A System IP Approach to High Performance mmwave 5G Wireless Verticals

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1 A System IP Approach to High Performance mmwave 5G Wireless Verticals TechWorks Ray McConnell, CTO

Blu Wireless Technology Ltd Gigabit mmwave modem IP

11ad/ay 4G backhaul and Fixed Wireless Access 5G NR mmw

Strategic partnership with ARM Ltd Deployment of 802.

28 GHz Members of Wi-Fi Alliance WiGig, ETSI mwt ISG

2 Blu Wireless Technology Ltd Gigabit mmwave modem IP Consumer WiGig : IEEE ad/ay 4G backhaul and Fixed Wireless Access 5G NR mmw deployments 60+ wireless, silicon & software engineers Strategic partnership with ARM Ltd Deployment of ad for US customers Multiple mmw RF partners at 60 & 28 GHz Members of Wi-Fi Alliance WiGig, ETSI mwt ISG groups and 5G H2020 projects Close relationship with Bristol University Wireless Research team Page 2

3 Industry Trend: Massive Spectrum WiFi: From 480MHz(WiFi Band) vs 14GHz (60GHz Band) = 29x! Page 3

Industry Trend: Massive Spectrum 10 20 30 40 50 802.

4 Industry Trend: Massive Spectrum aj / FDD FCC July 16 : mmw 28, 37, 39, GHz 5G Candidate WiGig.11ad New FCC E Band E Band W >40GHz of bandwidth available NOW for mmwave applications with a further >80GHz bandwidth to be allocated >100GHz TOTAL existing LTE (3/4G) Bandwidth is <2GHz. so mmwave can provide >60x this bandwidth Page 4

5 Short and Long Range mmwave Spectrum WiGig Short Range >100GHz Potential WiGig New Bands Eband Page 5

6 MBits/s Relevant Industry Trends: Data Rates How far can this go? (1.6x/yr) b GHz 54.11g 5GHz.11n ad 16QAM GHz ac/ax The Future ad 64QAM.11ay Bonding MIMO.11ay Road Map >200Gbs Massive Performance Roadmap Year Page 6

7 Relevant Industry Trends: Smaller Cells The Incredible Shrinking Cell Short Range mmwave Page 7

8 Relevant Industry Trends: Smaller Cells Page 8

Gigabit mmwave Wireless Networks 60 GHz E-Band Compact electronically steered phased array antenna Mesh SDN for robustness and dynamic load balancing Heterogeneous networks using

9 Gigabit mmwave Wireless Networks 60 GHz E-Band Compact electronically steered phased array antenna Mesh SDN for robustness and dynamic load balancing Heterogeneous networks using licensed and unlicensed spectrum 14 GHz of license free spectrum over GHz USA FCC July 2016 extension Applications in transport sector Track to Train and automotive V2X Page 9

60 GHz Mesh Node Architecture Per Link Performance (TDMA) 2Gbps @ 200m 4.

10 60 GHz Mesh Node Architecture Per Link Performance (TDMA) 200m 100m Total node capacity 2Gbps * # Links (antennas) For 4 links = 200m ARM based LINUX NPUs available 1 Mpps and 10Gbps net data rate Under development by BWT and partners for wireless access, backhaul and transport applications Page 10

60 GHz Mesh Node Architecture Small cell Wi-Fi AP Fiber PoP (to Provider

WTTH WTTH Focus on use case specific Mesh WBH requirements Alternative:

SC Wi-Fi- AP mmwave AP mmwave link mmw Distribution NW LOS 60 GHz narrow

control protocol supports rerouting over radio links Auto-alignment

first pole next to fiber PoP or via connections to 2 or more fiber PoPs

11 60 GHz Mesh Node Architecture Small cell Wi-Fi AP Fiber PoP (to Provider Network) fiber Fiber PoP (cabinet) Provider Network WTTH Use case a) WTTH WTTH Focus on use case specific Mesh WBH requirements Alternative: Wireless inhouse Use case b) WTTB RGW Small cell Use case c) WiFi AP / SC Wi-Fi- AP mmwave AP mmwave link mmw Distribution NW LOS 60 GHz narrow beam system Own management and control per mmwave mesh access area Route control protocol supports rerouting over radio links Auto-alignment installations via adaptive beamforming Redundancy of active equipment at first pole next to fiber PoP or via connections to 2 or more fiber PoPs Radio link degradation and outage recognition w/ failure localisation Page 11

SDN mmwave Wireless Mesh Applied research on SDN for 5G wireless mmwave mesh networking under EU H2020 projects 5GXHaul and Picture A 6 node SDN 60

