3GPP LTE presentation

3GPP LTE presentation

Kyoto May 22rd 2007
3GPP TSG RAN Chairman

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Presentation Overview
LTE Introduction
Network Architecture
The access network
Physical Layer
Layer 2 and above over the radio interface
Control Plane
User Plane

Interface towards the Core Network

Conclusion

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LTE targets

Significantly increased peak data rates

Increased cell edge bitrates
Improved spectrum efficiency
Improved latency
Scaleable bandwidth
Reduced CAPEX and OPEX
Acceptable system and terminal complexity, cost and
power consumption
Compatibility with earlier releases and with other systems
Optimised for low mobile speed but supporting high mobile
speed
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Peak data rate

Goal: significantly increased peak data rates,
scaled linearly according to spectrum allocation
Targets:
Instantaneous downlink peak data rate of
100Mbit/s in a 20MHz downlink spectrum (i.e. 5
bit/s/Hz)
Instantaneous uplink peak data rate of
50Mbit/s in a 20MHz uplink spectrum (i.e. 2.5
bit/s/Hz)

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Mobility

The Enhanced UTRAN (E-UTRAN) will:

be optimised for mobile speeds 0 to 15 km/h
support, with high performance, speeds between 15 and
120 km/h
maintain mobility at speeds between 120 and 350 km/h
and even up to 500 km/h depending on frequency
band
support voice and real-time services over entire speed
range
with quality at least as good as UTRAN

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Spectrum issues

Spectrum flexibility
E-UTRA to operate in 1.25, 1.6, 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz
allocationshence allowing different possibilities for refarming already in use spectrum
uplink and downlink
paired and unpaired
Co-existence
with GERAN/3G on adjacent channels
with other operators on adjacent channels
with overlapping or adjacent spectrum at
country borders
Handover with UTRAN and GERAN
Handover with non 3GPP Technologies (CDMA 2000,
WiFi, WiMAX)

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Network Architecture
TE
R

MSC

GERAN

MT

HLR/AuC*
HSS*

EIR

SMS-GMSC
SMS-IWMSC

SMS-SC

Um
Gb, Iu

Rx+ (Rx/Gq)

Gr

Gf

Gs

Iu
TE

MT
R

Gn

Ga

Billing
System*

SGSN
UE

BM-SC

Gi

Gn/Gp

Uu

Gx+ (Go/Gx)
Gmb

Gc

GGSN

SGSN

UTRAN

AF

PCRF
Gd

Ga

Gi

PDN

Mb

Gy

IMSMGW

Mb
MRFP

OCS*

Wi

CGF*

Gm

IMS
P-CSCF

CSCF
Mw

CDF
Wf Wf

Intranet/
Internet
Wa
WLAN
UE

Wa

WLAN Access
Network
Ww

3GPP AAA
Proxy

WAG
Wn

D/Gr
Wd

Wg
Wp

Dx

Cx

HLR/
AuC*

HSS*

SLF

Wx
Dw
3GPP AAA
Server
Wm

Wo Wy

PDG
Wz

Wu
Traffic and signaling
Signaling

OCS*

CGF*

Billing
System*

**

Note: * Elements duplicated for picture

layout purposes only, they belong to the
same logical entity in the architecture
baseline.
** is a reference point currently missing

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MME and UPE have been split in two entities at
the last SA
GERAN

Gb
Iu

GPRS Core

SGSN

PCRF

UTRAN
S3

S4
S6
S5a

Evolved RAN

Rx+

S7

S1

Op.
IP

S5b

MME

3GPP

UPE

Anchor

SGi

SAE

Serv.
(IMS,

Anchor

PSS,

S2b

IASA

Evolved
Packet Core

HSS

etc)
S2a

Trusted non 3GPP IP

Access

ePDG

WLAN
3GPP IP
Access

WLAN
Access NW

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The access network

Generality
The access network is simplified and
reduce to only the Base Station called
eNode B
Physical layer is based on SC FDMA for the
Uplink and OFDMA for the Downlink
Two modes FDD and TDD considered
MBMS part of the study
Ciphering is handled within the eNode B

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Physical Layer
Overview
Layer 3

Layer 1

C o n tro l / M ea su re m e n ts

Layer 2

Radio Resource Control (RRC)

Logical channels
Medium
(MAC)

