Content for TR 38.830 Word version: 17.0.0
4 Evaluation methodology
4.1 Antenna gain modelling
4.2 Performance metrics
4.3 Link budget template
5 Baseline coverage performance
5.1 Baseline coverage performance for FR1
5.2 Baseline coverage performance for FR2
6 Potential techniques for coverage enhancements
6.1 PUSCH coverage enhancements
6.2 PUCCH coverage enhancements
6.3 Coverage enhancements for channels other than PUSCH and PUCCH
7 Conclusions
A Simulation assumptions
B Simulation results for baseline coverage performance
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4 Evaluation methodology p. 8
5 Baseline coverage performance p. 14
5.1 Baseline coverage performance for FR1 p. 14
5.1.1 Representative values and observation for each scenario p. 14
5.1.1.1 Urban 4GHz TDD scenario p. 14
5.1.1.2 Urban 2.6GHz TDD scenario p. 18
5.1.1.3 Rural 4GHz TDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 20
5.1.1.4 Rural 2.6GHz TDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 24
5.1.1.5 Rural 2GHz FDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 26
5.1.1.6 Rural 700MHz FDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 27
5.1.1.7 Rural 4GHz with long distance TDD LOS O2O scenario p. 30
5.1.2 Bottleneck identification by representative values p. 32
5.1.3 Observation from the simulation result not using representative values p. 34
5.2 Baseline coverage performance for FR2 p. 34
5.2.1 Representative values and observation for each scenario p. 34
5.2.1.1 Urban 28GHz TDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 34
5.2.1.2 Urban 28GHz TDD NLOS O2O scenario p. 37
5.2.1.3 Indoor 28GHz TDD NLOS scenario p. 40
5.2.1.4 Suburban 28GHz TDD NLOS O2I scenario p. 42
5.2.1.5 Suburban 28GHz TDD NLOS O2O scenario p. 43
5.2.2 Bottleneck identification by representative values p. 45
5.2.3 Observation from the simulation result not using representative values p. 46
6 Potential techniques for coverage enhancements p. 46
6.1 PUSCH coverage enhancements p. 46
6.1.1 Time-domain based solutions p. 46
6.1.2 Frequency-domain based solutions p. 52
6.1.3 DM-RS enhancements p. 55
6.1.4 Power-domain based solutions p. 60
6.1.5 Spatial-domain based solutions p. 61
6.1.6 Others p. 61
6.2 PUCCH coverage enhancements p. 62
6.2.1 DMRS-less PUCCH p. 62
6.2.2 PUSCH-repetition-Type-B like PUCCH repetition p. 65
6.2.3 Dynamic PUCCH repetition factor indication p. 66
6.2.4 DMRS bundling across PUCCH repetitions p. 66
6.3 Coverage enhancements for channels other than PUSCH and PUCCH p. 67
6.3.1 Enhancements for Msg3 PUSCH p. 67
6.3.2 Enhancements for PRACH p. 69
6.3.3 Enhancements for broadcast PDCCH p. 70
6.3.4 Enhancements for Msg4 p. 71
6.3.5 Enhancements for PUCCH with Msg4 HARQ-ACK p. 71
6.3.6 Enhancements for SSB p. 72
6.3.7 Beam reporting during initial/random access procedure p. 72
6.3.8 Others p. 72
7 Conclusions p. 73
A Simulation assumptions p. 75
A.1 Simulation assumptions for FR1 p. 75
A.2 Simulation assumptions for FR2 p. 79
A.3 Link budget template p. 85
A.4 Derivation of target MCL for service dependent metric p. 89
B Simulation results for baseline coverage performance p. 90
$ Change history p. 91
