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Idle Mode and Common Channel Behavior Feature Guide

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Idle Mode and Common Channel Behavior Feature
Guide
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V4.0 2010-06-18
Wang
Kunhuang
Cui Li Li Not open to the Thi rd Party

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Functional Attribute ............................................................................................1
2 Overview .............................................................................................................1
2.1 Function Introduction ............................................................................................1
2.1.1 PLMN Selection ...................................................................................................1
2.1.2 Cell Selection and Resel ection ..............................................................................1
2.1.3 Location Area Update ...........................................................................................1
2.1.4 Routi ng Area Updat e ............................................................................................2
2.1.5 URA Update ........................................................................................................2
2.1.6 Cell Update..........................................................................................................3
2.1.7 Random Access Process of PRACH......................................................................3
3 Technical Description .........................................................................................4
3.1 Strategy of PLMN Sel ection ..................................................................................4
3.1.1 Support for PLMN Selection ..................................................................................4
3.1.2 PLMN Selection at Switch-on ................................................................................5
3.1.3 Automatic PLMN Selection Mode ..........................................................................5
3.1.4 Manual PLMN Selection Mode ..............................................................................7
3.1.5 Roaming ..............................................................................................................7
3.2 Strategy of Cell Sel ection and Reselection .............................................................7
3.2.1 States and State Transitions in Idle Mode ..............................................................8
3.2.2 Cell Selection Process ........................................................................................11
3.2.3 Camped Normally State......................................................................................12
3.2.4 Rules of Cell Resel ection Measurement...............................................................13
3.2.5 Cell Selection When Leaving Connected Mode ....................................................25
3.2.6 Any Cell Selection State .....................................................................................25
3.2.7 Camped on Any Cell State ..................................................................................25
3.2.8 Cell Reservations and Access Restrictions ..........................................................26
3.2.9 Cell Reselection Process in RRC Connected Mode ..............................................28
3.2.10 Parameters and Configurati on for Cell Selection and Resel ection..........................28
3.2.11 SIB11bis usage ..................................................................................................28
3.3 Strategy of LA and RA Update ............................................................................29
3.3.1 LA and RA Structure...........................................................................................29
3.3.2 Normal LA and RA Updating ...............................................................................29
3.3.3 Periodic LA and RA Updating..............................................................................29
3.3.4 IMSI Attach/Detach ............................................................................................30
3.4 Strategy of URA Update .....................................................................................30
3.4.1 Process of URA Updat e......................................................................................30
3.5 Strategy of CELL Update ....................................................................................31
3.5.1 Process of CELL Update ....................................................................................32
3.6 Random Access Process of PRACH....................................................................33
3.6.1 PRACH Structure ...............................................................................................33
3.6.2 Preamble Part ....................................................................................................33
3.6.3 Message Part.....................................................................................................33
3.6.4 Random Access Process of Physical Layer ..........................................................36
3.6.5 Random Access Process of the MAC Layer .........................................................40
4 Parameters and Configuration ..........................................................................42
4.1 Cell Selection/Resel ection-rel ated Parameters .....................................................42
4.1.1 Parameter List ...................................................................................................42
4.1.2 Parameter Confi guration .....................................................................................46
4.2 PRACH-relat ed Parameters ................................................................................85


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4.2.1 Parameter List ...................................................................................................85
4.2.2 Parameter Confi guration .....................................................................................86
5 Glossary ...........................................................................................................97


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FIGURES
Figure 1 UE Registers upon Switch-on or Re-registers after Leavi ng Connected Mode ............4
Figure 2 PLMN Selection-Aut omatic Mode ............................................................................6
Figure 3 Idl e Mode Cell Sel ection and Reselection ................................................................8
Figure 4 URA update procedure, basic flow.........................................................................30
Figure 5 URA update procedure, failure case ......................................................................31
Figure 6 Cell update procedure, basic flow ..........................................................................32
Figure 7 Cell update procedure with physical channel reconfigurati on ...................................32
Figure 8 Cell update procedure with radio bearer reconfiguration..........................................32
Figure 9 PRACH Structure .................................................................................................33
Figure 10 Structure of PRACH Message ...............................................................................33
Figure 11 Mappi ng Relation of PRACH-rel ated Parameters ...................................................35
Figure 12 Relati on bet ween the PRACH Access Slot and DL AICH ........................................38
Figure 13 Timi ng Relation bet ween PRACH and AICH as Observed from the UE Side ............39
TABLES
Table 1 Number of Bits Carried in PRACH Message vs. Spectrum Spreadi ng Factor ............35
Table 2 Mappi ng Relation Between Available UL Access Slot and RACH ............................38
Table 3 ASCi-to-P
i
Mapping Relation .................................................................................41
Table 4 AC-to-ASC Mapping Relation ................................................................................42


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1 Functional Attribute
System version: [RNC V3.09, OMMR V3. 09, Node B V4.09, OMMB V4. 09]
Property: [Optional]
Relat ed Network Element:
UE NodeB RNC MSCS MGW SGSN GGSN HLR
- - - - -
Note:
*-: not invol ved.
*: invol ved.
Dependent Function: [None]
Remarks: [None]
Remarks: [None]
2 Overview
2.1 Function Introduction
This article introduces the strategi es of PLMN selection, cell selection/resel ection,
location area update, routing area update, URA updat e and cell update, as well as the
random access process of PRACH.
2.1.1 PLMN Selection
The UE will select a PLMN when it registers at power -on or re-registers in out of service
conditions. In addition, the UE can make periodic PLMN selection.
2.1.2 Cell Selection and Reselection
The UE will select an initial cell at power -on or in out of service conditions.
When the UE moves in the IDLE mode, in state URA_PCH or CELL_FACH, it needs to
change the cell that it camps on through the cell resel ection strategy.
2.1.3 Location Area Update
The location area (LA) refers to a range where the mobile station can move freely
without updat e of VLR. The location area identity (LAI) is made up of MCC+MNC+LAC.



LAC is the location area code. For the CS domai n service, the CN uses the LA to
identi fy the UE (in t he RRC-IDLE mode, the network uses a CN-relat ed identity to
identi fy the UE). One LA may cover one or more cells. When several CNs share a VLR,
the LA may cover several CNs. One CN area may include one or more LAs. That is, the
CN may include an MSC area, and an MSC area may also include the LA.
If the LA that the UE camps on changes when the UE is movi ng, the CN shoul d be
notifi ed of the change through LA update.
In addition, the UE can update the LA periodically.
2.1.4 Routing Area Update
The routing area (RA) is defined as a range where the mobile station can move freely
without update of SGSN. An RA is made up of one or more cells. It is used to indicate
the location information of the mobile station in the SGSN when the mobile station is in
idle state. The RAs are classifi ed by the mobil e data traffic distribution, traffic volume
and t he processing capability of the SGSN as well. The routing area i dentity
(RAI)=MCC+MNC+LAC+RAC, where RAC is the routing area code t hat uniquely
identi fies an RA inside a LA. For the PS domain service, the CN uses the RA to identify
the UE (in the RRC-IDLE mode, the network uses the CN-related identity related with
the CN to identify the UE). The relation bet ween LA and RA as defined for the GSM
network is still applicable: RA=LA, or RA is always included in the LA (a subset of LA). In
addition, the RA may cover several RNC areas but not several SGSN areas, that is, one
RA can be controlled by only one CN service node.
If the LA or RA that the UE camps on changes when the UE is moving, the CN should
be noti fied of the change through RA update.
In addition, the UE can update the RA periodically.
2.1.5 URA Update
The URA is a combination of a group of cells and at the same time, a cell may bel ong to
several URAs. The URA is visibl e only inside the UTRAN (i ncludi ng UE). The area
update inside the UTRAN is a radio network process and its structure is not visibl e from
outside the UTRAN. The URA stands no fixed rel ation with the LA and is not related with
the RA either.
In state URA_PCH, the procedure URA Update is used to keep RAN informed about the
UEs location on a URA level.
The UE in state RA_PCH will trigger the URA update with the reason of change of
URA in the following cases:
If the cell that the UE camps on is in a di fferent URA area from that of the origi nal
cell that the UE camps on.
The list of URA ID in SIB2 is empty.
The SIB2 information is not recei ved.



Besides, the UE in state URA_PCH will trigger the periodic URA updat e with the reason
of periodic URA update if the preceding LA update condition is not satisfied but the
following conditions are satisfied.
The timer T305 in the IE UE Ti mers and constants in connected mode" set to any
other val ue than " is set to non infinity and T305 expi res.
If the UE does not support HS-DSCH reception but recei ves the IE "HS-DSCH
pagi ng system information", the IE is not saved currently, and also the 12-bit MSBs
(high 12 bits) of U_RNTI in "SRNC does not equal to the 12-bit MSBs of "Cell
identity" in SIB3.
2.1.6 Cell Update
The Cell update means that the UE notifi es the RAN of the UE location on a cell level.
The UE will trigger the cell update i n the following cases:
Resel ection of cell in state CELL_FACH
Radi o link fail ure in state CELL_DCH
T305 peri odic cell update.
In state CELL_FACH, the UE ret urns from the uncovered area to the covered area
and performs periodic cell update.
In state URA_PCH, the UE transmits data on uplink
In state URA_PCH, paging is responded.
In state URA_PCH/ CELL_FACH, MBMS p-t-p RB request is sent.
The UE is in paging URA_PCH state on the network side (can be ori ginated by the
UTRAN or CN)
The UE in state CELL_FACH/CELL_DCH detects the RLC unrecoverable error
of the AM RLC entity.
MBMS Counting in state URA_PCH/ CELL_FACH
2.1.7 Random Access Process of PRACH
PRACH is the access channel for the UE to originate a call. It includes two parts: the
physical layer random access process and MAC layer random access process.



