High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) seminar report, abstract

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Benefits Of HSPA Technology Better Real-Time Access - At the overall lag time is reduced; there has been an increase in the usage of real-time mobile applications. Better Data Uploads And Downloads - Since the speeds available are high, users upload or download any information. Delays in transfer of data are no longer an issue. Better Productivity - The combination of low lag time and high speeds allows users to conduct all their business transactions via their mobile phone, thus increasing their productivity.

Disadvantages Of HSPA Technology Network Strength - Areas with poor network, reduce the overall performance. User Strength - If, many users are using the 3G network, overall speeds will reduce significantly. Better And Cheaper Technologies Available - The market today has technologies cheaper and faster in comparison to HSPA.

High Speed Packet Access

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High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)[1] is an amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols, High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), that extends and improves the performance of existing 3rd generation mobile telecommunication networks utilizing the WCDMA protocols. A further improved 3GPP standard, Evolved HSPA (also known as HSPA+), was

released late in 2008 with subsequent worldwide adoption beginning in 2010. The newer standard allows bit-rates to reach as high as 168 Mbit/s in the downlink and 22 Mbit/s in the uplink.
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1 Overview 2 High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) 3 High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) 4 Evolved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) 5 Dual-carrier HSDPA (DC-HSDPA) 6 Dual-carrier HSUPA (DC-HSUPA) 7 Multi-carrier HSPA (MC-HSPA) 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External links

Overview[edit source | editbeta]

The first HSPA specifications supported increased peak data rates of up to 14 Mbit/s in the downlink and 5.76 Mbit/s in the uplink. It also reduced latency and provided up to five times more system capacity in the downlink and up to twice as much system capacity in the uplink compared with original WCDMA protocols. These improvements are achieved in several ways:

Shared-channel transmission, which results in efficient use of available code and power resources in WCDMA

A shorter transmission time interval (TTI), which reduces round-trip time and improves the tracking of fast channel variations

Link adaptation, which maximizes channel usage and enables the base station to operate at close to maximum cell power

Fast scheduling, which prioritizes users with the most favorable channel conditions Fast retransmission and soft-combining, which further increase capacity 16-QAM and 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation), which yields higher bit-rates MIMO, which exploits antenna diversity to provide further improvements in bit-rates and system capacity.

By July 2010, HSPA had been commercially deployed by over 200 operators in more than 80 countries.

High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)[edit source | editbeta]

Main article: HSDPA The first step required to upgrade WCDMA to HSPA is to improve the downlink by introducing HSDPA. The improved downlink provides up to 14 Mbit/s with significantly reduced latency. The improvement in speed and latency reduces the cost per bit and enhances support for high-performance packet data applications. HSDPA is based on shared channel transmission and its key features are shared channel and multi-code transmission, higher-order modulation, short transmission time interval (TTI), fast link adaptation and scheduling along with fast hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). The upgrade to HSDPA is often just a software update for most WCDMA networks, and as of May 2008 90 percent of WCDMA networks have been upgraded to HSDPA.[2] Voice calls are usually prioritized over data transfer. Singapore's three network providers M1, StarHub and SingTel provide up to 28 Mbit/s throughout the entire island. The Australian provider Telstraprovides up to 14.4 Mbit/s nationwide and up to 42Mbit/s in selected areas. The Croatian VIPnet network supports a downlink speed of 7.2 Mbit/s, as does Rogers Wireless in Canada which also supports 21 Mbit/s in the Toronto area.[3] In South Korea, a nationwide 7.2 Mbit/s coverage is now established by SK Telecom and KTF. In Hong Kong, PCCW, CSL and Hutchinson 3 provide 21 Mbit/s coverage and [], In India BPL, MTS and Tata DoCoMo provide speed of 21.1 Mbit/s nationwide while Reliance ADAE provides speeds up to 28.8 Mbit/s nationwide. Sri Lankan companies likeMobitel, Etisalat provides up to 42Mbit/s and Dialog, Airtel and Hutch provides 7.2 Mbit/s.

