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Foxconn 5G + 4G AIO Small Cell User Manual

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  • Page 1 User Manual 5G + 4G AIO Small Cell...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Overview ..................... 2 Small cell product dimensions and ports ..............3 Product Specifications ..................5 Quick Setup ....................7 Installation guide ..................7 3.1 Hardware installation ................... 8 ..........................9 Key Technology ..................12 Industry Standards ..................13...

  • Page 3: Overview

    1. Overview Small cells are low-powered cellular radio access nodes used to increase network coverage and network capacity in indoor and outdoor wireless communications. This small cell includes both 5G mmWave and LTE capabilities. It provides high speed data transfer rates and increased mobility.

  • Page 4: Small Cell Product Dimensions And Ports

    This small cell successfully complies with 3GPP Release 15 implementation standards. It is built to operate both indoors and outdoors in the temperature range -40̊ C to 65̊ C. It has 2T*2R 4G LTE antennas, 8*8 antenna array with 2-layer for 5G mmWave and 1 GPS antenna port and is powered by 48V DC power supply.
  • Page 5 Figure 1.3 – IO ports Figure 1.4 – DC 48V plug...

  • Page 6: Product Specifications

    1.2 Product Specifications Table 1 Product Specifications Specification Description 4G + 5G dual mode small cell Operating ▪ 26.5 ~ 29.5 GHz (Band n257/n261 for 5G) Frequency ▪ 3550 ~ 3700 MHz (Band 48 for 4G) ▪ EIRP 50.6 dBm @ 5G mmwave TX Power ▪...
  • Page 7 Lightning ▪ Earth ground connection with a surge protection cable Protection Physical Specifications Mounting ▪ Wall and pole mount Housing Material ▪ Aluminum, plastic Operation ▪ 10% ~ 90% Humidity Operation ▪ -40 ~ 50 ℃ Temperature Net Weight ▪ 8.5 kg (9.5Kg with bracket) Dimension ▪...

  • Page 8: Quick Setup

    2. Quick Setup Once connected to a power adapter with 48DVC and a 10G Ethernet cable, and the ethernet link to internet CBSD server and ePC via switch or router and CBSD was for CBRS LTE function use, and it’s ready to go. The IP addresses are dynamically obtained through internal DHCP and check the RF LED for service on.

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    Figure 3.1 Pole-mounted small cell 3.1 Hardware installation The small cell can be installed on a pole using a pole mount bracket as shown in Figure 3.2.
  • Page 10 Pole Mount Bracket Pole mount plate (C) Pole Clamp plate (D) Rotate 90̊ Antenna back plate (A) Hex nut (E) Hex nut (B) Hex bolt (F) Figure 3.2 Pole mounting bracket accessories • The pole mounting bracket kit consists of a pole mount plate, antenna back plate, pole clamp plate, hex nuts and hex bolts.
  • Page 11 • Figure 3.3 Pole mounting instructions • Tighten all the nuts and confirm that the pole used for mounting is sturdy to hold the weight.
  • Page 12 Vertical plane rotation Horizontal plane rotation Figure 3.4 (a) Figure 3.4 (b) Figure 3.4 – Bracket flexibility The pole mount bracket is very flexible to allow a complete 360̊ rotation of the mounted small cell in the horizontal plane. This allows the small cell to be installed pointing in any direction required.

  • Page 13: Key Technology

    Figure 3.4 Installed small cell Figure 3.4 shows the product AIO smallcell installed successfully on-site using a pole-mount bracket. It is operating at an optimum height on the pole and in an indoor environment setting providing the optimum output power. It has been successfully tested in compliance with chapter 6 and chapter 7 of 3GPP release 15 OTA measurement standards.

