www.4gamericas.org February 2011 Page 1 CONTENTS PREFACE ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………………………6 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 11 2 PROGRESS OF RELEASE 99, RELEASE 5, RELEASE 6, RELEASE 7 AND RELEASE 8: EVOLVED EDGE, UMTS/EVOLVED HSPA (HSPA+) AND LTE/EPC .............................................................................................................................. 13 2.1 PROGRESS TIMELINE ................................................................................................................................... 13 3 PLANS FOR RELEASE 9 AND RELEASE 10: EVOLVED HSPA (HSPA+) AND LTE/LTE‐ADVANCED ………………………….27 4 THE GROWING DEMANDS FOR WIRELESS DATA APPLICATIONS ..................................................................... 29 4.1 WIRELESS DATA TRENDS AND FORECASTS ......................................................................................... 30 4.2 WIRELESS DATA REVENUE .................................................................................................................... 32 4.3 MOBILE BROADBAND DEVICES ............................................................................................................ 33 4.4 MOBILE BROADBAND APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................. 36 4.5 SMALL CELL GROWTH............................................................................................................................. 39 4.6 SPECTRUM INITIATIVES .............................................................................................................................. 40 4.7 SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................. 41 5 STATUS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF RELEASE 8 AND RELEASE 9: EVOLVED HSPA (HSPA+) AND LTE/EPC ………………….42 5.1 VOLTE ......................................................................................................................................................... 44 6 STATUS OF IMT‐ADVANCED AND LTE‐ADVANCED .......................................................................................... 46 6.1 SPECIFYING IMT‐ADVANCED – THE ITU‐R ROLE ............................................................................................ 46 6.2 THE 3GPP ROLE ........................................................................................................................................... 49 7 STATUS OF RELEASE 10: HSPA+ ENHANCEMENTS AND LTE‐ADVANCED .......................................................... 51 7.1 LTE‐ADVANCED FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGIES ........................................................................................... 51 7.1.1 Support of Wider Bandwidth ..................................................................................................................... 51 7.1.2 Uplink transmission enhancements........................................................................................................... 53 7.1.3 Downlink Transmission enhancements ..................................................................................................... 54 7.1.4 Relaying ..................................................................................................................................................... 55 7.1.5 Heterogeneous Network Support .............................................................................................................. 59 7.1.6 MBMS Enhancements ............................................................................................................................... 61 7.1.7 Son Enhancements .................................................................................................................................... 61 7.1.8 Vocoder Rate Adaptation .......................................................................................................................... 62 7.2 HSPA+ ENHANCEMENTS FOR RELEASE 10 ............................................................................................................. 62 7.2.1 Four carrier HSDPA operation ................................................................................................................... 62 7.2.2 Additional band combinations for DB‐DC‐HSDPA...................................................................................... 65 7.3 MULTI‐RAT RELATED ENHANCEMENTS .................................................................................................................. 65 www.4gamericas.org February 2011 Page 2 7.3.1 Home NodeB/eNodeB enhancements ...................................................................................................... 65 7.3.2 LIPA/SIPTO ................................................................................................................................................. 66 7.3.3 Fixed Mobile Convergence Enhancements ................................................................................................ 69 7.3.4 Machine‐to‐Machine Communications ..................................................................................................... 71 7.3.5 Single Radio Voice Call Continuity ............................................................................................................. 72 7.3.6 IMS ServicE Continuity (ISC) and IMS Centralized Services (ICS) ............................................................... 75 7.3.7 Interworking with Wi‐Fi ............................................................................................................................. 75 7.3.8 UICC ........................................................................................................................................................... 76 7.3.9 IP‐Short‐Message‐Gateway enhancements for CPM‐SMS Interworking .................................................. 77 7.3.10 Lawful Interception LI10 in Release 10 ...................................................................................................... 77 7.4 RELEASE‐INDEPENDENT FEATURES ....................................................................................................................... 78 7.4.1 Band Combinations for LTE‐CA .................................................................................................................. 78 8 PLANNING FOR RELEASE 11 AND BEYOND ..................................................................................................... 80 8.1 TARGET TIMELINE FOR RELEASE 11 ...................................................................................................................... 80 8.2 LTE‐ADVANCED ENHANCEMENTS ......................................................................................................................... 80 8.2.1 Coordinated multiple point transmission and reception ........................................................................... 80 8.2.2 Carrier aggregation .................................................................................................................................... 85 8.2.3 Enhanced ICIC ............................................................................................................................................ 85 8.3 HSPA+ ENHANCEMENTS .................................................................................................................................... 86 8.3.1 8‐Carrier HSDPA ......................................................................................................................................... 86 8.3.2 Uplink dual antenna beamforming and MIMO .......................................................................................... 86 8.3.3 Downlink Multipoint Transmission ............................................................................................................ 87 8.4 MULTI‐RAT RELATED ENHANCEMENTS .................................................................................................................. 88 8.4.1 Machine‐Type Communication (MTC) ....................................................................................................... 88 8.4.2 Network Provided Location Information for IMS (NetLoc) ........................................................................ 90 8.4.3 SRVCC aspect of eMPS ............................................................................................................................... 90 8.4.4 SIPTO service continuity of IP data session (SIPTO_SC) ............................................................................. 91 8.4.5 QoS Control Based on Subscriber Spending Limits (QoS_SSL) ................................................................... 91 8.4.6 Non‐Voice Emergency Services (NOVES) ................................................................................................... 91 8.4.7 Fixed Mobile Convergence ........................................................................................................................ 93 8.5 POTENTIAL AREAS OF FUTURE STANDARDIZATION ................................................................................................... 94 9 CONCLUSIONS ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………95 www.4gamericas.org February 2011 Page 3 APPENDIX A: DETAILED MEMBER PROGRESS AND PLANS ON RELEASE 99 THROUGH RELEASE