5G Technologies and Ghana
5G Technologies and Ghana
Part 1
What is 5G?
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  What is 5G?
5G
30~50ms
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Key Usage Scenarios Drive for 5G
                               eMBB
                                          4K/8K UHD      AR & VR Cloud Gaming Enhanced Mobile Media Home Broadband In-venue Wireless   In-car
                               10 Gbps                                                                  & TV           Broadband     Operations
                                            Video
          mMTC                                URLLC
   1 million connections/km2                     1 ms                                                         Smart Agriculture   Logistics    Smart City
                                                                  Smart Homes/Buildings Energy & Utilities
5G connections will go beyond human beings’ communications, and will enable intelligent internet of things in the future. Next
generation of telecommunication technologies will be adopted by a wider range of industries and sectors.
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                                                                                                                                     eMBB
Tactile Internet 4K/8K, UHD Video Sports Stadiums HD Augmented Reality Virtual Reality
                   Speed                          DL                   UL
         Speed experienced by users            100 Mbps            50 Mbps                                           100-200 Mbps
                  Peak rate                     20 Gbps            10 Gbps
           Peak spectral efficiency            30 bps/Hz          15 bps/Hz
                                                                                                                          Cloud PC
                        Sources: ITU-R, Minimum requirements for IMT-2020, Huawei
                                                                                                4G 10-20 Mbps
      Resolution                       2D                         3D
           4K                     ~25Mbps                     ~50Mbps               3G 1 Mbps                           …
                                                                                                            Cloud VR/AR/MR Cloud Gaming
           8K                     ~100Mbps                    ~200Mbps
5G will carry the heavily loaded data transmission required for VR/AR graphics, industrial video for machine monitoring, live
stream etc., where large amounts of media and data will need to be supported for uplink or/and downlink communications.
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                                                                                                                         FWA
Stage 1: FWA User Improvement Stage 2: Enhanced Home APP Stage 3: In-venue Ecosystem Exploring
• Broadband + 4K + VR • Home Cloud, Home Security • Smart Home, Wireless Health/ Education, etc
                                                                                                 Home
                    IPTV                                                                      Entertainment
                                                  SMART
                                                  HOME
                                                                              Home Security      SMART         Home Health
    Camera           Data                   Connect     interact                                 HOME
LTE-A 5G
5G will provide an attractive alternative to complement existing provisioning of gigabit home broadband. Close cooperation
between the telecom operator and the service creator will help to improve chances of success in the market.
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                                                                                                                                     Smart Healthcare
Concerning medical video services, 5G provides suffitient bandwidth to support multi-channel HD videos and VR/AR in
healthcare. As for medical operations, 5G supports remote sense of touch and eye tracking.
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5G Fights Against Covid-19 and Improves the Efficiency of Diagnosis and Treatment in
China
          5G remote consultation                           5G ambulance                             5Gremote diagnosis                             5G Mobile trolley
       Multi-hospital expert consultation      Timely treatment of critically ill patients   Improve the efficiency of medical staff        The most popular 5G application
       In response to the disease, multiple      Hospital experts remotely intervene in       Remote treatment by remote experts to        Reduce the number of quarantine by
       expert meetings discussed, reached       ambulances to improve the efficiency of            improve medical efficiency               medical staff to reduce the risk of
                 consensus, etc.                                experts                                                                                  infection
           5G Unmanned vehicle                   Non-contact temp. detection                            Medical robot                       5G Mobile detection vehicle
       Timely supply, contactless delivery        Epidemic prevention and control                Medical equipment handling              Flexible docking, get medical treatment
       Unmanned vehicles deliver items to       Reduce the risk of cross-contamination       Reduce the risk of personnel infection in                    nearby
      designated locations to reduce contact       caused by contact temperature                      the quarantine area                 Reduce the possibility of cross infection
                    infection                           measurement,±0.3℃                                                                       due to going to the hospital
    During the epidemic, 5G enabled a large number of applications such as remote medicine, remote prevention and control, and remote diagnosis and
    treatment, and improved medical efficiency with technology
5G Enable Live Streaming of Famous Attractions
  China Telecom 5G Zolmo Lungma View Broadcasting                                   5G Safari Broadcasting l
 Live broadcasting
 from A.S.L. 5000M
Business Value :
    •    4K UHD, VR View, 360° Immersive Experience
    •    6M Customers Watched live broadcasting from China
    Telecom APP                                                                            Cope with Tiktok, Youtube , facebook, use Web/APP live
                                                                                            broadcasting of live wild scene for brand advocating
5G Enable Factory Automation
        China Mobile 5G Based Intelligent Ningbo Port                      Proposal for Kenya 5G based industrial solutions
        Truck Auto Driving                  5G+AI container piling     Chemical Factory where is dangerous   High-tech Factory requiring
                                                                       for human                             advanced skills
       Auto Pooling Pilots                  Intelligent gantry crane   Office park demanding 5G              Mombasa Port Automaton
                                                                       Private line
Commercial Model:                                                      Commercial Model:
• Professional Port Integration Corporation as the primary             • Cope with professional industrial
  integrator, integrating Telco 5G solutions                           Integrators for automation solutions towards
  & other equipment vendors                                            5G suitable scenarios (High-tech, Toxic etc)
Part 2
5G KEY TECHNOLOGIES
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New Air Interface Technology
                                                                         Massive MIMO
                     Full duplex                                           (Spatial multiplexing)
                                                                         Increase the throughput.
