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Opportunities and Challenges with 5G VRAN/Edge Compute/SDN’s

Session 1 Chair: Poornima Lalwaney

April 20th, 2019

San Diego

SUMMIT San Diego 2019

Rajesh Mishra

Founder, president, CTO

Parallel Wireless


• Leads the technology behind Parallel

Wireless’s solution

• Previously led next gen VOLTE@Tartara,

Transformation of softswitch to Wireless

MSC@Bell labs/lucent, Cable industry IMS

servers@cedarpoint, commercial MANET

development@Powerwave Cognition.

• Lucent Technologies/ Bell Labs

Distinguished member award, IEEE paper

presentation awards

• 65+ US and International patents

Dr. Sridhar Rajagopal

VP & Head of RAN Systems

Mavenir


• Heads the system design for Mavenir's cloud RAN products for LTE and 5G.

• Prior to that at

• Ranzure Networks: a cloud RAN start-up.

• Samsung: Had R&D roles in design, prototyping and standardization of 5G

cellular and Wi-Fi systems at Samsung,

• WiQuest: UWB technology

• Nokia: communications and 3G/4G research

• He was an associate editor for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems

(Springer) and has leadership experience in standardization bodies such as

IEEE and WiMedia.

• He was a co-recipient of the IEEE 2017 Marconi Prize Paper award for his

research on mmWave systems. He has co-invented around 40 issued US

patents. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University and is

a senior member of IEEE.

Joseph F. Thome

Vice President, Business Development

AirHop Communications

Joe has driven product strategy and customer acquisition from innovative

prototypes to having hardened commercial systems deployed at scale. He has

worked closely with network operators, RAN vendor and industry consortia to

advanced AirHop’s products, thought leadership and business for network

intelligence solutions.

Prior to AirHop Thome led business development and marketing of digital RF

transceiver ICs at Orca Systems and an array of cellular handset modem businesses

at Texas Instruments, spanning CDMA2000, WiMAX, TD-SCDMA and UMTS. He was a

co-founder of Dot Wireless, a CDMA2000 modem IC company, serving as CFO from

inception through its acquisition by TI. Thome also held various marketing and

engineering roles at Protomatics, NextWave Telecom and Motorola.

Thome holds a bachelor of electrical engineering from the University of Iowa, a

master of electrical engineering from National Technological University and a

master of business administration from the University of California Los Angeles



Masood Amin

Vice President, Altran

Masood Amin is VP and head of Product management for Altran software

frameworks business which provide cutting edge technology for Wireless,

Networking, Cloud & Edge and Automotive. Masood is responsible for product

strategy, incubation engine and roadmap execution. He has represented Aricent in

many forums and conferences on wide areas of technology e.g. SDN/NFV, Cloud

Architecture, 5G transport, Access Networks and Data Center networks

Masood has 20+ year of experience on Carrier Ethernet, Transport Networks. He

worked as chief architect and system engineer for various wireline technologies on

various embedded computing platforms, with emphasis on platform engineering,

protocol design, stacks and frameworks. Masood brings rich experience from

leading technology companies - Hughes, BEL, Flextronics and Aricent. He holds

Bachelor of Technology from Jamia Millia University, Delhi.


Session Chair: Dr. Poornima Lalwaney

Senior Director

Intel Poornima Lalwaney is a Senior Director of Engineering at Intel where she leads the 5G Converged Mobility Systems team. She joined Intel in April 2018. Prior to Intel, Poornima has held technical leadership roles in the mobile wireless industry at Qualcomm, Motorola and Nokia all at San Diego. Poornima has 24 years of experience in broadband wireless systems, software and products. She has worked on early technology commercialization, has led systems, software and product teams delivering products to Mobile Operators around the world. Poornima holds 10 U.S patents in data networking protocols and mobility system architectures and has contributed to the IETF and 3GPP2/3GPP standards.

Poornima Lalwaney holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Master’s degree in Electrical Communications Engineering from The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Poornima has served on technical program committees and chaired sessions at IEEE Conferences. Poornima is a past chair of the San Diego chapter of the IEEE Communications Society. Poornima is involved with San Diego startups mentorship programs and has served on the Evonexus incubator Committee.

OPEN VRAN2G 3G 4G 5G

Rajesh Mishra, Founder, CTO

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DOES 5G MEAN MILLIMETERWAVE (MMWAVE)?