3 Technical Description
Figure 1 shows the flow that the UE registers upon switch-on or re-registers after l eaving
connected mode. Processes invol ved are: PLMN selection, cell selection and reselection,
LA registration and update and RA registration and update.
Figure 1 UE Registers upon Switch-on or Re-registers after Leaving Connected Mode

In addition, the UE supports peri odic LA and RA update to notify the network of the real -
time camping i nformation. In state URA_PCH/CELL_FACH, the UE triggers URA/ CELL
update for a service reason. In cases of service setup, the pagi ng process and PRACH
random access process are needed. The processes are introduced in this chapter.
3.1 Strategy of PLMN Selection
The UE mai ntains a list of allowed PLMN types (SIM/USIM information). The allowed
PLMN type can be GSM-MAP only, ANSI-41 only or both. During PLMN selection and
reselection, based on the list of all owed PLMN types and a list of PLMN identities in
priority order, the particular PLMN may be selected either automatically or manually.
Each PLMN in the list of PLMN i dentities can be i denti fied by either PLMN identity
(GSM-MAP) or SID (ANSI-41). In the system information on the broadcast channel, the
UE can recei ve several PLMN identities: a PLMN identity (GSM-MAP) or a SID or a
'PLMN identity' (GSM-MAP) and a 'SID', in a gi ven cell.
The result of the PLMN selection is an identifier of the selected PLMN, the choice being
based on the all owed PLMN types, UE capability or ot her factors.
3.1.1 Support for PLMN Selection
The UE will select a PLMN when it registers at power-on or re-registers aft er leavi ng
connected mode. In addition, the UE can make peri odic PLMN selection.
The PLMN selection is ori ginated at a NAS. On request of the NAS, the AS searches for
availabl e PLMN and reports the result to the NAS. The NAS based on the i nformation



reported by the AS and the allowed PLMN information in SIM/USIM determines which
PLMN will be selected finally.
The UE scans all RF channels in the UTRA/GSM bands according to its capabilities to
find availabl e PLMNs. On each carrier, the UE shall search for the strongest cell and
read its system information, in order to find out which PLMN the cell bel ongs to. If the
UE can read one or several PLMN identities in the strongest cell, each found PLMN will
be reported to the NAS as a high quality PLMN, provided that the following high quality
criterion is fulfill ed.
1 For an FDD cell, the measured primary CPICH RSCP val ue is great er than or equal
to -95 dBm.
2 For an TDD cell,the measured primary CCPCH RSCP val ue is greater than or equal
to -84dBm.
Found PLMNs that do not satisfy the high quality criterion, but for which the UE has
been able to read t he PLMN i dentities are reported t o the NAS as other PLMNs in order
of decreasing CPICH RSCP for UTRA FDD cells, or in order of decreasing P-CCPCH
RSCP for UTRA TDD cells.
The search for PLMNs on the carri ers may be stopped on request of the NAS. The UE
may optimize this search by using stored information of carri er frequencies and
optionally also information on cell parameters, e.g. scrambli ng codes, from previ ously
recei ved measurement control i nformation el ements.
Once the UE has selected a PLMN, the cell selection procedure will be performed in
order to select a suitable cell of that PLMN to camp on.
3.1.2 PLMN Selection at Switch-on
Whenever a UE is switched on or re-registers after leaving connected mode, it attempts
to camp on the last registered PLMN or equi val ent PLMN, if avail able. To speed up the
PLMN selection procedure, the UE first tries the stored information cell selection
procedure (refer to 3.2.2.2 Stored Information cell selection), and read system
informati on of corresponding cell to obtain the PLMN ID (PLMN ID comprises MCC and
MNC). Then the UE decides whether the chosen cell is acceptable or whether at least
one acceptable cell belonging to that PLMN exists. If the decision is that the PLMN is
availabl e, the UE attempts registration on the PLMN. If the last registered PLMN is
unavail able, t he process of PLMN registration wit h stored informati on is finished and
automatic or manual PLMN selection will be attempted.
If there is no registered PLMN stored in the USIM, the UE selects and attempts
registrati on on other PLMNs using either the Automatic mode or the Manual mode.
3.1.3 Automatic PLMN Selection Mode
The Automatic PLMN selection mode is described in Figure 2 In Automatic mode, if no
last registered PLMN exists or is avail able, the UE will select a PLMN that is avail able
and all owed, in the following order:

1 Home PLMN (HPLMN), if not previ ously selected, according to the Radi o Access
Technol ogi es (RATs) supported by the UE.



2 Each PLMN in the user-controll ed PLMNs list in the USIM, if present, in order of
priority, according to the RATs supported by the UE.
3 Each PLMN in the operator-controlled PLMNs list in the USIM, in order of pri ority,
according to the RATs support ed by the UE.
4 Other PLMNs, accordi ng to the hi gh-quality criterion, in random order.
5 Other PLMNs that do not fulfill hi gh-quality criterion, in order of decreasing signal
strength (SS).
PLMNs are considered high quality if the Recei ved Signal Strength Code Power (RSCP)
on the PCPICH ful fills the high-quality criterion (for FDD, the PCPICH RSCP level is
greater than or equal to 95 dBm and for GSM, the signal level is above -85 dBm).
A PLMN with at least one acceptabl e cell is considered availabl e. If that PLMN is
allowed, the UE tries to register on it. If registration is successful, the UE displays the
selected PLMN.
When the UE cannot register on any PLMN in the user and operat or lists, it attempts to
register on other PLMNs accordi ng to the hi gh-quality criterion.
If the UE cannot register on any PLMN, it selects an avail abl e PLMN and enters a
limited service state. If it does not fi nd an available PLMN, the UE enters the non-service
state, and waits until a new PLMN is avail abl e and allowed.
Figure 2 PLMN Selection-Automatic Mode



3.1.4 Manual PLMN Selection Mode
The Manual mode all ows the user to select a PLMN among those indicated by the UE.
The UE displays all PLMNs that it finds by scanning all frequency carriers. The UE
displays those PLMNs that are allowed as well as those that are not allowed. The user
makes a manual selection, according to the available access technology for the chosen
PLMN, and the UE attempts registration on this PLMN, ignori ng the contents of the
forbidden Location Area Identities (LAIs) and PLMN lists. If the user sel ects an avail able
PLMN in the forbidden PLMN list, the UE attempts to register and may recei ve a positi ve
acknowl edgement from the CN. In this case, the PLMN is removed from the forbidden
list.
If the user does not select a PLMN, the selected PLMN is the one that was selected
before the PLMN selection procedure started. If this PLMN is no longer available, the UE
attempts to camp on an acceptable cell at any PLMN and enters the limited service state.
The UE remains in that state until it is switched off or the user makes a manual PLMN
reselection.
3.1.5 Roaming
Roaming is a service through which a UE is able to obtain services from another PLMN
(Visited PLMN) than the HPLMN. The behavior that the UE must foll ow is speci fied by
agreements among the network operators. A UE in Automatic mode, havi ng selected
and registered on a Visited PLMN (VPLMN), peri odically attempts to return to its HPLMN.
The time interval between consecuti ve attempts is stored i n the USIM and is managed
by the network operator using a timer(The timer may have a value of between 6
minutes and 8 hours, with a step size of 6 minutes). In the absence of a fixed
value, a default val ue of 30 mi nutes is used by the UE.
3.2 Strategy of Cell Selection and Reselection
Different types of measurements are used in different RATs and modes for the cell
selection and resel ection.
The NAS can control the RAT(s) in which the cell selection should be performed, for
instance by indicating RAT(s) associated with the selected PLMN, and by maintaining a
list of forbi dden registration area(s) and a list of NAS-specifi ed service area in pri ority
order. The UE will select a suitable cell and the radio access mode based on
measurements and cell selection criteria.
In order to speed up the cell selection process, stored information for several RATs may
be available in the UE.
When camped on a cell, the UE will regularly search for a better cell according to the cell
reselection criteria. If a better cell is found, that cell is selected. The change of cell may
imply a change of RAT (that is, cell reselection between different systems).
For normal service, the UE has to camp on a suitable cell, tune to that cell's control
channel(s) so that the UE can:
Recei ve system information from the PLMN;



Recei ve registrati on area i nformation from the PLMN, e.g., location area and routing
area; and

Identify to which service area as specifi ed by NAS that the servi ng cell bel ongs.
Recei ve other AS and NAS Information;
Recei ve pagi ng and noti fication messages from the PLMN; and
Initiate call setup for outgoing calls or other actions from the UE.
3.2.1 States and State Transitions in Idle Mode
Figure 3 shows the states and procedures of cell selection and reselection i n Idl e Mode.
Figure 3 Idle Mode Cell Selection and Reselection



Initial
Cell Selection
Any Cell
Selection
go here
when no
USIM in
the UE
USIM inserted
Camped on
any cell
go here whenever a
new PLMN is
selected
1
no cell information
stored for the PLMN
cell information
stored for the PLMN
Stored
information
Cell Selection
no suitable cell found
no suitable
cell found
Cell Selection
when leaving
connected
mode
suitable cell found 2
suitable
cell found
Camped
normally
suitable cell found
no suitable
cell found
leave
idle mode
return to
idle mode
Connected
mode
Cell
Reselection
Evaluation
Process
suitable
cell found
trigger
no suitable
cell found
1
Cell Selection
when leaving
connected
mode
no acceptable cell found
acceptable
cell found
acceptable
cell found
suitable
cell found
2
leave
idle mode
return to
idle mode
Connected
mode
(Emergency
calls only)
Cell
Reselection
Evaluation
Process
acceptable
cell found
trigger
no acceptable
cell found
NAS indicates that
registration on selected
PLMN is rejected
(except with cause #14
or #15 [5][16])

In any state, a new PLMN selection causes an exit to number 1
3.2.1.1 Cell selection process overview
Whenever a PLMN has been sel ected by NAS, the UE will attempt to find a suit able cell
to camp on. The NAS may control the cell selection by:
Provi ding information on RAT(s) associated with the selected PLMN;
Maintaini ng lists of forbi dden registration areas;



Provi ding a list of equi valent PLMNs.
One or several RATs may be associated with the sel ected PLMN. It depends on the UE
capability and PLMN pl an.
The AS will attempt to fi nd a suitabl e cell to camp on as speci fied in Section 3.2.2.
If a suitable cell is found, the UE will select this cell to camp on, and report this event to
NAS so that the necessary NAS registration procedures can be performed. When the
registrati on is successful, the UE enters in state Camped normally i n order to obtain
normal service.
If the UE is unabl e to find any suitabl e cell of selected PLMN the UE will enter the Any
cell selection state and perform action of 3.2.6 Any Cell Selection State.
3.2.1.2 Camped normally state overview
In this state, the UE obtains normal service and performs the tasks specified in 3.2.3.
If after a Cell resel ection eval uation process a better cell is found, the Cell reselection
procedure is performed. If no suitabl e cell is found, the UE will enter the state Any cell
selection.
When UE leaves idle mode in order to enter the state Connected mode, the UE shall
attempt to access the current serving cell. If the access attempt to the servi ng cell fai ls,
the UE will use the Cell reselection evaluation procedure.
3.2.1.3 Connected mode state overview
When ret urni ng to idl e mode, the UE shall use the procedure Cell sel ection when l eaving
connected mode in order to fi nd a suitabl e cell to camp on and ent er state Camped
normally. If a suitable cell is found, then the UE reports this event to NAS to be capable
to perform necessary NAS registration procedures. If no suitable cell is found, the Stored
informati on cell selection procedure will be used by the UE.
If no suitable cell is found in cell reselection eval uation process, the UE enters the state
Any cell selection.
3.2.1.4 Any cell selection state overview
The state Any cell selection is also entered if the NAS indicates that a location
registrati on is rejected or there is no SIM/USIM in the UE. In this state the UE will
behave as specified in Section 3.2. 6 Any Cell Sel ection StateFF
If an accept able cell is found, the UE will inform the NAS and camp on this cell and
obtain limited service, state Camped on any cell.
3.2.1.5 Camped on any cell state overview
In this state the UE obtains limited service. The UE will regul arly attempt to fi nd a
suitable cell, trying all RATs that are supported by the UE. If a suitable cell is found, this



causes an exit to number 2 in Figure 3, to perform the procedure as speci fied in Section
3.2.1.2 Camped normally state overvi ew.
NOTE: The 'PLMN selection and reselection' process may select a new PLMN at any
time in idl e mode, which i n Figure 3 causes an exit to number 1, perform initial cell
selection procedure (refer to Section 3.2.1. 1 Cell selection process overview).
3.2.2 Cell Selection Process
The UE will use one of the following two search procedures:
3.2.2.1 Initial cell selection
This procedure requires no prior knowledge of which RF channels are UTRA carri ers.
The UE will scan all RF channels in the UTRA/GSM bands to find a suitable cell in the
chosen PLMN. On each carrier, the UE need only search for the strongest cell. Once a
suitable cell is found this cell shall be selected.
3.2.2.2 Stored Information cell selection
This procedure requi res stored information of carri er frequencies and optionally also
informati on on cell paramet ers, e.g. scrambling codes, from previ ously recei ved
measurement control informati on elements. Once the UE has found a suitabl e cell the
UE shall select it. If no suitable cell is found the Initial cell selection procedure will be
started.
3.2.2.3 Cell selection criteria
The cell selection criteri on S is ful filled when:
for FDD cells: Srxlev > 0 AND Squal > 0
for TDD cells: Srxlev > 0

