Channelisation spreading and scrambling 1. 2. 3.

In the downlink direction, channelisation codes are used to distinguish between different connections and scrambling codes are used to distinguish between different cells. In the uplink direction, channelisation codes are used to distinguish between the different physical channels transmitted by a single UE and scrambling codes are used to distinguish between different UE. Once the transmitted signal has been spread by a channelisation code then it is multiplied by a scrambling code.

The bit Rate in WCDMA and HSDPA 4. The bit rates quoted for WCDMA are for the Dedicated Physical Channel (DPCH). The DPCH

bit rate of 403.2 kbps corresponds to channel coding 12 blocks of 336 bits every 10 ms. This bit rate can be supported in both the uplink and downlink directions. 403.2 kbps at the top of the physical layer corresponds to 384 kbps at the top of the RLC layer, i.e. each block of 336 bits includes 16 bits of RLC header information.

Exple : (336*12)/10*10exp(-3)=403,2Kbps. In the RLC : ((336-16)*12)/10*10exp(-3)=384Kbps. The HSDPA bit rate of 7.2Mbps can be achieved when a 16QAM modulation scheme is used in combination with 10 channelisation codes with a spreading factor of 16 and a channel coding rate of 0.75. Based upon the chip rate of 3.84Mcps, the 16QAM symbol rate is 240 ksps prior to spreading. There are 4 bits of information represented by each 16QAM symbol and so the bit rate per channelisation code before channel coding is 720 kbps. The use of 10 channelisation codes increases this figure to 7.2 Mbps. Higher HSDPA bit rates are possible if more than 10 channelisation codes are used or if the coding rate is increased. The maximum theoretical bit rate is 14.4Mbps when the coding rate is increased to 1 and 15 channelisation codes with a spreading factor of 16 are used.

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Exple: ((4*0,75)*240)*10=7,2Mbps 6. 4 the number of bit represented by each 16QAM 240 The symbole rate of 16QAM 10 the number of channelisation code 0,75 the channel coding.

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The RRC System Information Block 1 (SIB1) also includes NAS messages which are broadcast across the air-interface Transferring NAS messages between an RNC and the core network makes use of the RANAP signalling protocol..

8. The PLMN identity is broadcast within the Master Information Block (MIB).

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the neighbour list broadcast in System Information Block (SIB) 11