According to the 3GPP a physical channel is defined by

Specific frequency
Scrambling code
Channelization code

Radio Frame: A radio frame is a processing duration which consists of slots. The
length of the Radio frame corresponds to 38400 chips or 10ms.
It uses 5 MHz (which also considers the guard bands on either sides). The guard
band in UMTS is 0.58 MHz or 580 KHz. Hence if we exclude the guard bands on both
sides of the 5 MHz spectrum, we get an effective bandwidth of 3.84 MHz, which is
used for transmission of the signals.
Slot: A slot is a duration which consists of field containing bits. The length of a slot
corresponds to 2560 Chips or 2/3ms.
Sub-frame: A sub-frame is the basic time interval for E-DCH and HS-DSCH
transmission and E-DCH and HS-DSCH- related signaling at the physical layer. The
length of a sub-frame corresponds to 3 Slots (7860 Chips) or 2ms.
Calculation
No of Time Slots =15
Chip Rate =3.84MHz
Time period of 15 Time Slots=10ms
Time period of per timeslot =10/152/3ms
No of chips in one Time slot =3840000Hz/15 256000 Chips
The length of Sub-frame is 2ms having 3 slots so the No of Chips in 2ms Sub-frame
=256000*3768000 chips.

Primary Synchronization Channel(P-SCH)

DL

Secondary Synchronization Channel(SSCH) DL

At Switch on UE looks for P-SCH and tries to

find the beginning of a time slot by using a
globally unique code call Primary
Synchronization Code. Hence P-SCH is the
starting point of all UMTS Activities.

After finding the beginning of Slot using P-SCH

UE searches for S-SCH and tries to identify the
beginning of radio frame by using a sequence
of secondary synchronization code. This
sequence is shared by all cells belonging to
that scrambling code group. SSC is 256 chip
long sequence and there are only 16
synchronization Codes. By arranging them in
different order different sequence could be
formed.

Primary Common Pilot Channel (P-CPICH)

DL

Secondary Common Control Physical

Channel(S-CCPCH) DL

Acquisition Indicator Channel (AICH)

Paging Indicator Channel(PICH)

DL

Acquisition Indicator Channel (AICH)

DL

Paging Indicator Channel(PICH)

HSDPA provides significant enhancements to the Downlink compared to R99 in

terms of peak data rate, cell throughput , and round trip delay. This is achieved
through the implementation pf a fast channel control and allocation mechanism that
employs such as adaptive Modulation and coding and fast Hybrid Automatic Repeat
Request(HARQ)

DL

Technology

GSM
GPRS
EDGE
R99 WCDMA
HSDPA
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4-Peak
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Downlink Peak Data

Rate
Typical Deployment
9.6kbps
40kbps
120kbps
384kbps
10Mbps

Uplink Peak Data Rate

Theoretical Maximum
9.6kbps
171kbps
473kbps
2.0Mbps
14.4Mbps

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8-More
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1HSDPA
Basic
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Chip rate of 15 time slots =3840000chips

Time period of 15 Slots =10ms
1 Slot time =10/15 2/3ms
Chip rate of 1 time slot = 3840000/15
= 25600 chips
Now HSDPA has sub frame of 3 slots.
Chip Rate of 3 Slots = 26500*3
=786000 chips in 2ms
: 2ms is the time of 3 slots
Now QPSK has 2 bits/ symbol
768000*2 chips for 2ms

2/3*32ms

in 10ms frame

15360 chips/2ms
(15360*1000)/2 chips per second
7680000 chips per second
Now apply Spreading as we know HSDPA having SF =16
7680000/16480kbps
If all the codes of QPSK means 15 codes out of 16 is being used then throughput will
be
480kbps * 15 7.2Mbps

E-DCH channel has been

introduced.
Interference is shared by multiple
users.
Node B controls all UE data rate
with fast scheduling.

Improved Characters by HSUPA

Higher Peak Data Rate in Uplink

Reduced Latency
o Fast retransmission to improve throughput
Fast Scheduling
o Optimize the resource allocation to maximize the total throughput
Quality of service support
Improve QoS control and resource utilization.

2ms TTI

Lower SF

Improved Cell
Capacity
Higher Peak
Data Rate

Fast L1
HARQ

New
Channels

Fast
Scheduling

GSM

Lower Latency
Improved QoS
Support
Fast Resource
Scheduling

Dedicated Physical Channel(DPDCH &

DPCCH)
UL

GPRS

EDGE

Dedicated Physical Channel(DPDCH &

DPCCH) DL

WCDMA

HSDPA

R99

R5

HSUPA
R6