Where,

Squal = Q
qualmeas
(Qqualmin + QqualminOffset)
Srxlev = Q
rxlevmeas
(Qrxlevmin + QrxlevminOffset) Pcompensation

Qqualmeas: Measured cell quality value. Applicable only for FDD cells. The quality of
the recei ved signal expressed i n CPICH E
c
/N
0
(dB).



Qrxlevmeas: Measured cell RX level val ue. This is recei ved signal, CPICH RSCP for
FDD cells (dBm), P-CCPCH RSCP for TDD cells (dBm) and RXLEV for GSM cells
(dBm).
Qqualmin: Minimum requi red quality level in the cell (dB). Applicable only for FDD cells.
QQual Min
Qrxlevmin: Minimum required RX l evel in the cell (dBm). (For serving cell: If
DltaQRxLevMin is broadcast, then Qrxl evmi n =QrxLevMi n+DltaQRxLevMi n. If
DltaQRxLevMin is not broadcast, then Qrxlevmin +QRxLevMin. Whether to broadcast
DltaQRxLevMin or not is controlled by DltaQRxLevMi nPr. For nei ghbor cell: In Idle mode
or SIB12 is not broadcast, if DtQrxLvMnSib11 is not broadcast, then Qrxlevmin
=QrxLevMin. In Idle mode or SIB12 is not broadcast, if DtQrxLvMnSib11 is broadcast,
then Qrxl evmi n =QrxLevMi n+DtQrxLvMnSib11. In connected mode and SIB12 is
broadcast, if DtQrxLvMnSib12 is not broadcast, then Qrxlevmin =QRxLevMi n. If
DtQrxLvMnSib12 is broadcast, then Qrxlevmin =QrxLevMin+DtQrxLvMnSib12. Whether
to broadcast DtQrxLvMnSib11 or not is controll ed by DtQrxLvMnSib11Pr. Whether to
broadcast DtQrxLvMnSib12 or not is controlled by DtQrxLvMnSib12Pr.
Notes: Whether to broadcast SIB12 is controlled by SIB12Ind
QqualminOffset(QqualminOffset): Offset to the signalled Qqualmin taken into account in
the Squal evaluation. The parameter is avail able only for FDD cells and SIB3. Whether
to broadcast QqualminOffset is controlled by paramet er QqulmnOffstPre.
QrxlevminOffset(QrxlevminOffset): Offset to the signalled Qrxlevmin taken into account
in the Srxlev evaluati on. The parameter is avail abl e only for SIB3. Whether to broadcast
QrxlevminOffset is controlled by parameter Qrxl vmnOffstPre.

Pcompensation max(UE_TXPWR_MAX_RACH P_MAX, 0)

UE_TXPWR_MAX_RACH: Maximum TX power level MaxRACHTxPwr on RACH (read
in system information) (dBm) (for cells under the RNC, it is the max val ue of
MaxRACHTxPwr (Prach); for cells under other RNC, it is the value of MaxRACHTxPwr
(external UtranCell)).
P_MAX: Maximum RF out put power of the UE (dBm)
3.2.3 Camped Normally State
When camped normally, the UE will perform the foll owi ng tasks:
Select and monitor the indicated PICH and PCH of the cell according to i nformation
sent in system informati on;
Monitor relevant system information.
Perform necessary measurements for the cell reselection evaluation procedure.
Execute the cell reselection evaluation process.



3.2.4 Rules of Cell Reselection Measurement
Different rules apply for cell reselection measurement when HCS is used and when HCS
is not used.
3.2.4.1 Measurement rules for cell re-selection when HCS is not used
When the servi ng cell does not use HCS (UseOf HCS(utranCell)), the measurement
rules for cell reselection are:
In the foll owi ng rules, the UE uses Squal for FDD cells and Srxlev for TDD cells for Sx:
1 If Sx > SIntraSearch, UE may choose to not perform int ra-frequency measurements.
If Sx <= S
intrasearch,
UE performs intra-frequency measurements.
If S
intrasearch,
is not sent, UE performs intra-frequency measurements. Whether to
broadcast S
intrasearch
or not is controlled by S
intrasearch
Pre.
2 The UE may choose to not perform inter-frequency measurements when the
following conditions are satisfied:
MBMS preferred frequency layer is not confi gured ( FreqPLInd), or MBMS
preferred frequency layer is configured but the current servi ng cell bel ongs to
the MBMS preferred frequency layer.
Sx> Sintersearch
If S
searchHCS
is broadcast and Srxlev > S
searchHCS

The UE needs to perform inter-frequency measurements at least for the MBMS
preferred frequency layer when the following conditions are satisfied:
MBMS preferred frequency layer is confi gured and the current servi ng cell
does not belong to the MBMS preferred frequency layer.
Sx > Sintersearch
If SsearchHCS is broadcast and Srxlev > SsearchHCS.
The UE needs to perform inter-frequency measurements when any one of the
following conditions is satisfied:
Sx <= S
intersearch

IF SsearchHCS is broadcast and Srxl ev <= SsearchHCS.
If SinterSearch is not broadcast, the UE performs inter-frequency measurement.
Whether to broadcast SinterSearch or not is controll ed by SInterSearchPre.
3 If Sx > SSearchRat, UE does not need to measure quality of inter-RAT nei ghbor
cells.



If Sx <= SSearchRat, the UE performs inter-RAT cell quality measurement.
If SsearchRat is not broadcast, the UE performs inter-RAT neighbor cell quality
measurement. Whether to broadcast SsearchRat or not is controll ed by
OtherRATInfoPre.
If HCS is not used and the UE recei ves SLimitRat, the UE will ignore the
parameter.
3.2.4.2 High mobility state when HCS is not used
In non-HCS envi ronment, if the parameters NoHcsTCrMax, NoHcsNCr and
NoHcsTCrMaxHyst are sent on the system information broadcast, it is necessary to start
the UE high mobility state detection mechanism so that the cell reselection criteria
decision can be made with the reselection timer multipli ed by the scaling factor or not.
If in non-HCS environment the number of cell resel ections during time period
NoHcsT
CR
M
ax
exceeds NoHcsNC
r
, or if the network (via RRC release, RB re-
confi guration) has ordered the UE to consider itself to be i n hi gh-mobility state, then
high-mobility state is triggered.
When the number of cell reselections duri ng time peri od NoHcsT
CR
M
ax
no l onger
exceeds NoHcsNC
r
, the UE will:
Conti nue in high-mobility state.
If the number of cell resel ections during time peri od NoHcsT
CR
Hyst does not exceed
NoHcsNC
r
and also the net work does not order the UE to stay in high-mobility state,
then the UE exits high-mobility state.
3.2.4.3 Measurement rules for cell re-selection when HCS is used
When the servi ng cell uses HCS (UseOf HCS (utranCell) ), the measurement rules of cell
reselection are:
IF an MBMS PL (preferred l ayer) is used then,
If t he UE is in HCS low mobility state, for serving cell and neighbour cells bel ongi ng
to the MBMS PL set the HCS pri ority = HcsPrio + HcsOffMbms.
If the UE is in HCS hi gh mobility state, for serving cell and neighbour cells bel ongi ng
to the MBMS PL set the HCS pri ority = HcsPrio.
For servi ng cell and nei ghbour cells not belonging to the MBMS PL, set the HCS
priority = HcsPrio
IF an MBMS PL is not used, then HCS pri ority = HcsPrio
Where: HcsPrio is the parameters confi gured by cells. The HcsPrio of the current RNC
cell takes the value of HcsPrio (utranCell). The HcsPrio of the neighbor RNC cel l takes



the value of HcsPrio (external UtranCell). The HcsPrio of the GSM cell takes the val ue of
(externalGsmCell).
In the foll owi ng rules, the UE uses Squal for FDD cells and Srxlev for TDD cells for Sx:
1 For intra-frequency and int er-frequency measurement rules for UEs not in high-
mobility
IF (Srxlev <= SsearchHCS) or (i f FDD and Sx <= Sintersearch) THEN
<UE measure on all intra-frequency and inter-frequency cells.>
ELSE
IF (Sx > Sintrasearch) THEN
< UE measure on all intra-frequency and inter-frequency cells, which have
higher HCS priority level than the serving cell. >
ELSE
<UE measure on all intra-frequency and inter-frequency cells, which have
equal or hi gher HCS pri ority level than the serving cell >
ENDIF
IF Sintrasearch is not sent for the servi ng cell, THEN
<UE measure on all intra-frequency cells. Fast-moving UEs may also use this
rule. UE measure on all inter-frequency cells, which have higher HCS priority level
than the servi ng cell unl ess measurement rules for fast -moving UEs are triggered.>
ENDIF
ENDIF
Whether to broadcast Sintrasearch or not is controlled by SintraSearchPre.
If HCS(UseOf HCS (utranCell )) is used and if SsearchHCS or Sintersearch (FDD) is
not sent for the servi ng cell, UE will measure on all int ra-frequency and i nter-
frequency cells. Whether to broadcast SsearchHCS or not is controll ed by
SSearchHCSPre. Whet her to broadcast SinterSearch or not is controlled by
SInterSearchPre.
2 For intra-frequency and inter-frequency measurement rul es for fast-movi ng UEs:
This measurement rule applies when the HCS is used and the UE is in fast -moving
state and also the UE recei ves the broadcast message of NoHcsTCrMax,
NoHcsNCr and NoHcsTCrMaxHyst.
If the number of cell resel ections during time peri od TCrMax exceeds NCr, or if the
network (vi a signali ng of RRC rel ease, RB re-confi guration) has ordered the UE to
consider itsel f in high mobility state, the UE is triggered to ent er fast -moving state.
In this high-mobility state, UE will



IF(Srxlevs <= SsearchHCS) or (if FDD and Sx <= Sintersearch) or SsearchHCS or
Sintersearch (FDD) are not sent, THEN
<UE measure on all intra-frequency and inter-frequency cells.>
ELSE
<UE measure i ntra-frequency and inter-frequency neighbour cells, which have
equal or lower HCS pri ority than serving cell. >
ENDIF
When the number of cell reselections during time period TCRmax no longer
exceeds NCr, the UE will:
UE continues in high-mobility state.
If the number of cell reselections during time period TCrmaxHyst does not
exceed NCr and also the network does not order the UE to stay in high-mobility
state, then the UE exits high-mobility state.
When serving cell belongs to a hierarchical cell structure, the UE will follow these rul es
for Int er-RAT measurements:
The UE uses Squal for FDD cells and Srxlev for TDD cells for Sx in the following rul es.

