Chih-Hsuan Chen

CHTTL
2016/05/06

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Background
Rel-13 status
Rel-14 and beyond

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 Base station equipped with Active Antenna Array
(AAS) and able to exploit the full 3D channels
 Conventional BS can only do beamforming in one
direction (horizontal)
Vertical sectorization
3D beamforming
Higher order MUMIMO

 Improve indoor coverage in

urban scenario
 Improve cell capacity
 Increase cell-edge and
average cell capacity
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 Objective: study enhancements and assess
performance benefits of 2D antenna array
 2D antenna array with 8 or more TXRUs

Development timeline
Channel 3D channel model development
model • 2013-01~2014-03(RAN1#72~#78)

FD-MIMO Study FD-MIMO performance

SI • 2014-10~2015-06(RAN1#78b~#81)

FD-MIMO FD-MIMO standard specification

WI • 2015-08~2015-11(RAN1#82~#83)

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  Evaluation scenarios in FD-MIMO SI:
Urban Macro Urban Micro Non co-channel Co-channel
Scenario (2GHz) (3.5GHz) HetNet HetNet
Main Samsung, Samsung, NTT DOCOMO, AT&T, Orange
Supporting Nokia, Nokia, KDDI, Softbank
Company Ericsson, ALU, Ericsson, ALU,
Huawei, ZTE, Huawei, ZTE,
CMCC CMCC
Number of FDD TDD FDD TDD FDD TDD FDD TDD
evaluation
results
14 6 14 6 5 0 2 0
(Phase-1)

The main focus is still on Urban Macro

and Urban Micro for Rel-13 FD-MIMO SI.
Ref: TR 36.897

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 No new Transmission Mode for FD-MIMO
 Supported by TM9 and TM10
 Rel-13 FD-MIMO specification primary includes the following
parts:
 Non-precoded CSI-RS
• Increase CSI-RS port to 12 and 16
 Beamformed CSI-RS
 CSI reporting enhancement
• To support non-precoded and beamformed CSI-RS
 DM-RS enhancement
• Additional DM-RS port to support higher order MU-MIMO
 SRS enhancement
• Increase SRS measurement resources

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  This category comprises schemes where different
CSI-RS ports have the same wide beam width and
direction and hence generally cell wide coverage.
 CSI-RS port number can be larger than 8 (12/16-port)
 12/16-port codebook design (max. 8 layers)

Ref: TR 36.897
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  In Rel-12, there are {1,2,4,8} CSI-RS ports
1/2 CSI-RS: 4 CSI-RS: 8 CSI-RS:

 In Rel-13, CSI-RS port number can be {12, 16}

Total number of Number of antenna ports Number of CSI-RS
antenna ports per CSI-RS configuration configurations
12 4 3
16 8 2

12 CSI-RS: 16 CSI-RS:

Ref: TS 36.211

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  This category comprises schemes where CSI-RS
ports have narrow beam widths and hence not cell
wide coverage, and at least some CSI-RS port-
resource combinations have different beam
directions.
 CSI-RS port number per beam ≦ 8

Ref: TR 36.897
CRI (CSI-RS Resource Indication)
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  Class A CSI reporting (non-precoded CSI-RS)
 PMI reporting is also two stage: W=W1W2
 12/16-port codebook:
 There are 5 parameters require RRC config.
• (N1,N2)：dimension of two different directions
• (O1,O2)：sampling factor for (N1,N2)
• Config={1,2,3,4}: codebook subset for beam selection
and co-phasing
Rank-1 codebook config.
(N1,N2) (O1,O2) combinations
(8,1) (4,-), (8,-)
(2,2) (4,4), (8,8)
(2,3) {(8,4), (8,8)} 8-port
(3,2) {(8,4), (4,4)} codebook
(2,4) {(8,4), (8,8)}
(4,2) {(8,4), (4,4)}
Ref: 3GPP R1-156217

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 Class B CSI reporting (beamformed CSI-RS)
 BS can configure K beams for UE
• K=1~8
• CSI-RS port number for each beam=1,2,4,8
 UE report CRI (CSI-RS Resource Indication) to indicate
the preferred beam
• CRI is wideband
• RI/CQI/PMI based on legacy codebook (i.e. Rel-12)
• CRI reporting period is integer multiple of RI

