2isr016 ShareTecheke LTE Quick Reference Sertack to indy Home : wasnastachastecom CCE Index Calculation CCCE Index is the CCE number at which the control channel date (POCCH) is allocated, Normally this index changes for leach subframe, meaning that even the same POCCH data (e,9, 4 PDCCH for the same UE) allocated in each subframe changes subframe by subframe, (If you are not familiar with what is CCE, refer to Resource Element Management Section fist.) One of the most common situations where you have to care about this CCE index is when you change the system BW. CChanging the system bandwidth in higher layer (L3) is very simple, You only have to change one TE in MTB, but f you are a protocol stack developer or test case developer who take care of all stack from L: through L3, you have to Calculate CCE index for each subframe and those index gets different for each bandwicth. But calculating CCE 's not a Simple procedure. Just outline of the calculation is as fellows. Just try to have an idea on which parameters you need and how they are related to caleulate CCE Step 1 : Figure out all the REs within the Confrol region (the first 1 or 2 or 3 OFDM symbols) that can be reserved for POCCH allocation. (Note : item (il), (Iv) are only in the first OFDM symbol. Item (ii) is located in multiple OFDM symbols, but within the contral region Its also located only in the first OFDM symbol. Refer to Downlink Frame Structure page for the details) RE’ for PDCCH = Total Available RE's within control symbols ~ Number of RE's used for reference signals = Number of RE's used in PHICH ~ = Number of RE's used in PCFICH ‘Step 2 : Figure out total number CCE's available for POCCH. total number CCE's available for POCCH = (The Result of Step 1)/36, since 1 CCE ‘Step 3 : Number each of the CCEs from the result of Step 2. (Number starts from 0) Step 4 : eNS decide CCE index according to fellowing formula (Note : Depending on Aggregation Level(L), you will 9et the different number of consecutive CCES for allocating one POCCH. For example, if L's 1, ‘i can be only ‘0. So you have only one CCE for the POCCH. If L= 4, you will have for CCE index by plugging 0,1,2,3 into the variable Then you will have four consecutive CCE index, It means one PDCCH will be spread over the four consecutive CCES), J ) L{(¥, +m) mod| Noor ,/L |} +i Sp ‘hn ot nti a) MO —1 ge mnterf P0601 deste moorin R manna [Forcommon Space: ¥, =O For UE Specie Sp ‘A-¥, ,)mod D ‘ ( 3 /) an ehsr k=|n,/2) Y Stok nimber vith a rad frame 40x) = yg # 0% ounaastic number at sbtame @ Following is an Example of CCE index calculation. First try calculating the values on your own according to the descriptions above (Step 4) and compare your result with my result (Excel Spreadsheet Is also linked here). The cell In green Is the parts that should be derived/calculated from other cells. (Nate : In this example, I assumed the case hipshwun sharetechnolecomvtimlHandbeck_LTE_CCE Indoxtim! 192isr016 ShareTecheke where 100 CEs are available, But in really, there is no such a case where you can have 100 CCE, To have 100 CEs, you need 3600 RE (=36 RE/CCE * 100'CCE). In case of 20 Miz Bandwicth, CFI = 3. You have 3600 RE in Control Region, but you have remove those REs for Reference Signal, PCFICH and PHICH, So the available REs for CCE become less than 100 CCE, Refer to Re* [1] for the details of calculating the available CCES) [C_RNTI(n_RNTI 100 | (=[Aggregation Level-t]) o [nv (© ~ [Number of POCCH Candidate-1)) 1 lk 39827 > 5537 K (subframe) | Vet) | Vi) _| NCCE 0 100 | 50480 | 100 30460_| 53948 | 100 53048 | 21968 | 100, 21988 | 10682 | 100 10682 | 31347 | 100 31347_| 42656 | 100 42656 | 10398 | 100 70398 | 58360 | 100 e380 | 4421 | 100 aaini_| 23975 | 100 (Gick here to get axcel spreadsheet) For further details of the procedure, refer to TS 36.213 - 9.1.1 PDCCH Assignment Procedure, Too complicated ? If you are not the person who has to implement this algorithm in your chipset, just try to understand the basic idea explained below. PDCCH Decoding/Blind Decoding on UE side UE has ‘ALMOST no Information for decocing PDCCH, So UE hes to try 'AL’ the possible tres to decode PDCCH. This For exemple, let's Jook into all the possible combinations to try for Common Search Space and assume the total Space is 16 GcES. Folloning Is factors and number of combinations pa 1) All the possible blocks assuming Aggregation Level 4 = 16 (CCE) / 4 (Aggregation Level) = 4 blocks il) All the possible blocks assuming Aggregation Level 2 = 16 (CCE) / 8 (Aggregation Level) = 2 blocks lil) AIlthe possible OCI formats supported for common space = assuming 2 (out of 0,14,3,3A, 1C based on TM) Total number of decoding tries = (1+ ll) xl = (442) x2= After all of these blind trials, UE checks CRC with all the possible RNTIs It can be applicable, Why 0 complex ? When | first try to understand and configure CCE index at early phase of verification, the first question poping up in ‘my ming was "Why is it designed in such a complicated manner to determine the CCE Index (Location of PDCCH allocation) 7" Of course (and unfortunately) 3GPP specification never tell you "Why 2", it says only "What". I think you can get this, "Why" part from various TDecs related to this issue. Fellowing is from "2.1 Requirements of R1-072470" and blue part is my comments Possibility for interference randomization between cells. A certain control channel should not persistently collide With one and the same control channel in a neighboring cell, --> This is why we assign different CCE Index for every subframe. Possibility for interference coordination. By using different parts of the frequency spectrum in cifferent cells for Control signaling it should be possible to avold/reduce inter-cell interference for the control channels, ‘As seen from the UE, the CCE-to-RE mapping structure should be invariant to whether interference coordination is Used or not. After the’cellsearch procedure, the UE does not know whether a cell is applying interference Coordination or not but still needs to read system Information from the "dynamic 3CCH". If the "dynamic BCCH” Is ‘mapped to the DL-SCH (or transmitted in a similar way as the DL-SCH), it must be possible to read the DL-SCH and ‘associated control signaling without knowledge about any inter-cell coordination, hipshwun sharetechnolecomvtimlHandeck_LTE_CCE Indoxtim!2isr016 ShareTecheke “control signaling should uulize the full system bandwidth to exploit any frequency diversity (already agreed in RANI), --> This is why the total number of RBs for the full system bandwidth Is used as a parameters in the CCE Index determination algorithm. “Twa symbols from the same CCE should be mapped to two in frequency neighboring REs in order to support SFBC as the diversity scheme (already agreed inRAN1), Reference : [1] PDCCH Dimensioning (LTE University) [2] All about POCCH and CCE allocation (Tayal's way to learn LTE) hipshwun sharetechnolecomvtimlHandbeck_LTE_CCE Indoxtim!