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White Paper – Dual Cell HSDPA
and its Future Evolution
January 2009
Eiko Seidel, Junaid Afzal, Günther Liebl
Nomor Research GmbH, Munich, Germany
Summary
3GPP has recently started activities on joint
scheduling across two HSDPA carriers to
increase the peak data rates per user and better
utilize the available resources by multiplexing
carriers in CELL DCH state. This dual carrier
approach called DC-HSDPA offers both higher
resource utilization efficiency and frequency
selectivity in order to achieve better performance
gains particularly for UEs in unfavourable
channel conditions.
This paper gives an overview of the related
study and work items on dual carrier operations.
We discuss the changes required to support the
flexible operation of dual carrier and highlight
the expected gains. Furthermore, some
preliminary technological proposals for future
evolution of Multi-Carrier HSPA are introduced
and briefly evaluated. Nomor Research has been
involved in 3GPP standardisation, simulation and
demonstrations since the establishment of the
work item and offers related services.
Introduction
UMTS Release 99, based on dedicated resource
allocation per user, was not well suited for IP
packet data traffic. Therefore High Speed Packet
Downlink Access (HSDPA) and Enhanced
Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) have been
introduced as new features of UMTS for
Downlink and Uplink in UMTS Release 5 and
Release 6, called High Speed Packet Access. [1]
provides an overview about the HSPA
technology. Dual Cell (DC-)HSDPA is the natural
evolution of HSPA by means of carrier
aggregation.
The initial UMTS deployments mostly aimed for
coverage maximization, and hence, single carrier
capacity was sufficient to meet the subscriber
requirements. By now rapid subscriber growth
took place due to several factors not limited to
HSPA global deployments, better user experience
for broadband multimedia applications, high
speed internet and availability of cheap
UMTS/HSPA
handsets.
Consequently,
the

operators (in most cases) deployed (or are even
deploying) HSPA networks with multiple WCDMA
carriers to meet the capacity requirements. This
multicarrier deployment is further supported by
the fact that UMTS licenses are often issued as
10 or 15 MHz paired spectrum allocations.
Nevertheless, in all practical scenarios, these
multiple carriers are operated independently on
L2 & L1, whereby coordination only takes place
at the level of connection management for the
purpose of load balancing. Since IP based traffic
is burstly in nature and unpredictable, a well
balanced load between carriers with such a slow
adaptation rate is not feasible.
Thus, the basic idea of the multicarrier feature is
to achieve better resource utilization and
spectrum efficiency by means of joint resource
allocation and load balancing across the carriers.
This joint resource optimization over multiple
carriers requires dynamic RRM in CELL DCH state
to achieve higher peak data-rates per HSDPA
user within a single Transmission Time Interval
(TTI), as well as enhanced terminal capabilities.
The overall goal is to provide enhanced and
consistent user experience across the cell
especially at the edges where the channel
conditions are not favourable and existing
techniques such as MIMO cannot be used.

Figure 1: Single carrier versus Dual-Carrier Transmission

Dual Carrier HSPA Standardisation
Dual carrier operation has been promoted in the

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Definitions
The following definitions [1] will be used
frequently in the remaining part of this paper:
Anchor carrier: A UE’s anchor carrier has all the
physical channels, including DPCH/F-DPCH, EHICH, E-AGCH, and E-RGCH.
Supplementary carrier: During dual carrier
operation in CELL_DCH, the UE’s supplementary
carrier is the downlink carrier which is not the
UE’s anchor carrier.
Gains of Dual Carrier
An advanced HSPA network can theoretically
support up to 28Mbps and 42Mbps with a single
5MHz carrier for Rel7 (MIMO) and Rel8 (Higher
Order Modulation + MIMO), in good channel
condition with low correlation between transmit
antennas. An alternative method to double the
data rates could be to use double the bandwidth,
i.e. 10MHz. Additionally, some diversity and
joint scheduling gains can also be expected [6]
with improved QoS for end users in poor
environment conditions.
However, any fair assessment of DC gains
requires comparison of a collaborative dual
carrier setup with an independent use of 2 single
carriers as reference. Hence, the true gains of
DC operations result from two factors:
• The dynamic statistical multiplexing of users
offers improved load sharing compared to
static
load
sharing
at
connection
management level. Additionally, it allows
double the instantaneous data rates by
assigning all the code and power resources
to a single user in a TTI.
• The possibility to assign resources to a user
dynamically either on the anchor or the
supplementary carrier (or even both), leads

to additional frequency selectivity
improved QoS from joint scheduling.

