WCDMA – Requirements and Practical Design

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Preface page. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Evolution and Revolution of Mobile Telephony. 1.2 The Third Generation Partnership Project. 1.3 3GPP Terminology. 1.4 The Journey of a Bit. 1.5 Structure of the Book. 2 RF and Baseband Processing. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 UMTS Radio Requirements. 2.3 Receiver RF Design. 2.4 Receiver Baseband Design. 2.5 Transmitter Baseband Design. 2.6 Transmitter RF Design. 2.7 Future Trends. 3 Physical Layer Chip Rate Processing. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Spreading and Scrambling. 3.3 Physical Channels. 3.4 The Receiver. 3.5 Cell Search. 3.6 Power Control. 3.7 Handover. 3.8 Transmit Diversity in the Downlink. 3.9 Physical Layer Procedures. 3.10 Measurements. 3.11 Compressed Mode. 4 Physical Layer Bit Rate Processing. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Transport Channels, Formats and Combinations. 4.3 Overview of the Bit Rate Processing Chain. 4.4 Rate Matching. 4.5 Convolutional Encoding and Decoding. 4.6 Turbo Encoding and Decoding. 4.7 TFC Detection. 4.8 Compressed Mode and the BRP. 4.9 BRP Limitations for Different TrCHs and CCTrCHs. 4.10 Conclusions. 5 Type Approval Testing: A Case Study. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 History: the Making of the 3GPP DPCH BLER Requirements. 5.3 Lab Testing. 5.4 Exemplary Measurement Results. 6 Medium Access Control. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 MAC Functional Partitioning. 6.3 MAC Receive Functionality. 6.4 MAC Transmit Functionality. 7 Radio Link Control. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Transparent Data Transfer Service. 7.3 Unacknowledged Data Transfer Service. 7.4 Acknowledged Data Transfer Service. 8 PDCP. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Overall Architecture. 8.3 PDCP Interface. 8.4 Header Compression. 8.5 SRNS Relocation. 8.6 PDCP Header Formats. 8.7 Handling an Invalid PDU Type and PID. 9 Broadcast/Multicast Control. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 CTCH Scheduling. 10 RRC. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Cell Selection and Reselection. 10.3 Reception of Broadcast System Information. 10.4 Paging and Notification . 10.5 Establishment, Maintenance and Release of an RRC Connection Between the UE and UTRAN. 10.6 Establishment, Reconfiguration and Release of Radio Access Bearers. 10.7 Assignment, Reconfiguration and Release of Radio Resources for the RRC Connection. 10.8 RRC Connection Mobility Functions. 10.9 Routeing of Higher Layer PDUs. 10.10 Control of Requested QoS. 10.11 UE Measurements. 10.12 Power Control. 10.13 Arbitration of Radio Resources on Uplink DCH. 10.14 Integrity Protection. 10.15 Ciphering Management. 10.16 PDCP Control. 10.17 CBS Control. 11 Speech Coding for UMTS. 11.1 Introduction - the Adaptive Multirate (AMR) Speech Codec. 11.2 AMR Structure. 11.3 Linear Prediction Analysis. 11.4 LSF Quantization. 11.5 Pitch Analysis. 11.6 Fixed Codebook with Algebraic Structure. 11.7 Post Processing. 11.8 The AMR Codec's bit Allocation. 11.9 Speech Codec's Error Sensitivity. 11.10 Conclusions. 12 Future Developments. 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 3GPP Release 5: HSDPA. 12.3 Location-based Services. 12.4 CPICH Interference Cancellation and Mitigation. 12.5 Transmit Diversity for Multiple Antennas. 12.6 Improved Baseband Algorithms and Technology Trends. A Appendix A: ML detection for uncoded QPSK. B Appendix B: SIR computation. References. Index.