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There are between 6 & 7 million 2G 3G 4G

base stations / towers worldwide.

5G mmWave provides large bandwidths

but the cell sizes would be small

• UBS estimates that to provide ubiquitous

5G coverage using mmWave in NY-NJ-

PA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA),

an area of ~8,300sq/mi with >20m

population (6% of US total), 600,000 5G

cells (each at 100m radius) would be

required for contiguous 5G coverage.

Lower bands can support 2G, 3G, 4G and

5G

• 3.163M more 2G connections than 4G

globally MNOs investment needs to be

extended from 2G to 3G/4G/5G

• Architecture needs to be 5G native and

software enabled (just add 5G vNFs

when standards are finalized)

5G needs all spectrums bands

Low Band

Nationwide

Mid Band

Metro

mmW

Dense Urban

Coverage

Capacity

Coverage layer

sub–1GHz

mMTC, URLLC

Large Cells

(Macrocells)

Small Cells

or

Macrocells

Capacity layer

1GHz–6GHz

eMBB, mMTC,

URLLC

High Throughput

layers

6GHz–100GHz

eMBB, URLLC

Small Cells

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PARALLEL WIRELESS OPEN VRAN

Parallel Wireless, Inc. Proprietary

Unified software

approach

5G native

architecture

Open RAN across all Gs

and RAN products

ALL G, ALL Hauls, ALL Cores, ALL SONs, ALL Slices, ALL Services

• ecosystem supports

macros, massive

MIMOs, and small cells

• Support of any 3GPPP

compliant RAN split

• interference management

across 2G/3G/4G/5G

• carrier aggregation to

improve network efficiency

and subscriber experience

• outdoor and indoor

scenarios

Telefonica and Vodafone at

TIP Summit

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MAC-PHY SplitUse cases

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RRU/DU/CU Aggregator

RRUAggregator/

DU/CU

RRU Aggregator

DU CU


ALL G swStandardized

(COTS)

RAN hw

Enabling

• Unified fully virtualized architecture across all Gs

• 5G-ready: delivering benefits of 5G to ALL Gs

(i.e. latency, network slicing, orchestration)

• Endorsed and deployed on 6 continents, among:

Telefonica, Vodafone, MTN as a part of FB Open RAN

initiative, Cellcom (US), EE/BT, Optus, Telesol Ghana,

Kalimat, Zain.

World’s first e2e software-enabled

fully virtualized OPEN RAN for ALL G

(2G/3G/4G/5G)

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… everyone we compared, was

compliant with 4G requirements. But

not many … were delivering 2G or

3G system. We still need 2G and

3G, but we cannot follow the 2G trap.

[We need] software-defined

network that can do any G.

THANK YOUwww.Parallelwireless.com

http://www.parallelwireless.com/

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Opportunities and Challenges with

5G vRAN/Edge Compute/SDN

Sridhar Rajagopal, Ph.D.

VP & Head of RAN Systems

April 2019 – IEEE 5G Summit

Mavenir Systems Proprietary Information2

Pain points addressed by Open RAN

Decreasing revenue for operators

• 5G => densification & capacity will carry cost

Vendor lock-in

• Dedicated hardware with no reuse

Adding features with new licenses, hardware and upgrades

• 4G to 5G evolution

Integration into OSS/BSS

• Programmability and control to operator

RAN evolution

• ML, automation

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Aligned with O-RAN

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Source: o-ran.org

Example use case for disaggregated RAN

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Session

Anchor

Data Network

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Open RAN challenges

Increased interfaces for IoT & validation

Interworking with existing vendors in operator network

Multiple standardization efforts

• 3GPP, O-RAN, TIP, IEEE 1914, eCPRI, SCF

Demonstrating cost improvement

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Mavenir – Open RAN Products

Open, standardized interfaces for a

disaggregated RAN

Splits based on use cases

Wide range of IoT partners based on

O-RAN

COTS hardware + standardized accelerator

interfaces for L1

ONAP support -NFV, SDN

integrated into platform from day 1

4G/5G supported via same vRAN architecture &

platform

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Network Coordination & Analytics

Joe Thome - AirHop Communications

Necessity of Real-Time Optimization with Network Densification

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• Densification increases area capacity [bps/Hz/Km2] at the cost of increased network complexity