and

The respective gains are demonstrated in Figure
2 [8] for a scenario with full buffer traffic and a
Proportional Fair scheduler. As can be observed,
the DC gain is more pronounced at low load
(25% at 2 users/sector) compared to high load
(7% at 32 users/sector).
Sector Throughput Vs Users per Sector (PA3)
20

Sector Throughput (Mbps)

3GPP standardization by Qualcomm [5] and
Ericsson [6], and a RAN1/4 Study Item (SI)
entitled “Feasibility Study on Dual Cell HSDPA
Operation” was proposed and approved [3][4] in
TSG RAN #39. In TSG RAN #40 the SI was
further maintained considering the good
progress status, and a Work Item (WI) entitled
“Dual-Cell HSDPA Operation on Adjacent
Carriers” was approved [11]. The WI was
completed in December 2008 TSG RAN#42 with
the final status report [12] and with a complete
set of change requests to the specification. The
work item “Conformance Test Aspects – DualCell HSDPA operation on adjacent carriers” [13]
was started to allow for conformance testing for
the new specification.

15

10

2x SC RxD

5

DC RxD
0
0

5

10

15

20

Users per sector

25

30

35

Figure 2: Capacity gains of DC-HSDPA over 2*SC HSDPA

This is because low geometry users see a higher
variation in their proportional fair metric. Besides
throughput gain, also gains in the reduction of
latency can be seen particularly for IP based
bursty traffic sources that can efficiently be
assigned with DC-HSPA. For low resource
utilization DC-HSPA provides twice the average
burst rate compared to two separate carriers.
Simply speaking the scheduler can send a packet
twice as fast and a burst of one user is likely to
be sent before a burst of another user arrives.
Parallel transmission with 64-QAM modulation
each carrier can theoretically provide a
aggregate downlink peak data rate of 43.2 Mbps
in 10MHz without the support of MIMO.
Physical Channels
HS-DPCCH: A couple of design options were
considered, such as introducing a second HSDPCCH or the modification of HS-DPCCH to carry
CQI and ACK/NACK of both carriers. After a
thorough analysis, RAN1 agreed to map the
HSDPA related feedback information to a single
HS-DPCCH [17] instead of two. Main arguments
to select a single HS-DPCCH design have been
a better cubic metric performance and related
coverage benefit. The number of Channel
Quality Indicator (CQI) bits is 5 or 10, depending
on whether the secondary carrier is active or not.
The composite CQI is formulated from 2
independent CQI’s, one for each carrier. In
addition, new channel coding schemes have
been specified for composite HARQ feedback.

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HS-SCCH: The HS-SCCH is transmitted on both
the anchor and supplementary carriers, whereby
the UE has to monitor up to 4 HS-SCCH codes on
each carrier. The maximum number of HSSCCHs monitored by the UE across both the
serving HS-DSCH cell and the secondary serving
HS-DSCH cell is 6 [18].
The UE shall be able to receive up to 1 HS-SCCH
on serving cell and 1 HS-SCCH on secondary
serving cell simultaneously. This approach will
provide flexibility to scheduling.
Impact on UEs
Legacy UEs (HSDPA category 1-20) do not
support dual carrier operation. Hence, new
HSDPA UE categories 21-24 have been
introduced [15] with the following operational
considerations:
• Co-existence with legacy UEs.
• Capability to be served dynamically (on per
TTI granularity) on either or both of the
allocated carriers at the same time.
• Capability to feedback ACK/NACK and CQI
for both the carriers simultaneously.
• HS-SCCH less operation and uplink power
control to be carried on anchor carrier.
• The Node-B may dynamically enable and
disable the supplementary carrier to save UE
battery power depending upon the downlink
traffic and channel considerations by means
of HS-SCCH orders.
• No support of MIMO and dual cell
simultaneously.
• Capability to perform measurements on the
supplementary carrier without compressed
mode [16].
• Mobility procedures are supported based on
serving HS-DSCH cell.
In a baseline DC-HSPA configuration Transmit
Diversity (STTD) and Receive Diversity (2 RxAntennas) are used on each carrier.
Scheduling Considerations
One of the major tasks within 3GPP Rel8 WI was
the proposal of optimized operations across L2
(even more specifically at the MAC layer). While
the downlink Node-B queues could be operated
jointly or disjointly, the first option was chosen,
as it offers more flexibility in scheduling
operations according to the assumption for
simulations in [7].
A single MAC-ehs entity as shown is figure 3 on

