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Navigation:: Home >> Cellular telecoms >> this page 3G HSUPA - High Speed Uplink Packet Access- a tutorial, description or information about the basics of HSUPA, High Speed Uplink Packet Access, the enhancement to the UMTS / WCDMA standard for 3G cellular telecommunications
Work is now staring on developing the standards for High Speed Uplink Packet Access ( HSUPA ) to improve the data rates on the 3G W-CDMA mobile or cell phone standard. With the cellular telecommunications standards established and work progressing to introduce the equipment for High Speed Downlink Packet Access ( HSDPA ), the standards are now starting to be developed to enable the uplink from the mobile handset or User Equipment (UE) to the base station (Node B) to be able to handle data at similar speeds. This is known as HSUPA and it will enable new features including full video conferencing to be introduced. For most applications including internet surfing, emails, video downloads and the like, data flowing in the downlink is far greater than the uplink. However for applications such as video conferencing, data flows equally in both directions. It is anticipated that video conferencing will become an increasing requirement, and a significant revenue generator for the operators in the near future. To enable high quality video to be passed, it is therefore essential to ensure that the uplink performs as fast as the downlink. Although it is very early days for the standards, work on HSUPA has already started under the auspices of 3GPP, the body that controls the Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) standards. Technologies used for HSUPA Originally W-CDMA had used only QPSK as the modulation scheme, however under the new HSUPA system,16-QAM which can carry a higher data rate, but is less resilient to noise is also used when the link is sufficiently robust. The robustness of the channel and its suitability to use 16-QAM instead of QPSK is determined by analysing information fed back about a variety of parameters. These include details of the channel physical layer conditions, power control, Quality of Service (QoS), and information specific to HSDPA. Fast HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request), has also been implemented along with multi-code operation and this eliminates the need for a variable spreading factor. By using these approaches all users, whether near or far from the base station are able to receive the optimum available data rate. It is also likely that within the HSUPA upgrades there will be an additional uplink data channel introduced comparable to that in the downlink. The future
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