High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)[edit source | editbeta]

Main article: HSUPA The second major step in the WCDMA upgrade process is to upgrade the uplink, which is introduced in 3GPP Release 6. Upgrading to HSUPA is usually only a software update. Enhanced Uplink adds a new transport channel to WCDMA, called the Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH). An enhanced uplink creates opportunities for a number of new applications including VoIP, uploading pictures and sending large e-mail messages. The enhanced uplink increases the data rate (up to 5.8 Mbit/s), the capacity, and also reduces latency. The enhanced uplink features several improvements similar to those of HSDPA, including multi-code transmission, short Transmission Time Interval (TTI), fast scheduling and fast Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ). In Singapore, Starhub announced a 1.9 Mbit/s HSUPA Service as part of its new MaxMobile plan on 1 August 2007.[4] In Finland, Elisa announced on 30 August 2007 1.4 Mbit/s HSUPA to most large cities with plans to add the service to its whole 3G network within months.[5] (The same announcement contained a promise of covering 25% more of Finland by the end of the year, which actually took two more years to accomplish). 3 Italia and Ericsson announced on 16 July 2008 the successful tests of HSUPA 5.8 Mbit/s in the live network of 3 Italia.[6] In Haiti, NATCOM, the former public company now operated by Viettel from Vietnam, offers up to 7.2 Mbit/s nationwide.

HSPA: High Speed Packet Access

HSPA - High Speed Packet Access is the most widely deployed mobile broadband technology in the world today and will build upon the more than 6 billion connections with the GSM family of technologies. HSPA is the terminology used when bothHSDPA (3GPP Release 5) and HSUPA (3GPP Release 6) technologies are deployed on a network. HSPA Evolved (HSPA+ in 3GPP Release 7 and beyond) is also part of the HSPA technology and extends an operators investment in the network before the next step to 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE, or 3GPP Release 8 and beyond). HSPA builds on third generation (3G) UMTS/WCDMA and is strongly positioned as the leading mobile data technology for the foreseeable future.
HSPA Information HSPA: Q&A White Papers Presentations Global 3G Status Update HSDPA HSUPA HSPA+ GSMA- Mobile Broadband

Globally, there are more than 478 commercial networks with HSPA in more than 181 countries as of October 2012. . Initial HSPA networks offered 3.6 Mbps peak downlink rates with the bulk of the remainder offering 7.2 Mbps; however, continued progress by vendors and leading innovative operators, allows for HSPA networks capable of peak bit-rates of 14.4 Mbps. The majority of HSPA networks are offering peak rates at 14.4 Mbps unless they have migrated to the next level of HSPA+. The first HSPA+ networks using 64 QAM modulation and offering 21 Mbps are also in operation. The use of higher order modulation schemes (from 16 QAM up to 64 QAM), along with MIMO technology, which takes HSPA into HSPA+ or evolved HSPA was developed in 3GPP Release 7.

Propelling the strong growth is a strong selection of devices supporting HSPA. Already, as of October 2012, there were more than 3847 commercial HSPA devices available worldwide from more than 285 suppliers (Source: GSA).

Whereas HSDPA optimizes downlink performance, HSUPA uses the Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) for a set of improvements that optimizes uplink performance. Networks and devices supporting HSUPA became available in 2007 and the combined improvements in the uplink and downlink are called HSPA. These improvements include higher throughputs, reduced latency and increased spectral efficiency. HSUPA (HSPA) is standardized in Release 6 and results in an approximated 85 percent increase in overall cell throughput on the uplink and more than 50 percent gain in user throughput. HSUPA also reduces packet delays, a significant benefit resulting in significantly improved application performance on HSPA networks.

In current deployments, HSPA users regularly experience throughput rates well in excess of 1 Mbps under favorable conditions, on both downlinks and uplinks, with 4 Mbps downlink speed commonly measured; planned enhancements will double peak user-achievable throughput rates.

Beyond throughput enhancements, HSPA also significantly reduces latency. In optimized networks, latency will fall below 50 milliseconds (ms), relative to current HSDPA networks at 70 ms. And with a later HSPA introduction of 2 ms Transmission Time Interval (TTI), latency will be as low as 30 ms.

HSPA gives carriers an efficient mobile broadband technology that can evolve to HSPA+ to meet the advanced wireless needs of customers. To leverage operator investments in HSPA and enhance the quality of service across networks, 3GPP finalized Release 7 and Release 8, which specify a series of enhancements to create HSPA+. Also,

3GPP examined further specifications in Release 9. HSPA+ employs many of the techniques utilized for LTE.

