Light Reading Webinar: Defining the 5G Network Connectivity Challenge
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The document discusses the challenges and advancements in 5G network connectivity, highlighting the deployment plans and technological developments as of 2017. It details the architecture and requirements for effective 5G networks including aspects like network slicing, mobile edge computing, and the timeline for 5G deployments. Key collaborations with vendors like Samsung, Qualcomm, and Huawei are also mentioned, particularly regarding the launch of commercial 5G modems and smartphones.
Light Reading Webinar: Defining the 5G Network Connectivity Challenge
- 1. Sponsored by Defining the 5G Network Connectivity Challenge January 23, 2017
- 2. Today’s Presenters David Stokes Sr. Portfolio Marketing Manager, ECI Gabriel Brown Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading Moshe Shimon VP Product Management, ECI
- 3. Global 5G Activity (selected examples) 400MHZ of C-Band 120MHZ of 3.5GHz 28GHz mobile @ 2018 Winter Olympics 5G network share in Japan 4.5-4.9GHz nationwide deployment plan NSA & Mid- Band Advocate 5G @700MHz Mid-band 5G 2.5GHz, 2018 600MHZ 5G deployment Mid-band interest 12 markets in 2018 NSA Advocate Interop tests, trials 5xFWA markets in 2018 @ 28GHz Automotive Tie-up (SEAT) 2018 5G Deployment! 28GHz Trials 5G @ 2GHz Large scale trials in 2018 C-Band leader 2020 Summer Olympics Flagship NAM EMEA ASIA C-Band; 2 cities 2019
- 4. “Our vendors, such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Huawei, will launch commercial modems for 5G smartphones in December 2018 and are expected to release 5G smartphones six months later, in June 2019.” Light Reading interview with Park Jin-hyo, CTO at SK Telecom, January 12 2018 http://www.lightreading.com/mobile/5g/sk-telecom-cto-we-need-new-business-models-for-5g/d/d-id/739633 Handset Timeline for 5G
- 5. 5G Development & Deployment Timeline 5G NR NSA-mode (w/ LTE anchor) Simulations, Prototypes & PoCs Commercial Services 5G Standalone Development (5G system architecture & core) Field Trials 5G NR Early Drop 2018 2019 2020 20252017
- 6. Distributed 5G Network Cloud SDN SDN UP F UPF 5GC Control- Plane UP F CU DU CU DU D U CU D U D U MEC MEC MEC A U A U A U Service-specific Network Slices
- 7. ECI Proprietary SOLVING THE 5G CONNECTIVITY CHALLENGE THE ECI APPROACH
- 8. ECI Proprietary 8 Devices and things Radio Access Technology Connectivity fabric Core Network Applications & services Ubiquitous connectivity Inter/Intra-RAT Massive MIMO Network slicing Mobile Edge computing Fully meshed Highly dynamic Internet applications Cloud services WHERE THE CONNECTIVITY FABRIC FITS COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C
- 9. ECI Proprietary 9 TODAY’S LTE ARCHITECTURE: CENTRALIZED CONTROL Backhaul X2 eNodeB S-GW HSS IP Network & Services Evolved Packet Core S1-MME P-GW MME PCRF S1-U S5/8 S11 Gx S6-a NPT NPT eNodeB
- 10. ECI Proprietary 10 5G ARCHITECTURE DISTRIBUTED CORE, MESH CONNECTIVITY EDGE CORE DC FH DATA NETWORK VERTICAL SERVICES MEC UP CP VNFs IOT App Critical App PCE Server SDN Controller vEPC RRH Low Latency Massive Broadband IoT UP CP VNFs MEC
- 11. ECI Proprietary 11 EVOLVING TO A 5G CONNECTIVITY FABRIC Mobile backhaul is not enough Mobile needs high bandwidth, mesh connectivity
- 12. ECI Proprietary 12 5G TRANSPORT EVOLUTION Transport networks become increasingly complex ENHANCED SYNCHRONIZATION MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING SECURITYXHAUL NETWORK SLICING MASSIVE CAPACITY AND CONNECTIVITY
- 13. ECI Proprietary 13 MASSIVE CAPACITY AND CONNECTIVITY L1-L3 Packet aggregation platform with SDN and NFV Capacity, Scalability and Density: 100GbE to the cell site and 100G switching Packet Optical integration: Flex OTN, FlexE, ROADMs, ASON, WSON Flexible bandwidth: SDN controlled with centralized PCE providing segment routing and multi-layer optimization COREACCESS AGGREGATION AGGREGATION EDGE IP/MPLS Backbone OPTICAL LAYER