Access

Control
Transport channels

Physical layer

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Physical layer details
The Layer 1 is defined in a bandwidth agnostic way,
allowing the LTE Layer 1 to adapt to various spectrum
allocations.
The generic radio frame for FDD and TDD has a duration
of 10ms and consists of 20 slots with a slot duration of
0.5ms. Two adjacent slots form one sub-frame of length
1ms. A resource block spans either 12 sub-carriers with
a sub-carrier bandwidth of 15kHz or 24 sub-carriers with
a sub-carrier bandwidth of 7.5kHz each over a slot
duration of 0.5ms.
An additional framing is defined for TDD owing
backward compatibility with TD SCDMA

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Physical Layer details (continued)
The physical channels defined in the downlink are the
Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), the
Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and the
Common Control Physical Channel (CCPCH). The
physical channels defined in the uplink are the Physical
Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and the Physical Uplink
Control Channel (PUCCH).
In addition, signals are defined as reference signals,
primary and secondary synchronization signals or
random access preambles.
The modulation schemes supported in the downlink are
QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM, and in the uplink QPSK,
16QAM and 64QAM. The Broadcast channel use only
QPSK
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Physical Layer (Continued)
The channel coding scheme for transport
blocks in LTE is Turbo Coding with a coding
rate of R=1/3, two 8-state constituent encoders
and a contention-free quadratic permutation
polynomial (QPP) turbo code internal
interleaver. Trellis termination is used for the
turbo coding. Before the turbo coding,
transport blocks are segmented into byte
aligned segments with a maximum information
block size of 6144 bits. Error detection is
supported by the use of 24 bit CRC.
Coexistence scenarios have been already done
for the downlink and result can be found in TR
36.942
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Physical Layer (Continued)
The generic frame structure is applicable to
both FDD and TDD. Each radio frame is long
and consists of 20 slots of length Tslot= 15360
x Ti = 0,5 ms, numbered from 0 to 19. A subframe is defined as two consecutive slots
where sub-frame consists of slots and of 20
slots of length , numbered from 0 to 19. The
structure of each half-frame in a radio frame is
identical. A sub-frame is defined as two
consecutive slots where sub-frame consists
of slots 2i and 2i+1

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Layer 2 and above over the radio interface
Overall architecture

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Layer 2 and above over the radio interface
The eNode B hosts the following functions:
Functions for Radio Resource Management:

Radio Bearer Control,

Radio Admission Control,
Connection Mobility Control,
Dynamic allocation of resources to UEs in both uplink and
downlink (scheduling);

IP header compression and encryption of user data

stream;
Selection of an MME at UE attachment;

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Layer 2 and above over the radio interface

: Layer 2 Structure at the eNode B

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Layer 2 and above over the radio interface

For the UE two states are considered

RRC_IDLE where:
UE specific DRX configured by NAS;
Broadcast of system information;
Paging;
Cell re-selection mobility;
The UE shall have been allocated an id which uniquely identifies the UE
in a tracking area;

- No RRC context stored in the eNode B .

RRC_CONNECTED where:
UE has an E-UTRAN-RRC connection;
UE has context in E-UTRAN;
E-UTRAN knows the cell which the UE belongs to;
Network can transmit and/or receive data to/from UE;
Network controlled mobility (handover);
Neighbour cell measurements;
- At PDCP/RLC/MAC level:
- UE can transmit and/or receive data to/from network;
- UE monitors control signalling channel for shared data channel to see if any
transmission over the shared data channel has been allocated to the UE;
- UE also reports channel quality information and feedback information to eNode B;
- DRX/DTX period can be configured according to UE activity level for UE power
saving and efficient resource utilization. This is under control of the eNode B

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Interface towards the Core network

Generalities
Two interfaces:
S1 for the Control plane
X1 for the User plane (new)

Additional interface in between eNode Bs: X2

Including both Control and User plane

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Interface towards the Core network

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Interface towards the Core network

S1 Interface Control Plane (eNB-MME)

For the X1 interface Still under investigation

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eNode B X2 Interface
This interfaces allows inter-eNode B handover

X2 Interface Control Plane

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Conclusion

Lot of progress made recently are not

incorporated in this presentation based on
material agreed at TSG RAN plenary in
March
However the timescale for completion of
the specification is still foreseen to be in
September 2007
All documentation referred to is available
At :

http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs
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Thanks for your attention

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Annex

Structure of the documentation for the

physical layer specification

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