HSPA (high speed packet access)

HSPA (high speed packet access) is a third-generation (3G) mobile broadband communications technology. The term HSPA actually refers to two specific protocols used in tandem, high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) and high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA). HSPA networks offer a maximum of 14.4 megabytes per second (MBps) of throughput per cell. An improved version of high speed packet access technology, known as Evolved HSPA, offers 42 Mbps of throughput per cell. By using dual cell deployment and multiple input, multiple output architecture, HSPA+ networks can achieve maximum throughput of 168 Mbps overall. The International Telecommunication Union recognized HSPA+ as a fourth-generation (4G) technology in December 2010. HSPA+, however, offers significantly slower speeds than the predominant 4G standard, long term evolution (LTE).
RELATED GLOSSARY TERMS: OTA update (over-the-air update), mobile device fragmentation,Mobile

service provider, LTE-Advanced (Long Term Evolution-Advanced), 3G card

Abstract of HSPA The High Speed Packet Access technology is the most widely used mobile broadband technology in communication world. It was already built in more than 3.8 billion connection with GSM family of technologies. The HSPA technology is referred to both High Speed Downlink Packet Access (3GPP Release 5) and to High Speed Uplink Packet Access (3GPP Release 6). The Evolved HSPA technology or HSPA + is the evolution of HSPA that extends operators investments before the next generations technology 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE or 3GPP Release 8). The HSPA technology is implemented on third generation (3G) UMTS/WCDMA network and accepted as the leader in mobile data communication. Using the HSDPA optimization on downlink is performed, whereas the HSUPA technology applying Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) sets some improvements for the uplink performance optimization. The products that support HSUPA became available in 2007 and the combination of both HSDPA and HSUPA were called HSPA. Adopting these technologies the throughput, latency and spectral efficiency were improved. Introducing HSPA resulted to the increase of overall throughput approximately to 85 % on the uplink and a rise more than 50 % in user throughput. The HSPA downlink available rates are 1 to 4 Mbps and for the uplink are 500 kbps to 2Mbps as of 1 quarter of 2009. The theoretical bit rates are 14Mbps at the downlink and 5.8 Mbps at the uplink in a 5MHz channel. Besides, the latency is notably reduced as well. In the improved network, the latency is less than 50ms, and after the introduction of XX2ms Transmission Time Interval (TTI) latency is expected to be just 30ms.

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

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High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. Current HSDPA deployments support down-link speeds of up to 42.2 Mbit/s. Further speed increases are available with HSPA+, which provides speeds of up to 337.5 Mbit/s with Release 11 of the 3GPP standards.[1]
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1 Technology

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1.1 High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel 1.2 Hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ) 1.3 Fast packet scheduling 1.4 Adaptive modulation and coding 1.5 Dual-Cell 1.6 Other improvements

2 User Equipment (UE) categories 3 Roadmap 4 Adoption

4.1 Marketing as mobile broadband

5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links

Technology[edit source | editbeta]

High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel[edit source | editbeta]
For HSDPA, a new transport layer channel, High-Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH), has been added to UMTS release 5 and further specification. It is implemented by introducing three new physical layer channels: HS-SCCH, HS-DPCCH and HS-PDSCH. The High Speed-Shared Control Channel (HSSCCH) informs the user that data will be sent on the HS-DSCH, 2 slots ahead. The Uplink High SpeedDedicated Physical Control Channel (HS-DPCCH) carries acknowledgment information and current channel quality indicator (CQI) of the user. This value is then used by the base station to calculate how much data to send to the user devices on the next transmission. The High Speed-Physical Downlink Shared Channel (HS-PDSCH) is the channel to which the above HS-DSCH transport channel is mapped that carries actual user data.

Hybrid automatic repeat-request (HARQ)[edit source | editbeta]

Data is transmitted together with error correction bits. Minor errors can thus be corrected without retransmission; see forward error correction. If retransmission is needed, the user device saves the packet and later combines it with retransmitted packet to recover the error-free packet as efficiently as possible. Even if the retransmitted packets are corrupted, their combination can yield an error-free packet. Retransmitted packet may be either identical (chase combining) or different from the first transmission (incremental redundancy). Since HARQ retransmissions are processed at the physical layer, their 12 ms round-trip time is much lower compared to higher layer retransmissions.

Fast packet scheduling[edit source | editbeta]

The HS-DSCH downlink channel is shared between users using channel-dependent scheduling to make the best use of available radio conditions. Each user device continually transmits an indication of the downlink signal quality, as often as 500 times per second. Using this information from all devices, the base station decides which users will be sent data in the next 2 ms frame and how much data should be sent for each user. More data can be sent to users which report high downlink signal quality. The amount of the channelisation code tree, and thus network bandwidth, allocated to HSDPA users is determined by the network. The allocation is "semi-static" in that it can be modified while the network is operating, but not on a frame-by-frame basis. This allocation represents a trade-off between bandwidth allocated for HSDPA users, versus that for voice and non-HSDPA data users. The allocation is in units of channelisation codes for Spreading Factor 16, of which 16 exist and up to 15 can be allocated to the HSDSCH. When the base station decides which users will receive data in the next frame, it also decides which channelisation codes will be used for each user. This information is sent to the user on one of up to 4 HSSCCHs, which are not part of the HS-DSCH allocation previously mentioned, but are allocated separately. Thus, for a given 2 ms frame, data may be sent to a number of users simultaneously, using different channelisation codes.

