Introduction to 5G RAN2.

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

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document was revised as follows:
1. Supplemented
Supplemented the hardware
hardware module information
information
and license overview.
2. Updated the operation and maintenance
information based
based on the actual
actual plan of the
physical products.
3. Added the overview and progress of high-
frequency modules and updated the peak rate of
two streams.
4. Deleted the high-frequency information that is
not closely related to GPI.
Disclaimer 

• This training document is used only for technical exchanges, and shall
not be disclosed to customers.
Terms
Acronym Full Name
NR New Radio
SA Standalone
NSA Non-standalone
NGC Next Generation Core
NG-RAN NG Radio Access Network
eCPRI Enhance common public radio interface
MM Massive MIMO
BF Beamforming
DC Dual Connectivity
RTU Right to Use (RTU)
UCNC User Centric No Cell Radio Access
 AIP  Antenna In Package
Objectives

• Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

 Know the basics about 5G RAN2.0.

 Understand the 5G RAN2.0 framework.

fr amework.

 Have knowledge of the new hardware in 5G RAN2.0.

 Understand the key features in 5G RAN2.0.

Version Overview
Positioning
Target market
1. First small-scale commercial version of 5G:
5G: The first wave 5G m arkets in
• Small-scale commercial use:use: LG U+/SKT
U+/SKT in Korea & 3
Korea
Korea and China achieve
achieve large-sca
large-scale
le commercial
commercial use of over x ten thousands
thousands of
tier-1 operators in China
sites.
• Pre-commercial use:use: DT, VDF, UK BT/EE, 3UK, and
2. R15 NSA standards based version:
version: based on NSA s tandards (including
Optus
low/high frequency) and IODT with commercial terminal chips
• Commercial test:
test: Bell/Telus in North America & Australia
3. Breakthrough in untapped developed markets:
markets: Tier-1 operators such as
Telstra
Korea SKT and Australia Telstra race to seek breakthrough in commercial use.
Huawei value
Customer benefits
• Launch small-scale commercial sales of 5G products and
• Support Korean and Chinese customers to tak e the lead in comm ercially
sell xx million sites in China, Korea, and other markets.
deploying 5G on large scale.
• Enter the untapped developed markets and expand
• NSA networking helps customers rapidly deploy 5G at low cost.
business landscape of wireless industry.
• The high frequency basic functions support customers' service testing and
• Optimize the architecture and basic E2E suites, and lay a
catalyze the industry.
solid foundation for large-scale commercial use of 5G.
Marketability/highlights (Top 5)
Solving Custom
Customers'
ers' Pain Points & Providi
Providing
ng
Planning New/Optimized Sales Item
Benefits
R15 NS
R15 NSAA NSA networking and high-frequency basic functions Software package based on NSA basic protocols (low
standards delivery indicating capability and value of 5G system frequency + high frequency)
Scale commercial use of 10
Key hardware, commercial O&M, and compatible eCPRI RF module, baseband processing board, and RF
thousands of sites in China
terminals support small-scale deployment. hardware RTU
and Korea
Performance and solutions Superb performance dwarfing counterparts and
MM and UL/DL Decoupling
staying ahead supporting market breakthrough
Value Framework
19B
19A
First wave of scale
18B Small-scale commercial use
xx hundred thousands of 
commercial use in
sites (19.X 20.X)
 –

China and Korea

Pre-commercial
Pre-commercial test xx ten tthousands
housands of sites  SA protocol
xx hundreds of sites (18.X 19.X)
 –
networking
(18.X 18.X)
 –

 NSA standard  Main baseband

 First NSA protocol protocols processing board
version  Main RF modules  Commercial
 Basic software  High-frequency terminal
architecture basic functions experience
 Early basic hardware  License sales and  5G scenarios and
 Measurable & control services
locatable  Basic O&M
NSA Protocol: R15 Standards to Support Commercial Deployment & Terminal
Interoperability
Background 19A vs 18B: protocol changes & resulted service impact
The 5G protocols are more flexible. The 18B supports only Dimension Protocol Change Specific Impact
the simplest subset based on the prediction and Support BWP mechanism, The BWP mechanism has to realize basic functions specified
interoperability
interoperability test requirements. The 19A supplements the and the UE bandwidth less by R15. It was simplified in the 18B version, but needs t o be
protocols required for basic commercial use. than the cell bandwidth. improved in 19A based on the 3GPP protocols.
 Basic procedure:
procedure: Complete the fundamental protocol
Flexible configuration of
process. The UE-specific frame format is supported to meet the test
frame format and slot
 Performance improvement:
improvement: Propose to enhance the demands of diverse frame configurations at different sites.
format
performance of protocols that other vendors generally Process
support. The 18B is based
based on simplified
simplified protocol
protocols,
s, which were
were different
different
supplementation PUSCH UCI CAS from the standards. 19A is fully compliant with the protocols
 Scenario support:
support: Supplement demonstration
and features enhanced UL UCI coverage.
scenarios of basic mobility and UCNC.
Update IEs over air interface, RRC procedures,
procedures, etc. based on
Update of 331 protocol
Scenarios and benefits the 38.331
38.331 protocol
protocol released
released in March.
March.
Realize PRACH format, PDCCH
PDCCH configuration, channel
 Ensure that the 19A complies with the 3GPP R15 Complete protocol details
generation formula, etc. according to protocols.
protocols.
specifications.
 Ensure that 19A is competitive in the market. Performance PDCC
PDCCH
H inte
interw
rwea
eavi
ving
ng Enha
Enhanc
nce
e cov
cover
erag
age
e cap
capab
abili
ility
ty of PDCC
PDCCH.
H.
improvement PUCCH short format Support 1/2 bit PUCCH, SR, etc. to improve the capacity of
Coverage
Key reliance enhancement
(format 0/1/4) multi-user scenarios.

