A G I L E N T T E C H N O L O G I E S

W I R E L E S S T R E N D S : C O M M O N G R O U N D A N D C O N F L I C T

陳俊宇 JEFFREY CHEN

Director, Application Engineering Organization

Electronic Measurement Group

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Smartphone shipments grew ~40% in 2010, will double by 2014

Source:

Infonetics,

October 2010

W I R E L E S S G R O W T H

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T H E TA L E O F T H R E E C A L L E R S

Frequent User Essential User

Power User

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T H E C O M M O N G R O U N D

•Immediate Access to Network (Data or Social) Anytime, Anywhere •Affordable Content Rich (Data Intensive) Services •Ever-Improving Quality of Service (QoS) & Security •Smarter Smartphones: Seamless Integration of Voice, Data, Video and Location Services •Ubiquitous Interoperability and Roaming •Continuously Improving Ease-of-Use

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C A N Y O U I M A G I N E……

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T H E C O M P L E X I T Y A N D C O N F L I C T

Device Infrastructure Device Co-Existence Testing InterRAT Validation Multi-Vendor Inter-Operability Larger Display Lighter Longer Battery Life

Standards GSM/EDGE Evo

W-CDMA C2K

TD-SCDMA WiMAX™

LTE FDD LTE TDD

LTE Advanced 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ad …

Bluetooth® DVB

DigRF GPS

GLONASS FM/RDS

And more…

Enabling Technologies OFDMA / SC-FDMA MIMO MIMO OTA Testing Wider BW 20 –> 100 MHz Carrier Aggregation Femtocells or Equivelant MSR (Multi-Standard Radio) SDR ( Software-Defined Radio)

Bluetooth and the Bluetooth logos are trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc.,

WiMAX, and the WiMAX Forum logo, are US trademarks of the WiMAX Forum

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A U S E R S D R E A M , T H E E N G I N E E R ’ S C H A L L E N G E

J O B S E C U R I T Y

N I G H T M A R E

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T H E B A L A N C I N G A C T

Functionality

and

Capability

Quality, Cost,

Manufacturability,

Power Management

Complexity,

Coexistence

Supplier Agnostic

2G/3G/4G iRAT

Alternate Topologies

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T H E C O M M O N G R O U N D : S H A R E D S P E C T R U M

Data Users and Transceiver Counts

[Radios/UE] Continue to Grow Geometrically

Driving Greater Signal Density in the Available

Spectrum

Which In-Turn Drives More and More

“Creative” Engineering Solutions

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T H E C O M M O N G R O U N D : LT E T E C H N O L O G Y

Source: MOTOROLA eZine Insights Article

San Francisco to deploy the nation’s

first public safety 700 MHz LTE

interoperable broadband network

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T H E C O M M O N G R O U N D : R A D I O T E C H N O L O G I E S

Increasing deployment of 2G/3G/4G technologies

within military equipment, air, sea and ground forces (An Ongoing Challenge)

• Security/Encryption

• Link Robustness: Spread

Spectrum, Frequency Agility, Jam Resistance, Fallback Modes

• Mobile Infrastructure

T H E C O M P L E X I T Y : M I M O O TA S p a t i a l a n d A n t e n n a C h a r a c t e r i s t i c s o f t h e M I M O C h a n n e l

Tx0 Tx1

Rx1 Rx0

MS/UE BS

Tx0 Gain

Pattern

Tx1 Gain

Pattern Rx1 Gain

Pattern

Rx0 Gain

Pattern

AoD Spatial

Distribution

AoA Spatial

Distribution

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Apply fading to a call while generating standards based custom interferers

8960 generates unfaded signals and sends to PXB PXB applies real-time fading and

sends back to 8960; PXB generates custom interferer and

sends to MXG

Tx/Rx

∑

The faded signals and faded interferer are summed at RF

and sent to the UE

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T H E C O M P L E X I T Y : C O - E X I S T E N C E

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T H E C O N F L I C T

Source: Deere & Co., LightSquared interference to GPS and Starfire

•High precision receivers are more affected than

consumer grade receivers

•Modern high precision receivers use filters that

cover MSS, GPS, and GLONASS bands

•Wideband filters are

required for higher rate, precision codes

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S U M M A R Y

• Needs of our Users are More Similar than Different • Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

• Clear Standards • Judicious Regulation • Creative Engineering

• Manage the Ever-Increasing Growth in Complexity • Multi-format, Multi-Band Devices & Systems

• Engineers Make this Happen

• Early Engagement • High Quality Tools • Full Design Life-Cycle • Flexible • Creative • Timely • Easy-to-Use, Robust & Economically Viable Solutions

Signal Analyzers with LTE Measurement Apps

Signal Studio

Signal Generators

PXB BB Tester

N9912A RF Analyzer

RDX for DigRF v4

E6621A PXT Communications Test Set

N6070A LTE signaling conformance test solutions

Cable antenna tester & Spectrum analyzer Battery

Drain Test

Systems for RF and Protocol

Conformance

Scopes and Logic Analyzers

RF Module Development

RF Proto RF Chip/module

Design Simulation

BTS and Mobile BB Chipset Development

L1/PHY

FPGA and ASIC

Conformance

RF and BB Design Integration

L1/PHY

System Design

Validation System Level

RF Testing

BTS or

Mobile Protocol Development

L2/L3

DigRF v4

Pre-Conformance

Network Deployment

Manufacturing

89600B VSA SW For Signal Analyzers,

Scopes, LA , SystemVue and ADS

SystemVue (BB) ADS/GG (RF/A) EXT Wireless

Communications Test Set for manufacturing

N5971A IFT Software

A G I L E N T W I R E L E S S T E S T P O R T F O L I O

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• 140-MHz bandwidth option expanded to160 MHz

• Investment protection for the installed base; license- key upgrade from 140- to 160-MHz BW

• Architected to support wider bandwidth in the future

P X A W I T H 1 6 0 M H Z A N A LY S I S B A N D W I D T H

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• Solve new test challenges introduced by complex wireless standards

• Protocol-layer complement to the industry-leading 89600 VSA software

• Extends the existing LTE analysis provided by the 89600 VSA software

– 89600 VSA software for RF test

– 89600 WLA software for wireless link analysis

October 2011

Agilent EMEA Press Event

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A G I L E N T T E C H N O L O G I E S

W I R E L E S S T R E N D S : C O M M O N G R O U N D A N D C O N F L I C T

陳俊宇 JEFFREY CHEN

Director, Application Engineering Organization

Electronic Measurement Group