Adaptive modulation and coding[edit source | editbeta]

The modulation scheme and coding are changed on a per-user basis, depending on signal quality and cell usage. The initial scheme is quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK), but in good radio conditions 16QAM and 64QAM can significantly increase data throughput rates. With 5 Code allocation, QPSK typically offers up to 1.8 Mbit/s peak data rates, while 16QAM offers up to 3.6 Mbit/s. Additional codes (e.g. 10, 15) can also be used to improve these data rates or extend the network capacity throughput significantly.

Dual-Cell[edit source | editbeta]

Dual Cell (DC-)HSDPA, known also as Dual Carrier, is the natural evolution of HSPA by means of carrier aggregation in the downlink.[2] UMTS licenses are often issued as 10 or 15 MHz paired spectrum

allocations. The basic idea of the multicarrier feature is to achieve better resource utilization and spectrum efficiency by means of joint resource allocation and load balancing across the downlink carriers. An advanced HSPA network can theoretically support up to 28 Mbit/s and 42.2 Mbit/s with a single 5 MHz carrier for Rel7 (MIMO with 16QAM) and Rel8 (64-QAM + MIMO), in good channel conditions with low correlation between transmit antennas. An alternative method to double the data rates is to double the bandwidth to 10 MHz (i.e. 25 MHz) by using DC-HSDPA. Additionally, some diversity and joint scheduling gains can also be expected[3] with improved QoS for end users in poor environment conditions where existing techniques such as MIMO spatial multiplexing cannot be used to increase data rates. In 3GPP a study item was completed in June 2008. The outcome can be found in technical report 25.825. [4] New HSDPA User Equipment categories 21-24have been introduced that support DC-HSDPA. DC-HSDPA can support up to 42.2 Mbit/s, but unlike HSPA, it does not need to rely on MIMO transmission. From Release 9 onwards it will be possible to use DC-HSDPA in combination with MIMO used on both carriers.[5] This will allow theoretical speed of up to 84.4 Mbit/s. The support of MIMO in combination with DC-HSDPA will allow operators deploying Release 7 MIMO to benefit from the DC-HSDPA functionality as defined in Release 8. While in Release 8 DC-HSDPA can only operate on adjacent carriers, Release 9 also allows that the paired cells can operate on two different frequency bands. Future releases will allow the use of up to four carriers simultaneously.

Other improvements[edit source | editbeta]

HSDPA is part of the UMTS standards since release 5, which also accompanies an improvement on the uplink providing a new bearer of 384 kbit/s. The previous maximum bearer was 128 kbit/s. As well as improving data rates, HSDPA also decreases latency and so the round trip time for applications. In later 3GPP specification releases HSPA+ increases data rates further by adding 64QAM modulation, MIMO and Dual-Cell HSDPA operation, i.e. two 5 MHz carriers are used simultaneously.

User Equipment (UE) categories[edit source | editbeta]

HSDPA comprises various versions with different data speeds. In 2009 the most common devices are category 6 (3.6 Mbit/s) and category 8 (7.2 Mbit/s) with retail prices around 60 euros without subscription. The following table is derived from table 5.1a of the release 11 of 3GPP TS 25.306[6] and shows maximum data rates of different device classes and by what combination of features they are achieved. The per-cell per-stream data rate is limited by the Maximum number of bits of an HS-DSCH transport block received within an HS-DSCH TTI and the Minimum inter-TTI interval. The TTI is 2 ms. So for example Cat 10 can decode 27952 bits/2 ms = 13.976 MBit/s (and not 14.4 MBit/s as often claimed incorrectly). Categories 1-4 and 11 have inter-TTI intervals of 2 or 3, which reduces the maximum data rate by that factor. Dual-Cell and MIMO 2x2 each multiply the maximum data rate by 2, because multiple independent transport blocks are transmitted over different carriers or spatial streams, respectively. The data rates given in the table are rounded to one decimal point.

