ZXSDR BS8908 Product Description

ZXSDR BS8908 Product Description

ZXSDR BS8908 Product Description

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Chen Yong, Yang

V1.00 2014-02-25 Yang Lisha Not open to the third party
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Product Overview ................................................................

.............................................................. 4
1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................
................................ .......................................... 4
1.2 Benefits................................................................................................
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1.3 Application Scenarios ................................................................
.......................................................... 5

2 Productt Architecture ................................................................

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2.1 Physical Structure ................................................................................................
................................ 6
2.2 Hardware Architecture ................................................................
......................................................... 7
2.2.1 Interface
terface Module ................................................................................................
.................................. 8
2.2.2 Control and Clock Module ................................................................
.................................................... 8
2.2.3 Baseband Process Module ................................................................
.................................................. 9
2.2.4 Transceiver ................................................................................................
................................ ........................................ 10
2.2.5 Power Amplifier ................................................................................................
................................ .................................. 10
2.2.6 Duplex ................................................................................................
................................ ............................................... 10
2.2.7 Power Module ................................................................................................
................................ .................................... 11
2.3 Software Architecture
rchitecture ................................................................
......................................................... 11
2.4 Functionality................................................................................................
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2.4.1 Basic Function ................................................................................................
................................ ................................... 12
2.4.2 Service Functions ..............................................................................................
.............................. 13

3 Technical Specifications ................................................................

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3.1 Technical specification ................................................................
....................................................... 14
3.2 External Interface ...............................................................................................
............................... 16

4 Configurations ................................................................................................
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5 Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................

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FIGURES

Figure 2-1
1 ZXSDR BS8908 Physical Appearance...............................................................
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Figure 2-2 2 Physical Appearance
Appearance of ZXSDR BS8908 with Embedded Antenna and Sun
Shield ................................................................
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Figure 2-3
3 ZXSDR BS8908 Hardware Structure ................................................................
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Figure 2-4
4 ZXSDR BS8908 Software Structure................................................................
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Figure 4-1
1 ZXSDR BS8908+R8861+R8861 S444 Connection Diagram.............................
Diagram.............................17

TABLES

Table 3-1
1 ZXSDR BS8908 Technical Indices ................................................................
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Table 3-2
2 ZXSDR BS8908 External Interfaces Description ................................................16
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Table 4-1
1 ZXSDR BS8908 Configuration ................................................................
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1 Product Overview

1.1 Introduction

With the multi-mode

mode era coming, ZTE, who is dedicated to providing
provid comprehensive
network solutions and delivering
deliver the future-oriented
oriented quality network for the operators,
developed the ground breaking SDR unified platform with
th the essential feature
feat to support
multi-mode and multi-band
multi radio access.

Based on this innovative SDR platform,

platform ZTE promotes a series of base stations to satisfy
different scenario requirements, including Indoor Macro, Outdoor Macro, Distributed,
Outdoor Micro, and Mini BTS.
BTS

With
ith the developing of mobile communication, high quality networks have to be built up
to meet growing requirements. Hot
ot spot, indoor and rural area coverage should be taken
into consideration. At the same time, telecom operators are facing challenges in
equipment room, engineering and noise pollution.

ZXSDR BS8908 (hereafter referred to “BS8908”) Mini BTS is hence designed to meet
these requirements.

Integrated design and MCPA make it small volume, high density, high capacity and low
power consumption.
consumption Itt can be used for both indoor and outdoor applications with IP65
protection. The unit can be mounted on walls, poles or masts.

Single unit supports up to 6 TRXs by adopting MCPA technology. It can also be

expanded to S4/4/4 by cascading with two of ZTE SDR RF units ZXSDR R8861.

1.2 Benefits

Compact Design,
esign, Light Weight, Easy Installation

BS8908 is only less than 15 kg, easy to transport and install. It can be mounted on
the pole, against the wall, on the tower top, etc. No
o dedicated equipment space is
required,
ed, easy for site acquisition, fast network deployment.

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Easy
asy Expansion and High Coverage

By MCPA, it can be conveniently expanded from S1 to S6 by software. It supports

expansion to S4/4/4 by cascading with RRU units. 40W TOC and close to antenna
a
installation improve coverage. Compared
ompared with traditional indoor BTS, hot spot and
rural coverage solutions, it provides higher capacity and wider coverage.

Green BTS

BS8908 supports Doherty, DPD and MCPA technologies in power amplifier module
which provides high PA efficiency. High efficiency MCPA, natural cooling and high
density design reduce the power consumption.. Zero noise pollution makes it easy
for indoor installation and site acquisition.

