Wideband CDMA (WCDMA)

Spring 92 Chao-Tang Yu
ctyu@mail.stut.edu.tw

S608-4

Digital Communicatio Chao-Tang Yu

Introduction
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WCDMA uses a combination of CDMA and TDMA technology to provide for multimedia data and cost effective voice service. WCDMA is a digital cellular specification that was initially created to provide single global cellular system. WCDMA began development in 1996, and the first commercial WCDMA digital cellular system was activated in 2001 in Japan. WCDMA was accepted as the next generation digital standard by more than 75 countries. WCDMA system can serve mobile phone with a variety of data rates and services.

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Development of WCDMA standard

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Information about WCDMA can be found at www.3GPP.org

Basic WCDMA system

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Use a single type of radio channel to transfer for voice, data, and control information.

FDD/WCDMA system

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TDD/CDMA2000 system

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Modulation
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The radio carrier in the WCDMA system is modulated differently on the downlink and uplink. The downlink modulation use quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation for all transport channels. The uplink modulation use dual channel modulation, one channel for data channel and one for control channel.

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Dual channel QPSK modulation

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Downlink radio channel spreading

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Uplink radio channel spreading

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Channel code tree

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Frame and slot structure

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Multiple Physical channel on the same frequency

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Sleep mode

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Compressed mode and Intersystem Handover

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Compressed mode
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In the compressed mode (slotted mode), transmission and reception of the WCDMA signal is stopped for a few milliseconds to allow the WCDMA system to perform measurements of other radio channels. The small time periods are called transmission gap length (TGLs). TGLs are created by either lowering the data rate, or reduce the spreading factor or puncturing the error protection code.

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Open and closed loop WCDMA RF power control

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Power classification

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Combining coded channels

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Combine multiple channels to provide for higher data transmission rates.

WCDMA system access

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WCDMA packet access

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WCDMA handover

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