TD-LTE vs.

LTE FDD

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V1.0 2009-10-28 Eric Lou Technical comparison overview for

medium-high-level technical
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 Comparison on Architecture

 Comparison on Details
LTE Structure
MME / S-GW MME / S-GW

 Mobility Management
EPC  Serving Gateway

S1  Interface between
EPS MME/SGW & eNodeB
eNodeB
RNC
E- Node B eNodeB
X2 X2
UTRAN
X2
eNodeB eNodeB
+ =

 Interface between
eNodeBs
 Only one Node in E-UTRAN – eNodeB  Flexible band width
 Evolved Packet Core – EPC  Higher spectrum efficiency
 Evolved Packet System – EPS  High peak rate, Lower latency
LTE/SAE Protocol Structure
MME

UE eNB NAS

S1AP
NAS
APP SCTP
RRC RRC S1AP X2AP
IP
PDCP PDCP SCTP

RLC RLC IP
SGW
MAC MAC GTPU
GTPU
PHY PHY UDP
UDP

IP

Signaling

Data stream

 Only part of physical layer and part of MAC layer are

different between TD-LTE and LTE FDD
 Comparison on Architecture

 Comparison on Details
Same Features
Item TD-LTE LTE FDD

Channel bandwidth 1.4M, 3M, 5M, 10M, 15M, 20M same

UL: SC-FDMA, 15kHz sub- carrier

spacing
Multiple Access same
DL: OFDM, 7.5/15kHz sub-carrier
spacing

Coding Convolution code, Turbo code same

Modulation QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM same

4.7/5.2us (normal CP),

Cyclic prefix length 16.7us (extended CP), same
33.3us (extended CP 7.5kHz)
2*0.5ms slots per sub frame
Slots/per sub frame
7 symbols per slot (normal) same
Symbols/per slot
6 symbols per slot (extended)
Open-loop and closed-loop, same
Power control same
procedure with LTE FDD

MIMO multi-antenna supported same

Different Features (1)

Item TD-LTE LTE FDD

Duplex TDD FDD

Frame Structure Type Type 2 Type 1

Sub-frame DL/UL
Multiple sub-frame DL/UL configuration for All DL sub-frames or all UL sub-frames
configuration
radio frame for radio frame

Position of PSS and SSS is different Position of PSS and SSS is different
Synchronization
With LTE FDD With TD-LTE

HARQ process number and delay

HARQ process number and delay are
HARQ depending on UL/DL Sub-frame
fixed
configuration
Different Features(2)
Item TD-LTE LTE FDD

Depending on UL/DL sub-frame

Scheduling period 1ms
configuration, minimum 1ms

Reciprocity property between uplink and No reciprocity property between uplink

Multi-antenna beam forming
downlink can be utilized and downlink

5 formats in which 4 formats are same with

LTE FDD, another short preamble -
Preamble Format 4 is particular for TD-
4 formats supported; only one PRACH
Random access preamble LTE; multiple PRACH channels may be in
channel can be in frequency domain
frequency domain; producing method of
Preamble Format 4 is different with other
formats.
P-SCH locates on the third symbols of
DwPTS; S-SCH locates on the last symbol Time slot #0 and #10 respectively send
of the previous timeslot of DwPTS; a pair of P-SCH and S-SCH, which
Cell search
Sending once each 5ms. Cell ID got from locate on the last two symbols of the
P-SCH and S-SCH, then cell broadcast time slots
information can be got by UE
Performance Comparison
Item TD-LTE LTE FDD

Coverage same same

DL:
20MHz, 2*2MIMO, 64QAM
Peak rate Depending on UL/DL 172.8Mbps
(theoretical value) configuration UL:
20MHz, SIMO, 16QAM
57.6Mbps

Latency
Average RTT: Around 10ms Average RTT: Around 10ms
(actual measurement)

Note: RTT: round trip time means the time between UE and eNodeB
TD-LTE Cell Peak Rate
-- DL 2*2 MIMO 64QAM / UL SIMO 16 QAM / 20MHz

