Antenna Evolution Towards 5G

Exploring Massive MIMO, Beam Steering and Advanced Antenna Systems.

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When

September 24-27, 2018

Where

Renaissance Paris La Defense,
A Marriott Hotel

Paris, France

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Limited to 100 seats

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Attendance open to all IWPC Members


Introduction

Following on from last years workshop in Bristol, UK, Orange will host IWPC members in Paris to share views on the potential for 5G antenna deployment on legacy sites, new vertical market requirements, Internet of Things (IoT) and other connected technology use-cases. This workshop will give IWPC members the opportunity to discuss and debate trials and experiments carried out by Orange and other global leaders, as well as assessing new innovation, implementation challenges and barriers to success.

Workshop Goals

  • Understand the critical role of the antenna facet in the delivery of 5G
  • Assess simulations and performance outputs from lab tests and trials
  • Explore Massive MIMO for fast moving vehicles
  • Examine sub-6GHz massive MIMO and array gain / beamforming developments
  • Understand EMF constrains for massive MIMO deployments
  • Assess the evolution to cost-effective antenna systems and solutions

Agenda

DAY 1
September 24

Monday

7:00 PM

Evening Reception and Registration

At Hotel 

 

DAY 2
September 25

Tuesday

7:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

Keynote

  • 5G system requirements
  • Test, trials activities, results and roadmap
  • Massive MIMO use cases including for fast moving vehicles
  • How can the industry mitigate EMF in massive MIMO and Beam Steering
  • Exploring low power, low cost hybrid solutions
  • Massive MIMO simulations and performance outputs (sub-6GHz and mmWave)
  • Massive MIMO implementation aspects

Keynote Presentation

 

Senior Project Manager, Technical Strategy

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

Mobile Operator and Vertical Market Perspectives

  • Challenges of 5G system deployment
  • Deployment strategies
  • Assessing antenna technology for 5G (Massive MIMO, Beam Steering, Advanced Antenna Systems)
  • Implementation and Deployment
  • Antenna infrastructure and performance requirements
  • What can be achieved when using M-MIMO? is it all about throughput or will it play a role in delivering additional services
  • Technical challenges for deployments
  • Migration towards 5G antennas
  • Multiband massive MIMO. Combinations with conventional MIMO
  • Use cases for massive MIMO
  • mmW 28/39/60 GHz use cases and challenges
  • Maturity for deployment from day 1 in 5G
  • Antenna architecture options for 5G deployments (low band, mid band, and high band)
  • What is the real business case to deploy mMIMO
  • Why is mmWave being explored by a few operators (in US, Far East) but not in EU?
  • What are operators looking to deploy, beyond  trials
  • Will AAS (Massive MIMO) replace and/or add to current site infrastructure
  • Replacement cycle and rate of 4G with 5G MIMO and Beam Steering

Questions and Beliefs for Introducing 5G NR and Massive MIMO

 

Senior Researcher

 

 

What is real Massive MIMO?

 

Director, Wireless Technology Development Dept.

 

 

Massive MIMO Mobility Performance and Requirements

 

Massive MIMO Engineer

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 Noon

Networking Lunch

 

1:30 PM

OEM Perspectives

  • State of Advanced Antennas, architectures of advanced antennas
  • Massive MIMO architecture
  • Results from real world trials
  • AAS/Massive MIMO coverage vs capacity
  • Applicability of beamforming in coverage uplink limited systems
  • 5G on mm-bands (e.g. 28/39GHz)
  • Antenna systems roadmaps
  • What will be supported in 4.5G and the transition to 5G
  • Low band issues: 700/800/900 MHz combinations and PIM issues
  • UL vs DL coverage and throughputs
  • AAS Network Planning & Deployment
  • How these new antenna systems will be used in a dual connectivity (EN-DC), simultaneously with legacy LTE antennas
  • Field performance of different Massive-MIMO configurations
  • Cost, weight, power tradeoffs with Massive-MIMO
  • Requirements on traditional BS antennas with the introduction of active antennas
  • Development on BS RF interface to support such requirements
  • Upgrade scenarios and site structures
  • Evolution of Passive and Active/integrated antennas
  • Massive MIMO, Beamforming, TDD-FDD Antennas
  • mm-wave, limitations and reality orientations
  • Performance improvements in mmWave of beam steering
  • mmWave antenna solutions, M-MIMO/beam steering for in-door applications below 6 GHz
  • Multi frequency band handling antennas
  • Antenna system evolution and practical challenges on-site
  • 5G- Massive MIMO (for low and high Freq)
  • Migration from legacy Antennas to Active Antennas - Best practices and lessons learnt.
  • Practical considerations (and first trials results) on mMIMO order vs increased data rate-
  • OPEX consideration moving from 4G network (4x4 / 8x8) to mMIMO network (16T to 64T)

