RAN and Core Network Testing for 5G Sr. BD Manager, Head of Carrier Business, APAC IXIA Solutions Group/ Keysight Tak Yamakawa
ISG IXIA Solutions Group/Keysight W E M A K E N E T W O R K S S T R O N G E R 15 47 77 of the Top 15 NEMs of the Top 50 Carriers of the Fortune 100 Chipsets & Devices Wireless & Wireline Networks Enterprise IT/Data Center 2
Network Testing Solutions T R U S T W I T H 3 6 0 T E S T Devices Wireless Networks Cloud / WAN Deployments Security LAN Deployments Data Center Wi-Fi Performance / Reliability Infrastructure Performance WAN Emulation Security Resilience SDN / NFV Migration Application QoE Hyper Scale DC Performance IxVeriwave IxLoad/IxChariot Network Emulator II BreakingPoint IxNetwork IxLoad & IxNetwork 3
Network Visibility Solutions A M O D E L T O I M P R O V E V I S I B I L I T Y ANALYTICS VISIBILITY DATA VISIBILITY SOLUTIONS VISIBILITY INTELLIGENCE 4
Customer Experience Management Keysight Now Provides Insight Across the Entire Stack Keysight Classic Ixia Anite COMPONENTS & CHIPSETS DEVICES BASE STATIONS HYPERSCALE AND DATA CENTERS ENTERPRISE Layers 2-7 Mobile Device Test BTS Drive Test Drive Test Mobile Network Test Network Test, Visibility and Security Layer 1 Electrical, Optical and Wireless Test Channel Emulation 5
Keysight with ISG T H E O N LY V E N D O R C O V E R I N G L 1 - L 7 T E S T ISG Components Classic Keysight Components HetNet Mobile Security VoLTE and IMS Access Ixia Wireless Negative Testing Core (EPC) WiFi Offload Diameter Sub-6Ghz Radio Channel Emulators mmwave Radio Massive MIMO 6
ISG IxLoad Wireless Solutions 全图形化界面, 使用方便 覆盖从无线接入网到无线核心网测试, 可实现端到端测试或者其他不同的测试拓扑 引入用户模型概念, 模拟用户的控制面行为和用户面业务 使用语音, 视频, 数据等 L7 应用层流量, 并实时显示用户体验质量 性能卓越, 一个机框可以模拟一个城市的话务量 支持各种自动化平台, 提升测试效率 提供硬件方案和虚拟化方案 XGS12 chassis PerfectStorm & XAir2 7
5 Keys for Successful 5G A L L I N O N E P R O D U C T - I X L O A D Technology evolution & revolution! IoT Giga LTE Coexistence New Core New Radio CAT M1/NB1 PSM/eDRX C-SGN Diameter Carrier Agg (5CA) 4x4MIMO TM9 256 QAM LTE-U LAA MulteFire SBA Virtualized MEC Cloud RAN EPC Evolution mmwave & sub6ghz 200MHz+ 1ms latency Massive MIMO Available Upcoming 2018 8
5GC Testing 9
NSA Non-Standalone Non Standalone proposes several options for Coexistence: 3/3a/3x where 4G CN is being used 7/7a/7x which uses 5G CN 10
5G Dual Connectivity 11
Next Generation Core Option 3x Control Plane: The involved core network entity is the MME. S1-MME is terminated in MeNB and the MeNB and the SgNB are interconnected via X2-C User Plane: X2-U interface is the user plane interface between MeNB and SgNB, and S1-U is the user plane interface between MeNB and S-GW 12
Option 3x Testing: DUT=S/PGW IXIA DUT IXIA MME S11 enb S1-U UEs S5/8 SGi gnb S1-U SGW PGW IP Services 13
Option 3x Testing: DUT=MME Isolation IXIA DUT IXIA S1-AP S11 MME enb S1-U UEs SGi gnb S1-U S/PGW IP Services 14
Option 3x Testing: DUT=MME + SPGW IXIA DUT IXIA S1-AP MME enb S1-U S11 UEs S5/8 SGi gnb S1-U SGW PGW IP Services 15
Control User Plane Separation 16
CUPS WG SA2 17
Why CUPS? Sca e UP a d CP fu ctio a ity i depe de t y A o for a f exib e dep oyme t of UP separate from the CP Support mu ti-ve dor i tegratio A o for differe t co figuratio s i differe t et ork s ices 5GC steppi g sto e (SMF UPF N4) 18
CUPS Black-Box Testing DUT AVAILABLE TODAY enb/mme S11/S1u Simulated Simulated 19
CUPS Phase I (Sxb & S5 Simulation) DUT Simulated 20
CUPS Testing: PGW-U Isolation IXIA DUT IXIA PGW-C UEs S1-U S5/8-U SGi enb SGW-U PGW-U IP Services 21
CUPS Phase II (Sxa & Sxb Simulation) enb/mme S11/S1u DUT Simulated 22
CUPS Testing: SGW-U & PGW-U Isolation IXIA DUT IXIA SGW-C PGW-C UEs S1-U S5/8-U SGi enb SGW-U PGW-U IP Services 23
Combined Model (S/PGW-C & S/PGW-U) DUT Simulated 24
