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Mobile communication standards

3GPP: GSM / UMTS Family

2G GSM GPRS EDGE (EGPRS) EDGE Evolution HSCSD

3G UMTS (3GSM) HSPA HSDPA HSUPA HSPA+ UMTS-TDD TD-CDMA TD-SCDMA FOMA

Pre-4G UMTS Revision 8 LTE HSOPA (Super 3G)

3GPP2: cdmaOne / CDMA2000 Family

2G cdmaOne

3G CDMA2000 EV-DO

Pre-4G UMB

Widely Used Other Technologies

1G AMPS

2G D-AMPS

Other Technologies

0G PTT MTS IMTS AMTS OLT MTD Autotel / PALM ARP

1G NMT TACS / ETACS Hicap CDPD Mobitex DataTAC

2G iDEN PDC CSD PHS WiDEN

Pre-4G iBurst HIPERMAN WiMAX WiBro (Mobile WiMAX) GAN (UMA)

Frequency bands SMR Cellular PCS

High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s.

The specifications for HSUPA are included in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Release 6 standard published by 3GPP.

Contents 1 Technology 2 Versions 3 Roadmap 4 Adoption 5 Devices 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

3GPP definition of HSUPA – "The technical purpose of the Enhanced Uplink feature is to improve the performance of uplink dedicated transport channels, i.e. to increase capacity and throughput and reduce delay."

HSUPA is expected to use an uplink enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) on which it will employ link adaptation methods similar to those employed by HSDPA, namely:

• shorter Transmission Time Interval enabling faster link adaptation;

• HARQ (hybrid ARQ) with incremental redundancy making retransmissions more effective.

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 request for transmission contains data about the state of the transmission buffer and the queue at the UE and its available power margin.

In addition to this scheduled mode of transmission the standards also allows a self-initiated transmission mode from the UEs, denoted non-scheduled. The non-scheduled mode can, for example, be used for VoIP services for which even the reduced TTI and the Node-B based scheduler will not be able to provide the very short delay time and constant bandwidth required.

Each MAC-d flow (i.e. QoS flow) is configured to use either scheduled or non-scheduled modes; the UE adjusts the data rate for scheduled and non-scheduled flows independently. The maximum data rate of each non-scheduled flow is configured at call setup, and typically not changed frequently. The power used by the scheduled flows is controlled dynamically by the Node-B through absolute grant (consisting of an actual value) and relative grant (consisting of a single up/down bit) messages.

At Layer 1, HSUPA introduces new physical channels E-AGCH (Access Grant Channel), E-DCH Relative Grant Channel, F-DPCH (Fractional-DPCH), E-HICH (E-DCH Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel), E-DPCCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel) and E-DPDCH (E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel).

E-DPDCH is used to carry the E-DCH Transport Channel; and E-DPCCH is used to carry the control information associated with the E-DCH.

The following table gives uplink speeds for the different categories of HSUPA.

HSUPA Category	Max Uplink Speed
Category 1	0.73 Mbit/s
Category 2	1.46 Mbit/s
Category 3	1.46 Mbit/s
Category 4	2.93 Mbit/s
Category 5	2.00 Mbit/s
Category 6	5.76 Mbit/s
Category 7 (3GPP Rel7)	11.5 Mbit/s

After HSUPA the 3GPP is working on further advancing transfer rates. The HSOPA will provide up to 100 Mbit/s for downlink and 50 Mbit/s for uplink.

See also: List of Deployed HSUPA networks (not updated)

Some triband (850/1900/2100 MHz) HSUPA devices are already available:

• 4G Systems – XSPlugP5 (USB-Modem), HSPA-WiFi Router XSBoxR5
• Huawei – E270 Wireless modem (USB)
• Novatel Wireless – Merlin X950D (ExpressCard), Ovation MC950D (USB)
• Option – GlobeTrotter Express HSUPA, GlobeTrotter GT MAX HSUPA, GlobeSurfer iCON HSUPA, GTM380
• Sierra Wireless – AirCard 880/881 (PC Card), AirCard 880E/881E (ExpressCard) and MC 8780/8781 (PCI Express)

This article does not cite any references or sources. (September 2006) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

• Harri Holma and Antti Toskala (2006). HSDPA/HSUPA for UMTS: High Speed Radio Access for Mobile Communications. ISBN 0470018844. 

• HSUPA Test Equipment

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