Capacity expansion HARQ dynamic

dynamic codebook
codebook Improve
Improve the demodulati
demodulation
on performance
performance of the PUCCH
PUCCH..
 Dependent on the progress of 3GPP protocols; some
topics (such as 38.331 protocol details and the UE The 19A protocol supports a maximum of 3 additional DMRS,
capability reporting mechanism
mechanism need to be further Multiple additional DMRS which affects the support for high-speed movement and needs
clarified by 3GPP. Scenario support in the UL/DL to be supplemented and improved. 18B only supports 1
Mobility support additional DMRS.
 Note: The current version is based on the protocols Beam management Support beam measurement, reporting, and recovery in mobile
released in March 18th. process scenarios.
Hardware Overview: Products Customized for Identified Markets in China, Korea, Europe
Requirements for Platform Technology are Uncertain.
18B 19A
AAU5612 AAU5611 AAU5310i AAU5613
• B42, 64TRX • 4.9 GHz,
GHz, 64TRX • B42,
B42, 100
100 MHz
MHz • B42/B43,
B42/B43, 200 MHz
• 100
100 MHz/2
MHz/200
00 W • 100
100 MHz/1
MHz/160W
60W • 32TRX,
32TRX, 100
100 W • 64TRX,
64TRX, 200
200 W
CPRI • eCPRI TR5 (8H4V: 2018.7) eCPRI
• • CPRI •
C-band 40kg TR5 TR4A • Nearly 20 kg (16H2V: 2018.10) 40/45
40/45 kg TR5 (2018.7)
(2018.7)
• • 40kg •

AAU5612 RRU5258 AAU5313 AAU5612

• B43, 64TRX • B42/B43
B42/B43,, 100 MHz • B43,
B43, 200 MHz • 4.9
4.9 GHz,
GHz, 200
200 MHz
MHz
• 100MHz/20
100MHz/2000W • 8TRX,
8TRX, 8 x 30/35
30/35 W • 32TRX,
32TRX, 200
200 W • 64TRX,
64TRX, 200 W
• CPRI • CPRI • eCPRI • eCPRI
40kg TR5 25kg 30kg TR5 (2018.10)
(2018.10) • 40/45
40/45 kg TR5 (2018.9)
(2018.9)
• • TR5 (2018.9)
(2018.9) •

HAAU5213 HAAU5213 HAAU5112c

•28G AIP •26G AIP •28G AIP
High
•4TRX:
4TRX: 800
800 MHz
MHz •4TRX:
4TRX: 800MHz •2TRX:
2TRX: 800
800 MHz
MHz
Frequency •eCPRI •eCPRI •CPRI

•25kg •25kg TR4A (2018.8)

(2018.8) •12kg
TR5 (2018.9)
(2018.9) TR4A (2018.10)
(2018.10)

• Inventory module software supporting UL/DL Decoupling:

Sub-3 GHz
• FDD 700 MHz
(Customized • FDD 800 MHz
software) • FDD 1800 MHz

BBU5900 UMPTe UBBPfw1 (full-width) UBBPfw2 (full-width)

BBU • 9 x 100MHz 64TRX
64TRX • IPsec
IPsec 15 Gbps
Gbps (1500B
(1500B)) • 3 x 100 MHz 64TRX (sharing 24 streams) + 3 x 4R • 6 x 100 MHz 64TRX (sharing 24 streams)
• 9 x 100MHz 4TRX
4TRX • Non-IPsec20 Gbps • 3 x 800 MHz 4TRX 4 streams • 3 x 800 MHz 4TRX 4 streams

