Open 5G Platform
Dr. SHEN Fei
Shanghai Research Center for Wireless Communications
Key Lab of Wireless Sensor Network and Communication
SIMIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
上海市浦东新区海科路100号8号楼4楼，201210 4/F, Building 8, 100 Haike Rd, Pudong, Shanghai 201210, China
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Outline
• Latest news from industry
• Approach: software defined mobile network
• Challenges:
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White House, July 15, 2016
• Advanced Wireless Research Strong support from
Initiative, USD 400 million, led public and private sectors
by the NSF. NSF DARPA
NIST NTIA
• Deployment of four city-scale
AT&T Carlson Wireless
testing platforms for advanced
HTC CommScope
wireless research.
Intel InterDigital
• (To) allow academics, NI Juniper Networks
entrepreneurs, and the wireless Nokia Keysight
industry to test and develop Oracle Qualcomm
advanced wireless technology Viavi Samsung
ideas, some of which may Sprint Shared Spectrum
translate into key future Verizon T-Mobile
innovations for 5G and beyond. ATIS CTIA
TIA Source: White House 2
Qualcomm, November 30, 2016
• Qualcomm’s 5G vision: a unifying
connectivity fabric, including
enhanced mobile broadband,
Mission-critical services, Massive
Internet of Things
• Qualcomm is driving 4G and 5G
in parallel to their fullest
potential, pushing LTE towards
5G with its unique end-to-end
system approach
• Qualcomm announces X16 and
X50 modems for Gigabit LTE and
5G Connectivity
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Intel, January 6, 2017
• World’s first global 5G modem with ultra-
high throughput operation and low latency
• Operation in both sub-6 GHz and mm-Wave
bands with compact chip kit
• Pairs with the world’s first 5G sub-6 GHz
and 28 GHz RFICs
• Supports key 5G NR technology features, Intel aims to cover all the bases for 5G. (Image: Intel)
including low latency frame structure,
advanced channel coding, massive MIMO
and beamforming
• Pairs with LTE modems such as Intel’s
XMM™ 7360 LTE modem for 4G/5G dual
connectivity
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Intel’s 5G Strategy
• Provide a full suite of products for covering almost every part of the new
networks that will all seamlessly interact
• 5G networks will have to be designed to be more flexible, relying on
software that can be reprogramming to handle different tasks running on
more generic hardware, instead of being built on more customized hardware
dedicated to specific tasks
• Links between different parts of the 5G network all made by Intel will be able
to interact more efficiently and quickly, while Intel software gives users a
smooth experience
Source: Intel
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Google, April 1, 2017
• Google is partnering with leading mobile
network operators globally to build a platform
for operators to run their network services
• Google will bring their expertise in SDN, NFV
and Cloud to the carrier ecosystem, thus
accelerate the transition to 5G and enable EMBB MIoT MCS
new features such as the application of
machine learning APIs
• The platform will provide plenty of APIs which
will enable new operational models and help NFV Cloud
SDN
operators bring new features
• The platform is based on commodity Backbone Edge
Fabric
hardware instead of dedicated hardware network nodes
provided by telecom manufacturers Commodity hardware
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TIP, February 22, 2016
• The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Members (growing)
is an engineering-focused AMN ACACIA IP access
initiative driven by operators, ADVA Amarisoft Juniper
infrastructure providers, system ASOCS Aricent LEMKO
integrators and other AW2S Athonet Lumentum
technology companies that aim Axiata BaiCells MTN
to reimagine the traditional Bandwidth BlueStream Nexius
approach to building and Broadcom Coriant Nokia
deploying telecom network EE T-Mobile Quortus
infrastructure. Equinix Facebook Radisys
Globe Harman Horizon
• Focus areas: access, backhaul, HCL SK Telecom iDirect
and core and management. SS7 Starsolutions Sysmocom
• Open and collaboration! Intel Indosat Telefonica
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Outline
• Latest news from industry
• Approach: software defined mobile network
• Challenges:
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5G Technical Requirements
• Can one 5G network satisfy all diversified requirements?
• How to make 5G networks super flexible and adaptive?
Source: Nokia
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Motivation: Flexible and Adaptive
• To decouple software and hardware designs
• To realize flexible deployment of network functions
RRU PHY High Layer
(ASIC) (DSP&ARM)
PDCP
RLC
MAC
Current: Dedicated Future: GPP-based
Hardware Platform Platform
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Software Defined RAN
Virtual logic applications
VM
VM VM VM provide support to GSM,
Multi- TD-LTE and other
LTE GSM Edge App
mode
BMU BMU BMU wireless protocols.
