ETSI TS 136 213 V17.7.0 (2025-02)

LTE; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer procedures (3GPP TS 36.213 version 17.7.0 Release 17)

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
LTE;
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA);
Physical layer procedures
(3GPP TS 36.213 version 17.7.0 Release 17)

3GPP TS 36.213 version 17.7.0 Release 17 1 ETSI TS 136 213 V17.7.0 (2025-02)

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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal Notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 References . 9
3 Symbols and abbreviations . 10
3.1 Symbols . 10
3.2 Abbreviations . 10
4 Synchronization procedures . 12
4.1 Cell search . 12
4.2 Timing synchronization . 12
4.2.1 Radio link monitoring . 12
4.2.2 Inter-cell synchronization . 12
4.2.3 Transmission timing adjustments . 12
4.3 Timing for Secondary Cell Activation / Deactivation . 14
5 Power control . 16
5.1 Uplink power control. 16
5.1.1 Physical uplink shared channel . 17
5.1.1.1 UE behaviour . 17
5.1.1.2 Power headroom . 32
5.1.2 Physical uplink control channel . 35
5.1.2.1 UE behaviour . 36
5.1.3 Sounding Reference Symbol (SRS) . 41
5.1.3.1 UE behaviour . 41
5.1.3.2 Power headroom for Type3 report . 44
5.1.4 Power allocation for EUTRA dual connectivity . 44
5.1.4.1 Dual connectivity power control Mode 1 . 45
5.1.4.2 Dual connectivity power control Mode 2 . 52
5.1.4a Power allocation for dual active protocol stack . 57
5.1.5 Power allocation for PUCCH-SCell . 57
5.2 Downlink power allocation . 58
5.2.1 eNodeB Relative Narrowband TX Power (RNTP) restrictions . 61
6 Random access procedure . 62
6.1 Physical non-synchronized random access procedure . 62
6.1.1 Timing . 63
6.2 Random Access Response Grant . 64
7 Physical downlink shared channel related procedures . 69
7.1 UE procedure for receiving the physical downlink shared channel . 71
7.1.1 Single-antenna port scheme . 87
7.1.2 Transmit diversity scheme . 87
7.1.3 Large delay CDD scheme . 87
7.1.4 Closed-loop spatial multiplexing scheme . 88
7.1.5 Multi-user MIMO scheme . 88
7.1.5A Dual layer scheme . 88
7.1.5B Up to 8 layer transmission scheme . 88
7.1.6 Resource allocation . 88
7.1.6.1 Resource allocation type 0 . 90
7.1.6.2 Resource allocation type 1 . 91
7.1.6.3 Resource allocation type 2 . 92
7.1.6.4 PDSCH starting position . 94
7.1.6.4A PDSCH starting position for BL/CE UEs . 96
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7.1.6.5 Physical Resource Block (PRB) bundling. 97
7.1.7 Modulation order and transport block size determination . 99
7.1.7.1 Modulation order and redundancy version determination . 102
7.1.7.2 Transport block size determination . 108
7.1.7.2.1 Transport blocks not mapped to two or more layer spatial multiplexing . 113
7.1.7.2.2 Transport blocks mapped to two-layer spatial multiplexing . 122
7.1.7.2.3 Transport blocks mapped for DCI Format 1C and DCI Format 6-2 . 122
7.1.7.2.4 Transport blocks mapped to three-layer spatial multiplexing . 123
7.1.7.2.5 Transport blocks mapped to four-layer spatial multiplexing . 123
7.1.7.2.6 Transport blocks mapped for BL/CE UEs configured with CEModeB and PDSCH bandwidth
up to 1.4MHz . 124
7.1.7.2.7 Transport blocks mapped for BL/CE UEs SystemInformationBlockType1-BR . 125
7.1.7.2.8 Transport blocks mapped for UEs configured with ce-pdsch-maxBandwidth-config value of 5
MHz or with pdsch-MaxBandwidth-SC-MTCH value of 24 PRBs . 125
7.1.7.3 Redundancy Version determination for Format 1C . 125
7.1.8 Storing soft channel bits . 126
7.1.9 PDSCH resource mapping parameters . 126
7.1.10 Antenna ports quasi co-location for PDSCH . 128
7.1.11 PDSCH subframe assignment for BL/CE UE . 129
7.2 UE procedure for reporting Channel State Information (CSI) . 131
7.2.1 Aperiodic CSI Reporting using PUSCH . 141
7.2.2 Periodic CSI Reporting using PUCCH . 164
7.2.3 Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) definition . 203
7.2.4 Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) definition . 217
7.2.5 Channel-State Information – Reference Signal (CSI-RS) definition . 242
7.2.6 Channel-State Information – Interference Measurement (CSI-IM) Resource definition . 244
7.2.7 Zero Power CSI-RS Resource definition . 244
7.2.8 CSI-RS Activation / Deactivation . 244
7.3 UE procedure for reporting HARQ-ACK . 245
7.3.1 FDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure . 249
7.3.2 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure . 254
7.3.2.1 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for same UL/DL configuration . 254
7.3.2.2 TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for different UL/DL configurations . 270
