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3GPP
Long Term Evolution LTE
DL: 150 Mbps+
UL: 50 Mbps+
UMTS/HSPA Radio Access Network Evolution
HSDPA HSDPA/HSUPA HSPA Evolution HSPA Evolution
DL: 14 Mbps DL: 14 Mbps DL: 42 Mbps DL: 84 Mbps
UL: 384 kbps UL: 5.7 Mbps UL: 11 Mbps UL: 11 Mbps
RB Control
RLC RLC
MAC MAC
PHY PHY
Air Interface
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Radio Technologies Used
OFDMA
SC-FDMA
MIMO*
Fourier Transform*
FFT*
DFT*
IFFT*
* Not covered in the presentation in details.
If the spread in delay of the received signals is greater than the duration of the guard
time, then bit errors will result.
Transmitter Receiver
1 frame = 10 subframes
1 subframe = 2 slots
1 slot = 0.5 ms
1 Resource Block =
12 subcarriers & 7
symbols
= 84 resource elements
With standard OFDM the subcarrier allocations are fixed for each user and
performance may suffer from narrow fading and interference. But OFDMA allocates
subcarriers dynamically among different users in channel. This results in increased
capacity. The capacity comes from the trunking efficiency gained by multiplexing low
rate users onto wider channel to provide dynamic capacity when needed.