(1500B) • eCPRI/CPRI • eCPRI/CPRI

TUE TUE: new AAU CPE1.1

• Volume: 22 L • 1 GHz+bandwidth & 4TRX • Low frequency all-in-one machine: 3.8 L, 120 W,
Terminal • Supported frequency bands: 700 MHz/800 MHz/1.8 GHz/ • EIRP improvement approx.3 kg
2.6 GHz/3.5
GHz/3.5 GHz/3.
GHz/3.7
7 GHz/4.
GHz/4.9
9 GHz/28
GHz/28 GHz/39
GHz/39 GHz • 1.0 & 2.0 platforms • Specifications of high-frequency machine to be

determined
 License Overview: Hardware RTU & Software License
5G License

Hardware RTU Software License

Number of
RRC
streams
 ABW Bandwidth Power  RE Optional features gNodeB basic software
• Low band • MM bandwidth • MM module • MU-MIMO basic pairing (per cell)
• mmWave • Non-MM • Non-MM
bandwidth module • SU-MIMO multiple layers (per cell)
• Sub-3 GHz • DL 256QAM (per cell)
Multiband Channel Multi-RAT • Intra-band CA (per cell)
• Low band • RF • Transmission network detection and reliability
• mmWave • Baseband improvement (per gNodeB)
Variation (bandwidth, • Network synchronization (per gNodeB)
 Addition Inheritance
power, and multi-Tx) • IPsec (per gNodeB)
Hardware RTU: objectives & background Software license: objectives & background
 RE sales unit: The three 5G services consume more hardware resources than LTE services.  Build a healthy profit model for 5G software since Day 1.
Therefore, independent pricing is required.  Draw experience from LTE feature packaging: Focus on the valuable
 Sub-3 GHz variable bandwidth & MM bandwidth sales unit: The bandwidth difference between features that customers pay attention to, such as MM, HOM, and CA.
the 5G high frequency band, C-band, and sub-3 GHz is too large so that independent pricing is  Avoid flaws in previous wireless product packaging from recurring:The
recurring:The
required.
feature package is of small granularity.
granularity. The gains and benefits for customers
 MM stream sales unit: MM is initially priced low to reduce customers' network construction cost
are not obvious. O&M cost is high.
at the early stage. In subsequent days, profit will be made because of the growing number of
streams.
Note: This document is only a general description.
description. For the most accurate license policies,
policies, please refer to the specificatio
specifications
ns provided by MOs.
O&M Overview: Supplement the O&M Capabilities Required for 5G Batch Delivery by
Referring to LTE Counterparts & Remove Pain Points of the Past
Planning Deployment Maintenance optimization

  w Low-cost
  o
   l WSD WDT
   f delivery at
  s   e
WINS P&A
  c The WSD is OMStar-E
  e   i frontline (1->N) interconnected with Remote
  v
  v   r
   i
   t   e U-NET the CME to support site
  c   s efficient configuration deployment
  e
   j    E
   b   2
of 5G evolution data.
  o   E
   M    f Network deployment and
Service monitoring Fault locating
   &  o maintenance
   O  s
  r   m U2020 U2020 U2020
  o  r
   j   e Tracing
  a   t Efficient O&M Alarm management Performance management Online FMA
management
  m   n
   i
   3   y by customers Inventory management Intelligent alarm combination
  e   t
mAOS
   i
  z   c
   i Support geographic
Automatic auxiliary fault recovery
   l   a Customized for China &
display of capacity.
  a   p Korea
  e   a Rapid fault recovery confirmation
   R  c
   d
   l
   i
  u Foundation building Data collection/analysis Fault locating
   B
Quick fault Internal CHRs NIC NSA 4/5G joint user tracing

locating by Real-time
External CHRs Offline FMA
performance User tracing
back offices monitoring
Traffic statistics
Interf
Interfac
ace
e tracin
tracing
g Cell
Cell tracin
tracing
g

Note: Already supported in 18B Enhanced in 19A Added in 19A

Low-Cost Delivery at Frontline
Efficient configuration
configuration data preparation for 5G evolution
Objectives: Interconnect WSD and CME. Use GUI and batch delivery mode of base station configuratio
configuration
n where resources can be
verified in real time. The aim is
is to efficiently implement site reconstruction and generate configuration data in 5G evolution
scenarios.
Step 1: Design base station site at the wireless site design (WSD) cloud
platform.

Step 3: The CME uses the BTS configuration (equipment parameter) from
WSD. The wireless and transmission planning parameters are imported to
quickly generate base station configuration scripts.

Input IP address of the CME cloud

server according to actual
circumstances.
Step 2: Input live network data into WSD, and then export the
information of 6 categories: material, LLD, current site information,
BOQ configuration, BTS configuration,
configuration, and CCM-DC data.
Format: Extension center + extended
app@project

Planning table
Efficient O&M by Customers
Intelligent alarm combination easyGet: precisely obtain software packages Geographic display of network performance
Objective: The accuracy of correlation rules reaches 95%. Objective: Improve the speed and accuracy of Objective: Display network capacity directly and visually.
1.Intelligent alarms are combined to reduce northbound obtaining software packages. 1.Help customers identify network status and bottlenecks.
manual analysis workload. 1.Targeted search for software compatible with 2.Enhance the competitiveness of 5G products.
2.Alarm correlation rules are automatically generated to scenarios
greatly simplify the analysis process. 2.Batch application at one click
3.Batch download at one click
Work order automatically
Evalua
Eva luate
te cap
capaciacity
ty to det
detect
ect bot
bottle
tlenec
necks.
ks.
 Alarm associated group 1  Alarm 1(Root alarm 1)  Alarm 4  Alarm i
dispatched
Integrate with Support website to establish easyGet system.  Analyze the number of 5G network users and
 Alarm j
 Alarm associated group 2  Alarm 3(Root alarm 3)  Alarm 6
Work order manually serv
servic
ice
e traf
traffi
fic
c stat
statis
isti
tics
cs to exam
examin
inee the
the traf
traffi
fic
c
 Alarm associated group n  Alarm 5(Root alarm 5)  Alarm 8  Alarm k dispatched
absorption
absorption performanc
performance e in hotspots.
hotspots.

