ETSI TS 136 213 V15.8.0 (2020-02)

ETSI TS 136 213 V15.8.0 (2020-02)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
LTE;
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA);
Physical layer procedures
(3GPP TS 36.213 version 15.8.0 Release 15)

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 References . 9
3 Symbols and abbreviations . 10
3.1 Symbols . 10
3.2 Abbreviations . 10
4 Synchronization procedures . 12
4.1 Cell search . 12
4.2 Timing synchronization . 12
4.2.1 Radio link monitoring . 12
4.2.2 Inter-cell synchronization . 12
4.2.3 Transmission timing adjustments . 12
4.3 Timing for Secondary Cell Activation / Deactivation . 14
5 Power control . 15
5.1 Uplink power control. 15
5.1.1 Physical uplink shared channel . 15
5.1.1.1 UE behaviour . 16
5.1.1.2 Power headroom . 30
5.1.2 Physical uplink control channel . 33
5.1.2.1 UE behaviour . 34
5.1.3 Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) . 39
5.1.3.1 UE behaviour . 39
5.1.3.2 Power headroom for Type3 report . 41
5.1.4 Power allocation for EUTRA dual connectivity . 42
5.1.4.1 Dual connectivity power control Mode 1 . 43
5.1.4.2 Dual connectivity power control Mode 2 . 50
5.1.5 Power allocation for PUCCH-SCell . 54
5.2 Downlink power allocation . 55
5.2.1 eNodeB Relative Narrowband TX Power (RNTP) restrictions . 58
6 Random access procedure . 59
6.1 Physical non-synchronized random access procedure . 59
6.1.1 Timing . 60
6.2 Random Access Response Grant . 61
7 Physical downlink shared channel related procedures . 66
7.1 UE procedure for receiving the physical downlink shared channel . 67
7.1.1 Single-antenna port scheme . 86
7.1.2 Transmit diversity scheme . 86
7.1.3 Large delay CDD scheme . 86
7.1.4 Closed-loop spatial multiplexing scheme . 86
7.1.5 Multi-user MIMO scheme . 87
7.1.5A Dual layer scheme . 87
7.1.5B Up to 8 layer transmission scheme . 87
7.1.6 Resource allocation . 87
7.1.6.1 Resource allocation type 0 . 89
7.1.6.2 Resource allocation type 1 . 90
7.1.6.3 Resource allocation type 2 . 91
7.1.6.4 PDSCH starting position . 94
7.1.6.4A PDSCH starting position for BL/CE UEs . 96
7.1.6.5 Physical Resource Block (PRB) bundling. 96
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7.1.7 Modulation order and transport block size determination . 98
7.1.7.1 Modulation order and redundancy version determination . 100
7.1.7.2 Transport block size determination . 106
7.1.7.2.1 Transport blocks not mapped to two or more layer spatial multiplexing . 111
7.1.7.2.2 Transport blocks mapped to two-layer spatial multiplexing . 119
7.1.7.2.3 Transport blocks mapped for DCI Format 1C and DCI Format 6-2 . 119
7.1.7.2.4 Transport blocks mapped to three-layer spatial multiplexing . 120
7.1.7.2.5 Transport blocks mapped to four-layer spatial multiplexing . 120
7.1.7.2.6 Transport blocks mapped for BL/CE UEs configured with CEModeB and PDSCH bandwidth
up to 1.4MHz . 121
7.1.7.2.7 Transport blocks mapped for BL/CE UEs SystemInformationBlockType1-BR . 122
7.1.7.2.8 Transport blocks mapped for UEs configured with ce-pdsch-maxBandwidth-config value of 5
MHz or with pdsch-MaxBandwidth-SC-MTCH value of 24 PRBs . 122
7.1.7.3 Redundancy Version determination for Format 1C . 122
7.1.8 Storing soft channel bits . 123
7.1.9 PDSCH resource mapping parameters . 123
7.1.10 Antenna ports quasi co-location for PDSCH . 125
7.1.11 PDSCH subframe assignment for BL/CE UE . 126
7.2 UE procedure for reporting Channel State Information (CSI) . 128
7.2.1 Aperiodic CSI Reporting using PUSCH . 138
7.2.2 Periodic CSI Reporting using PUCCH . 163
7.2.3 Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) definition . 203
7.2.4 Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) definition . 217
7.2.5 Channel-State Information – Reference Signal (CSI-RS) definition . 245
7.2.6 Channel-State Information – Interference Measurement (CSI-IM) Resource definition . 247
7.2.7 Zero Power CSI-RS Resource definition . 247
7.2.8 CSI-RS Activation / Deactivation . 247
7.3 UE procedure for reporting HARQ-ACK . 248
7.3.1 FDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure . 250
7.3.2 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure . 255
7.3.2.1 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for same UL/DL configuration . 256
7.3.2.2 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for different UL/DL configurations . 271
7.3.3 FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for primary cell frame structure type 1 . 278
7.3.4 FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for primary cell frame structure type 2 . 280
8 Physical uplink shared channel related procedures . 281
8.0 UE procedure for transmitting the physical uplink shared channel . 281
8.0.1 Single-antenna port scheme . 307
