HSPA & HSPA+

Janani P NexGtech Telecom

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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 Finer resource granularity 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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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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