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Calculating CTFC (Calculated Transport Format
Combination)
By Zahid Ghadialy
Date: 27/11/2004
Introduction
Whenever new transport channels are established then RNC has to inform both the NodeB and the UE about
the permitted transport format combinations. The Calculated Transport Format Combination (CTFC) is a tool
for efficient signalling of transport format combinations.
Let I be the number of transport channels that are included in the transport format combination. Each transport
channel TrCHi, i = 1, 2, , I, has Li transport formats, i.e. the transport format indicator TFI i can take Li
values,TFIi {0,1,2,...,Li-1}
Pi =
i-1
j=0
Lj, where i=1,2,...,I and L0=1
Let TFC(TFI1, TFI2, , TFII) be the transport format combination for which TrCH1 has transport format TFI1,TrCH2 has transport format TFI2, etc. The corresponding CTFC(TFI1, TFI2, , TFII) is then computed as:
CTFC =
l
i=1
TFIiPi
For FACH and PCH transport channels, "TrCH1" corresponds to the transport channel listed at the firstposition in IE "FACH/PCH information" in IE "Secondary CCPCH System Information", "TrCH2"
corresponds to the transport channel listed at the second position in IE "FACH/PCH information" and so on.
For all other transport channels in FDD and for all configured transport channels of the same transport channel
type (i.e. DCH, DSCH, USCH) in TDD, "TrCH1" corresponds to the transport channel having the lowest
transport channel identity in the transport format combination mapped to the TFCI field. "TrCH2" corresponds
to the transport channel having the next lowest transport channel identity, and so on.
Examples
To understand the above mathematical equations better, lets take couple of examples
AMR Codec
This example is specified in [2] in more detail. Also for details about the conversational speech CS RAB in this
example see section 6.10.3.4.1.4 in [4].
In case of a voice call being setup, the network will make use of an AMR codec. In the AMR codec, there are 3
transport channels to support class A, B and C bits. Also one transport channel is required to supportsignalling. Hence we can represent the transport formats as shown in the table below:
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AMR Signalling
Class A Class B Class C
TrCH1 TrCH2 TrCH3 TrCH4
L 3 2 2 2
TFI
0 0 0 0 0
1 81 103 60 148
2 39 - - -
The permitted transport format combinations are in table below:
TFCI TFI1 TFI2 TFI3 TFI4 Explanation
1 0 0 0 0 DTX
2 1 0 0 0 SID
3 2 1 1 0 12.2 Kbps
4 0 0 0 1 Signalling
5 1 0 0 1 SID + Signalling
6 2 1 1 1 12.2kbps + signalling
The CTFC for the permitted combinations will now be calculated as follows:
CTFC for TFCI 1 = (0) + (0*3) + (0*3*2) + (0*3*2*2) = 0
CTFC for TFCI 2 = (1) + (0*3) + (0*3*2) + (0*3*2*2) = 1
CTFC for TFCI 3 = (2) + (1*3) + (1*3*2) + (0*3*2*2) = 11
CTFC for TFCI 4 = (0) + (0*3) + (0*3*2) + (1*3*2*2) = 12
CTFC for TFCI 5 = (1) + (0*3) + (0*3*2) + (1*3*2*2) = 13
CTFC for TFCI 6 = (2) + (1*3) + (1*3*2) + (1*3*2*2) = 23
The following CTFC will now be sent in the Radio Bearer Setup message: CTFC6,0, CTFC6,1, CTFC6,11,
CTFC6,12, CTFC6,13 and CTFC6,23. Six bits will be required to send the CTFC from which the table of transport
formats can be contructed by the UE.
PS Data Transfer
Now we take an example of 128Kbps Interactive or background PS RAB with signalling. We need only one
transport channel for the PS RAB and one transport channel for signalling. The transport formats are shown in
the table below:
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PS RAB 128 Kbps Signallling
TrCH1 TrCH2
L 5 2
TFI
0*336 0
1*336 148
2*336 -
4*336 -
8*336 -
The permitted transport format combinations are in table below:
TFCI TFI1 TFI2
1 0 0
2 1 0
3 2 0
4 3 0
5 4 0
6 0 1
7 1 1
8 2 1
9 3 1
10 4 1
The CTFC for the permitted combinations will now be calculated as follows:
CTFC for TFCI 1 = (0) + (0*5) = 0
CTFC for TFCI 2 = (1) + (0*5) = 1
CTFC for TFCI 3 = (2) + (0*5) = 2
CTFC for TFCI 4 = (3) + (0*5) = 3
CTFC for TFCI 5 = (4) + (0*5) = 4
CTFC for TFCI 6 = (0) + (1*5) = 5
CTFC for TFCI 7 = (1) + (1*5) = 6
CTFC for TFCI 8 = (2) + (1*5) = 7
CTFC for TFCI 9 = (3) + (1*5) = 8
CTFC for TFCI 10 = (4) + (1*5) = 9
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The following CTFC will now be sent in the Radio Bearer Setup message: CTFC4,0, CTFC4,1, CTFC4,2,
CTFC4,3, CTFC4,4, CTFC4,5, CTFC4,6, CTFC4,7, CTFC4,8, CTFC4,8, CTFC4,9 and CTFC4,10. Four bits will be
required to send the CTFC from which the table of transport formats can be contructed by the UE.
References
[1] 3GPP TS 25.331: Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification
[2]Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks - J Bannister et al
[3]TSGR#17(99)b33: TFCI mapping - Ericsson
[4] 3GPP TS 34.108: Common test environments for User Equipment (UE) conformance testing
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