3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations

36.521-13GPPEvolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)Part 1: Conformance testingRadio transmission and receptionRelease 17TSUser Equipment (UE) conformance specification

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. A term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905 [1].

Active time slot: The time period where Uplink signal is transmitted excluding any transient period.

Aggregated Channel Bandwidth: The RF bandwidth in which a UE transmits and receives multiple contiguously aggregated carriers.

Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration: The number of resource block allocated within the aggregated channel bandwidth.

Carrier aggregation: Aggregation of two or more component carriers in order to support wider transmission bandwidths.

Carrier aggregation band: A set of one or more operating bands across which multiple carriers are aggregated with a specific set of technical requirements.

Carrier aggregation bandwidth class: A class defined by the aggregated transmission bandwidth configuration and maximum number of component carriers supported by a UE.

Carrier aggregation configuration: A combination of CA operating band(s) and CA bandwidth class(es) supported by a UE.

Channel edge: The lowest and highest frequency of the carrier, separated by the channel bandwidth.

Channel bandwidth: The RF bandwidth supporting a single E-UTRA RF carrier with the transmission bandwidth configured in the uplink or downlink of a cell. The channel bandwidth is measured in MHz and is used as a reference for transmitter and receiver RF requirements.

Contiguous carriers: A set of two or more carriers configured in a spectrum block where there are no RF requirements based on co-existence for un-coordinated operation within the spectrum block.

Contiguous resource allocation: A resource allocation of consecutive resource blocks within one carrier or across contiguously aggregated carriers. The gap between contiguously aggregated carriers due to the nominal channel spacing is allowed.

Contiguous spectrum: Spectrum consisting of a contiguous block of spectrum with no sub-block gaps.

Enhanced downlink control channel performance requirements type A: This defines performance requirements for downlink control channel assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining plus CRS interference cancellation.

Enhanced downlink control channel performance requirements type B: This defines performance requirements for downlink control channel assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based enhanced linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining plus CRS interference cancellation.

Enhanced performance requirements type A: This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver reference symbol based linear minimum mean square error interference rejection combining.

Enhanced performance requirements type B: This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver using network assisted interference cancellation and suppression.

Enhanced performance requirements type C: This defines performance requirements assuming as baseline receiver inter-stream interference cancellation.

Inter-band carrier aggregation: Carrier aggregation of component carriers in different operating bands.

NOTE: Carriers aggregated in each band can be contiguous or non-contiguous.

Intra-band contiguous carrier aggregation: Contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

Intra-band non-contiguous carrier aggregation: Non-contiguous carriers aggregated in the same operating band.

Lower sub-block edge: The frequency at the lower edge of one sub-block. It is used as a frequency reference point for both transmitter and receiver requirements.

Category NB1/NB2 stand-alone operation: category NB1/NB2 is operating standalone when it utilizes its own spectrum, for example the spectrum used by GERAN systems as a replacement of one or more GSM carriers, as well as scattered spectrum for potential IoT deployment.

Category NB1/NB2 guard band operation: category NB1/NB2 is operating in guard band when it utilizes the unused resource block(s) within a E-UTRA carrier’s guard-band

Category NB1/NB2 in-band operation: category NB1/NB2 is operating in-band when it utilizes the resource block(s) within a normal E-UTRA carrier

Non-contiguous spectrum: Spectrum consisting of two or more sub-blocks separated by sub-block gap(s).

ProSe-enabled UE: A UE that supports ProSe requirements and associated procedures.

NOTE: As defined in TS 23.303 [22].

ProSe Direct Communication: A communication between two or more UEs in proximity that are ProSe-enabled.

NOTE: As defined in TS 23.303 [22].

ProSe Direct Discovery: A procedure employed by a ProSe-enabled UE to discover other ProSe-enabled UEs in its vicinity.

NOTE: As defined in TS 23.303 [22].

Maximum Output Power: The mean power level per carrier of UE measured at the antenna connector in a specified reference condition.

Maximum Wgap: Largest achievable sub-block gap size for an intra-band non-contiguous CA configuration with two sub-blocks, where one sub-block is placed in the low range of the operating band and the other one in the high range.

Mean power: When applied to E-UTRA transmission this is the power measured in the operating system bandwidth of the carrier. The period of measurement shall be at least one subframe (1ms) unless otherwise stated.

Narrowband: A narrowband is defined as six non-overlapping consecutive physical resource blocks in the frequency domain.

Narrowband index: The narrowbands are numbered in order of increasing physical resource-block number.

