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PHICH Dimensioning
Reference No. (9 pt Arial)
15 Mar 2015
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Summary
Reference No. (9 pt Arial)
- The Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) in the downlink
carries Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) acknowledgements (ACK/NACK) for uplink
data transfers.
- PHICH is located in the Subframe 3 and Subframe 8 for TDD Frame
Configuration 2.
- Allocating more resources for PHICH steals resources from PDCCH
- Upto 24 Ues can be supported by PHICH configuration 1/6 per TTI
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Calculation
N Pgroup
HICH
normal CP
DL
2 N g N RB 8 extended CP
DL
N g N RB
8
Reference No. (9 pt Arial)
- Current maximum scheduled Ues per TTI : 10
- 1 PHICH group supports upto 8 Ues per TTI
- Number PHICH groups can be calculated as in table below according to
bandwidth
- If phich resolution is set as 1/6 number of Ues supported = 24
- Occupied REs =12*3=36 REs
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Trial
Stage 1
- Choose sites with high Aggregation1 blocking and change
PHICHres=1/6
410861
411091
Stage 2
Increase maximum scheduled Ues per TTI to 12 in sites with
PRB utilization is low and user count >30
Reference No. (9 pt Arial)
5/29/15
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