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Cloud-enabled 4G/LTE Network and Applications(BWANA): 4G/LTE & LTE-A and B4G/5G

Course Briefing, Introduction & Overview

Bao-Shuh Paul Lin Chair Professor, CS & ECE, NCTU

Director, BML/MIRC, NCTU

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Objectives of the Course

• What you will learn…

• Broadband wireless/mobile access technologies, core & reference network architectures, their applications and services, and Testing & Measurement

• New & advanced beyond 3G, 4G/LTE & LTE-A, B4G/5G access technologies, network architectures, testing technology, and applications/services exploration

• 3G, 3.5G, 3.75G (HSUPA/HSDPA, HSPA+ )

• 4G/IMT-Advanced

• LTE/LTE-Advanced (3GPP Rel. 8/Rel. 10/R12) and beyond 4G & 5G in 2020

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Cloud-enabled 4G/LTE & 5G Networks and Applications (1/2)

• Course Outline 1. Course Introduction – brief on mobile broadband (2G/GSM,

3G/WCDMA, 4G/LTE, 5G) or mobile communications

2. Introduction of BML, a cloud-enabled 4G/LTE network testbed, MCC-based architecture

3. The important/key technologies for the advancement of RAN in 4G/LTE and 5G；MIMO, OFDMA, CA, CoMP, SON, UDN, and HetNet

4. 3GPP, the SDO for 4G/LTE, IP and essential IPs of 4G/5G, The role of 5G-PPP

5. 4G/LTE = 4G Radio Access Network (RAN) + 4G Core Network, Reference Network Architecture

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Cloud-enabled 4G/LTE & 5G Networksand Applications (2/2)

• Course Outline 6. 4G/LTE in BML for 3 kinds of exercises on experimental Testbed:

• Conduct Testing & Measurement(DUT, Traffic flow and management)

• Engage APPs Development (IoT, MAR, Mobile Gaming, Big data analytics for traffic management…,etc)

• Advanced key Technologies for the next generation

7. The 4G/LTE Core Network: EPC

8. The Network Aspects and Architecture of Mobile Broadband

9. Exercise the experiments & Research on BML testbed

10. Demo the results of exercise

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Grades

1. Attendance and class participation—30%

2. Mid-term examination (open book or take home) — 20%

3. Selected paper presentation/term project —30%

4. Final report—20%

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Further Information

• Course Page (Please test your account!)

1. http://dcpc.nctu.edu.tw/

2. Announcement & Grades

3. Class handouts and supplement materials

• Teaching Assistant

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Technology & Indexing Terms

1. Security Cross-Cutting Issues

9. Multicore 17. 3D Printing

2. Open Intellectual Property Movement

10. Photonics18. Big Data and Analytics

3. Sustainability 11. Networking and Inter-connectivity

19. Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems

4. Massively Online Open Courses

12. Software DefinedNetworks

20. life Sciences

5. Quantum Computing 13. High Performance Computing

21. Computational Biology andBioinformatics

6. Device and Nano-technology

14. Cloud Computing 22. Robotics

7. 3D integrated Circuits15. Internet of Things

8. Universal Memory 16. Natural User Interfaces

IEEE CS 2022 Report

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4444

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IEEE ComSoc Top 10 Trends 2015

1. 5G

2. FIBER EVERYWHERE

3. VIRTUALIZATION, SDN & NFV

4. EVERYWHERE CONNECTIVITY FOR IoT & IoE

5. BIG DATA, COGNITIVE NETWORKS

6. CYBERSECURITY

7. GREEN COMMUNICATIONS

8.SMARTER SMARTPHONES, CONNECTED SENSORS

9. NETWORK NEUTRALITY, INTERNET GOVERNANCE

10. MOLECULAR COMMUNICATIONS

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ICT Major Trends for 2015-2020

ICT : Information & Communication Technology

References : 1. IEEE CS 2022 Report(Draft), IEEE Computer Society Feb., 20142. IEEE ComSoC CTN Special issue on Ten Trends that Tell Where Communication Technologies are Headed in 2015

• Fiber everywhere• Cybersecurity

• Network Neutrality

• Molecular Comm.

• Smarter Smartphones/Connected Sensors

• Green Communications

IEEE ComSoC, 2015 IEEE CS 2014

• 3D Printing, 3D IC

• Sustainability

5GCloud

Computing

SDN/NFV

IoT/IoE

BigData

• Multicore• HPC• Quantum

Computing

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Foundation for the Relationships Among 5G, IoT, BigData, SDN & Cloud

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ICT Major Trends and Technology Outlook

• Driving Force for the Trends

• ICT Major Trends

• New Research Program of I2CRC

• Technology Outlook

I2CRC : Intelligent Information Communications Research Center

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Driving Forces for the ICT Major Trends • The Internet and Mobile are Changing our World

(1) More data created this year than the past 5000 years

(2) Two-Third (2/3) of Mobile Traffic will be video

(3) 50 billion Connected Devices

• Changes is Driving Innovation in ICT

• Virtualization of Networking (NFV) is followed the success of virtualization of computing and storage

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ICT’s Five of the Most Popular Terms

• Big Data/Analytics

• Cloud Computing/Platform Software

• 5G – the 5th Generation Mobile Broadband

• SDN – Software Defined Networking

• IoT – Internet of Things (Everything)

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Change Driving Innovation in ICT

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Internet of Everything (IoT) Big Data / Analytics

Software Defined Network (SDN) Cloud Platform Software

Everything is becoming connected• More devices• More Apps• Shift to mobile access

Analytics become business critical• Customer behavior• Systems optimization• Diversity of sources and data types

Software interfaces for networking• Automation and self-service• Traffic Engineering• Network Function Virtualization