Low Wgap: Sub-block gap size of 5MHz centered in the middle of the operating band, with one sub-block on each side of the gap, with lowest N_RB for PCC and SCC(s).

Occupied bandwidth: The width of a frequency band such that, below the lower and above the upper frequency limits, the mean powers emitted are each equal to a specified percentage β/2 of the total mean power of a given emission.

Output power: The mean power of one carrier of the UE, delivered to a load with resistance equal to the nominal load impedance of the transmitter.

PMI delay: The rate in basic time unit at which PMI is updated.

Reference bandwidth: The bandwidth in which an emission level is specified.

sTTI: A transmission time interval (TTI) of either one slot or one subslot as defined in TS 36.211 [8] on either uplink or downlink.

Sub-block: This is one contiguous allocated block of spectrum for transmission and reception by the same UE. There may be multiple instances of sub-blocks within an RF bandwidth.

Sub-block bandwidth: The bandwidth of one sub-block.

Sub-block gap: A frequency gap between two consecutive sub-blocks within an RF bandwidth, where the RF requirements in the gap are based on co-existence for un-coordinated operation.

Synchronized operation: Operation of TDD in two different systems, where no simultaneous uplink and downlink occur.

Transmission bandwidth: Bandwidth of an instantaneous transmission from a UE or BS, measured in Resource Block units.

Transmission bandwidth configuration: The highest transmission bandwidth allowed for uplink or downlink in a given channel bandwidth, measured in Resource Block units.

Transmit Diversity: Transmit diversity is based on space-frequency block coding techniques complemented with frequency-shift time diversity when four transmit antennas is used.

Unsynchronized operation: Operation of TDD in two different systems, where the conditions for synchronized operation

Upper sub-block edge: The frequency at the upper edge of one sub-block. It is used as a frequency reference point for both transmitter and receiver requirements.

V2X Communication: V2X (Vehicle to Everything) service is operating in ITS spectrum and/or LTE licensed operating bands.

3.2 Symbols

For the purposes of the present document, the following symbols apply:

BW_Channel Channel bandwidth

BW_{Channel,block} Sub-block bandwidth, expressed in MHz. BW_{Channel,block}= F_{edge,block,high}– F_{edge,block,low.}

BW_{Channel_CA} Aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

BW_GB Virtual guard band to facilitate transmitter (receiver) filtering above / below edge CCs.

Transmitted energy per RE for reference symbols during the useful part of the symbol, i.e. excluding the cyclic prefix, (average power normalized to the subcarrier spacing) at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

The averaged received energy per RE of the wanted signal during the useful part of the symbol, i.e. excluding the cyclic prefix, at the UE antenna connector; average power is computed within a set of REs used for the transmission of physical channels (including user specific RSs when present), divided by the number of REs within the set, and normalized to the subcarrier spacingF Frequency

F Frequency

F_{agg_alloc_low} Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. The lowest frequency of the simultaneously transmitted resource blocks.

F_{agg_alloc_high} Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. The highest frequency of the simultaneously transmitted resource blocks.

F_Interferer (offset) Frequency offset of the interferer

F_Interferer Frequency of the interferer

F_C Frequency of the carrier centre frequency

F_{C_agg} Aggregated Transmission Bandwidth Configuration. Center frequency of the aggregated carriers.F_{C,block, high} Center frequency of the highest transmitted/received carrier in a sub-block.

F_{C,block, low} Center frequency of the lowest transmitted/received carrier in a sub-block.

F_{CA_low} The centre frequency of the lowest carrier, expressed in MHz.

F_{CA_high} The centre frequency of the highest carrier, expressed in MHz.

F_{DL_low} The lowest frequency of the downlink operating band

F_{DL_high} The highest frequency of the downlink operating band

F_{UL_low} The lowest frequency of the uplink operating band

F_{UL_high} The highest frequency of the uplink operating band

F_{edge,block,low} The lower sub-block edge, where F_{edge,block,low} = F_C,block,low – F_offset.

F_{edge,block,high} The upper sub-block edge, where F_{edge,block,high} = F_C,block,high + F_offset.

F_{edge_low} The lower edge of aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

F_{edge_high} The higher edge of aggregated channel bandwidth, expressed in MHz.

F_offset Frequency offset from F_{C_high} to the higher edge or F_{C_low} to the lower edge.