7.3.3 FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for primary cell frame structure type 1 . 277
7.3.4 FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK reporting procedure for primary cell frame structure type 2 . 279
8 Physical uplink shared channel related procedures . 280
8.0 UE procedure for transmitting the physical uplink shared channel . 281
8.0.1 Single-antenna port scheme . 308
8.0.2 Closed-loop spatial multiplexing scheme . 308
8.1 Resource allocation for PDCCH/EPDCCH/SPDCCH with uplink DCI format . 309
8.1.1 Uplink resource allocation type 0 . 309
8.1.2 Uplink resource allocation type 1 . 310
8.1.3 Uplink resource allocation type 2 . 310
8.1.4 Uplink resource allocation type 3 . 311
8.1.5 Uplink resource allocation type 4 . 312
8.1.5.1 UL Resource Block Groups . 312
8.1.6 Uplink resource allocation type 5 . 313
8.2 UE sounding procedure . 315
8.3 UE HARQ-ACK procedure . 327
8.3A Autonomous uplink feedback procedure . 329
8.4 UE PUSCH hopping procedure . 329
8.4.1 Type 1 PUSCH hopping . 330
8.4.2 Type 2 PUSCH hopping . 330
8.5 UE Reference Symbol (RS) procedure . 331
8.6 Modulation order, redundancy version and transport block size determination . 332
8.6.1 Modulation order and redundancy version determination . 332
8.6.2 Transport block size determination . 340
8.6.3 Control information MCS offset determination . 346
8.7 UE transmit antenna selection . 349
8.8 Transmission timing adjustments . 349
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9 Physical downlink control channel procedures . 349
9.1 UE procedure for determining physical downlink control channel assignment . 350
9.1.1 PDCCH assignment procedure . 350
9.1.2 PHICH assignment procedure. 354
9.1.3 Control Format Indicator (CFI) assignment procedure . 357
9.1.4 EPDCCH assignment procedure . 358
9.1.4.1 EPDCCH starting position . 365
9.1.4.2 Antenna ports quasi co-location for EPDCCH . 365
9.1.4.3 Resource mapping parameters for EPDCCH . 366
9.1.4.4 PRB-pair indication for EPDCCH . 366
9.1.5 MPDCCH assignment procedure . 367
9.1.5.1 MPDCCH starting position . 375
9.1.5.2 Antenna ports quasi co-location for MPDCCH . 375
9.1.5.3 Preconfigured Uplink Resource ACK/fallback procedure . 375
9.1.6 SPDCCH assignment procedure . 375
9.1.6.1 Resource mapping parameters for SPDCCH . 377
9.1.6.2 PRB-pair indication for SPDCCH . 377
9.1.6.3 Physical Resource Block (PRB) bundling for DMRS-based SPDCCH . 378
9.1.6.4 Antenna ports quasi co-location for DMRS-based SPDCCH . 378
9.2 PDCCH/EPDCCH/MPDCCH/SPDCCH validation for semi-persistent scheduling . 379
9.2A PDCCH/EPDCCH validation for autonomous uplink transmissions . 381
9.3 PDCCH/EPDCCH/MPDCCH/SPDCCH control information procedure . 382
10 Physical uplink control channel procedures . 383
10.1 UE procedure for determining physical uplink control channel assignment . 384
10.1.1 PUCCH format information . 389
10.1.2 FDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures . 396
10.1.2.1 FDD HARQ-ACK procedure for one configured serving cell . 396
10.1.2.2 FDD HARQ-ACK procedures for more than one configured serving cell . 400
10.1.2.2.1 PUCCH format 1b with channel selection HARQ-ACK procedure . 400
10.1.2.2.2 PUCCH format 3 HARQ-ACK procedure . 403
10.1.2.2.3 PUCCH format 4 HARQ-ACK procedure . 405
10.1.2.2.4 PUCCH format 5 HARQ-ACK procedure . 408
10.1.3 TDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures . 409
10.1.3.1 TDD HARQ-ACK procedure for one configured serving cell . 411
10.1.3.2 TDD HARQ-ACK procedure for more than one configured serving cell . 424
10.1.3.2.1 PUCCH format 1b with channel selection HARQ-ACK procedure . 424
10.1.3.2.2 PUCCH format 3 HARQ-ACK procedure . 440
10.1.3.2.3 PUCCH format 4 HARQ-ACK procedure . 448
10.1.3.2.4 PUCCH format 5 HARQ-ACK procedure . 464
10.1.3A FDD-TDD HARQ-ACK feedback procedures for primary cell frame structure type 2 . 464
10.1.4 HARQ-ACK Repetition procedure . 466
10.1.5 Scheduling Request (SR) procedure . 467
10.2 Uplink HARQ-ACK timing . 469
11 Physical Multicast Channel (PMCH) related procedures . 476
11.1 UE procedure for receiving the PMCH . 476
11.2 UE procedure for receiving MCCH and system information change notification. 478
12 Assumptions independent of physical channel. 479
13 Uplink/Downlink configuration determination procedure for Frame Structure Type 2 . 479
13.1 UE procedure for determining eIMTA-uplink/downlink configuration . 480
13A Subframe configuration for Frame Structure Type 3 . 481
14 UE procedures related to Sidelink . 484
14.1 Physical Sidelink Shared Channel related procedures . 485
14.1.1 UE procedure for transmitting the PSSCH . 485
14.1.1.1 UE procedure for determining subframes for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission mode

