A.3.5 Reference measurement channels for PDCCH/PCFICH performance requirements

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

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A.3.5.1 FDD

Table A.3.5.1-1: Reference Channel FDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.15 FDD	R.15-1 FDD	R.15-2 FDD	R.16 FDD	R.17 FDD
Number of transmitter antennas		1	2	2	2	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	10	10	1.4	10
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2	3	2	2	2
Aggregation level	CCE	8	8	8	2	4
DCI Format		Format 1	Format 1	Format 1	Format 2	Format 2
Cell ID		0	0	0	0	0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	31	31	31	31	46

Table A.3.5.1-1A: Reference Channel FDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.16_1 FDD	R.17_1 FDD
Number of transmitter antennas		2	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	5
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2	2
Aggregation level	CCE	4	2
DCI Format		Format 2	Format 2
Cell ID		0	0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	43	42

Table A.3.5.1-2: Additional PDSCH Reference Channel FDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Number of transmitter antennas		1	2	2	4	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	1.4	10	10	5
Allocated Resource Blocks		50	6	50	50	25
Modulation		QPSK	QPSK	QPSK	QPSK	QPSK
Target Coding Rate		1/3	1/3	1/3	1/3	1/3
Information Bit Payload
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	4392	504	4392	4392	2216
For Sub-Frame 5		n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	4392	256	4392	3624	1800
Number of Code Blocks per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9		1	1	1	1	1
For Sub-Frame 5		n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		1	1	1	1	1
Binary Channel Bits Per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	13800	1584	13200	12800	6400
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		12960	768	12384	12032	5632
Max. Throughput averaged over 1 frame	Mbps	3.953	0.429	3.953	3.876	1.953
UE Category		≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1
Note 1: 2 symbols allocated to PDCCH for all BW.

Table A.3.5.1-2A: Additional PDSCH Reference Channel FDD

Parameter		Unit	Value
Number of transmitter antennas		2
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10
Allocated Resource Blocks		50
Modulation		QPSK
Target Coding Rate		1/3
Information Bit Payload
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	3624
For Sub-Frame 5		n/a
For Sub-Frame0	Bits	3624
Number of Code Blocks per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9		1
For Sub-Frame 5		n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		1
Binary Channel Bits Per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	12000
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		11184
Max. Throughput averaged over 1 frame	Mbps	3.262
UE Category		≥ 1
Note 1: 3 symbols allocated to PDCCH for all BW.

A.3.5.2 TDD

Table A.3.5.2-1: Reference Channel TDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.15 TDD	R.15-1 TDD	R.15-2 TDD	R.16 TDD	R.17 TDD
Number of transmitter antennas		1	2	2	2	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	10	10	1.4	10
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2	3	2	2	2
Aggregation level	CCE	8	8	8	2	4
DCI Format		Format 1	Format 1	Format 1	Format 2	Format 2
Cell ID		0	0	0	0	0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	34	34	34	34	49

Table A.3.5.2-1A: Reference Channel TDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.16_1 TDD	R.17_1 TDD
Number if transmitter antennas		2	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	5
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2	2
Aggregation level	CCE	4	2
DCI Format		Format 2	Format 2
Cell ID		0	0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	46	45

Table A.3.5.2-2: Additional PDSCH Reference Channel TDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Number of transmitter antennas		1	2	2	4	4
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10	1.4	10	10	5
Uplink-Downlink Configuration (Note 2)		0	0	0	0	0
Allocated Resource Blocks		50	6	50	50	25
Modulation		QPSK	QPSK	QPSK	QPSK	QPSK
Target Coding Rate		1/3	1/3	1/3	1/3	1/3
Information Bit Payload
For Sub-Frame 1,6	Bits	3240	328	3240	3240	1544
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	4392	256	4392	4392	1800
Number of Code Blocks per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frame 1,6		1	1	1	1	1
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		1	1	1	1	1
Binary Channel Bits Per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frame 1,6	Bits	11256	1152	10656	10256	5056
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	13104	936	12528	12176	5776
Max. Throughput averaged over 1 frame	Mbps	1.087	0.091	1.087	1.164	0.489
UE Category		≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1	≥ 1
Note 1: 2 symbols allocated to PDCCH for all BW. Note 2: As per Table 4.2-2 in TS 36.211 [8].

Table A.3.5.2-2A: Additional PDSCH Reference Channel TDD

Parameter	Unit	Value
Number of transmitter antennas		2	2
Channel bandwidth	MHz	10 (Note 1)	10 (Note 2)
Uplink-Downlink Configuration (Note 3)		1	1
Special subframe configuration		4	4
Allocated Resource Blocks		50	50
Modulation		QPSK	QPSK
Target Coding Rate		1/3	1/3
Information Bit Payload
For Sub-Frame 4,9	Bits	4392	3624
For Sub-Frame 1,6	Bits	3240	3240
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	4392	3624
Number of Code Blocks per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frame 4,9		1	1
For Sub-Frame 1,6		1	1
For Sub-Frame 5		n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0		1	1
Binary Channel Bits Per Sub-Frame
For Sub-Frame 4,9	Bits	13200	12000
For Sub-Frame 1,6	Bits	10656	10656
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	n/a	n/a
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	12528	11328
Max. Throughput averaged over 1 frame	Mbps	1.9656	1.7352
UE Category		≥ 1	≥ 1
Note 1: 2 symbols allocated to PDCCH. Note 2: 3 symbols allocated to PDCCH. Note 3: As per Table 4.2-2 in TS 36.211 [8].

A.3.5.3 LAA

Table A.3.5.3-1: Reference Channel for FS3 with FDD primary cell

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.3 FS3
Number of transmitter antennas		2
Channel bandwidth	MHz	20
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2
Aggregation level	CCE	4
DCI Format		Format 2A
Cell ID		0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	48

Table A.3.5.3-2: Reference Channel for FS3 with TDD primary cell

Parameter	Unit	Value
Reference channel		R.4 FS3
Number of transmitter antennas		2
Channel bandwidth	MHz	20
Number of OFDM symbols for PDCCH	symbols	2
Aggregation level	CCE	4
DCI Format		Format 2A
Cell ID		0
Payload (without CRC)	Bits	51

Table A.3.5.3-3: Additional PDSCH Reference Channel for FS3

Parameter	Unit	Value
Number of transmitter antennas		2
Channel bandwidth	MHz	20
Allocated Resource Blocks		100
Modulation		QPSK
Target Coding Rate		1/3
Information Bit Payload (Note 2)
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	{8760,2664,5352,6712,3624}
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	{8760,2664,5352,6712,3624}
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	{8760,2664,5352,6712,3624}
Number of Code Blocks (Note 2)
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9		{2,1,1,2,1}
For Sub-Frame 5		{2,1,1,2,1}
For Sub-Frame 0		{2,1,1,2,1}
Binary Channel Bits (Note 2)
For Sub-Frames 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9	Bits	{26400,8800,15200,21600,11200}
For Sub-Frame 5	Bits	{26112,8800,15200,21312,11200}
For Sub-Frame 0	Bits	{26112,8800,15200,21312,11200}
UE Category		≥ 1
Note 1: 2 symbols allocated to PDCCH. Note 2: For {a1,a2,a3,a4,a5}, a1, a2, a3, a4 and a5 stand for the setup when the number of OFDM symbols is 14, 6, 9, 12, 7, respectively.