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DISCLAIMER

This document is a training document and contains

simplifications. Therefore, it must not be considered as a
specification of the system.

The contents of this document are subject to revision without

notice due to ongoing progress in methodology, design and

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Ericsson shall have no liability for any error or damage of any
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This document is not intended to replace the technical

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This document was produced by Ericsson.

The document is to be used for training purposes only and it is

strictly prohibited to copy, reproduce, disclose or distribute it in any
manner without the express written consent from Ericsson.

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CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION
1 What are the three use cases 3GPP focuses on in Rel 15?

a) Enhanced Mobile Broadband

b) Vehicle to Vehicle communication

c) Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication

d) Device to Device communication

e) Integrated Access Backhaul

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3 3GPP Release 15 adresses the (choose 3):

a) LTE evolution

b) NR phase 1

c) NR phase 2

d) SA NR

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CHAPTER 2 – GENERAL PHYSICAL LAYER PROCEDURES

1 What are the benefits with a flexible numerology? (choose 2)

a) Higher throughput

b) Possible to combat phase noise at higher frequencies

c) Possible to have larger cells at lower frequencies

d) We do not need SC-FDMA

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2 Which physical channels and signals are missing in NR compared
to LTE? Can you explain why and how it is replaced?

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f) PCFICH – Self contained tx since NR uses BWPs, RRC

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configures CORESET
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DL UL

PCCH BCCH MCCH MTCH CCCH DTCH DCCH CCCH DTCH DCCH

Logical
Channels

MIB SIBs

Transport
Channels

UL-SCH RACH
PCH BCH MCH DL-SCH

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PSS SSS PTRS DMRS DMRS CSI-RS SRS PTRS DMRS DMRS PRACH
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3 What defines the NR Cell?

a) The system info for that cell

b) The MIB

c) The SS/PBCH block

d) The DMRS for that cell

4 Why do we need a numerology with higher sub-carrier

bandwidth at higher carrier frequencies? (choose 2)

a) To reduce the impact of ISI

b) To avoid an excessive number of subcarriers in the IFFT/FFT

c) To reduce the impact of phase noise

d) To increase the data rate

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5 What are the possible benefits with a higher sub-carrier

bandwidth? (choose 4)

a) We may get higher spectrum efficiency

b) Shorter latency

c) More frequent channel estimations with DMRS

d) Less impacted by phase noise

e) Not an excessive size of the IFFT/FFT at high bandwidths

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d) Has a duration that varies with the numerology

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7 A slot (choose 2)

a) Consists of 14 OFDM symbols (normal CP)

b) Consists of 7 OFDM symbols (normal CP)

c) Has a duration of 0.5 ms, regardless of numerology

d) Has a duration that varies with the numerology

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8 A subframe with SCS 30 kHz and normal CP consists of (choose

all that apply)

a) One slot

b) Two slots

c) Four slots

d) 14 OFDM symbols

e) 28 OFDM symbols

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f) 12 OFDM symbols

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d) Can have different numerologies in the same cell

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10 How can we reduce the latency? (choose all that apply)

a) Mini-slots

b) Larger subcarrier spacing

c) Fast HARQ

d) Short PUCCH

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CHAPTER 3 – PHYSICAL LAYER PROCEDURES FOR CONTROL

1 An SS/PBCH block contains (choose all that apply)

a) SIB1

b) MIB

c) PBCH

d) PSS

e) SSS

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f) 240 subcarriers in total

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3 What is true about control resource sets? (choose 3)

a) A control resource set contains a set of RBGs which may be

contiguous or not

b) A control resource set can span only one symbol

c) A PDCCH is located within one control resource set

d) One CORESET contains all PDCCHs in the cell

e) Contains search spaces of 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 CCEs

f) Carries the SS/PBCH block

g) Spans the whole cell bandwidth

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4 PDSCH scheduling uses

a) DCI 0_0 or DCI 0_1

b) DCI 1_0 or 1_1

c) DCI 2_0 or DCI 2_1

d) DCI 2_2 or DCI 2_3

5 Which of the following are the two short PUCCH formats?

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a) PDSCH, SSB and DMRS

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b) SIB1
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c) PUSCH, PUCCH and SRS

d) Only PUSCH and PUCCH

7 What can Type0-PDCCH Common Search Space be used for?

a) Scheduling of OSI

b) Scheduling groups of Ues

c) Scheduling of RAR

d) Scheduling of System Information SIB1

e) Scheduling of paging message

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8 What can Type0A-PDCCH Common Search Space be used for?

a) Scheduling of OSI

b) Scheduling groups of Ues

c) Scheduling of RAR

d) Scheduling of System Information SIB1

e) Scheduling of paging message

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9 What can Type1-PDCCH Common Search Space be used for?

