How far can LTE evolve towards 5G capabilities?

Laurent Fournier

Senior Director, Business Development

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

June 29, 2016

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LTE Advanced is being rapidly deployed globally

Source: GSA (www.gsacom.com) — Jan 2016 on network launches, Feb 2016 on commercial devices, Dec 2015 on subscriptions (estimated based on >900M subscriptions at the end of Q3’2015)

LTE Cat6+ commercial network

launches in 50+ countries ~100 Commercial devices

across 100s of vendors 2,000+ LTE / LTE Advanced

subscriptions worldwide 1B+

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Introducing LTE Advanced Pro Rising up to meet the significant expanding connectivity needs of tomorrow

Propel mobile broadband even further Enhance the mobile broadband experience and continue

to deliver solutions to efficiently grow capacity

Proliferate LTE to new use cases Connecting new industries, enabling new services

and empowering new user experiences

Progress LTE capabilities towards a unified, more capable 5G platform

3GPP Release 13+

Learn more at www.qualcomm.com/lte-advanced-pro

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Leading the way to Gigabit Class LTE A significant milestone for the entire mobile industry

Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Qualcomm® Snapdragon™

X16 LTE Modem

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speeds of early 3G

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Snapdragon X12 LTE Modem

Snapdragon X10 LTE Modem

Snapdragon X7 LTE Modem

Snapdragon X5 LTE Modem

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Propel mobile broadband even further Enhance user experience and deliver efficient solutions to increase capacity

Carrier Aggregation evolution—wider bandwidths Aggregating more carriers, diverse spectrum types and across different cells

LTE in unlicensed spectrum Make the best use of the vast amounts of unlicensed spectrum available

TDD/FDD evolution—faster, more flexible Enable significantly lower latency, adaptive UL/DL configuration, and more

Many more antennas—path to massive MIMO Exploit 3D beamforming (FD-MIMO) to increase capacity and coverage

Gbps+ peak rates

More uniform experience

Better coverage

Significantly lower latencies

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LTE-U/LAA, LWA, MulteFire™ and Wi-Fi will coexist in 5 GHz

Making best use of 5 GHz unlicensed band

1 Regionally dependent 2LTE - Wi-Fi Link Aggregation

Large amounts of

spectrum available at

5 GHz (~500 MHz1)

Aggregation with

licensed spectrum for

best performance

Multiple technologies will

co-exist— LTE-U, LAA/eLAA,

Wi-Fi/LWA2, MulteFire™

Pico/ Enterprises

Small Businesses

Residential/ Neighborhood

Venues

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World’s first over-the-air LAA trial during November 2015 Joint effort by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. with a major Europe MNO

• Indoor and outdoor deployment scenarios

• Different combinations of LAA, LWA and Wi-Fi

• Single and multiple users—both stationary and mobile

• Handover between cells

• Range of radio conditions

Completed a wide range of test cases

OTA LAA trial demonstrated benefits of LAA

• Fair co-existence of LAA with Wi-Fi over all test cases

• Coverage and capacity benefits of LAA over carrier Wi-Fi1

• Seamless mobility of both LAA and LWA

A combined test cell with

LTE, LAA, LWA and Wi-Fi

1 Based on 802.11ac

Screenshot of live results from

trial in Nuremburg, Germany

A big milestone towards commercial deployment Learn more at: www.qualcomm.com/laa

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Connect the Internet of Things

New ways to connect and interact New classes

of services

High Performance

Low power/complexity

Digital TV broadcasting

Proximal awareness

Public safety

Evolving LTE-Direct

LTE V2X

Communications

Latency-critical control

Proliferate LTE to new use cases

LTE IoT

Extending the value of LTE technology and ecosystem

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We are evolving LTE for the Internet of Things New narrowband technologies to more efficiently support IoT use cases

Mobile Video security Wearables Object tracking

Energy management Connected car Connected healthcare City infrastructure Smart buildings