8.0.2 Closed-loop spatial multiplexing scheme . 307
8.1 Resource allocation for PDCCH/EPDCCH/SPDCCH with uplink DCI format . 308
8.1.1 Uplink resource allocation type 0 . 308
8.1.2 Uplink resource allocation type 1 . 309
8.1.3 Uplink resource allocation type 2 . 309
8.1.4 Uplink resource allocation type 3 . 310
8.1.5 Uplink resource allocation type 4 . 311
8.1.5.1 UL Resource Block Groups . 311
8.1.6 Uplink resource allocation type 5 . 312
8.2 UE sounding procedure . 314
8.3 UE HARQ-ACK procedure . 325
8.3A Autonomous uplink feedback procedure . 327
8.4 UE PUSCH hopping procedure . 327
8.4.1 Type 1 PUSCH hopping . 328
8.4.2 Type 2 PUSCH hopping . 328
8.5 UE Reference Symbol (RS) procedure . 329
8.6 Modulation order, redundancy version and transport block size determination . 330
8.6.1 Modulation order and redundancy version determination . 330
8.6.2 Transport block size determination . 338
8.6.3 Control information MCS offset determination . 344
8.7 UE transmit antenna selection . 348
8.8 Transmission timing adjustments . 348
9 Physical downlink control channel procedures . 348
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9.1 UE procedure for determining physical downlink control channel assignment . 349
9.1.1 PDCCH assignment procedure . 349
9.1.2 PHICH assignment procedure. 353
9.1.3 Control Format Indicator (CFI) assignment procedure . 356
9.1.4 EPDCCH assignment procedure . 357
9.1.4.1 EPDCCH starting position . 364
9.1.4.2 Antenna ports quasi co-location for EPDCCH . 364
9.1.4.3 Resource mapping parameters for EPDCCH . 365
9.1.4.4 PRB-pair indication for EPDCCH . 365
9.1.5 MPDCCH assignment procedure . 366
9.1.5.1 MPDCCH starting position . 373
9.1.5.2 Antenna ports quasi co-location for MPDCCH . 373
9.1.6 SPDCCH assignment procedure . 373
9.1.6.1 Resource mapping parameters for SPDCCH . 375
9.1.6.2 PRB-pair indication for SPDCCH . 375
9.1.6.3 Physical Resource Block (PRB) bundling for DMRS-based SPDCCH . 376
9.1.6.4 Antenna ports quasi co-location for DMRS-based SPDCCH . 376
9.2 PDCCH/EPDCCH/MPDCCH/SPDCCH validation for semi-persistent scheduling . 377
9.2A PDCCH/EPDCCH validation for autonomous uplink transmissions . 379
9.3 PDCCH/EPDCCH/MPDCCH/SPDCCH control information procedure . 380
10 Physical uplink control channel procedures . 381
10.1 UE procedure for determining physical uplink control channel assignment . 382
10.1.1 PUCCH format information . 387
10.1.2 FDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures . 393
10.1.2.1 FDD HARQ-ACK procedure for one configured serving cell . 393
10.1.2.2 FDD HARQ-ACK procedures for more than one configured serving cell . 397
10.1.2.2.1 PUCCH format 1b with channel selection HARQ-ACK procedure . 397
10.1.2.2.2 PUCCH format 3 HARQ-ACK procedure . 401
10.1.2.2.3 PUCCH format 4 HARQ-ACK procedure . 403
10.1.2.2.4 PUCCH format 5 HARQ-ACK procedure . 406
10.1.3 TDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures . 407
10.1.3.1 TDD HARQ-ACK procedure for one configured serving cell . 409
10.1.3.2 TDD HARQ-ACK procedure for more than one configured serving cell . 423
10.1.3.2.1 PUCCH format 1b with channel selection HARQ-ACK procedure . 423
10.1.3.2.2 PUCCH format 3 HARQ-ACK procedure . 439
10.1.3.2.3 PUCCH format 4 HARQ-ACK procedure . 446
10.1.3.2.4 PUCCH format 5 HARQ-ACK procedure . 463
10.1.3A FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures for primary cell frame structure type 2 . 463
10.1.4 HARQ-ACK Repetition procedure . 465
10.1.5 Scheduling Request (SR) procedure . 466
10.2 Uplink HARQ-ACK timing . 468
11 Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) related procedures . 473
11.1 UE procedure for receiving the PMCH . 473
11.2 UE procedure for receiving MCCH and system information change notification. 474
12 Assumptions independent of physical channel. 474
13 Uplink/Downlink configuration determination procedure for Frame Structure Type 2 . 474
13.1 UE procedure for determining eIMTA-uplink/downlink configuration . 475
13A Subframe configuration for Frame Structure Type 3 . 476
14 UE procedures related to Sidelink . 479
14.1 Physical Sidelink Shared Channel related procedures . 480
14.1.1 UE procedure for transmitting the PSSCH . 480
14.1.1.1 UE procedure for determining subframes for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission mode
1 . 482
14.1.1.1.1 Determination of subframe indicator bitmap . 482
14.1.1.2 UE procedure for determining resource blocks for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission
mode 1 . 485
14.1.1.2.1 PSSCH resource allocation for sidelink transmission mode 1 . 485
14.1.1.2.2 PSSCH frequency hopping for sidelink transmission mode 1 . 486
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