/opex via simple architecture
reuse of existing sites and multi-vendor sourcing
Wide application
TDD (unpaired) and FDD (paired) spectrum modes
Mobility up to 350kph
Large range of terminals (phones and PCs to cameras)
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8. 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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9. LTE Architecture
LTE Architecture
LTE encompasses the evolution of:
the radio access through the E-UTRAN
the non-radio aspects under the term System Architecture
Evolution (SAE)
Entire system composed of both LTE and SAE is called the
Evolved Packet System (EPS)
At a high-level, the network is comprised of:
Core Network (CN), called Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in SAE
access network (E-UTRAN)
A bearer is an IP packet flow with a defined QoS between the
gateway and the User Terminal (UE)
CN is responsible for overall control of UE and establishment of
the bearers
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11. 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 of
multimedia applications is provided by the IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS), which considered outside of EPS
E-UTRAN solely contains the evolved base stations, called
eNodeB or eNB
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13. 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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14. LTE Radio Interface
LTE Radio Interface Architecture
eNB and UE have control plane and data plane protocol layers
Data enters
processing chain in
the form of IP
packets on one of
the SAE bearers
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15. 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/concatenation
retransmission handling
in-sequence delivery to higher layers
Medium Access Control (MAC)
handles hybrid-ARQ retransmissions
uplink and downlink scheduling at the eNodeB
Physical Layer (PHY)
coding/decoding
modulation/demodulation (OFDM)
multi-antenna mapping
other typical physical layer functions
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16. LTE Radio Interface
Communication Channels
RLC offers services to PDCP in the form of radio bearers
MAC offers services to RLC in the form of logical channels
PHY offers services to MAC in the form of transport channels
A logical channel is defined by the type of information it carries.
Generally classified as:
a control channel, used for transmission of control and
configuration information necessary for operating an LTE system
a traffic channel, used for the user data
A transport channel is defined by how and
with what characteristics the information is transmitted over the
radio interface
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17. LTE Radio Interface
Channel Mapping
BCCH: Broadcast
DL-SCH: Downlink Shared
CCCH: Common
DTCH: Dedicated Traffic MCH: Multicast
PCCH: Paging
MTCH: Multicast Traffic BCH: Broadcast
MCCH: Multicast
PCH: Paging
DCCH: Hamza
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18. LTE Radio Interface
Radio Link Control (RLC) Layer
Depending on the scheduler decision, a certain amount of data is
selected for transmission from the RLC SDU buffer and the SDUs
are segmented/concatenated to create the RLC PDU. Thus, for
LTE the RLC PDU size varies dynamically
Each RLC PDU includes a header, containing, among other
things, a sequence number used for in-sequence delivery and by
the retransmission mechanism
A retransmission protocol operates between the RLC entities in
the 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-based
hybrid-ARQ protocol
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19. 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 transport
block of a certain size is transmitted over the radio interface
to/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 antenna
mapping)
By varying the transport format, the MAC layer can realize
different data rates.
Rate control is therefore also known as transport-format selection
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20. 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-ARQ
mechanism out-of-sequence, in-sequence delivery is ensured by
the RLC layer)
Hybrid ARQ is not applicable for all types of traffic (broadcast
transmissions typically do not rely on hybrid ARQ). Hence, hybrid
ARQ is only supported for the DL-SCH and the UL-SCH
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21. LTE Radio Interface
Physical (PHY) Layer
Based on OFDMA with cyclic prefix in downlink, and on SC-FDMA
with a cyclic prefix in the uplink
Three duplexing modes are supported: full duplex FDD, half
duplex FDD, and TDD
Two frame structure types:
Type-1 shared by both full- and half-duplex FDD
Type-2 applicable to TDD
A radio frame has a length of 10 ms and contains 20 slots (slot
duration is 0.5 ms)
Two adjacent slots constitute a subframe of length 1 ms
Supported modulation schemes are: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
Broadcast channel only uses QPSK
Maximum information block size = 6144 bits
CRC-24 used for error detection
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22. LTE Radio Interface
Type-1 Frame
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23. LTE Radio Interface
Type-2 Frame
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24. LTE Radio Interface
Scheduler in eNB (base station) allocates resource blocks (which
are the smallest elements of resource allocation) to users for
predetermined amount of time
Slots consist of either 6 (for long cyclic prefix) or 7 (for short cyclic
prefix) OFDM symbols
Longer cyclic prefixes are desired to address longer fading
Number of available subcarriers changes depending on
transmission bandwidth (but subcarrier spacing is fixed)
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25. LTE Radio Interface
Downlink Resource Block
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27. LTE Radio Interface
To enable channel estimation in OFDM transmission, known
reference symbols are inserted into the OFDM time-frequency
grid.