                  (Full-duplex mode)
               Increase the throughput.
                                            Air interface
 Mobile                                      Adaptive
                                                                                                           IoT
Internet
                                                                                    Polar
                   SCMA                                                           encoding
                (Multiple access)                                              (Channel code)
      Increase the number of connections.                                     Improve reliability.
               Shorten the delay.                           F-OFDM             Reducing power
                                                                                consumption
                                                     (Flexible waveform)
                                            Flexibly coping with different services
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5G Standard Progress Update
Phase1 Phase2
                        Phase 1                                                   Phase 2
 NR Framework                        Architecture              NR Improvement             Vertical Digitalization
 • Waveform & Channel Coding         • NR/LTE Co-existing      • New Multiple Access      • uRLLC Enhancement
 • Frame Structure, Numerology       • UL&DL Decoupling        • eMBB Sub6G Enhancement   • mMTC
 • Native MIMO                       • CU-DU Split             • Self-Backhaul            • D2D
 • Flexible Duplex                   • NSA / SA                                           • V2X
                                                                                          • Unlicensed
 Others: uRLLC
 Coverage Gain of Massive MIMO Beamforming
   The eNodeB selects multiple UEs for scheduling and uses Multiple antennas to transmit/receive
    multi-stream data to/from these difference UEs
   Different users receive/transmit different data streams to implement concurrent data transmission
SA vs NSA:
NR in SA/NSA Architecture
               EPC                                                                NG
                                                                EPC              CORE
                     S1
                                                           S1                 NG-C     NG-U
                                                                LTE            5G NR
         LTE                5G NR
                                          Data Split
                                          Control plane                                       Control plane
                                          User plane                                          User plane
           EPC                                                              NG Core
                                    •    Focus on eMBB                                       •    eMBB/URLLC/mMTC all usage scenario and
                                    •    LTE as anchor, reuse current                             network slicing
           LTE             NR                                                NR
                                         EPC, 5G NR quick introduction                       •    New Core required
                                    •    Voice: Via LTE,VoLTE or CSFB                        •    Voice:VoNR or CSFB(under discussion)
3GPP's Release 15 non-standalone (NSA, option3) standard was completed in December 2017; standalone (SA, option2)
standard was frozen in June 2018; and the late drop standard(option4/7) will be frozen by the 1st quarter of 2019.
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      New Architecture to Support Vertical Industries
Ultra HD
                                                                                               Developer
Voice
                                                                                               Consumer
Real-time                               NFV+SDN                           Telco-OS
service
                                                                                               Partner
                                   Unified control plane +
 IoT service                       User plane of multiple services                             Carrier
Industry requirements define the   Architecture based on cloud and big data
slice
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     Enhanced 5G Security
5G L=256
L=256
L=128 Anti-alter
VS VS VS VS
                                           MCE
                           Cache
                                                                            Business Application                       E2E Slice
                                       Local DC   Regional DC                                                         Management
                  CO
                                                                     Business Model Design          SLA Definition
                                                  IoT Server
                                                                                                                       Slice Function
                                                                               Physical Infrastructure                     Define
Adaptive New Radio and Topology as a Service Cloud-Native Architecture & Internet Architectural Operation
When utilising network slicing, business customers have access to highly customized networks tailored to their specific
requirements in a cost effective, timely and efficient way which can be governed by a service level agreement.
