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Why HARQ ( PHICH) information in MIB?
What is necessary of adding PHICH information in MIB, why cant in SIB1 or SIB2?
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Osama Bazan2dOsama Bazan:SIB1 and SIB2 are sent on DL-SCH that required scheduli
ng information to be sent on PDCCH. In order for the UE to understand PDCCH reso
urce mapping, it needs first to know PHICH resource mapping from BW, Ng and PHIC
H duration which are all sent in MIB show less
Mohamed Khalil1dMohamed KhalilSalam Osama Question please: Why PHICH info is imp
ortant to read PDCCH?
Melwyn Lobo23hMelwyn Lobo:Its needed in case of Non-adaptive transmission cases.
In this case, UE/terminal figures out it is using "Non adaptive" HARQ if it get
s NACK on PHICH but does not get DCI0 over PDCCH, so UE choses to use some known
values for RV and MCS. show less
Osama Bazan5hOsama Bazan@Mohamed: The REs in first few symbols of each subframe
are shared among RS, PCFICH, PHICH and PDCCH. After UE gets the PCI and BW, it c
an recognize the REs used by the RS and PCFICH. In order to know the REs used by
PDCCH, the UE must first know the REs used by PHICH using the PHICH info in MIB
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Mohamed Khalil3hMohamed Khalil@ossama :Thanks for very clear answer