3GPP Release

Max. number of [note 1] Category Modulation MIMO, Multi-Cell HS-DSCH codes

Code rate at max. data [note 2] rate

Max. data rate [note 3] [Mbit/s]

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

1.2

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

1.2

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

1.8

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

1.8

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

3.6

Release 5

16-QAM

.76

3.6

Release 5

10

16-QAM

.75

7.2

Release 5

10

16-QAM

.76

7.2

Release 5

15

16-QAM

.70

10.1

Release 5

10

15

16-QAM

.97

14.0

Release 5

11

QPSK

.76

0.9

Release 5

12

QPSK

.76

1.8

Release 7

13

15

64-QAM

.82

17.6

Release 7

14

15

64-QAM

.98

21.1

Release 7

15

15

16-QAM

MIMO 2x2

.81

23.4

Release 7

16

15

16-QAM

MIMO 2x2

.97

28.0

Release 7

19

15

64-QAM

MIMO 2x2

.82

35.3

64-QAM Release 7 20 15 16-QAM (MIMO) Release 8 Release 8 Release 8 Release 8 21 22 23 24 15 15 15 15 16-QAM 16-QAM 64-QAM 64-QAM Dual-Cell Dual-Cell Dual-Cell Dual-Cell Dual-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Dual-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Dual-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Dual-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Triple-Cell Triple-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Quad-Cell Quad-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Hexa-Cell .81 .97 .82 .98 23.4 28.0 35.3 42.2 MIMO 2x2 .98 28

Release 9

25

15

16-QAM

.81

46.7

Release 9

26

15

16-QAM

.97

55.9

Release 9

27

15

64-QAM

.82

70.6

Release 9

28

15

64-QAM

.98

84.4

Release 10

29

15

64-QAM

.98

63.3

Release 10

30

15

64-QAM

.98

126.6

Release 10

31

15

64-QAM

.98

84.4

Release 10

32

15

64-QAM

.98

168.8

Release 11

33

15

64-QAM

.98

126.6

Release 11

34

15

64-QAM

Hexa-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Octa-Cell Octa-Cell + MIMO 2x2 Dual-Cell + MIMO 4x4 Quad-Cell + MIMO 4x4

.98

253.2

Release 11

35

15

64-QAM

.98

168.8

Release 11

36

15

64-QAM

.98

337.5

Release 11

37

15

64-QAM

.98

168.8

Release 11

38

15

64-QAM

.98

337.5

Notes:
1. 2. ^ 16-QAM implies QPSK support, 64-QAM implies 16-QAM and QPSK support. ^ The maximal code rate is not limited. A value close to 1 in this column indicates that the maximum data rate can be achieved only in ideal conditions. The device is therefore connected directly to the transmitter to demonstrate these data rates. 3. ^ The maximum data rates given in the table are physical layer data rates. Application layer data rate is approximately 85% of that, due to the inclusion of IP headers (overhead information) etc.

Roadmap[edit source | editbeta]

The first phase of HSDPA has been specified in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) release 5. Phase one introduces new basic functions and is aimed to achieve peak data rates of 14.0 Mbit/s (see above). Newly introduced are the High Speed Downlink Shared Channels (HSDSCH), the adaptive modulation QPSK and 16QAM and the High Speed Medium Access protocol (MAC-hs) in base station. The second phase of HSDPA is specified in the 3GPP release 7 and has been named HSPA Evolved. It can achieve data rates of up to 42.2 Mbit/s.[1] It introduces antenna array technologies such as beamforming and Multiple-input multiple-output communications (MIMO). Beam forming focuses the transmitted power of an antenna in a beam towards the users direction. MIMO uses multiple antennas at the sending and receiving side. Deployments were scheduled to begin in the second half of 2008. Further releases of the standard have introduced dual carrier operation, i.e. the simultaneous use of two 5 MHz carrier. By combining this with MIMO transmission, peak data rates of 84.4 Mbit/s can be reached under ideal signal conditions. After HSPA Evolved, the roadmap leads to E-UTRA (Previously "HSOPA"), the technology specified in 3GPP Releases 8 and 10. This project is called the Long Term Evolution initiative. DifferentLTE user

equipment categories offer data rates up to 3 Gbit/s for downlink and 1.5 Gbit/s for uplink using OFDMA modulation.

