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The access points to the Layer L2/L3 are transport channels. They get mapped to physical
channels. These physical channels will have different modulation-code rate as mentioned
below and are exclusively used by LTE PHYSICAL Layer to carry upper layer information.
Following figure mentions LTE logical channels, transport channels and physical channels
and mapping between them.
As shown logical channels are of two types; one carrying control information and the other
carrying traffic information. These gets mapped to transport channels as depicted in the
figure. The left side is downlink channel mapping and right side is uplink channel mapping.
Physical Channels
PDSCH - Stands for Physical Downlink Shared Channel, mainly used to carry high speed
data/multimedia information. Can be either QPSK/16QAM/64QAM.
PDCCH - Stands for Physical Downlink Control Channel, mainly used to carry UE specific
control information. It will have QPSK modulation used.It is mapped on resource
elements(REs) in first 3 OFDM syms (symbols) in first slot of subframe.
CCPCH - Stands for Common Control Physical Channel, carries cell-wide control
information. QPSK is used. CCPCH is transmitted exclusively on 72 subcarriers entered
around DC carrier.
Physical Signals
Physical signals do not convey L2/L3 layer information, but mainly used for synchronization
and channel estimation purpose. RS is used for estimating channel response. P-SS and S-SS
synchronization signals used for determining network frame timing information i.e. start of
the information.
Transport Channels