Report CRI=2
RI/CQI/PMI is
measured on
CSI-RS 2
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 Conventionally, CSI is derived by averaging over
measurement in multiple subframes.
 In Rel-13, Measurement Restriction (MR) allows BS to
configure UE to derive measurement report by using only
single subframe
 Configured by RRC signaling
 Channel MR: only applies Class B
 Interference MR: both Class A and Class B
 Example: BS can apply different beamformed CSI-RS direction
in consecutive subframes

Subframe 1 Subframe 2 Subframe 3 Subframe 4

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 Support additional DM-RS port for higher order MU-MIMO
 Support at most 8 layers MU-MIMO in Rel-13
 12 DM-RS REs with OCC = 4 for up to total 4 layers per
scrambling sequence
 1 bit is add to DCI format 2C and 2D
Rel-13 DMRS table
Previous DMRS table One Codeword: Two Codewords:

One Codeword: Two Codewords: Codeword 0 enabled, Codeword 0 enabled,

Codeword 1 disabled Codeword 1 enabled

Codeword 0 enabled, Codeword 0 enabled,
Value Message Value Message
Codeword 1 disabled Codeword 1 enabled
0 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=0 (OCC=2) 0 2 layer, port 7-8, nSCID=0 (OCC=2)

Value Message Value Message 1 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=1 (OCC=2) 1 2 layer, port 7-8, nSCID=1 (OCC=2)

2 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=0 (OCC=2) 2 2 layer, port 7-8, nSCID=0 (OCC=4)

0 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=0 0 2 layers, ports 7-8, nSCID=0
3 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=1 (OCC=2) 3 2 layer, port 7-8, nSCID=1 (OCC=4)
1 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=1 1 2 layers, ports 7-8, nSCID=1 4 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=0 (OCC=4) 4 2 layer, port 11,13, nSCID=0 (OCC=4)

2 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=0 2 3 layers, ports 7-9 5 1 layer, port 7, nSCID=1 (OCC=4) 5 2 layer, port 11,13, nSCID=1 (OCC=4)

6 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=0 (OCC=4) 6 3 layer, port 7-9

3 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=1 3 4 layers, ports 7-10
7 1 layer, port 8, nSCID=1 (OCC=4) 7 4 layer, port 7-10

4 2 layers, ports 7-8 4 5 layers, ports 7-11 8 1 layer, port 11, nSCID=0 (OCC=4) 8 5 layer, port 7-11

9 1 layer, port 11, nSCID=1 (OCC=4) 9 6 layer, port 7-12

5 3 layers, ports 7-9 5 6 layers, ports 7-12
10 1 layer, port 13, nSCID=0 (OCC=4) 10 7 layers, ports 7-13
6 4 layers, ports 7-10 6 7 layers, ports 7-13
11 1 layer, port 13, nSCID=1 (OCC=4) 11 8 layers, ports 7-14

7 Reserved 7 8 layers, ports 7-14 12 2 layers, ports 7-8 12 Reserved

13 3 layers, ports 7-9 13 Reserved

14 4 layers, ports 7-10 14 Reserved

Ref: TS 36.212 15 Reserved 15 Reserved

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 Improve SRS capacity:
 Increasing the number of UpPTS SC-FDMA symbols
utilized for SRS transmission
• Additional number of UpPTS symbol can be {2,4}
• Supported by CMCC
 Increasing the number of SRS combs to 4
• Cyclic shift also increased from 8 to 12
• Supported by other TDD operators (e.g. Softbank)

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 Extend CSI-RS antenna port number up to 32
 {20, 24, 28, 32} CSI-RS ports
 Improve UE-specific beamformed CSI-RS
 E.g. aperiodic CSI-RS
 CSI reporting enhancement
 New codebook design
 Hybrid CSI-RS
• E.g. non-precoded & beamformed CSI reporting
 Advanced CSI
• PMI enhancement (e.g. MU CSI, explicit feedback)
• CQI enhancement (e.g. MU CQI)
 DM-RS based open-loop transmission

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 Recently, Massive MIMO is considered as one of the key
technologies for further capacity enhancement
 More suitable for higher frequency band
 Challenges and research directions for mmWave Massive
MIMO
 Cost, Cost, and Cost
 Channel modeling (on-going in 3GPP)
 Coverage
 User mobility
 Interference management and spatial reuse

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