IP RAN and Rich Interfaces

Abis interface is based on FE/GE or IP over E1. It provides E1/T1 and FE/GE
interfaces for Abis connection and supports various transmissions networking such
as SDH, IP,, microwaves and satellite transmission.

1.3 Application Scenarios

In general, GSM/EDGE/UMTS system consists of Core Network

Network (CN), Radio Network
(GERAN/UTRAN) and Mobile Station/User Equipment (MS/UE). GERAN/UTRAN
includes 2 network elements, base station and BSC/RNC. ZXSDR BS8908 is the GSM
outdoor mini base station. With all IP architecture, ultra small size and low power
pow
consumption, BS8908 meets remote area coverage requirements with cleanness,
convenience, efficiency and low cost.

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2 Product Architecture
Byy integrated design, BS8908 single unit integrates control and clock module, baseband
processing, radio unit, power management and so on. Both AC (220
220 V/110 V) and DC
(-48 V) power supply are supported.

2.1 Physical Structure

BS8908 single
ingle unit supports up to 6 TRXs by adopting MCPA technology. BS8908 is
shown in the following figure.
figure

Figure 2-1 ZXSDR BS8908 Physical Appearance

BS8908 can also be equipped with embedded antenna packed in sun shield.
shield With
combination of BTS and antenna, site wiring, installation and commissioning procedure
is simplified. BS8908 with embedded antenna and sun shield is shown in Figure 2-2.

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Figure 2-2 Physical Appearance of ZXSDR BS8908 with Embedded Antenna and Sun
Shield

2.2 Hardware Architecture

BS8908 consists of Interface Module,

odule, Control & Clock Module, Baseband Process
Module, Transceiver, Power Amplifier, Duplex and Power Module.

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Figure 2-3 ZXSDR BS8908 Hardware Structure

Power Power Module

Power
Baseband Amplifier
GE/FE Interface
Process Duplex
Module
Module
E1/T1 Transceiver

Control &Clock Module

BS8908

2.2.1 Interface Module

The interface module provides the interfaces of the system and the interface protection.

Providing 4 pairs of E1 or T1 Abis interfaces with interface protection

Providing automatic
utomatic bridge in BTS chain networking

Providing
roviding 1 GE/FE Abis interface

Providing
ing 2 cascading
cas high speed fiber interfaces

Providing GPS antenna external connection interface

Providing 4 dry contact alarm inputs, and a RS485 port for monitoring

Providing
roviding AISG interface

Providing
roviding 1 Ethernet interface for debugging or local maintenance

2.2.2 Control and Clock Module

The
he control and clock module is used for control and management, and provides system
clock. Its functions are as follows:

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Ethernet switching function, implementing data switching for service and control
flow within the system

Abis interface
e protocol processing

Monitoring, controlling and maintaining of the base station system, providing LMT
interface

Managing software versions and supporting local and remote software upgrade

Synchronizing with various external reference clocks, including the

th Abis interface
recovery clock and the GPS clock.

Generating and delivering the clock signal demanded by each part

Providing GPS receiver interface and managing the GPS receiver

Providing a real-time
real time clock for system operation and maintenance; the real-time
clock can be calibrated.
calibrated

2.2.3 Baseband Process Module

It processes the physical layer protocol and frame protocol specified by 3GPP. Its main
functions are listed as follows:

Achieving rate adaptation, channel coding, interleaving, encryption, generate

generat TDMA
shock burst, GMSK/8PSK modulation and IQ baseband digital signals output.

Achieving uplink IQ data receiving, receiver diversity combiner, digital demodulation

(GMSK&8PSK, equilibrium), decryption, de-interleaving,
de interleaving, demodulator and rate
adaptation

Radio link synchronization and transmission frame processing

Measuring parameters required in power control and handover

Diversified receiving.
receiving

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2.2.4 Transceiver

Transceiver
ransceiver is the radio transmitting and receiving module. Its main functions are listed
as follows:

Processing 2 paths receiving and 1 path transmitting signal

Uplink & downlink transition for radio link signal

Downlink IQ signal multiplexing, uplink IQ signal de-multiplexing

de multiplexing

Signal amplifying
ying, filter, and digit/analog converting

RTWP and TSSI measurement

measure report;

Standing wave ratio (SWR) measurement report

Hardware failure self-test

self and alarm;

2.2.5 Power Amplifier

Amplifying RF output signal power

Providing digital pre-distortion

pre feedback signal for Transceiver

Providing power amplification output control

Feedback forward power coupling signal to Transceiver,, and Transceiver do

forward power inspection

Feedback backward power coupling signal to Transceiver,, and Transceiver do

backward power (SWR) inspection

2.2.6 Duplex

Combination and separation of receiving and transmitting signal

Filter function of receiving & transmitting signal

Low-noise
noise amplification function

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2.2.7 Power Module

The power module can be configured to support -48

48 V DC or 110/220 V AC respectively.
Itt supports lightning protection, filtering, AC-to-DC
AC conversion, allocation and grounding
for working power. Itt also provides measurement and protection of input
over-voltage/under
voltage/under-voltage functions.

