Evolution of WCDMA high speed packet access and broadcast services

Author

Goransson, Bo ; Cairns, Douglas ; Wang, Y. P Eric ; Cozzo, Carmela ; Fulghum, Tracy ; Grant, Stephen

Author_Institution

Ericsson Res., Stockholm

fYear

2007

fDate

17-20 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper addresses the latest approaches for improving the data rates and spectral efficiency of the high speed packet access (HSPA) mode of wideband CDMA (WCDMA). The improvements are due to advances in modulation techniques, interference suppression, and broadcast channel reception relative to previously standardized approaches. The new modulation techniques include 2times2 MIMO and 64QAM on the downlink, and 16QAM on the uplink. Interference suppression has been augmented to more accurately model multiple sources of interference. Broadcast channel reception has been restructured for the case of multimedia services. A single frequency network option has been added to allow for macro-diversity to enable comprehensive coverage with interference suppression. We discuss all these advances and evaluate the respective performance impacts based on system and/or link simulations.

Keywords

MIMO communication; broadband networks; code division multiple access; interference suppression; packet radio networks; MIMO; WCDMA; broadcast services; data rates; high speed packet access; interference suppression; spectral efficiency; wideband CDMA; Base stations; Digital multimedia broadcasting; Downlink; Frequency; Interference suppression; MIMO; Mobile TV; Multiaccess communication; Multimedia communication; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, 2007. SPAWC 2007. IEEE 8th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0955-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0955-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPAWC.2007.4401426

Filename

4401426