 Alarm monitoring(U2020 Client)

Definition of capacity KPI & Comprehensive analysis of
Overview of capacity use
threshold bottlenecks in capcity
 Alarm list

Panel
demonstration

Intelligentalarm
correlation

Based on the version package and

 Alarm
correlation
scenario relationship modeling,
modeling, the
digging  Alarm correaltion HQ R&D department releases the Capacity
processing trend
version configuration once.
once.
 Association
rules

Capacity
map
 Alarm
Quick Fault Locating by Back offices
Improve O&M capabilities of commercial services Enhance NSA 4/5G common user tracing
Objective: Quickly identify problems in scale commercial use Objective: 4/5G user signaling and monitoring are initiated
simultaneously and displayed in a unified manner.
In the NSA networking, the 4G&5G user tracing can be conducted
DFT overview
together. The O&M personnel can directly view the tracing results
displayed on the statistics interface, thereby the fault locating efficiency
Traffic
Calculate KPI statistics is improved. 19A enables users to automatically obtain neighboring 5G
Scope of data (from narrow to wide)

EBC/alarm
NEs once they select 4G NEs. This simplifies the startup operation
Products automatically record data which used to require the simultaneous selection of 4/5G NEs.
used as main data resources for
network commercial use
External CHR

MR

Internal CHR

Manaully initiate tracing Trace (LMT tracing, CDT, TTI tracing, and road test data)

Depth of data (from shallow to deep)

NE selection list appears
 Add UEID entry in Basic
Basic
Utilized by after clicking this button.
Product log (Debug log, RRU, baseband, etc.) Settings, and input UEID type,
developers *Same operation for Select
PLMN, and Trace ID.
gNodeBs

Traffic statistics: compatible with NSA Figure:4G& 5Gdisplayedtogether  Figure:4G&

e :4G& 5Gdisplayedtogether 

CHR: Trim CHR data volume

volume by switching
switching to AVRO
AVRO,, optimize
optimize flow
flow
control mechanism, detect abnormal signaling procedure, and mat ch
NSA. Table:4G&
e :4G& 5Gdisplayedonseparatetabs Table:4G &5G displayedseparately,separated by TAB

Tracing optimization: Report abnormal tracing and support

compression and reporting.
Online monitoring: online monitoring of beam-level interference
High Frequency: Achieving
Achieving Basic Functions & Specifications Stipulated by Protocols
Huawei's High-Frequency Products are Leading in Customer Tests.
Background Complement frequency functions & antenna architectures
 Complement high/low frequency functions specified by protocols.
Protocol & Architecture
 Complement hardware architectures regarding high/low frequency band. High Frequency Low Frequency
Difference
 Secure the first place in the customers' testing with respect to high-frequency
products' competitiveness. Frame Larger subcarrier (120 kHz) and the
30 kHz
kHz
structure/subcarrier  corresponding frame structure
Scenarios and benefits
Antenna architecture High frequen
frequency
cy HBF (AIP)
(AIP) archite
architecture
cture Traditional
Traditional DBF
DBF architect
architecture
ure
 Secure the first place in the testing conducted in North America and Korea. 40 MHz, 60 MHz, 80 MHz,
CC bandwidth 100 MHz and 200 MHz
  Assist operators in preparing
preparing high frequency commercial technologies. and 100 MHz
CA 200
200 MHz
MHz x 4CC
4CC and
and 100
100 MHz
MHz x 4CC
4CC 100
100 MHz
MHz x 2CC
2CC
Specifications of high frequency streams

