CHANNELS OF WCDMA

By
R. Shashidhar Reddy
(17STUCHH010006)
G. Ajay Kumar
(17STUCHH010064)
WCDMA Basic Properties
•Two duplex alternatives: UTRA FDD vs. UTRA TDD
• Spectrum allocation (UTRA FDD)
• Spreading in WCDMA
• DPDCH/DPCCH/DPCH channel bit rates
Channel mapping
•Logical channels
•Transport channels
•Physical channels
•DPDCH/DPCCH multiplexing in uplink
• DPCH user/control data multiplexing in downlink
• Logical Channels :- They can be defined as different tasks performed by the
network and the UE at different times. They describe the type of information to be
transferred.
Logical channels are categorized into control channels and traffic channels.
Control channels carry the control plane information
Traffic Channels carry the user plane information.

• Transport channels :-They describes how the logical channels will be

transferred.

• Physical Channel :- In uplink and downlink direction, each slot in a radio

frame is defined with a code or a set of codes that carries a set of common and
dedicated channels.
• DPDCH/DPCCH(Dedicated Physical Data Channel)Uplink/Downlink
It used for dedicated mode transfer of user data and associated control
data and from UE.

• DPCH user/control data multiplexing in downlink

Dedicated Physical Channel Which carries the user data which contains physical
channel control information.
Logical / Transport / Physical channels

RLC RLC
Logical channels
MAC MAC
Transport channels

Phy WCDMA Phy Lower layers Lower layers

Physical channels

UE Base station RNC

 Logical / Transport channel mapping

CCCH DCCH PCCH BCCH CCCH CTCH DCCH

DTCH DTCH
Logical channels

Transport channels

RACH CPCH DCH PCH BCH FACH DSCH DCH

Note the different possibilities for transmitting user data

over transport channels
Transport / Physical channel mapping

RACH CPCH DCH PCH FACH BCH DSCH DCH

Transport channels

PRACH PCPCH DPDCH SCCPCH PCCPCH DPCH

AICH CSICH DPCCH

Physical channels
CD/CA-
PICH ICH CPICH SCH PDSCH
DPDCH / DPCCH structure in uplink

Dual-channel QPSK modulation:

Time slot containing 2560 chips

Data
DPDCH (I-branch)

Pilot TFCI FBI TPC

DPCCH (Q-branch)

0 1 2 14

10 ms radio frame (38400 chips)

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