HS-SCCH-less Operation

HS-SCCH-less operation is used to reduce the signaling overhead, especially for services
using relatively small packets, e.g., VoIP. The first HS-DSCH transmission of small transport
blocks on predefined HS-PDSCHs is performed without the accompanying HS-SCCH.
Consequently, the UE has to blind-detect the transport format used on HS-DSCH. To help
the UE identify whether an HS-DSCH transmission is addressed to it, CRC attachment
method 2 is defined using a 24-bit CRC on the HS-DSCH masked with the UE ID (or H-
RNTI). Finally, the first transmission always uses QPSK and redundancy version 0.
HARQ-ACK is sent on the HS-DPCCH if the UE successfully blind-detects the first
transmission. If the blind detection is not successful, the UE buffers the received data for
potential later retransmission and soft combining without transmitting an explicit NACK. If
the first transmission fails, HARQ retransmission is used for HSDPA operation.

Enhanced FACH
Chatty smartphone applications exchange small amounts of data with the network
infrequently, taking the modem from idle to a connected state (DCH) repeatedly. While these
exchanges involve only a few bytes to 100s of bytes of data, they impose a significant
signaling load on the network. This results in wasted air-link capacity that could be used to
carry revenue generating user traffic. Furthermore, it diminishes battery life by keeping the
modems in mobile terminals awake longer than necessary.
Enhanced FACH allows mobile terminals to access the more efficient, high-speed shared
data channel while in the Cell FACH state. It significantly reduces network signaling load,
and enables a fast transition from inactive to active state to provide an always on user
experience.
Enhanced FACH includes the eDRX feature which allows inactive mobile terminals to turn
off their modem receive-chains to reduce battery consumption. The mobile terminals wake
up intermittently to exchange short data bursts, and will return to PCH state after
experiencing a long period of inactivity time out.

The above figure illustrates the reduction in signaling and NodeB resource occupancy
achieved by Enhanced FACH during operator field trials using Qualcomms modem chipsets.
Multiple trials have been completed with major infrastructure vendors. This solution is
expected to be commercially deployed in 2014.


Downlink Enhanced_Cell FACH
Cell FACH state is very useful for a UTRAN system to provide low data rate services suchlike push
email and always-on experience to end users. In 3GPP R5 and R6 standards,HSDPA data service cannot
be provided in Cell FACH state and user need to change its statefrom Cell_FACH to Cell_DCH for transmitting or
receiving HSDPA data. This creates datadelay as well as frequent state transitions, which increase the
signaling burden the UTRAN.In HSPA+ by using Downlink Enhanced_Cell FACH feature, HSDPA data can be
transmittedin Cell_FACH state and control channels are mapped with on HS-DSCH channels. This
savesthe unwanted state transition and signaling procedure and improves network capability andusers
experience.In Enhanced_Cell FACH, the logical channels and traffic channels are mapped on HS-
DSCHchannel instead of FACH channel. This improves the state transition time of user
fromconnected to active mode. The user can receive high-speed data while remaining in theFACH
state.Figure 3-21andTable 3-8show procedure and advantages of enhanced cellFACH.
Figure 3-21


Enhanced Cell FACH procedure and delay advantages


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Table 3-8


Enhanced cell FACH advantages
Enhanced Cell FACH Improvements
FACHR99FACHonHSDSCHData Rates 32Kbps >1 MbpsTransition time of Cell_DCH> 600ms

130msAdvantagesImprove
users experience
, decrease call setup delay and HTTPresponse tim