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MIMO Distributed Antenna Systems –
DAS, Remote Radios and Repeaters

For Indoor and Outdoor LTE/WIMAX Coverage

 

Lowering Costs of Implementation and Increasing Performance

 

Hosted by:

 

September 14-17, 2009

 

Omni Dallas Hotel Park West
1590 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX  75234
Phone: 972-869-4300

 

 

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Moderated by:
Don Brown, Director, IWPC
 

 

Workshop Background:

As operators prepare for LTE/WIMAX deployments, new challenges arise in indoor and outdoor coverage applications. Most notably, the architecture will change with the introduction of new bands and new antenna configurations, specifically MIMO.

 

This workshop will explore alternative solutions and tradeoffs for implementation.

Workshop Goals:

The goal of this workshop is to bring together senior leaders from the entire supply to facilitate and stimulate breakthrough thinking on emerging technologies and manufacturing methods which, when coupled with market needs and timings, and key system cost drivers, can substantially drive down the cost of the RF hardware and operating expenses associated with the infrastructure.

 

In short, the goal of this workshop is to create an open, interactive environment, where the entire supply chain can communicate, network, share technology requirements and capabilities, and achieve mutually desired goals.

 

The specific goals of this workshop are to:

  • Understand the new architectures needed

  • Understand impact on legacy equipment

  • Understand the impacts on installation, maintenance, reliability

  • Identify any tradeoffs on performance

  • Identify ways to decrease time to market

Will the effort required to achieve these goals impact the overall network performance from an operator’s view?

 

 

 

Monday, September 14, 2009

7:00 PM

Social and Networking
Reception & Registration

At Hotel - Club Lounge

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

7:00 AM

Breakfast & Registration

 

8:00 AM

Opening Remarks

IWPC

Director

 

8:15 AM

Self Introductions

Each person will be asked to introduce him/herself and share how they can contribute to this process

8:50 AM

Welcome

Welcome from Verizon Wireless

Director, System Performance

Verizon Wireless

 

9:00 AM

Keynote presentation

Challenges in Deploying MIMO DAS

Corporate Technology

Verizon Wireless

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

OPERATOR PERSPECTIVES ON
DAS, RRH, AND REPEATERS

 

Indoor vs. Outdoor Coverage DAS Performance Requirements

  • Operator issues and challenges arise with adding new bands and MIMO to DAS

    • 700, 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100

    • Public Safety Bands

  • What challenges are foreseen with introduction of MIMO DAS on Indoor or Outdoor Coverage?

  • What new architectures can be considered?

    • Equipment (Antenna, RRH, others)

  • What do the operators see as the pros and cons of MIMO DAS vs. LTE/WiMax alternatives (Femto, Picos, Micros, Macros)

  • What are the tradeoffs between OPEX and CAPEX implications in MIMO DAS system?

    • Installation, Maintenance, energy consumption, etc…

  • What will be the role, if any, of MIMO DAS on hoteliers and site management organizations?

  • What are the design tradeoffs between Repeaters vs. DAS for in building design?

    • DAS - Does planning design criteria changes from legacy DAS?

      • Antenna placement issues

      • Link Budget

    • Repeater/Relay - Design specifications

      • MIMO vs. SISO Repeaters/Relays tradeoffs

  • A specific case study of a real world DAS installation illustrating the challenges.

    • airports

    • shopping malls

    • commercial buildings

    • arenas

    • spot outdoor coverage

    • other

LTE DAS Deployment Challenges

Director of Engineering

Metro PCS

 

Challenges of Evolving 2G/3G DAS to Future LTE and LTE-Advanced MIMO DAS:

A Wireless Operator's View
       DMTS, Technical Development Group

U.S. Cellular

 

 

12:00 PM

Networking Lunch

1:00 PM

Open Network DAS PROVIDERS AND INSTALLERS

 

Indoor vs. Outdoor Coverage on Existing Hosted Sites

  • How do the Open Network providers foresee MIMO introduction and rollout on existing DAS architectures?

