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SC 64QAM for NG60Date: 2015-01-12
Name Affiliations Address Phone email Alecsander Eitan
Qualcomm 5775 Morehouse Dr, San Diego, CA 92121
+1-858-587-1121
Amichai Sanderovich
Qualcomm 5775 Morehouse Dr, San Diego, CA 92121
+1-858-587-1121
Authors:
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Motivation and purpose
• NG60 goals are to extend the 11ad bitrate and performance• By using Channel bonding, MIMO, Higher modulation and more.
• In this presentation, we contribute to this goal by:• Addition of 64QAM to SC modulation to increase the bitrate of
links that support only single channel SC (w/o channel bonding and MIMO)
• Demonstrating the technical feasibility of achieving this goal
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Benefits of 64QAM
• Increase of 50% in PHY throughput or decrease of power consumption• Increase spectral
efficiency
• Benefit in dense environment
• Simple extension of existing modem
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Modulation and Coding Scheme for SC
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New suggested modes:
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Encoding
• Use existing LDPC code rates• 64QAM with code rate ½ will not be used since it results in same
rate as 16QAM code rate ¾.
• No change in the LDPC encoding process
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Mapping – straight forward extension
Use standard 64QAM
gray code mapping
- same as OFDM mapping
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Performance of 64QAM code 5/8
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Performance of 64QAM code 3/4
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Performance of 64QAM code 13/16
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SC 64QAM Rx C/N Performance
• Estimated values for the Rx Performance in AWGN(Fixed point implementation, w/o RF impairments)
Modulation Code Rate Rx C/N
64QAM5/8 18.5dB
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Challenges
• Improve the data path to support higher SNR
• Increase the bit-width/processing/throughput of critical blocks: • FFT
• LDPC
• Improve RF/IF/Baseband analog blocks to support the increased SNR requirement
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Mitigation methods to be considered
• Add/improve Tx pre-distortion • To combat PA saturation effect
• Use APSK (requires to be included in the standard)• To improve PAPR and PN endurance
• Requires a more complex demapper
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Summary
• We suggest to add 64QAM modes to the SC modulation as part of the NG60
• Benefits: 50% throughput increase and increased spectral efficiency
• We are getting more confident that 64QAM SC is feasible
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Next steps
• Continue the simulations
• Add this mode to the items that will be evaluated to next standard revision
• Evaluate higher modulations as well
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Backup
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SC 64QAM: Additional Improvement
• It is clear that one of the main multiplicative noise in the 60G link is the Phase Noise
• Link budget can be further increased by using better suited constellation
• Developed by DVB-S2X
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