 unit consisting of 15 slots with a length of 38 400 chips, and slot is a unit consisting of fields containing bits with a length of 2560 chips. The slot configuration varies depending on the channel bit rate of the physical channel; thus, the number of bits per slot may be different for different physical channels and may, in some cases, vary with time. The basic physical resource is the code/frequency plane, and on the uplink, different information streams may be transmitted on the I and Q branches. Thus, a physical channel corresponds to a specific carrier frequency, code, and on the uplink there is in addition a relative phase (0 or /2) element. 4.3.1 Uplink and Downlink Modulation The uplink modulation uses a chip rate of 3.84 Mcps, where the complex-valued chip sequence generated by the spreading process has QPSK modulation as seen in Figure 4.2. The pulse-shaping characteristics are described in [3]. cos (wt) Re{Sup} Pulse- Split Re {TDL} Complex-valued shaping real & chip sequence from spreading imag. operations parts Im{Sup} Pulse- Im{TDL} shaping -sin(wt) Figure 4.2 Uplink/downlink modulation process. The UMTS Network and Radio Access Technology The downlink modulation also has a chip rate of 3.84 Mcps, with a QPSK modulated complex-valued chip sequence generated by the spreading process. Figure 4.2 does also represent the downlink modulation process. However, the DL pulse-shaping characteristics are described in [4]. 4.3.2 Dedicated Uplink Physical Channels The two types of uplink dedicated physical channels, i.e. Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH) and Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) are I/Q code multiplexed within each radio frame. The uplink DPDCH carries the DCH transport channel, while the uplink DPCCH carries L1 control information such as: known pilot bits to support channel estimation for coherent detection, Transmit Power Control (TPC) commands, Feedback Information (FBI), and an optional Transport Format Combination Indicator (TFCI). The TFCI informs the receiver about the inst