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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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