Chairman's Notes RAN1 - NB-IoT AdHoc - Final
Chairman's Notes RAN1 - NB-IoT AdHoc - Final
Chairman's Notes RAN1 - NB-IoT AdHoc - Final
Sophia Antipolis, France, 22nd 24th March 2016
Title: RAN1 Chairman’s Notes
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2 E-UTRA
2.1 NB-IoT
WID in RP152284.
The objective is to specify a radio access for cellular internet of things, based to a great extent on a nonbackward
compatible variant of EUTRA, that addresses improved indoor coverage, support for massive number of low throughput
devices, low delay sensitivity, ultra low device cost, low device power consumption and (optimised) network
architecture.
2.2.2 NB-PDCCH
R1161859 Remaining issues on NBPDCCH design for NBIoT ZTE
R1161906 DCI format design MediaTek Inc.
R1161921 Start timing indication method of NBPDSCH and NBPUSCH Panasonic Corporation
R1161949 Support of discontinuous resource mapping for NBIoT DL Intel Corporation
R1161933 NBPDCCH Design Qualcomm Inc.
R1161802 Remaining details of NBPDCCH design Huawei, HiSilicon
R1161934 NBPDSCH Design Qualcomm Inc.
Agreements:
• Confirm the working assumptions
– The start of an NBPDCCH search space is >=4ms after the end of the last NBPDCCH search space
– The start of NBPDSCH transmission is >=4ms later than the end of its associated DL assignment
Qualcomm has concerns that this agreement will put a limitation for the achievable peak rate and impact to UE power
consumption
Telecom Italia confirms that the achievable peak rate is in line with the current WID requirement and the impact on UE
power consumption is negligible
A greement:
DCI content:
Number of repetitions of NBPDCCH:
- 2 bits (except for CSS for paging)
- 3 bits for CSS for paging
Scheduling delay between end of NBPDCCH transmission and start of data transmission:
- 3 bits for NBPDSCH (except for CSS for paging)
- 0 bits for paging
- 2 bits for NBPUSCH
Values are FFS.
Agreement:
Start of PDCCH search space:
Signalled by RRC with 3 bits for each search space except for CSS for paging
Agreements:
• The set of options for the max number of repetitions in an NBPDCCH search space is the same for all search
spaces
– Rmax is from: {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048}
2.2.3 NB-PDSCH
Including MCS/TBS tables, and resource design
Agreements:
• CW for NBPDSCH can be mapped to multiple subframes
• 8 numbers of subframes
Supported number of subframes includes at least 1, 2, 4, 8 (Maximum value is less than or equal to 10)
Agreements:
• PDCCH order is always received in the UEspecific SS
• After receiving Msg.4 (random access procedure success),
• if the UE cannot be RRC reconfigured
• UE uses the previous configured dedicated RRC configuration (e.g. it monitors the USS in
the previously configured PRB)
Agreements:
• Any combination, i.e., inband+inband, inband+guardband, and guardband+guardband should be allowed for
NBIoT multicarrier operation with the constraint that both guardbands and the inband are associated with
the same LTE donor cell, i.e., the total span cannot exceed 110 PRBs from the same FFT
• No support of NBIoT multicarrier operation for standalone mode with either guardband or inband mode of
operation
Agreements:
• On PRBs different than the NBIoT carrier on which the UE has received NBPSS/SSS, NBPBCH and SIB
transmissions, the NBIoT UE does not rate match around NBPBCH and NBPSS/SSS, i.e., the mapping of
NBPDCCH/PDSCH symbols to REs occurs without consideration of NBPSS/SSS/PBCH
Agreements:
• Agree DCI format N2 for the flag = 0 case in R1161561
FFS: details on flag = 1 case
Prepare draft LS to RAN2 to take into account the direct indication bitmap field in RAN2 spec until Thursday– Johan
(Ericsson) and Matthew (Huawei)
R1162046
Agreement:
• Multiplexing of paging records within one RRC paging message is supported by physical layer
• Subframes for scheduling paging transmission is not available for subframes 0 and 5
R1162006 WF on NBSIB1 Huawei, HiSilicon
R1162009 WF on NBSIB1 Details Huawei, HiSilicon
Prepare draft LS to RAN2 until Thursday in R1162014 – Zheng (Huawei)
Inform RAN2 that RAN1 has a mechanism to support the existing paging occasions.
