1. BeFEMTO
Broadband evolved FEMTO Networks
Call FP7-ICT-2009-4
Proposal No: 248523
EU-Canada Future Internet Workshop
23-24 March 2011
Dr. Thierry Lestable
Technology & Innovation Manager
SAGEMCOM SAS
Copyright Future BeFEMTO– Broadband Evolved FEMTO Network. All
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2. Outline
Consortium overview
Objectives & vision
Challenges & expected impacts
Structure of the project
Motivation & Market status
Influence of the project
Conclusions & Way-Forward
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3. BeFEMTO Consortium, Objectives &
Expected impacts
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4. BeFEMTO Consortium
Duration: Jan. 2010 – Jun. 2012 (30 Months)
Consortium: 12
Countries: 6
FI Industrial (Operator): DOCOMO, PTC,
UOULU
TID
Industrial (Manufacturer): NEC, SC, QC
SME: TTI, mimoOn
GB DE PL
NEC,UNIS DOCOMO, PTC
Research Centres: CTTC, CEA
QC, mimoOn
FR Higher Education: UOULU, UNIS
SC,CEA
Advisory Board: 7
ES
CTTC,
S. Saunders (Femto Forum), W. Webb
TID,TTI
(Ofcom), U. Mulligan (ETSI), M. Busilo
(UKE), J. P. Kermoal (ECO), B. Espinosa
(ANFR), F.Pujol (IDATE)
Total Budget: 10.2 M€
EC funding: 6.9 M€
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5. BeFEMTO Objectives & Approach
Overall Goal
To research & develop evolved LTE-A based femtocell technologies that accelerate cost-effective
provision of ubiquitous broadband services by convergence b/w fixed and wireless broadband
Approach
Near-term solutions: Novel techniques for standalone femtocells for early deployment
Long-term solutions: Novel concepts of networked femtocells, fixed outdoor relay femtocells
for enhancing cell-edge capacity, and mobile femtocells in public transport, all with SON
capabilities for minimising OPEX and simplifying remote network management
Validation: Through 4 experimental testbeds, mathematical analysis, and simulation tools
Objectives
High Spectral Efficiency: 8 bits/s/Hz/cell
Maximum Mean Transmit Power: 10 mW
Support infrastructure and spectrum sharing
Enabling new services for home, enterprise and mobile (transportation) environments.
New and novel use of femto technology in outdoor environments
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6. BeFEMTO’s Vision
Truly Broadband Radio Access Technologies
Major focus is on autonomously self-optimizing and self-managing femto
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7. BeFEMTO Challenges
Challenging working areas with potential for collaboration:
RF Signal Processing
efficient, low-cost power amplifiers, highly sensitive receivers, flexible channel bandwidth, reliable RF
filters, …
Interference Management
coping with unplanned rollouts, macro-femto-coordination, coverage estimation, interference
cancellation, …
Link and Access Management
handover, admission control, resource management (s.a. load balancing and flow control), …
Network Management and Architecture
access control, authentication, local breakout, efficient forwarding, seamless mobility, zero-config, …
Backhaul Issues
wired or wireless backhaul, reducing signaling load, QoS provisioning and traffic priorization, …
Low Cost and Low Power Implementation
e.g. maintaining both coverage and capacity at very low transmit power
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation and Sharing
multi-operator band sharing, flexible bandwidth allocation, backhaul sharing, …
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8. Expected Impacts
Impact on Technical Field: Impact on Standards and Regulation
Boost of Spectrum Efficiency, 3GPP, FemtoForum, BroadbandForum
Reduced Cost per Bit Harmonization of European Regulation
Early Migration to LTE-A
Enabler for Green Radio
Cooperative Networked Femtocells Impact on Quality of Life
Mobile Femtocells ubiquitous access to mobile broadband
services
ease-of-use
Strategic Impact reduction in electro-magnetic radiation
CAPEX savings through convergence,
OPEX savings through self-*
wide availability of broadband services Impact on Next Generation Networks
new service opportunities and Service Infrastructures
reinforcing European leadership low-cost provisioning of broadband wireless
access and services
indoor+outdoor, fixed+mobile, short- and
long-range
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9. Work Package Structure
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10. Advisory Board Members
Regulatory Organizations Industry Group
Ofcom (UK) Femto Forum
Prof. William Webb, Head of Prof. Simon Saunders,
Chairman of Femto Forum
R&D industry group & WG4 chair
UKE (PL) (Regulation)
Mariusz Busilo, Deputy Market Research Consulting
Director (IDATE)
ANFR (FR) IDATE (FR)
Fréderic Pujol, Head of
Bruno Espinosa, Head of Cellular technologies &
Spectrum engineering Spectrum
European Standard Organization
ECO
(ESO)
Dr. Jean-Philippe Kermoal,
Spectrum Manager ETSI
Ultan Mulligan, Director of
strategy & new initiatives
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11. BeFEMTO Positioning w.r.t
Femtocell Market status
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12. Data traffic strongly increasing
Vodafone June 2010
Data traffic X2 every year
Capacity Crunch
Growth expected to continue HetNets needed!
