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
註：
 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 p
ermits the phone (or cell) to separate out the rel
evant signal from all the other signals
 is capable of receiving multiple signal source

s and adding them together using multiple fi

ngers
 Rake receivers are common in a wide variety

of radio devices including mobile phones an

d wireless LAN equipment
 Digitized input samples
 received from RF (Radio Frequency) front-end circuitry
in the form of I and Q branches
 Code generators and correlator
 perform the despreading and integration to user data sy
mbols
 Channel estimator and phase rotator
 channel estimator uses the pilot symbols for estimating t
he channel state which will then be removed by the phas
e 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 providi
ng 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 pr
ofile is then used to assign the Rake fingers to the larges
t peaks
 Chapter 4 ： Background and Standardization of
WCDMA
 background to WCDMA

 global harmonization process and

standardization
 Chapters 5–7 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 8–12 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
註：
 WCDMA radio network dimensioning
 a process through which possible configurations

and the amount of network equipment are

estimated, based on the operator’s 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 CDM

A
 EDGE is the evolution of GSM for high data rat

es within the GSM carrier spacing

 multicarrier CDMA is the evolution of IS-95 for

high data rates using three IS-95 carriers

註：
 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)