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LTE / LTE-Advanced: Number of Cells and Protocol Stack: Follow-Up Question

PCC and SCC refer to the primary and secondary component carriers in LTE carrier aggregation. The PCC is the carrier that handles the RRC connection and NAS signaling, while SCCs provide additional radio resources for IP services. A single protocol stack with multiple PHY layers can serve different component carriers transmitted over one antenna/sector. When there are multiple antennas serving different areas, there are multiple protocol stacks, one for each sector.

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LTE / LTE-Advanced: Number of Cells and Protocol Stack: Follow-Up Question

PCC and SCC refer to the primary and secondary component carriers in LTE carrier aggregation. The PCC is the carrier that handles the RRC connection and NAS signaling, while SCCs provide additional radio resources for IP services. A single protocol stack with multiple PHY layers can serve different component carriers transmitted over one antenna/sector. When there are multiple antennas serving different areas, there are multiple protocol stacks, one for each sector.

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LTE / LTE-Advanced: number of cells and protocol stack:

follow-up question
Posted on October 22, 2012 by IS-Wireless by: IS-Wireless

Questions / Problems description:

Our RRC spec is given the definition of primary and secondary cell as follows:
Primary Cell: the cell, operating on the primary frequency, in which the UE either performs the initial connection
establishment procedure or initiates the connection re-establishment procedure, or the cell indicated as the primary
cell in the handover procedure.

Secondary Cell: a cell, operating on a secondary frequency, which may be configured once an RRC connection is
established and which may be used to provide additional radio resources.

So Primary cell corresponds to PCC and Secondary cell corresponds to SCC as you said in the NOTE block.
If it so, then these two corresponds to cell/sector.

How they do not correspond to its sector/cell?

In 3gpp.org carrier aggregation is explained, a part of it as follows., The RRC connection is only handled by one
cell, the Primary serving cell, served by the Primary component carrier (DL and UL PCC). It is also on the DL PCC
that the UE receives NAS information, such as security parameters. In idle mode the UE listens to system
information on the DL PCC. On the UL PCC PUCCH is sent. The other component carriers are all referred to as
Secondary component carriers (DL and UL SCC), serving the Secondary serving cells.

Component carriers are different carriers of bandwidths of 1.4 or 3,5,10,15,20Mhz.

what exactly the PCC and SCC mean? How a protocol stack entity can serve different component carriers?

Answer:

Imagine firstly, that you have a eNB with one antenna (one sector antenna). Then if you have one carrier available
(e.g. 20MHz) this antenna will be emitting signal over a certain area with this single carrier. Then if you add second
carrier (also e.g. 20MHz) that it will also be transmitted over the same antenna and providing similar coverage on the
same area (please see the attached figure CA_example). One of this carrier is called and configured as PCC and any
other is called SCC. In case of protocol stack we have several copies of the PHY layers that create in the baseband
multiple component carriers. So this is the case when we have one antenna and one sector (i.e. one protocol stack in
which we have multiple PHY layers). If we extend this example to the one when we have several antennas serving
different areas (e.g. 3 sectors) we will have multiple protocol stacks (one for each sector).

PCC is a carrier that is used for all signalling purposes for communication with UE (for RRC connection maintenance
and NAS signalling) and for IP services. SCC is just the same type of carrier that is used for different purpose –
simply it just enables to have more resources for IP traffic for UEs, but its not used for RRC/NAS signalling.

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