Adoption[edit source | editbeta]

As of 28 August 2009, 250 HSDPA networks have commercially launched mobile broadband services in 109 countries. 169 HSDPA networks support 3.6 Mbit/s peak downlink data throughput. A growing number are delivering 21 Mbit/s peak data downlink and 28 Mbit/s. Several others will have this capability by end 2009 and the first 42 Mbit/s network came online in Australia in February 2010. Telstra switches on 42 Mbit/s Next G, plans 84 Mbit/s through the implementation of HSPA+ Dual Carrier plus MIMO technology upgrade in 2011.[7] This protocol is a relatively simple upgrade where UMTS is already deployed.[1] First week in May 2010, Second-ranked Indonesian cellular operator Indosat launched the first DC-HSPA+ 42 Mbit/s network, beating Australia's Telstra, Singapore's StarHub and Hong Kong's CSL to stake its claim as the first operator in Asia-Pacific to offer theoretical download speeds of 42 Mbit/s via HSPA+.[8][9] CDMA2000-EVDO networks had the early lead on performance, and Japanese providers were highly successful benchmarks for it. But lately this seems to be changing in favour of HSDPA as an increasing number of providers worldwide are adopting it. In Australia, Telstra announced that its CDMA-EVDO network would be replaced with a HSDPA network (since named NextG), offering high speed internet, mobile television and traditional telephony and video calling. Rogers Wireless deployed HSDPA system 850/1900 in Canada on April 1, 2007. In July 2008, Bell Canada andTelus announced a joint plan to expand their current shared EVDO/CDMA network to include HSDPA.[10] Bell Canada launched their joint network November 4, 2009, while Telus launched November 5, 2009.[11] In January 2010, T-Mobile USA adopted HSDPA.[12] Telstra in Australia announced they had implemented Dual-Cell HSDPA in their live NextG network on 18 January 2010. On 15 February 2010 they announced that the upgrade had been completed to section of their network in capital cities and major regional centers. As of July 2010, two devices were available; a USB device manufactured by Sierra Wireless, the AirCard 312U, and a portable WiFi hot spot device. In October 2010, Vodafone in Portugal announced[13] a commercial offer of 43.2 Mbit/s download and 11.4 Mbit/s upload. The service is currently available in Lisbon. On Nov 18 2010, Bell Canada announced it would begin doubling its network speeds to 42 Mbit/s beginning Nov 23 2010 using HSPA+ Dual Cell technology.[14] On December 3, 2010, E Mobile in Japan announced the availability of 42 Mbit/s service based upon DC-HSDPA.[15]

On March 10, 2011, SaskTel announced that Dual-Cell HSPA+ will be available in Saskatoon and Regina by the summer.[16] SaskTel also announced that the first device to take advantage of this new technology will be the Novatel Wireless MC547 Mobile Internet Stick. On August 23, 2011, Telenor Hungary started Dual-Cell HSPA+ service in Budapest and its surroundings.[17] In 2011, Viva Telecom Kuwait started offering Dual-Cell HSPA+ to its customers.[18] In 2011, Personal; a Telecom Argentina / Telecom Italia subsidiary in Paraguay, started offering DualCell HSPA+ to its customers.[19] Also in 2011 two carriers in Finland, Elisa and DNA started offering "4G" backed up by Dual-Cell HSPA+ whereas LTE coverage is merely spotty in nature.[20][21] In February 2012, Personal from Paraguay started offering Dual-Carrier HSPA+ to its customers.[22] In February 2012, Three UK announced the start of its trials of DC-HSDPA. Full rollout will begin in Summer 2012. As of November 2012 50 cities have been chosen for the initial roll out to be completed by the end of 2012 - with Belfast joining in January 2013. They plan to cover 50% of the UK population by the end of 2012.[23] By mid 2012, 3 in Italy had deployed DC-HSDPA 42Mbit/s all over its network. In August 2012, Etisalat Sri Lanka announced the start of its DC-HSPA+ network. First operator in a South Asian country to do so.[24] In August 2012, Cellcom Liberia started Dual-Cell HSPA+ service in Liberia and its surroundings.[25] In August 2012, Gmobile Mongolia announced the start of its DC-HSPA+ network. It is the first operator in Mongolia to do so.[26] In December 2012 Vodafone NZ announced the start of its DC-HSPA network roll-out, ahead of other carriers.[27][28]

Marketing as mobile broadband[edit source | editbeta]

During 2007, an increasing number of telcos worldwide began selling HSDPA USB modems to provide mobile broadband connections. In addition, the popularity of HSDPA landline replacement boxes grewproviding HSDPA for data via Ethernet and WiFi, and ports for connecting traditional landline telephones. Some are marketed with connection speeds of "up to 7.2 Mbit/s",[29] which is only attained under ideal conditions. As a result these services can be slower than expected, when in fringe coverage indoors.

See also[edit source | editbeta]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: HSDPA

3GPP Long Term Evolution Cellular router High-Speed Uplink Packet Access High-Speed OFDM Packet Access List of device bandwidths List of HSDPA networks Multi-band UMTS UMTS frequency bands

References[edit source | editbeta]

1. 2. 3. ^
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GSMA on HSPA

^ Nomor Research White Paper: Dual-Cell HSDPA and its Evolution ^ [R1-081546, Initial multi-carrier HSPA performance evaluation, Ericsson, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #52bis, April, 2008.]