2.3 Software Architecture

The software system of BS8908

BS8 consists of operating support layer and application layer.
laye

Figure 2-4 ZXSDR BS8908 Software Structure

GSM Function

SCS OAM DBS BRS BRACS

LMT
NOP

OSS

Sche. Timer Moni. CPP Excep Mem BBX File DBG

OMC-B
VOS

Linux
Windows
Hardware (BSP)

The operating support layer provides the functions of OSS, OAM, DBS, BRS, BRACS,
and SCS to serve different BTS modes.
mode

OAM (Operating and Maintenance) provides the configuration, alarm and

performance measurement function.

DBS (Data Base Sub-system)

Sub provides the database function.

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BRS (Bearer Sub-system)

system) provides protocol stack processing function.

BRACS (Bearer
earer Access Control Sub-system)
system) provides the function of access
control on bear layer.

SCS (System Control Sub-system)

Su system) provides functions of power control/supply and
active/standby switching.

OSS (Operation Support Sub-system)

Sub system) is the support layer in this framework, which is a
hardware independent platform for running software and providing basic functions like
scheduling,
cheduling, timer, memory management, communication, sequencing control, monitoring,
alarming and logging.

BSP (Board Support Package) supports the information routing to the GSM and public
parts in the application layer.

2.4 Functionality

2.4.1 Basic Function

BS8908
8 accomplishes the following basic functions with Um, Abis and O&M interfaces.

With Um interface, BS8908 accomplishes MS access and radio link transmission,

transmission
including RF processing, channel coding and decoding, channel multiplexing and
de-multiplexing,
multiplexing, measuring
mea and reporting, power control,, receiving diversity,
calibration and synchronization.

With Abis interface, BS8908 connects with BSC and accomplishes the following
functions, including cell management, reporting BTS measurement information,
broadcasting
g system Information, implementing access control from BSC, mobility
management, radio resource management and controlling and FP processing
management.

With operating and maintenance interface, BS8908 provides system management

functions, including configuration management, alarm management, status
checking and system monitoring.

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Besides, BS8908 also provides some other functions as follows:

Supports GSM Phase I/GSM Phase II/GSM Phase II plus standards and 3GPP
standards till R10.

Supports CS1-CS4
CS1 of GPRS, MCS1-MCS9
MCS9 of EDGE. Supporting dynamically
changing channel coding according to monitoring and measurement results.

Supports reduced TTI,

TTI fast ACK/NACK reporting, MS receiving
ing diversity, downlink
dual carriers and EGPRS2-A
EGPRS2 of E-EDGE.

The receiving
eceiving part adopts Viterbi algorithm for coding. Channel decoding capability
and system receiving sensitivity is improved.

Supports frequency hopping.

Supports DTX sending and decreasing transmitting power, lowering the total
interference in the air.

Supports
pports TA (Time Advance) calculation.

Supports BSS local switch; the voice data frame will switch in BSS and will not go to
core network.

Supports dynamic power sharing; output power of MCPA can be shared by multi
carriers in multi-carrier
multi BTS.

Supports intelligent
telligent cell shutdown to shut down some cells of the base station in
case of the traffic is very low.

2.4.2 Service Functions

BS8908 supports the following services currently:

GSM/EDGE:

− FR: Full Rate voice service

− EFR: Enhanced Full Rate voice service

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− HR: Halff Rate voice service

− AMR: Adaptive Multi Rate voice service

− F9.6: 9.6 Kbit/s CS domain data service

− GPRS/EDGE/E
GPRS/EDGE/E-EDGE

3 Technical Specifications

3.1 Technical
chnical specification

Table 3-1 ZXSDR BS8908 Technical Indices

Type Item Indices

EGSM 900 MHz

DL:925-960 MHz, UL:880-915
915 MHz
Working Frequency
DCS 1800 MHz
DL:1805-1880
1880 MHz, UL:1710-1785
UL:1710 MHz

Working Bandwidth 20 MHz

Performance
6 TRXs (O6)
Indices Capacity
S4/4/4 (BS8908+R8861+R8861)

Output Power
40W*
(TOC)

Static Receiving
-112 dBm @ Single Antenna
Sensitivity

420 mm*320 mm*100 mm (module only)