Continue offline discussion by focusing on followings until Thursday – Seunghee (Intel)
- Detailed ZC sequence design for PSS and SSS
- SSS transmission period
Is there a significant issue with the agreement from RAN1#84:
Yes: HW, HiSi, Mediatek, Telecom Italia, Neul, Spreadtrum, Virtuosys, Sony, Ericsson, HW devices, UBlox,
CATT, VF (if there is a complexity increase in short sequence)
No:QC, Intel, ZTE, LGE, IITH, CeWit, RelianceJio, IDC, Sams, Softbank,
Between the short sequence proposals:
• Details on 11 root sequence indices on 11 OFDM symbols
• R1161895 (Intel)
• Intel, IDC, LGE, ZTE, Sams,
• R1161895 with binary code cover
• IITH, Reliancejio, Cewit
• R1161968 (LGE)
• LGE, Intel,
• R1161981 (Qualcomm)
• QC, HW, HiSi, HW devices, Ericsson, Mediatek, Softbank, Sony, VF (if complexity results
are to be believed), Fujitsu, Sierra, IITH, Reliancejio, Cewit
Conclusions:
If we adopt a short sequence, it would be the one described in R1161981.
Conclusion: As there is clearly not consensus to revert the decision from RAN1#84, and only one of the shortcode
proposals has support from the longcode proponents, we adopt the NBPSS design from R1161981:
• Base sequence: ZadoffChu sequence of size 11 with root index 5 and no shift
• Code cover: [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
Possible conclusions:
• All companies should provide detailed solutions related to NBPSS and NBSSS until Thursday
Ref. R1161957 for long ZC sequence for NBPSS
• If significant issues (e.g., performance and complexity) are existed by short ZC sequence NBPSS, companies
should provide it until Thursday
Ref. R1161958 and R1161980
R1162063
Agreement:
• Confirm the working assumption
LTE CRS is not precluded for an NBIoT UE to use for DL demodulation and/or measurements for the cases
when the number of antenna ports for LTE CRS and NBRS is the same and takes a value of either 1 or 2
Agreements:
• When the samePCI indicator is set to TRUE,
• NBRS power offset between NBRS and LTE CRS is indicated in SIB
• If there is no SIB indication, UE may assume the equal power between NBRS and LTE
CRS
• RAN1 recommends RAN2 to indicate this signaling by SIB1
Conclusion:
• At least for UE in idle mode, whether measurement accuracy requirements and performance requirements are
based on NBRS, NBSSS or NBRS+NBSSS should be evaluated by RAN4
FFS: UE in connected mode for serving cell
2.2.8 Other
Including downlink power allocation
Agreement:
• Maximum TBS size for NBPUSCH is 1000 bits
Possible agreements:
• For UEs that don’t indicate the support of multitone transmissions, the following TPSK modulation formats
are supported in the UL
– (2,4)TPSK and (4,4)TPSK with contiguous tone allocation as specified in Tables 2 and 3,
respectively, in R1161940.
Continue offline discussion about modulation, coding, RV until Thursday – Shupeng (ZTE) Xiaofeng (Qualcomm)
Agreement:
• Two redundancy versions, LTE RV0 and LTE RV2, are supported for NBPUSCH
Agreements:
For multitone and singletone,
o RV0 or RV2 is separately indicated by 1 bit DCI. RV2 is supported in all ITBS
Starting point is to reuse TBS/MCS table for DL
ITBS is 4 bits indication in DCI
NPRB is 3 bits indication in DCI. NPRB indicates the number of resource unit
For multitone, support ITBS equals 0 to at least 10
For singletone, support ITBS equals 0 to 10
For singletone cases,
o Pi/2 BPSK is used for the lowest one ITBS entry or lowest two ITBS entries. Pi/4 QPSK is used in the
other ITBS entries.
Possible agreements:
For singletone cases
o Alt A: Pi/2 BPSK for NPRB is supported 1,2, 3,4,5,6,8, 10. One row of ITBS indexes are used.
o Alt B: Pi/2 BPSK for NPRB is supported 1,2, 3,4,5,6,8, 10, 11,12, 13,14,15,16,18, 20. Two rows of ITBS
indexes are used.
o Alt C: Pi/2 BPSK for NPRB is supported 2, 4,8,10,16, 20, 24, 28. Two rows of ITBS indexes are used.
Continue offline discussion until Thursday – Suzuki (Panasonic)
Agreement:
• DMRS pattern for single tone NBPUSCH that conveys data transmission:
– For 15 kHz subcarrier spacing, the 4th symbol of every 7 symbols (i.e. same as LTE).
– For 3.75 kHz subcarrier spacing, the 5th symbol of every 7 symbols in 2ms NBslot
Conclusion:
• No consensus in RAN1 to support aperiodic CSI in Rel13
A greements
:
• Number of repetitions for A/N transmission corresponding to Msg 4 is semistatically configured by SIB per
PRACH resource set
• This is used as a default value to number of repetitions for A/N transmission after Msg4
• A/N piggybacking on PUSCH is not supported in Rel13
FFS:
Proposals:
• Baseline time location of A/N resource is the first starting subframe after 12msec + end of the last subframe of
the associated PDSCH transmission
• Starting subframe of A/N transmission can be restricted
• Time location/offset of A/N resource is indicated in DL grant pending UL grant size discussion
• Note: intention is use padding bits to support this. Otherwise, time location/offset is not signaled.
