High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is a 3G

mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with uplink speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was
created by Nokia. The ocial 3GPP name for 'HSUPA'
is Enhanced Uplink (EUL).[1]

absolute grant (consisting of an actual value) and relative

grant (consisting of a single up/down bit) messages.

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At the Physical Layer, HSUPA introduces new channels

E-AGCH (Absolute Grant Channel), E-RGCH (Relative
Grant Channel), F-DPCH (Fractional-DPCH), E-HICH
The specications for HSUPA are included in Universal (E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel), E-DPCCH
Mobile Telecommunications System Release 6 standard (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel) and Epublished by 3GPP. The technical purpose of the En- DPDCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel).
hanced Uplink feature is to improve the performance of E-DPDCH is used to carry the E-DCH Transport Chanuplink dedicated transport channels, i.e. to increase ca- nel; and E-DPCCH is used to carry the control informapacity and throughput and reduce delay.
tion associated with the E-DCH.

Description

HSUPA uses an uplink enhanced dedicated channel (E- The following table shows uplink speed for the dierent
DCH) on which it employs link adaptation methods sim- categories of HSUPA.
ilar to those employed by High-Speed Downlink Packet
Access HSDPA, namely:

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shorter Transmission Time Interval enabling faster

link adaptation;

After HSUPA the 3GPP is working on further advanc HARQ (hybrid ARQ) with incremental redundancy ing transfer rates. LTE provides up to 300 Mbit/s for
downlink and 75 Mbit/s for uplink. Its evolution LTE
making retransmissions more eective.
Advanced supports maximum downlink rates of over 1
Gbit/s.
Similarly to HSDPA, HSUPA uses a packet scheduler, but
it operates on a request-grant principle where the UEs request a permission to send data and the scheduler decides
when and how many UEs will be allowed to do so. A 4 Dual-Cell HSUPA
request for transmission contains data about the state of
the transmission buer and the queue at the UE and its Dual-Cell HSUPA (also known as: Dual-Carrier HSPA
available power margin. However, unlike HSDPA, up- or Dual-Cell HSPA) is a wireless broadband standard
link transmissions are not orthogonal to each other.
based on HSPA that is dened in 3GPP UMTS release
9.
Dual Cell (DC-)HSUPA is the natural evolution of
In addition to this scheduled mode of transmission
HSPA
by means of carrier aggregation in the uplink.[6]
the standards also allows a self-initiated transmission
mode from the UEs, denoted non-scheduled. The non- Downlink carrier aggregation named Dual-Cell HSDPA
[7]
scheduled mode can, for example, be used for VoIP ser- was already standardized in UMTS Release 8. UMTS
vices for which even the reduced TTI and the Node B licenses are often issued as 10 or 15 MHz paired specbased scheduler will not be able to provide the very short trum allocations. The basic idea of the multicarrier feature is to achieve better resource utilization and spectrum
delay time and constant bandwidth required.
eciency by means of joint resource allocation and load
Each MAC-d ow (i.e. QoS ow) is congured to use balancing across the uplink carriers.
either scheduled or non-scheduled modes; the UE adjusts the data rate for scheduled and non-scheduled ows
independently. The maximum data rate of each nonscheduled ow is congured at call setup, and typically 5 See also
not changed frequently. The power used by the scheduled
3GPP Long Term Evolution
ows is controlled dynamically by the Node B through
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Broadband
DigRF V3
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
High-Speed Orthogonal Packet Access
List of Deployed HSUPA networks
List of device bandwidths
Quad band
Triband (telephone)
UMTS frequency bands

References

[1] 3GPP specication: 25.321

[2] C7 Technical Specs.
[3] C5 Technical Specs.
[4] Nexus One Phone Google Technical Specs.
[5] Apple iPhone 4 Technical Specs.
[6] Nomor 3GPP Newsletter 2009-03: Standardisation updates on HSPA Evolution
[7] Nomor Research White Paper: Dual-Cell HSDPA and its
Evolution

Bibliography
Harri Holma and Antti Toskala (2006). HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS: High Speed Radio Access
for Mobile Communications. ISBN 0-470-01884-4.

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