F_{offset,block,low} Separation between lower edge of a sub-block and the center of the lowest component carrier within the sub-block

F_{offset,block,high} Separation between higher edge of a sub-block and the center of the highest component carrier within the sub-block

The power spectral density of the total input signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the UE antenna connector, including the own-cell downlink signal

The total transmitted power spectral density of the own-cell downlink signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

The total received power spectral density of the own-cell downlink signal (power averaged over the useful part of the symbols within the transmission bandwidth configuration, divided by the total number of RE for this configuration and normalised to the subcarrier spacing) at the UE antenna connector

The received power spectral density of the total noise and interference for a certain RE (average power obtained within the RE and normalized to the subcarrier spacing) as measured at the UE antenna connector

Transmission bandwidth which represents the length of a contiguous resource block allocation expresse in units of resources blocks

N_cp Cyclic prefix length

N_DL Downlink EARFCN

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalized to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in non-CRS symbols in ABS subframe from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalized to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in CRS symbols in ABS subframe from all cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing), simulating interference in non-ABS subframe from cells that are not defined in a test procedure, as measured at the UE antenna connector.

The power spectral density (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing) of the summation of the received power spectral densities of the strongest interfering cells explicitly defined in a test procedure plus , as measured at the UE antenna connector. The respective power spectral density of each interfering cell relative to is defined by its associated DIP value, or the respective power spectral density of each interfering cell relative to is defined by its associated Es/Noc value.

N_Offs-DL Offset used for calculating downlink EARFCN

N_Offs-UL Offset used for calculating uplink EARFCN

The power spectral density of a white noise source (average power per RE normalised to the subcarrier spacing) simulating eNode B transmitter impairments as at the eNode B transmit antenna connector

N_RB Transmission bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of resource blocks

Highest N_RB Highest N_RB defined for the band

N_{RB_agg} The number of the aggregated RBs within the fully allocated Aggregated Channel bandwidth.

Highest N_{RB_agg} The highest N_{RB_agg} across Bandwidth Combination Sets supported by the UE as part of the CA Configuration.

Lowest N_{RB_agg} The lowest N_{RB_agg} across Bandwidth Combination Sets supported by the UE as part of the CA Configuration.

L_Ctone Transmission bandwidth which represents the length of a contiguous sub-carrier allocation expressed in units of tones

N_{RB_alloc} Total number of simultaneously transmitted resource blocks in Channel bandwidth or Aggregated Channel Bandwidth configuration.

N_RB,c The transmission bandwidth configuration of component carrier c, expressed in units of resource blocks

N_{RB,largest BW} The largest transmission bandwidth configuration of the component carriers in the bandwidth combination, expressed in units of resource blocks

N_RX Number of receiver antennas

N_tone Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2, expressed in units of tones.

N_{tone 3.75kHz} Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2 with 3.75 kHz sub-carrier spacing, expressed in units of tones.

N_{tone 15kHz} Transmission bandwidth configuration for category NB1 and NB2 with 15 kHz sub-carrier spacing, expressed in units of tones.

N_UL Uplink EARFCN

Number of cell-specific antenna ports

Antenna port number

P_CMAX The measured configured maximum UE output power.

P_CMAX,c The configured maximum UE output power for serving cell c.

P_EMAX Maximum allowed UE output power signalled by higher layers. Same as IE P-Max, defined in [5].

P_EMAX,c Maximum allowed UE output power signalled by higher layers for serving cell c. Same as IE P-Max, defined in [7].

P_Interferer Modulated mean power of the interferer

P_PowerClass P_PowerClass is the nominal UE power (i.e., no tolerance).

P_UMAX The measured configured maximum UE output power. Maximum UE Power with possible power reduction due to modulation type, network signalling values and location near the edge of the band; it equals P_CMAX when the IE P-Max, defined in [5], is not signalled.

Puw Power of an unwanted DL signal

Pw Power of a wanted DL signal

P_L_CRB Number of transmitted resource blocks on the Primary Component Carrier

Rav Minimum average throughput per RB

RB # Position of the RB in the channel bandwidth.

RB_start Indicates the lowest RB index of transmitted resource blocks.

RB_end Indicates the highest RB index of transmitted resource blocks.

T_{no_hopping} Transmission period within a TTI duration when consecutive symbols are transmitted without applying any frequency hopping.S_L_CRB Number of transmitted resource blocks on the Secondary Component Carrier

ΔF_OOB Δ Frequency of Out Of Band emission

ΔR_IB,c Allowed reference sensitivity relaxation due to support for inter-band CA operation, for serving cell c.

ΔT_IB,c Allowed maximum configured output power relaxation due to support for inter-band CA operation, for serving cell c.

T_C Allowed operating band edge transmission power relaxation.

T_C,_c Allowed operating band edge transmission power relaxation for serving cell c.

T_ProSe Allowed operating band transmission power relaxation due to support of E-UTRA ProSe on an operating band.

