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LTE System

Overview

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Contents

1. LTE System Overview

2. LTE Key Technologies

3. LTE Protocol and Channels

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Contents
1. LTE System Overview
1.1 LTE Standard Specifications

1.2 LTE Development

1.2 LTE Network Architecture

1.3 LTE Operating Bands and Channel Bandwidths

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LTE Standard Specifications
 Freely downloadable from
 http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/archive/36_series/

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Contents
1. LTE System Overview
1.1 LTE Standard Specifications

1.2 LTE Development

1.2 LTE Network Architecture

1.3 LTE Operating Bands and Channel Bandwidths

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HSPA & 3GPP release
Evolution

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LTE Architecture
3GPP Architecture

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HSPA & 3GPP release
Evolution

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Contents
1. LTE System Overview
1.1 LTE Development

1.2 LTE Network Architecture

1.3 LTE Operating Bands and Channel Bandwidths

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LTE Network Architecture
 E-UTRAN (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
Network)

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LTE/SAE Network Architecture -
cont.
SAE
SGSN
Gb EPS (Evolved Packet System)
Control plane
GPRS
Iu User plane
BTS BSC/PCU S3
S6d HSS PCRF

S10 S6a
S9
UMTS
MME Operator Service
NodeB RNC S4
S11 Gx
Network
S12
S1-MME
S5/8
E-UTRAN S1-U SGi
Internet
eNodeB Serving GW PDN GW

A10/A11
S2a Corporate
cdma2000 Internet
BTS
BSC PDSN

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Contents
1. LTE System Overview
1.1 LTE Development

1.2 LTE Network Architecture

1.3 LTE Operating Bands and Channel Bandwidths

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LTE Operating Bands
 LTE supports both FDD mode and TDD mode.
 3GPP defines many bands for LTE.

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LTE Channel Bandwidths

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1. LTE System Overview

2. LTE Key Technologies

3. LTE Protocol and Channels

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LTE Key Technologies

 OFDMA: Orthogonal frequency division multiple


access
 SC-FDMA: Single carrier-frequency division
multiple access
 MIMO: Multiple input multiple output
 64QAM

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Multiple access technology in the
downlink: OFDM and OFDMA (cont.)
 OFMDA incorporates elements of time division multiple
access (TDMA).

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Downlink OFDM Implementation

Add
s(t) S/P  IFFT  Cyclic  P/S Tx. filter: G T( )


Prefix

Transmitter
Channel: H( )


Channel
n(t)
Receiver
Remove
r(t) P/S  FFT  Cyclic  S/P Rx. filter: G T( )


Prefix

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Downlink OFDM Implementation
(cont.)

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Multiple access technology in the
downlink: OFDM and OFDMA
 OFDMA is used as multiple access technology in downlink.
OFDMA is a variant of orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM), a digital multi-carrier modulation scheme.
5 M H z B a n d w id th
FFT
S u b -c a rrie rs

G u a rd In te rv a ls

S y m b o ls

F requ ency


T im e
OFDM signal represented in frequency and time

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Multiple access technology in the
uplink: SC-FDMA
 The high peak-to-average ratio (PAR) associated with
OFDM led 3GPP to look for a different transmission
scheme for the LTE uplink.
 SC-FDMA is used in uplink as multiple access technology.

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Comparison of OFDMA and SC-FDMA

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MIMO overview

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LTE Multiple Antenna Scheme
 In downlink LTE can use 2*2 or higher order MIMO to
increase date rate.
 In uplink MU-MIMO (multi-user MIMO) can be used to
double uplink capacity.
 With MU-MIMO the uplink peak data rate of single user can not
be doubled.

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AMC & 64QAM
 AMC, Adaptive Modulation and Coding
 the radio-link data rate is controlled by adjusting the
modulation scheme and/or the channel coding rate
 DL/UL modulations: QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM

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Contents
1. LTE System Overview

2. LTE Key Technologies

3. LTE Protocol and Channels

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Contents
3. LTE Protocol Stacks and Channels
3.1 LTE Protocol Stacks

3.2 LTE Channels

3.3 LTE Radio Frame

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Functional Split between E-UTRAN
and EPC
eNB

Inter Cell RRM

RB Control

Connection Mobility Cont.


MME
Radio Admission Control
NAS Security
eNB Measurement
Configuration & Provision
Idle State Mobility
Handling
Dynamic Resource
Allocation (Scheduler)
EPS Bearer Control
RRC

PDCP
S-GW P-GW
RLC
Mobility UE IP address
MAC Anchoring allocation
S1
PHY Packet Filtering
internet

E-UTRAN EPC

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Radio Interface Protocol Architecture

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Radio Interface Protocol Architecture
(cont.)

UE eNB MME

NAS NAS

UE eNB RRC RRC

PDCP PDCP
PDCP PDCP

RLC RLC RLC RLC

MAC MAC MAC MAC

PHY PHY PHY PHY

User-plane protocol stack Control-plane protocol stack

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LTE Physical Channel
 DL
 Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH)
 Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH)
 Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH)
 Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH)
 Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)
 Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH)
 UL
 Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH)
 Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH)
 Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH)

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LTE Transport Channel
 Physical layer transport channels offer information transfer to
medium access control (MAC) and higher layers
 DL
 Broadcast Channel (BCH)
 Downlink Shared Channel (DL-SCH)
 Paging Channel (PCH)
 Multicast Channel (MCH)
 UL
 Uplink Shared Channel (UL-SCH)
 Random Access Channel (RACH)

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LTE Logical Channel
 Logical channels are offered by the MAC layer
 Control Channels: Control-plane information
 Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH)
 Paging Control Channel (PCCH)
 Dedicated Control Channel (DCCH)
 Multicast Control Channel (MCCH Dedicated Control Channel)
 Common Control Channel (CCCH)
 Traffic Channels: User-plane information
 Dedicated Traffic Channel (DTCH): transmission of all uplink and
non-MBMS downlink user data
 Multicast Traffic Channel (MTCH): transmission of MBMS services

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Channel Mappings

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Frame Structure

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Time-domain structure FDD

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Resource Grid

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Summary
 Standardization in the form of 3GPP Release 8
 Support for both FDD and TDD.
 Flexible spectrum allocation (1.4 ~ 20 MHz).
 IP-based flat network architecture
 Multicarrier-based radio air interface
 OFDMA and SC-FDMA
 Multi-input multi-output (MIMO)
 Adaptive modulation and coding
 DL modulations: QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM
 UL modulations: QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM
 ARQ within RLC sublayer and Hybrid ARQ within MAC sublayer

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