Number of Overview & progress of high-frequency modules

Category Terminal Direction
Streams

Single-user peak TUE

TUE (4 x 200
200 MHz)
MHz) DL 4
rate End of Sept. End of Oct.
800
800 MH
MHz
z 4T
4T4R
4R TUE (4 x 200 MHz) UL 2
@eCPRI DL 4 Module TR5 Product TR5
Cell peak Rate (2 TUE (4 x 200 MHz) 28 GHz eCPRI
users) TUE (4 x 200 MHz) UL 4
End of Jul. End of Sept.
800 MH
800 MHz
z 2T
2T2R
2R Cell peak Rate TUE (4 x 200 MHz) DL 2
@CPRI (single user) Module TR4A Product TR4A
TUE (4 x 200 MHz) UL 2 26 GHz eCPRI
Note: End of Aug. End of Oct.
1. The hardware
hardware of the module supporting
supporting 1 GHz is ready
ready in 19A. The correspondin
corresponding
g
software will be ready in 19B. 28 GHz PICO CPRI Module TR4A Product TR4A
2. A single sector
sector of 800 MHz
MHz bandwidth
bandwidth supports only 4 x 200 MHz
MHz and does
does not
support 8 x 100 MHz.
3. The peak baseline
baseline information
information can
can be obtained from the KPI review
review committe
committee.
e.
Module TR5
RAN Feature Overview
RAN2.0 Maturity
Category Feature ID Description Chip Roadmap IR NO. IR Name
status Assessment
3GPP R15
FBFD-010001 Standards E Supp
Suppor
ortt CPE,
CPE, TUE,
TUE, and
and com
comme
merc
rcia
iall chi
chips
ps Init
Initia
iall use
use assu
assura
ranc
nce
e IREQ
IREQ02
0211
1192
9242
42 Supp
Suppor
ortt 3GPP
3GPP R15
R15 Phas
Phase
e2
Compliance
MIMO Basic PDSCH open-loop/semi-open-loop
FBFD-010003 E Supp
Suppor
ortt CPE,
CPE, TUE
TUE,, and
and comm
commer
erci
cial
al chip
chips
s Init
Initia
iall use
use assu
assura
ranc
nce
e IREQ
IREQ02
0212
1274
7424
24
Package transmission
Support the UE bandwidth less than
FBFD
FBFD-0
-010
1000
007
7 Scal
Scalab
able
le Band
Bandwi
widt
dth
h E Supp
Suppor
ortt CPE
CPE,, TUE,
TUE, and
and com
comme
merc
rcia
iall chip
chips
s Init
Initia
iall use
use assu
assura
ranc
nce
e IREQ
IREQ02
0211
1192
9233
33
that on the base station side
Suppor
Supportt CPE,
CPE, TUE,
TUE, and commer
commercia
ciall chip
chips
s Initial
Initial use assura
assurance
nce IREQ02
IREQ02119
119211
211 DMRS
DMRS and
and data
data power
power adap
adaptat
tation
ion

Basic FBFD-010010 Power Control E Suppor

Supportt CPE,
CPE, TUE,
TUE, and
and commer
commercia
ciall chips
chips Initial
Initial use assura
assurance
nce IREQ02
IREQ02119
119228
228 DL power
power aggreg
aggregati
ation
on in
in CC
CC
Suppor
Supportt CPE,
CPE, TUE,
TUE, and
and commer
commercia
ciall chips
chips Initial
Initial use assura
assurance
nce IREQ02
IREQ02119
119231
231 PDCCH
PDCCH power
power contro
controll
The 19A CPE does not support IREQ
IREQ02
0211
1192
9210
10 IBLER
IBLER ada
adapt
ptat
atio
ion
n
FBFD-010011 Scheduling E discontinuous frequency selection. The TUE Initial use assurance TDD Non-MM
Non-MM UL discontinuous
can verify the algorithm function. IREQ02119219
frequency selective scheduling
Recommended for
FBFD-020101 Reliability N N/A IREQ02
IREQ02119
119256
256 5G ser
servic
vice
e rel
reliab
iabili
ility
ty
commercial use
Radio QoS Recommended for
FBFD-020102 N N/A IREQ02
IREQ02119
119244
244 QoS and loa
load
d mana
managem
gement
ent
Management commercial use
SU-MIMO Multiple
FOFD-010020 E Supp
Suppor
ortt CPE
CPE,, TUE,
TUE, and
and com
comme
merc
rcia
iall chip
chips
s Init
Initial
ial use
use assu
assura
ranc
nce
e IREQ
IREQ02
0211
1192
9227
27 SU CSI
CSI mea
measu
sure
reme
ment
nt optim
optimiz
izat
atio
ion
n
Layers
Optional
The 19A CPE does not support. The TUE
FOFD-020205 Intra-band CA N Initial
Initial use ass
assura
urance
nce IRE
IREQ02
Q02164
164226
226 Intra-s
Intra-syst
ystem
em CA (N
(NR)
R)
supports the function test.
SRAN IR-SRAN15.0-
FOFD-010205 UL/DL Decoupling E Support CPE, TUE, and commercial use Trail NR UL/DL Decoupling
Key CLOUDAIR-01

Note: This document is only a general description. For

For the most accurate packaging strategy and the feature delivery strategy of the 19A, please refer to
the specifications provided by MO.
PDSCH Open-Loop/Semi-Open-Loop Transmission
Application scenario: Solution:
• Scenarios where SRS and PMI are not enabled, • Open loop solution
such as high speed mobility scenarios • Adopt two-level weighting solu tion (DFT static+PMI codebook) to poll
Background: multiple PMI codebooks. Fading is randomized and not dependent on
• In high-speed scenarios, the SRS function is the PMI feedback.
disabled, and PMI feedback may not be timely.
Failure to keep up with channel changes can result • Semi-open loop solution
• Reserve UE reported codebook W1 that reflects long-term wideband
in performance deterioration.
characteristics and conduct polling query into W2 that reflects
Customer benefits:
subband phase.
• DL throughput of a single UE improved by 5% –8%
Feature sales mode:
• Commercial use
Restrictions:
• In low-speed scenarios, this solution brings minor
gains compared to the 18B open loop solution.
Considering that the two-level weighted baseband is Conduct
Conduct codebook polling
polling and
more costly, it is advised to retain the original 18B randomize fading to reduce deep fading
probability.
open-loop solution.
Capacity gains:
• In high-speed mobility scenarios (for example, 60 km/h), the average
throughput of a single UE increases by 5%+.

