Overview

UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication

System)
the third generation mobile communication
systems

WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple

Access)
the main third generation air interface in the
world
deployment has been started in Europe and
Asia, including Japan and Korea, in the same
frequency band, around 2 GHz
WCDMA was deployed also in the USA in the
US frequency bands

Chapter 1 Introduction
3G air interfaces
spectrum allocation
time schedule
main differences from 2G air interfaces
Chapter 2 UMTS Services and Applications
example UMTS applications
concept phones
Quality of Service (QoS) classes

Chapter 3 Introduction to WCDMA

principles of the WCDMA air interface,
including
spreading
Rake receiver
power control
handovers

Rake receiver
1. a radio receiver designed to counter the effects
of multipath fading
uses several "sub-receivers" each delayed
slightly in order to tune in to the individual
multipath components
each component is decoded independently,
but at a later stage combined in order to make
the most use of the different transmission
characteristics of each transmission path

2.

the digital section of a CDMA receiver which

permits the phone (or cell) to separate out the
relevant signal from all the other signals
is capable of receiving multiple signal
sources and adding them together using
multiple fingers
Rake receivers are common in a wide variety
of radio devices including mobile phones
and wireless LAN equipment

Digitized input samples

Code generators and correlator

received from RF (Radio Frequency) front-end circuitry

in the form of I and Q branches
perform the despreading and integration to user data
symbols

Channel estimator and phase rotator

channel estimator uses the pilot symbols for estimating

the channel state which will then be removed by the
phase rotator from the received symbols

Delay equliser

the delay is compensated for the difference in the arrival

times of the symbols in each finger

Rake combiner

sums the channel compensated symbols, thereby

providing multipath diversity against fading

Matched filter

used for determining and updating the current multipath

delay profile of the channel
this measured and possibly averaged multipath delay
profile is then used to assign the Rake fingers to the
largest peaks

Chapter 4 Background and Standardization of

WCDMA
background to WCDMA
global harmonization process and
standardization

Chapters 57 give a detailed presentation of the

WCDMA standard
Chapter 5 Radio Access Network Architecture
the architecture of the radio access network
(RAN)
the interfaces within the radio access network
(RAN) between base stations and radio network
controllers (RNC)
the interface between radio access network
(RAN) and core network (CN)

Chapter 6 Physical Layer

the physical layer (Layer 1), including
spreading
modulation
user data and signaling transmission
the main physical layer procedures of power
control

paging
transmission diversity and handover
measurements

Chapter 7 Radio Interface Protocols

the radio interface protocols
consisting of the data link layer (Layer 2) and
the network layer (Layer 3)

Chapters 812 cover the utilization of the standard

and its performance
Chapter 8 Radio Network Planning
the guidelines for radio network dimensioning
gives an example of detailed capacity and
coverage planning
covers GSM co-planning

WCDMA radio network dimensioning

a process through which possible configurations
and the amount of network equipment are
estimated, based on the operators requirements

Dimensioning activities include

radio link budget
coverage analysis
capacity estimation

estimations on the amount of

sites
base station hardware
radio network controllers (RNC)
equipment at different interfaces
core network elements (i.e. Circuit Switched
Domain and Packet Switched Domain Core
Networks)

Chapter 9 Radio Resource Management

the radio resource management algorithms that
guarantee the efficient utilization of the air
interface resources and the quality of service
algorithms
power control
handover control
admission control
load control

Chapter 10 Packet Scheduling

packet access and the performance of packet
protocols of WCDMA
Chapter 11 High-speed Downlink Packet Access
the significant Release 5 feature
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
and its performance

Chapter 12 Physical Layer Performance

the coverage and capacity of the WCDMA air
interface with bit rates up to 2 Mbps
Chapter 13 UTRA TDD Modes
the time division duplex (TDD) mode of the
WCDMA air interface and its differences from
the frequency division duplex (FDD) mode

Chapter 14 cdma2000
in addition to WCDMA, 3G services can also be
provided with EDGE or with multicarrier
CDMA
EDGE is the evolution of GSM for high data
rates within the GSM carrier spacing
multicarrier CDMA is the evolution of IS-95 for
high data rates using three IS-95 carriers

Carrier
a carrier wave, or carrier is a waveform (usually
sinusoidal) that is modulated (modified) to
represent the information to be transmitted
this carrier wave is usually of much higher
frequency than the baseband modulating signal
(the signal which contains the information)