Finnish ASA Trial

Marja Matinmikko (VTT), CORE+ consortium Jarkko Paavola (TUAS), WISE2 consortium

Outline

• Finnish ASA Trial Consortium

• ASA Concept

• ASA in Finland

• Finnish ASA Trial Flow

• Finnish ASA Trial Setup

• Summary

• Next steps

CORE+ and WISE2 project consortia in Tekes Trial program: Key contributors

Research organizations:

Industry:

Regulator:

Finnish ASA Trial Consortium

ASA Concept

ASA Repository

MNO

Permitted ASA spectrum: Where, When

ASA Controller

Regulator

Incumbent ASA license

and sharing

framework

negotiation ASA

license

NW controls access to ASA spectrum

NW controls access to licensed spectrum

NW controls

access to licensed

and ASA spectrum

MNO BS

Multi-band device

Additional ASA spectrum

available

Policy data

Available

ASA spectrum

ASA exclusion zone

Incumbent

MNO BS

ASA in Finland

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Oulu

Helsinki

Tampere

Turku

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Jyväskylä

. Ylivieska Dynamic exclusion

zones: TV crew

Static exclusion zones:

Key TV studios and

theaters

900 MHz

1800 MHz

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2.1 GHz

2.3 GHz

2.4 GHz

2.6 GHz

MNO BS

MNO BS

Incumbent

MNO BS

MNO (Elisa)

Regulator (FICORA)

Incumbent (e.g.Digita)

TD-LTE network is deployed in 2.3 GHz ASA band and users are

moved to ASA band.

ASA Preparation and Licensing

Users are moved from ASA band to WiFi.

ASA band is evacuated and BS stops transmission in ASA band.

ASA Deployment

ASA Band Evacuation Request

ASA band is released. Incumbent gets the band back.

ASA Band Available

ASA License Termination

Incumbent uses the band for providing PMSE services

according to license agreement.

Development of the sharing framework.

Incumbent releases ASA band.

ASA License

Finnish ASA Trial Flow

Finnish ASA Trial Setup

Incumbent

(e.g. Digita)

MNO (Elisa)

NSN Evolved Packet

Core Network in Oulu

Network Management System

OAM, NSN NetAct OSS

in Tampere/Espoo

PMSE service provider

in Ylivieska

Database at

Fairspectrum in Helsinki

and TUAS in Turku

NSN Flexi Multradio

TD LTE BS in

Ylivieska

ASA Repository

Intelligent logic at

VTT in Oulu

ASA

Controller

WiFi campus

network

at Centria

in Ylivieska

LSA/ASA Repository view

Summary

• Finnish Trial program has shown world’s first live ASA trial of real TD-LTE base stations in the 2.3 GHz ASA band in April 2013.

• Today, a new enhanced ASA trial is presented: – Real incumbent data is used in ASA Repository. – Real network management tool and core network are used. – ASA Controller manages TD-LTE base stations via the

network management tool according to ASA band information.

– ASA Controller evacuates ASA band on demand and commands users to other networks.

Next Steps

• ASA trial story will continue in 2014 with new enhanced trial setups:

– More dynamic ASA Repository with real incumbent spectrum users collocated with the LTE network in the ASA band.

– ASA Controller as the tool for exploiting features from self-organizing networks, e.g. more sophisticated load balancing.

– Interference considerations.