Input parameter:

Interim calculation:

Result:

VoIP codec AMR #PDCCH symbols 3

Packet Inter-Arrival Time [ms] 20 Cyclic prefix Normal
Bandwidth [MHz] 5 PCFICH On
Number of Tx antennas 2 PHICH Ng 0.166
Number of segments 1 pdcchAlpha 0.8
No of HARQ transmissions 4 Cell edge users [%] 5

PDCCH used per VoIP packet (cell edge) 4

PDCCH CCE used per VoIP packet (cell edge) 32
Available PDCCH CCEs for a given configuration (excl.PHICH and PCFICH) 21
CCEs reserved for common search space 1
Total number of PDCCH CCEs available for user data transmission 16
PDCCH capacity used per VoIP user (cell edge) 10.00%
PDCCH capacity used per VoIP user (non cell edge) 0.75%

PDCCH number of supported VoIP users 83

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Number of CCEs vs. System Bandwidth and #PDCCH symbols

MHz 1.4 3 5 10 15 20
#PRBs 6 12 25 50 75 100
1 0 1 4 10 15 20
2 2 5 13 26 40 54
3 4 9 21 43 65 87
4 6 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Note:
Row represents number of OFDM symbols reserved for PDCCH

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 N group
PHICH=
{ N g ( N DL
2 N g N DL
(
RB / 8 )

RB / 8 )
for normal cyclic prefix
for extended cyclic prefix

N/A

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