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RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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LINK QUALITY CONTROL
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HANDOVER CONTROL
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Question
What is RSRP and RSRQ?
On which layer entity ARQ and HARQ is performed
Explain NAS and tells on which mode it operates
On PDCP layer, what is SDU and PDU?

On MAC Layer, what is the TTI interval period?

What are the main differences between TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE?

For Resource division, GSM uses TDMA, UMTS uses WCDMA, what is used
What is the bandwidth for LTE subcarrier?
What are the DL transport channels and which of them support HARQ?
Does RACH transport channel carry any logical information?
Which UL physical channel does not carry transport channel?
What are the modulation schemes available on LTE
How many physical cell identities can we have on LTE (PSS+SSS)?
What does eNodeB use as reference to demodulate UL signal?
What does eNodeB use as reference to find the better subfrequency for
What channel carries the HARQ ACK/NACK in DL?
What is UL CSI?
Where SINR is measured
What is the difference between S1-MME and S1-U Interfaces?

What PHICH Physical Channel is for?

What are the logical channels carried by UL-SCH Transportation channel
Which information are carried on SIB2?
What are the available Cell Selection processes in LTE?
When S-Criterion and R-Criterion are used?
What is the relationship between PRACH type and Cell Radius?
How can we restrict the neighbor cells to re-select?
What are the events that eNode-B Scheduler decide based on CQI?

How to separate multiple Ues on PUCCH

On RAC (Radio Admission Control), what does it take in to account when

Please describe the DL scheduling process

Please describe the UL scheduling process

What is the difference of TA (Timing Advance) in GSM and LTE?

What criteria should be fulfilled so UE is scheduled in DL?
On DL Scheduler, how does it work for power allocation?
ON DL Scheduler, which criterion is used to serve the UE with equal throu
What procedure is common in both UL and DL in concern of link quality
Please describe the Inner Loop Link Adaptation
What is the purpose of the ATB?
What is the objective of the Link Adaptation?
What are the measurements that the system consider for link adaptatio

Is Adaptive Modulation and Coding dependent of UL Scheduler and UL

Explain CQI Adaptation (DL)
From the available Channel State Information types available on UL, wh

In MIMO, what is the difference between Open Loop Spatial Multiplexing

In the reference matrix on UL Close Loop Power Control, what are the
Briefly explains how does it work DL Power Control for PDCCH?

What DL Power Control manages in DL?

What are the Power control methods in UL?
Is ther a need for fast power control in LTE, like in UMTS?

What are the HO types in LTE?

What event should be triggered before LTE inter-cell handover starts?
In S1 Handover, what are the elements (Core and Radio Access) involved
IN inter eNodeB Handover, what are the available subtypes and what are
When does Coverage Handover takes place?
On which HO type does system uses RSRQ for HO decision?
Answer
RSRP: Reference Signal Received Power on the received PRB's in DL and RSRQ is Reference signal receive quality, measured
ARQ in RLC and HARQ in MAC
NAS protocol is a protocol running between UE and MME, in transparent mode to the EUTRAN.
SDU: Service Data Unit - data coming from higher layers to PDCP layer
PDU: Protocol Data Unit - PDCP header + SDU
TTI period is 1ms
FDD: uses different frequency bands for UL and DL, also requires duplex filter for UL and DL separation
TDD: Uses same frequency band for UL and DL, also requires sinchronization between the base stations to avoid interferen
In DL uses OFDMA and UL uses SC-FDMA. The reason for SC-FDMA in UL is to reduce PAPR (Peak-to-Average Power Ratio) l
15kHz
BCH ( Broadcast channel), PCH (Paging Channel), DL-SCH (DL Shared Channel) and MCH (Multicast Channel). Only DL-SCH
No, ony preambles.
PUCCH (Only L1 info)
BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM
504 (3 groups of 168), PSS - PCI 0 to 2, SSS - PCI group 1 to 168
DRS (Demodulation Reference Signals)
SRS (Sounding Reference Signal)
PHICH
channel state information per PRB for each UE. The CSI shall be the received signal power averaged per PRB.
Is UL eNodeB measurement for quality per UE.
S1-MME is UE-MME Control Interface including NAS signaling;
S1-U Interface is the User Plane Interface, between UE and Serving Gateway (S-GW)
Physical HARQ Indication Channel
CCCH, DCCH and DTCH
Covering Cell Access, Access Restrictions common and shared channel information
Initial Cell Selection, where UE scan all RF channels to select the most suitable cell and Stored Information Cell Selection se
S-Criterion for cell selection and R-Criterion for cell reselection
PRACH type gives cell radius: Type 0 - 14km, Type 1 - 77km, Type 2 - 29km, Type 3 - 107km.
Include such cells in black list neighborlist
1) Number of Ues to be scheduled
2) The allocation resource block (time and frequency)
3) Modulation and coding scheme
4) MIMO used or not

