1.

Access Scheme UL DFTS-OFDMA

DL- OFDMA

Bandwidth-1.4,3,5,10,15,20MHZ
Minimum TTI 1msec
Sub-carrier spacing 15KHZ
Cyclic prefix length Short=4.7 sec
Cyclic prefix length Long=16.7 sec
Modulation-QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM
Spatial multiplexing-Single layer for UL per UE

Up to 4 layers for DL per UE MU MIMO

supported for UL and DL

LTE Release 8 User

Equipment Categories
Category

DL

10

50

100

150

300

UL

25

50

50

75

Capability for phyical

Functionalities

RF bandwidth-20MHZ
Modulation-QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM

LTE ARCHITECTURE

E-UTRAN Structure
MME / S-GW

MME / S-GW

Mobility Management
Serving Gateway

EPC
S1

EPS

Interface between
MME/SGW & eNodeB

eNodeB

EUTRAN

RNC
Node B

X2

X2
X2
eNodeB

eNodeB

eNodeB

Interface between
eNodeBs
Only one Node in E-UTRAN eNodeB

Flexible band width

Evolved Packet Core EPC

Higher spectrum efficiency

Evolved Packet System EPS

High peak rate, Lower latency

LTE Dimensioning
A single resource block (RB) is always 12

consecutive subcarriers (REs) during one

subframe (2 slots, 1 ms)
12 subcarriers x 15 kHz (sub-carrier spacing in
freq domain) = 180 kHz.
This means that one RB has a total bandwidth of
180 kHz.
Therefore, to calculate number of RBs per given
spectrum you simply divide the total usable
bandwidth by 180 kHz. See the attached excel for
more details.

Allocatable
resources
LTE radio resource = time-frequency chunk
Resource Block (RB) =
12 carriers in one TS
(12*15KHz x 0.5ms)

Time domain
1 frame = 10 sub-frames
1 subframe = 2 slots
1 slot = 7 (or 6) OFDM
symbols
Frequency domain
1 OFDM carrier = 15KHz

Note: In LTE resource management is

along three dimensions: Time,
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Frequency, Code