  • What is the impact to existing architectures?

  • How can Open Network make the business more attractive?

  • What do the Open Network providers foresee as the pros and cons of implementation of MIMO DAS?

  • What are the expected tradeoffs between OPEX and CAPEX?

  • What might be the overall effect on the existing equipment?

  • How will adding additional antennas effect the existing installations

  • In the base station hotel environment with many operators, how does adding another band effect isolation from co-channel/adjacent interference and inter-modulations issues? 

DAS Architectures for Future LTE Networks

CTO/VP

ExteNet Systems, Inc.

 

Design and Cost Strategies for LTE Indoor DAS

Sr. VP, DAS Solutions
and
VP, Network Operations

American Tower

 

 

2:00 PM

Panel Session

Operators and Neutral hosts

 

 

Confirmed

  • American Tower

  • Cricket Communications

  • ExteNet Systems

  • Metro PCS

  • US Cellular

  • Verizon Wireless

 

2:45 PM

Networking Break

3:15 PM

DAS SYSTEM SUPPLIERS AND OEMs

 

Architecture options and tradeoffs for indoor and outdoor coverage

  • What are the changes to the equipment and installation for new and legacy:

    • Frequency bands

      • 700, 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100 MHz

    • MIMO antenna configurations

      • 2x2

      • 4x2

      • 4x4

  • What are the engineering performance tradeoffs for in building MIMO coverage?

  • What are the design tradeoffs between Repeater vs. DAS for in building design?

    • DAS - Does planning design criteria changes from legacy DAS?

      • Antenna placement issues

      • Link Budget

    • Repeater/Relay's - Design specifications

      • MIMO vs. SISO Repeaters/Relays tradeoffs

  • What impact is on legacy DAS equipment?

    • Rip and Replace vs. Bolt-on/overlay

    • Field operations

    • Installation

    • Maintenance

    • Repair and reliability

    • Servicing

MIMO DAS for LTE: Requirements, Deployment Scenarios and Performance

Fellow, Technical Staff

Motorola

 

MIMO-DAS and Relay System for LTE Coverage Enhancement

Huawei

 

MIMO Options for Capacity Improvement using DAS

Member Technical Staff

Alcatel-Lucent

 

MIMO DAS Challenges and Solutions

Director NRO Professional Services
Ericsson

 

DAS Design Tradeoffs and Simulation Results

Product Manager/Radio Access-LTE

Nokia-Siemens Corp.

 

 

6:00 PM

Adjourn for Day

 

7:00 PM

Bus leaves for:

Dinner
Dallas Style

Bus Transportation provided to and from hotel.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

7:00 AM

Breakfast

 

8:00 AM

Special Tower Top Reliability Presentation

  • During the last Tower Top Electronics Reliability Workshop, IWPC was asked to explore the impact Installers have on Tower Top Electronics Reliability.  This presentation is from several on-site visits and interviews with tower top equipment installers.

A Day in the Life of a Tower Top Electronics Installer

Technical Manager

IWPC

 

8:30 AM

major subsystem suppliers

Antenna Systems, Repeaters, and Remote Radio Head

  • What is implication on additional bands and new MIMO configuration

    • Reliability

    • Software Impacts

    • Network Mgmt

    • Interface Standards

    • Interoperation between vendors

  • What is impact on legacy DAS antennas?

  • What is impact on additional band additional band and new MIMO configuration on legacy RRH?

  • What are the CAPEX implications?

    • What electronics can be combined with the antennas and RRHs?

  • What MIMO antenna systems are required or have changed?