Applying FDM and CDM multiplexing techniques

Number of RRC Connections and active users per cell, including bandwidth.
Does not consider QoS
1)First a determination of the free PRBs is done. PRBs needed for common channels like SIB, paging, and random access pr
2) Final allocation of UEs (bearers) onto PRB.
3) In a pre-scheduling step all UEs with data available for transmission based on the buffer fill levels are listed.
4) Time domain scheduling: parameter MAX-#_UE_DL decides how many UEs are allocated in the TTI being scheduled.
5) Frequency domain scheduling for candidate set 2 UEs: resource allocation in frequency domain including number and lo

Time domain:
1) Evaluation of the #PRBs that will be assigned to Ues
2) Available number of PRBs per user (Multiple of 2, 3 or 5)
3) Max. # of UEs which can be scheduled per TTI time frame is restricted by an O&M parameter.
Frequency Domain:
Uses a random function to assure equal distributionof PRBs over the available frequency range ( random frequency hoppin

TA in GSM is measured during CS voice, TA in LTE is measured based on RACH preambles.

UE must not have “Out-of-sync” status; UE must not be in measurement gap; UE must have data buffered for DRB’s or SRB’
Flat Power allocation, ie, all PRB's are sent with the same transmission power.
Minimum bit rate. All UEs above this threshold are served with proportional fair criterion, those below are served with equ
Adaptative Modulation and Coding (AMC) does take place in both DL and UL.
Based on set period, checks the UL BLER to adjust the MCS to achieve target BLER.
ATB (Adaptive Transmission Bandwidth) is necessary when there is lack of power to concentrate the remaining power on le
Modify the signal transmitted to and by a particular user according to the signal quality variation to improve the system cap
DL data channel: CQI, DL common channel, CQI and signaling payload
UL: BLER measurement
No, it works independently from those algorithms
It is used to correct/compensate inaccuracies on CQI report based on averaged observed ACK/NACK ratio compared to the
RI (Rank Indicator) - UE recommendation of number of layers tobe used in spatial multiplexing
PMI (Precoding Matrix Indicator) - Inform the preferred Precoding Matrix
Open loop considers only CQI and RI as feedback, Close Loop considers PMI as well.
UL SINR and UL RSSI.
Checks CQI and CCE per UE; Build the Power Basket based on "free unused" power for PDCCH; Reduce Power for UE's with
still not empty, distributes equally to all scheduled UEs; Apply power levels to all scheduled UEs.
Energy per resource element (EPRE), ie, the average energy taken over all constellation points for the modulation scheme a
Open Loop and Close Loop Power control.
No, LTE does not have problem on fast-fading as UMTS

Intercell intrafrequency, intercell interfrequency and Inter-system / IRAT

Event A2
eNodeB, MME and SGW. MME is responsible to control Handover
Via X2, where data forward can take place, and via S1, where data is forwarded to the target cell once HO has been comple
When A5 event takes place, ie, serving cell RSRP gets below and absolute threshold and neighbor cell gets better than an a
A3 for intra-LTE inter-frequency HO.