DL throughput of a single UE improved by 5%+

Bandwidth Supported by UEs Can be Less Than That Supported by
Base Stations
Application scenario: Solution
• The 3GPP stipulates that the bandwidth supported by
UEs can be less than that supported by base stations 1. UE in initial access:
so that 5G networks can be accessible to low-cost The UE searches for the SS block, finds the corresponding BWP, and
terminals.
then initiates the access.
• C-band UEs must support: 40/60/80/100 MHz
• High-frequency UEs must support: 100/200 MHz 2. UE in RRC connected mode:
• LTE refarming band (below 3 GHz) UEs must support: Based on the bandwidth supported by the UE (might be less than that
10/15/20 MHz
on the base station side), allocate suitable BWP to the UE.
Customer benefits:
•  Allow the UEs which support smaller bandwidth than
base stations to have access to In ternet services.
Feature sales mode:
• Commercial use
Restrictions:
• 19A: Only one BWP is configured for the UE in the cell.
Terminal:
• 5G standards based commercial terminals supporting
various bandwidths

Support low-cost UEs to connect to netw orks with large bandwidth

DMRS and Data Power Adaptation Solution
Application scenario: Solution:
• User located at the cell edge with lower-order • The DMRS and data are transmitted via the same symbols by default.
modulation • When DMRS and data power adaptation solution takes effect:
1. Near the center: DMRS
DMRS and data transmitted
transmitted over
over the same
Background: symbols
• PDSCH DMRS and PDSCH RE use the same 2. At the edge (Rank/MCS
(Rank/MCS lower
lower than the threshold): DMRS
DMRS and data
symbols by default. However, when users are at the are transmitted via diff erent symbols.
cell edge, they will user different symbols. Under this
circumstance, some PDSCH REs are lost while the
DMRS demodulation capability is enhanced, and the
cell edge user rate can be improved. No data
sending

Customer benefits:
• DL throughput of a single UE improved by 5% –10%

Feature sales mode: Same symbols Different symbols

• Commercial use DMRS TYPE1: The DMRS
DMRS transmit power increases by 3 dB when
DMRS and data start to use d ifferent symbols.
Restrictions: Capacit
Capacity
y gai
gains:
ns:
• None • Gains improved by 5% –10% in the case of lower-order modulation (QPSK)

DL throughput of a single UE improved by 5% 10%  –

DL Power Aggre
Aggregatio
gation
n in CC
Application scenario: Solution:
• Scenario 1: In the scenario of wide coverage (suburban • Redu
Re ducece RB
RBs s to inc
increa
reasese pow
power
er::
or ultra-wide coverage) or deep coverage (outdoor-to- For
For low-
low-or
orde
derr modu
modula lati
tion
on UEs
UEs with
ith limi
limite
tedd powe
power,r, a larg
larger
er TB size
size can
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indoor coverage), RBs are reduced to increase power selec
selected
ted to incr
increas
easee the exper
experie
ienc
nceded data
data rate.
rate.
for low-order modulation users. • Use
Us e th
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powe
wer:
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The rema
remain
inin
ingg powe
powerr of the
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dule
led
d RBs
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• Scenario 2: When the access bandwidth capability is cell
ell is aggr
aggreg
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ated
ed to the
the sche
schedu
dule led
d RBs to impr
improove UEs
UEs' SIN
SINR, the
thereby
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limited or the RB resources in the cell are redundant, impro
improviving
ng the MCS
MCS and edgeedge cove
coveragrage.
e.
the power in the CC is aggregated to maximize the
power usage and improve cell coverage. P sd
sd =a
=a P sd
sd =2
=2 *a
*a

  s   s

Background:
   B    B
R    R    R
   d    d
  e   e
B    l
  u
   l
  u
   d    d
  e   e
G    h    h

• Network coverage is insufficient when UEs are far from   c

  s
  n
  u
  c
  s
  n
  u

the cell center/ at the cell edge. R

B
G
Customer benefits: Power 
R R Power    s   s

• Boost ultra-wide and in-depth coverage. B B

   B
   R
   d
  e
   l
  u
   B
   R
   d
  e
   l
  u
G G    d
  e
   d
  e

Feature sales mode:

   h    h
  c   c
  s   s

R R

• Commercial use B
G
B
G

Restrictions: Reduce RBs Use idle power 

• The solution of reducing RBs to increase power relies Capacit

Capacity
y gai
gains:
ns:
on the definition of the TBs in the protocols. • The maximum gains obtained by proactively reducing RBs is 9%
(1 dB improvement).

DL throughput of a single UE moving on the road improved by 5%+.

