3GPP TSG RAN Chairman 3GPP LTE presentation Kyoto May 22rd 2007 2 3GPP LTE presentation Presentation Overview LTE Introduction Network Architecture The access network Physical Layer Layer 2 and above over the radio interface Control Plane User Plane Interface towards the Core Network Conclusion
3 3GPP LTE presentation LTE targets Significantly increased peak data rates Increased cell edge bitrates Improved spectrum efficiency Improved latency Scaleable bandwidth Reduced CAPEX and OPEX Acceptable system and terminal complexity, cost and power consumption Compatibility with earlier releases and with other systems Optimised for low mobile speed but supporting high mobile speed 4 3GPP LTE presentation Peak data rate Goal: significantly increased peak data rates, scaled linearly according to spectrum allocation Targets: Instantaneous downlink peak data rate of 100Mbit/s in a 20MHz downlink spectrum (i.e. 5 bit/s/Hz) Instantaneous uplink peak data rate of 50Mbit/s in a 20MHz uplink spectrum (i.e. 2.5 bit/s/Hz)
5 3GPP LTE presentation Mobility The Enhanced UTRAN (E-UTRAN) will: be optimised for mobile speeds 0 to 15 km/h support, with high performance, speeds between 15 and 120 km/h maintain mobility at speeds between 120 and 350 km/h and even up to 500 km/h depending on frequency band support voice and real-time services over entire speed range with quality at least as good as UTRAN 6 3GPP LTE presentation Spectrum issues Spectrum flexibility E-UTRA to operate in 1.25, 1.6, 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz allocationshence allowing different possibilities for re- farming already in use spectrum uplink and downlink paired and unpaired Co-existence with GERAN/3G on adjacent channels with other operators on adjacent channels with overlapping or adjacent spectrum at country borders Handover with UTRAN and GERAN Handover with non 3GPP Technologies (CDMA 2000, WiFi, WiMAX) 7 3GPP LTE presentation Network Architecture IMS TE MT UTRAN SMS-SC EIR TE MT Billing System* R Um GERAN WAG Uu HLR/AuC* HSS* R C Wn Wp Wu WLAN UE Ww Intranet/ Internet Wa Wm Wf Iu Gn Gb, Iu Gf Gr Gd Ga Gi Gn/Gp Gc SMS-GMSC SMS-IWMSC Wi OCS* SGSN SGSN Note: * Elements duplicated for picture layout purposes only, they belong to the same logical entity in the architecture baseline. ** is a reference point currently missing Traffic and signaling Signaling HLR/ AuC* 3GPP AAA Proxy Ga Gy CDF CGF* 3GPP AAA Server PCRF AF Rx+ (Rx/Gq) Gx+ (Go/Gx) OCS* UE P-CSCF Mw Cx Dx Wa Wg Gm SLF HSS* CSCF MRFP IMS- MGW Wo D/Gr Dw Mb PDG CGF* WLAN Access Network Wx Mb GGSN Wz Wd BM-SC Gmb Gi MSC Gs PDN ** Billing System* Wf Wy 8 3GPP LTE presentation ePDG Evolved Packet Core GPRS Core Trusted non 3GPP IP Access WLAN 3GPP IP Access S2b WLAN Access NW S5b IASA
S5a SAE Anchor 3GPP Anchor S4 SGi Evolved RAN
S1 Op. IP Serv. (IMS, PSS, etc) Rx+ GERAN UTRAN Gb Iu S3 MME UPE HSS PCRF S7 S6 SGSN S2a
MME and UPE have been split in two entities at the last SA 9 3GPP LTE presentation The access network Generality The access network is simplified and reduce to only the Base Station called eNode B Physical layer is based on SC FDMA for the Uplink and OFDMA for the Downlink Two modes FDD and TDD considered MBMS part of the study Ciphering is handled within the eNode B 10 3GPP LTE presentation Physical Layer Overview
Radio Resource Control (RRC) Medium Access Control (MAC) Transport channels Physical layer C o n t r o l
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M e a s u r e m e n t s Layer 3 Logical channels Layer 2 Layer 1 11 3GPP LTE presentation Physical layer details The Layer 1 is defined in a bandwidth agnostic way, allowing the LTE Layer 1 to adapt to various spectrum allocations. The generic radio frame for FDD and TDD has a duration of 10ms and consists of 20 slots with a slot duration of 0.5ms. Two adjacent slots form one sub-frame of length 1ms. A resource block spans either 12 sub-carriers with a sub-carrier bandwidth of 15kHz or 24 sub-carriers with a sub-carrier bandwidth of 7.5kHz each over a slot duration of 0.5ms. An additional framing is defined for TDD owing backward compatibility with TD SCDMA 12 3GPP LTE presentation Physical Layer details (continued) The physical channels defined in the downlink are the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and the Common Control Physical Channel (CCPCH). The physical channels defined in the uplink are the Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and the Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH). In addition, signals are defined as reference signals, primary and secondary synchronization signals or random access preambles. The modulation schemes supported in the downlink are QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM, and in the uplink QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM. The