Public and Private Clouds• Open Cloud Platforms: OpenStack• App development and deployment • Scalable Services

B4G/5G Mobile Broadband

Superb in Throughput and QoS/QoE• Much more mobile video traffic• Small cell and HetNet• Self-optimization networking

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ICT Major Trends (1/3)

• Big Data

• Data Universe/volume – 50x growth, 2010-2020

• Network Traffic – 1000x growth, 2010-2020

• Data growing rapidly with big variety and velocity

• Client/Mobile Cloud Computing

• Always on/connected and available

• Highly scalable

• Different level of services: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and others

• The rapid growth of smart mobile devices (smartphone & tablet)

• Next Generation Mobile Broadband Comm. &

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ICT Major Trends (2/3)

• SDN – Software Defined Networking

• Network virtualization followed computing virtualization and storage virtualization

• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

• Separation of Data Plane and Control Plane

• Network programmability

• IoT – Internet of Things

• Machine to Machine (M2M) communications

• Device to Device (D2D) communications

• Wearable devices , various sensors

• Machine Type Communications (MTC)

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ICT Major Trends (3/3)

• Those five technologies are one after another – Cycle of innovation

• 5G/NG generates Big Data (video dominates network traffic) 5G Big Data

• IoT creates Big Data (everything is Internet connected) IoT Big Data

• Big Data needs Cloud Computing (storage and computing for data analytics) Big Data Cloud Computing

• Beyond 5G 6G

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Creating a Virtuous Cycle of Innovation

5G Mobile Broadband and Telecom Networks

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Those Techs. Are One After Another

• Those five technologies are one after another –chain reaction

• 5G/NG generates Big Data (video dominates network traffic) 5G Big Data

• IoT creates Big Data (everything is Internet connected)IoT Big Data

• Big Data needs Cloud Computing (storage and computing for data analytics) Big Data Cloud Computing

• Big Data needs SDN to handle traffic engineering for big network traffic & management data,

• Traffic Engineering (TE): Big Data SDN

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ICT Trend No. 1 – Big Data (1/3)

• Data deluge drivers (e.g. most of popular applications)

• Mobile internet / Web (Google)

• Social media (SNS- Facebook)

• Video sharing / streaming (YouTube)

• Video surveillance (security)

• Smart grid (new applications)

• Internet of Things (M2M)

• Others

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ICT Trend No. 1 – Big Data (2/3)

• Data Types

• Text

• Audio

• Image/video

• Multimedia

• Complicated data

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Data Deluge Drivers

Source: EMC

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ICT Trend No. 1 – Big Data (3/3)

• Stages of data usages:

• Collect real-time data (data acquisition)

• Process data as it flows (data analytics)

• Explore and visualize (applications/service)

• Transformation of data usages

• Data Information

• Information Knowledge

• Knowledge Wisdom

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ICT Trend No. 2 – Client/Mobile – Cloud-based Computing

• Client/Mobile with smart devices be able to access cloud server systems, anytime, anywhere, anyway, and anything

• Computing servers with multicore technology, virtualization (OS, Machine) and high performance

• Storages with huge volume (Exabyte and beyond) and fast access

• Always on/connected and available system

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ICT Trend No. 3 – Next Generation Mobile Broadband

• 4G (LTE/LTE-A) is not powerful enough to handle or manage huge data and traffic generated by popular applications

• Transmission data rate (throughput)

• End-to-end latency (delay)

• Coverage (cannot be 100% with macro/micro cells) • 1000x better performance for 5G (vs. 4G)

• Very high data rate (throughput 1Gbps with mobility)

• Very low latency (delay within 1ms with end-to-end)

• Very efficient spectrum utilization

• Very good in system coverage

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ICT Trend No. 4 - SDN

• SDN for IDC (International Data Corporation)

• SDN for Enterprise & campus network

• Integration of SDN and Cloud

• SDN for WAN

• SDN for broadband telecommunication network

• SDN for mobile & wireless network (cloud-RAN & campus/enterprise Wi-Fi)

• Architecture with Integration of SDN and Cloud (TE, management, applications, and services)

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Data Traffic in 2020 and Beyond

• Data Traffic Growth Factors

– Increase in mobile broadband subscribers

– More advanced devices like tablets and smartphones

– New attractive services

• Prediction of Data Traffic Growth in 2020 (relative to 2010)

– In 2010, the traffic was doubled in DOCOMO and CMCC networks

– A total traffic growth would be 500 – 1000 times

Source: Nokia Siemens Network

註：CMCC China Mobile Communications Corporation 中國移動通信

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ICT Trend No. 5– IoT

• Internet (of Things (or everything)) changing our life

• Sensor and networking technology play very important roles for IoT

• Wearable Devices are examples of IoT products

• IoT – a good application for 5G ad SDN

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ICT Technology Outlook (1/3)

• Short term (< 3years)

• Text & image analytics

• Evolution of network architecture (e.g. HetNet)

• Voice over LTE, VoLTE

• Machine learning/computational intelligence techniques for various big data applications (e.g. healthcare, telecom., transportation)

• Internet of Things (IoT)

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ICT Technology Outlook (2/3)

• Mid-term (3 ~ 5 years)

• Image/video analytics

• Multimedia analytics

• Mobile broadband business analytics

• Mobile-Cloud based architecture, technology & applications exploration (mobile augmented reality and mobile gaming)

• 5G (new) mobile/radio access technology, large-scale MIMO antenna technology, and others (energy efficiency)

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ICT Technology Outlook (3/3)

• Long term (> 5 years)

• Multimedia and complicated data/event analytics

• Mobile-Cloud based networking

• Mobile broadband with 5G and beyond 5G/6G

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