Calculate the theoretical maximum 5G throughput from first principles. From a single PRB with QPSK to 12-layer MU-MIMO at 6.4 Gbps — understand exactly how 3GPP defines the data rate formula and every parameter in it.
How 5G maps exactly the right number of encoded bits to available radio resources through repetition, puncturing, and bit interleaving. Covers 3GPP TS 38.212 Section 5.4.
The 7.3 split places modulation/demodulation near the antenna, transmitting hard bits DL and soft LLRs UL. Learn the fronthaul capacity formulas and trade-offs vs. split 7.2x and Option 8.
After channel encoding, 5G scrambles bits with a unique pseudo-random sequence per channel, per UE, per cell — suppressing interference and adding coding gain. The full C_init story explained.
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