How did 3GPP manage to increase the speed of DL speed to over 10Mbps?
To increase the data rates a new channel called HS-DSCH (High speed downlink shared channel) was defined. This was somewhat similar to the DSCH defined in the release 99 specs. This channel maps to HS-PDSCH (high speed physical downlink shared channel). To support this data channel a control channel HS-SCCH (High speed shared control channels). The HS-DSCH is transmitted over the entire cell or over only part of the cell using e.g. beam-forming antennas. The increased data rates are supported through the introduction of Fast and Complex channel-control mechanisms based on a short fixed packet TTI (transmission time interval), AMC (adaptive modulation and coding) and L1 HARQ (layer1 hybrid automatic repeat request).