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- LTE (E-UTRA) Essentials

LTE (E-UTRA) Air Interface Capabilities

Bandwidth support
โ€ข Flexible from 1.4 MHz to 20 MHz
Waveform
โ€ข OFDM in Downlink / SC-FDM in Uplink
Duplexing mode
โ€ข FDD: full-duplex (FD) and half-duplex (HD)
โ€ข TDD
Modulation orders for data channels
โ€ข Downlink: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
โ€ข Uplink: QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
MIMO support
โ€ข Downlink: SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO (SDMA)
โ€ข Uplink: SDMA

UE eNodeB Communication Link

Single (and same) link of communication for DL & UL
Effectively:
โ€ข DL serving cell = UL serving cell
โ€ข No UL or DL macro-diversity
โ€“ UL softer HO reception is an implementation choice
โ€“ UEโ€™s โ€œActive Setโ€ size = 1
โ€ข Hard-HO-based mobility
โ€“ RACH-based mobility procedure to target cell
โ€“ Network controlled by default
โ€“ UE initiated under RL failure condition
โ€ข Load indicator for inter-cell load control

โ€“ Transmitted over X2 interface

E-UTRA Air Interface Peak Data Rates

Downlink
โ€ข ~300 Mbps in 20 MHz
โ€ข Assumptions:
โ€“ 4 stream MIMO
โ€“ 14.29% Pilot overhead
(4 TX antennas)
โ€“ 10% common channel
overhead
๔€‚‹ Note that this overhead
level is adequate to serve
1 UE/subframe.
โ€“ 6.66% waveform overhead
(CP + window)
โ€“ 10% guard band
โ€“ 64QAM code rate ~1

Uplink
โ€ข ~75 Mbps in 20 MHz
โ€ข Assumptions:
โ€“ 1 TX antenna
โ€“ 14.3% Pilot overhead
โ€“ 0.625% random access
overhead
โ€“ 6.66% waveform overhead
(CP + window)
โ€“ 10% guard band
โ€“ 64QAM code rate ~1

Time Domain Organization

Radio Frame has two Structures:
โ€ข Type 1 (FS1) for FDD DL/UL
โ€ข Type 2 (FS2) for TDD

This presentation deals only with FS1










Time Domain Organization
Basic unit of time Ts, defined with relation to 20 MHz, 15 KHz inter-subcarrier separation and
2048 FFT size (36.211)
Ts = 1/(15e3*2048) = 32.55 ns ๔€ƒ† Number of samples in 10 ms is 10 ms/32.55 ns=307200
Tf = 307200Ts = 10 ms
Tslot = (307200/20)Ts = 15360Ts
๔€บ Half radio frame = 5 ms
โ€“ Contains one sync channel instance
โ€“ Tailoring efficient HO from GSM
๔€บ Radio frame = 10 ms
โ€“ Periodicity of sync channel
๔€บ PBCH TTI = 40 ms

โ€“ Periodicity of primary broadcast channel

Frequency Domain Organization

LTE DL/UL air interface waveforms use a number of orthogonal subcarriers to
send user traffic data, Reference Signals (Pilots), and Control Information.













Channel Bandwidth and Transmission Bandwidth
More information can be found in TS36.101.
๔€บ OFDM uses all the sub carriers for a single user, whereas OFDMA uses different sub carriers
for different users.
๔€บ There are different types of sub carriers: Data, Pilot, Control, Null, etc.
๔€บ There are two guard bands at the edges of the OFDM/OFDMA-signal (no RF transmission in
these sub carriers). Each guard band exists to avoid interference with adjacent bands.
๔€บ Taking into account the guard band sub carriers and the DC sub carrier, the number of
available sub carriers is as shown in the table.

UL/DL Resource Grid Definitions

Resource Element (RE)   
โ€ข One element in the time/frequency
resource grid
โ€“ One subcarrier in one OFDM/LFDM
symbol for DL/UL
Resource Block (RB)
โ€ข Minimum scheduling size for
DL/UL data channels
โ€ข Physical Resource Block (PRB)
โ€“ 180 kHz x 0.5 ms
๔€‚‹ 12 subcarriers x 1 slot for
15 kHz subcarrier spacing
๔€‚‹ 24 subcarriers x 1 slot for
7.5 kHz subcarrier spacing