Overview of LTE Physical layer

Service Goals Data transfer rate ( max)DL: 150Mbps, UL: 50Mbps Mobility : 0-15 km/h best performance 15-120 km/h high performance Physical Layer Details

Modulation scheme : DL: OFDMA/ UL : SC-FDMA Duplex Modes : FDD, TDD Frequency bands : 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2000 MHz, 2600MHz Channel bandwidths FDD: 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 MHz DL transmission OFDM using QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM UL transmission SC-FDMA using QPSK, 16QAM ,64QAM Number of carriers72 to 1200 Carrier spacing Fixed 15 kHz (7.5 kHz extended CP) Additional mod types Zadaoff-Chu, BPSK

OFDMA

SC-FDMA

FDMA : High spectral bandwidth efficiency, robustness to frequency selective fa annels, etc.

Frame Structure (FDD)

Symbol Structure

Resource Block (RB) : Smallest unit used by the scheduling algorithm

Physical Layer channels

LTE Radio interface

Physical signals

Physical channels

Physical signals are generated purely in physical layer and used for system synchronization, cell identification, and radio channel estimation. Physical channels carry data from higher layers including control, scheduling, and user payload.

Physical signal

Primary synchronization signal

Used for cell search and identification by the UE. Carries part of the cell ID (one of three orthogonal sequences

Secondary synchronization signal

Used for cell search and identification by the UE. Carries the remainder of the cell ID (one of 168 binary sequences)

Reference signal
Used for downlink channel estimation.(Receiver to estimate the amplitude and phase flatness of the received signal)

PBCH PMCH DL PDCCH PDSCH PCFICH PHICH

Carries cell-specific system information

Carries the MCH transport channel for requirement to be broadcast in the enti coverage of the cell Carrying RB allocation information, modulation and coding scheme used for DL user data, power control information Payload To indicate how many OFDMA symbols are reserved for control information. This can vary between one and three the for each 1ms SF. To indicate in the downlink whether an uplink packet was correctly received or not.

PRACH UL PUCCH PUSCH

Call setup Scheduling Request, Channel Quality Information, ACK/NACK Payload

PCCH Log

CCCH

DCCH

DTCH BCCH

MCCH

MTCH

Trt PCH

DL-SCH

BCH

MCH

Phy PCFICH

PDSCH

PDCCH

PBCH

PHICH PMCH

The PSS is mapped in the last symbol of slot #0 and slot #10 The SSS is allocated in the symbol just before the PSS. The RSs are located at symbol #0 and symbol #4 of every slot ( The reference signal takes precedence over any other allocation) The PBCH is mapped to the first four symbols in slot #1.

The PDCCH can be allocated to the first three symbols. The remaining unallocated areas can be used for the PDSCH