PDCCH Power Control
Application scenario: Solution:
• When UEs at the cell edge cannot ensure the PDCCH  For UEs in cells with poor coverage (aggregation level 8 or 16), the transmit
demodulation performance, the PDCCH power can be power of the PDCCH is dynamically adjusted based on the PDCCH BLER.
increased to ensure correct demodulation. • When the PDCCH BLER is higher than the target BLER, the PDCCH
• Remote areas: UEs move to the cell edge. transmit power of the UE increases by 3 dB (max.) to improve the PDCCH
• Dense urban areas: In-depth weak coverage exists. coverage.

Customer benefits: PDCCH

• For UEs under the weak edge coverage, the Coverage UE
demodulation performance of DL control channels can
improve by approx. 1 dB on average.
Power increase

• When the PDCCH BLER is lower than the t arget BLER, the PDCCH
Feature sales mode:
transmit power of the UE falls back t o the initial value, reducing the power
• Commercial use
resource consumption.

Restrictions:
• None PDCCH

Terminal: UE

• TUE
TUE & CPE
CPE Power back-off 

The PDCCH coverage of UEs in weak coverage areas increases by approx. 1 dB on average.
Target IBLER Adaptation
Application scenario: Solution:
 Measure the average value and fluctuation of t he SE and periodically adjust
• The UE moves at a high speed or is located near the cell center the target value of the IBLER. The IBLER target values corresponding to
or at the cell edge. different SE average values and fluctuation are as follows.
SINR fluctuation
Customer benefits:
• In the field network tests, the IBLER can be adapted to 5% at the 30% 10% 1 0%
HighIblerThld
cell center and 30% at the cell edge. The average capacity gain 10% 10% 1 0%
is about 5%. LowIblerThld
10% 10% 5%
Average SINR
MCSLow MCSHigh

Principles:
 If the gains in spectral efficiency increase is greater than the loss caused
by the increase of IBLER (the condition is as follows), a higher IBLER
target value is recommended.
Demodulation threshold-1T8R-AWGN&ETU30
Feature sales mode: EFF gains of MCS compared to that of
its counterpart in higher order 
100% MCS15-
      R
• None 50%
0%
      E
      L
0%
AWGN
     n -5
      B
      I 0 5
       i
1 4 7 1 0 1 3 16 19
19 22
22 25
25 28
28
Restrictions:      a
      G SINR
MCS16-
AWGN
MCS Index
• NA
Figure 1: Modulation and coding Figure 2 IBLER changes when the MCS
Terminal: efficiency gains of each MCS compared increases in different demodulation curves
• TUE/CPE to its counterpart in the higher order 

Increase the UL and DL capacity by 5%.

TDD Non-MM UL Discontinuous Frequency Selective Scheduling
Application scenario: Solution:
• Frequency bands are fragmented. • UEs in the UL CP-OFDM waveform are allocated PRB
PRB resources in a discrete
discrete
manner based on the RBG granularity.
UL band
Customer benefits: Continuous
resource allocation
• Increase the peak throughput and the t hroughput of Non-continuous
resource allocation
commercial UEs.
UL peak scenari
scenarioo
• PRACH (starting from the 112nd RB; 5 ms as a
Feature sales mode: period):
UL band

• When discontinuous scheduling is enabled, a Continuous

• Commercial single UE in RACH subframes can use 256 RBs. resource allocation
Non-continuous
resource allocation

• When discontinuous scheduling is not supported,

a single UE in RACH subframes can use 144
Restrictions: RBs.
• NA • Peak gains of discontinuous scheduling = (256 +
272)/(144
272)/(144 + 272) - 1 = 27%
eMBB commercial scenarios (hybrid of large
and small packets)
• Small-packet UEs and CEUs are scheduled
first to obtain frequency selective gains.
• Large-packet UEs are scheduled later to UL band
benefit from the use of fragmented bands. Small packages/
remote users
•  Average throughput of simulation users Large-package
users (continuous)
improved by 5% –10%
Capacit
Capacity
y gai
gains:
ns: Small-package users
(non-continuous)

• Peak throughput increases by 20% and the throughput of commercial users increases by 5% –
10%.
The peak throughput increases by 20% and the throughput of commercial users increases by 5% 10%.  –
Reliability
Application scenario: • Flow control
• Cell services are abnormal. • Control plane:
plane: Flow control is
performed based on the initial
• Service overload/congestion occurs on the device.
messages over the X2 interface
• Base station is out of control. between the eNodeB and the
Customer benefits: gNodeB.
• User plane:
plane: When the CPU loadload
• Improve the reliability and competitiveness of operators'
threshold at the RLC layer or
wireless networks. MAC layer exceeds the flow
Feature sales mode: control threshold, the number of
• Commercial use scheduled users and traffic in the
Data flow on CP

cell are reduced. Data flow on UP

Solution: • Base station always online solution

• Cell outage detection solution •  After the OM channel is
continuously interrupted, if the
• Mainly used to monitor and detect the cell outage status
trigger conditions are met, the
Cell outage detection: based on alarms and KPIs OMCH can be remotely recovered
3. The OSS receives by enabling functions such as the
the fault, directly cell1 … …
automatic version rollback,
identifying a cell as an OSS generate
outage cell cell2 … … automatic configuration data
2. The gNodeB reports the fault to OSS.
rollback, and transmission link fault
rectification, and automatic OM
channel establishment. This helps
1. The gNodeB detects cell unavailable
unavailable faults or abnormal KPIs. avoid onsite handling.
gNodeB

