Everything you need to know about 5G architecture in around 300 seconds…

Ray WilliamsonDir. Europe Product ManagementHuawei

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Creating New Opportunities

Source: ITU R. M.[ IMT.VISION]

eMBB

10Gbit/s

1million/km2

VR: the Next Social Platform

—Zuckerberg keynotes in MWC2016

•AlphaGo vs. Lee sedol — 4:1

• Cloud access anywhere for AI will require 1Gbit/s experience data rate

AIVR

mMTC uRLLC

1ms

Enhance Mobile Broadband (eMBB)

Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications

(uRLLC)

Massive Machine Type Communications

(mMTC)

5G Use Scenarios (1000X traffic)

ConnectingCritical Industry

Connected Car Industry4.0 Smart Grid

Y2025:100 billion

90BThings

10B People

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Revolution

Evolution4G

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

5G Needs Revolutionary Innovation

R14R13 R15 R16

5G

R12 R17

4.5G LTE-Advanced Pro

5G innovations will be applied to 4G

Commercial Time

At Least 3X Spectrum Efficiency Improvement

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Key evolution threads toward 5G

Architecture

Air Interface

Spectrum

EPC

4G 4.5G

vEPCVirtualization

SDN/NFV

Evolution

Introduce SDN/NFV architecture from 4.5G

Co-exist

6GHz

from Sub 3.5GHz to Sub 6GHz

6GHz

New Spectrum + Existing Refarming

100GHz

Refarming

5G NW FunctionsVirtualization +Cloud-Native

256QAMM-MIMO

Massive CANB-IOT

LAA

……

LTE Advanced Pro

Waveform

Channel Coding

Multiple AccessDuplex

Frame ……

New AirLTE

Ready for 5G

5G

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The 5G HetNet

5GMacro Cell

UP: User PlaneCP: Control Plane

HF Coverage HF Coverage LF Coverage

5GSmall Cell

Marco Site @ Sub6GHzl Connectivity & coverage & mobility

Small Cell @ Above 6GHzl High traffic offloading

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Central Office DC

Local DC

Region DC

RAN

Switch

Physical Infrastructure

eMBB

uRLLC

mMTC

Filter-OFDM for 10Gbps

Filter-OFDM for 1ms

Filter-OFDM for massive connection

CP

UP

UP

CP

CPC

P

Access Mgmt mLAN

Security Mgmt Bearer Process

Location Mgmt Security Process

CP UP

Group Mgmt Sponsor Data

Policy Mgmt Service Chain

Location Mgmt ICAP Process

CP UP

Session Mgmt NAT process

Flow Mgmt Cache Process

Policy Mgmt Video Process

CP UP

SDT

SDRA

SDP

UP

CPC

P

UP

UPC

P

5G E2E Network Slicing 5G

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CloudRAN

Common Network Architecture across different Technologies & Layersl Flexible deployment depending on availability of fiber and service needs.

l On-demand deployment to increase RAN resource efficiency @ Multi-band, Multi-RAT, Multi-Layer

l MCE close to the end user for better service experience

CO Site Local DC

Core Network

Local Site Regional DC

BBU

Mobile Cloud Engine

RAN–NRTD-GW ACCache …

RAN-RTRAN-NRT

BBU

RAN-RT

Cloud BB

RAN-RTRAN-NRT

Cache …

IP

IP

IP

Dark Fiber

TM