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  Target: High Quality Service need for 100 Mbit/s Continuous Coverage
Initial stage: Smartphones, HDTV, and basic VR   Mid stage: 8K TV/VR         Forecast of traffic growth during busy hours
                                                                                        (Based-on Prediction)
                                                                                                                       DL Traffic
                                                                                                                       UL Traffic
   Resolution                   2D                   3D
                                                                                    Uplink and downlink
        720P                ~1.5Mbps                  -
        1080P                ~4Mbps                   -                                 traffic ratio
          2K                ~10Mbps                   -                                 1:10~1:7
          4K                ~25Mbps               ~50Mbps
          8K                ~100Mbps              ~200Mbps                 2016          2020                2024        2028
64T64R Massive MIMO: Major Macro Base Station Solution
 2600M   C-Band
 2100M
 1900M
 1800M   ~100MHz
  900M
  800M
  700M                                                 •   64T supports horizontal and vertical beamforming
    Wide Bandwidth                   3D MIMO               and scanning
    100MHz/ carrier                   64T64R
                                                                      3.5G
                                                                     64T64R
                                                                      AAU
3.5G 64T AAU               BBU5900             Baseband Process
5G PROGRESSES
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                                                                                                                               Standardization
Standardization can reduce the cost for a massive number of users and address the issue of global roaming, which helps
achieve economies of scale.
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                                                                                                                                                Spectrum
               Finland  France  Germany    Italy   USA     Egypt Saudi Arabia,  Switzerland Denmark Sweden         UK      Romania Slovenia     Canada
     700      2*30 MHz 2*30 MHz 2*30 MHz 2*30 MHz 84 MHz 2*10 MHz2*30 +2*20 MHz    2018       2018   2018         2019      2019     2019        2019
     MHz
                                                                                    UAE        Oman      Qatar   Tunisia Mexico, 2019-2020
               Finland    Czech    Hungary    Ireland   Poland   Italy Norway      Austria   Germany Sweden Switzerland Brazil      Kuwait       Qatar
              390 MHz    200 MHz 2*30+20 MHz 350 MHz    84 MHz 200 MHz 190 MHz      2019      2019    2020     2019     2019         2018
   C Band                                                                                                                                       Russia
              Romania     Spain       UK        Slovakia    UAE                  Saudi Arabia Japan Hongkong France        Denmark Turkey
            2*55+145 MHz 360 MHz 2*20+234 MHz2*80+240 MHz 200 MHz                   2019       2019   2019    2019          2019    2020         2020
   2.6 GHz       USA     China                                                     Japan     Thailand Vietnam Myanmar Norway Saudi Arabia,        UAE
                          trial                                                     2021       2019     2019   2019    2020      2019             2019
    26 GHz      Italy     Korea    USA                                            Germany    Portugal   Romania Spain       UK      Sweden      Finland
               1 GHz     2.4 GHz
                                                                                  USA, 2018 Japan,2019 UAE       Bahrain   Qatar    Australia
The governments have been actively planning and allocating harmonized and contiguous spectrum blocks for 5G. C-Band is
the primary band amongst a combination of high, medium, and low-frequency bands for 5G.
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                                                                                                                                         Source:Cullen, open
Part 4
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                                                                                                                                                                                   Economy
         Global 5G coverage and adoption                                                   Global 5G value chain output and employment in 2035
                                                                 34%
29% 1.1
                                       25%
                          22%
                                                     0.8                               United States                       Korea                                Japan
                                                                                      Gross output $719B              Gross output $120B                    Gross output $492B
              17%                                                                     Employment 3.4M                 Employment 963K                       Employment 2.1M
                                       0.5
                           0.3
   8%
             0.1
                                                                                     United Kingdom                      Germany                               France
  2020       2021         2022         2023         2024        2025
              5G connections                  Population                              Gross output $76B               Gross output $202B                    Gross output $85B
                  (billions)                  coverage                                Employment 605K                 Employment 1.2M                       Employment 396K
                                             Source:GSMA Intelligence                                      Source:IHS, The 5G economy: How 5G technology will contribute to the global economy
Contribution of 5G to Canadian Economy 5G’s productivity benefit on real Australian GDP per capita in 2050
                                                                                                                                                                                     Per
                                                                                                                                                                                     person
                                                                                        $1,900              $2,700                  $7,600                      $8,400               by 2050
 eMBB is the clearest potential 5G use case in early deployments and will support the delivery of high-definition video, immersive
 communication and smart city services, under laid by capacity, latency, MEC, virtualized networks and network slicing.
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                                                                                                                                                                               Economy
When taking into account the economic activity supported in other sectors of the economy, the total economic output enabled
globally by 5G by 2035 is estimated as $12.3 trillion.
