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Signal Transmission and Reception

While operating in DC-HSDPA mode, the UE receives HSDPA transmissions from two c
ells. The two cells transmit on separate but adjacent carriers while potentially
having different cell powers. DC-HSDPA assumes that the two cells are served by
the same Node-B. While the serving cell has a full set of common channels (SCH,
P-CCPCH, CPICH, PICH, etc.), the UE must assume that the secondary serving cell
only transmit CPICH (i.e., the UE cannot rely on the presence of an SCH/P-CCPCH
).
Both cells can transmit HS-PDSCH and HS-SCCH to the UE simultaneously. Each cell
's HS-PDSCH carries independent data. The UE determines the configuration of eac
h cell's HS-PDSCH by reading each cell's HS-SCCH with independently assigned H-R
NTI. As with single carrier HSDPA (SC-HSDPA), the UE monitors up to 4 HS-SCCHs f
rom each cell, however the standard specifies that the UE can only monitor a tot
al of 6 HS-SCCHs across both cells (see 3GPP TS 25.214 s6A.1.1).
On the uplink the UE transmits a single HS-DPCCH to the serving cell. This HS-DP
CCH carries 1 or 2 Ack/Nack bits depending on how many HS-PDSCH transmissions th
e UE attempts to decode. The HS-DPCCH also carries 2 CQI reports, one for each c
ell (see 3GPP TS 25.212 s4.7). Despite more information on the HS-DPCCH in DC-HS
DPA than SC-HSDPA, the underlying physical channel remains unchanged. Instead mo
re code points are added to the Ack/Nack and CQI fields. While the secondary ser
ving cell is active the UE uses deltaAck+1, deltaNack+1 or deltaCQI+1 (3GPP TS 2
5.214 s5.1.2.5A) to determine the HSDPA gain factor (Ahs). Ahs=38/15 with index
9 has been added to the table in 3GPP TS 25.213 s4.2.1.2.
MAC Layer
To the MAC-ehs layer (DC-HSDPA requires MAC-ehs), the two cells essentially look
like two HS-DSCH transport channels. Each of these HS-DSCH channels are control
led by their own independent HARQ process entity, with each entity containing a
unique set of HARQ processes. Each of the two HARQ process entities are fed by a
common priority queue which means that the rest of the stack from MAC-d upwards
is unaware that two carriers are being used to transmit data to the UE.
To restrict the amount of soft memory that can be allocated to single HARQ proce
ss (and thus limit the amount of data that has to be transferred across the UE's
internal data buses), the standard specifies that when setting up a DC-HSDPA ca
ll with the implicit HARQ memory partitioning the network must configure 6, 7, o
r 8 HARQ processes per cell (3GPP TS 25.331 s10.3.5.7a). For the explicit HARQ m
emory partitioning case, the number of HARQ processes can be 1 through 8, but th
e memory size for each HARQ process can not be greater than the number of soft c
hannel bits for an implicit memory partitioning with 6 processes per HS-DSCH cha
nnel (3GPP TS 25.331 s8.6.5.6b).
Layer 1 Timing
For a secondary serving HS-DSCH cell, the nominal radio frame timing for CPICH a
nd the timing reference are the same as the radio frame timing for CPICH and tim
ing reference for the serving HS-DSCH cell (3GPP TS 25.211 s7.1).
Signaling
With signaling, the UE indicates whether it supports DC-HSDPA in the RRC Connect
ion Setup Request message and then signals its DC-HSDPA category in the RRC Conn
ection Setup Complete message.
The network enables and activates DC-HSDPA at call setup in the RRC Connection S
etup or RB Setup message. Once on a connection, DC-HSDPA can be enabled or disab

led by all the reconfiguration messages (Radio Bearer Reconfiguration (RBR), Tra
nsport Channel Reconfiguration (TCR) and Physical Channel Reconfiguration (PCR))
, or by using the RB Release or Active Set Update message.
When DC-HSDPA is enabled, the secondary serving cell can also be activated or de
activated using HS-SCCH orders that can be sent on either the serving or seconda
ry serving cell (the UE.s behavior is undefined if it receives conflicting order
s).
The DRX status and activation and deactivation of the DRX with HS-SCCH is common
to both serving and secondary serving cells, and the related HS-SCCH signaling
can be sent on either the serving or the secondary serving HS-DSCH cell.
3GPP TS 34.121 Conformance Test
3GPP TS 34.121-1 added new test cases in both chapter 6 (Receiver Characteristic
s) and chapter 9 (Performance Requirements for HSDPA) for DC-HSDPA devices testi
ng. New FRC channel configurations are also defined, namely H-Set 3A, H-Set 6A,
H-Set 8A, H-Set 10A, and H-Set 12. For each of the H-sets, the same parameters a
re used for each of the cells, for example: H-Set 3A is formed by applying H-Set
3 parameters to each of the cells.
Reference sensitivity levels have been raised by 4 dB for DC-HSDPA tests. BLER m
ust be measured independently for each cell. Two new Reporting of CQI tests veri
fy the UE.s ability to accurately report CQI for both cells. 3GPP TS 34.108 s7.3
.13 defines a call setup procedure for DC-HSDPA RF conformance testing that is a
lmost identical to the regular HSDPA call setup procedure with the exception tha
t the loop is not closed on the 12.2 kbps reference measurement channel (RMC). I
nstead, each test is required to specify loopback conditions.

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