3 Inter-system threshold-based measurement rules for UEs not in hi gh-mobility
IF (Srxlevs <= SHCSRat) or (if FDD and Squal <= SSearchRat ) THEN
<UE measure on all neighbouring cells of other RAT >
ELSE
IF (Sx > SLimitRat) THEN
<UE may choose not to perform inter-RAT measurement>
ELSE
< UE measure on all neighbouri ng cells between systems, which have equal
or higher HCS priority level than the servi ng cell . >
ENDIF
ENDIF
If HCS is used and if SHCSRat is not sent for the serving cell, the UE will measure
on all inter-RAT cells. Whether to broadcast SHCSRat or not is controlled by
SHCSRatPre.
4 Inter-system measurement rul es for fast-movi ng UEs



If the number of cell reselections duri ng time peri od TCrMax exceeds NCr, or if the
network (vi a signaling of RRC rel ease, RB re-confi guration) has ordered the UE to
consider itsel f in high mobility state, the UE is triggered to ent er fast -moving state.
In this high-mobility state, UE will
IF (Srxlev <= SHCSRat) or (if FDD and Squal <= SSearchRat), or SHCSRat or
SsearchRat are not sent, THEN
< UE measure on all intra-system cells >
ELSE
< UE measure inter-RAT nei ghbouring cells, which have equal or lower HCS priority
than serving cell. >
ENDIF
Remarks: Whether to broadcast SHCSRat or not is controlled by SHCSRatPre.
Whether to broadcast SsearchRat or not is controlled by OtherRATInfoPre.
When the number of cell resel ections during time peri od TCRmax no longer exceeds
NCr, the UE will

Conti nues in hi gh-mobility state.
If the number of cell reselections duri ng time peri od TCrmaxHyst does not exceed
NCr and also the net work does not order the UE to stay in high-mobility state, then
the UE exits high-mobility state.
3.2.4.4 Measurement rules for inter-frequency and inter-RAT cell reselection when
absolute priorities are used
If t he UE has recei ved absolute priority information for inter-frequency layers
(AbsPriReselSwch(utranCell )), the UE shall foll ow these rul es:
- The UE shall perform measurements of inter-frequency layers with a pri ority higher
than the priority of the current servi ng layer.
- For inter-frequency layers with a priority equal or lower than the priority of the current
servi ng layer:
- If Srxlev
Serv ingCell
>S
prioritysearch1
and Squal
Serv ingCell
> S
prioritysearch2
the UE may choose
not to perform measurements of inter-frequency layers of equal or lower priority.
- If Srxlev
Serv ingCell
<=S
prioritysearch1
or Squal
Serv ingCell
<=S
prioritysearch2
the UE shall perform
measurements of inter-frequency layers of equal or lower priority.
- The UE shall not perform measurements of inter-frequency layers for which the UE has
no absol ute priority.
If the UE has recei ved absolute pri ority information for inter-RAT layers
(AbsPriReselSwch(utranCell )), the UE shall foll ow these rul es:



- The UE shall perform measurements of inter-RAT layers with a priority higher than the
priority of the current servi ng cell.
- For inter-RAT layers with a pri ority lower than the priority of the current serving cell:
- If Srxlev
Serv ingCell
>S
prioritysearch1
and Squal
Serv ingCell
>S
prioritysearch2
the UE may choose not
to perform measurements of inter-RAT layers of l ower priority.
- If Srxlev
Serv ingCell
<=S
prioritysearch1
or Squal
Serv ingCell
<=S
prioritysearch2
the UE shall perform
measurements of inter-RAT layers of lower priority.
- The UE shall perform measurements according to subcl ause 3.2.4. 1 for inter -RAT
layers for which the UE has no absol ute priority. For all inter -RAT l ayers bel onging
to one RAT, either the rul es above or the rules in subclause 3.2.4.1 or 3.2.4. 3 shall
apply.
The absolute priority of current serving cell: ServCellPriorit y;
The absolute priority of int er-frequency layers in UTRAN:
UtranPriority[ MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FREQ];
The absolute priority of i nter-RAT l ayers in EUTRAN:
EutranPriorit y[ MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FREQ];
The absolute pri ority of i nter-RAT l ayers in GERAN:
GeranPri orit y[MAX_NUM_GERAN_CELL_GROUP] .
3.2.4.5 Highest ranked cells with cell reservations, access restrictions or unsuitable
Rank the cells according to cell reselection ranking criteria. The UE will detect whet her
the hi ghest ranked cells are with cell reservations, access restrictions or i n other state
unsuitabl e for camping. If yes, the cells will be excluded from t he candidate list for cell
reselection (This limitation is judged agai n when the highest ranked cell changes.).
If the hi ghest ranked cell is an intra-frequency or inter-frequency cell which is not
suitable due t o being part of the "list of forbidden LAs " or bel onging to a PLMN which is
not indicated as being equi valent to the registered PLMN, the UE will not consider this
cell and other cells on the same frequency, as candidates for resel ection within 300s. If
the UE has to perform an any cell selection procedure any limitation will be removed.
If the hi ghest ranked cell is an inter-RAT cell which is not suitabl e due to being part of
the "list of forbidden LAs " or belongi ng to a PLMN which is not indicated as being
equi val ent to the registered PLMN, the UE will not consider this cell as a candi date for
reselection within 300s. If the UE has to perform an any cell selection procedure any
limitation will be removed.
3.2.4.6 Rules of Cell Reselection Measurement for UE in CELL_FACH State
For UE in CELL_FACH state
If parameter UE Inter-frequency FDD Measurement Indicator (FDDInterFMeasInd) is
set to False, UE shall neither perform measurements nor evaluate cell re-
selection criteria on inter-frequency FDD cells. else, UE shall perform inter-
frequency measurement according to the rules in3.2.4.1,3.2.4.2,3.2.4.3.



If parameter UE Inter-RAT Measurement Indicator(InterRat MIndPre) is set to
False, UE shall not perform Inter-RAT Measurement. Else, UE shall perform
Inter-RAT measurement according to the rul es in3.2. 4.1,3.2.4.2, 3.2.4.3.
If parameter UE Inter-frequency FDD Measurement Indicator (FDDInterFMeasInd) or
UE Inter-RAT Measurement Indicator(InterRat MIndPre) is set to True, UE shall
perform Inter-frequency or Inter-RAT Measurement only in FACH measurement
occasion, other occasion shall be used to transmit user data. The FACH measurement
occasion is decided by parameter FACH Measurement Occasion Cycle Length
Coefficient(FachMeasK ) which is described in 3gpp 25.331 FACH measurement
occasion info.
3.2.4.7 Cell reselection criteria
The following cell re-selection criteri a are used for intra-frequency cells, inter-frequency
cells if no absolute priority information for any inter -frequency layer is availabl e to the UE,
and inter-RAT cellsif no absol ute pri ority information for any inter-RAT layer is avail able
to the UE for that RAT. For inter-frequency and int er-RAT layers in a RAT for which
absolute pri orities are defined, then the cell resel ection criteri a in subclause 3.2.4.8 shall
apply.

If the serving cell uses the HCS (UseOfHCS (utranCell)) structure, the foll owi ng cell
reselection rule H is used for quality ranking in cell resel ection.
H
s
= Q
meas
,
s
- Qhcs
s
H
n
= Q
meas
,
n
- Qhcs
n

TO
n
* L
n

If the cell does not use the HCS structure, the foll owi ng cell reselection rule R is used for
quality ranking in cell resel ection.

R
s
= Q
meas
,
s
+ Qhyst
s
+ Qoffmbms

R
n
= Q
meas
,
n
- Qoffset
s,n
+ Qoffmbms - TO
n
* (1 L
n
)

Where,
TOn = TEMP_OFFSETn * W(PENALTY_TIMEn Tn)
Ln = 0 if HCS_PRIOn = HCS_PRIOs
Ln = 1 if HCS_PRIOn <> HCS_PRIOs
W(x) = 0 for x < 0
W(x) = 1 for x >= 0



Qmeas,s: Quality measurement result of serving cell.
Connected mode: When SIB4 is not broadcast, the parameter val ues are taken as in the
case of Idle mode; when SIB4 is broadcast, the val ue of QHcsEcNo (SIB4) is taken if
Ec/No is used as the quality measure, and the value of QHcsRSCP (SIB4) is taken if
RSCP is used as the quality measure. } Whether to broadcast SIB4 is controlled by
SIB4Ind. Whether Ec/No or RSCP is used as the quality measure is controll ed by
Qual Meas.
Qmeas,n: Quality measurement result of neighbor cell.
Qhcs,n: This specifies the quality threshold l evels of nei ghbor cells for applying
prioritised hi erarchical HCS cell re-sel ection (Idl e mode: If Ec/No is used as the quality
measure, the value of QhcsEcN0Sib11 is taken; if RSCP is used as the quality measure,
the val ue of QhcsRscpSib11 is taken. Connected mode: When SIB12 is not broadcast,
the parameter values are taken as in the case of Idle mode; when SIB12 is broadcast,
the val ue of QhcsEcN0Sib12 is taken if Ec/No is used as the quality measure, and the
value of QhcsRscpSib12 is taken if RSCP is used as the quality measure.Whether to
broadcast SIB12 is controlled by SIB12Ind
Connected mode: When SIB4 is not broadcast, the parameter val ues are taken as in the
case of Idle mode; when SIB4 is broadcast, the value of QHyst1SPch is taken if RSCP
is used as the URA_PCH state resel ection quality measure, and the value of
QHyst2SFach is taken if Ec/No is used as the CELL_FACH state reselection quality
measure. Whether to broadcast SIB4 is controlled by SIB4Ind.
Qoffmbms: This speci fies the offset added t o cells bel onging t o the MBMS PL when a
decision of HCS cell R resel ection rul e is being made.
Connected mode: When SIB12 is not broadcast, the parameter val ues are taken as in
the case of Idle mode; when SIB12 is broadcast, the value of Qoffset1SNSib12 is taken
if RSCP is used as the reselection quality measure, and the val ue of Qoffset2SNSib12 is
taken if Ec/No is used as the reselection quality measure. Whether to broadcast SIB12
is controlled by SIB12Ind
T
n
: The timer used after cell resel ection. The rules to start T
n
are as foll ows:
Tn is implemented for each neighbouri ng cell. Tn will be started from zero when one
of the foll owi ng conditions becomes true:
If HCS_PRIO
n
<> HCS_PRIO
s
and Q
meas
,
n
> Qhcs
n
or
If HCS_PRIOn = HCS_PRIOs and
for serving FDD and neighbour FDD cells if the quality measure for cell
selection and resel ection is set to CPICH RSCP in the serving cell, and
Q
meas,n
> Q
meas
,
s
+ Qoffset1
s,n
or
for serving FDD and neighbour FDD cells if the quality measure for cell
selection and reselection is set to CPICH Ec/No in the serving cell, and
Q
meas,n
> Q
meas
,
s
+ Qoffset2
s,n



or
for all other serving and neighbour cells:
Q
meas,n
> Q
meas
,
s
+ Qoffset1
s,n

