80 Physical resource block (PRB), 69 Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR), 78, 230 Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH), 73 reduction and performance improvement Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), 73 techniques, 78-83 Physical-layer transport, 275-278 Peak windowing, 80 "Pico kernel", 187 Per Hop Behavior (PHB), 98 Pico/micro cell, 18 Performance, 199-200, 331-332 Platform Control Hub (PCH), 184 benchmarking, 177-178 Plug fest, 338-340, 339f exploration, 344 Policy Control Function (PCF), 47 metrics, 309 Polling (P), 220 proof points, 316-318 Polynomial algorithm, 233 testing, 340-345 Polynomial models, 233 Index Power control, 66 Radio access network (RAN), 1 receive side, 66 performance, 354 transmit side, 66 Radio Access Network Application Part (RANAP), efficiency, 167 Power Amplifier (PA), 78, 131, 155, 230 Radio Equipment (RE), 66 Precision Time Protocol (PTP), 269, 278-290 Radio frequency (RF), 154, 354 example network PDV, 286f compliance testing, 335-338 head of line blocking, 286f calibration, 336-337 master selection process, 282f receiver, 336, 337f network topology, 280f tools needed, 337-338 one-way protocol, 278f transmitter, 335, 337f PTP + SyncE solution, 302, 304f subsystem, 162-165, 174 synchronization analog, 163-165 message flow, 282f JESD, 162-163 process, 284f Radio Link Control (RLC), 48, 59-70, 249, 330 syntonization process, 283f layers, 220-221, 354 effect of timestamping point, 287f protocol, 220-222 two-way protocol, 279f RLC header example, 221f Predictive HARQ, 65 Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), 67, PREEMPT_RT, 187 Primary Reference Clock, 273 Radio Resource Control (RRC), 48, 330 Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), 88 Radio resource management (RRM), 2 Primary user selection, 251-252 Radio Unit (RU), 3, 30-33, 43, 76-86, 103, frequency-domain scheduling challenge, 7-136, 154-171, 215, 254, 316, 329. See also Central unit (CU) PF time-domain scheduling, 252f analog gain control, 84 Priority Access Licensed (PAL), 10-11 baseband to radio frequency conversion, "Proc