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How PRBs (110 PRBS in 20MHZ BW) in physical layer level mapped to RBs (100 RBs in 20MHZ BW) in mac level?

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How PRBs (110 PRBS in 20MHZ BW) in physical layer level mapped to RBs (100 RBs in 20MHZ BW) in mac level?
posted May 2, 2016 by Suchakravarthi Sripathi

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MAC layer allocates the multiple contiguous RBs, but there is no guarantee that they are aligned contiguously when they get transmitted at PHY layer. It means that there should be a some rule to convert this logical/virtual RB allocation in MAC to PRB allocation in PHY.

There are two type of the conversion, one is Localized and the other is Distributed.
- Localized when both virtual allocation and physical allocation are mapped one to one.
- Distributed, when the VRB allocation is contiguous, but PRB allocation is not contiguous. It means that , PRBs may get distributed over wider frequency ranges because there is high possibility that you may not find contiguous PRBs throughout your bandwidth.

I hope it helps !!

answer May 4, 2016 by Bhaskar Kalaria
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