Active Antenna Systems/Massive MIMO

 

Senior Expert, Multi Antenna Systems

 

Massive MIMO: A key feature for 3GPP New Radio-Standards and Performance

 

Department Head-Radio Interface Group, SR Lab

 

 

 

5G BTS Antenna Systems at Sub 6GHz - R&D Challenges

 

Senior Antenna Specialist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:30 PM

Networking Break

 

4:00 PM

OEM Perspectives, continued

  • Massive MIMO Antenna implementation
  • Deployment models that work for massive MiMo - density, transport network, DU concentration
  • The coexistence between 4G and 5G antennas
  • Integrated vs Connectorized antennas
  • Sub-6GHz massive MIMO
  • Advanced and Flexible Massive MIMO Antenna
  • All in one or Flexible Multiband Antennas
  • How beam steering techniques can bring benefit to 5G systems, specifically sub 6 GHz
  • Multiband massive MIMO. Combinations with conventional MIMO
  • 3GPP Status esp. as it relates to Antenna design, modeling etc.
  • Regulatory requirements

Practice Deployment Issues and Passive Antenna Development to Support M-MIMO Deployments

 

Director, Mobile Network Engineering

 

 

Lessons Learned from Commercial Deployment with Multi-Site Cluster of RF Coherent Massive MIMO Antennas

 

‎CTO

 

 

 

 

5:20 PM

Panel Discussion

 

Mobile Operators 

6:10 PM

Adjourn

 

7:00 PM

Networking Dinner at Quai Ouest, Saint-Cloud

 

DAY 3
September 26

Wednesday

7:00 AM

Breakfast

 

8:00 AM

System Innovation

  • Degrees of freedom in various real world environments
  • Practical antenna designs and methods for beam steering; how the 3GPP standard sees its implementation
  • Ways to apply beam steering to 4G LTE
  • mmWave antenna structures and solutions
  • Understanding the usage of the mechanical motor system in antenna steering for 5G Massive MIMO
  • mmWave active antennas, hybrid beam forming
  • Radiation pattern measurements in the field of AAS in the 3.4 to 4.2 GHz band
  • Standalone Active Antenna vs Hybrid Passive/Active Antenna for 3.5GHz mMIMO
  • Standardisation of communication protocols for active antennas: how to make active antennas agnostic vs base stations
  • Interference challenges
  • FR2 Antenna Ideas
  • 5G transition/migration plans - NR/LTE interoperability
  • Large Scale Antenna Systems (LSAS)

A New Antenna Systems Design Approach as applied to challenges in 5G and beyond

 

‎Professor

 

 

Challenges of MU-MIMO Antenna Design

 

‎Chief Technology Officer

 

 

Industrialization of Phased Array Antennas 

‎Chief Technologist

 

 

 

 

10:00 AM

Networking Break

 

10:40 AM

System Innovation and Technology Enablers

  • Innovative Advanced Antenna Concepts
  • Use cases for mMIMO
  • 5G RF front-end
  • Antenna architecture options for 5G deployments (low band, mid band, and high band)
  • Spectral Efficiency - can MIMO and other technologies within a macro style deployment off-set the need for small cells or other approaches.
  • Can a mix of existing methods achieve better results than small cell densification in urban or dense urban scenario
  • mMIMO antennas technologies, challenges
  • Potential and limitation of 5G mMIMO particularly for moving vehicles
  • What is realistic way to implement 5G-NR (mmWave) system onto vehicle?
  • Active antenna architectures, constraints, problems to solve
  • Beamsteering and beamshaping front-ends
  • Radio requirements for AAS-TDD v FDD
  • How does FDD drive need for multiband radio capability
  • Comparison of Radio architecture solutions
    • Tranceiver based-RF Converter Based
  • Considerations for filtering, power amplifier efficiency, etc.

