Content for TS 36.117 Word version: 16.0.0

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1 Scope Word‑p. 8

The present document specifies the Radio Frequency (RF) test methods and conformance requirements for E-UTRA Relay. These have been derived from, and are consistent with the E-UTRA Relay specifications defined in [2].

2 References

The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.

References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non specific.
For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.

[1]

TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".

[2]

TS 36.116: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Relay radio transmission and reception".

[3]

TS 36.141: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) Conformance Testing (Release 11)".

[4]

TS 36.104: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) Radio Transmission and Reception (Release 11)".

[5]

TR 36.826: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) Relay Radio Transmission and Reception".

[6]

TS 36.101: "User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception".

[7]

TS 36.521-1: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 1: Protocol conformance specification".

[8]

TS 36.508: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Packet Core (EPC); Common test environments for User Equipment (UE) conformance testing".

[9]

TS 36.211: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and modulation".

[10]

TS 36.213: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures".

[11]

TS 36.331: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol specification".

3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 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.

access link:

Link for communication between Relay and UE.

backhaul link:

Link for communication between Relay and BS.

carrier:

The modulated waveform conveying the E-UTRA or UTRA physical channels

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.

channel edge:

The lowest and highest frequency of the E-UTRA carrier, separated by the channel bandwidth.

in-band relay:

A Relay where the access link and backhaul link operates in the same operating band.

measurement bandwidth:

The bandwidth in which an emission level is specified.

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.

RRC filtered mean power:

The mean power of a UTRA carrier as measured through a root raised cosine filter with roll-off factor α and a bandwidth equal to the chip rate of the radio access mode.

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.

3.2 Symbols Word‑p. 9

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

Pout

Output Power

Pmax

Maximum total output power

3.3 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 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.

ACLR

Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio

ACK

Acknowledgement (in HARQ protocols)

ACS

Adjacent Channel Selectivity

AWGN

Additive White Gaussian Noise

Base Station

Cyclic prefix

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check

Continuous Wave

Direct Current

DFT

Discrete Fourier Transformation

DTX

Discontinuous Transmission

DUT

Device Under Test

DwPTS

Downlink part of the special subframe (for TDD operation)

EARFCN

E-UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

EPA

Extended Pedestrian A model

ETU

Extended Typical Urban model

E-UTRA

Evolved UTRA

EVA

Extended Vehicular A model

EVM

Error Vector Magnitude

FDD

Frequency Division Duplex

FFT

Fast Fourier Transformation

FRC

Fixed Reference Channel

Guard Period (for TDD operation)

HARQ

Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request

HD-FDD

Half- Duplex FDD

ICS

In-Channel Selectivity

ITU R

Radiocommunication Sector of the ITU

Local Area

MCS

Modulation and Coding Scheme

MCL

Minimum Coupling Loss

OFDM

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex

OOB

Out-of-band

Power Amplifier

PBCH

Physical Broadcast Channel

PDCCH

Physical Downlink Control Channel

PDSCH

Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PUSCH

Physical Uplink Shared Channel

PUCCH

Physical Uplink Control Channel

PRACH

Physical Random Access Channel

PRAT

Rated output power

PSS

Primary Synchronization Signal

QAM

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation

QPSK

Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying

RAT

Radio Access Technology

Resource Block

Resource Element

REFSENS

Reference Sensitivity power level

Radio Frequency

RMS

Root Mean Square (value)

R-PDCCH

Relay Physical Downlink Control Channel

Reference Symbol

Receiver

RRC

Root Raised Cosine

SNR

Signal-to-Noise Ratio

SSS

Secondary Synchronization Signal

Timing Advance

TDD

Time Division Duplex

Transmitter

User Equipment

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

UTRA

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network

Wide Area