Chapter 9: Transport-Channel Processing

Abstract

This chapter provides a detailed description of the transport-channel processing, including reference signals and reserved resources.

Keywords

Reference signals; Channel coding; Reserved resources; Precoding; Rate matching

This chapter will provide a more detailed description of the downlink and uplink physical-layer functionality such as coding, modulation, multi-antenna precoding, resource-block mapping, and reference-signal structure.

9.1: Overview

The physical layer provides services to the MAC layer in the form of transport channels as described in Section 6.4.5. In the downlink, there are three different types of transport channels defined for NR: the Downlink Shared Channel (DL-SCH), ...

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