1 . 487
14.1.1.1.1 Determination of subframe indicator bitmap . 487
14.1.1.2 UE procedure for determining resource blocks for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission
mode 1 . 490
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14.1.1.2.1 PSSCH resource allocation for sidelink transmission mode 1 . 490
14.1.1.2.2 PSSCH frequency hopping for sidelink transmission mode 1 . 491
14.1.1.3 UE procedure for determining subframes for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission mode
2 . 491
14.1.1.4 UE procedure for determining resource blocks for transmitting PSSCH for sidelink transmission
mode 2 . 492
14.1.1.4A UE procedure for determining subframes and resource blocks for transmitting PSSCH for
sidelink transmission mode 3 . 492
14.1.1.4B UE procedure for determining subframes and resource blocks for transmitting PSSCH and
reserving resources for sidelink transmission mode 4 . 493
14.1.1.4C UE procedure for determining subframes and resource blocks for PSSCH transmission
associated with an SCI format 1 . 493
14.1.1.5 UE procedure for PSSCH power control . 494
14.1.1.6 UE procedure for determining the subset of resources to be reported to higher layers in PSSCH
resource selection in sidelink transmission mode 4 and in sensing measurement in sidelink
transmission mode 3 . 496
14.1.1.7 Conditions for selecting resources when the number of HARQ transmissions is two in sidelink
transmission mode 4 . 499
14.1.2 UE procedure for receiving the PSSCH . 500
14.1.3 UE procedure for determining resource block pool and subframe pool for sidelink transmission

