Name The 4 RRC Connected Modes (States) and Describe The Characteristics of Each
Name The 4 RRC Connected Modes (States) and Describe The Characteristics of Each
Name The 4 RRC Connected Modes (States) and Describe The Characteristics of Each
In dBm is: RSCP=RSSI+EcNo
Answer: Ec/Io = energy of carrier over all noise. RSCP = Receive Signal Code Power.
In FDD mode (what we normally deal with) they are measured on the CPICH (pilot).
Bonus if they know that Io is the sum of all interference: thermal/bg noise + interferers
+ own cell and is wideband. Bonus if they understand that RSCP is actually measured
AFTER despreading (i.e. narrowband)
Answer: Channelization codes are used for spreading and despreading of the signals, they
also create the "channels" making it possible to distinguish between
users/connections/channels. Bonus if they know that they have an associated Spreading
Factor and are allocated depending on the bandwidth required by the service.
Ans: The relation of downlink FER and RXQUAL was measured during a FH trial. The
relation is clearly different in the hopping case compared to the non-hopping case. The
distributions of FER in each RXQUAL class are presented in Figure 7-1 and Figure 7-2. One
clear observation can be made; in the non-hopping case there are significant amount of
samples indicating deteriorated quality (FER>10%) in RXQUAL class 5 while in the hopping
case the significant quality deterioration (FER>10%) happens in RXQUAL class 6. Thus, it
may be concluded that in the frequency hopping networks significant quality deterioration
starts at RXQUAL class 6 while in non-hopping network this happens at RXQUAL class 5.
This improvement of FER means that the higher RXQUAL values may be allowed in a
frequency hopping network. RXQUAL thresholds are used in the handover and power
control decisions. Because of the improvement in the relative reception performance on the
RXQUAL classes 4-6, the RXQUAL thresholds affecting handover and power control
decisions should be set higher in a network using frequency hopping network. In a
frequency hopping network RXQUAL classes 0-5 are indicating good quality.
In the Figure 7-3, there are presented some trial results of a DL RXQUAL distribution with
different frequency allocation reuse patterns. As can be seen from the figures, the tighter
the reuse becomes, the less samples fall in quality class 0 and more samples fall in quality
classes 1-6. There’s bigger difference in downlink than in uplink direction.
This difference is a consequence of interference and frequency diversities that affect the
frequency hopping network. Because of these effects, the interference or low signal
strength tend to occur randomly, while in a non-hopping network it is probable that
interference or low field strength will affect several consecutive bursts making it harder for
the error correction to actually correct errors. The successful error correction leads to less
erased frames and thus improves the FER.