Nov.

2011

Huawei eRAN6.0
Physical Channel Resource
Management Feature Introduction

www.huawei.com

Node B Products of Huawei

Apr. 2006

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Contents

1 PDCCH introduction

2 PUCCH introduction

3 SRS introduction

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PDCCH(Physical downlink control channel)
 PDCCH carries scheduling assignments.
 Transmitted on an aggregation of one or several control channel
elements, where a control channel element (CCE) corresponds to a
set of resource elements.
 1PDCCH = 1, 2, 4, 8 CCEs;1 CCE = 9 REGs;1 REG=4 REs.
 Multiple PDCCHs can be transmitted in a sub-frame .
 Supports multiple formats.
 Maximum number of blind decoding for LTE_ACTIVE users is 44
in total.
 Modulation scheme is QPSK.

Number of Number of resource- Number of

CCEs element groups PDCCH bits
1 9 72
2 18 144
4 36 288
8 72 576

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PDCCH resource distributing

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PDCCH-----DCI format (downlink control imformation)
PDCCH carries four kinds of information
• Common message ；
• Downlink scheduling ：
• Uplink scheduling
• TPC commands for Uplink
DCI Format species function
Uplink scheduling
0 for the scheduling of PUSCH

for very compact scheduling of one PDSCH codeword and notifying

1C Common message
MCCH change
Downlink scheduling /Common
for the compact scheduling of one PDSCH codeword and random
1A message
access procedure initiated by a PDCCH order.

1 Downlink scheduling for the scheduling of one PDSCH codeword.(TM2\7)

for the compact scheduling of one PDSCH codeword with precoding
1B Downlink scheduling
information. （ TM6)
for the compact scheduling of one PDSCH codeword with precoding
1D Downlink scheduling
and power offset information. (TM5)
2 Downlink scheduling for the closed-loop MIMO of two codeword (TM4)
2A Downlink scheduling for the open-loop MIMO of two codeword (TM3)
for the transmission of TPC commands for PUCCH and PUSCH with
3 TPC commands for Uplink
2-bit power adjustments
for the transmission of TPC commands for PUCCH and PUSCH with
3A TPC commands for Uplink
single bit power adjustments

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Aggregation of CCE
 Aggregation of CCE Tree-based aggregation with 1, 2, 4, 8 CCE
1-CCE start on any CCE position (i=0,1,2,3,4,...)
2-CCE every second location (i=0,2,4,6,...)
4-CCE on every fourth (i=0, 4, 8, ...)
8-CCE on every eight position (i=0, 8, ...)

 The number of available CCEs in a cell depends on : bandwidth,

#antenna ports, PHICH conf, PDCCH symbol number ...

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Blind Decoding
Maximum number of blind decoding which consists of common search space
and UE-specific search space is 44 in total.

Common search space

 Common search space corresponds to CCEs 0-15 (four decoding
candidates on level-4, CCEs 0-3, 4-7, 8-11, 12-15 and two decoding
candidates on level-8, CCEs 0-7, 8-15.
 Monitored by all UEs in the cell.
 Can be used for any PDCCH signaling (not restricted to ’common’
PDCCH, can be used to resolve ’blocking’)Format 1CFormat 0/1A/3A.
 May overlap with UE-specific search space
 Aggregation levels4-CCE and 8-CCE
 Number of blind decodes spent on common search space = 12

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 Blind Decoding
UE-specific search space

 UE-specific search space32 blind decoding attempts

 Aggregation levels 1, 2, 4, 8
Decoding attempts per payload size (assuming 2 payload sizes per aggregation
level)
6 decoding attempts of 1-CCE aggregation
6 decoding attempts of 2-CCE aggregation
2 decoding attempts of 4-CCE aggregation
2 decoding attempts of 8-CCE aggregation

In total
2 (format 0/1A/3/3A, format 1C) × (4 ＋ 2) (in CSS) +
2 (format 0/1A, format 1/1B/1D/2/2A/) ×(6 ＋ 6 ＋ 2 ＋ 2) (in UE SS) ＝ 44

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PDCCH symbol adaptation

Reduce PDCCH CFI=1

symbol to increase
PDSCH RE

Throughput 20% up

Throughput 10% up

CFI=3 CFI=2

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Key Parameters
Id Name Description Range Recommen MML
ded Value
PdcchSymNu PDCCH symbol If PDCCH symbol number switch is ON/OFF ON yes
mSwitch number switch on ， ENB will change the symbol
number automatically ； if it is
off ， PDCCH Symbol Number is
Not adjustable 。

DlPcAlgoSwitc DL power control If DL power control algorithm switch ON/OFF ON yes

h algorithm switch is on ,ENB will adjust PDCCH power
automatically ； if it is off ， PDCCH
power is not adjustable 。

PdcchAggLvl Pdcch Aggregation If the switch is on , Pdcch ON/OFF ON yes

CLAdjustSwitc Level closed loop Aggregation Level closed loop
h Adjust Switch Adjustment works ; if it is off ,it does
not work .

