WCDMA radio interface has three kinds of

channels

In terms of protocol layer, the WCDMA radio interface has three channels:
Physical channel, transport channel and logical channel.
Logical channel: Carrying user services directly. According to the types of the
carried services, it is divided into two types: Control channel and service
channel.
Transport channel: It is the interface of radio interface layer 2 and physical
layer, and is the service provided for MAC layer by the physical layer.
According to whether the information transported is dedicated information for a
user or common information for all users, it is divided into dedicated channel
and common channel.
Physical channel: It is the ultimate embodiment of all kinds of information when
they are transmitted on radio interfaces. Each kind of channel which uses
dedicated carrier frequency, code (spreading code and scramble) and carrier
phase (I or Q) can be regarded as a dedicated channel.
 Logical Channel
Dedicated traffic channel (DTCH)
Traffic channel
Common traffic channel (CTCH)

Broadcast control channel (BCCH)

Paging control channel (PCCH)
Control channel
Dedicate control channel (DCCH)
Common control channel (CCCH)
 Logical Channel
Dedicated traffic channel (DTCH)
Traffic channel
Common traffic channel (CTCH)

Broadcast control channel (BCCH)

Paging control channel (PCCH)
Control channel
Dedicate control channel (DCCH)
Common control channel (CCCH)
 Transport Channel
Dedicated Channel (DCH)
Dedicated transport
-DCH is an uplink or downlink channel channel

Broadcast channel (BCH)

Forward access channel (FACH)
Paging channel (PCH) Common transport
Random access channel (RACH) channel

High-speed downlink shared channel

(HS-DSCH)
 Physical Channel
A physical channel is defined by a specific carrier frequency,
code (scrambling code, spreading code) and relative phase.
In UMTS system, the different code (scrambling code or
spreading code) can distinguish the channels.
Most channels consist of radio frames and time slots, and
each radio frame consists of 15 time slots.
Two types of physical channel:UL and DL

Physical Channel

Frequency, Code, Phase

 Downlink Physical Channel
Downlink Dedicated Physical
Channel
(Downlink DPCH)

Downlink Common Physical Channel Downlink

Common Control Physical Channel Physical Channel
(CCPCH)
Synchronization Channel (SCH)
Paging Indicator Channel (PICH)
Acquisition Indicator Channel (AICH)
Common Pilot Channel (CPICH)
High-Speed Packet Downlink Shared
Channel (HS-PDSCH)
High-Speed Shared Control Channel
(HS-SCCH)
 Uplink Physical Channel

Uplink Dedicated Physical Channel

Uplink Dedicated Physical Data Channel
(Uplink DPDCH)
Uplink Dedicated Physical Control
Channel (Uplink DPCCH)
High-Speed Dedicated Physical Channel
(HS-DPCCH) Uplink Physical
Channel

Uplink Common Physical Channel

Physical Random Access Channel
(PRACH)
Function of physical channel
Cell broadcast channels
P-CPICH-Primary
P-CPICH-Primary Common Pilot Channel
S-CPICH-Secondary
S-CPICH-Secondary Common
Common Pilot
Pilot Channel

P-CCPCH-Primary
P-CCPCH-Primary Common Control Physical Channel
SCH-
SCH- Synchronisation
Synchronisation Channel
Channel
Paging channels
S-CCPCH-Secondary
S-CCPCH-Secondary Common
Common Control
Control Physical Channel

PICH-Paging
PICH-Paging Indicator
Indicator Channel
Channel

Random access channels

PRACH-Physical
PRACH-Physical Random Access Channel
Node B UE
AICH-Acquisition
AICH-Acquisition Indicator Channel

Dedicated channels
DPDCH-Dedicated
DPDCH-Dedicated Physical
Physical Data
Data Channel
Channel

DPCCH-Dedicated
DPCCH-Dedicated Physical
Physical Control
Control Channel
Channel
High speed downlink share channels
HS-SCCH-High
HS-SCCH-High Speed
Speed Share
Share Control
Control Channel
Channel

HS-PDSCH-High
HS-PDSCH-High Speed
Speed Physical
Physical Downlink
Downlink Share
Share Channel
Channel

HS-DPCCH-High
HS-DPCCH-High Speed
Speed Dedicated
Dedicated Physical Control Channel
 Mapping Between Channels
Logical channels Transport channels Physical channels

BCCH BCH P-CCPCH

FACH S-CCPCH

PCCH PCH S-CCPCH

CCCH RACH PRACH

FACH S-CCPCH

CTCH FACH S-CCPCH

DCCH, DTCH DCH DPDCH

HS-DSCH HS-PDSCH

RACH, FACH PRACH, S-CCPCH