Radio Technology for AAS-How much Bandwidth is enough? 

 

‎Director, Wireless Technology

 

 

RF Sampling for Multi-band AAS Radios 

 

‎Systems Manager

Wireless Infrastructure Product Line

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 Noon

Networking Lunch

 

1:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enabling Technologies

  • Components associated with advanced antenna systems
  • Material needs to implement 5G
  • Understanding requirements on PCB materials and functions
  • Exploring gap waveguide antenna technology
  • Building practices and thermal handling in multilayer antenna solutions

 

Enabling 5G NR Massive MIMO Deployments

 

‎Director Technical Marketing

 

 

 

System Analysis and Implementation of GHz AAS for 5G

 

‎Senior Antenna Designer

2:20 PM

Test and Validation

  • Measurement challenges and updates on 3GPP status for system and antenna measurements including FR2
  • 5G Test and Measurement requirements

 

 

 

 

Measurement Challenges and Updates on 3GPP System and Antenna Measurements

 

‎5G Program Manager

 

 

OTA-massive MIMO and Beamforming NF-FF Aspects

 

‎Technology Manager

3:30 PM

Networking Break

 

4:00 PM

Test and Validation, continued

  • OTA - massiveMIMO and beamforming NF-FF aspects, various methods and analysis of plane waves and quite zones
  • Testing challenges within a beam rather than cell centric networks
  • Ensuring reliable real-world performance of 5G technology
  • Modeling and simulation across multiple physics
  • Considering thermal and structural issues
  • Requirements and Challenges of Testing of the mMIMO/3D Beamforming Environment
  • Testing of 5G handsets using reverberation chambers - sub<6 and mm-wave frequencies
  • Testing beamforming antennas in reverberation chambers
  • Advanced network planning to priortize investments in Massive MIMO systems
  • Key challenges of modeling highly complex antenna systems in radio simulations
  • Why beam steering technologies requires full 3D network planning and optimization?
  • Taking multipath propagation estimates to the next level for Massive MIMO technologies.

Over-the-Air Testing of 5G-Enabled Devices

 

‎CTO

 

 

 

Ensuring reliable real-world performance of 5G Technology

 

‎Lead Application Engineer

 

 

How Massive MIMO and 5G are Changing the RF Planning and Optimization Paradigms

 

‎Product Management Director for RAN Solutions

 

 

5:30 PM

Closing Discussion

 

DAY 4
September 27

Thursday

9:30 AM- 1:30 PM

Demonstrations at Orange Gardens Labs

44 Avenue de la Republique, 92320, Chatillon

  • Massive MIMO (MM) for fast moving vehicles
  • Communication with no RF transmission
  • EMF constrains for Massive MIMO
  • Hardware evolution to low cost solution
  • Massive MIMO simulations and performance outputs based on Orange tests (sub 6GHz and mmWaves)
  • Massive MIMO implementation aspects

 

Bus from Hotel at 08:00 

 

Welcome and Refreshments (09:00)

 

Introduction (09:30)

 

‎Wireless Technology Evolution Director

 

 

Making Massive MIMO Beamforming Work for High Speed Connected Vehicles

 

‎Project Manager and Senior R&D Manager

 

 

 

Battery-Free Connected Thanks to Backscattering in Mobile Networks

 

‎Project Manager and Senior R&D Engineer

 

 

 

Orange Views on Massive MIMO in sub 6 GHz Bands

 

‎Senior Technical Specialist and Project Manager

 

 

Electromagnetic Exposure (EMF) to Radio Waves induced by 5G Massive MIMO Antennas

 

‎Department Manager, Orange R&D Labs

 

 

Massive MIMO in 5G NR Networks

 

‎Senior Wireless Director

 

 

Summary and Closing Remarks

 

‎Senior Project Manager, Technical Strategy

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    Deadline for electronic version of presentation/handout materials: Monday, September 10, 2018

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    260 Jardin de Valmy
    Paris, France 92918
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