UTRAN and UE side will support HS-DSCH
transmission/reception in more than one cell
served by the same Node-B. Therefore the DC
operation can be introduced with minor changes
on the Layer 2 design. However, there will be
separate HARQ entity per HS-DSCH channel, i.e.
one HARQ process per TTI for single carrier and
two HARQ processes per TTI for dual carrier
transmission/reception [19]. Hence, at the
physical layer, dual carrier transmission can be
viewed as independent transmissions over 2
orthogonal HS-DSCH channels, each having
associated downlink and uplink signalling as
shown.
A separate transport block with same or different
Transport Format Resource Combination (TFRC)
is transmitted on both carriers based on the
HARQ and CQI feedback received on the
associated uplink HS-DPCCH channel. The HARQ
retransmissions will be transmitted with the
same Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) as the
first transmission on the same HARQ entity as
the latter.
MAC-d flows
MAC-ehs

Scheduling/Priority handling
Priority Queue
distribution

MAC
Control
Priority
Queue

Priority
Queue

Priority
Queue

Segment
ation

Segment
ation

Segment
ation

Priority Queue MUX

HARQ entity
HARQ entity
TFRC selection

TFRC selection

Ass ociate d
Uplink
Signalling

HS -DS CH

Associated
Dow nlink
Signalling

Ass oc iate d
Uplink
Signalling

HS -DS CH

Associated
Downlink
Signalling

Figure 3: UTRAN MAC-ehs Architecture

Scheduling is the most important feature
determining the gain that can be achieved by
collaborative (DC) over independent (2*SC)
configurations. In a first step, all the existing SC
schedulers need to be updated to support DC
scheduling in a backward compatible manner.
Systematic optimization of DC scheduling
algorithms then poses a challenging task, which
needs to take into account the dynamic and
static system, as well as the application
parameters in a joint manner. For example, dual
carrier-capable UEs may utilize the available
resources on both carriers in every TTI
(statistical multiplexing gain), prefer the carrier

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with the higher CQI in case of single carrier
allocation (frequency selectivity), or allow for
dual carrier allocation whenever this brings a
benefit. However, the legacy UEs will be only
considered for scheduling on their respective
anchor carrier.
Future Multi-Carrier HSPA Evolution
As data usage will continue to grow there is a
continuous need to increase user and system
throughput. The specification work on DC-HSPA
is close to completion and there is already work
ongoing to add further enhancements as part of
UMTS Release 9. A work item for this work called
Multi Carrier Evolution that comprises various
technology enhancements has already been
proposed by Qualcomm, Ericsson, Huawei and
others [14]. Discussed improvements could be
categorized in the following way:
I. Inter-Band Dual-Carrier HSDPA Operation
DC-HSDPA operation in Rel.8 is restricted to two
adjacent carriers operating in the same
frequency band. A more flexible aggregation of
carrier would simplify deployment in fragmented
spectrum allocations and would also allow the
efficient re-farming of 2G technologies to 3G
HSPA.
II. Dual-Carrier HSUPA Operation
DC-HSDPA is currently limited to the downlink
operation only. For DC-HSUPA in the uplink
similar performance gain as seen for the
downlink can be expected.
III. Combinations of DC-HSDPA and MIMO
The use of MIMO is not allowed for DC-HSDPA in
Rel.8, but would surely offer higher peak data
rates to fulfil the further increasing broadband
requirements without introducing new features.
Basically the aggregate downlink peak data rate
within 10 MHz would be increased from 43.2
Mbps to 86.4 Mbps in 10MHz.
IV. Multiple Carrier (MC-)HSDPA Operation
Instead of two carriers the MC-HSDPA operation
would allow three or four adjacent carrier to be
scheduled jointly. Since the data rate scales with
the bandwidth, this could significantly enhance
peak data rates as well as the system capacity.
An aggregate downlink peak data rate of 86.4
Mbps could be achieved with 4 carriers covering
20 MHz without MIMO or of 129.6 Mbps with the
use of MIMO.

