Thursday, October 13, 2016

Nokia F-Cell – Drone-based Delivery of Self-Building Small Cell Capacity

Nokia Bell Labs announced an experimental LTE small cell called F-Cell, with which the company promises to revolutionize small cell deployment by removing the need for power and backhaul cables, thus making it possible to deploy small cells on demand with drones.

Bell Labs showed a demo where an F-Cell was delivered by a drone to the roof of an office building. The F-Cell wirelessly self-powered, self-configured and auto-connected to the network and began to stream HD video.

The F-Cell architecture is comprised of closed-loop, 64-antenna massive MIMO system that can be placed in a centralized location that is used to form 8 beams to 8 energy-autonomous, solar-powered F-Cells. The  architecture supports non-line-of-sight wireless networking in FDD or TDD mode and the parallel operation of up to 8 individual 20 MHz channels allowing a throughput of around 1 Gbit/s over existing LTE networks.

According to FCC, there are about 200,000 cell towers in the US today. However, with 5G, there may be millions of small cell sites added. Thus, a solution like F-Cell might prove out to be handy.

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