5G: The Network Revolution Maurizio Dècina

Politecnico di Milano

IIC, Vent’anni dopo, Roma, November 10th, 2017

Benchmark of Wired and Wireless Technologies with Projections

Source: M. Dècina, 2014, based on data by Bell Labs, G. Fettweis, and others

DSL Access

1Kbit/s

10Kbit/s

100Kbit/s

1Mbit/s

10Mbit/s

100Mbit/s

1Gbit/s

10Gbit/s

100Gbit/s

1Tbit/s

10Tbit/s

100Tbit/s

1Pbit/s

1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035

DSL Access WLAN Access Cellular Access

Optical Access Optical Backbone

560 Tbit/s Capacity Limit

1,300-1,620 nm Band

Optical Backbone

Optical Access

WLAN Access

Cellular Access

GPON

10GPON

WDM-PON

NG-PON2

GSM GPRS

3G- Edge

HSDPA

HSPA

LTE

LTE Advanced

LTE Beyond

ISDN

ADSL

ADSL2+ VDSL2

Vectoring

802.11

802.11b

802.11ag 802.11n

802.11ac/ad

Multimode

G.Fast 5G

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Network Function Virtualization/Software Defined Networks

• Orchestration Platform • Platform to mechanize

management of the life cycle of Virtual Network Functions

• It is composed by several modules, to be offered by different vendors

• Virtual Network Functions • Set of virtual machines

implementing network functions and/or virtualized services

• Infrastructure • Geographically distributed domain

• Includes physical and virtual resources made available by virtualization layer

OSS / BSS

PoP PoP

Servers Switching Storage

PoP

Infrastructure

Physical Topology

VNF

VNF

VNF

VNF

Virtual Network Functions

Logical Topology

Orchestrator

Virtualized Infrastructure

Manager

VNF Manager(s)

Orchestration Platform

Source: ETSI, 2014 ZOOM – Zero-touch Orchestration, Operations and Management

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Cloud RAN Architecture: Fronthauling & Backhauling

Traditional Architecture

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Laye

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RF

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Legacy Base Station

backhaul

Remote site

Coax Cable

Distributed Architecture

CPRI (Common Public Radio Interface)

Radio

RF Amp .

BBU

backhaul

Remote site

RRH

Central Office

Fronthauling

(100m → 10 km)

CPRI

Edge Computing: BTS Virtualization, Heterogeneous Networks, …

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IoT Market Applications

Massive IoT

Transport & Logistics Fleet management

Asset tracking

Agricolture Agricolture & cattle

monitoring

Environment Monitoring

(climate, water, air, noise,…)

Industry Process monitoring

& control Vending machines

People Wereable sensors Child/animals tracking Healt care monitoring

Smart City Smart biking Smart ligthing Parking sensors

Public Enterprise Smart metering Capillary network

Smart Building Smoke detectors Alarms Domotics

Mission critical

IoT Industry Remote control Factory automation Collaborative robots

Person-object interaction Immersive augmented reality Immersive gaming, Tactile internet

Security Goods & people protection Device to device, 3D – Drones Environment protection: earthquake/flooding

Automotive V2I, V2V, V2P, V2C Car entertainment Traffic control

Medicine Remote surgery E-health: life critical Biomedical sensing

Public Enterprise Smart grid automation Video surveillance

High availability High reliability

Low latency High capacity

Low cost Low power Low capacity High number of devices

Low Power solutions

High-reliability, Low Latency solutions

Source: Ericsson, 2015

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5G Application Clusters

Source: ITU, 2015

eMBB

mMTC URLLC

• Full Virtualization (SDN/NFV)

• Heterogeneous Networks

• Adaptive Radio Interface (multiple RATs)

• New Radio Spectrum (mmWave)

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5G Application Verticals

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Source: 5GPPP, 2015

5G Network Slicing

Source: NGMN 5G White Paper, 2015

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Harmonized Spectrum for 5G: US vs. EU

Source: Telecom TV, 2016 Maurizio Dècina, 5G The Network Revolution, IIC, Vent'anni dopo, Roma, November 10th, 2017 9 DEIB–Politecnico di Milano