R1161997 WF on ACK/NACK transmission for NBPDSCH
R1162022 WF on ACK/NACK transmission for NBPDSCH Huawei, HiSilicon, MediaTek, Panasonic
Agreement:
• For ACK/NACK only transmission of NBPDSCH in NBIoT:
– Only single tone transmission is supported
Possible agreements:
Alt. 1:
– DMRS density is increased compared to normal NBPUSCH
– 3 DMRS symbols in every 7 symbols in each NBSlot
MTK, HiSi, QCM, Huawei, Fujitsu, Neul
R1162061 WF on UL ACK/NAK transmission Qualcomm, Mediatek, Huawei, HiSilicon
Working Assumption:
• Support 3 DMRS symbols per 7 symbol period
• The DMRS sequence is obtained as
– Use single tone DMRS PUSCH spread by length 3 OCC sequence defined for PUCCH
• The OCC ID is pseudorandomly selected (from existing OCCs) according to
cell
ncs (ns , l ) mod 3
Working Assumption can be changed to 1 DMRS symbol at RAN1#84bis if significant gain is not observed compared
to 1 DMRS symbol.
Alt. 2:
– Same DMRS density as NBPUSCH for the normal data
– 1 DMRS symbol in every 7 symbols in each NBSlot
Ericsson, ZTE, LG, Intel, Nokia net., Samsung, AL, ASB
Continue offline discussion until Thursday – Xiaolei (HiSilicon)
Agreement:
• For ACK/NACK only transmission of NBPDSCH in NBIoT:
– ∏ /2BPSK modulation is used for single tone transmission
• Number of repetitions of A/N resource unit is semistatically configured by RRC signaling at least if the
associated NBPDSCH is after Msg4
Agreement:
• For NBPRACH,
A symbol group consists of 1 CP + 5 identical symbols
ZTE encourages companies to check their analysis.
Agreements:
• RAR is transmitted on an NPDSCH scheduled by an NPDCCH
• The NPDSCH transport block can contain RAR messages to multiple UEs
A greement:
• The timing advance update does not impact the phase settings
i.e. phase is determined in the same way with or without timing advance
Remaining potential issues
- UL grant in RAR (Huawei) R1162055
2.3.5 Other
Including uplink power control
Agreements:
• For NBPUSCH data transmission, the uplink power setting reuse section 5.1.1.1 of 36.213, that is for serving cell
c and subframe i ( for 15 kHz subcarrier spacing) or NBSlot i (for 3.75 kHz subcarrier spacing)
• PNPUSCH,c(i)=min{PCMAX,c(i), 10log10(MNPUSCH,c(i))+PO_NPUSCH,c+ αc(j) PLc+fc(i)}
• MNPUSCH,c(i)
• Alt 1: {1/4, 1,3,6,12} (reflecting UL transmission resource BW)
• Alt 2: {1,3,6,12} (3.75 kHz is adjusted by using PO_NPUSCH,c)
• PO_NPUSCH,c(j)=PO_UE_NPUSCH,c(j)+PO_NOMINAL_NPUSCH,c(j)
• When j = 1, PO_UE_NPUSCH,c(1) and PO_NOMINAL_NPUSCH,c(1) are configured by higher layers, where j = 1
is used for NBPUSCH data (re)transmissions.
• When j = 2, which is used for NBPUSCH (re)transmissions corresponding to the random access
response grant, PO_UE_NPUSCH,c(2)=0 and PO_NOMINAL_NPUSCH,c(2)=PO_PRE+ΔPREAMBLE_Msg3, where the
parameter PO_PRE and ΔPREAMBLE_Msg3 are signaled from higher layers for serving cell .
• For j = 1, αc(j) is configured by higher layers, and αc(j)=1 for j = 2.
• fc(i)
• Alt 1: A power adjustment parameter indicated by DCI
• Alt 2: No TPC command, fc(i)=0
• UL power control for ACK/NACK transmission uses the same procedure as normal NBPUSCH transmission.
• Alt. 1: Accept above formulas
• Alt. 2: With alpha = 1
2.4 Other
R1161837 NBIoT Valid subframes Ericsson
R1161838 NBIoT Collision handling Ericsson
R1161856 Timing relationships for NBIoT Nokia Networks, AlcatelLucent, AlcatelLucent Shanghai Bell
R1161874 Collision handling for NBIoT Nokia Networks, AlcatelLucent, AlcatelLucent Shanghai Bell
R1161884 Summary of RAN2 open items with possible RAN1 dependence Huawei, HiSilicon
R1161913 Discussions on HARQ process MediaTek Inc.
Output to RAN2 and RAN4:
Draft LSs in R1162065 and R1162066 respectively (Matthew – Huawei)