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LTE Air Interface

Activity 1 LTE Capability

Answer the following questions as well as you can. Dont worry if you cant answer some or all of the
questions.
Part 1 What bit rate do you think is achievable in an LTE cell?
Part 2 What bit rate do you think would be realistic expectation for an early LTE user?
Part 3 Identify some key benefits for an operator in rolling out LTE.
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Activity 2 EPS Bearers

Think about the connectivity requirements for a typical subscriber and the characteristics of EPS bearers.
Based on this, suggest a strategy for the use of default, dedicated and piggy-backed EPS bearers.

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Activity 3 Basic Throughput

With reference to the information in Module 3 answer the three parts to the exercise below.
Part 1 Calculate the number of REs in one RB.
Answer:

Part 2 Calculate the number of RBs in one frame (10 ms) for a 10 MHz bandwidth and for a 20 MHz
bandwidth.
Answer:

Part 3 Calculate the net throughput for a 10 MHz bandwidth and for a 20 MHz bandwidth with QPSK,
16QAM and 64QAM modulation.
Answer:

10 MHz

20 MHz

QPSK
16QAM
64QAM

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Activity 4 Channel Mapping

Use the information in Module 3 to fill in the logical, transport and physical channel types that would be
used for each of the indicated information flow types.

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Activity 5 LTE Wireless Link Configuration

The grid below represents the Resource Grid of a downlink LTE radio channel. You are asked to mark in
the locations of the following elements.

The rest of RB that the indicated RE belongs to

The rest of the subframe that the indicated RE belongs to
The set of REs that would be reserved for Reference Signals
The maximum configurable set of REs that would be reserved for common control channels
The remaining set of REs that would be available for scheduled traffic within the subframe

Assume that the RE (Resource Element) highlighted with a dark border occupies the first subcarrier in an
RB (Resource Block) during the first symbol period of a subframe.
All of the above should be determined on the basis that the Resource Block is NOT one of the central six
RBs in the channel, that the normal CP is in use and that 2x2 MIMO is configured.

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Activity 6 MAC Mini-Quiz

Answer the following questions as well as you can. You may use your workshop notes as a reference.

1. Which transport channel is mapped to the PBCH?

2. What information is carried in the PBCH?

3. What term is used to describe MAC signalling messages?

4. What type of RNTI is identified with the value FFFF?

5. What kind of traffic would usually be associated with semi-persistent scheduling?

6. What is the purpose of the RAR?

7. What is the maximum number of HARQ processes that can be created for on RB?

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Activity 7 RLC and PDCP Mini-Quiz

Answer the following questions as well as you can. You may use your workshop notes as a reference.

1. Which mode of RLC provides retransmissions?

2. In which logical channels is the UM mode of RLC used?

3. What is the function of the E1 bit in a Status PDU RLC header?

4. What functions are performed by PDCP in the control plane?

5. What functions are performed by PDCP in the user plane?

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Activity 8 RRC States

Fill in the names of each of the RRC states in the following diagram.

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Activity 9 RRC Mini-Quiz

Answer the following questions as well as you can. You may use your workshop notes as a reference.

1. In which RRC state do handovers take place?

2. What parameters would be found in the RRCConnectionSetupComplete message?

3. In which SRB are NAS messages carried?

4. Which RRC message would be used to modify a DRB for a UE?

5. Which RRC message is used to command an inter-frequency LTE handover?

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Activity 10 NAS Mini-Quiz

Answer the following questions as well as you can. You may use your workshop notes as a reference.

1. Between which two nodes is NAS signalling exchanged?

2. What is a TAC, and how is it used?

3. What is the format for the Global identity of an MME?

4. Which node makes the MME selection for a particular UE?

5. Name the two NAS state machines?

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Activity 11 Cell Selection

Evaluate Srxlev when:
Qrxlevmeas
Qrxlevmin
Qrxlevminoffset
PEMAX_H
PPowerClass

= 102 dBm
= 115 dBm
= 8 dB
= 23 dBm
= Class 3

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