- 14. ECI Proprietary 14 Slice configuration Control and user plane independence Dynamic slice programmability FlexE for flexibility, reliability and agility Slice assurance SLA with KPIs per slice Automation, optimization and prediction NETWORK SLICING 5G slice 1 (smart devices) 5G slice 3 (massive IoT) 5G slice 2 (autonomous driving) Other slices COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C COREACCESS AGGREGATIONAGGREGATION EDGE OPTICAL LAYER RNC BSC Cyber IP/MPLS E P C Radio Access Radio Access Radio Access End to end slide control PCE Server SDN Controller CONNECTIVITY DOMAIN
- 15. ECI Proprietary 15 TRANSPORT SLICING BASED ON FLEXE/OTN EDGE CORE DATA CENTRE gNB/eNB DATA NETWORK VERTICAL SERVICES MEC UP UP CP VNFs VNFs IOT App Critical App uRLLC Slicing mMTC Slicing eMBB Slicing CP CP UP VNFs VNFs MEC FlexE FlexE/OTN FlexE FlexE FlexE/OTN FlexE FlexE FlexE/OTN FlexE 10Gig 10Gig 10Gig 50Gig 50Gig 50Gig 25Gig 25Gig 25Gig 10Gig 50Gig 25Gig VNFs VNFs 5G Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) • Slice isolation • Guaranteed SLAs • Programmable BW per slice
- 16. ECI Proprietary 16 SEGMENT ROUTING AS A SLICING ENABLER METRO gNB/eNB VR App Critical App uRLLC Slicing eMBB Slicing MEC PCE Server SDN Controller MEC EDGE CORE EVPN, L3VPN VNF 2 VNF 1 Unified overlay and underlay , E2E cross domain automation(BGP-LS) Slice performance metrics & protection requirements Path restriction (e.g., must pass through some points) High-availability guidelines (e.g., uRLLC slice restoration within 10ms, or 1ms) Topology abstraction per slice for higher Orchestrator include TE constrains SEGMENT ROUTING SEGMENT ROUTING SEGMENT ROUTING SEGMENT ROUTING
- 17. ECI Proprietary 17 EPC Control and user plane aware Underlay and overlay handling Traffic inspection and classification (GTP aware) Service chaining Traffic and data path offloading Programmable data-plane (SDN) 5G READY MEC SOLUTION eNodeB X2 VNFs & APP’s NGN MEC HOST eNodeB MEC HOST MEC HOST
- 18. ECI Proprietary 18 Compute, storage and networking move closer to the end user Ultra-low latency High-bandwidth, 3rd party applications Distributed, dynamic control and user plane MEC – MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING EXAMPLE: VIDEO STREAM ANALYSIS Video Storage Core/IT Video management and analytics NFV
- 19. ECI Proprietary 19 Requires carrier grade capabilities Real-time, high performance, reliable NFV solution Street cabinet and outdoor condition environment HW Accelerators to burst virtualization and all kinds of application performance MEC ARCHITECTURE ` Software stack for Programmable Data Plane Towards MEC Orchestration ME Host level Management Virtualization Infrastructure manger Mobile Edge Platform MEC Platform manager Virtualization Infrastructure Containers & Hypervisor ` MEC infrastructure components Software stack specifically designed for handling mobile Mobile Edge Applications Hosted PaaS
- 20. ECI Proprietary 20 5G TIMING REQUIREMENTS Radio Unit (RU) CLUSTER Access network DU Digital Unit (DU) Radio Unit (RU) CLUSTER Fronthaul network Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Enhanced time server Transport network ± 20 ± 100 ± 10 18 Hops / ±5ns TE GM GNSS TE TN TE END Transport network Enhanced time server TE Total E2E accuracy need to be enhanced to ±130ns, Single node accuracy ~ ±5ns GNSS receiver is required for distribute GM New HW & Standard will be required for C-RAN domain which required ±10ns Time accuracy New synchronization technologies and standards are required
- 21. ECI Proprietary 21 SYNCRONIZATION SOLUTION FOR 5G End to end solution to improve: Timing reference source Time transport Synchronization architecture Hub site aggregation No long boundary clock/transparent clock chains Built in GPS receiver and 1588 grand master Supports up to 64 1588 sessions Radio Unit (RU) CLUSTER Access network DU Digital Unit (DU) Radio Unit (RU) CLUSTER Fronthaul network Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Enhanced time server Transport network