In LTE, these reference symbols are jointly referred to as downlink
reference signals.
Three types of reference signals are defined for the LTE downlink:
Cell-specific downlink reference signals
transmitted in every downlink subframe, and span the entire downlink
cell bandwidth.
UE-specific reference signal
only transmitted within the resource blocks assigned for DL-SCH
transmission to that specific terminal
MBSFN reference signals
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28. LTE Radio Interface
MAC Scheduler
eNB scheduler controls the time/frequency resources for a given
time for uplink and downlink
dynamically controls the terminal(s) to transmit to and, for each of
these terminals, the set of resource blocks upon which the
terminal’s DL-SCH should be transmitted
Scheduler dynamically allocates resources to UEs at each TTI
The scheduling strategy is implementation specific and not
specified by 3GPP
scheduler selects best multiplexing for UE based on channel
conditions
preferably schedule transmissions to a UE on resources with
advantageous channel condition
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29. LTE Radio Interface
Most scheduling strategies need information about:
channel conditions at the terminal
buffer status and priorities of the different data flows
interference situation in neighboring cells (if some form of
interference coordination is implemented)
UE transmits
channel-status reports reflecting the instantaneous channel quality
in the time and frequency domains
information necessary to determine the appropriate antenna
processing in case of spatial multiplexing
Downlink LTE considers the following schemes as a scheduler
algorithm:
Frequency Selective Scheduling (FSS)
Frequency Diverse Scheduling (FDS)
Proportional Fair Scheduling (PFS)
Interference coordination, which tries to control the inter-cell
interference on a slow basis, is also part of the scheduler
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30. 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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31. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
Introduced for WCDMA (UMTS) in Release 6
Supports multicast/broadcast services in a cellular system
Same content is transmitted to multiple users located in a specific
area (MBMS service area) in a unidirectional fashion
MBMS extends existing 3GPP architecture by introducing:
MBMS Bearer Service
delivers IP multicast datagrams to multiple receivers using minimum
radio and network resources and provides an efficient and scalable
means to distribute multimedia content to mobile phones
MBMS User Services
streaming services - a continuous data flow of audio and/or video is
delivered to the user’s handset
download services - data for the file is delivered in a scheduled
transmission timeslot
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32. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
QoS for transport of multimedia applications is not sufficiently high
to support a significant portion of the users for either download or
streaming applications
The p-t-m MBMS Bearer Service does neither allow control, mode
adaptation, nor retransmitting lost radio packets
Consequently, 3GPP included an application layer FEC based on
Raptor codes for MBMS
MBMS User Services may be distributed over p-t-p links (if more
efficient)
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 to
become member of the corresponding MBMS service group
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33. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
MBMS data streams are not split until necessary
MBMS services are power limited and maximize the diversity
without relying on feedback from users
Two techniques are used to provide diversity:
Macro-diversity: combining transmission from multiple cells
Soft combining: combines the soft bits received from the different
radio links prior to (Turbo) coding
Selection combining: decoding the signal received from each cell
individually, and for each TTI selects one (if any) of the correctly
decoded 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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34. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)
Streaming data are encapsulated in RTP and transported using
the FLUTE protocol when delivering over MBMS bearers
MAC layer maps and multiplexes the RLC-PDUs to the transport
channel and selects the transport format depending on the
instantaneous source rate
MBMS uses the Multimedia Traffic Channel (MTCH), which
enables p-t-m distribution. This channel is mapped to the Forward
Access Channel (FACH), which is finally mapped to the
Secondary-Common Control Physical Channel (S-CCPCH)
The TTI is transport channel specific and can be selected from the
set 10 ms, 20 ms, 40 ms, 80 ms for MBMS
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36. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
LTE Evolved MBMS (eMBMS)
Will be defined in Release 9 of the 3GPP specifications
currently in progress, expected to be frozen in Dec 2009
Multimedia service can be provided by either: single-cell
broadcast or multicell mode (aka MBMS Single Frequency
Network (MBSFN))
In an MBSFN area, all eNBs are synchronized to perform