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Part 4
5G Infrastructure
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                                                                                                                                           Infrastructure
Fits for the Purpose for 5G Networks Roll-out - Access to Utility Poles, etc.
   eMBB Service: High Peak-to-Average                  Pole Site Eliminates Gaps of User                  Easy Deployment on Site
                 Ratio                                            Experience
                                                                                               3.5G AAU
    THR
                 Gbps                                                                           64T64R
                                                                                                 55%                              4G:RRU+Antenna
                                                                                                 Volume
                         1000 X                                                                                       5G AAU      5G AAU
                                          100 Mbps                                               23%
                                Mbps                                                             Weight
                                                                                                                 4G:RRU+Antenna
                                                                                                   4G                                    Parapet
                                                                                              Antenna+RRU
     Busy Hour      Idle Hour                  Time
                                                       C Band
                                                                                                 Main Pole +          Overlay        Dual poles
   Room Limitation Leads to Poor Coverage in Dense     200MHz BW / 200W, 64TRX                  Secondary Pole
                                  Room Limitation in
                        70%       Dense Urban
We recommend that governments and public sector organizations push for sharing of public infrastructures with network carriers
(e.g. sidewalks, street lights, roofs of public buildings) so that they can build 5G base stations more efficiently.
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                                                                                                         Infrastructure
                                                                   Multi-mode RRU
    Traditional Macro
   (Difficult site conditions)
                                                            Lamppost
                                                            Solutions
                                                             (Simple
                                                               site
                                                            conditions)
                                                                                                1.6                                            10x
                All in 1                                      5 Modes                           Gbps                                          Capacity
                                                              WiFi / G / U / L / NB / 5G
                           5G LampSite
2 Trans                                                                                       Beijing Airport
Fiber / CAT6A                                                                               1,400,000㎡ Terminal Area              2000+
                                                                                                                                  5G pRRU
                           3 Bands                      4T4R
                              1.8G / 2.1G / C-band
5G Scenarios
Office Airport Metro Train Station Shopping Mall Stadium Hospital Cafe
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                                                                                                                                                  Infrastructure
Some regulators have already stepped up co-usability of infrastructures for the development of 5G cells, especially looked for
solutions to facilitate access to public sector properties owned by the Government and local authorities.
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5G
     Lives in
Harmony
     With Nature
Many great inventions in history were initially misunderstood by ignorant people
Noise Monster!
  The invention of the steam engine The invention of aircraft                                           The first vaccination of vaccinia
         Brought a leap in productivity              A major revolution in the history of                In 1979, the WTO declared that "smallpox
                                                              human transportation                                 disappeared on the earth“
                          VS                                               VS                                                     VS
      Watt invented the steam engine in 1776, the    In 1903, the first flight of the Wright brothers    In 1796 doctor Jenna invented the vaccine, but rumor
       public were worried that the huge pressure   succeeded, the public were worried about safty           has it that people will grow horns after use it
             of steam will cause explosion                        and firmly opposed
Coronavirus appears 80 years earlier than 5G network
 • Coronaviruses are a type of virus widely existing in nature, and there are currently 50 recorded
   coronaviruses.
 • The new coronavirus pneumonia (Coronavirus 2019, COVID-19) is one of the seventh known coronaviruses
   that can infect humans.
                                                                               2.6/3.5GHz                   4G & 5G
                                                                              3.5GHz and 2.6GHz have been widely used for
   The two newly-built hospitals have made tremendous contributions to
   the "anti-epidemic"; they both use the 5G network to support all           3G and 4G by operators for more than ten years!
   internal and external communications, and patients are currently
   recovering.
5G, like 4G and 3G, is only electromagnetic waves
      5G, 4G, 3G are all safe low frequency                5G and 4G, 3G frequency bands
            electromagnetic waves                              have been widely used
 Output Power Per Beam By 5G, Lower                            5G signal received by user is weaker than
 Than Light Bulb                                                            home appliance
5G 64T64R AAU output power is 200W, 16 beams for
beamforming, only 12.5W per beam, which is lower than light
bulb
                                                                                               Microwave oven
                                                              1~10mW/m2        4mW/m2         50~100mW/m2
12.5W 5G AAU
                           VS
  Household Light Bulb:           Automobile Front Light:
      20~200W                           50~80W                                             User contact signal
                                                                                                strength:
                                                                                           0.1~0.5mW/m2
                                                                           EMF Area
   20W   100W   200W
 The Road to 5G
Aspiration
                                                                         Roadmap
                                                    Making spectrum available in a timely manner
                    Reviewing existing telecommunications regulatory arrangements to ensure they are fit-for-purpose for the future
                                             Actively engaging in the international standardization process
                   Stimulating the experiment and demonstration to promote the taken-up of technology(coverage, penetration, etc.)
                                 Streamlining arrangements to allow the carriers to deploy infrastructure by timetable
It’s dedicated to settle down the targets, leverage existing resources, unlock bottlenecks, ease the procedures and provide the certainty for
investment over the long term.
                           Vision and Mission
Bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected,
                              intelligent world.
Thank you
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