Content for TS 38.101-3 Word version: 18.6.0

3.1 Definitions 3.2 Symbols 3.3 Abbreviations
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1 Scope p. 16

The present document establishes the minimum RF requirements for NR User Equipment (UE) Interworking operation with other radios. This includes but is not limited to additional requirements for carrier aggregation or NR dual connectivity between Range 1 and Range 2 and additional requirements due to NR non-standalone (NSA) operation mode with E-UTRA.

2 References p. 16

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 38.101-1: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception; Part 1: Range 1 Standalone"

[3]

TS 38.101-2: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception; Part 2: Range 2 Standalone"

[4]

TS 36.101: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception"

[5]

TS 38.521-3: "NR; User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Radio transmission and reception; Part 3: Range 1 and Range 2 Interworking operation with other radios"

[6]

Recommendation ITU-R M.1545: "Measurement uncertainty as it applies to test limits for the terrestrial component of International Mobile Telecommunications-2000"

[7]

TS 36.211: "E-UTRA; Physical channels and modulation"

[8]

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

[9]

TS 38.331: "NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification"

[10]

TS 38.213: "NR; Physical layer procedures for control"

[11]

TS 38.306: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio access capabilities"

[12]

TS 38.133: "NR; Requirements for support of radio resource management"

[13]

TS 38.211: "NR; Physical channels and modulation".

[14]

TS 38.214: "NR; Physical layer procedures for data"

[15]

TS 38.133: "NR; Requirements for support of radio resource management"

[16]

TS 36.133: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for support of radio resource management"

3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations p. 16

3.1 Definitions p. 16

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.

Con-current operation:

The simultaneous transmission and reception of sidelink and Uu interfaces while operation is agnostic of the service used on each interface.

3.2 Symbols p. 17

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

ΔR_IB,c

Allowed reference sensitivity relaxation due to support for CA or DC operation, for serving cell c.

ΔT_IB,c

Allowed maximum configured output power relaxation due to support for CA or DC operation, for serving cell c

BW_{E-UTRA_Channel}

Channel bandwidth of E-UTRA carrier

BW_{E-UTRA_Channel_CA}

Channel bandwidth of E-UTRA sub-block which is composed of intra-band contiguous CA E-UTRA carriers

BW_{NR_Channel}

Channel bandwidth of NR carrier

BW_{NR_Channel_CA}

Channel bandwidth of NR sub-block which is composed of intra-band contiguous CA NR carriers

Ceil(x)

Rounding upwards; ceil(x) is the smallest integer such that ceil(x) ≥ x

EN-DC_ACLR

The ratio of the filtered mean power centred on the aggregated sub-block bandwidth ENBW to the filtered mean power centred on an adjacent bandwidth of the same size ENBW

E-UTRA_ACLR

E-UTRA ACLR

F_C

RF reference frequency for the carrier center on the channel raster

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_OOB

The boundary between the NR out of band emission and spurious emission domains

L_CRB

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

Max()

The largest of given numbers

Min()

The smallest of given numbers

NR_ACLR

NR ACLR

N_RB

Transmission bandwidth configuration, expressed in units of resource blocks

N_{RB_agg}

The number of the aggregated RBs within the fully allocated aggregated channel bandwidth

N_{RB_agg} = ∑₁^j N_{RB_j} * 2 ^μj for carrier 1 to j, where μ is defined in TS 38.211

N_RB,c

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

N_RB,cj = N_{RB_j} * 2 ^μj for carrier j, where μ is defined in TS 38.211

P_CMAX

The configured maximum UE output power

RB_start

Indicates the lowest RB index of transmitted resource blocks

W_gap

The sub-block gap between the two sub-blocks

3.3 Abbreviations p. 17

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

ACS

Adjacent Channel Selectivity

A-MPR

Additional Maximum Power Reduction

BCS

Bandwidth Combination Set

Carrier Aggregation

Component Carrier

Dual Connectivity

EIRP

Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power

EN-DC

E-UTRA/NR DC

EVM

Error Vector Magnitude

FDM

Frequency Division Multiplexing

Frequency Range

ENBW

The aggregated bandwidth of an E-UTRA sub-block and an adjacent NR sub-block

ITS

Intelligent Transportation System

ITU-R

Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union

MBW

Measurement bandwidth defined for the protected band

MPR

Allowed maximum power reduction

MSD

Maximum Sensitivity Degradation

MCG

Master Cell Group

New Radio

Network Signalling

NSA

Non-Standalone, a mode of operation where operation of an other radio is assisted with an other radio

OOB

Out-of-band

OOBE

Out-of-band emission

OTA

Over The Air

PRB

Physical Resource Block

PSCCH

Physical Sidelink Control CHannel

PSSCH

Physical Sidelink Shared CHannel

Resource Element

REFSENS

Reference Sensitivity

Radio Frequency

Receiver

SCG

Secondary Cell Group

SCS

Subcarrier spacing

SEM

Spectrum Emission Mask

Sidelink

SUL

Supplementary uplink

TDM

Time Division Multiplex

Transmitter

User Equipment

UL MIMO

Up Link Multiple Antenna transmission

ULSUP

Uplink sharing from UE perspective