12 SDN mmwave Wireless Mesh Applied research on SDN for 5G wireless mmwave mesh networking under EU H2020 projects 5GXHaul and Picture A 6 node SDN 60 mmwave network based on ONOS SDN Openflow controller and BWT s Typhoon 60 GHz modules demonstrated at the ARM Partner Meeting in August 2017 Page 12

digital controls Support of TDD and FDD* modes 1588 for robust LTE timing MAC HW acceleration to support a range of aggregation standards MAC

13 Imag HYDRA1.0_BH Overview Up to 64QAM modulation Flexible Sub-Channelisation (½, ¼) allowing scalable per link Data Rates RF interface I/Q with configurable digital controls Support of TDD and FDD* modes 1588 for robust LTE timing MAC HW acceleration to support a range of aggregation standards MAC support of >1M ethernet packets per second Programmable MAC and PHY allows support of customer defined features * Dual modem configuration only e.g. IDT s RWM6050 IEEE PHN mask, 1MHz, evmdb: snr (db): PSDU error: Real Page 13

14 The Goldilocks Solution Device WiGig SoCs HYDRA1.0_BH Std Infrastructure SoCs Standard ad ad++ Proprietary RF Support 60 GHz companion RF Multiple RF partners Multiple RF options device RF Beamforming control? Yes Yes No Max modulation 16 QAM 64 QAM 1024 QAM Sub-Channelization? No Yes Yes Wireless MAC p2p, p2mp p2p, p2mp None (p2p only) Flexible MAC? No Yes No Network Sync? No Yes 1588 TC Yes 1588 TC & SyncE TDD/FDD? TDD TDD+FDD TDD+FDD Power Low Low High Vol Price $ $$ $$$$ Page 14

15 HYDRA System IP HW + SW Flexibility Network I/O Network I/O LDPC Heterogeneous Controller Network I/O Distributed Vector Data Channel LDPC FFT Heterogeneous Controller Distributed Vector Data Channel LDPC FFT HW Engines Heterogeneous Controller FFT Distributed Vector Data Channel SPU SPU SPU SIMD VPU + Control Parallel Processor Unit (PPU) Gives ~ 1TeraOp/s per GHz Can increase throughput by Increasing #, or Fmax, of Parallel Processor Units Extending Vector Processor Unit or add custom H/W accelerators Reduce power by hardening fixed functions Reduce # of PPUs or Fmax OR retain full SW flexibility if custom algorithms required Page 15

11ad MAC aggregation AMPDU & AMSPU p2p and p2mp support 1588 TC Synchronisation Dual PCIe2.

16 Typhoon 60 GHz platform: 2017 RWM6050 BH2 dual modem PHY+MAC 2x4 Gbps data rate from dual RF Advanced features Channelization 1.76 GHz 110 MHz Fast beamforming based on ad MAC aggregation AMPDU & AMSPU p2p and p2mp support 1588 TC Synchronisation Dual PCIe2.0 for NPU integration Supports multiple RF options 60 GHz SiBEAM 60 GHz SiversIMA 28 GHz (TBC) 75 x 50 mm 4 Sector Node ( GHz) 65 x 65 mm Page 16

60 GHz Mesh Node Industrial Designs BWT s 60 GHz gigabit wireless mesh modem is well matched to delivering a wireless Gbit network Latest state of art modem development of

17 60 GHz Mesh Node Industrial Designs BWT s 60 GHz gigabit wireless mesh modem is well matched to delivering a wireless Gbit network Latest state of art modem development of BH2 and Typhoon platforms with multiple mmw RF options at 60 & 28 GHz Potential to leverage developments and partnerships from multiple BWT projects at 60 and 28 GHz Page 17

18 Existing configurations for outdoor mounting Metal pole Dia. 98mm min SFP+ Fibre Stand-alone pole unit Cased pole mounted unit ~150 x 90 x 40mm 0.7Kg Page 18

19 Summary Flexible mmwave Solutions with our Partners HYDRA1.0 baseband scaled from.11ad standard 60 GHz Phased array RF from multiple partners Working with ARM at the 5G Edge of Network Roadmap to 5G millimetre wave at 28/39 GHz Route to Implementation IDT s RWM6050 dual modem for 2017 design-in BWT able to offer System IP and development services from silicon to system design Page 19

Gigabit Baseband Modem Technology for 5G mmwave Applications

Gigabit Baseband Modem Technology for 5G mmwave Applications Interlligent Seminar, 18 th May 2017 Ray McConnell, CTO Blu Wireless Technology Ltd Gigabit mmwave modem IP Consumer WiGig : IEEE 802.11ad/ay