Processing and memory requirements for a 3G WCDMA
Daniel Wiklund · 2004
The WCDMA standard is the main system used for third generation mobile communications in Europe. The basestation is the central node in the radio access network. The cost of a basestation is a very important factor in the deployment of the 3G network. This cost can be lowered by merging functionality of the basestation into fewer components. In order to get an appropriate system level model of the 3G WCDMAbasestation baseband part, a processing task survey has been done. This survey has been conducted through analysis of the standard documents and published research papers. The results from the survey show that the baseband part of a 128 channel basestation may be possible to implement on a single chip.