  • Page 14: Industry Standards

    5. L2/L3 Key Technology The AIO Smallcell support the essential control and data channel functionality of the 3GPP 5G Radio Access Network (RAN). The 5G NR solution enables the following use cases. 1) Non-Standalone modes of deployment. 2) High performance, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) 3) mmWave, beamforming 4) Network slicing Following are the main components of the Central Unit (CU)
  • Page 15 o F1 User Plane Protocol (NRUP) AIO Smallcell provides L2 and L3 protocol stacks and application software. The 5G NR gNB implements the CU and DU split through the F1 interface, and the CU split into CU-Control plane (CP) and CU-User plane (UP) through the E1 interface. The following figure describes the gNB control place stack architecture.
  • Page 16 Protocol Conformance This section describes the functional compliance of the 5G NR gNB • Functional Compliance The protocol layer of AIO Smallcell functionally comply to the standard mentioned in the following table. For more details, see the Feature sections. Table 2 Functional Compliance Protocol Layer Specification 3GPP TS 38.211 v15.3.0...
  • Page 17 Features The following tables describe the features supported of AIO Smallcell. • SDAP The following table shows the status of features and procedures supported. Table 3 SDAP Features Procedure/Feature Message/Functionality ‧ SDAP entity establishment SDAP Entity Handling ‧ SDAP entity release during UE release ‧...
  • Page 18 PDCP. Table 5 PDCP Features Procedure/Feature Message/Functionality ‧ PDCP entity establishment PDCP Entity Handling ‧ PDCP entity re-establishment ‧ Unacknowledged Mode (UM) DRB Data Radio Bearer (DRB) ‧ Acknowledged Mode (AM) DRB ‧ Data PDU with 12 bits PDCP SN Protocol Data Units ‧...
  • Page 19 • Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) procedures: Retransmission, polling, and status reporting Handling of Unknown, Unforeseen, and Reception of PDU with reserved or invalid values Erroneous Protocol Data • MAC The following table shows the status of features and procedures supported for MAC Table 7 MAC Features Procedure/Feature Message/Functionality...
  • Page 20 Element (CE) Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) SRS for non-codebook PUSCH transmission • MAC Scheduler The following table shows the status of features and procedures supported for MAC scheduler. Table 8 MAC Scheduler Features Procedure/Feature Message/Functionality Operation Mode Time Division Duplex (TDD) Scalability •...
  • Page 21 • Up to four layers transmission • Virtual Resource Block (VRB) to Physical Resource Block (PRB) mapping: Non interleaved • Modulations (QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, and 256-QAM) • CQI based modulation selection • Type1 single panel codebook type for two CSI-RS ports and four •...
  • Page 22 • DCI Format:Format_0_0 • DCI Format:Format_0_1 • DCI Format:Format_1_0 • DCI Format:Format_1_1 PUCCH • UCI formats 0, 2 • Semi-static HARQ ACK codebook on the same carrier PUCCH • Dynamic HARQ ACK codebook on the same carrier PUCCH • UCI multiplexing cases: •...
  • Page 23 UL UEs per TTI per Cell Eight Scheduling Algorithm • Proportional Fair Scheduling (PFS) • QoS aware scheduling Timing Advance Timing advance for primary cell Supplementary Uplink (SUL) Scheduling on SUL Discontinuous Reception • Long and short DRX cycle (on duration, inactivity, and short (DRX) cycle timers) •...
  • Page 24 SgNB Addition Preparation • SGNB ADDITION REQUEST • SGNB ADDITION REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGE SgNB Release • SGNB RELEASE REQUEST (MeNB initiated SgNB Release) • SGNB RELEASE REQUEST ACKNOWLEDGE SN Status Transfer SN STATUS TRANSFER UE Context Release UE CONTEXT RELEASE SgNB initiated SgNB Modification •...
  • Page 25 RRC reconfiguration • RRCReconfiguration • RRCReconfigurationComplete RRC connection reestablishment • RRCReestablishmentRequest (cause: radio link failure detection) • RRCReestablishment • RRCReestablishmentComplete RRC CG-Config: SCG radio configuration to Encoding scg-CellGroupConfig for NSA mode establish SCG bearer Others • DL information transfer • UL information transfer System information SIB1, SIB2, and SIB3 encoding and transmission...
  • Page 26 UL RRC Message Transfer UL RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER DL RRC Message Transfer DL RRC MESSAGE TRANSFER Paging (CN initiated idle mode paging) PAGING • DU OAM The following table shows the status of features and procedures supported for DU OAM Table 14 DU OAM Features Feature Functionality...
  • Page 27 • Core-based NS feature • DU RRM The following table shows the status of features and procedures supported for DU RRM Table 16 DU RRM Features Feature Functionality Radio Resource Manager (RRM) RRM to define the cell common resources, initial common BWP, and addition BWP based on the BWP size and the frequency.