Dimension
467 mm*360 mm*181 mm (With
With embedded
Physical (H * W * D)
antenna and sun shield)
Indices
15 Kg (module only)
Weight
18 Kg (With
With embedded antenna and sun shield)

Embedded 900M
900M/1800M
Antenna directional antenna 8 dBi
(optional) gain

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Power supply,
Power DC: -48 V (-37 V - -60V DC)
C)
voltage range of
Indices AC: 110 V/220 V (90 V - 290 V AC)
variation

165W (TOC 40W, 900M/1800M)

/1800M)
Average power
135W (TOC 20W, 900M)
consumption (O2)
Power 140W (TOC 20W, 1800M)
Consumption 190W (TOC 40W, 900M)
Indices Peak power 195W (TOC 40W, 1800M))
consumption (O2) 150W (TOC 20W, 900M)
155W (TOC 20W, 1800M)

Temperature -40°C - +55°C

Relative Humidity 5% - 100%

Waterproof
IP65
/Dustproof
Environment
Indices Heat Dissipation
D Natural Cooling

≤5 Ω
Earth resistance can be less 10 Ω in thunder
Ground
less area where thunderstorm days should be
less than 20 per year.

YD/T 1595.2-2007
National/ ETSI EN 301 489-01, ETSI EN 301 489-23
489
EMC Indices International ETSI EN 300 386–V1.3.2
Standard (CISPR22) Class B
Directive 1999/5/EC (R&TTE)

DC: ≥236,000 hours

MTBF
AC: ≥230,000 hours

MTTR 1 hours
Reliability
DC: ≥99.999576%
Indices Availability
AC: ≥99.999565%

DC: <2.227 min/year

Down Duration
AC: <2.285 min/year

*Note:
Note: When “ZGO-04-01-011
“ZGO 011 Power Boost for 8PSK” is applied in GSM mode, the TOC
output power achieves the same in 8PSK modulation as in GMSK.

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3.2 External Interface

Table 3-2 ZXSDR BS8908

BS8 External Interfaces Description

Interface
Interface Item
tem Index Standard
Type

E1/T1 4 pairs DB26 ITU G.703/G.704

1 (10M/100M/1000M
electrical) 10/100/1000BASE
10/100/1000BASE-T
RJ45
Auto-Negotiation IEEE 802.3 compatible
Abis Auto-MDI/MDIX
Ethernet
1000BASE
1000BASE-LX IEEE
1 (1000M optical) or 802.3 compatible
SFP (LC)
1 (100M optical) 100BASE
100BASE-FX IEEE
802.3 compatible

Antenna
ANT 2 N -
Feeder

Cascade
SFP 2 SFP(LC) -
Interface

GPS Antenna Interface

Clock GPS 1 (Optional) SMA
NMEA 0183 V3.0

Dry
Monitor & 4 DB15 -
Contact
Alarm
RS485 1 DB15 -

Electrical
AISG 1 DB9 AISG 2.0
Antenna

4 Configurations
Single unit supports 1 TRX to 6 TRXs by software configuration. It is convenient to
expand by cascading with R8861s. Star and chain connections are supported for flexible
networking topology.
topology

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Table 4-1 ZXSDR BS8908 Configuration

Number of Number of Number of X-polar

Site Type
BS8908 R8861 Antenna

O1-O6 1 0 1

S11-S66 1 1 2

S111-S444 1 2 3

Figure 4-1 ZXSDR BS8908+R8861+R8861 S444 Connection

onnection Diagram

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5 Acronyms and Abbreviations

Abbreviations Full Characteristics
rd
3GPP 3 Generation Partnership Project

AMR Adaptive Multi Rate

BSC Base Station Controller

BSP Board Support Package

BTS Base Transceiver Station

CN Core Network

CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture

CPRI Common Public Radio Interface

CS Carrier Sector

DL Down Link

DTX Discontinuous transmission

EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution

E-EDGE Enhanced EDGE

EFR Enhanced Full Rate

FE Fast Ethernet

FP Frame Protocol

FR Full Rate

GE Gigabit Ethernet

GERAN GSM Edge Radio Access Network

GPS Global Positioning System

GSM Global System for Mobile communications

HR Half Rate

LTE Long Term Evolution

MicroTCA Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture

MIMO Multi Input Multi Output

MS/UE Mobile Station/User Equipment

MTBF Mean Time Between Failures

MTTR Mean Time To Recovery

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RF Radio Frequency

RNC Radio Network Controller

SCS System Control Sub-system

SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

SDR Software Defined Radio

TA Time Advance

UL Up Link

UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

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