Special
DL Sub UL Sub DwPTS
Sub
UL/DL Frame Frame Symbol Cell DL Cell UL
Frame
DL Max UL Max Sub Number Number in a RB Peak Peak
Number
TBS TBS Frame in a in a Special Number Rate Rate
in a
Conf. Radio Radio Sub (Mbps) (Mbps)
Radio
Frame Frame Frame
Frame
149776 43816 1DL:3UL 2 6 2 10 100 47.072 26.290
149776 43816 2DL:2UL 4 4 2 10 100 77.028 17.526
149776 43816 3DL:1UL 6 2 2 10 100 106.983 8.763
149776 43816 6DL:3UL 6 3 1 10 100 98.424 13.145
149776 43816 7DL:2UL 7 2 1 10 100 113.402 8.763
149776 43816 8DL:1UL 8 1 1 10 100 128.379 4.382
149776 43816 3DL:5UL 3 5 2 10 100 62.050 21.908
Duplex
TDD
 Time is used to separate receiving and
transmitting channels. Time is allocated
on bi-direction, base station and UE have
to coordinate to work
FDD
 Frequency is used to separate receiving
and transmitting channels. Different
frequencies are allocated separately to
UL and DL

Guard
Period

DL UL DL time UL/DL time

Isolation Band

frequency UL DL frequency
UL/DL Duplex filter
Radio Frame Structure-type 1 for FDD

One radio frame Tf = 307200 TS = 10 ms

One slot Tslot=15360×TS=0.5ms

#0 #1 #2 …… …… #17 #18 #19

One subframe

 One radio frame of 10ms is separated to 10 sub-frame

 One sub-frame is composed of 2 slots, and each slot is 0.5ms
 Ts=1/(15000*2048) is the basic time unit
Radio Frame Structure-type 2 for TDD
One radio frame Tf = 307200 Ts = 10 ms

One half-frame 153600 TS =

5 ms

One slot
Tslot=15360TS
30720TS

Subframe #0 … Subframe #4 Subframe #5 … Subframe #9

One One
subframe subframe
DwPTS UpPTS DwPTS UpPTS
GP GP

 Subframes are configured as downlink subframes or uplink subframes

 Subframe 0 and DwPTS are always used for downlink
 Switch period can support 5ms and 10ms.
Synchronization

 In TD-LTE and FDD frame, the location of

synchronization signal is different
 According to the difference of relative position of PSS
and SSS, terminals can identify TDD or FDD during cell
search
Efficiency Improvement for TD-LTE
DL/UL Flexible configuration
 FDD only supports 1:1 DL/UL configuration
 TDD can adjust UL/DL time configuration to meet asymmetric services according different service types

Period UL/DL configuration

5 ms 1DL:3UL, 2DL:2UL, 3DL:1UL
10 ms 6DL:3UL, 7DL:2UL, 8DL:1UL, 3DL:5UL

Special timeslot Utilization

 To save overhead, TD-LTE allows to utilize DwPTS and UpPTS to transit system control information
 Guard period length can be flexibly configured, which enable different coverage distance

Multi-sub-frame schedule/feedback
 In TDD, when DL is more than UL, one UL sub-frame can feed back multiple DL sub-frames; TD-LTE
proposes: multi-ACK/NAK, ACK/NAK bundling, etc.
 When UL is more than DL, one DL sub-frame can schedule multiple UL sub-frames
 It can effectively reduce communication latency.
TD-LTE Multi-Antenna Technology

 Smart antenna with 8-antenna array can flexibly

support different multi-antenna solutions, such as:
Solution1: 8-antenna Beam forming; Solution2: 2*2
MIMO; Solution3: 4*2 MIMO; Solution4: adaptive
MIMO/Beam forming
 Adaptive MIMO/BF solution can ensure the higher
cell spectrum efficiency according ZTE simulation

Cell spectrum efficiency based on different multi-

antenna solutions

 Miniaturized smart antenna originated by ZTE Traditional 8-path Miniaturized 8-path

Smart antenna Smart antenna
weight < 10kg, width < 31cm
Easy installation
ZTE 8-path RRU
weight < 16.5kg, volume < 18.4L
 Miniaturized smart antenna and RRU with lower space
requirements will enable LTE TDD easily share the
existing GSM/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA site resources.