1. Research and development of a UMTS demonstrator in Norway
AES workshop, Oslo
Research and development of a UMTS demonstrator in Norway
Josef Noll1, Per Hjalmar Lehne1, Geir Øien2, Andrew Perkis2, Knut Grythe3, Lars Lundheim3, Norvald Stol2
1 Telenor R & D, Post-box 83, N 2027 Kjeller, Norway Ph: , Fax: ,
2 NTNU, Trondheim
3 Sintef, Trondheim

2. Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS demonstrator
UMTS phase 2 requirements
Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef
A phase 2 UTRA/UMTS demonstrator
WIRAC: Wideband radio access
Specifications
Research items
Related international research
Future work
UMTS phase 2 requirements
Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef
A phase 2 UTRA/UMTS demonstrator
WIRAC: Wideband radio access
Specifications
Research items
Related international research
Future work

3. The (?) UMTS demonstrator
Basic technologies
Smart Antennas
Channel measurements GHz (GSM to MBS)
Capacity simulations
UTRA, USRA, GSM++, DECT, WLAN, Hiperlan, Bluetooth, HomeRF
link level simulation, hand-over
field trial
Access network
IN, WEB, FMC/FMI over WAP, JINI, Corba man - machine, machine - machine
Applications
IN, WEB, FMC/FMI applications
WAP, JINI, Corba
man - machine, machine - machine
end-to-end
Applications
(Mobile) ATM, IP, ISDN
IN, TINA, MAP
Core network
(Mobile) ATM, IP
Core network
UTRA, USRA, GSM++, DECT, WLAN, Hiperlan, Bluetooth, HomeRF
Access network
Basic technologies
Smart Antennas, Channel measurements, Capacity

4. Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS demonstrator
UMTS phase 2 requirements
Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef
A phase 2 UTRA/UMTS demonstrator
WIRAC: Wideband radio access
Specifications
Research items
Related international research
Future work

5. Phase 2 core network Potential phase 2 core network: IP
Access provided by GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WLAN, Hiperlan etc.
public Internet
service provision
GSM,
UTRA,
WLAN
UTRA,
WLAN,
Hiperlan
IP based core network
UMTS phase 2

6. The future access networks
GSM, GPRS, UTRA, WLAN, DECT
LMDS, DVB, DAB, WLL
CATV, el. power
WLAN, DECT
SAT broadcast
Mobile:
GSM++, UTRA
WLAN
Hiperlan
Fixed:
ISDN, xDSL
Device:
HomeRF
Bluetooth
Requirements:
Mobile services

7. Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS demonstrator
UMTS phase 2 requirements
Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef
A phase 2 UTRA/UMTS demonstrator
WIRAC: Wideband radio access
Specifications
Research items
Related international research
Future work

8. Co-operation Telenor, NTNU & Sintef
Telenor: Network operator, highest worldwide ISDN penetration, ADSL introduced in
The Norwegian Technical University NTNU: Educates > 90 % of all Norwegian telecom engineers
Sintef: Technology research institut
Research: WIRAC (Wideband Radio ACcess) ACTS: Sarepta, SINUS, SUMO, TOMAS, SORT Esprit: EUROSTILL, SPEAR, EUROJPEG EURESCOM: P919, P920, P921

9. UTRA++ demonstrator
UMTS demonstrator: simulate applications via UTRA, WLAN/Hiperlan
GSM to UMTS evolution (GPRS, EDGE) based on SW radio
Radio channel sounding and channel modeling

10. Objectives - UTRA++ demonstrator
Applications development platform
Network functions studies
Multimode operation: GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UTRA
Radio interface performance
Channel soundings - smart antenna simulations

11. Overview of UMTS++ demonstrator

12. Concept based on SW radio
Universal RF part
A/D conversion to fulfill multiple purposes
fast baseband processing for real time processing
General purpose processor for near-real-time processing

13. RF characteristics

14. RealFAST Reconfigurable FPGA-based Signal Processing Terminal
DSP
Subystem
Bus to all FPGAs
Technology:
DSPs:
2 x TI C-40
RAM:
6 Mbytes SRAM
FPGAs:
5 x Altera FLEX10k100
4 x 128 kByte 25 ns Dual port SRAM modules
RAM
FPGA
COM
PORT

15. WIRAC research topics
Multi-user detection (MUD) for MC-CDMA and W-CDMA
Flexible multi-rate trellis coded modulation (TCM)
Turbo coding
MUD with Turbo decoding
Adaptive antennas/SDMA
Performance evaluation under dynamic channel- and user load-situations.

16. Outline Definition: The (?) UMTS demonstrator
UMTS phase 2 requirements
Co-operation in Norway: Telenor & NTNU & Sintef
A phase 2 UTRA/UMTS demonstrator
WIRAC: Wideband radio access
Specifications
Research items
Related international research
Future work

17. Demonstrator co-operation
IN, WEB, FMC/FMI over WAP, JINI, Corba man - machine, machine - machine
Applications
Ericsson, SUN: Smart house, WAP/Jini AT&T: service platform
(Mobile) ATM, IP
Core network
Ericsson: Mobile IP,
UTRA, USRA, GSM++, DECT, WLAN, Hiperlan, Bluetooth, HomeRF
Access network
Ericsson: GPRS, WLAN, P921: Cselt, Telefonica
NTNU: WLAN, MM, TurboCoding
Basic technologies
Smart Antennas, Channel measurements, Capacity
ESPRIT: Metamorp, ACTS: SAMBA
Ericsson: Ebox, SUN: WAP/Jini

18. Conclusions & Future Work
UMTS phase 2 needs interworking between different access networks:
DECT, GSM, UTRA, USRA
WLAN, Hiperlan
Service mobility over FMI networks
Co-operation of Telenor:
national: NTNU, Sintef
international: Ericsson, SUN, BT, EURESCOM
Stepwise HW design - HW receiver part - Include transmitter - Extend to full UMTS
International co-operation for full demonstrator:
EURESCOM
ACTS: SORT
Final goal
‘cheap demonstrator’ for research and development
open architecture
open API

19. Telenor UMTS demonstrator
UMTS phase 1 demonstrator:
supplier solution, interfaces not available
limited experience due to number of terminals
limited hint for network planning (capacity question)
Telenor is UMTS operator
gain experience on services
UMTS phase 2 demonstrator:
not ready before 2001
limited experience due to number of terminals
open interfaces
extension towards WLAN/Hiperlan
co-operation with research

20. The vision for Telenor
Be first in Europe to operate UMTS (in one area)
limited area (Gjøvik, Steinkjær) at an early time, e.g. Q1.2001
invite Ericsson, Nokia, etc. to join the pre-operation
operational equipment available, BTS & Mobiles
Telenor is UMTS operator
best public relation: first in Europe
gain experience on services
realistic (?) traffic, test for implementation of services