• Indoor densification is driven by the need for coverage expansion, capacity expansion and macro offload

• Outdoor densification is driven by capacity, coverage and improved QoS requirements

• Densification brings more complexitymore interference, more cell edges, and more cells to manage with limited network resources

• Paramount to these challenges is Interference management

• Real-time network optimization is essential for high QoS in dense 4G and 5G network deployments

• Agile SDN/NFV networks require dynamic optimization to gracefully adjust to network deployment realities

Crucial Components for 5G Network Optimization

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• 5G embodies network densification and requires increased coordination between the cells with multiple technologies working in concert

• 5G networks present big operational challenges with this added complexity

• Next generation network optimization is crucial to the success of 5G

• New applications, use cases and services require more customized network delivery experiences

• Co-existence of 4G and 5G requires new planning, deployment and optimization solutions

• 5G deployments, operations and services require automated real-time network optimization

Real-TimeCoordination&NetworkLevelOptimization

ArtificialIntelligenceforNetworks

VirtualizedSoftwarePlatform

5GNetworkIntelligence

Real-Time Optimization for Virtualized RAN

• NFV enables more agile, lower cost network topologies

• NFV with open and interoperable standards drive RAN disaggregation

• RAN disaggregation seeds innovation and competition for best-in-breed solutions

• eSON delivers a best-in-breed dynamic network optimization solution using real-time inter-cell coordination

• Dynamic scaling of network optimization as cells are added and removed

• Real-time measurement reports and optimization events are streamed to analytics applications

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Looking toward the future

Opportunities

Unleashing technology innovation and best-in-breed solutions with SDN disaggregated architectures

Expanded capabilities for service and application focused network optimization with AI

Challenges

Market acceptance of open SDN disaggregated architectures

Adoption of interfaces/APIs that can deliver real-time network optimization

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Altran Software Frameworks and Solutions IEEE 5G Summit San Diego 2019

Masood Amin, VP - Product Management

Aricent is now Altran

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Market Dynamics Shaping the next generation Networking

Enhance customer experience through speed & lower latency,

Bring automation and Reduce network complexity

Demand

for low

Latency

NFV/VNFs

SDN

SDN/NFV

Network

Automation


Altran SFS Portfolio – Drives cutting edge innovation

Wireless NetworkingCloud &

EdgeAutomotive

70+ packages for

wireless

Technologies

60+ packages for

Wireline

technologies

5+ Packages for

Cloud and NFV

Frameworks for

Automotive

• Frameworks for 3G/4G

Access Networks & Core

Networks

• Focused on 5G Access

Network and 5G Core

• Frameworks for

Enterprise , Data Center,

Metro and Transport

Networks

• Focused on SDN , Virtual

appliances & white-boxes

• Frameworks for MANO,

VNF Manager

• Focused on Edge Compute

Platform

• Micro Edge and Service

Delivery platform

• V2X Framework

• AVB solutions for fast,

deterministic connectivity

• Betula Blue-tooth stacks


Edge

Cloud

Edge

Cloud

Edge

Cloud

Edge

Cloud

Apps

Apps

Apps

Apps

EDGE COMPUTE5G

RANNGCFH

Altran 5G Strategy – Offer E2E solution building blocks

• Timing Solution• Management for

CPRI/eCPRI/ROE• M2MP Packet Network

• CU, DU, CU + DU• gNB solution NSA , SA

modes of deployments• Supports NSA Mode• Sub 6 Ghz, mmWave• Rich Options for 5G L1

Layers eco-system

• Developer Centric Model• Develop framework with

open source community• Edge Host Platform to

latency Sensitive Application• Cloud based host Discovery ,• Node Management

• Supports NSA mode • Cloud Native , Micro

Services Architecture• NGC Micro Services

Development -AMF, SMF ,AUSF ,UDM, UDR

• Open source is key to cloud native architecture


Altran

Option -2 Option -6 Option -7 Option -8

• Reference Solution for commonly used RAN-Split options are Option-2, Option-6, Option-7.x and Option-8

• Provides scalable and virtualized architecture options based on CU/DU and RU architecture

• Allows for cloud-RAN realization with CU running in cloud, and connected to multiple DU

• DU is virtualized and can be scaled-up/down based on the load/traffic/capacity requirements

• Fronthaul can be based on CPRI or CPRI

Function Split options between CU and DU Unit –5G Architecture Option


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