RL 20 Trial overview

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General
Project Phase

P8
RL20 Demo + Barcelona

C5.1
RL10 + 1800MHz, 15 MHz, MOCN, S1 flex
QPT (B12/2010) Sales Trial(s)

CP (M01/2011)
Pilot projects

Early Projects

Release Trial(s)

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Testing Schedule (Pilot, EP and Trials)
CP JAN FEB MARCH C5 APRIL MAY JUNE P8 JULY

Pilot Projects
Telia Sonera SW / DK/ Fi Telia DK / Fi

DTAG (800MHz)

DTAG (1.8/2.6 GHz) RFP 1st August 

Early Projects
LG U+ 
LG U+
SKT 
Elisa Fi

TEF O2 (800 MHz)

Lightsquared 
RL20 Trials (BL lead, BL supported, Region alone)
Optus
Verizon

US Cellular / AMX Mexico TMO US

CUC CUC

TMO Croatia VDF Italy

MTS Belarus

Smartone HK

Megafone

Indosat
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Physical channels and signals - recap

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Overview - Channels
Upper Layers

DL UL

RLC

MCCH

MTCH
CCCH
BCCH

PCCH

DTCH
DCCH

CCCH

DTCH

DCCH
Logical channels

MAC
DL-SCH

MCH

UL-SCH
BCH

PCH

RACH
Transport channels

PHY
PCFICH

PDCCH
PDSCH

PHICH

PMCH
PBCH

PUCCH
PRACH

PUSCH
Air interface

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Downlink Physical Signals and Channels

• Downlink Physical Signals

– Reference Signals
– Synchronisation Signals

• Downlink Physical Channels

– Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)
– Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)
– Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)
– Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH)
– Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH)
– Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH)

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Overview – Control Information
CQI, PMI, RI,
ACK/NACK CQI, PMI, RI,
ACK/NACK
SR

eNode B

DL control
configuration
1x per cell

RNTI
DL scheduling
UL Grant
UL PWRC
n x per cell

HARQ Info

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Resource Block
• Physical Resource Block or Resource Block (PRB or RB):
12 subcarriers in frequency domain (180kHz) x 1 slot period in time domain
(0.5ms)
Capacity allocation is based on Resource
Subcarrier 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Blocks
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
• Note: Although 3GPP definition of RB
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 refers to 0.5ms, in some cases it is
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
possible to found that RB refers to 12
180 KHz

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 subcarriers in frequency domain and 1ms

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 in time domain. In particular, since the
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 scheduler in the eNodeB works on TTI
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
basis (1ms) RBs are considered to last
1ms in time domain. They can also be
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
known as ‘scheduling resource blocks’
Subcarrier 12 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

1 slot 1 slot
Resource
1 ms subframe Element

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 Physical Layer Downlink Summary
DL-Physical Data & Control Channel
DL-Channel
DL-
Overview
Total System Bandwidth e.g. 10MHz (50 RBs)

Central 72 subcarriers (6 RBs)

Frequency
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 Reference Signals: OFDMA Channel Estimation

• Channel estimation in LTE is based on reference signals (like CPICH functionality

in WCDMA)
• Reference signals position in time domain is fixed (0 and 4 for Type 1 Frame)
whereas in frequency domain it depends on the Cell ID
• In case more than one antenna is used (e.g. MIMO) the Resource elements
allocated to reference signals on one antenna are DTX on the other antennas
• Reference signals are modulated to identify the cell to which they belong.

0 symbols 6 0 symbols 6
subcarriers

subcarriers
Antenna 1 Antenna 2

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Synchronization Signals allocation (DL)

• Synchronization signals:

– Transmitted during the 1st and 11th slots

within a radio frame

– Occupy the central 62 Subcarriers (around

the DC subcarrier) to facilitate the cell
search

– 5 Subcarriers above and 5 Subcarriers

below the synch. Signals are reserved and
transmitted as DTx

– Synchronisation Signal can indicate 504

(168 x 3) CellID different values and from
those one can determine the location of
cell specific reference symbols

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Generic - Physical Layer Cell Id
• Physical Layer Cell Identity defines a cell, but it is not necessarily unique in the network
• It consists of the two parts; Physical layer Cell Identity Group and Physical layer Identity
• Physical Layer Cell Identity = 3 x Physical layer Cell Identity Group + Physical layer Identity
• Decoded during synchronisation using primary and secondary sync signal
• PSS/SSS are used for:
– Initial cell search and neighbor cell search
• As a result of cell search the UE should acquire:
– PHY cell ID
– DL center frequency Strongest Signal

