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3G Evolution

HSPA and LTE for Mobile Broadband

  • 1st Edition - June 7, 2007
  • Authors: Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skold, Per Beming
  • Language: English

This very up-to-date and practical book, written by engineers working closely in 3GPP, gives insight into the newest technologies and standards adopted by 3GPP, with detailed… Read more

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This very up-to-date and practical book, written by engineers working closely in 3GPP, gives insight into the newest technologies and standards adopted by 3GPP, with detailed explanations of the specific solutions chosen and their implementation in HSPA and LTE. The key technologies presented include multi-carrier transmission, advanced single-carrier transmission, advanced receivers, OFDM, MIMO and adaptive antenna solutions, advanced radio resource management and protocols, and different radio network architectures. Their role and use in the context of mobile broadband access in general is explained. Both a high-level overview and more detailed step-by-step explanations of HSPA and LTE implementation are given. An overview of other related systems such as TD SCDMA, CDMA2000, and WIMAX is also provided.This is a ‘must-have’ resource for engineers and other professionals working with cellular or wireless broadband technologies who need to know how to utilize the new technology to stay ahead of the competition.The authors of the book all work at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 3G development and standardisation since the early days of 3G research. They are leading experts in the field and are today still actively contributing to the standardisation of both HSPA and LTE within 3GPP.

Key features

* Gives the first explanation of the radio access technologies and key international standards for moving to the next stage of 3G evolution: fully operational mobile broadband
* Describes the new technologies selected by the 3GPP to realise High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) for mobile broadband
* Gives both higher-level overviews and detailed explanations of HSPA and LTE as specified by 3GPP

Readership

Mobile and wireless communications engineers working for the equipment suppliers and network operators, network managers, academic researchers.

Table of contents

Table of contents
Preface

PART I – Introduction

1 Background of 3G evolution

1.1 History and background of 3G

1.2 Standardisation

1.3 Spectrum for 3G

2 The motives behind the 3G evolution

2.1 Driving forces

2.2 3G Evolution – two Radio Access Network approaches and an evolved Core Network


PART II - Technologies for 3G evolution

3 High data rates in mobile communication

3.1 High data rates – fundamental constraints

3.2 Higher data rates within a limited bandwidth –Higher-order modulation

3.3 Wider-bandwidth including multi-carrier transmission

4 OFDM transmission

4.1 Basic principles of OFDM

4.2 OFDM demodulation

4.3 OFDM implementation using IFFT / FFT processing

4.4 Cyclic-prefix insertion

4.5 Frequency-domain model of OFDM transmission

4.6 Channel estimation and reference symbols

4.7 Frequency diversity with OFDM – Importance of channel coding

4.8 Selection of basic OFDM parameters

4.9 Variations in instantaneous transmission power

4.10 OFDM as a user-multiplexing and multiple-access scheme

4.11 Multi-cell broadcast/multicast transmission and OFDM

5 Wider-band ”single-carrier” transmission

5.1 Equalization against radio-channel frequency-selectivity

5.2 Uplink FDMA with flexible bandwidth assignment

5.3 DFT-spread OFDM

6 Multi-antenna techniques

6.1 Multi-antenna configurations

6.2 Benefits of multi-antenna techniques

6.3 Multiple receive antennas

6.4 Multiple transmit antennas

6.5 Spatial multiplexing

7 Scheduling, Link Adaptation, and Hybrid ARQ

7.1 Link adaptation – Power and rate control

7.2 Channel-dependent scheduling

7.3 Advanced Retransmission Schemes

7.4 Hybrid ARQ with Soft Combining


PART III – HSPA

8 WCDMA Evolution – HSPA and MBMS

8.1 WCDMA – Brief Overview

9 High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

9.1 Overview

9.2 Details of HSDPA

9.3 Finer details of HSDPA

10 Enhanced Uplink

10.1 Overview

10.2 Details of Enhanced Uplink

10.3 Finer details of Enhanced Uplink

11 MBMS – Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

11.1 Overview

11.2 Details of MBMS

12 HSPA Evolution

12.1 MIMO

12.2 Higher-Order Modulation

12.3 Continuous Packet Connectivity

12.4 Enhanced CELL_FACH Operation

12.5 Layer 2 Protocol Enhancements

12.6 Advanced Receivers

12.7 Conclusion


PART IV: LTE and SAE

13 LTE and SAE – Introduction and Design Targets

13.1 LTE Design Targets

13.2 SAE Design Targets

14 LTE Radio Access – an Overview

14.1 Transmission schemes – Downlink OFDM and Uplink SC-FDMA

14.2 Channel-dependent Scheduling and Rate Adaptation

14.3 Hybrid ARQ with Soft Combining

14.4 Multiple Antenna Support

14.5 Multicast and Broadcast Support

14.6 Spectrum Flexibility

15 LTE Radio Interface Architecture

15.1 RLC – Radio Link Control

15.2 MAC – Medium Access Control

15.3 PHY – Physical Layer

15.4 LTE states

15.5 Data Flow

16 LTE physical layer

16.1 Overall time-domain structure

16.2 Downlink transmission scheme

16.3 Uplink transmission scheme

17 LTE Access Procedures

17.1 Cell Search

17.2 Random Access

17.3 Paging

18 System Architecture

18.1 Functional split between radio access network and core network

18.2 HSPA/WCDMA and LTE Radio Access Network

18.3 Core network architecture


PART V – Performance and Concluding Remarks

19 Performance of 3G evolution

19.1 Performance assessment

19.2 Performance evaluation of 3G evolution

19.3 Evaluation of LTE in 3GPP

19.4 Conclusion

20 Other Wireless Communications Systems

20.1 UTRA TDD

20.2 CDMA2000

20.3 GSM/EDGE

20.4 WiMAX (IEEE 802.16)

20.5 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (IEEE 802.20)

20.6 Summary

21 Future Evolution

21.1 IMT-Advanced

21.2 The research community

21.3 Standardization bodies

21.4 Concluding Remarks

References
Acronyms

Product details

About the authors

ED

Erik Dahlman

Erik Dahlman works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.
Affiliations and expertise
Ericsson, Sweden

SP

Stefan Parkvall

Stefan Parkvall works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.
Affiliations and expertise
Ericsson, Sweden

JS

Johan Skold

Johan Skold works at Ericsson Research and are deeply involved in 4G and 5G development and standardization since the early days of 3G research.
Affiliations and expertise
Ericsson, Sweden

PB

Per Beming

Affiliations and expertise
Ericsson, Sweden

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