October 2013 Doc: IEEE 802.

15-13-0612-00-0008
Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

Submission Title: [ FDD and TDD discussion ]

Date Submitted: [October 2013 ]
Source: [Marco Hernandez, Huan-Bang Li, Igor Dotlić, Ryu Miura ]
Company: [NICT]
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Re: [In response to call for technical contributions to TG8]
Abstract: [ ]
Purpose: [Material for discussion in 802.15.8 TG]
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FDD vs TDD

• During the Nanjing meeting, there was a discussion on the

duplexing method best fit for PAC applications.
• The present contribution aims to solve the issue.
– FDD uses the idea that the transmission and reception of signals in
a radio terminal are achieved simultaneously using two different
frequencies. It requires a frequency guard.

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TDD

• TDD uses a single frequency band for both transmit and

receive. Then, it shares that band by assigning alternating
time slots to transmit and receive operation. It requires a
guard interval comprising two main elements:
– a time allowance for the propagation delay for any transmission
from the transmitter to arrive at the receiver,
– a time allowance for the radio terminal to change from receiver to
transmitter or vice-versa.

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TDD

• For systems communicating over short distances, say one

Km or so, the guard interval is normally small and
acceptable. For greater distances it may become an issue.

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FDD vs TDD

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FDD vs TDD

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Conclusion

• Based on the above advantages/disadvantages of TDD and

FDD, a preliminary conclusion is that TDD appears to be a
better choice,
– because PAC applications are expected to have asymmetric traffic.
– Furthermore, multiple antennas procedures like MIMO and
beamforming are better supported in terms of implementation
complexity.
• However, FDD is technically feasible (and not impossible
as said during the Nanjing meeting).

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