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Scope
Spectrum flexibility
Flexible bandwidth
New and existing bands 1.4 MHz 20 MHz
Duplex flexibility: FDD and TDD
LTE Radio Access – Downlink
OFDM - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
User 1
User 2
User 3
f = 15 kHz
t im
e
frequency
LTE Radio Access – Uplink
SC-FDMA – Single Carrier FDMA (DFTS-OFDM)
• Pre-coded OFDM
• Similar to OFDM
• 15 kHz tones BUT consecutive
• Same time-domain structure User 1
User 2
• Low Peak-to-Average Power Ratio User 3
tim
e
frequency
LTE DL Physical Resources
12 sub-carriers
tim
e
frequency
Scheduling Round-robin Max C/I Proportional fair
• Time domain
• Round-robin
• Max C/I
• Proportional fair
Downlink
User 1
User 2
• Frequency domain User 3
• Consecutive
• Random
tim
e
• Measurement based
frequency
Link adaptation
Layer 1 feature
Modulation scheme
• Time Domain (/user) QPSK 16QAM 64QAM
OFDM
• Modulation scheme symbol 2bits 4bits 6bits
• Channel coding
Channel coding
• Frequency Domain
(/SB)
• Not that common
Time dispersion
One OFDM symbol
Direct path Tu
Reflected path
Measured by UE
Cyclic prefix insertion
One OFDM symbol
Reflected path
Measured by UE
Radio channel
Radio channel
Radio channel
• Major enhancements
• Higher peak rates
• Relaying solutions
LTE 3GPP Rel 10
Higher peak rates
20 MHz
• Carrier aggregation
100 MHz total bandwidth
20 MHz 20 MHz
• Spectrum aggregation
8
• 4 x 20 MHz
• DL 4x4
MIMO
• Commercial
hardware