Perfect Stepping Stone to 5G

Today, low spectrum bands are largely dominated by LTE. Therefore, operators who deploy 5G in low spectrum bands want a way for smooth migration minimizing the impact on LTE networks. One way to solve this is with LTE-NR dynamic spectrum sharing. By utilizing this feature, service providers can deploy LTE and NR in the same bands. Within one carrier network, LTE users access the network using LTE cells while 5G users are connected using 5G cells. Samsung’s DSS supports a variety of deployment options, increasing flexibility for operators. Our solution can run on both virtualized and physical RAN platforms. Customers can choose to rollout new hardware but they can also reuse legacy. Samsung’s DSS solution can also co-exist with 2G, 3G and LTE vertical services such as eMTC and NB-IoT, enabling a 5G launch without negatively impacting legacy systems.

Samsung’s DSS solution provides flexible resource management that corresponds to the constantly evolving LTE and 5G traffic. An intelligent scheduler compares the traffic priority and user demands of LTE and 5G and allocates resources of the shared spectrum accordingly. The intelligent scheduler can make such decisions regarding resource allocation within milliseconds, enabling a real time resource management. Therefore, NR resource allocation increases and LTE resource allocation decreases when NR traffic peaks, and vice versa when LTE traffic peaks. DSS can also respond to 5G traffic bursts that occur and over time as 5G becomes more mainstream.