Of course those improvements come at the
expense of UE and Node B complexity. RF
complexity, the increase of feedback information
such as CQI and HARQ ACK/NACK as well as the
control channel overhead for configuration and
resource allocation are of particular importance.
In summary HSPA will continue to evolve into a
competitive standard also for the long term. With
the
described
improvements
the
HSPA
technology has been enhanced significantly.
Within UMTS Release 9 we can expect the
system to evolve further from a dual-cell to a
multi-carrier
system
with
several
other
enhancements that are being discussed in 3GPP
standardisation right now. Official completion
data of Release 9 is end of 2009. With those
improvements the MC-HSPA technology could
become competitive to LTE Release 8 even in
larger or in fragmented spectrum allocations.
Compromises that come with a technology that
has been improved over time are be
compensated by early availability and maturity of
a well established technology.

References
[1] White Paper: “Technology of High Speed
Packet Access”
http://www.nomor.de/home/technology/whitepapers/technology-of-high-speed-packet-accesshspa
[2] 3GPP TS 25.825 (V1.0.0) “Dual Cell HSDPA
Operation”.
[3] 3GPP TD RP-080148: “Feasibility Study on
Dual-Cell HSDPA operation”.
[4] 3GPP TD RP-080228: "Feasibility Study on
Dual-Cell HSDPA operation".
[5] R1-081361, “System Benefits of Dual Carrier
HSDPA”, Qualcomm Europe, 3GPP TSG-RAN
WG1 #52bis, April, 2008.
[6] R1-081546, “Initial multi-carrier HSPA
performance evaluation”, Ericsson, 3GPP TSGRAN WG1 #52bis, April, 2008.
[7] R1-081706, “Simulation Assumptions for DC
HSDPA Performance Evaluations”, Qualcomm
Europe, Ericsson, Nokia, NSN, 3GPP TSG-RAN
WG1 #53bis, May 2008.

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[8] R1-082094, “Text proposal for TR on
simulation results” (initial submission),
Qualcomm Europe, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #53bis,
May 2008.
[9] R1-082135, “System simulation results for
DC-HSDPA operation”, Ericsson, 3GPP TSG-RAN
WG1 #53bis, May 2008.
[10] R1-081903, “Initial simulation results for
dual cell HSDPA operation”, Nokia, 3GPP TSGRAN WG1 #53bis, May 2008.
[11] RP-080490, “Dual-Cell HSDPA operation on
adjacent carriers”.
[12] RP-080814, “Status Report for WI to TSG”.
[13] RP-080996, “Conformance test aspects –
Dual Cell HSDPA operation on adjacent carriers”.
[14] RP-081123, Work Item Description “Multicarrier evolution”.
[15] R2-085723, “Addition of UE categories for
dual cell HSDPA”.
[16] R2-085213, “Introduction of UE
Measurement Capability for DC-HSDPA”.
[17] R1-084030 25.212 CR0267R3 (Rel-8, B)
“Introduction of Dual-Cell HSDPA Operation on
Adjacent Carriers”.
[18] R1-084656 25.214 CR0528 (Rel-8, B),
“Clarifications to Dual-Cell Operation”.
[19] R2-087441 25321 CR0467R1, “Introduction
of Dual Cell HSDPA operation”.
Note: This white paper is provided to you by Nomor
Research GmbH. Similar documents can be obtained from
www.nomor.de. Feel free to forward this issue in
electronic format. Please contact us in case you are
interested in collaboration on related subjects.

Disclaimer: This information, partly obtained from
official 3GPP meeting reports, is assumed to be
reliable, but do not necessarily reflects the view of
Nomor Research GmbH. The white paper is provided
for informational purpose only. We do not accept any
responsibility for the content of this white paper. Nomor
Research GmbH has no obligation to update, modify or
amend or to otherwise notify the reader thereof in the
event that any matter stated herein, or any opinion,
projection, forecast or estimate set forth herein,
changes or subsequently becomes inaccurate.

