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5 HSPA Evolution
1, 2008
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HSPA Evolution Boosting the
performance of mobile broadband access
Johan Bergman, Mrten Ericson, Dirk Gerstenberger, Bo Gransson, Janne Peisa and Stefan
Wager
Introduction
Today, 84% of all reported global cellular
subscribers make calls via radio access tech-
nology specied by the Third Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP). This signies
that WCDMA is the predominant third-
generation (3G) radio network technology,
and as such, represents a substantial economy
of scale.
In addition, the recent introduction of
high-speed packet access (HSPA, 3GPP Re-
lease 6) has
signicantly improved the performance
of packet data trafc in Ericsson products
on the downlink (HSDPA) 14Mbps, and
uplink (E-UL), 1.4Mbps, giving users a
mobile broadband experience that is on
par with ADSL; and
given rise to large increases in packet data
trafc packet data is now the principal
type of trafc in 3G networks.
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Figure 5
Mobile TV broadcast with MBSFN.
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Conclusion
HSPA Evolution (3GPP Releases 7 and
8) enables operators to prolong the life of
past investments by further improving the
performance of WCDMA systems. In par-
ticular, HSPA Evolution introduces several
new features that support higher data bit
rates, reduce latency, increase capacity, and
improve support for VoIP and multicast ser-
vices:
Higher-order modulation. In the down-
link, the introduction of 64QAM in-
creases the peak data bit rate to as much
as 21Mbps. Likewise, the introduction of
16QAM in the uplink increases the peak
data bit rate to 11Mbps.
Multiple input, multiple output (MIMO).
In Release 7, MIMO is dened for trans-
mitting up to two streams. In this case,
each stream can use QPSK or 16QAM, ex-
tending the peak data bit rate of HSDPA
to approximately 28Mbps. In Release 8,
each stream can use 64QAM, which ex-
tends the peak data bit rate to 42Mbps.
Continuous packet connectivity (CPC).
Simulations show that the CPC concept
in Release 7 boosts capacity for VoIP by
around 40% in the uplink and 10% in the
downlink.
Layer-2 enhancements. Release 7 introduc-
es a new MAC protocol, MAC-ehs, which
supports exible RLC PDU sizes and the
segmentation of RLC PDUs. In addition,
the MAC multiplexing capabilities have
been improved so that RLC PDUs which
carry signaling or data from different ra-
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