T
n
for the associated cell will be stopped as soon as any of the above conditions are
no longer fulfill ed.. Any val ue calculated for TO
n
is valid only if the associated timer
T
n
is still running otherwise TO
n
will be set to zero.
At cell-reselection, a timer T
n
is stopped only if the correspondi ng cell is not a
neighbour cell of the new servi ng cell, or i f the criteria gi ven above for starting timer
T
n
for the correspondi ng cell is no longer ful filled with the paramet ers of the new
servi ng cell. On cell re-sel ection, timer T
n
will be continued to be run for the
corresponding cells but t he criteria gi ven above will be eval uated wit h parameters
broadcast in the new serving cell if the corresponding cells are neighbours of the
new servi ng cell.
Connected mode: When SIB12 is not broadcast, the parameter val ues are taken as in
the case of Idl e mode; when SIB12 is broadcast, the val ue of TempOffset1Sib12 is
taken if RSCP is used as the reselection quality measure and the value of
TempOffset2Sib12 is taken i f Ec/No is used as the reselection quality measure. Whet her
to broadcast SIB12 is controll ed by SIB12Ind)}. If HCS (UseOf HCS (utranCell) ) is used,
TEMP_OFFSET
n
is used to calculate TO
n
. If HCS (UseOfHCS (utranCell) ) is not used,
TEMP_OFFSET
n
is not appli ed when calculating R
n
.
HCS_PRIOn: This speci fies the HCS priority level for neighbouri ng cells (non-HCS cell:
The HcsPrio of the current RNC cell takes the val ue of HcsPrio(utranCell). The HcsPrio
of the nei ghbor RNC cell takes the val ue of HcsPrio (external UtranCell). The HcsPrio of
the GSM cell takes the value of HcsPrio (externalGsmCell ). If not confi gured, it is 0
default. For val ue of HCS cells, refer to Value of HCS Priority in Cell reselection
measurement rul e when the hi erarchical cell structure (HCS) is used.
HCS_PRIOs: This specifies the HCS pri ority level for servi ng cell. (non-HCS cell: The
HcsPrio of the current RNC cell takes the val ue of HcsPrio(ut ranCell ). The HcsPrio of
the nei ghbor RNC cell takes the val ue of HcsPrio (external UtranCell). The HcsPrio of the
GSM cell takes the value of HcsPrio (external GsmCell ). For val ue of HCS cells, refer to
Value of HCS Priority in Cell reselection measurement rul e when the hierarchical cell
structure (HCS) is used.
The cell are ranked by quality according to the above defined R or H criteria using
CPICH RSCP (for FDD), P-CCPCH RSCP (for TDD) and the measurement result of
averaged recei ved signal level (for GSM) as the calculation quantity of Qmeasn,
Qmeass, R or H. The best ranked cell is the cell with the hi ghest R or H value.
For the cell selection and reselection parameters: Whether Qhcs, T
Crmax
, N
CR
and
T
Cr maxHyst
are confi gured is controlled by HcsSrvCelInf oPre. Whether the HCS-related
parameters in neighbor cell such as HCS_PRIO, Qhcs, Penalty_time,
Temporary_offset1 and Temporary_offset2 are configured is controlled by UseOfHCS
(utranRelation) and UseOfHCS (gsmRel ation).
If a TDD or GSM cell is ranked as the best cell, then the UE will perform cell re-sel ection
to that TDD or GSM cell and camps on the chosen cell.



If an FDD cell is ranked as the best cell and the quality measurement for cell selection
and re-selection is set to CPICH RSCP, the UE will perform cell re-selection to that FDD
cell and and camps on the chosen cell (If this cell is found to be not suitabl e, the UE will
behave according to Highest ranked cells with cell reservati ons, access restrictions or
unsuitabl e for normal camping).
If an FDD cell is ranked as the best cell and the quality measure for cell selection and re-
selection is set to CPICH Ec/No, the UE shall perform a second ranking of the FDD cells
according to the R criteria specified above, but using the quality measure CPICH Ec/No
for deri vi ng the Q
meas,n
and Q
meas,s
and calculating the R values of the FDD cells (If this
cell is found to be not suitable, the UE will behave according to Highest ranked cells
with cell reservations, access restrictions or unsuitable for normal camping).
In all cases, the UE will reselect the new cell, only if the following conditi ons are met:
0}

The new cell is better ranked than the serving cell duri ng a time interval
Treselection according to the R or H criteria. If Treselection
s,PCH
is provided i n SIB4,
the URA_PCH state timer takes the val ue of Tresel ectionPch; if TReselectionFach
is provided in SIB4, the CELL_FCH state timer takes the val ue of Tresel ectionFach.
For hierarchical cell structures when high mobility state has not been detected, if
according to the HCS rules the serving cell is not ranked then all the ranked cells
are considered to be better ranked than t he servi ng cell. In case the UE resel ects a
cell on an MBMS preferred frequency to recei ve an MBMS service not available on
the current frequency, the UE may reduce interval Treselection
S
, Treselection
S, PCH

and Treselection
S, FACH
. (Whether to configure SIB4 is controll ed by SIB4Ind).
More than 1 second has el apsed since the UE camped on the current serving cell.
The timers Tresel ection, TReselectionPch and TResel ectionFach will be multipli ed
by scaling factor i f the following conditions are satisfi ed:
The high mobility state of cell is detected and "Speed dependent ScalingFactor
for_Treselection" (SpSf) is broadcast on system information (whether broadcast is
controlled by SpSfPre), then TreselectionS, TResel ectionPch and
TResel ectionFach will be multiplied by the scaling factor SpSf in intra-frequency
measurement and the result is the actuall y used Tresel ectionS, TReselectionPch
and TResel ectionFach.
The hi gh mobility state of cell is not detected and " Inter -Frequency ScalingFactor
for Tresel ection" (InterFreqSf) is broadcast on system information (whether
broadcast is controlled by InterFreqSfPre), then Tresel ection, TReselectionPch and
TResel ectionFach will be multiplied by the scaling factor InterFreqSf in inter-
frequency measurement and the result is the actually used TreselectionS,
TResel ectionPch and TReselectionFach.
for_Treselection" (SpSf) and "Int er-Frequency ScalingFactor for Treselection "
(InterFreqSf) are broadcast on system information, then Treselection,
TResel ectionPch and TReselectionFach will be multiplied by the scaling factors



SpSf and InterFreqSf in inter-frequency measurement and the result is the actually
used TreselectionS, TReselectionPch and TResel ectionFach.
The hi gh mobility state of cell is not detected and "Inter -RAT Scali ngFactor for
Treselection" (InterRatSf) is broadcast on system information (whet her broadcast is
controlled by InterRatSfPre), then Tresel ection, TReselectionPch and
TResel ectionFach will be multiplied by the scaling factor InterRatSf in inter-RAT
measurement and the result is the actually used Tresel ection, TreselectionPch and
TResel ectionFach.
for_Treselection" (SpSf) and "Int er-RAT ScalingFactor for Treselection "
(InterRatSf) are broadcast on system information, then TreselectionS,
TResel ectionPch and TReselectionFach will be multiplied by the scaling factors
SpSf and InterRatSf in inter-RAT measurement and the result is the actually used
Treselection, TResel ectionPch and TReselectionFach.
In case scaling is applied to Tresel ection or TResel ectionPch, the UE will round up
the Tresel ection or TReselectionPch after all scalings to the nearest second. In
case scaling is applied to TReselectionFach, the UE will round up the result after all
scalings to the nearest 0.2 seconds.
3.2.4.8 Absolute priority based criteria for inter-frequency and inter-RAT cell reselection
Absolute pri orities of di fferent absol ute priority layers may be provi ded to the UE. The
following cell reselection criteria are used for inter-frequency cells if absolute priority
informati on for inter-frequency is available to the UE, and inter -RAT cells if absolute
priority information for inter-RAT is avail able to the UE.
If System Information Block 18 with UTRAN information is provided then the UE shall
apply inter-frequency pri ority rul es below only to UTRAN cells of the selected PLMN or
equi val ent PLMNs. If System Information Block 18 is not provided, or is provided but
contains no information for UTRAN, then the rul es below apply for the entire UTRAN
RAT.
If System Information Block 18 with GERAN information is provided then the UE shall
apply the GERAn RAT pri ority rul es bel ow only to GERAN cells of the selected PLMN or
equi val ent PLMNs. If System Information Block 18 is not provided, or is provided but
contians no information for GERAN, then the rul es below apply for the entire GERAN
RAT.
If pri ority information is provided for any inter -frequency layers, cells belongi ng to inter-
frequency layers for which no pri ority or no threshol d is assigned shall not be considered
for resel ection.



