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HSDPA Key Techniques

AMC (Adaptive Modulation & Coding)
Data rate adapted to radio condition on 2ms
Fast Scheduling based on CQI
and fairness
Scheduling of user on 2ms
HARQHybrid ARQwith
Soft combing
Reduce round trip time
16QAM
16QAM in complement to QPSK for
higher peak bit rates
SF16, 2ms and CDM/TDM
Dynamic shared in Time and code domain
3 New Physical Channels
Block 1 Block 2 Block 1
Block 1?
Block 1 Block 1?
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Adaptive Modulation and Coding
AMC ( Adaptive Modulation and Coding ) in
accordance with CQI ( Channel Quality Indicator )
Adjust data rate to compensation channel condition
Good channel condition higher data rate
Bad channel condition lower data rate
Adjust channel coding rate to compensation channel condition
Good channel condition channel coding rate is higher e.g. 3/4
Bad channel condition channel coding rate is lower e.g. 1/3
Adjust the modulation scheme to compensation channel condition
Good channel condition high order modulation scheme e.g. 16QAM
Bad channel condition low order modulation scheme e.g. QPSK
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Adaptive Modulation and Coding
AMC ( Adaptive Modulation and Coding )
based on CQI ( Channel Quality Indicator )
CQI ( channel quality indicator )
UE measures the channel quality and reports to NodeB
every 2ms or more cycle
NodeB selects modulation scheme ,data block size
based on CQI
Bad channel condition
More power
Node B Node B
Power Control Rate Adaptation
Good channel condition
Bad channel condition
Good channel condition

less power
low data rate

high data rate
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CQI mapping table for UE category 10
CQI value
Transport
Block Size
Number of
HS-PDSCH
Modulation
Reference power
adjustment
0 N/A Out of range
1 137 1 QPSK 0
2 173 1 QPSK 0

13 2279 4 QPSK 0
14 2583 4 QPSK 0
15 3319 5 QPSK 0
16 3565 5 16-QAM 0
17 4189 5 16-QAM 0
18 4664 5 16-QAM 0

28 23370 15 16-QAM 0
29 24222 15 16-QAM 0
30 25558 15 16-QAM 0
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HSDPA UE Categories
UE Category
Maximum
Number of HS-
DSCH Codes
Received
Minimum Inter-
TTI Interval
Maximum Number of Bits of
an HS-DSCH Transport Block
Received Within an HS-
DSCH TTI
Total Number of Soft
Channel Bits
Category 1 5 3 7298 19200
Category 2 5 3 7298 28800
Category 3 5 2 7298 28800
Category 4 5 2 7298 38400
Category 5 5 1 7298 57600
Category 6 5 1 7298 67200
Category 7 10 1 14411 115200
Category 8 10 1 14411 134400
Category 9 15 1 20251 172800
Category 10 15 1 27952 172800
Category 11 5 2 3630 14400
Category 12 5 1 3630 28800
HSDPA RF performance depends on UE capability
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Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest
Conventional ARQ
In a conventional ARQ scheme, received data blocks that can not be correctly
decoded are discarded and retransmitted data blocks are separately decoded
Hybrid ARQ ( HARQ )
In case of Hybrid ARQ with soft combining, received data blocks that can not
be correctly decoded are not discarded. Instead the corresponding received
signal is buffered and soft combined with later received retransmission of
information bits. Decoding is then applied to the combined signal
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Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest
Example for HARQ





The use of HARQ with soft combining increases the
effective received Eb/Io for each retransmission and thus
increases the probability for correct decoding of
retransmissions, compare to conventional ARQ
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HARQ Combining
There are many different schemes for HARQ
with soft combining
In case of Chase combining ( CC ) each
retransmission is an identical copy of the original
transmission
In case of Incremental Redundancy ( IR ) each
retransmission may add new redundancy

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HARQ Process
Each HSDPA assignment is handled by a HARQ
process runing in NodeB and UE
The UE HARQ process is responsible for:
Attempting to decode the data
Deciding whether to send ACK or NACK
Soft combining of retransmitted data
The NodeB HARQ process is responsible for:
Selecting the corrected bits to send according to the
selected retransmission scheme and UE capability
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Short TTI (2ms)
Shorter TTI ( Transmission Time Interval ) is to
reduce RTT ( round trip time )
Shorter TTI is necessary to benefit from other
functionalities such as AMC, scheduling
algorithm and HARQ

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Shared Channel Transmission
In HSDPA, a new DL transport channel is
introduced call HS-DSCH
A part of the total downlink code resource is
dynamically shared between HSDPA and
Release 99
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Power Sharing for Channel Transmission
A part of the total downlink power resource is
dynamically shared between HSDPA and
Release 99
Time
Allowed power for HSDPA
Total Power
DPCH
Power for CCH
Higher power utility
efficiency
Time
Power margin for DCH power control
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Resource Allocation
Resources are assigned to HSDPA user
only when they are actually to be used for
transmission, which leads to efficient code
and power utilization
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Higher-Order Modulation Scheme
HSDPA modulation scheme
QPSK
16QAM

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Fast Scheduling
Fast scheduling is about to decided to which
terminal the shared channel transmission
should be directed at any given moment
Scheduler may be based on:
CDM, TDM
Channel condition
Amount of data waiting in the queue
Fairness (Satisfied users)
Cell throughput, etc
Some basic scheduler
Round Robin (RR)
Maximum C/I (MAX C/I)
Proportional Fair (PF)
Enhanced Proportional Fair
(EPF)
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HSDPA New Physical Channels