σ Test specific auxiliary variable used for the purpose of downlink power allocation, defined in Annex C.3.2.

W_gap Sub-block gap size

3.3 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in TR 21.905 [1].

ABS Almost Blank Subframe

ACLR Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

ACS Adjacent Channel Selectivity

A-MPR Additional Maximum Power Reduction

AWGN Additive White Gaussian Noise

BCCH Broadcast Control Channel

BCH Broadcast Channel

BS Base Station

CA Carrier Aggregation

CA_X Intra-band contiguous CA of component carriers in one sub-block within Band X where X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

CA_X-X Intra-band non-contiguous intra band CA of component carriers in two sub-blocks within Band X is the applicable E-UTRA operating band

CA_X-Y Inter-band CA of component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating band

CA_X-X-Y CA of component carriers in two sub-blocks within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating bands

CC Component Carriers

CP Cyclic Prefix

CoMP Coordinated Multi-Point

CPE Customer Premise Equipment

CPE_X Customer Premise Equipment for E-UTRA operating band X

CQI Channel Quality Indicator

CW Continuous Wave

DC Dual Connectivity

DC_X-Y Inter-band DC of component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band X and component carrier(s) in one sub-block within Band Y where X and Y are the applicable E-UTRA operating band

DCI Downlink Control Information

DIP Dominant Interferer Proportion

DPS Dynamic Point Switch

eDL-MIMO Down Link Multiple Antenna transmission

DL Downlink

DTX Discontinuous Transmission

DwPTS Downlink Pilot Time-Slot

EARFCN E-UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

EPRE Energy Per Resource Element

E-UTRA Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

EUTRAN Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

EVM Error Vector Magnitude

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

FRC Fixed Reference Channel

FSTD Frequency-Shift Time Diversity

HARQ Hybrid ARQ

HD-FDD Half- Duplex FDD

HST High Speed Train

MAC Medium Access Control

MBMS Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

MCS Modulation and Coding Scheme

MCG Main Carrier Group

MOP Maximum Output Power

MPR Maximum Power Reduction

MSR Maximum Sensitivity Reduction

OCNG OFDMA Channel Noise Generator

OFDMA Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access

OOB Out-of-band

P-MPR Power Management Maximum Power Reduction

PA Power Amplifier

PBCH Physical Broadcast Channel

PCC Primary Component Carrier

PCCH Paging Control Channel

PCFICH Physical Control Format Indicator Channel

PDCCH Physical Downlink Control Channel

PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PDU Packet Data Unit

PHICH Physical Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel

Pm-dsg Probability of miss-detection of the Downlink Scheduling Grant

PMI Precoding Matrix Indicator

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PRB Physical Resource Block

ProSe Proximity-based Services

PSBCH Physical Sidelink Broadcast CHannel

PSCCH Physical Sidelink Control CHannel

PSDCH Physical Sidelink Discovery CHannel

PSS Primary Synchronization Signal

PSS_RA PSS-to-EPRE ratio for the channel PSS

PSSCH Physical Sidelink Shared CHannel

PSSS Primary Sidelink Synchronization Signal

PUCCH Physical Uplink Control Channel

PUSCH Physical Uplink Shared ChannelRE Resource Element

RE Resource Element

REFSENS Reference Sensitivity power level

RI Rank Indicator

RLC Radio Link Control

RMC Reference Measurement Channel

r.m.s Root Mean Square

RNTI Radio Network Temporary Identifier

RRC Radio Resource Control

RS Reference Signal

RSRP Reference Signal Received Power

SCC Secondary Component Carrier

SCG Secondary Carrier Group

SCH Synchronization Channel

SDU Service Data Unit

SFBC Space-Frequency Block Coding

SFN Single Frequency Network

SINR Signal-to-Interference-and-Noise Ratio

SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SPDCCH Short Physical Downlink Control channel

SPUCCH Short Physical Uplink Control channel

SRS Sounding Reference Signal

SSS Secondary Synchronization Signal

SSSS Secondary Sidelink Synchronization Signal

SSS_RA SSS-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel SSS

TDD Time Division Duplex

TP Transmission Point

TPC Transmit Power Control

TPMI Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator

TTI Transmission Time Interval

UE User Equipment

UL Uplink

UL-MIMO Up Link Multiple Antenna transmission

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UpPTS Uplink Pilot Time-Slot

UTRA UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

V2X Vehicle to Everything

xCH_RA xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols not containing RS

xCH_RB xCH-to-RS EPRE ratio for the channel xCH in all transmitted OFDM symbols containing RS