If priority information is provided for any inter -RAT layers in a RAT, cells belonging to
layers in that RAT for which no priority or no threshol d is assigned shall not be
considered for resel ection.
If none of the inter-frequency layers in UTRAN are provided with both priority and
threshol d paramet ers, the cell reselection criteria in subclause 3.2.4.7 shall apply for
inter-frequency layers in UTRAN.
If none of the inter-RAT layers in a RAT are provi ded with both priority and threhsold
parameters, the cell reselection criteria in subclause 3.2.4.7 shall apply for that RAT.
For all inter-frequency layers or all inter-RAT layers belonging to one RAT, either the
criteria below or the criteria in subclause 3.2.4. 7 shall apply.
The following definitions apply:
- Criteri on 1: the Srxlev
nonServ ingCell,x
of a cell on an eval uated hi gher absol ute priority is
greater than Thresh
x,high
during a time interval Treselection;
- Criterion 2: Srxlev
Serv ingCell
< Thresh
serv ing,low
or Squal
Serv ingCell
<0 and the
Srxlev
nonServ ingCell,x
of a inter-frequency cell on an evaluat ed equal absolut e pri ority layer
is greater than Thresh
x,low
duri ng a time interval Treselection;
- Criterion 3: Srxlev
Serv ingCell
<Thresh
serv ing,low
or Squal
Serv ingCell
<0 and the
Srxlev
nonServ ingCell,x
of a cell on an evaluated l ower absol ute priority layer is greater than
Thresh
x,low
during a time interval Treselection;
where,
Thresh
x,high
, an Srxlev based threshold used by the UE for cell reslection towards a
higher absolute priority layer. For UTRAN, it is
UtranHi ghThresh[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FREQ]; for EUTRAN, it is
EutranHighThresh[ MAX_NUM_EUTRAN_FREQ] ; for GERAN, it is
GeranHighThresh[ MAX_NUM_GERAN_CELL_GROUP] .
Thresh
x,low
, an Srxlev based threshold used by the UE for cell reselection towards an
equal or lower absolute priority layer. For UTRAN, it is
UtranLowThresh[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FREQ]; for EUTRAN, it is
EutranLowThresh[ MAX_NUM_EUTRAN_FREQ]; for GERAN, it is
GeranLowThresh[MAX_NUM_GERAN_CELL_GROUP];
Thresh
serv ing,low
, the limit for Srxlev in the servi ng cell bel ow which the UE may perform
cell reselection to a cell on a lower absolute priority layer. ThreshServingLow
Cell reselection to a cell on a hi gher absolute priority layer than the camped frequency
shall be performed i f criteri on 1 is ful filled.
Cell reselection t o an i nter-frequency cell on an equal absol ute priority layer to the
camped frequency shall be performed if criterion 2 is fulfill ed.



Cell resel ection to a cell on a lower absolute pri ority layer than the camped frequency
shall be performed i f criteri on 3 is ful filled.
If more than one cell meets the above criteria, the UE shall reselect the cell with the
highest Srxlev
nonServ ingCell,x
among the cells meeting the criteria on the highest absolute
priority layer.
The UE shall not perform cell reselection to cells for which the cell sel ection criteri on S is
not ful filled.
The UE shall not perform cell resel ection until more than 1 second has elapsed since the
UE camped on the current serving cell.
In all the above criteria the values of Tresel ection
s
, Treselection
s,PCH
or Tresel ection
s,FACH

apply for Treselection and are scaled according to the UE mobility state and target RAT,
as specified i n 3.2.4.7.
3.2.5 Cell Selection When Leaving Connected Mode
When ret urni ng to idle mode from connected mode, the UE will select a suitable cell to
camp on. Candi date cells for t his selection are the cell(s) used immedi ately before
leavi ng connected mode. If no suit able cell is found, the UE will use the Stored
informati on cell selection procedure in order to find a suitabl e cell to camp on.
When returni ng to idl e mode after an emergency call on any PLMN, the UE will select an
acceptabl e cell to camp on. Candi date cells for this selection are the cell(s) used
immediat ely before leavi ng connected mode. If no accept able cell is found, the UE will
continue to search for an acceptable cell of any PLMN in state Any cell selection.
3.2.6 Any Cell Selection State
In this state, the UE will attempt to find an acceptabl e cell to camp on, trying all RATs
that are supported by the UE and searching first for a high quality cell, till an acceptable
cell is found.
3.2.7 Camped on Any Cell State
In this state, the UE will perform the foll owi ng tasks:
Select and monitor the i ndicated PICH and PCH of the cell
Monitor relevant System Information
Perform necessary measurements for the cell reselection evaluation procedure
Execute the cell reselection evaluation process on t he following occasions/triggers:
UE internal triggers



When information on the BCCH used for the cell reselection evaluation procedure
has been modifi ed
Regularly attempt to fi nd a suitable cell trying all RATs that are supported by the UE.
If a suitable cell is found, this causes an exit to number 2 i n Figure 3.
In this state the UE is not permitted to recei ve any MBMS services.
3.2.8 Cell Reservations and Access Restrictions
There are two mechanisms, which all ow an operator to impose cell reservati ons or
access restrictions.
The first mechanism uses indication of cell status and special reservations for control of
cell selection and re-sel ection procedures.
The second mechanism will all ow preventing selected classes of users from sending
initial access messages for load control reasons. At subscription, one or more Access
Classes are allocated to the subscriber and stored in the USIM, which are employed for
this purpose.
3.2.8.1 Cell status and cell reservations
Cell status and cell reservations are indicat ed with the Cell Access Restriction
Information Element in the System Information Message by means of three Information
Elements:
Cell barred

CellBarredInd
Cell Reserved for operator use

OperatorUseInd
Cell reserved for future extension

Cell RsvExt
In state CellBarredInd, its necessary to configure InFreqResel Ind and TBarred for the
UE. If InFreqReselInd is Not Allowed, the processing strategy of the intra-frequency
neighbor cell in state CellBarred is the same as the current cell in state CellBarred. The
UE will not attempt to reselect the cell in state CellBarred within the Tbarred time period.
After Tbarred expires, the UE will attempt again to reselect the cell.
When cell status is indicated as "not barred", "not reserved" for operator use and "not
reserved" for future extension

All UEs will treat this cell as candidat e duri ng the cell selection, cell eval uation and
cell re-selection procedures in Idle mode and i n Connected mode.
When cell status is indicated as "not barred", "not reserved" for operator use and
"reserved" for fut ure extension



UEs will behave as if cell status "barred" is indicated using the value "not allowed"
in the information element (IE) "Intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator" and the
maximum value for T
barred

When cell status is indicated as "not barred" and "reserved" for operator use,
UEs assigned to Access Class 11 or 15 will treat this cell as candidat e during the
cell selection and cell re-sel ection procedures i f the cell belongs to the home PLMN.
UEs assigned to an Access Class in the range 0 to 9 and 12 to 14 shall behave as if
cell status "barred" is indicated using the val ue "not allowed" in the IE "Intra-
frequency cell re-sel ection indicator" and the maximum val ue for T
barred

When cell status "barred" is indicated,
The UE is not permitted to select/re-select this cell, not even for emergency calls.
The UE will ignore the "Cell Reserved for future extension (Cell Reservation
Extension) use" IE.
The UE is not permitted to recei ve any MBMS services.
The UE will select another cell accordi ng to the followi ng rul e:
If t he "Intra-frequency cell re-selection i ndicator (InFreqReselInd)" IE i n Cell Access
Restriction IE is set to val ue "all owed", the UE may sel ect another cell on the same
frequency if selection/re-sel ection criteri a are fulfill ed.
If the UE is camping on another cell, the UE will exclude the barred cell from the
neighbour cell list until the expiry of a time interval T
barred
. If the UE does not select
another cell, and the barred cell remains to be the "best" one, the UE will after
expiry of the time int erval T
barred
again check whether the status of the barred cell
has changed.
If the "Intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator" IE is set to "not allowed" the UE
will not re-sel ect a cell on the same frequency as the barred cell. Duri ng an ongoi ng
emergency call, the Intra-frequency cell re-selection indicator IE" will be ignored, i.e.
even if it is set to "not allowed" the UE may select another intra-frequency cell.
If t he barred cell remai ns to be the "best" one, the UE will after expiry of t he time
interval T
barred
again check whether the status of the barred cell has changed.
The reselection to another cell may also include a change of RAT.
For the cell access restriction, the barred access indication of di fferent access classes
(AC) can also be configured through the parameter ACBarredOmcr. The behavior of the
UE corresponding to the AC with barred access is the same as the cell with
CellBarredInd.



3.2.8.2 Access control
Information on cell access restrictions associated with the Access Classes is broadcast
as system information,
The UE will ignore Access Class related cell access restrictions when selecting a cell to
camp on. That is, it will not rej ect a cell for camping on because access on that cell is
not allowed for any of the Access Classes of the UE. A change of the indicated access
restriction will not trigger cell re-selection by the UE.
Access Class related cell access restrictions will be checked by the UE before sending
an RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message when entering Connected Mode from
UTRAN Idl e mode. When the initial access that entered connected mode is triggered by
inter-RAT cell resel ection or a UE al ready is in Connected Mode, cell access restrictions
associated with the Access Classes will not apply for the UTRAN.
3.2.8.3 Emergency call
Usually all cells allow emergency call, regardl ess of the state indication and cell
reservati on.
A restriction on emergency calls, if needed, will be indicat ed i n the "Access class barred
list" IE. If access class 10 is indicated as barred i n a cell, UEs with access class 0 to 9 or
without an IMSI are not allowed t o initiate emergency calls in this cell. For UEs with
access classes 11 to 15, emergency calls are not allowed if both access class 10 and
the relevant access class (11 to 15) are barred. Ot herwise, emergency calls are allowed
for those UEs.
3.2.9 Cell Reselection Process in RRC Connected Mode
In RRC connected mode, the cell resel ection process with the UTRA access technology
is the same as that in Idle mode.
3.2.10 Parameters and Configuration for Cell Selection and Reselection
The system information SIB3 related with cell selection and reselection must be
confi gured. SIB4 is optional. Whether to configure SIB4 is controlled by SIB4Ind. The IE
of SIB3 is totally the same as that of SIB4. The system uses different records in the
same datasheet to configure the SIB or SIB4 message and the purpose of the record is
identi fied through Sib3orSib4. The cell selection and reselection in IDLE mode employs
parameters in SIB3. The cell sel ection and reselection in connected mode and IDLE
mode employs parameters in SIB4 if SIB4 is configure, or parameters in SIB3 if SIB4 is
not confi gured.
3.2.11 SIB11bis usage
For current 3GPP specification, one System Information Block can be di vi ded into 16
segment ations, each of which can include at most 222 bits. That means one System
Information Block can incl ude at most 3552 bits. But for current specification, up t o 96
neighbor cells are supported at the same time which needs more bits than 3552 to carry.
To support up to 96 neighbor cells are supported at the same time, SIB11bis will be



used. Nei ghbor cell to be carried by SIB11 or SIB11bis is decided by
Sib11orSib11bis(utranRelation /gsmRel ation).
3.3 Strategy of LA and RA Update
In the UE, the AC shoul d report registration area i nformation to NAC.
Once the UE finds the cell to register, it will register on the corresponding PLMN. If the
LAI or RAI read from system information are di fferent from those stored in USIM before
the UE switches off, the UE will perform LA or RA registration updat e. When the UE in
IDLE mode moves to a new LA or RA or PLMN, it will perform registration area update.
The process of LA or RA update is controlled by CN and is transparently transmitted as
the RAN is concerned.
There are three types of registration area update: normal update, peri odic update and
IMSI attach and detach.
3.3.1 LA and RA Structure
The LA is an area to which the CN sends a paging message for circuit switched service
and the RA is an area to which the CN sends a pagi ng message for packet switched
services. Each area, LA or RA, may consist of several cells of one or more RNC, which
are connected to the same core network. The RA is required if the RNC is connected to
a packet switched CN. Not e that each cell coul d belong to only one LA and one RA.
The LA is identi fied by a combination of PLMN Identity and Location Area Code (LAC).
The RA is identi fied by a combination of PLMN and Routing Area Code ( RAC).
3.3.2 Normal LA and RA Updating
A UE executes a normal registration update when, in a cell bel ongi ng to a new LA or RA,
it is switched on or leaves the Connected mode. Normal registration update is also
performed when the UE, in Idl e mode, moves in a cell belongi ng to a new LA or RA or
PLMN. The UE reads the LAI and the RAI in the system information and detects that
one or both of the recei ved area i dentities differ from the ones stored on the USIM. If the
LAI recei ved from the system information is not in the forbi dden LAIs list, an LA and/or
RA updat e request is sent by the UE. If the LAI is forbi dden, the UE tries to select
another cell belonging to a permitted LAI or another PLMN.
3.3.3 Periodic LA and RA Updating
Periodic LA and RA updating is used to noti fy the network of t he UEs availability, and to
avoid unnecessary paging attempts for a UE that has l ost coverage and is not able to
inform the CN that it is inactive. The periodic LA update procedure is controlled by a
timer, called t 3212, whose val ue is sent to UEs with broadcast message. The periodic
RA update is controlled by a timer, called t3312 (not a radio parameter), whose value is
sent by the CN to the UE in the IMSI attach or in t he routing area update message
accept.



