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South Korea Sub-6 and mmWave Europe (mmW in 2H19) Sub-6 and mmWave (mmW in 2H19) Japan China Sub-6 and mmWave North America Sub-6 Sub-6 and mmWave Middle East Sub-6 Australia/SEA Sub-6 Deployments happening 2019 is the year of 5G in regions across the globe LG V50 Motorola moto z3 Nubia Mini 5G Samsung Samsung Xiaomi ZTE Axon 10 ThinQ 5G + 5G moto mod Galaxy S10 5G Galaxy Fold Mi MIX 5G Pro 5G Quectel 5G modules Telit 5G modules HTC 5G Hub Inseego MiFi Netgear WNC 5G NR Askey 5G WNC 5G NR Sierra Wireless 5G NR Nighthawk 5G mobile hotspot CPE outdoor CPE 5G M.2 module Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 5G is Here 75+ design wins and growing … 2 Commercializing mmWave in a smartphone form factor 9.5 mm 160 mm 73.8 mm mmWave (60 GHz) Qualcomm® Qualcomm® 5G NR mmWave viability in handset 5G NR mmWave 5G NR mobile Qualcomm® form factor prototype test device Reference Design 11ad in Asus Zenfone 4 Pro Qualcomm Reference Design and Qualcomm Snapdragon are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 3 Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 5G Modem family World’s first announced 5G NR multimode modems 5G NR standards compliant Sub-6 + mmWave Premium-tier smartphones in 2019 Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 4 Multi-Gigabit over mmWave on 5G NR Interoperability and field trials Providing Qualcomm® Reference Design working Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ using form factor mobile test device to accelerate commercial devices X50 modem silicon 1.24 4.51 First 5G NR First 5G NR More than 30 mmWave Sub 6 GHz commercial 5G over-the-air over-the-air mobile devices data call, with data call, with scheduled to Ericsson Ericsson launch in 2019 October February 2H September October 1H 2017 2018 2018 2018 2018 2019 World’s first announced 5G NR modems 5G NR standards compliant Sub-6 + mmWave family Premium-tier smartphones in 2019 Qualcomm Reference Design and Qualcomm Snapdragon are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 5 Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 modem mmWave solution Antenna module 5G mmWave antenna modules and transceiver chips Modem SDR051 Integrated Circuit Intermediate Frequency mm Wave Baseband Digital Transceiver Power Low Noise Switches Amps Amps Snapdragon X50 5G Integrated antenna array Architecture allows flexible mmWave architecture and RFFE for performance placements and multiple modules and ease-of-use Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 6 Qualcomm® QTM052 Rapid miniaturization of mmWave modules 5G mmWave antenna module July 2018 October 2018 2017 July 2018 25% smaller October 2018 Qualcomm® 5G NR reference design (partially assembled state) Qualcomm QTM052 is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm 5G NR Reference Design is a program of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 7 The inevitable evolution of mmWave! mmWave is different from 4G in its small cell nature → Dense deployment of nodes Cost, energy consumption, technology challenges → Tremendous opportunity for a “capability” continuum Rel-15 Rel-16 Rel-17+ evolution Standalone (SA) Non-Standalone (NSA) Rel-15 Rel-16 Rel-17+ NR Commercialization Commercialization IoDTs Field trials eMBB deployments in both New 5G NR technologies to evolve mmWave and sub-6 GHz. We are here and expand the 5G ecosystem Expanded ecosystem: Smartphone form factor, Private networks, Industrial IoT, Integrated Access and Backhaul, Connected laptops, Indoor mmW for enterprises, Private network, Unlicensed/shared spectrum, … CPE fixed access Boundless XR, … 5G NR C-V2X Continued eMBB evolution Continue to evolve LTE in parallel as essential part of the 5G Platform 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023+ 8 Evolution of mmWave: Opportunities for focus Before 5G and After 5G: RF capabilities and antennas → System level design abstractions and constraints → System design intended for the appropriate channel structure • Relative to 4G, making the RF and antennas work as desired with practical constraints (cost, power, process node variations, etc.) is hard! • 5G mmWave PHY design is simpler!! Number of RF bands • Network/deployment planning/optimization is incredibly harder!!! and band combinations By technology generation Role of academia/engineering research in mmWave could be in making “non-sexy,” yet practically relevant problems worth Early 5G combinations >10,000 pursuing! 4G carrier aggregation combinations >1,000 General advise to a beginning graduate student in wireless: • MIMO principles are easy to describe in a party chatter, but 4G today 49 mathematically understanding how MIMO precisely works is a lot of hard work! Early 4G 16 • Systems do not exist in vacuum, so learn some (a lot of!) physics! • mmWave is not just theory, almost all of it is measurements-driven! • 9.