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White Paper – Dual Cell HSDPA and its Future Evolution - Jan 2009 Eiko Seidel, Junaid Afzal, Günther Liebl Nomor Research GmbH, Munich, Germany

  • 1. White Paper – Dual Cell HSDPA and its Future Evolution January 2009 Eiko Seidel, Junaid Afzal, Günther Liebl Nomor Research GmbH, Munich, Germany Summary 3GPP has recently started activities on joint scheduling across two HSDPA carriers to increase the peak data rates per user and better utilize the available resources by multiplexing carriers in CELL DCH state. This dual carrier approach called DC-HSDPA offers both higher resource utilization efficiency and frequency selectivity in order to achieve better performance gains particularly for UEs in unfavourable channel conditions. This paper gives an overview of the related study and work items on dual carrier operations. We discuss the changes required to support the flexible operation of dual carrier and highlight the expected gains. Furthermore, some preliminary technological proposals for future evolution of Multi-Carrier HSPA are introduced and briefly evaluated. Nomor Research has been involved in 3GPP standardisation, simulation and demonstrations since the establishment of the work item and offers related services. Introduction UMTS Release 99, based on dedicated resource allocation per user, was not well suited for IP packet data traffic. Therefore High Speed Packet Downlink Access (HSDPA) and Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) have been introduced as new features of UMTS for Downlink and Uplink in UMTS Release 5 and Release 6, called High Speed Packet Access. [1] provides an overview about the HSPA technology. Dual Cell (DC-)HSDPA is the natural evolution of HSPA by means of carrier aggregation. The initial UMTS deployments mostly aimed for coverage maximization, and hence, single carrier capacity was sufficient to meet the subscriber requirements. By now rapid subscriber growth took place due to several factors not limited to HSPA global deployments, better user experience for broadband multimedia applications, high speed internet and availability of cheap UMTS/HSPA handsets. Consequently, the operators (in most cases) deployed (or are even deploying) HSPA networks with multiple WCDMA carriers to meet the capacity requirements. This multicarrier deployment is further supported by the fact that UMTS licenses are often issued as 10 or 15 MHz paired spectrum allocations. Nevertheless, in all practical scenarios, these multiple carriers are operated independently on L2 & L1, whereby coordination only takes place at the level of connection management for the purpose of load balancing. Since IP based traffic is burstly in nature and unpredictable, a well balanced load between carriers with such a slow adaptation rate is not feasible. Thus, the basic idea of the multicarrier feature is to achieve better resource utilization and spectrum efficiency by means of joint resource allocation and load balancing across the carriers. This joint resource optimization over multiple carriers requires dynamic RRM in CELL DCH state to achieve higher peak data-rates per HSDPA user within a single Transmission Time Interval (TTI), as well as enhanced terminal capabilities. The overall goal is to provide enhanced and consistent user experience across the cell especially at the edges where the channel conditions are not favourable and existing techniques such as MIMO cannot be used. Figure 1: Single carrier versus Dual-Carrier Transmission Dual Carrier HSPA Standardisation Dual carrier operation has been promoted in the Nomor Research GmbH / info@nomor.de / www.nomor.de / T +49 89 9789 8000 1/5
  • 2. Definitions The following definitions [1] will be used frequently in the remaining part of this paper: Anchor carrier: A UE’s anchor carrier has all the physical channels, including DPCH/F-DPCH, EHICH, E-AGCH, and E-RGCH. Supplementary carrier: During dual carrier operation in CELL_DCH, the UE’s supplementary carrier is the downlink carrier which is not the UE’s anchor carrier. Gains of Dual Carrier An advanced HSPA network can theoretically support up to 28Mbps and 42Mbps with a single 5MHz carrier for Rel7 (MIMO) and Rel8 (Higher Order Modulation + MIMO), in good channel condition with low correlation between transmit antennas. An alternative method to double the data rates could be to use double the bandwidth, i.e. 10MHz. Additionally, some diversity and joint