REMON 4G Mobile Consortium

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REMON - 4G Mobile Consortium

• Morris Benzaken, CTO
• REMON
• Israel 4G Consortium

Israel MAGNET Program Sponsored by the Office of
Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Industry and
Trade, targeted at the development of
pre-competitive generic technologies
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MAGNET Program

• RD framework, similar to IST program, sponsored
  and funded by the Office of Chief Scientist of
  the Ministry of Industry and Trade, targeted at
  the development of pre-competitive generic
  technologies
• MAGNET Program, confined so far to Israel
  industries and academic institutes, is open now
  for the participation of non-Israeli industrial
  partners.

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REMON Partners
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Drive to Beyond 3G

• Affordable broadband communication everywhere and
  on the move
• All-IP network for all applications - voice,
  messaging and multimedia

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Consortium Mission

• Achieve leadership in critical technologies
  essential to next generation mobile communication
• Development of strong IPR , technological assets
  and know how by REMON Consortium partners
• Implementation of unique building blocks enabling
  substantial advantage in future market
• Achieving influencing role in 4G standardization
  bodies

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Focus on Advanced Air Interface
Focus on few segments of the wireless market to
achieve excellence, taking advantage of recent
achievements

• Advanced Physical Layer (OFDMA)
• Integration of Smart Antennas
• Smart Networking and MAC
• Radio Access and Spectrum Optimization

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Market Strategy

• Focus on in few segments of the wireless market
  to achieve excellence and leadership in these
  areas
• Establish partnerships in early phases
• Achieving a dominant role, as a consortium, in
  influencing 4G international standards

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Roadmap Towards Mobility
3G, HSPDA
IEEE 802.16a/WiMax
OFDM/OFDMA
WWRF
IEEE.802.16e
Mobile
Standardization
Early Deployments
Global Deployment
REMON Program
Proposed CELTIC Program
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
2009 2010
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Consortium Structure
MAGNET
Consortium Management
Activity1 RAN Optimization
Activity2 MAC Protocols
Activity3 PHY Smart Ant
System Team
3G/4G Lab
Test Bed
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Main RD Clusters
Cluster 3 RAN Optimization
Cluster 2 Smart MAC Protocols
Cluster 1 PHY Smart Ant
Runcom Alvarion Rafael Celletra ComSys
Schema Celletra Cellcom Runcom
Alvarion Rafael Runcom ComSys
Market Analysis System Specification
DEMO PHY MIMO
MAC Net Simulation
Scenario Simulation
Standards
Standards
Advanced RAN Demonstrator
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PHY Activities

• Effective coding schemes for efficient spectrum
  utilization by time domain and space domain
  coding. Sub-optimal adaptive iterative
  techniques for low-complexity detection for fast
  data channels.
• Optimization of OFDM, and MIMO-OFDM modulation
  schemes Adaptive bit-loading, inter/intra band
  coding, utilization of side information
• Improving the spectral efficiency of MIMO channel
  robust to multipath fading

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MAC Protocols Activities

• Routing algorithms for next generation RAN for
  unicast, multicast, broadcast transmissions. QoS
  methods for radio channels with fading and noise
  conditions. Scheduling algorithms for this type
  of channels. Optimization of handoff protocols
  for multimedia and data services.
• Algorithms for dynamic resource allocation in
  real-time based on QoS , SLA and traffic loads of
  the specific active users in the network
• Load sharing Dynamic load balancing of users to
  base stations
• Radio Resource Management Dynamic bandwidth
  allocation for multi-media applications with QoS.

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RAN Optimization Activities

• Optimization of radio resources utilization by
  integration of smart antenna, MIMO and
  Space-Time-Codes techniques. The effects of the
  new technologies on the RAN architecture for the
  multi-users environment.
• Distributed algorithms for traffic control and
  power control in the future RAN in the network
  level with multiple base stations and multiple
  users scenarios and intensive integration of MIMO
  technique.

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Components to Terminal BTS
PHY
RAN Optimization
MAC Protocols
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REMON Excellence Focus Areas

• Advanced Physical Layer - Optimization of OFDMA
  for Mobile
• MIMO and STC integration with mobile OFDMA
• Efficient scheduling for Mobile IP OFDMA-MIMO RAN
• Distributed dynamic resource allocation
• Network-wide load balancing
• Distributed RAN for coverage extension
• Low-complexity handover algorithms
• Effective coding for efficient spectrum
  utilization
• Techniques for low-complexity detection for fast
  data channels

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REMON 4G RAN DEMONSTRATOR

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Thank You

• Morris Benzaken
• CTO, REMON Consortium
• Tel [phone]
• email morrisben_at_ieee.org
• Website www.remon-4g.org.il