Reliability basic requirements

QoS and Load Mana
Managem
gement
ent
Application scenario: Solution:
• Operators can deploy a range of services with AR/VR: QCI 8

diversified
diversified QoS levels on the network.
network. Low latency
latency ( < 2 0 m s)
Rate (100Mbps
(100Mbps))
s)

Customer benefits:
Auto-drive: QCI 75
• QoS management has services carried on proper Low latency
atency (< 1 0 m s)
s)
Rate (20Mbps
(20Mbps))
radio bearers to ensure the QoS for diversified users.
• In addition, radio QoS management provides services
Smartphone: QCI 9
that match user requirements and ensures Low latency (< 30
Rate (50
(50 Mbps
Mbps))
300ms
0ms))
WTTx: QCI 7
differentiation and fairness among multiple users. Low latency
latency (< 30
Rate (100Mbps
(100Mbps))
300ms
0ms))

Feature sales mode:

• Commercial use e.g.
QCI 75 bearer with highest scheduling priority and shortest latency can
enable delay critical services.
Restrictions:
QCI 1 bearer with short latency (only second to QCI75) can enable voice
• None services.
QCI 9 bearer can enable services insensitive to latency, such as FTP
Terminal: download.
• QoS basic functions
functions do not need to be supported by
Capacit
Capacity
y gain
gains:
s:
terminals.
Provide services that meet various requirements with limited resources.

Provide diversified services that match user requirements & ensure differentiation and fairness among multiple users.
SU CSI Measurement Optimization
Optimization
Application scenario: Technical principle:
• NLOS scenarios with few active users • In multipath environment, dynamic weighting can make full use of the
environment to obtain array gain. For SRS users, the SRS weighting
is used to perform weighted transmission and CSI measurement for
Background: CRI-RS. It can ensure the characteristics of the measurement
• Environment with various multipaths
channels and data transmission channels are consistent, thereby
improving the accuracy of CQI/RI measurement.
Customer benefits:
• Increased single-user throughput Data transmission beam Measurement beam

Feature sales mode:

• Commercial feature Baseline Optimization
solution solution
Restrictions:
• N/A Match
Mismatch

Gain scenario:
Capacit
Capacity
y gai
gains:
ns:
• In NLOS and high rank scenarios, the throughput of a single UE
moving at low speed can improve by 15%.

In NLOS and high rank scenarios, the throughput of a single UE moving at low speed can improve by 15%.
Intra-band CA
Application scenario: Solution:
• CA users can use remaining RBs from multiple CCs in areas with In the overlapped coverage areas of m ultiple carriers, available
overlapped coverage from multiple CCs. frequency resources of multiple carriers are used to provide CA UEs
• The edge user rate is provided for CEUs to improve the edge coverage. with larger bandwidth and higher rate experience. Currently, the
RAN2.0 supports intra-band continuous CA and non-continuous CA.
Throughput
Intra-band carrier  Continuouscarrier 

CA ON
Non-continuous

CA OFF carrier 

Inter-band carrier 

Band A

Band B

Customer benefits:
• In the NR system, t he CA feature supports a maximum of 2 CCs on low-
Chan
Change
ge of CA st
stat
atus
us::
frequency band and a maximum of 4 CCs on high-frequency band. This
increases the DL peak throughput of a single UE. The CA peakpeak
throughput is equal to the sum of the single-carrier throughput.
Feature sales mode:
• To support the commercial feature, the cell-level Intra-band CA license is
added.
Restrictions:
• Only applicable to intra-site scenarios
Terminal:
• TUE

The coverage area of the SCell is extended by 35%, increasing the throughput of CEUs.
UL/DL Decoupling Feature
Application scenario:
Solution:
• Poor UL weak coverage when C-band is used
• SUL carriers
carriers are introduced.
introduced. UEs with limited
limited UL on C-band use
SUL to perform UL data services.
Background:
• DL coverage
coverage is better than UL coverage
coverage on C-band Use sub-3 GHz (such as 1.8 GHz) for UL and 3.5 GHz for DL. This
due to large DL transmit power
power of the gNodeB and
and supports enhanced UL coverage and co-site deployment.
disproportion
disproportion in UL and DL timeslot allocations
allocations of NR. 5G
NR

Customer benefits:
• UL coverage
coverage improved
improved

Feature sales mode:

• Trial

Restrictions:
• NUL and SUL (1 : 1) are deployed on the same site.
• The UL spectrum resources are shared by LTE and
NR, thereby the feature is dependent on the L-NR UL
spectrum sharing feature. Capaci
Capacity
ty gai
gains:
ns:
• Improve the UL coverage by 6 –10 dB.

Improve the UL coverage by 6 10 dB.

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