mode 2 . 500
14.1.5 UE procedure for determining resource block pool and subframe pool for sidelink transmission
mode 3 and 4 . 501
14.2 Physical Sidelink Control Channel related procedures. 502
14.2.1 UE procedure for transmitting the PSCCH . 502
14.2.1.1 UE procedure for determining subframes and resource blocks for transmitting PSCCH for

sidelink transmission mode 1 . 505
14.2.1.2 UE procedure for determining subframes and resource blocks for transmitting PSCCH for
sidelink transmission mode 2 . 505
14.2.1.3 UE procedure for PSCCH power control . 506
14.2.2 UE procedure for receiving the PSCCH . 507
14.2.3 UE procedure for determining resource block pool and subframe pool for PSCCH . 507
14.2.4 UE procedure for determining resource block pool for PSCCH in sidelink transmission mode 3 and
4 . 508
15 Void . 512
16 UE Procedures related to narrowband IoT . 512
16.1 Synchronization procedures . 512
16.1.1 Cell search . 512
16.1.2 Timing synchronization . 512
16.2 Power control . 513
16.2.1 Uplink power control . 513
16.2.1.1 Narrowband physical uplink shared channel . 513
16.2.1.1.1 UE behaviour . 513
16.2.1.1.2 Power headroom . 514
16.2.1.2 SR . 514
16.2.1.2.1 UE behaviour . 514
16.2.2 Downlink power allocation . 515
16.3 Random access procedure . 516
16.3.1 Physical non-synchronized random access procedure . 516
16.3.2 Timing . 516
16.3.3 Narrowband random access response grant . 517
16.4 Narrowband physical downlink shared channel related procedures . 519
16.4.1 UE procedure for receiving the narrowband physical downlink shared channel . 520
16.4.1.1 Single-antenna port scheme . 523
16.4.1.2 Transmit diversity scheme . 523
16.4.1.3 Resource allocation . 523
16.4.1.4 NPDSCH starting position . 526
16.4.1.5 Modulation order and transport block size determination . 527
16.4.1.5.1 Transport blocks not mapped for SystemInformationBlockType1-NB . 528
16.4.1.5.2 Transport blocks mapped for SystemInformationBlockType1-NB . 528
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16.4.2 UE procedure for reporting ACK/NACK . 529
16.5 Narrowband physical uplink shared channel related procedures . 530
16.5.1 UE procedure for transmitting format 1 narrowband physical uplink shared channel . 531
16.5.1.1 Resource allocation . 533
16.5.1.2 Modulation order, redundancy version and transport block size determination . 535
16.5.2 UE procedure for NPUSCH retransmission . 537
16.5.3 UE procedure for transmitting SR . 537
16.6 Narrowband physical downlink control channel related procedures . 537
16.6.1 NPDCCH starting position . 543
16.6.2 NPDCCH control information procedure . 543
16.6.3 NPDCCH validation for semi-persistent scheduling . 543
16.6.4 Preconfigured uplink resource ACK/fallback procedure . 544
16.7 Assumptions independent of physical channel related to narrowband IoT . 544
16.8 UE procedure for acquiring cell-specific reference signal sequence and raster offset . 544
16.9 UE procedure for receiving narrowband wake up signal . 545
17 Wake-up signal related procedures for BL/CE UE . 545
Annex A (informative): Change history . 547
History . 568

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1 Scope
The present document specifies and establishes the characteristics of the physicals layer procedures in the FDD and
TDD modes of E-UTRA.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or
non-specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
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[1] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2] 3GPP TS 36.201: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical Layer –
General Description".
[3] 3GPP TS 36.211: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical channels and
modulation".
[4] 3GPP TS 36.212: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Multiplexing and
channel coding".
[5] 3GPP TS 36.214: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer –
Measurements".
[6] 3GPP TS 36.101: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE)
radio transmission and reception".
[7] 3GPP TS 36.104: "Evolved Universal
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