Thursday 26 February 2015

19:32 - 1 comment

How LTE UE determines whether LTE Network supports TDD\FDD LTE configuration?

Typically the LTE UE will either support FDD or TDD mode only. The possition, where PSS & SSS signals are transmitted, is different for FDD and TDD mode. During cell search the LTE UE has to locate & receive these signals. This is how the LTE UE knows whether the LTE cell is TDD or FDD cell.

After detection of location of SSS with respect to PSS, UE distinguish about FDD and TDD..
In FDD mode, the PSS is transmitted in the last symbol of slots 0 and 10, while the SSS is sent one symbol earlier.
In TDD mode, the PSS is transmitted in the third symbol of slots 2 and 12, while the SSS is sent three symbols earlier. thus if SSS and PSS are adjacent to each other then it is FDD and if there is two more more symbols between SSS and PSS then it is TDD 

Saturday 31 January 2015

03:43 - 2 comments

Uu Interface


ROHC is robust header compression performed on the IP packet headers in PDCP
Ciphering performed in PDCP
Integrity checking performed in PDCP for RRC messages (and hence
encapsulated NAS messages)
MAC may multiplex several Logical channels to form a single Transport
channel
HARQ performed in MAC

02:04 - No comments

LTE UE Guide

The internal architecture of the user equipment for LTE is identical to the one used by UMTS and GSM which is actually a Mobile Equipment (ME). The mobile equipment comprised of the following important modules:
  • Mobile Termination (MT): This handles all the communication functions.
  • Terminal Equipment (TE): This terminates the data streams.
  • Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC): This is also known as the SIM card for LTE equipments. It runs an application known as the Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM).
A USIM stores user-specific data very similar to 3G SIM card. This keeps information about the user's phone number, home network identity and security keys etc.

1.) UE Architecture
2.) UE identifiers
3.) UE Categories