Broadcast channel use only QPSK 13 3GPP LTE presentation Physical Layer (Continued) The channel coding scheme for transport blocks in LTE is Turbo Coding with a coding rate of R=1/3, two 8-state constituent encoders and a contention-free quadratic permutation polynomial (QPP) turbo code internal interleaver. Trellis termination is used for the turbo coding. Before the turbo coding, transport blocks are segmented into byte aligned segments with a maximum information block size of 6144 bits. Error detection is supported by the use of 24 bit CRC. Coexistence scenarios have been already done for the downlink and result can be found in TR 36.942 14 3GPP LTE presentation Physical Layer (Continued) The generic frame structure is applicable to both FDD and TDD. Each radio frame is long and consists of 20 slots of length Tslot= 15360 x Ti = 0,5 ms, numbered from 0 to 19. A sub- frame is defined as two consecutive slots where sub-frame consists of slots and of 20 slots of length , numbered from 0 to 19. The structure of each half-frame in a radio frame is identical. A sub-frame is defined as two consecutive slots where sub-frame consists of slots 2i and 2i+1 15 3GPP LTE presentation Layer 2 and above over the radio interface Overall architecture
eNB MME/SAE Gateway MME/SAE Gateway eNB eNB S 1 S 1 S 1 S 1 X2 X 2 X 2 E-UTRAN 16 3GPP LTE presentation Layer 2 and above over the radio interface The eNode B hosts the following functions: Functions for Radio Resource Management: Radio Bearer Control, Radio Admission Control, Connection Mobility Control, Dynamic allocation of resources to UEs in both uplink and downlink (scheduling); IP header compression and encryption of user data stream; Selection of an MME at UE attachment; 17 3GPP LTE presentation Layer 2 and above over the radio interface
Segm. ARQ Multiplexing UE 1 Segm. ARQ ... HARQ Multiplexing UE n HARQ BCCH PCCH Scheduling / Priority Handling Logical Channels Transport Channels MAC RLC Segm. ARQ Segm. ARQ PDCP ROHC ROHC ROHC ROHC Radio Bearers Security Security Security Security ... : Layer 2 Structure at the eNode B 18 3GPP LTE presentation Layer 2 and above over the radio interface For the UE two states are considered RRC_IDLE where: - UE specific DRX configured by NAS; - Broadcast of system information; - Paging; - Cell re-selection mobility; - The UE shall have been allocated an id which uniquely identifies the UE in a tracking area; - No RRC context stored in the eNode B . RRC_CONNECTED where: - UE has an E-UTRAN-RRC connection; - UE has context in E-UTRAN; - E-UTRAN knows the cell which the UE belongs to; - Network can transmit and/or receive data to/from UE; - Network controlled mobility (handover); - Neighbour cell measurements; - At PDCP/RLC/MAC level: - UE can transmit and/or receive data to/from network; - UE monitors control signalling channel for shared data channel to see if any transmission over the shared data channel has been allocated to the UE; - UE also reports channel quality information and feedback information to eNode B; - DRX/DTX period can be configured according to UE activity level for UE power saving and efficient resource utilization. This is under control of the eNode B 19 3GPP LTE presentation Interface towards the Core network Generalities Two interfaces: S1 for the Control plane X1 for the User plane (new) Additional interface in between eNode Bs: X2 Including both Control and User plane 20 3GPP LTE presentation Interface towards the Core network internet eNB RB Control Connection Mobility Cont. eNB Measurement Configuration & Provision Dynamic Resource Allocation (Scheduler) PDCP PHY MME SAE Gateway S1 MAC Inter Cell RRM Radio Admission Control RLC E-UTRAN EPC RRC Mobility Anchoring SAE Bearer Control Idle State Mobility Handling NAS Security 21 3GPP LTE presentation Interface towards the Core network
For the X1 interface Still under investigation
SCTP IP Data link layer S1-AP Physical layer S1 Interface Control Plane (eNB-MME) 22 3GPP LTE presentation eNode B X2 Interface This interfaces allows inter-eNode B handover
X2 Interface Control Plane
SCTP IP Data link layer X2-AP Physical layer 23 3GPP LTE presentation Conclusion Lot of progress made recently are not incorporated in this presentation based on material agreed at TSG RAN plenary in March However the timescale for completion of the specification is still foreseen to be in September 2007 All documentation referred to is available
At : http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs 24 3GPP LTE presentation Thanks for your attention 25 3GPP LTE presentation Annex Structure of the documentation for the physical layer specification
36.211 Physical Channels and Modulation 36.212 Multiplexing and channel coding 36.213 Physical layer procedures 36.214 Physical layer Measurements