– 10ms and 5ms timing

– CP length
– Duplex mode (TDD/FDD)
Cell ID Group 0
(3 L1 id’s) Primary
Synchronization Signal

L1 id, slot (0/10)

Cell ID Group i
168 Cell ID (3 L1 id’s)
groups

Secondary
Synchronisation Signal
Group 167

Phy L Cell ID
Physical Layer
Cell ID, Frame
Alignment

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DL Physical Channels Allocation
• PBCH:
– Occupies the central 72 subcarriers across 4
symbols
– Transmitted during second slot of each 10 ms
frame on all antennas RB
• PCFICH:
– Transmitted during the first symbol of each TTI
– Occupies up to 16 RE per TTI
• PHICH:
– Tx during 1st symbol of each TTI or alternativ during
symbols 1 to 3 of each TTI  PhichDur
– Each PHCIH group occupies 12 RE
• PDCCH:
– Occupies the REs not used by PCFICH and PHICH
and Reference Signals within the first 1, 2 or 3
symbols of each TTI (case 1.4 MHz: within the first 2,
3 or 4 symbols)
– In RL09/10: configuration static by
MaxNbrOfOFDMSymsForPDCCH
• PDSCH:
– Is allocated the RE not used by signals or other
physical channels
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UL Physical Channels

• PUSCH: Physical Uplink Shared Channel

– Intended for user data (carries traffic for multiple
UEs) and control data
CCCH DCCH DTCH Logical
– If control data is to be sent when traffic data is being
transmitted, UE multiplexes both streams together RLC

• PUCCH: Physical Uplink Control Channel

RACH Transport
– Carries H-ARQ Ack/Nack indications, uplink
scheduling request, CQIs and MIMO feedback UL-SCH MAC
– Only control information is sent. The UE uses
Resources Element at the edges of the channel
PHYS.
• PRACH: Physical Random Access Channel
– For Random Access attempts. PDCCH indicates the PRACH
PUSCH PUCCH
resource elements for PRACH use
– PBCH contains a list of allowed preambles (64 per
cell) and the required length of the preamble.

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UL Channels

The mapping of transport channels and UL control information (UCI) to physical

channels is a task of the physical layer (PHY). Furthermore reference signals are
provided by the physical layer which do not transfer any higher layer information.

Logical channel mapping is provided by the MAC layer.

Physical channel for data and signalling from higher layers:

• Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH.
• Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH.

Physical channels with UL control - related signalling:

• Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH.

and signals with no information of higher layers:

• Demodulation Reference Signals (DRS).
• Sounding Reference Signal (SRS).

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UE Channel state information (CSI) feedback types in LTE
• The purpose of CSI feedback is to provide
the eNodeB information about DL channel
state to help in the scheduling decision.
• Compared to the WCDMA/HSPA, the main
new feature in the channel feedback is the
frequency selectivity of the report
• CSI is measured by the UE and signaled to (1) eNodeB
the eNodeB using PUCCH or PUSCH transmission
• Channel state information in LTE can be
divided into three categories:
– CQI - Channel Quality Indicator (2) UE CSI
– RI - Rank Indicator measurement
(3) UE
– PMI - Precoding Matrix Indicator feedback
• In general the CSI reported by the UE is just a
recommendation
– The eNodeB does not need to follow it
• The corresponding procedure for providing
information about the UL channel state is
called Channel Sounding and it is done using
the Sounding Reference Symbols, SRS (not
considered in this presentation)

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PDCCH Uplink Grant
• The eNodeB allocates the Uplink resources to the UEs by sending an UL
Grant
UL Grant contents
•Resource Block assignment
–Indicates the PRB the UE may use for transmission
–Signaling format: index of starting PRB & number of contiguous PRBs
•Modulation and Coding Scheme and the Redundancy version (5 bits)
•Power control command (2 bits)
•Cyclic Shift for the demodulation reference symbols
•CQI request flag
•PUSCH Hopping flag
•New data indicator

TDD specific
•UL index (indicates which UL subframe the grant refers to)
•Downlink assignment index

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