As a 3GPP release 5 feature for

WCDMA, High Speed Downlink Packet

Access (HSDPA) yields downlink data rates of
up to 14 Mbps and boosts capacity in 3G networks.
High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) has been
introduced in 3GPP release 6 for WCDMA and will provide
uplink data rates of up to 5.76 Mbps.
Together, HSDPA and HSUPA will take 3G networks to the next stage
and enable the true multimedia experience for voice and data. This is
what we call High Speed Packet Access (HSPA).
This poster presents the principles and concepts of HSDPA and HSUPA.
As a provider of test and measurement solutions, Rohde & Schwarz is
committed to making HSPA a huge success!
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HSPA: High Speed Packet Access for WCDMA
HSDPA: High Speed Downlink Packet Access HSUPA: High Speed Uplink Packet Access
HSDPA: UE Categories and Classes HSDPA Principles HSUPA Principles HSUPA: UE Categories
HSDPA Protocol Architecture New Physical Channels for HSDPA New Physical Channels for HSUPA HSUPA Protocol Architecture
1.2 Mbps class 3.6 Mbps class 7 Mbps class 10 Mbps class
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HSDPA Glossary and Abbreviations
ACK = Acknowledgment in hybrid ARQ process; AMC = Adaptive Modulation and Coding; CQI = Channel Quality Indicator: value between 0 and 30 indicating channel quality reported by the UE;
HARQ = Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request: protocol allowing receiver (UE in case of HSDPA) to request retransmission of erroneously received packets; HARQ Entity = Consists of all
the HARQ processes of a UE, controlling the available soft buffer capacity; HS-DPCCH = High Speed Dedicated Physical Control Channel; HS-DSCH = High Speed Downlink Shared Channel;
HS-PDSCH = High Speed Physical Downlink Shared Channel; H-RNTI = HS-DSCH Radio Network Temporary Identier; HS-SCCH = High Speed Shared Control Channel; IR = Incremental
Redundancy; MAC-d = Medium Access Control entity handling dedicated transport channels; MAC-d ow = Flow of MAC-d PDUs belonging to logical channels that are MAC-d multiplexed;
MAC-hs = Medium Access Control entity handling High Speed Downlink Shared Channel (HS-DSCH); NACK = Negative Acknowledgment in hybrid ARQ process; Queue ID = Queue Identier: MAC-hs
PDU header eld providing identication of reordering queue in the receiver; PDU = Protocol Data Unit; Serving HS-DSCH Radio Link = The radio link that the HS-PDSCH physical channel(s)
allocated to the UE belongs to; Serving HS-DSCH Cell = The cell associated with the UTRAN access point performing transmission and reception of the serving HS-DSCH radio link for a given UE;
RV = Redundancy Version; SID = Size Index Identier: MAC-hs PDU header eld identifying the size of a set of consecutive MAC-d PDUs; TSN = Transmission Sequence Number: MAC-hs PDU header
eld used for reordering purposes; TTI = Transmission Time Interval, 2 ms for HSDPA; VF = Version Flag: MAC-hs PDU header eld providing extension capabilities of the MAC-hs PDU format
HSUPA Glossary and Abbreviations
ACK = Acknowledgment in hybrid ARQ process; AG = Absolute Grant: sent on the downlink on E-AGCH from serving E-DCH cell, indicates maximum E-DCH trafc-
to-pilot ratio that UE is allowed to use in next transmission; DDI = Data Description Indicator: MAC-e PDU header eld identifying the logical channel, MAC-d owand
size of MAC-d PDUs concatenated to form the associated MAC-es PDU; E-AGCH = E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel; E-DCH = Enhanced Dedicated Channel: a new
uplink dedicated transport channel type; E-DCH active set = The set of cells that carry the E-DCH for one UE; E-DPCCH = E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel;
E-DPDCH = E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel; E-HICH = E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel; E-RGCH = E-DCH Relative Grant Channel; E-RNTI = E-DCH
Radio Network Temporary Identier; E-TFC = E-DCH Transport Format Combination; EUL = Enhanced Uplink; F-DPCH = Fractional Dedicated Physical Channel;
HARQ = Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request: protocol allowing receiver (Node B in case of HSUPA) to request retransmission of erroneously received packets;
HARQ prole = Information on power offset attribute and maximum number of transmissions to be used for a MAC-d ow; Happy Bit = Single bit eld transmitted
on E-DPCCH to indicate whether UE could use more resources or not; MAC-d = Medium Access Control entity handling dedicated transport channels;
MAC-d ow = Flow of MAC-d PDUs belonging to logical channels; MAC-e/es = Medium Access Control protocol entities handling the Enhanced
Dedicated Transport Channel (E-DCH); NACK = Negative Acknowledgment in hybrid ARQ process; Non-Serving E-DCH RL or Non-Serving RL = Cell which
belongs to the E-DCH active set but not to the serving E-DCH RLS and from which the UE can receive one RG. The UE can have zero, one or several non-
serving E-DCH RL(s); Non-Serving Relative Grant = Transmitted on downlink on E-RGCH from the non-serving radio link (DOWN or HOLD);
PDU = Protocol Data Unit; RG = Relative Grant; RLS = Radio Link Set; RSN = Retransmission Sequence Number (2 bits): transmitted on
E-DPCCH for conveying the uplink HARQ transmission number; Serving E-DCH Cell = Cell from which the UE receives AGs from the
Node B scheduler. A UE has one serving E-DCH cell; Serving E-DCH RLS or Serving RLS = Set of cells which contains at least the
serving E-DCH cell and from which the UE can receive and combine one RG. The UE has only one Serving E-DCH RLS;
Serving Relative Grant = Transmitted on downlink on E-RGCH from all cells in the serving E-DCH RLS (UP, DOWN or HOLD);
TSN = Transmission Sequence Number: MAC-es PDU header eld used for reordering purposes; TTI = Transmission Time Interval,
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