Transcript GFDM_NI RF Roundtable 2012

Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Fettweis
Case Study: Implementation Aspects of a
GFDM-based Prototype for 5G Cellular
Communications
Ivan Simões Gaspar
 With the Vodafone Chair (Prof. Fettweis) since
February 2012
 Studies: Electrical Engineering (M.Sc.) at the
National Institute of Telecommunications in
Brazil – INATEL
 Research area: robust non-orthogonal multicarrier modulation schemes for future cellular
systems
NI RF Roundtable 2012
December 10-11, 2012, Bristol, UK
Motivations for 5G
 M2M dominating subscribers
• diverse requirements (high and
lows) :
 data rate, latency, mobility, quality,
security
 asynchronous and non-orthogonal
modulation
 Opportunistic use of spectrum
• time and frequency agility
• accurate sensing
• no interferer (filtering)
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Challenges
RRM
flexible fine-grained
sharing of fragmented
spectrum
CoMP
High rate, low latency,
interactive video, apps,
increased signaling
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vast # M2M devices
low rate / complexity
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asynchronous access
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Wireless Access:
• flexible
• scalable
• content aware
• robust
• reliable
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Our approach
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Question the strict synchronism, orthogonality and high out
of band radiation of OFDM based systems with the
introduction of new non-orthogonal filtered waveforms that
carry the data on the physical layer.
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Deal with crosstalk and interference with a transceiver
structure termed GFDM (Generalized Frequency Division
Multiplexing).
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Explore the tradeoff of an increased computational
complexity at the Base Stations with a more flexible
construction of millions of machine type communications
(MTC) devices
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Proof of concept prototype with a highly scalable
implementation on NI’s PXI platform
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GFDM Transmitter Model
 generalization of OFDM
• 1 up to M symbols per subcarrier
• Pulse shaping with circular convolution (block structure - burst)
Up sampling
Filtering
Up conversion
Mapping
M = number of symbols per subcarrier
K = number of active subcarriers
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Matrix Model, x=Ad
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The A matrix contains all the possible impulse responses of the system
Circular impulse response
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First Demo – ‘Player Approach’
Demo Setup
control
computer
spectrum
analyzer
FlexRIO
Ethernet
RT-OS
FPGA
board
Transmit Signals
Transceiver
board
coax
System Parameters
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power spectral density in dB
DAC
OFDM
GFDM
parameter
value
Channel bandwidth
20 MHz
Max. number of subcarriers
2048
PRB
30
-30
active subcarriers
360
-40
occupied bandwidth
9.8 MHz
-50
carrier frequency
2,4 GHz
-60
modulation
QPSK
filter, roll-off
RRC, a = 0.5
block size
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0
-10
-20
-70
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0
2
frequency in MHz
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First Demo – ‘Player Approach’
 Few weeks after
receiving the HW we
get a real time signal
coming out of the box
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A Low Complexity Model
Time approach:
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up sampling, circular convolution and up conversion
 j 2
n 

N
    d k [ m ] [ n  m N ]  # gg T x [ n ] ·e

m 

k
x[n ] 

k
Frequency approach:
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DFT, spectrum repetition, windowing and position shift, IDFT
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
1
x [ n ]  F   F  d k [ m ] [ n  m N
 m
k

N tim es repetition of F
k
 j 2
n 


N
] ·F  g T x [ n ]  # F  e






d k [m ] [n  m ]

 m

copy from m em ory
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low com plex
k 

f 

N 

shift in m em ory
im plem entation!
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A Low Complexity Model
zero stuff
repetition
circ. convolution
windowing
Subcarrier processing
time vs. frequency domain
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Subcarrier superposition
in frequency domain
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Low Complexity Model (Matrix)
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Low Complexity Model
GFDM Matrix Model
GFDM non sparse spectrum
GFDM Low Complex
OFDM reference
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LabView Style TX Model
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Second Demo – Offline TX
LabVIEW interactive transmitter (offline)
 LabView based
implementation
in less than 2
months after
basic training
 Very friendly
graphical
interface
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Out of band Radiation
GFDM (red curve) vs. OFDM (blue curve)
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Third Demo – Online TX
LabVIEW interactive transmitter (online)
 PXI based
implementation
in less than 6
months
 Very friendly RT
and FPGA
enviroments
integration
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Third Demo – Online TX
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Current studies (RX)
Math model
Block Diagram
ICI
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Channel
distortions
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Future directions
UHF white spaces
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Conclusions
 Pulse shaped subcarriers can be achieved in GFDM at
reasonable computational cost
 Out of band radiation in GFDM can outperform OFDM by
several orders of magnitude
 Outlook
• A hardware implementation of the GFDM transceiver and its
multi-user case application
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Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Fettweis
Thank you.