    • Active antennas

    • Passive antennas

Investigations of LTE Indoor MIMO Systems

Product Line Manager - ION

Andrew

 

Heterogeneous Network for LTE Deployment

Sr. Manager,

Technical Marketing Group

Qualcomm

 

Title TBA

Product Architect
Powerwave

 

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:30 AM

major subsystem suppliers

Antenna Systems, Repeaters, and Remote Radio Head

(Continued)

 

LTE Network Deployment using Repeaters

CTO

Axell Wireless

 

Practical Network Driven Advanced Antenna Systems

Vice President/Product Management

ReVerb Networks

 

MIMO Indoor Antennas

Head of Initial Development Group

Kathrein

 

12:00 Noon

Lunch

 

1:00 PM

Panel Session

OEMs and MAJOR SUBSYSTEMS SUPPLIERS

 

Confirmed

  • Alcatel-Lucent

  • Andrew

  • Axell Wireless

  • Ericsson

  • Huawei

  • Kathrein

  • Motorola

  • Nokia Siemens Networks

  • Powerwave

  • Qualcomm

  • ReVerb Networks

  • Zinwave

2:00 PM

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

  • Thermal Mounting Techniques

  • Passive Components

    • Filters

    • Diplexers

    • Cables

    • Connectors

  • Semiconductor Device technologies

  • Cabinet assembly and temperature control

  • Packaging and material technologies

  • Environmental and lightning protection

  • MIMO DAS Network Planning Software

  • Testing and diagnostics

Gigahetz Signal Processor for Mobile Infrastructure Systems

Director of Design Engineering

Scintera Networks

 

Advances in High Frequency Materials Substrates for Use in MIMO DAS Remote Radios and Repeaters

Sr. Market Development Manager

Rogers Corp.

 

 

 

3:00 PM

Networking Break

 

3:30 PM

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
(Continued)

 

Connector Installation: Minimizing Risks and Side-Effects

Sales & Marketing Manager
Spinner GmbH

 

Passive Intermodulation Testing as a Quality Metric for Indoor and Outdoor Cellular Infrastructure

VP, Business Development,

The Americas

Summitek Instruments

 

On Site Testing for PIM

Technical Sales Engineer

Rosenberger

 

5:00 PM

CLOSING PANEL

 

The Host and other Operators will be asked to recap the extent to which the workshop has addressed their wish lists.

 

 

Hosts and Operators

5:30 PM

TakeAways & Closing Remarks

 

6:15 PM

Adjourn

 

7:00 PM

Dinner (Dutch*)

 

* = in this context, Dutch is a term which means that each person will be responsible for their own dinner costs.

For those who desire to join our tradition, we get together to enjoy good friends, good food, good wine and [really] bad jokes

Thursday, September 17, 2009

8:00 AM

 

Tour:
 

Verizon's Network Operations Center

 

Note:  Restrictions may apply
tour attendance subject to Verizon's approval

Bus Transportation provided from and to hotel. 

     

 

DEADLINE FOR HANDOUT MATERIALS:

Deadline for electronic version of handout materials: 

Friday, September 4, 2009

 

COSTS/REGISTRATION FEE:

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover out of pocket workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus First Day breakfast/lunch/dinner plus Second Day breakfast/lunch plus 4 Breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc.

 

We estimate that these costs will be $ 798 (USD) per person. (For IWPC Members, only.)

 

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.

 

Make checks payable to IWPC.

 

HOTEL:

Omni Dallas Hotel Park West
1590 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX  75234
Phone: 972-869-4300

Omni Reservations: 1-800-THE-OMNI

 

Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of $127.00. USD single occupancy.

 

Cut-off date for reservations is Monday, August 31,  2009. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

 

TRAVEL OPTIONS FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL:  The hotel is only 8 miles from Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.  Taxi and Shuttle service available for airport transportation (approximately $25 one way)

 

AUDIO VISUAL:

A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.

 

BUSINESS CARDS:

Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

 

DRESS:

Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!

 

HANDOUT MATERIALS:

IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.

For ALL IWPC members:

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout binder. These pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

You are invited to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

These materials will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

 

Please send electronic materials (up to 5 MB) to:

[email protected]

 

or use this FREE FTP Site for files greater than 5 MB

http://www.iwpc.org/cal/sitedrop.asp 

 

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