CceRatioAdjS Cce Ratio If Cce Ratio Adjustment Swich is on , ON/OFF ON yes

wich Adjustment Swich ENB will adjust CCE ratio
automatically ; if it is off , CCE ratio
would not change .

InitPdcchSym Initial PDCCH BW=1.4M {1 ， 2 ， 3 ， 4} {1 ， 2 ， 3 ， 4} 3 yes

Num Symbol Number BW>1.4M{1 ， 2 ， 3}

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Contents

1 PDCCH introduction

2 PUCCH introduction

3 SRS introduction

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PUCCH Resource Allocation
UL Control signal transmitted on PUCCH
 HARQ-ACK including dynamic ACK and semi-persistent ACK
 SRI
 CQI
PUCCH Format

PUCCH format Modulation scheme Number of bits per subframe

1 N/A N/A

1a BPSK 1

1b QPSK 2

2 QPSK 20

2a QPSK+BPSK 21

2b QPSK+QPSK 22

 Scheduling request (SR) using PUCCH format 1

 HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format 1a or 1b
 CQI using PUCCH format 2
 CQI and HARQ-ACK using PUCCH format
 -2a or 2b for normal cyclic prefix
-2 for extended cyclic prefix
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PUCCH Resource Allocation
» Based on the number of OFDM symbol used for PDCCH, the resource of dynamic
ACK/NACK is varied in every sub-frame.
» The total resource allocated to semi-persistent ACK and SRI is informed by
system information, so is CQI.
» Allocate resource for semi-persistent ACK 、 SRI and CQI of different users
respectively.

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PUCCH
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4 5
PUCCH Dynamic ACK/NACK
2 3 Semi-persistent
0 1 ACK/NACK and SRI

CQI
1 ms subframe

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PUCCH Resource Allocation
Cell’s PUCCH resource
The total resource allocated for semi-persistent ACK/SRI or CQI is informed by system information broadcast.

Ue release or allocate
Evaluate the usage of Total resource needs Broadcast system
Semi-ACK, SRI or CQI Yes
total resoorce increase or decrease information
resource

User’s PUCCH resource

Allocate resource for semi-persistent ACK 、 SRI and CQI

Choose the period of

SRI based on UE’ s
Search resource for UE’s QCI level and SRI
Semi-ACK, SRI or CQI resource load

The period of semi- Choose the period of CQI based

persistent ACK is on UE’ s Doppler displacement
20ms and CQI resource load

find idle resource can be

uesd
Yes

Make sure the resource index

of UE’s Semi-ACK, SRI or
CQI

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Key Parameters
Id Name Description Range Recommend MM
ed Value L

SriAdaptiveS SRI Period Adjust If the SriAdaptiveSwitch parameter is set to ENUMERATED { ON,OFF} ON Yes
ON(On), the eNodeB adaptively adjusts an
witch Switch
SRI period for a newly admitted UE based
on SRI loads.

FixedSriPeri If the SriAdaptiveSwitch parameter is set to ENUMERATED 10 ms Yes

SRI Period OFF(Off), users can set an SRI period for
od { 5,10,20,40,80} ms
services of a QoS class identifier (QCI) by
using the FixedSriPeriod parameter. QoS is
short for quality of service.

PucchAlgoSw PUCCH Resource The eNodeB dynamically adjusts PUCCH ENUMERATED { ON,OFF} ON Yes
resources based on PUCCH resource loads.
itch Adjust Switch
The eNodeB either reduces the overhead so
that more resources can be used for
PUSCH transmissions, or increases the
PUCCH resources so that more UEs can be
admitted. The PucchAlgoSwitch parameter
specifies whether to enable PUCCH
resource adjustment, including Semi-
ACK/Sri resource and CQI resource.
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Key Parameters
Id Name Description Range Recommend MM
ed Value L

NaSriChNum ACK_SRI The NaSriChNum parameter specifies the 0~100 step by 1 6 Yes
total resource number of SRI and ACK to
Channel Number
downlink semi-persistent scheduling. If the
PucchAlgoSwitch parameter is set to
PucchSwitch-0, PUCCH resource
adjustment is disabled. If PUCCH resource
adjustment is disabled, you can set the
parameters NaSriChNum and CqiRbNum.

CqiRbNum CQI RB Number The CqiRbNum parameter specifies the 0~20 step by 1 1 Yes
number of RBs for CQI. If the
PucchAlgoSwitch parameter is set to
PucchSwitch-0, PUCCH resource
adjustment is disabled. If PUCCH resource
adjustment is disabled, you can set the
parameters NaSriChNum and CqiRbNum.

