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Strong peaks precisely on the 10ms grid line are indicative of the pilot channel.
 
Strong peaks precisely on the 10ms grid line are indicative of the pilot channel.
  
There is also a smaller peak at ~0.7ms, which should be the repeating slot of the pilot channel.
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There is also a smaller peak at ~0.7ms, which should be the repeating slot of the pilot channel (if you count the peaks correctly, the 14th 'harmonic' will land precisely on the first strong 10ms peak).
  
 
* Telstra NextG at 842.5MHz:
 
* Telstra NextG at 842.5MHz:
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[[File:NextG_FAC.png|800px]]
 
[[File:NextG_FAC.png|800px]]
  
Waterfall plot shows bursty traffic on the downlink. This would likely contribute to the correlation graph looking more 'noisy' about the pilot channel peaks.
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Waterfall plot shows bursty traffic on the downlink.

Revision as of 21:11, 18 July 2011

Specs

W-CDMA is used by the UMTS.

UMTS's Magic Numbers
Property Value
Modulation/Access scheme W-CDMA
Channel bandwidth 5MHz
Chip rate 3.84MHz
Common pilot channel (CPICH) Fixed-rate 30 Kbps, spreading factor (SF) 256
Primary CPICH (CCPCH) 14 slots in one radio frame
CCPCH slot First 256 chips Tx OFF, then 18 data bits (20 bits/2560 chips in total)
CCPCH frame 10ms total duration

References

  • A great PDF that deals with many technical aspects of the air interface.

Auto-correlation

  • 3G UMTS at 2.1125GHz:

W-CDMA FAC.png

Strong peaks precisely on the 10ms grid line are indicative of the pilot channel.

There is also a smaller peak at ~0.7ms, which should be the repeating slot of the pilot channel (if you count the peaks correctly, the 14th 'harmonic' will land precisely on the first strong 10ms peak).

  • Telstra NextG at 842.5MHz:

NextG FAC.png

Waterfall plot shows bursty traffic on the downlink.