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HSPA & HSPA+

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Requirements of HSPA
• Data Rate
– Demand for higher peak data rates
• Delay
– Lower latency
• Capacity
– Better capacity and throughput
– Better spectrum efficiency
• Coverage
– Better coverage for higher data rate.

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Release 99 Down link Limitations

• Limited Peak Data Rate

• Capacity and Throughput

• Minimum TTI of 10 ms

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Features of HSDPA
• Extension of DSCH
• Adaptive modulation and coding
– QPSK and 16-QAM
– Multi coding transmission
– Fast feedback of channel condition
• Improve transmission efficiency
– Fast retransmission and Physical Layer HARQ
• Fast resource management
– Node B scheduling
• Reduce transmission latency
– 2 ms TTI
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New HSDPA Channels
Transport Channel
• High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH)

Physical Channels
• High Speed Shared Control Channel (HS-SCCH)

• High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel (HS-PDSCH)

• High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH)

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HS – DSCH

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HS - SCCH

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HS – SCCH Sub frame information
- Channelization-code-set information (7 bits)
– Modulation scheme information (1 bit)
– Transport-block size information (6 bits)
– Hybrid-ARQ process information (3 bits)
– Redundancy and constellation version (3 bits)
– New data indicator (1 bit)
– UE identity (16 bits)

One UE can receive up to 4 HS-SCCH channels.

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HS - DPCCH

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HSDPA Categories

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Release 99 Uplink Limitations
• Large Scheduling Delays
– Slow scheduling from RNC
• Large Latency
– Transmission Time Interval (TTI) durations of 10/20/40/80 ms
– RNC based retransmissions in case of errors
• Limited Uplink Data Rate
– Deployed peak data rate is 384 kbps

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Features of HSUPA

Maximum transmission rate of 5.76Mbps

QPSK modulation

No adaptive modulation

Multicode transmission

Spreading Factor either 2 or 4

10ms and 2ms TTI

Hybrid ARQ (HARQ)

Fast Packet Scheduling in the uplink

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HSUPA Operation

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New HSUPA Uplink Channels

• Enhanced Uplink Dedicated Channel (E-DCH)


• E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel (E-DPDCH)
• E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel (E-DPCCH)

New HSUPA Downlink Channels:


• E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (E-HICH)
• E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel (E-AGCH)
• E-DCH Relative Grant Channel (E-RGCH)

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E – DPDCH and E - DPCCH

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E-DPCCH Sub frame information


E-TFC - 7 bits

RSN – 2bits

Happy – 1 bit

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E – RGCH and E - HICH

SF - 128

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E – RGCH and E – HICH Slot information

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E - AGCH

SF - 256

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HSUPA Categories

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HSPA +

Evolved HSPA

Data rate
Downlink : 42 Mbps
Uplink : 11 Mbps

Modulation
Downlink : 64 QAM
Uplink : 16 QAM

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Main features of HSPA+

Higher order modulation

Multiple Input Multiple Output

Continuous packet connectivity

Layer -2 Enhancements

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Higher Order Modulation

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Multiple Antenna Techniques
Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA)

Spatial Multiplexing (SM)

Closed Loop Transmit Diversity (CLTD)

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Continuous Packet Connectivity


With HSPA,
Active : Cell_DCH
Inactive (<10s): Cell_DCH
(<30s): Cell_FACH
(>30s): Idle state

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CPC Enhancements
In Uplink:
· A new UL DPCCH slot format
· UL DPCCH gating/discontinuous transmission
· Implicit CQI reporting reduction

In the Downlink:
· F-DPCH gating in DL
· Discontinuous reception (DRX) at the UE

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F - DPCH

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Layer 2 Enhancements

Flexible RLC PDU size

MAC – ehs layer segmentation / reassembly

MAC – ehs layer flow multiplexing
Functions :-

Flow control

Scheduling

Priority Handling

HARQ

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Overall Comparison

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