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Key Parameters
Id Name Description Range Recommend MM
ed Value L

PucchFlexibl PUCCH Flexible If the PucchFlexibleConfigSwith parameter is set to ENUMERATED OFF Yes
ON, eNodeB can extend RBs based on the { ON,OFF}
eConfigSwith Configuration
PucchExtendedRBNum parameter 。 If the
Switch
PucchFlexibleConfigSwith parameter is set to OFF,
PUCCH resources are still at both sides of the
system bandwidth 。

PucchExtend PUCCH Extended The PucchExtendedRBNum parameter specifies 1~24 step by 1 1 Yes
the extended number of RBs for PUCCH
edRBNum RB Number
resources. If the PucchFlexibleConfigSwith
parameter is set to OFF, The
PucchExtendedRBNum
is disabled.

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Deployment Strategy
Assumption
 The PUCCH resource is adjusted based
on PUCCH resource load

resource
PUCCH

PUCCH resource
More users access cell more
PUCCH resource is needed

Less users access cell less

PUCCH resourec is nedded
Uplink system bandwide

Extend PUCCH resource

Benefit
Decrease PUCCH resource

 PUCCH resource reasonably while save uplink control

PUCCH resource

overhead
resource
PUCCH

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Contents

1 PDCCH introduction

2 PUCCH introduction

3 SRS introduction

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Feature Introduction
 Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) is a uplink reference signal which is
transmitted at the last SC-FDMA symbol of the cell SRS sub-frame.
 The eNodeB can achieve the actual channel state information by
Sounding measurement.

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Sounding RS Principle

SRS algorithm specification allocates appropriately the SRS resource

(including frequency/time/code domain) in order to achieve the best
performance.
5MHz

Frequency
1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz
(a)

5MHz

Frequency
(b)

1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz

Frequency
1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz 1.25MHz
(c)

SRS FDM mapping SRS CDM mapping

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Sounding RS － SRS sub-frame dynamic adjusting

Why introduce SRS sub-frame dynamic adjusting?

– More SRS sub-frame in cell with heavy load. If there are less SRS sub-frame,
eNodeB would get the very poor cell performance without exact CSI.
– Less SRS sub-frame in cell with light load. If there are more SRS sub-frame,
eNodeB would get the very poor cell performance due to the wasteful cell SRS
sub-frame.
– It is necessary to adopt dynamic adjusting for cell SRS sub-frame in order to use
fully cell SRS resource.
SRS sub-frame dynamic adjusting

5,x

10,x 10,x 10,5+x

20,x 20,10+x 20,x 20,10+x 20,5+x 20,15+x

40,10+x 40,30+x 40,x 40,20+x 40,10+x 40,30+x 40,5+x 40,25+x 40,15+x 40,35+x
40,x 40,20+x

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 Key Parameters Introduction
Id Name Description Range Recommend MML
ed Value
SrsConfigInd SRS Configure The SrsCfgInd parameter specifies whether BOOLEAN {TRUE, TRUE
Indication SRS resources are configured for UEs. If this FALSE}
parameter is set to True, SRS resources need to
be configured for UEs in a cell. If this parameter
is set to False, SRS resources are not configured
for UEs in a cell. As a result, there is no SRS
overhead, increasing the uplink capacity

SrsSubframeR Cell SRS Sub-frame If the SrsSubframeRecfSwitch parameter is set ENUMERATED {ON,OFF} ON
eCfSwitch Reconfigure Switch to ON, the eNodeB adaptively adjusts SRS sub-
frame configuration based on cell loads. If the
SrsSubframeRecfSwitch parameter is set to
OFF, the eNodeB always uses the sub-frame
configuration specified.

SrsSubframeC Cell SRS Sub-frame The SrsSubframeCfg parameter specifies an INTEGER {1,15} 3
fg Initial Configure index for a cell-specific SRS sub-frame initial

configuration. The eNodeB can dynamically

adjust SRS sub-frames based on cell loads

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 Key Parameters Introduction
Id Name Description Range Recommend MML
ed Value
SrsPeriodAda SRS Period The SrsPeriodAdaptive parameter is set to ON, ENUMERATED ON
ptive Adaptive the eNodeB adaptively adjusts the SRS period for {ON,OFF}
a newly admitted UE based on SRS loads. The
SrsPeriodAdaptive parameter is set to OFF, the
eNodeB sets a fixed SRS period for admitted UEs.

UserSrsPeriod User SRS Period The UserSrsPeriodCfg parameter specifies the ENUMERATED 40
Cfg Configure fixed SRS period , which is only valid when the {5,10,20,40}
SrsPeriodAdaptive parameter is set to OFF.

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Deployment Strategy
 Scenario
» Enable uplink frequency selection scheduling function.
» Enable downlink MIMO adaptive(open/close-loop) function.
» Enable uplink VMIMO function.

Benefit
• Make full use of LTE capacity.
• Maintain the uplink synchronization of the user
• Achieve uplink frequency selection scheduling gain
• Get downlink MIMO adaptive gain
• Get uplink VMIMO gain

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 Thank You

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