March 2010
Docomo March 2010
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13. Mobile Phone/Service Problems
Femtocells are seen
As a solution to avoid the
Resulting Churn Rate!!
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14. Residential Macro Data Offload
Offload via WiFi and/or Femtocell
On average, more than 70% of traffic
can still be Offloaded !
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15. Femtocell Ecosystem: 62 Operators
Femto Forum – 62 Operators members
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16. Femtocell Ecosystem: 74 Technology
providers
End to End Solutions
Components & Software Femto Access Points Femto Core Network Others
The Ecosystem is now mature enough,
and has experienced its 2nd IOT Plugfest.
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17. Femtocell Market status
19 Commercial Deployments in 13 countries,
15 Roll-out commitments in 2011
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18. BeFEMTO & Femto Forum
6 Partners members of Femto Forum
Prof. Simon Saunders (Femto Forum
chairman)
is member of our Advisory Board
will be Keynote Speaker within our FuNEMS’11
Workshop
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19. Investing in LTE: 180 Operators in
70 Countries
17 Commercial LTE NW launched
63 LTE User Devices
(Feb.2011)
128 Commercial LTE Commitments in 52 countries
52 additional pre-commitment trials
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20. Worldwide Mobile Broadband
Spectrum
FDD: 2x70MHz FDD: 2x35MHz
TDD: 50MHz
FDD Hong-Kong
7 3
China Mobile
2600 1800
AWS TeliaSonera Genius Brand
Vodafone CSL Ltd
O2 …
Major TD-LTE Market
… (incl. India)
Verizon
metroPCS AT&T
21
NTT DoCoMo
1500
Refarming and Extensions are still to come… Digital Dividend
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21. TD-LTE is gaining momentum
TD-LTE is considered within BeFEMTO as a potential solution for Femtocells.
e.g. TD-LTE Overlay within FDD Uplink (UOULU).
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22. LTE Deployment
Time-window opportunity
For new markets!
BeFEMTO Project Timeline is well aligned: Not too early nor too late.
(drafting of proposal was back to late 2008/early 2009!)
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23. BeFEMTO Influence & Roadmap
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
BeFEMTO
Project Prototyping
Timeline
Completion
of 3GPP
Releases Rel-9 Rel-10 Rel-11 Rel-12
Expected to be aligned
with IMT-Advanced
IOT,
Certification
Trials
Time to
Market
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24. Year 1 – Deliverables, Achievements
& Dissemination highlights
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25. Produced Deliverables
Dissemiation Delivery
Del. Deliverable Name WP Editor Estimated PM Nature
level date
D1.1 Website of the project 1 SC 0.5 O PU M1
Evaluation of progress status of the project,
D1.2 1 SC 6.5 R CO M12
issue 1
Description of baseline reference systems, use
D2.1 case requirements, evaluation and impact 2 TID 25 R PU M12
on business model
Promising SON enabling & multi-cell RRM
D4.1 techniques for standalone and networked 4 UNIS 40 R PU M12
femtocells
Femtocell access control, networking, mobility,
D5.1 5 TID 50 R PU M12
and management concepts (final)
Selection of scenarios for proof of concept
testbeds and specifications for key
D6.1 6 mimoOn 80 R PU M12
building blocks functionalities and
interfaces
Report on the standardisation and dissemination
D7.1 7 NEC 20 R PU M12
activities for the first evaluation period
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26. Use cases & New services
Broadband Everywhere eHealth service
Femto Node
Femto Node
Localization services
My Home moves with Me
shopping center
Child terminal
Where is my
child ?!