- 22. ECI Proprietary 22 FRONTHAUL SOLUTION Today there are two main solutions for fronthaul: Ethernet Solution Next Generation Fronthaul Interface, (NGFI) based on IEEE P1914.1 and eCPRI using Ethernet access Based on completely new TSN Ethernet Switch family New 1588 timing L1 OTN* Solution Two box solution Apollo like architecture Common 100G blade for both boxes Pending on pricing and availability of 100G WDM RRU CU+DU+MEC Fronthaul 1 RRU RRU RRU Fronthaul Transport Network 1 5G RRHs Fronthaul Transport Network 2 CU/BBU Pool CE Backhal 5G DUs 5G RRHs 5G RRHs
- 23. ECI Proprietary 23 Next Generation Fronthaul Interface, (NGFI) based on IEEE P1914.1 and eCPRI using Ethernet access AnyHaul - Ability to support both FH and BH at same node using MPLS access and NGFI XHAUL Fronthaul Network Aggregation PoP MBH Macro Cell MPLS Access Network NGFI Computing on the Edge RRH VNFs V2I IoT FW BBU SGW IDP RRH RRH Core
- 24. ECI Proprietary 24 5G SECURITY An integrated cyber security suite to protect the 5G infrastructure 5G transport using mix of physical functions and virtual function infrastructure will increase the network vulnerability 1 Big Data Cyber Analytics L2-L3 Encryption Secured Site DPI, Logs & Anomaly Detection 2 3 4 Mobile Core Inspect All TrafficCollect All Logs 3 12 3 3 Real-time unified threat dashboard 2 Cell Site 1 Secured Connectivity 3 4
- 25. ECI Proprietary 25 OPEN OPERATIONS FOR ASSURED 5G NETWORKS Higher level orchestration Network Controller Functions Network Applications Service Applications Network Control VIM Carrier Grade PaaS 3rd Party Applications 3rd Party Open interface 5G Connectivity Fabric 4G MBH Slice 1 Slice 2 Slice 3 NFVI NFVI Front Haul
- 26. ECI Proprietary 26 MEETING THE 5G CHALLENGE Scalable transport for efficient mobile networks Integrated MEC for optimized performance Adaptive network slicing for tailored service delivery Assured 5G connectivity for exceptional customer experience Open architectures for ecosystem flexibility
Editor's Notes
- #9: ULTRA HIGH THROUGHPUT Evolved mobile broadband/mobile services e.g. 1-10Gbps to UEs; with DL: 2Tbit/s/km2; UL: 2Tbit/s/km2 1000x bandwidth per unit area 10-100x number of connected devices running multiple simultaneous applications ULTRA RELIABLE, LOW LATENCY Sub 1ms latency (perception of) 99.999% availability (perception of) 100% coverage 90% reduction in network energy ULTRA SCALABLE (IoT) Massive Connectivity 1-100 kbps, seconds/hours Connection density Up to ten year battery life for low power devices
- #11: Mobile backhaul is not enough Mobile needs high bandwidth, mesh connectivity
- #12: New 5G services
- #16: Slice configuration Control and user plane independence Slice isolation with VPN Segment routing and PCE provides dynamic slice programmability FlexE for flexibility, reliability and agility Slice assurance SLA with KPIs per slice Network analytics for slice performance Automation, optimization and prediction
- #17: Slice configuration Control and user plane independence Slice isolation with VPN Segment routing and PCE provides dynamic slice programmability FlexE for flexibility, reliability and agility Slice assurance SLA with KPIs per slice Network analytics for slice performance Automation, optimization and prediction
- #18: 5G ready – CUPs aware High Bandwidth Underlay and overlay stitching and correlation Traffic inspection and classification (GTP aware) Supports ECIs Layer 2 and Layer3 protocols Service chaining Traffic offloading Data path offloading Programmable dataplane (SDN)
- #20: Non-blocking, minimized hardware latency Hypervisor and Containers for VNF’s & ME App’s Optimized mobile edge platform software Security and encryption embedded Easy integration with VIM & MEC platform managers
- #22: Strict new timing requirements Timing accuracy for Multicarrier RAN Intra site <130ns Intra cluster <10ns Inter site <260ns Timing accuracy for positioning service: 10ns for 3m position accuracy
- #23: The C-RAN / FH architecture of today will no longer be able to handle the increasing capacity in 5G era: Increased BW (proportional to channel BW and no. of antennas) Latency and jitter constrains The new FH solution would re-define the functions of BBU and RRH, differently from Circuit FH (CPRI) to Packet FH