What is the difference between physical resource block(PRB) and resource block(RB) in LTE?

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LTE Forum 2011 people give different comments on this......what do u think?

2 September 2011 at 11:45

Rahul Gupta resource block is package of sub carriers,VRB & PRB comes under it ,PRB is the what is physically
present but virtual resource blocks(VRB
) are generated during uplink hopping.
3 September 2011 at 02:28 1

LTE Forum 2011 are RB and PRB same?

3 September 2011 at 11:02

LTE Forum 2011 in terms of subcarriers and time?

3 September 2011 at 11:02

Rahul Gupta we can say them same in case of downlink, but in case of uplink two constraints comes vrb & prb
3 September 2011 at 11:05

LTE Forum 2011 then wat abt uplink.......RB and PRB?

3 September 2011 at 19:36

Rahul Gupta In the uplink VRB also comes under picture, which is also a type or RB.
4 September 2011 at 01:33

LTE Forum 2011 but incase of VRB , allocation of resource blocks will be distributed which will voilate the rule of
single carrier-FDMA......what abt that then?
4 September 2011 at 02:35

Rahul Gupta Actually physically there is no difference between VRB & PRB, both are indicating dozen consecutive
subcarriers.In case of hoppping EnodeB indicates the UE specific VRB no. and that VRB no. is mapped to some
specific PRB no. based on the hopping algoritham.And if we are not considering hopping both VRB no. & PRB no. are
same.
6 September 2011 at 10:57


LTE Forum 2011 see hopping is something like as if we are sending the data at differenty PRBs or different
frquencies at different times where as VRB allocation means that distributed RBs will be allocated at the same time
for sending the data at that particular instant.......so my question is that if we apply VRB(distributed allocation of PRBs
at the same time) in uplink then will this not violate the funda..single carrier- FDMA
6 September 2011 at 17:43

LTE Forum 2011 ?

6 September 2011 at 17:43

Rahul Gupta there is no difference in terms of subcarriers in PRB between ofdma and sc-fdma, only the difference is
in distribution of data bits, in ofdma it runs in parallal way and in sc-fdma it runs in series way.
6 September 2011 at 22:08

Rahul Gupta and vrb is virtual mapping of prb to undergo hopping, it dosenot exists physically.it will not effect
spectrum or prb physically.
6 September 2011 at 22:11 1

Thomas J. Meaney A resource block (RB) is really "half" of a physical resource block (PRB). With a normal cyclic
prefix, an RB is 7 OFDM symbols over 12 carriers, which covers the first slot (0.5 ms). Over the entire subframe (1
ms), the PRB is the RB pair 7 OFDM symbols over 12 carriers x 2.
29 September 2013 at 10:04 1
LTE: is there any difference between resource block (RB) and Physical Resource Block (PRB) ?

RB i.e. Resource block is a generic term looks like that you want to know the VRB virtual resource block and PRB
physical resource block.
In OFDMA, users are allocated a specific number of subcarriers for a predetermined amount of time. These are
called PRB i.e. physical resource blocks.
VRB is a abstract resource which is used by the scheduler, scheduler always uses virtual resource blocks for defining
user allocations. VRBs are of two types: 1. Localized virtual resource blocks 2. Distributed virtual resource blocks.
Localized virtual RBs are equal to physical RBs. Therefore, localized virtual RBs address physical RBs directly.
Distributed RB mapping enables the usage of frequency diversity without scheduling distributed RBs directly.
Distributed virtual RBs split a physical RB at the slot boundary into two halves. The first half of the scheduled
distributed virtual RB directly equals the physical RBs. The second slot is hopped to another second slot of another
UE which is virtually scheduled in the distributed way.

Hi Experts,
Can anyone please explain me what is the reason LTE has to use viurtal resource block? My understanding from
36.211 is VRB is the same size as PRB. There are 2 types of VRBs (localized and distrbuted). Why can we just use
physical resource blocks?

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.
You can find a detailed explanation of VRBs running in many pages in this book http://www.amazon.com/3GEvolution-Second-Mobile-Broadband/dp/0123745381/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267731923&sr=8-1