4.2.2 Transport block concatenation and code block segmentation

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All transport blocks in a TTI are serially concatenated. If the number of bits in a TTI is larger than the maximum size of a code block, then code block segmentation is performed after the concatenation of the transport blocks. The maximum size of the code blocks depends on whether convolutional, turbo coding or no coding is used for the TrCH.

4.2.2.1 Concatenation of transport blocks

The bits input to the transport block concatenation are denoted by where i is the TrCH number, m is the transport block number, and B_i is the number of bits in each block (including CRC). The number of transport blocks on TrCH i is denoted by M_i. The bits after concatenation are denoted by , where i is the TrCH number and X_i=M_iB_i. They are defined by the following relations:

k = 1, 2, …, B_i

k = B_i + 1, B_i + 2, …, 2B_i

k = 2B_i + 1, 2B_i + 2, …, 3B_i

k = (M_i – 1)B_i + 1, (M_i – 1)B_i + 2, …, M_iB_i

4.2.2.2 Code block segmentation

Segmentation of the bit sequence from transport block concatenation is performed if X_i>Z. The code blocks after segmentation are of the same size. The number of code blocks on TrCH i is denoted by C_i. If the number of bits input to the segmentation, X_i, is not a multiple of C_i, filler bits are added to the beginning of the first block. If turbo coding is selected and X_i < 40, filler bits are added to the beginning of the code block. The filler bits are transmitted and they are always set to 0. The maximum code block sizes are:

– convolutional coding: Z = 504;

– turbo coding: Z = 5114;

– no channel coding: Z = unlimited.

The bits output from code block segmentation, for C_i  0, are denoted by , where i is the TrCH number, r is the code block number, and K_i is the number of bits per code block.

Number of code blocks:

Number of bits in each code block (applicable for C_i  0 only):

if X_i < 40 and Turbo coding is used, then

K_i = 40

else

K_i = X_i / C_i

end if

Number of filler bits: Y_i = C_iK_i – X_i

for k = 1 to Y_i — Insertion of filler bits

end for

for k = Y_i+1 to K_i

end for

r = 2 — Segmentation

while r  C_i

for k = 1 to K_i

end for

r = r+1

end while