i Experts,

I would like to know the complete differences between FDD mode & TDD mode in LTE other than Frame
configuration .
And also how much PCI & PRACH planning affecting the FDD & TDD ( ex: PCI MOD3 clashes) modes ? whether
these plannings only for TDD mode ?
Would be thankful if somebody provide me a complete list of differences between FDD & TDD modes . Thanks in
advance.

LTE has many parameters that have to be dimensioned or planned:

Parameters to be dimensioned
o

Cyclic Prefix

Control Format Indicator

PHICH duration

PHICH scaling factor

Other Reference Signals

Parameters to be planned (assigned)

o

Physical Cell Identification (PCI)

PRACH parameter planning

Preamble format

PRACH configuration index

Zero correlation zone

Root Sequence Index

Frequency Offset

Uplink Reference Signal Sequence

Cell and BTS Identity Planning

Tracking Areas

Neighborhood Planning

LTE resources have to be optimized, as in any cellular network, with considerations for ICIC
and other techniques

Resource Allocation in LTE

o

Interference Analysis
o

Control, Traffic and Signaling

SNR and SNIR, FEC, H-ARQ

Resource Reuse analysis in LTE

o

Reuse of 1 x Reuse of n

Frequency Planning

Traffic Resource Planning

Allocation schedulers

Frequency segmentation

Time zoning

Control Resource Planning

o

Can it be done?

This webinar is part of a series of webinars on LTE and 4G Technologies in general. Each
webinar topic is different from the other, but the series is designed in such a way that each
webinar builds upon and complements the foundation of the previous webinar.

We usually perform network optimization checking for customer. Here is a simple

example for LTE Network Optimization Checking Report.
We perform the basic checking based on these aspects:
----Optimization Checking
----PCI Reuse Checking
----PRACH Parameters Reuse Checking
----TAC Checking
----Neighbor Cell Checking
and prepare suggestions for the inter-RAT operation which will be deployed by

customer:
----Inter-RAT Suggestion
----CSFB Parameters Suggestion
----PSHO Parameters Suggestion

1) for the PCI checking

Rule: Nearby Cell should have different PCI, the PCI reuse distance should be far
enough.
Checking Result: PCI reuse distance reasonable
Suggestion: Null
2) for the PRACH checking
Rule: the PRACH parameters(rootSequenceIndex & prachConfigIndex) reuse distance
should be far enough.
Checking Result: Some PRACH parameters reuse times are over 20; nearby sites use
the same PRACH group.
Suggestion: Re-plan PRACH parameters for these cells, make sure the reuse distance
is far enough.
Here are some of the cases that the PRACH parameters not reasonable:

3)TAC checking
Rule: Normally TAC should be the same with one cluster.
Checking Result: some sites TAC need to double check
Suggestion: double check the TAC setting is correct.
Here are some of the cases that the TAC parameters may be not reasonable:

4)Neighbor cell checking

Rule: Neighbor Cell should be valid.
Checking Result: Some sites configured invalid neighbor cells.
Suggestion: check and make sure the configured neighbor cells are valid.
Here are some of the invalid neighbor cells:

For the inter-RAT operation

1) for CSFB, we have the suggestion from Apple in some other project, we suggest to
fellow the Apple's suggestions:

2
) For the PSHO to UMTS
The default B2 even for PSHO to UMTS is shown as below:
LTE will PSHO to UMTS only when LTE RSRP is lower than -90 dBm (rsrpSrvTrd) and
UMTS RSCP is higher than -86 dBm (rscpSysNbrTrd). It is too easy trigger PSHO from
LTE to UMTS.
Suggestion: set rsrpSrvTrd to -110 and rscpSysNbrTrd to -90. That means LTE will
PSHO to UMTS only when LTE RSRP is lower than -110 dBm and UMTS RSCP is

higher than -90 dBm.

3) For other
inter-RAT Suggestion
Make sure the LTE TAC and UMTS LAC mapping correctly configured in core network
before CSFB deployment.
Sync sites configuration changes between LTE and UMTS.
eg. If LTE have changed the PCI or DL frequency but not sync to UMTS change the LTE
neighbor cell. UE will hard to return back to LTE.