scheduling gains can also be expected [6] with improved QoS for end users in poor environment conditions. However, any fair assessment of DC gains requires comparison of a collaborative dual carrier setup with an independent use of 2 single carriers as reference. Hence, the true gains of DC operations result from two factors: • The dynamic statistical multiplexing of users offers improved load sharing compared to static load sharing at connection management level. Additionally, it allows double the instantaneous data rates by assigning all the code and power resources to a single user in a TTI. • The possibility to assign resources to a user dynamically either on the anchor or the supplementary carrier (or even both), leads to additional frequency selectivity improved QoS from joint scheduling. and The respective gains are demonstrated in Figure 2 [8] for a scenario with full buffer traffic and a Proportional Fair scheduler. As can be observed, the DC gain is more pronounced at low load (25% at 2 users/sector) compared to high load (7% at 32 users/sector). Sector Throughput Vs Users per Sector (PA3) 20 Sector Throughput (Mbps) 3GPP standardization by Qualcomm [5] and Ericsson [6], and a RAN1/4 Study Item (SI) entitled “Feasibility Study on Dual Cell HSDPA Operation” was proposed and approved [3][4] in TSG RAN #39. In TSG RAN #40 the SI was further maintained considering the good progress status, and a Work Item (WI) entitled “Dual-Cell HSDPA Operation on Adjacent Carriers” was approved [11]. The WI was completed in December 2008 TSG RAN#42 with the final status report [12] and with a complete set of change requests to the specification. The work item “Conformance Test Aspects – DualCell HSDPA operation on adjacent carriers” [13] was started to allow for conformance testing for the new specification. 15 10 2x SC RxD 5 DC RxD 0 0 5 10 15 20 Users per sector 25 30 35 Figure 2: Capacity gains of DC-HSDPA over 2*SC HSDPA This is because low geometry users see a higher variation in their proportional fair metric. Besides throughput gain, also gains in the reduction of latency can be seen particularly for IP based bursty traffic sources that can efficiently be assigned with DC-HSPA. For low resource utilization DC-HSPA provides twice the average burst rate compared to two separate carriers. Simply speaking the scheduler can send a packet twice as fast and a burst of one user is likely to be sent before a burst of another user arrives. Parallel transmission with 64-QAM modulation each carrier can theoretically provide a aggregate downlink peak data rate of 43.2 Mbps in 10MHz without the support of MIMO. Physical Channels HS-DPCCH: A couple of design options were considered, such as introducing a second HSDPCCH or the modification of HS-DPCCH to carry CQI and ACK/NACK of both carriers. After a thorough analysis, RAN1 agreed to map the HSDPA related feedback information to a single HS-DPCCH [17] instead of two. Main arguments to select a single HS-DPCCH design have been a better cubic metric performance and related coverage benefit. The number of Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) bits is 5 or 10, depending on whether the secondary carrier is active or not. The composite CQI is formulated from 2 independent CQI’s, one for each carrier. In addition, new channel coding schemes have been specified for composite HARQ feedback. Nomor Research GmbH / info@nomor.de / www.nomor.de / T +49 89 9789 8000 2/5
  • 3. HS-SCCH: The HS-SCCH is transmitted on both the anchor and supplementary carriers, whereby the UE has to monitor up to 4 HS-SCCH codes on each carrier. The maximum number of HSSCCHs monitored by the UE across both the serving HS-DSCH cell and the secondary serving HS-DSCH cell is 6 [18]. The UE shall be able to receive up to 1 HS-SCCH on serving cell and 1 HS-SCCH on secondary serving cell simultaneously. This approach will provide flexibility to scheduling. Impact on UEs Legacy UEs (HSDPA category 1-20) do not support dual carrier operation. Hence, new HSDPA UE categories 21-24 have been introduced [15] with the following operational considerations: • Co-existence with legacy UEs. • Capability to be served dynamically (on per TTI granularity) on either or both of the allocated carriers at the same time. • Capability to feedback ACK/NACK and CQI for both the carriers simultaneously. • HS-SCCH less operation and uplink power control to be carried on anchor carrier. • The Node-B may dynamically enable and