Access
Access
Network
Network
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27. Business Model
50£ one off
180$ one off
+5£/month
5$/month +1.5$/month
10$/month
250$ one
off
free of charge
159$ one off
32$/month
100€ one off
+8€ /month 15€/month
10€/month 199€ one off 255$ one off
+42$/month
In BeFEMTO, four business cases are investigated:
- One off fee: the user pays 50€ once, and the monthly payment does not change (35€/month)
- No fee: the user does not pay for the femtocell, and the monthly payment does not change (35€/month)
- Decrease: the user does not pay for the femtocell, and the monthly payment decreases by 5€ to 30€/month
- Increase: the user does not pay for the femtocell, and the monthly payment increases by 5€ to 40€/month
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28. Simulations Scenarios Examples
Interference Management Solutions RRM Solutions
Pow Capability to
X N-3X reuse F1
Femto-UE2
eNB F1 HeNB
hHeNB −UE1
Freq
Macro-UE1
Self-Organising Networking Solutions Authentication, Routing, Mobility Mgt
Solutions
end-to-end latency 10 ms
WAN Mobile
Network
Broadband Uplink
(10 Mb/s, symmetric)
Switched Ethernet
(1 Gb/s)
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29. 4 Test-Beds
Interference Management for LTE-Radio Routing in Networks of Femtocells
Iu-h interface
Tektronix G35
Emulator
Iub interface
Uu interface
User
Equipment Siemens NB8860
Node B
EXTREME Control &
Measurement System
Automatic Fault Diagnosis EXTREME Control Network
Multi-Radio Interference Analysis
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30. Year 1 - Achievements
Use cases, scenarios & innovative services
RF Front End
Femto
Node
BeFEMTO System Architecture Testbed: Mesh Femto Network
Business Models
BeFEMTO Theoretical Investigations
EPS Architecture
3GPP EPS Architecture
LFGW Node HeNB Node
Architecture Architecture
Fixed Broadband Access
Architecture (e.g. TISPAN or BBF)
BeFEMTO
Transport Architecture
Performances assessment
Innovative Algorithms Design Evaluation Methodology & Calibration
1,0 Testbed: LTE Standalone
0,9 CEA
DOCOMO
0,8
Sagemcom
0,7 UOLU
0,6 UniS
CDF
0,5
0,4
0,3
0,2
0,1
0,0
-70 -60 -50 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
G-factor (dB)
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31. Year 1 - Dissemination Activities
Standards & industry groups: 9 contributions
6 contributions 2 contributions 1 contribution
Conferences and workshops contributions: 12 papers published in top ranked IEEE conferences (VTC,
GLOBECOM, ASILOMAR, PIMRC, FuNEMS), and 2 papers in W-GREEN and IOFC workshops.
Journals and magazines: 3 articles published
Presentations: 5 presentations in Femto Forum, CWIND, EU-Japan symposium and FP7 Concertation
meetings.
Workshops: 2 approved (IEEE VTC Spring, and FuNEMS) and Call for Papers circulated.
Seminar/Training School: 1 Summer School to be collocated with ISIT conference in 2011, 1 Winter
school agreed with FREEDOM project in 2012.
E-Letter: 1 IEEE e-letter on Multimedia Femtocells
LinkedIn: 1 BeFEMTO group created
Wikipedia: BeFEMTO referenced as external link in ‘4G’, ‘LTE-Advanced’ and ‘femtocell’
Project website: http://www.ict-befemto.eu/
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32. Conclusions & Way-Forward
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33. Conclusions & Way-Forward
Project motivated by the growing need
in True Broadband
‘Small & Self-X’ Cells
4 complementary Testbeds 2 international
reinforcing the Real-World Workshops (IEEE VTC
Proof-of-Concept Spring, ICT FuNEMS) &
capabilities 1 Summer School in
Outstanding innovative 2011
protocols and algorithms: 1 Panel session in
E2E solutions coming PIMRC’11
Unified System
Architecture
(Toronto)
Key partners truly involved 2 Special issues (IEEE &
& committed to Femto Hindawi) to come in
business 2011
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34. Thank you for your attention.
Any interest for further collaboration, please contact us:
thierry.lestable@sagemcom.com
Visit our website:
http://www.ict-befemto.eu/
Download our Deliverables for FREE.
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