4. 5. 6. 7.

^ 3GPP TR 25.825 (V1.0.0) Dual Cell HSDPA Operation ^ Nomor 3GPP Newsletter 2009-03: Standardisation updates on HSPA Evolution ^ 3GPP TS 25.306 v11.0.0http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/25306.htm ^ Telstra switches on 42 Mbit/s Next G, plans 84 Mbit/s upgrade in 2011 | Comms Dayhttp://www.commsday.com/commsday/?p=789

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^ Indosat first in Asia to launch 42 Mbit/s HSPA+http://www.telecomasia.net/print/17244 ^ Indosat gears up for 4G and launches Asia's fastest network Ericsson http://www.ericsson.com/news/142992

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Further reading[edit source | editbeta]

Sauter, Martin (2006). Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-470-02676-6.

Harri Holma and Antti Toskala (2006). HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS: High Speed Radio Access for Mobile Communications. ISBN 0-470-01884-4.

Stuhlfauth, Reiner (2012). High Speed Packet Access: Technology and measurement aspects of HSDPA and HSUPA mobile radio systems. Munich. ISBN 978-3-939837-14-5.

External links[edit source | editbeta]

3GPP 3GPP Specifications Home Page Public HSPA Discussion Forum GSM Association on HSPA Understand HSDPA's implementation challenges Nomor Research: White Paper "Technology of High Speed Packet Access" Nomor 3GPP Newsletter 2009-03: Standardisation updates on HSPA Evolution

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was created by Nokia. The official3GPP name for 'HSUPA' is Enhanced Uplink (EUL).[1]

The specifications for HSUPA are included in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Release 6 standard published by 3GPP. "The technical purpose of the Enhanced Uplink feature is to improve the performance of uplink dedicated transport channels, i.e. to increase capacity and throughput and reduce delay."
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1 Description 2 Versions 3 Roadmap 4 Dual-Cell HSUPA 5 See also 6 References 7 Bibliography

Description[edit source | editbeta]

HSUPA uses an uplink enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) on which it employs link adaptation methods similar to those employed by High-Speed Downlink Packet Access HSDPA, namely:

shorter Transmission Time Interval enabling faster link adaptation; HARQ (hybrid ARQ) with incremental redundancy making retransmissions more effective.

Similarly to HSDPA, HSUPA uses a packet scheduler, but it operates on a request-grant principle where the UEs request a permission to send data and the scheduler decides when and how many UEs will be allowed to do so. A request for transmission contains data about the state of the transmission buffer and the queue at the UE and its available power margin. However, unlike HSDPA, uplink transmissions are not orthogonal to each other. In addition to this scheduled mode of transmission the standards also allows a self-initiated transmission mode from the UEs, denoted non-scheduled. The non-scheduled mode can, for example, be used for VoIP services for which even the reduced TTI and the Node B based scheduler will not be able to provide the very short delay time and constant bandwidth required. Each MAC-d flow (i.e. QoS flow) is configured to use either scheduled or non-scheduled modes; the UE adjusts the data rate for scheduled and non-scheduled flows independently. The maximum data rate of each non-scheduled flow is configured at call setup, and typically not changed frequently. The power used by the scheduled flows is controlled dynamically by the Node B through absolute grant (consisting of an actual value) and relative grant (consisting of a single up/down bit) messages. At the Physical Layer, HSUPA introduces new channels E-AGCH (Absolute Grant Channel), E-RGCH (Relative Grant Channel), F-DPCH (Fractional-DPCH), E-HICH (E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel), E-

DPCCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel) and E-DPDCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel). E-DPDCH is used to carry the E-DCH Transport Channel; and E-DPCCH is used to carry the control information associated with the E-DCH.

Versions[edit source | editbeta]

The following table shows uplink speed for the different categories of HSUPA.