Decoder/MDM/Reso BMU
Making up the urces and aerial
weakness of general mapping.etc
Specialized Virtual Virtual Virtual
processor, providing Hardware Computing Storage Network
standard function of （SoC）
Specialized
CODEC, MDM, Hypervisor
Hardware
resource mapping, CPRI （SoC） 10G Ethernet
FFT/IFFT/DFT and Interface Connection
Exchange Network Storage Computing
etc. Based on multi-core CPUs and
NFVI Domain
general purpose servers, virtual
logic applications provide
physical computing, network
and storage resources.
BAU BBU
Dedicated accelerations Virtualization of Source:
with FPGA and DSP baseband resources Alcatel-Lucent
Shanghai Bell
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Facebook OpenCellular: an Open
Source Wireless Access Platform
• Radio: Radio with
integrated front-end, which
is based on SDR/SoC and
supports network-in-a-box
or access point.
• GBC: General Baseband
Computing
• Function: SMS messages,
voice calls, basic data
connectivity using 2G
implementation.
Source: Facebook
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You think it is just a mini PC
eNodeB EPC
Intel NUC 5i7RYH
Core i7-5557U
3.1 GHz-3.4 GHz
Dual-core
4 MB cache
Price: < 600 USD
Source: Internet
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Open 5G Platform Architecture
• GPP-based platform to
realize software defined
EPC and eNB BBU
• CPRI between BBU and
RRU
• FPGA/DSP Acceleration
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Software Defined Mobile Network
• Based on OAI open-source
LTE platform
• Real-time software defined
LTE network (including
RAN and EPC) on a multi-
core GPP-based platform
• FDD and TDD modes
• Support multiple Intel CPU (i7-5557U)
commercial LTE mobile
terminals for each eNB
• Support video streaming
and web browsing traffic EPC eNB
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Heterogeneous Wireless Testbed
➢ LTE + 5G hierarchical
➢ 802.11ac high speed WLAN
network architecture
100~200 outdoor APs
6 macro-cell base stations
1000~10000 indoor APs
10~20 micro-cell base stations
UDN, multi-carriers
100+ small base stations
Trial of GPP-based APs
Trial of GPP-based BSs
ShanghaiTech University LTE+5G macro-cell BSs 802.11ac outdoor APs
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Innovation and Impact
Flexible • Professor: evaluation of
creative ideas
Adaptive
Open 5G • Student: learning by doing
Open
Platform • Industry: fast prototyping and
trials of new products
• Application: cross-domain
Shared customized services
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Customized Enterprise Applications
Data Analysis Monitor Center
Business
Platform • GPP-based 5G
network supports
fast prototyping of
special industry
requirements on
Open EPC
Network soft terminals,
Management open RAN and
open EPC.
Soft Terminals Open RAN
• Quick deployment
of dedicated
network slices
Video Surveillance for customized
Soft Terminals industry
Environment
applications.
Monitoring Smart Grid
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Outline
• Latest news from industry
• Approach: software defined mobile network
• Challenges:
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Delay of baseband signal processing
• TD-LTE uplink and downlink on a GPP-based platform;
• Hardware acceleration for standard function such as CODEC.
Source: Turbo decoding:
China Mobile 3 iterations
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Delay of baseband signal processing
• Our GPP-based platform: IBM System x3400 M3 with 2.13GHz
CPU, quad-core Intel Xeon E5606, 4G RAM, 256G HDD, Linux
Debian 7 OS with the version 64 bits Ubuntu 14.04 DeskTop.
• Turbo decoding is the bottleneck for real-time processing.
Rate (Mbps)
Processing Time(µs) 2.152 8.76 13.536 17.56
Function
De-scrambling 7.96 21.93 33.38 43.26
De-modulation 7.89 13.72 15.94 17.84
De-interleaving 6.27 30.19 48.68 72.11
Turbo decoding 113.44 465.01 734.86 1047.61
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Join us in this
OPEN world!
Dr. Yang Yang
Thanks you! Email:
[email protected] Google Edge Nodes
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5G Vision: GPP-based Platform
• Software defined mobile network and resource/network
function virtualization could meet different diversified 5G use
cases and business models, i.e. eMBB, mMTC and uMTC.
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it is a just mini PC
Intel NUC 5i7RYH
Core i7-5557U
3.1 GHz-3.4 GHz
Dual-core
4 MB cache
Price: < 600 USD
Source: Internet
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Network Slicing for Various Use Cases
Slice 3: Low power
Unified Infrastructure Slice 1: Wide-area Coverage Slice 2: Hot Area consumption& Massive
connection
Signaling
Data Control Function Data Function Content Appreciation
• Open Source Software: to build a collaborative community
and ecosystem for innovations in EPC, eNB and terminals.
• GPP-based Hardware: to replace dedicated hardware (e.g.
ASIC), thus enabling flexible and adaptive service creations
and deployments for various use cases and business models.
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5G: a Game Changer
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