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f. Scheduling of OSI

g. Scheduling groups of Ues

h. Scheduling of RAR

i. Scheduling of System Information SIB1

j. Scheduling of paging message

11 What can Type3-PDCCH Common Search Space be used for?

a) Scheduling of OSI

b) Scheduling groups of UEs

c) Scheduling of RAR

d) Scheduling of System Information SIB1

e) Scheduling of paging message

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12 Describe shortly what each information element is used for.

The following information is transmitted by means of the DCI

format 0_0:

1 bit DCI format (=0) Indication of UL scheduling

N bits frequency domain resource assignment RB allocation

4 bits time domain resource assignment Indication of K2 and

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SLIV in table

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1 bit for New data indicator “HARQ ACK”
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4 bits HARQ process number Asynchronous HARQ

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2 bits TPC command for PUSCH UL PC

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1 bit UL/SUL indicator Supplementary UL

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…padding bits (if required)

13 Describe shortly what the additional information elements are

used for

The following information is transmitted by means of the DCI

format 0_1 in addition to DCI 0_0:

0 or 3 bits carrier indicator CA

0-2 bits BWP indicator Bandwidth Parts

1 or 2 bits first DL assignment index for semi-static and dynamic

HARQ-ACK codebook, respectively Codebook HARQ DL feedback
cDAI, tDAI

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0 or 2 bits second DL assignment index for dynamic HARQ-ACK

codebook (2bits, 0 otherwise) Support for dynamic HARQ
codebooks in UL (tDAI)

X bits SRS resource indicator UL beamforming SRI

0-6 bits precoding info and number of TPMI, TRI

2-5 bits antenna ports Indicating of antenna ports to use

2 bits SRS request Poll for SRS tx for BF

0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 bits CBG tx info (CBGTI) Code Block Group tx

information

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1 bit DCI format (=1) Indication of DL scheduling

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4 bits time domain resource assignment Indication of K0 start

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and length in symbols

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1 bit VRB to PRB mapping Interleaved VRBs or not

2 bits DL assignment index DAI

3 bits PUCCH resource indicator PUCCH mapping

3 bits PDSCH-to-HARQ feedback timing indicator Timing K1

between PDSCH reception and ACK/NACK

15 Describe shortly the information elements

The following information is transmitted by means of the DCI

format 1_1 in addition to DCI 1_0:

0-2 bits ZP CSI-RS trigger CSI-IM interference measurement

0, 2 or 4 bits DL assignment index cDAI, tDAI

0 or 3 bits TCI Transmission Control Indicator for UE Rx beams

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0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 bits CBG tx info (CBGTI) Code Block Group tx info

0-1 bits CBG flushing out info (CBGFI) Code Block Group
flushing of soft buffer info

16 The logfile extract shows the common configuration of the NR

leg being added for a UE.

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Based on it and using the SLIV table provided , answer:

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a) How many CORESETs and Search Spaces are

configured? 1 CORESET (controlResourceSetId 1)
and 1 Search Space (searchSpaceId 1)

b) How many CCEs (Groups of 6 RBs) does this

CORESET occupy? 8 CCEs (first 8 RB groups in BWP
given by the first eight bits).

c) How many symbols are assigned to this CORESET? 1

symbol

d) How often does UE monitor PDCCH? Every 1 slot (sl1

and no offset)

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CHAPTER 4 – PHYSICAL LAYER PROCEDURES FOR DATA

1 What is scheduling Type A?

a) Scheduling of transmissions with duration (“TTI”) =

slot duration

b) Scheduling of transmissions with duration (“TTI”) <

slot duration

c) Scheduling with Round-Robin

d) Semi-persistent scheduling

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3 What is DMRS Type A?

a) DMRS used for type A transmissions

b) DMRS used for type B transmissions

c) DMRS used with up to 12 ports

d) DMRS using more than one OFDM symbol per slot

4 What is DMRS Type B?

a) DMRS used for type A transmissions

b) DMRS used for type B transmissions

c) DMRS used with up to 12 ports

d) DMRS using more than one OFDM symbol per slot

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5 What is DMRS Type 2?

a) DMRS used for slot-based transmissions

b) DMRS used for non slot-based transmissions

c) DMRS used with up to 12 ports

d) DMRS using more than one OFDM symbol per slot

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6 What is resource type allocation Type 0?