disable the supplementary carrier to save UE battery power depending upon the downlink traffic and channel considerations by means of HS-SCCH orders. • No support of MIMO and dual cell simultaneously. • Capability to perform measurements on the supplementary carrier without compressed mode [16]. • Mobility procedures are supported based on serving HS-DSCH cell. In a baseline DC-HSPA configuration Transmit Diversity (STTD) and Receive Diversity (2 RxAntennas) are used on each carrier. Scheduling Considerations One of the major tasks within 3GPP Rel8 WI was the proposal of optimized operations across L2 (even more specifically at the MAC layer). While the downlink Node-B queues could be operated jointly or disjointly, the first option was chosen, as it offers more flexibility in scheduling operations according to the assumption for simulations in [7]. A single MAC-ehs entity as shown is figure 3 on UTRAN and UE side will support HS-DSCH transmission/reception in more than one cell served by the same Node-B. Therefore the DC operation can be introduced with minor changes on the Layer 2 design. However, there will be separate HARQ entity per HS-DSCH channel, i.e. one HARQ process per TTI for single carrier and two HARQ processes per TTI for dual carrier transmission/reception [19]. Hence, at the physical layer, dual carrier transmission can be viewed as independent transmissions over 2 orthogonal HS-DSCH channels, each having associated downlink and uplink signalling as shown. A separate transport block with same or different Transport Format Resource Combination (TFRC) is transmitted on both carriers based on the HARQ and CQI feedback received on the associated uplink HS-DPCCH channel. The HARQ retransmissions will be transmitted with the same Modulation Coding Scheme (MCS) as the first transmission on the same HARQ entity as the latter. MAC-d flows MAC-ehs Scheduling/Priority handling Priority Queue distribution MAC Control Priority Queue Priority Queue Priority Queue Segment ation Segment ation Segment ation Priority Queue MUX HARQ entity HARQ entity TFRC selection TFRC selection Ass ociate d Uplink Signalling HS -DS CH Associated Dow nlink Signalling Ass oc iate d Uplink Signalling HS -DS CH Associated Downlink Signalling Figure 3: UTRAN MAC-ehs Architecture Scheduling is the most important feature determining the gain that can be achieved by collaborative (DC) over independent (2*SC) configurations. In a first step, all the existing SC schedulers need to be updated to support DC scheduling in a backward compatible manner. Systematic optimization of DC scheduling algorithms then poses a challenging task, which needs to take into account the dynamic and static system, as well as the application parameters in a joint manner. For example, dual carrier-capable UEs may utilize the available resources on both carriers in every TTI (statistical multiplexing gain), prefer the carrier Nomor Research GmbH / info@nomor.de / www.nomor.de / T +49 89 9789 8000 3/5
  • 4. with the higher CQI in case of single carrier allocation (frequency selectivity), or allow for dual carrier allocation whenever this brings a benefit. However, the legacy UEs will be only considered for scheduling on their respective anchor carrier. Future Multi-Carrier HSPA Evolution As data usage will continue to grow there is a continuous need to increase user and system throughput. The specification work on DC-HSPA is close to completion and there is already work ongoing to add further enhancements as part of UMTS Release 9. A work item for this work called Multi Carrier Evolution that comprises various technology enhancements has already been proposed by Qualcomm, Ericsson, Huawei and others [14]. Discussed improvements could be categorized in the following way: I. Inter-Band Dual-Carrier HSDPA Operation DC-HSDPA operation in Rel.8 is restricted to two adjacent carriers operating in the same frequency band. A more flexible aggregation of carrier would simplify deployment in fragmented spectrum allocations and would also allow the efficient re-farming of 2G technologies to 3G HSPA. II. Dual-Carrier HSUPA Operation DC-HSDPA is currently limited to the downlink operation only. For DC-HSUPA in the uplink similar performance gain as seen for the downlink can be expected. III. Combinations of DC-HSDPA and MIMO The use of MIMO is not allowed for DC-HSDPA in Rel.8, but would surely offer higher peak data rates to fulfil the further increasing broadband requirements