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PRACH Planning
2012-02-02

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Background of PRACH Planning
 Random Access
 Random access is generally performed when :
• UE turns on from sleep mode
• RRC reconnection
• Performs handoff from one cell to another
• Downlink loss time synchronization
• UE loses uplink timing
 Two types
• Based on compete Random Access
• Based on Non-compete Random Access
 Purpose
• Acquiring uplink timing synchronization
 Acquiring uplink resource allocation information
 Physical Channel
• PRACH

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Background of PRACH Planning
 PRACH
 Physical Random Access Channel
 Bandwidth: 1.08M
• Equivalent as 6RBs
• 6*12*15k=1.08 MHz

 64 types of PRACH configuration

• which restrict PRACH to certain time resource

 Physical resource blocks in the frequency domain

• Next to PUCCH

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Background of PRACH Planning
 Random Access Preamble
 Carried by Physical random access channel
 Random access preamble format
PRACH Burst

CP Preamble Sequence GP

TCP TSEQ
Consists of a cyclic prefix of length TCP , a sequence part of length TSEQ and
Guard Period
 Preamble format(FDD)
Preamble TCP TSEQ TGP Maximum multipath Maximum
Format delay extension TMD Cell Radius
0 103.1us 800us 96.9us 6.2us 14.5km

1 684.4us 800us 515.6us 168.8us 77.3km

2 203.1us 1600us 196.9us 6.2us 29.5km

3 684.4us 1600us 715.6us 15.4us 100km

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Purpose of PRACH Planning(1)
 To choose a proper preamble format
 Impact the random access radius(Cell radius)
 Impact the supported maximum multipath delay

 To configure proper time resource for PRACH

 Impact access capacity
 Reduce interference between neighboring cells

 To configure different Root Sequence Index for neighboring cells

 Reduce interference between neighboring cells
 Guarantee success rate of RA

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Purpose of PRACH Planning(2)
 Preamble Format & time resource

 PRACH Configuration Planning

 Same time resource for neighboring cells

Cell C Cell A Cell B

With CFG 7 with CFG 6 with CFG 6

PUCCH PUCCH PUCCH

PUSCH PUSCH
PUSCH interference1
interference0
PRACH PRACH

PUCCH PUCCH PUCCH

Under same conditions, Interference1>>Interference0

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Principle of PRACH Planning(1)
 Root Sequence Index Planning
 High priority for High Speed Cell
• On high speed condition, sequence from different sub-group have different
supported cell radius.

 High priority for wide radio coverage cell

• High performance sequences are required for wide radio coverage cell.

 Reuse Root Sequence in accordance with certain fundamentals

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Principle of PRACH Planning(2)
 Root Sequence
 Sequence Quantity
• 838 , from 0 to 837
 Classification
• 2 Groups
 Low CM group(CM<=1.2db) , Assign to high speed & wide coverage cell.
 High CM group(CM>1.2db), Assign to low speed cell.
(Cell radius, Transmission power, electromagnetic wave distort , PAPR )
 Huawei suggestion is 24-455 assign to High speed cell, Low speed cell use 0-815.
• 32 Sub-group
 Basis: the supported maximum cyclic shifts (cell radius) for high speed cell

 Logical Root Sequence Index

• sequence number for the ordered root sequence

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Method of PRACH Planning(Example)
 Preamble Sequence
 64 Preamble sequences are required for each cell
 Preamble sequence is derived from Root Sequence
 NCS : Cyclic shifts for preamble generation
NCS value
NCS configuration
Unrestricted set Restricted set
0 0 15
1 13 18
2 15 22
3 18 26
4 22 32
5 26 38
6 32 46
7 38 55
8 46 68
9 59 82
10 76 100
11 93 128
12 119 158
13 167 202
14 279 237
15 419 -

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Method of PRACH Planning(Example)

Step 1: Calculate the Ncs value of a cell according to the cell radius and maximum
delay spread.
Formula: NCS  1.04875  (6.67r  TMD  2)

r :cell radios(km), TMD: Maximum time delay spread(u second), default value=5

TMN LTE network urban scenario, cell radios is 7km. From the formula above we can
know that Ncs=56. Mapping to the most closed standard Ncs value is 59.
Step 2: Use Root Zadoff-Chu sequence number 839 divided 59. the rounded down
number is 14.
Step3: Every cell need to generate 64 preamble sequences. So 64/14=4.57. In round
number is 5.So the root Zadoff-Chu sequence is 0,5,10,15…838. Total number is 165.
Step4: According to the reuse principle, allocate proper ZC root sequence indexes to
cells.

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PRACH Planning--Huawei

 Tool
Huawei U-Net

 Planning Method
Based on the Method stated above

 PRACH Reuse strategy based on:

 Actual distance
 Relative distance
 Coverage Prediction
 Antenna azimuth
 Antenna height

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Appendix: Root sequence index group (1)
CM group Sub group number Max Ncs Logical root sequence number
0 - 0–23
1 15 24–29
2 18 30–35
3 22 36–41
4 26 42–51
5 32 52–63
6 38 64–75
7 46 76–89
LOW CM
8 55 90–115
9 68 116–135
10 82 136–167
11 100 168–203
12 128 204–263
13 158 264–327
14 202 328–383
15 237 384–455
16 237 456–513
17 202 514–561
18 158 562–629
19 128 630–659
20 100 660–707
21 82 708–729
22 68 730–751
23 55 752–765
HIGH CM
24 46 766–777
25 38 778–789
26 32 790–795
27 26 796–803
28 22 804–809
29 18 810–815
30 15 816–819
31 - 820–837

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Appendix: Root sequence index group (2)

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Appendix: PRACH configuration(3)

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