3.3.4 IMSI Attach/Detach
A location registration request indicating IMSI attach is made when the UE is activated in
the same LA in which it was deactivated, and the system information (att) indicates that
IMSI attach/detach is used. If the paramet er att is set to 1, the UE sends an attach or
detach message when it is powered on or off indicating whether the UE is active or
inacti ve. The IMSI attach/detach procedure allows the UE to avoid unnecessary paging
attempts from the CN.
The CN avoi ds performing paging attempts when IMSI detach is applied and the UE is
switched off. When the UE is switched on and the IMSI attach/detach procedure is
appli ed, the UE performs a location registration request, indicating IMSI attach, if it is in
the same LA or RA in which it was switched off. If the registration area is changed, a
normal LA update is performed by the UE.
3.4 Strategy of URA Update
In state URA_PCH, the procedure URA Update is initiated in the foll owi ng cases with the
trigger reason of change of URA:
If t he new cell that the UE camps on is not in the same URA area as the former cell
that the UE camps on, the URA Update is triggered (to perform the Figure 4 URA
update procedure, basic flow).
The UE enters a cell that has no URAs defined. This will trigger a release of the
RRC Connection and the UE enters Idle mode (The URA ID list in SIB2 is empty or
the SIB2 informati on is not recei ved)

(to perform Fi gure 5 URA update procedure,
failure case
-The T305 in the IE UE Timers and constants in connected mode" set to non-
infinity and T305 expi res (to perform Figure 4 URA update procedure, basic flow).
If the UE doesnt support HS-DSCH reception but recei ves the IE "HS-DSCH
pagi ng system information", and the IE is not save for the moment, and the 12
MSBs (high 12 bits) of "SRNC identity" in U_RNTI does not equal to the 12 MSBs of
"Cell identity" in SIB3 (to perform Fi gure 4 URA updat e procedure, basic flow).
3.4.1 Process of URA Update
Figure 4 URA update procedure, basic flow



UE UTRAN
URA UPDATE
URA UPDATE CONFIRM

Figure 5 URA update procedure, failure case
UE UTRAN
URA UPDATE
RRC CONNECTION RELEASE

3.5 Strategy of CELL Update
A UE triggers cell updat e in the following cases:
Cell reselection i n state CELL_FACH (to perform Figure 6 Cell updat e procedure,
basic flow)
Radi o link fail ure i n state CELL_DCH (to perform Figure 7 Cell update procedure
with physical channel reconfiguration fl ow for call re-establishment )
T305 peri odic cell update (to perform Fi gure 6 Cell update procedure, basic flow).
In state CELL_FACH, when the UE enters an area with acceptable coverage after
coverage loss, periodic cell update is performed (to perform Fi gure 6 Cell update
procedure, basic flow)
The UE in state URA_PCH sends data in upli nk (to perform Fi gure 6 Cell update
procedure with radi o bearer reconfiguration)
The UE in state URA_PCH (can be originated by UTRAN or CN) (to perform Figure
8 Cell updat e procedure with radio bearer reconfi guration)
The UE in state CELL_FACH/CELL_DCH detects that an RLC unrecoverabl e error
of AM RLC entity (to perform Figure 7 Cell update procedure wit h physical channel
reconfiguration)
MBMS p-t-p RB request in state URA_PCH/CELL_FACH (to perform Figure 6 Cell
update procedure, basic flow)



MBMS Counting in state URA_PCH/CELL_FACH (to perform Fi gure 6 Cell update
procedure, basic flow)
3.5.1 Process of CELL Update
Figure 6 Cell update procedure, basic flow
UE UTRAN
CELL UPDATE
CELL UPDATE CONFIRM

Figure 7 Cell update procedure with physical channel reconfiguration
UE UTRAN
CELL UPDATE
CELL UPDATE CONFIRM
PHYSICAL CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE

Figure 8 Cell update procedure with radio bearer reconfiguration
UE UTRAN
CELL UPDATE
CELL UPDATE CONFIRM
RADIO BEARER
RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE



3.6 Random Access Process of PRACH
3.6.1 PRACH Structure
The Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) carries the RACH transport channel.
As shown in Figure 9 the PRACH comprises one or more random access preambles of
4096 chips long and the random access message of 10ms or 20ms.
Figure 9 PRACH Structure
Message part Preamble
4096 chips
10 ms (one radio frame)
Preamble Preamble
Message part Preamble
4096 chips 20 ms (two radio frames)
Preamble Preamble

3.6.2 Preamble Part
The preamble part of PRACH is 4096 chips long. It is obtained by repeating the 16-chip
signature (configured through Signature under Prach) for 256 times and then processed
with RPACH preamble scrambling (PreamScraCode).
3.6.3 Message Part
The message part of PRACH is made up of frames that are 10ms and 20ms long, the
same as TTI (Transmission Time Interval) of RACH. Figure 10 shows the 10ms long
message part of PRACH. A 10ms-l ong radio frame is made up of 15 slots and each slot
comprises the parall el data part and control part. The 20ms-long PRACH message is
made up of two 10ms-long PRACH message.
Figure 10 Structure of PRACH Message



Pilot
N
pilot
bits
Data
N
data
bits
Slot #0 Slot #1 Slot #i Slot #14
T
slot
= 2560 chips, 10*2
k
bits (k=0..3)
Message part radio frame T
RACH
= 10 ms
Data
Control
TFCI
N
TFCI
bits

One slot of the PRACH message can carry 10*2
k
bits. k=0, 1, 2 and 3 corresponds
respecti vely to the spectrum spreading factors adopted by the message part: SF=256,
128, 64 and 32. The minimum spectrum spreading factor avail abl e for the PRACH
message part is configured with the parameter AvailableSF.
The PRACH message control part also comprises 2560 chips, including 8 known pilot
bits and 2 transport format combination indicator (TFCI) bits indicating the transport
format of transmitted data, which is equi valent to the spectrum spreading with SF=256
code words.
The transport format adopted for the data part is sent in SIB 5. ZTE RNC uses the
following parameters to configure the transport format of PRACH:
CPCId of PRACH indicates the common physical channel ident ity of PRACH.
Sib5OrSib6 of PRACH determines that the related configuration information of
PRACH correspondi ng to CPCId is to be broadcast in SIB5 or SIB6.
TfcsIndex of PRACH i ndicates the index of TFCS used by PRACH correspondi ng to
CPCId.
CtfcNum and Ctfc of PRACH i ndicates the number of CTFCs and l abel of TFC of
PRACH of TfcsIndex, that is, Ctfc is the array paramet er and the dimension of the
array takes the value of CtfcNum.
PrachCPCId of RACH indicates the common physical channel identity of PRACH
that takes the same val ue of CPCId of PRACH.
CTCI d of RACH indicates the common transport channel identity of RACH mapped
on the PRACH with the common physical channel identity of PrachCPCId.
TfsIndex of RACH i ndicates the TFS index of RACH correspondi ng to CTCId.
TrBlkNum of Tfs indicates the number of transport bl ocks in the transport format
corresponding to RACH of TfsIndex.



RlcSize of Tfs indicates the size of transport block corresponding to RACH of
TfsIndex.
TTI of Tfs indicat es the transmission time interval correspondi ng to RACH of
TfsIndex.
RlcSize and TTI of Tfs are array parameters. Dimension of the array equals the
value of TrBlkNum, the label of the element in the array equals the value of Ctfc of
PRACH.
Figure 11 shows the mappi ng relation among the above described parameters:
Figure 11 Mapping Relation of PRACH-related Parameters
Sib5OrSib6
TfcsIndex CtfcNum + Ctfc
CPCId
/PrachCPCId
CTCId
TfsIndex RlcSize + TrBlkNum + TTI

3.6.3.1 Selection of channelized code of PRACH message part
The spectrum spreading code used by the control part of PRACH is c
c
= C
ch,256,m
, where
m = 16s + 15. The spectrum spreading code used by the data part of PRACH is c
d

=C
ch,SF,m
, where SF=256, 128, 64 and 32 are the spectrum spreadi ng factor of the data
part, m = SFs/16, s(0 s 15) is the serial number of the signature used by the
PRACH preambl e part among all 16 PRACH preambl e signatures. The minimum
spectrum spreadi ng factor availabl e for the PRACH message is controlled by
AvailableSF. The UE sel ects the size of the spectrum spreadi ng factor adapti vely
according to the size of the PRACH message part, the AvailableSF configured in the
network side and also the PunctLimit. The selection method is described in the foll owi ng:
A PRACH message with the 10ms -long radio frame can carry the number of data bits as
determined by the spectrum spreading factor, r elation of the t wo is listed i n the following
table:
Table 1 Number of Bits Carried in PRACH Message vs. Spectrum Spreading Factor
Slot Format
#i
Channel Bit
Rate (kbps)
Channel Symbol
Rate (ksps)
SF Bits/
Frame
Bits/
Slot
N
data

0 15 15 256 150 10 10
1 30 30 128 300 20 20
2 60 60 64 600 40 40
3 120 120 32 1200 80 80