without introducing new features. Basically the aggregate downlink peak data rate within 10 MHz would be increased from 43.2 Mbps to 86.4 Mbps in 10MHz. IV. Multiple Carrier (MC-)HSDPA Operation Instead of two carriers the MC-HSDPA operation would allow three or four adjacent carrier to be scheduled jointly. Since the data rate scales with the bandwidth, this could significantly enhance peak data rates as well as the system capacity. An aggregate downlink peak data rate of 86.4 Mbps could be achieved with 4 carriers covering 20 MHz without MIMO or of 129.6 Mbps with the use of MIMO. Of course those improvements come at the expense of UE and Node B complexity. RF complexity, the increase of feedback information such as CQI and HARQ ACK/NACK as well as the control channel overhead for configuration and resource allocation are of particular importance. In summary HSPA will continue to evolve into a competitive standard also for the long term. With the described improvements the HSPA technology has been enhanced significantly. Within UMTS Release 9 we can expect the system to evolve further from a dual-cell to a multi-carrier system with several other enhancements that are being discussed in 3GPP standardisation right now. Official completion data of Release 9 is end of 2009. With those improvements the MC-HSPA technology could become competitive to LTE Release 8 even in larger or in fragmented spectrum allocations. Compromises that come with a technology that has been improved over time are be compensated by early availability and maturity of a well established technology. References [1] White Paper: “Technology of High Speed Packet Access” http://www.nomor.de/home/technology/whitepapers/technology-of-high-speed-packet-accesshspa [2] 3GPP TS 25.825 (V1.0.0) “Dual Cell HSDPA Operation”. [3] 3GPP TD RP-080148: “Feasibility Study on Dual-Cell HSDPA operation”. [4] 3GPP TD RP-080228: "Feasibility Study on Dual-Cell HSDPA operation". [5] R1-081361, “System Benefits of Dual Carrier HSDPA”, Qualcomm Europe, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #52bis, April, 2008. [6] R1-081546, “Initial multi-carrier HSPA performance evaluation”, Ericsson, 3GPP TSGRAN WG1 #52bis, April, 2008. [7] R1-081706, “Simulation Assumptions for DC HSDPA Performance Evaluations”, Qualcomm Europe, Ericsson, Nokia, NSN, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #53bis, May 2008. Nomor Research GmbH / info@nomor.de / www.nomor.de / T +49 89 9789 8000 4/5
  • 5. [8] R1-082094, “Text proposal for TR on simulation results” (initial submission), Qualcomm Europe, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #53bis, May 2008. [9] R1-082135, “System simulation results for DC-HSDPA operation”, Ericsson, 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 #53bis, May 2008. [10] R1-081903, “Initial simulation results for dual cell HSDPA operation”, Nokia, 3GPP TSGRAN WG1 #53bis, May 2008. [11] RP-080490, “Dual-Cell HSDPA operation on adjacent carriers”. [12] RP-080814, “Status Report for WI to TSG”. [13] RP-080996, “Conformance test aspects – Dual Cell HSDPA operation on adjacent carriers”. [14] RP-081123, Work Item Description “Multicarrier evolution”. [15] R2-085723, “Addition of UE categories for dual cell HSDPA”. [16] R2-085213, “Introduction of UE Measurement Capability for DC-HSDPA”. [17] R1-084030 25.212 CR0267R3 (Rel-8, B) “Introduction of Dual-Cell HSDPA Operation on Adjacent Carriers”. [18] R1-084656 25.214 CR0528 (Rel-8, B), “Clarifications to Dual-Cell Operation”. [19] R2-087441 25321 CR0467R1, “Introduction of Dual Cell HSDPA operation”. Note: This white paper is provided to you by Nomor Research GmbH. Similar documents can be obtained from www.nomor.de. Feel free to forward this issue in electronic format. Please contact us in case you are interested in collaboration on related subjects. Disclaimer: This information, partly obtained from official 3GPP meeting reports, is assumed to be reliable, but do not necessarily reflects the view of Nomor Research GmbH. The white paper is provided for informational purpose only. We do not accept any responsibility for the content of this white paper. Nomor Research GmbH has no obligation to update, modify or amend or to otherwise notify the reader thereof in the event that any matter stated herein, or any opinion, projection, forecast or estimate set forth herein, changes or subsequently becomes inaccurate. Nomor Research GmbH / info@nomor.de / www.nomor.de / T +49 89 9789 8000 5/5