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7 What is resource type allocation Type 1?

a) A frequency domain allocation method, using start

and length indication (RIV)

b) A frequency domain allocation method, using bitmap

indication

c) A time domain allocation method, using start and

length indication

d) A time domain allocation method, using bitmap (RIV)

indication

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8 The resource allocation in the frequency domain in NR

a) Uses RIVs or bitmaps allocation very similar to LTE

b) Uses K0, K1 and K2 parameters to allow for allocation

flexibility

c) Uses SLIV to control allocation on symbol level

d) Is configured only in lower layers (not RRC)

9 The resource allocation in the time domain in NR (choose 2)

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10 Determine Mapping type (Type A or B), K0, S, L and SLIV:

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11 Determine Mapping type (Type A or B), K0, S, L and SLIV:

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13 PTRS is used for

a) Cell search procedure

b) Coherent demodulation

c) Phase noise compensation

d) DL channel estimations

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DM-RS

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symbols
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Example: PT-RS occur every 2 PRB and every symbol

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a) Cell search procedure

b) Coherent demodulation

c) Phase noise compensation

d) DL channel estimations

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15 SS/PBCH is used for

a) Cell search procedure

b) Coherent demodulation

c) Phase noise compensation

d) DL channel estimations

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17 Which reference signals are beamformed together with (on the

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same antenna ports as) the user data?

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a) CSI-RS
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b) DMRS

c) PTRS

d) CRS

18 Which numerology and DMRS Type A mapping should be chosen

if the max UE speed is 40 m/s in an urban radio channel at 28
GHz? The radio channel can be assumed coherent within a
quarter of a wavelength.

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Solution: Wavelength is 1,07 cm, so around 2.7 mm (quarter of a

wavelength) is a safe movement between DMRSs. At 40 m/s, 2.7
mm is covered in 67 μs, so the DMRS periodicity should be
shorter than that.

-> 28 GHz is hi-band so 120kHz numerology and at least two

DMRS per slot should be chosen.

19 What is HARQ Codebook Type 2?

a) Synchronous HARQ

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b) Asynchronous HARQ
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c) More than four MIMO layers

d) Adaptive HARQ

e) Code Block Group based retransmissions

f) Carrier Aggregation

g) TDD UL/DL pattern

h) LDPC

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CHAPTER 5 – Massive MIMO

1 Massive MIMO is per definition

a) MIMO with more layers

b) MIMO with more antenna ports

c) MIMO with MU-MIMO

d) MIMO with both MU- and SU-MIMO

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the tx and the UE knows it

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b) When a precoder codebook is defined

c) When the transmitter uses a codebook known or unknown by

the UE

d) When the receiver uses a codebook known or unknown by the

transmitter

4 What is a DL non-codebook based transmission?

a) When the UE has measured the same precoder as is used for

the tx and the UE knows it

b) When a precoder codebook is defined

c) When the transmitter uses a precoder unknown by the

receiver

d) When the receiver uses a codebook unknown by the

transmitter

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5 Why is Beam Management needed?

a) Massive MIMO requires it due to the large number of

antenna ports and beams

b) DBF requires it due to multiple beams in the same

symbol

c) ABF requires it due to that only one (few) beam per

symbol can be used

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d) Mobility between nodes and beams require it

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7 Initial beam selection (p1) is based on (select two)

a) CSI-RS

b) SS/PBCH blocks

c) PTRS

d) PRACH

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8 Beam refinement (p2) is based on

a) CSI-RS

b) SS/PBCH blocks

c) PTRS

d) PRACH

9 UE Rx beam refinement (p3) is typically based on

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b) Spatial relation
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c) Beam correspondence
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d) Beam sweeping

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