simulcast transmission from multiple cells (each cell transmitting
identical waveform)
If user is close to a base station, delay of arrival between two cells
could be quite large, so the subcarrier spacing is reduced to 7.5
KHz and longer CP is used
Main advantages over technologies such as DVB-H or DMB:
no additional infrastructure
operator uses resources that are already purchased
user interaction is possible
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37. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service
MCE coordinates the synchronous multi-cell transmission
The MCE can physically be part of the eNB → flat architecture
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38. 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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39. LTE Deployment Considerations
LTE Deployment Considerations
Voice and SMS (main source of revenue for telecom companies)
Circuit Switch Fallback (CS Fallback)
IMS-based VoIP
Voice 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 existing
equipment)
Service provision (not being a dumb bit pipe provider)
Security (especially EPC)
terminal devices (balancing battery life with MIMO support, and
how much legacy support)
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40. 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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41. Work Related to Video Streaming
Mobile Video Transmission Using Scalable Video
Coding
Investigating per packet QoS would enable general packet
marking strategies (such as Differentiated Services). This can be
done by either:
Mapping SVC priority information to Differentiated Services Code
Point (DSCP) to introduce per packet QoS
Making the scheduler media-aware (e.g. by including some
MANE-like functinality), and therefore able to use priority
information 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 of
different layers, on different multicast addresses for example,
allows for applying protection strength on different layers
By providing signalling in the RTP payload header as well as in the
SDP session signalling, adaptation (for bitrate or device capability)
can be applied in the network by nodes typically known as MANE
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42. Work Related to Video Streaming
Downlink OFDM Scheduling and Resource Allocation
for Delay Constrained SVC Streaming
Problem Definition:
Designing efficient multi-user video streaming protocols that fully
exploit the resource allocation flexibility in OFDM and performance
scalabilities in SVC
Maximize average PSNR for all video users under a total downlink
transmission power constraint based on a stochastic
subgradient-based scheduling framework
Authors generalize their previous downlink OFDM resource
allocation algorithm for elastic data traffic to real-time video
streaming by further considering dynamically adjusted priority
weights based on the current video content, deadline
requirements, and the previous transmission results
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43. Work Related to Video Streaming
Scalable and Media Aware Adaptive Video Streaming
over Wireless Networks
A packet scheduling algorithm (in MANE) which operates on the
different substreams of the main scalable video stream
Exploit SVC coding to provide a subset of hierarchically organized
substreams at the RLC layer entry point and utilize the scheduling
algorithm to select scalable substreams to be transmitted to RCL
layer depending on the channel transmission conditions
General idea:
perform fair scheduling between scalable substreams until deadline
of oldest unsent data units with higher priorities is approaching
do not maintain fairness if deadline is expected to be violated,
packets with lower priorities are delayed in a first time and later
dropped if necessary
In addition, SVC coding is tuned, leading to a generalized
scalability scheme including regions of interest (ROI) (combining
ROI coding with SNR and temporal scalability)
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44. 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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45. Conclusions
Conclusions
LTE and SAE will be the unified 4G wireless network
Backwards compatible
Multiple upgrade paths
Significant carrier commitment
eMBMS seems promising for delivering multimedia content over
LTE (at least in theory) and without the need for a separate
infrastructure
LTE still faces some deployment challenges (but are currently
being studied)
Research interest in optimized streaming video via eMBMS
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46. Conclusions
References
[Ergen’09]
Mustafa Ergen, Mobile Broadband: Including WiMAX and LTE,
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[STB’09]
S. Sesia, I. Toufik, and M. Baker, LTE - The UMTS Long Term
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[DPS’08]
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[Agilent’08]
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47. Conclusions
[SSW’07]
T. Schierl, T. Stockhammer, and T. Wiegand, Mobile Video
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48. Conclusions
Thank You
Questions?
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