LTE 4G 15EC81

Module 3.2
Downlink Transport Channel Processing:
Modulation processing, DL shared channel, DL
control channel processing, MIMO modes, HARQ
Modulation processing (Ref. Figure 7.1)
● Scrambling
● Modulation mapping
● Layer mapping
● Pre coding
● Resource mapping
● OFDM Signal generation.

The codeword is first scrambled. The bits in the block of scrambled codeword are
mapped into a block of complex modulation symbols. The next process include
layer mapping, precoding , resource mapping and finally OFDM signal generation.
Layer mapping
Block diagram figure 7.6

Each codeword (O/p of channel coding) is mapped into one or multiple layers and
then precoded.
DL shared channel
Block diagram: OFDMA signal gen. with N users Figure 7.8
Multi antenna transmission in DL shared channel
Supported in LTE

● Single antenna port 0

● TX diversity
● OL spatial mux.
● CL spatial mux.
● Single antenna port 5

Note: Antenna port is a logical entity which is associated with referense signal. Not
physical antenna.
DL Control channels
Channel for control information.
DCI formats , Channel encoding and modulation
Ref. Table 7.10,7.11

DCI channel coding and modulation

● 16 bit CRC
● Sramble CRC with RNTI
Broadcast channels
Process is similar

But MIB information is transfered

● 16:bit CRC
● Scramble CRC with scrambling sequence derived from eNodeb antenna
configuration. Table 7.16
DL Physical channels
Cell specific eference signals
Synchroniization signals
PSS ans SSS

● PSS identify symbol timing and cell id ind1

● SSS are used to detect cell group indx2
● Zadoff-chu sequence for PSS
● For SSS generation, two interleaved concatenation of length 31 binar
sequence.
HARQ in the DL
Type 1 chase combing and type 2 IR

Ref fig 7.16 LTE supports 8 HARQ Processes.

At Rx. : If received code block correspond to retransmission, the code block will be
combined with the previous version. Rx. send NACK if error is detected.

At Tx. : For each transmission, the same turbo encoded data is transmitted with
different puncturing. Each of these retransmissions has different puncturing/
different RV
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