Saturday, May 7, 2011

Why we have the concept of VRB in LTE?

The mapping from VRBs to physical resource blocks (PRBs) allows for downlink distributed transmission in frequency domain .Downlink distributed transmission consists of two separate steps:

 (1) a mapping from VRB pairs to PRB pairs such that consecutive VRB pairs are not mapped to frequency-consecutive PRB pairs and
(2) a split of each resource-block pair such that the two resource blocks of the resource-block pair are transmitted with a certain frequency gap in between. The second step can be seen as frequency hopping on a slot basis.

Lot of documents explain you the importance of VRB. Please go throuh them.

Regards
Venu