Environment monitoring Utility metering

Today New narrowband IoT technologies (3GPP Release 13+)

LTE Cat-4 and above >10 Mbps

n x 20 MHz

LTE Cat-1 Up to 10 Mbps

20 MHz

LTE Cat-M1 (eMTC) Variable rate up to 1 Mbps

1.4 MHz narrowband

Cat-NB1 (NB-IoT) 10s of kbps

200 kHz narrowband

Scaling up in performance and mobility

Scaling down in complexity and power

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LTE IoT reduces complexity, extends battery life & coverage Through optimizations to both the air interface and core network

Multi-year battery life

Enhanced power save modes

and more efficient signaling,

e.g. extended DRX

sleep cycles

Deeper coverage

Achieve up to 20 dB increase

in link budget for hard-to-reach

locations via redundant

transmissions

Higher node density

Signaling and other network

optimizations, e.g. overload

control, to support a large

number of devices per cell

Reduced complexity

Narrowband operation

(1.4 MHz or 200 kHz) plus further

device and core network

complexity reductions

Coexistence with today’s mobile broadband services Leveraging existing infrastructure and spectrum

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Pioneering new Cellular V2X (C-V2X) technologies A key technology enabler to enhanced ADAS for the vehicle of the future

Based on link level curves and the 3GPP LOS path loss model @ 10% Packet Error – Actual performance varies significantly with vehicle density and environment

Improved V2V safety Builds upon LTE Direct to deliver

increased reaction time over 802.11p/DSRC

Increased utility with V2N Leverages existing LTE networks for network communications to provide

additional applications/services

Rich roadmap to 5G Technology evolution to address

expanding capabilities/use cases with strong ecosystem support

Braking distance

~2.5sec Reaction time ~9.2sec

C-V2X range >450m

802.11p range ~225m

Reaction time ~3.3sec

LTE ~8dB higher link budget due to single

carrier waveform, coding gain, longer

transmission time and higher Tx power

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0km/h

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Advanced MIMO

Carrier aggregation

Low Latency Dual connectivity SON+

Massive/FD-MIMO

CoMP

Device-to-device

Unlicensed spectrum

Enhanced CA Narrowband IoT 256QAM

V2X

FeICIC

eLAA

Shared Broadcast

Evolving LTE to be a critical part of the 5G Platform Pioneering 5G technologies today

Note: Estimated commercial dates. Not all features commercialized at the same time

LTE Advanced Pro LTE Advanced

2015 2020+

Rel-10/11/12

5G NR Rel-15 and beyond

Rel-13 and beyond

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Our 5G vision: a unifying connectivity fabric

Mission-critical services

Enhanced mobile broadband

Massive Internet of Things

Networking Mobile devices Robotics Automotive Health Smart cities Smart homes Wearables

Unified design for all spectrum types and bands from below 1GHz to mmWave

• Ultra-low latency

• High reliability

• High availability

• Strong security

• Multi-Gbps data rates

• Extreme capacity

• Uniformity

• Deep awareness

• Low cost

• Ultra-low energy

• Deep coverage

• High density

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5G NR: A unified air interface for the next decade+ OFDM adapted to an extreme variation of requirements

Optimized OFDM-based waveforms

A common, flexible framework

Advanced wireless technologies

With scalable numerology and TTI, plus optimized multiple

access for different use cases

Such as massive MIMO, robust mmWave and a flexible self-

contained TDD design

To efficiently multiplex services and features—designed for

forward compatibility

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Delivering advanced prototypes, e.g. 5G mmWave demo at MWC’16

R17+ 5G evolution

Driving 5G from standardization to commercialization

Note: Estimated commercial dates

R16 5G work items

5G commercial launches

R15 5G work items

5G study items

3GPP 5G standardization

Qualcomm 5G activities

Designing 5G, e.g. OFDM-based unified air interface

Participating in impactful trials and pre-5G activities with major operators

Contributing to 3GPP, e.g. massive MIMO simulations, new LDPC code designs

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