CUPS Paving The Way to 5GC 5GC 95% overlapping: N4 = Sx, N3 = S1u, N6 = Sgi SMF = SGW-C + PGW-C UPF = SGW-U + PGW-U 25
5GC Use Cases UPF Isolation Simulated Simulated DUT Simulated 26
5GC Use Cases AMF Isolation Simulated DUT Simulated Simulated 27
5GC Use Cases AMF + SMF Isolation Simulated DUT Simulated Simulated 28
5GC Testing: UPF Isolation Demo Per VM compute resources: 2x vcpu 4GB RAM KEYSIGHT KEYSIGHT KEYSIGHT KEYSIGHT 1x VM 1x VM 1x VM 1x VM User Plane 80% Background UPF resources: CP: 1x vcpu UP: 1x vcpu User Plane SMF 20% HTTPS/VoLTE/Video N4 SMF/(R)AN resources: CP: 1x vcpu UP: 1x vcpu UEs IP N3 N6 (R)AN UPF DUT DN (Data Network) 29
5GC Test Demo IxLoad Triple Play originating 20% of UserPlane traffic SMF IxLoad Triple Play QoE measurements Sessions created on SMF request N3 Sessions (5 Million) Background traffic UserPlane (GTPv1 packets) are being sent when N3 Sessions are established Data Network served by N6 30
5GC Test at ISG World s highest capacity and performance With REST APIs Developed in an Agile fashion Expected delivery order: UPF, SMF, AMF 31
5G NR Testing 32
UE Simulation Evaluation T600 XAir XAir2 XAir3 LTE Released 2009 400 UEs ATCA, Discrete FPGA, DSP, CPU 2 sectors in chassis LTE-A Released 2012 1000 UEs 2 CA 6 Sectors in chassis LTE-A Pro Released 2016 4000 Ues GigLTE Cellular IoT LAA 5G Under Development Will support embb URLLC, Massive IoT 33
LTE Hardware XGS12 Chassis Perfect Storm Xair2 XGS2 Chassis X100 Radio Head 34
LTE UE Simulation for Load Testing X100 enb Sub-6 GHz XAir2 DUT High load: Gigabit+ LTE, 4000 UEs/ XAir2 blade; 4 carriers 4x4 MIMO, 4CA IoT & Unlicensed Spectrum: CAT-M, NB-IoT, LTE-U, LAA IxLoad L4-7 S/W: PerfectStorm with realistic Subscriber modeling Future plans: 5CA Downlink with additional XAir2 2CA Uplink 35
5G New Radio LT E V S. N R 36
5G New Radio Up to 8 layers transmission Support for SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO 37
5G-NR: Building Blocks N E X T G E N P R O D U C T X A I R 3 Baseband + Lower Mac Layer functions Purpose built for embb, mmtc and URLLC Support for both sub 6GHz and mmwave Support for 100, 200, 400MHz bandwidth Support for 2x2, 4x4, 8x8 MIMO Aggregated carriers, thousands of UEs QSFP28 s capable of ecpri (10/25/100G) 25G/100G links for dataplane IP traffic 38
3GPP NR Stack Splits 8 S P L I T O P T I O N S F O R 5 G R A D I O A C C E S S N E T W O R K RRC PDCP High- RLC Low- RLC High- MAC Low- MAC High- PHY Low-PHY RF Data Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5 Option 6 Option 7 Option 8 RRC PDCP High- RLC Low- RLC High- MAC Low- MAC High- PHY Low-PHY RF Data 39
System Architectures M U LT I P L E I N T E R F A C E O P T I O N S IxLoad Wireless IxLoad 10G/25G Upper Layers DUT IxLoad IxLoad 10G/25G 10G/25G XAir3 XAir3 XAir3 ecpri CPRI TRX RH <6GHz Baseband ecpri CPRI Conducted RF gnb (DU+CU) IxLoad 10G/25G XAir3 XAir3 TRX RH <6GHz mmwave 28G 28/39GHz OTA 40
Development Phases ecpri sub6ghz Cabled RF mmwave OTA 41
MWC 2018 Press Releases 5 G U E E M U L AT I O N 42
MWC 2018 Workstations D E M O S A N D V - R A C K S Booth featured 14 stations with 10 V-rack/workstations and 4 live demos Workstation #6 5G Packet Core Live Test UPF isolated testing demonstration Workstation #7 5G UE Emulation gnb testing demo video 1. with Samsung 2. with Datang/China Mobile 43
5GC Demo @MWC 2018 UPF tests in isolation with: 5 million UEs Statefull HTTPS, Video and VoLTE Background traffic to load UPF Activation/deactivation of UPF sessions Rest API configuration and commands 44
Summary One Keysight Solution- mmwave, 5G NR to 5GC Test any Node and Combinations of Nodes Powerful End-end Scenario testing with Real-World Traffic 45
Thank You! 46