HSUPA Category

Max Uplink Speed

Examples

Category 1

0.73 Mbit/s

Category 2

1.46 Mbit/s

Category 3

1.46 Mbit/s

Category 4

2.93 Mbit/s

Qualcomm 6290

Category 5

2.00 Mbit/s

Nokia: Nokia Asha 311, X3-02, X3-01, N8, C7, C5, C3-01, E52, E72, E55, 6700 Classic, N900, 5630 XpressMusic; BlackBerry: Storm 9500, 9530; HTC: Dream, Passion (Nexus [4] One); Sony Ericsson C510, Sony Ericsson C903, Sony Ericsson W705, Sony Ericsson T715, Samsung Wave, Samsung Wave II

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Category 6

5.76 Mbit/s

Nokia CS-15, Nokia CS-17, Option GlobeTrotter Express 441/442, Option iCON [5] 505/505M, Samsung i8910, Apple iPhone 4, Huawei E180/E182E/E1820/E5832/EM770W/E392u-12/E392u-21, Micromax A60, ST-Ericsson M5730, Motorola Atrix 4G (enabled by software update), Samsung Galaxy S 4G,Sony Ericsson W995, Apple iPhone 5

Category 7 11.5 (3GPP Mbit/s Rel7)

QPSK & 16QAM

Category 8 11.5 (3GPP Mbit/s Rel9)

2 ms, dual cell E-DCH operation, QPSK only; see 3GPP Rel 9 TS 25.306 table 5.1g

Category 9 22.9 (3GPP Mbit/s Rel9)

2 ms, dual cell E-DCH operation, QPSK and 16QAM; see 3GPP Rel 9 TS 25.306 table 5.1g

Category 10 (3GPP Rel11)

17.25 Mbit/s

2 ms, QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM; see 3GPP Rel 11 TS 25.306 table 5.1g

Category 11 (3GPP Rel11)

22.9 Mbit/s

2 ms, uplink MIMO, QPSK and 16QAM; see 3GPP Rel 11 TS 25.306 table 5.1g

Category 12 (3GPP Rel11)

34.5 Mbit/s

2 ms, uplink MIMO, QPSK, 16QAM, and 64QAM; see 3GPP Rel 11 TS 25.306 table 5.1g

Roadmap[edit source | editbeta]

After HSUPA the 3GPP is working on further advancing transfer rates. LTE provides up to 300 Mbit/s for downlink and 75 Mbit/s for uplink. Its evolution LTE Advanced supports maximum downlink rates of over 1 Gbit/s.

Dual-Cell HSUPA[edit source | editbeta]

Dual-Cell HSUPA (also known as: Dual-Carrier HSPA or Dual-Cell HSPA) is a wireless broadband standard based on HSPA that is defined in 3GPP UMTS release 9. Dual Cell (DC-)HSUPA is the natural evolution of HSPA by means of carrier aggregation in the uplink.[6] Downlink carrier aggregation named Dual-Cell HSDPA was already standardized in UMTS Release 8.[7] UMTS licenses are often issued as 10 or 15 MHz paired spectrum allocations. The basic idea of the multicarrier feature is to achieve better resource utilization and spectrum efficiency by means of joint resource allocation and load balancing across the uplink carriers.

See also[edit source | editbeta]

Dual Cell HSUPA 3GPP Long Term Evolution

Broadband DigRF V3 High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Orthogonal Packet Access List of Deployed HSUPA networks List of device bandwidths Quad band Triband (telephone) UMTS frequency bands

References[edit source | editbeta]

1. ^ 3GPP specification: 25.321 2. ^ "C7 Technical Specs". 3. ^ "C5 Technical Specs". 4. ^ "Nexus One Phone Google Technical Specs". 5. ^ "Apple iPhone 4 Technical Specs". 6. ^ Nomor 3GPP Newsletter 2009-03: Standardisation updates on HSPA Evolution 7. ^ Nomor Research White Paper: Dual-Cell HSDPA and its Evolution

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA)

Definition - What does High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) mean? High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is a mobile telephony protocol that belongs to the HSPA (high speed packet access) set of technologies. HSUPA is designed for providing high uplink speeds. Current HSUPA devices feature uplink speeds of up to 5.7 Mbps. Techopedia explains High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) Not all devices that support HSUPA have the same uplink speeds. For instance, Category 5 devices, like the Nokia N8, Nokia E72, BlackBerry Storm 9500, and Samsung Wave, can go up to 2 Mbps. But Category 6 devices, like the Apple iPhone 4 and Motorola Atrix 4G can go even faster; i.e., up to 5.7 Mbps. There are actually two protocols under HSPA. The other one, known as HSDPA (where D stands for Downlink), is focused more on providing higher downlink speeds. Because most HSPA users perform more downloads than uploads, HSUPA speeds are consequently slower. The advantage of HSUPA comes into play when you need to upload a large email attachment via

your mobile device. Otherwise, there isnt as much use for it as compared to HSDPA. Standards for HSUPA are being developed by the 3GPP, a group of telecommunications organizations whose focus is on evolved GSM core network