The number of bits that can be carried by a 10ms-long radio frame of PRACH message
is indicated respecti vely as N
256
, N
128
, N
64
, N
32
, correspondi ng to the cases when
SF=256, 128, 64 and 32. N
i
indicates the number of bits to be sent by the UE in a 10ms-
long PRACH radio frame. According to AvailableSF, SET0={N
256
,, N
AvailableSF
} is set up.
SET1 = {N
data
in SET0 such that (N
data
- N
i
)0}, that is, SET1 is the set of elements
greater than N
i
in SET0.
If SET1 is not empty, then the spectrum spreading factor corresponding to N
data
with the
smallest value in SET1 is selected as the spectrum spreading factor for the PRACH
message part.
If SET1 is empty, then set up SET2:
SET2 = {N
data
in SET0 such that (N
data
PunctLimitN
i
)0}, that is, SET2 is the set of
elements greater than PunctLimitN
i
in SET0, PunctLimitN
i
is the remai ning number of
bits of the PRACH message part after the operation of confi gured PunctLimit subtracted
by (1-PunctLimit)N
i
.
The spectrum spreading factor correspondi ng to N
data
with the smallest value in SET2 is
selected as the spectrum spreading factor for the PRACH message part.
3.6.4 Random Access Process of Physical Layer
Before the random access process of the physical layer is initialized, the physical l ayer
will recei ve the foll owi ng information from the RRC layer:
Preamble scrambling code: reamScraCode
Length of random access message (10ms or 20ms)
AICH transmit time (AichTranTime)
Available signature (AsigStIdx and AsigEndIdx i ndicate t he start and end serial
numbers of the valid signature sequence) and valid RACH number (AsubChNum)
corresponding to every ASC.
Preamble power ramp step (PRStep) for random access
Maximum preamble retransmission times (MaxPreamRetrans)
Power offset of the last sent preambl e and the random access message control part
(POPpm)
The transport format set of access message part (configured through TfcsIndex
indexing to actual TFCS) includes the data channel correspondi ng to TFC and the
power gai n factor of control channel (configured separately through BetaD and
BetaC of PRACH)
Before the random access process of the physical layer is initialized, the physical layer
will recei ve the foll owi ng information from the MAC layer:



Transport format of the PRACH message part.
ASC of PRACH transmission.
Data bl ock that is sent.
The random access process of the physical layer is as follows:
1 Determine the available access slot set accordi ng to the RACH (AvailSubChanNum)
corresponding to ASC and select an avail abl e access slot from the set. If t here is no
availabl e access slot in the selected slot set, select ransomly an access slot from
the next availabl e access slot according to the RACH corresponding to ASC.
2 Select randomly a signature from the valid signature set corresponding to ASC.
3 Set the preambl e ret ransmission counter to the maximum preamble retransmissions
(MaxPreamRetrans).
4 The UE calculates the initial transmit power of preamble (i nvol ved parameters
include BetaD, Bet aC, POPpm and ConstVal of PRACH, refer to ZTE UMTS Power
Cont rol Feature Gui de).
5 If the preamble transmit power worked out by the UE exceeds the allowed UL
maximum transmit power (MaxRACHTxPwr (Prach) ), then set the preamble
transmit power to the same as the maximum transmit power. If the preamble
transmit power worked out by the UE is below the allowed UL mi nimum transmit
power, then set the preambl e transmit power to the same as the maximum transmit
power, then set the preambl e transmit power to the same as the minimum transmit
power. Next, transmit the random access preamble accordi ng to the selected
signature, UL access slot and preambl e transmit power. Only when the ratio of the
preambl e power recei ved by NodeB to the i nterference is greater than PreamThs,
NodeB will send positi ve response on the AICH.
6 If the UE fails to recei ve, in the DL access slot corresponding to the slot that sends
the UL access preambl e, the positi ve or negati ve response (AI = +1 nor 1)
corresponding to the selected signature on AICH, the UE will perform the following:
Select the next avail able access slot set from the valid RACH numbers corresponding to
ASC.
Randomly select a valid signat ure from the valid signature set corresponding to ASC.
Increase the transmit power of random access preambl e by one PRStep. If the transmit
power of random access preamble exceeds the maximum all owed transmit power 6dB,
the UEs physical layer reports "No ack on AICH" to the MAC l ayer and exit the physical
random access process.
Decrease the preambl e retransmission counter by 1.
If the preamble retransmission counter is great er than 0, perform step 5 agai n.
Otherwise, the UE physical layer reports "No ack on AICH" to the MAC l ayer and exits
the physical random access process.
1 If the UE recei ves, in the DL access slot corresponding to the slot that sends the UL
access preamble, the negati ve response correspondi ng to the sel ected signature on



AICH, the UE physical layer reports "Nack on AICH recei ved" to the MAC layer and
exits the physical random access process.
2 If the UE recei ves, in the DL access slot corresponding to the slot that sends the UL
access preamble, the positi ve response corresponding to the selected signature on
AICH, then the UE sends the message part of random access in the third UL
access slot (AichTranTime=0) after the slot that sends the random access preamble
for the last time or in the fourth UL access slot (AichTranTime=1). The transmit
power offset between the control part of the random access message and the last
random access preambl e is configured wit h the parameter POPpm.
3 The UE physical layer reports "RACH message transmitted" to the MAC l ayer and
exits the physical random access process.
3.6.4.1 RACH access slot set
PRACH has totally 15 slots of 20ms and the slots belongs to two access slot sets.
Access slot set 1 includes these sl ots: slot 0~7 starting from
p-a
chips before the DL P-
CCPCH frame of SFN mod 2=0. Access slot set 2 includes these slots: slot 8~14 starting
from
p-a
2560

chips before the DL P-CCPCH frame of SFN mod 2=0. Figure 12 shows
the diagram of the two access slot sets:
Figure 12 Relation between the PRACH Access Slot and DL AICH

AICH access
slots
10 ms

#0 #1 #2 #3 #14 #13 #12 #11 #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4
p-a
#0 #1 #2 #3 #14 #13 #12 #11 #10 #9 #8 #7 #6 #5 #4
PRACH
access slots
SFN mod 2 = 0 SFN mod 2 = 1
10 ms
Access slot set 1 Access slot set 2

3.6.4.2 RACH
RACH defines a subset of all UL access slots.
Table 2 gi ves the access slot mapping of di fferent RACHs corresponding to SFN:
Table 2 Mapping Relation Between Available UL Access Slot and RACH

SFN modulo 8 of
corresponding P-
CCPCH frame
Sub-channel number
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 12 13 14 8 9 10 11
2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7



3 9 10 11 12 13 14 8
4 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5
5 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
6 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
3.6.4.3 PRACH/AICH timing relation
The AICH frame is 20ms long and di vi ded int o 15 slots, each slot with 5120 chips. The
DL access slot is aligned wi h PCCPCH.
The UL PRACH is di vided into 15 UL access slots, each slot with 5120 chips. The UL
slot number n is transmitted from the
p-a
chips prior t o the expected reception of of slot n
corresponding to AICH. The minimum interval bet ween two consecuti ve random access
preambl es is
p-p,min
. The interval bet ween random access preambl e and AICH response
is
p-a
. Figure 13 shows the
p-p,min
,
p-a
and the timing rel ation between the random
access preambl e and random access message part:
Figure 13 Timing Relation between PRACH and AICH as Observed from the UE Side
One access slot
p-a
p-m
p-p
Pre-
amble
Pre-
amble Message part
Acq.
Ind.
AICH access
slots RX at UE
PRACH access
slots TX at UE

The time rel ation
p-p
bet ween preambl e and preambl e should be no smaller than the
minimum i nterval
p-p,min
, between preamble and preamble, that is:
p-p

p-p,min
,.
According t o the val ue of AICH_Transmission_Timing (to be configured with
AichTranTime), there are the foll owi ng two types of timing relation:
1 AICH_Transmission_Timi ng = 0

p-p,min
= 15360 chips (3 access slots)

p-a
= 7680 chips (1.5 slots)

p-m
2 AICH_Transmission_Timi ng = 1

p-p,min

p-a
= 12800 chips (2.5 slots)



p-m
3.6.5 Random Access Process of the MAC Layer
The UE RRC layer sends the RACH transport control parameter to the MAC layer. The
parameters include:
ASC parameter: The avail abl e PRACH partition corresponding to every ASC,
including avail able signature (AsigStIdx and AsigEndIdx indicate the start and end
serial numbers of the vali d signature sequence) corresponding to every ASC and
valid RACH subchannel number (AsubChNum) and persistence value P
i
(P
i

indicates the probility of sending the random access preambl e and it is controlled by
DynPstLevelInit and PSF). AsigStIdx, AsigEndIdx and AsubChNum are defi ned in
array mode. The array dimension equals to allowed maximum access service class
(Permit MaxASC) whose upper limit is 8. PSF is defi ned in array mode and the
array dimension equals to number of persistence factors (PsfNum) whose upper
limit is 6.
The maximum preamble rampi ng cycles, Mmax, is used to control the maximum
attempts of the MAC layer to initiate the random access process.
The rollback interval range is expressed by the parameters NB01mi n and NB01max
(multiple of 10ms). They indicate the status of NACK as recei ved by AICH.
NB01max indicates the maximum interval bet ween AICH recei ving NACK and the
MAC layer initiating again the random access process. NB01min indicat es the
minimum i nterval bet ween AICH recei vi ng NACK and the MAC l ayer initiating again
the random access process.
If t here is dat a bei ng transmitted, the MAC l ayer sel ects, from the set of avail abl e ASCs,
a ASC
i
and PRACH partition correspondi ng to ASC
i
and also P
i
.
Based on the probability of sendi ng random access preambl e as indicated by Pi, the UE
determines whether to start the physical layer access process at the current TTI. If the
sending is allowed, then the UE i nitializes the physical layer random access process
then the MAC layer waits for the returned information from t he physical layer. If the
sending is not allowed, then the MAC layer attempts agai n the random access process
at the next TTI.
When the preambl e sent from the physical layer is acknowl edged positi vely by AICH, the
physical layer notifi es the MAC l ayer of " ready for data transmission" with the primiti ve
PHY-ACCESS-CNF. Next, the MAC layer uses the primiti ve PHY-DATA-REQ to perform
data transmission. The transmission process of PRACH ends after the PRACH message
part is sent. In addition, the high-level MAC shoul d be notified of the successful sending
of the control process.
When the attempts of preamble sending by the physical layer reaches the value of
MaxPreamRetrans but still the response of AICH is not recei ved, the physical layer
notifi es the MAC l ayer of rel ated information. The MAC l ayer then makes new sending
attempt at the next TTI. The timer T
2
ensures that there is at least a 10ms interval
between two consecuti ve sending attempts.



When the UE recei ves the negati ve response from AICH, it starts the rollback timer T
BO1
.
After the timer expi res, it may make another sending attempt. T
BO1
is set to N
BO1

multiples of 10ms. The value of NBO1 satisfi es the relation:
0NB01mi nNBO1NB01max. When a fixed delay is expected, NB01mi n and NB01max
can be set to the same value.
Before every attempt of the random access process, its necessary to check whether
new RACH sendi ng control paramet er is recei ved from the RRC l ayer. If yes, then the
latest RACH sending control parameter is used.
If the number of new attempts by the MAC l ayer exceeds the maximum preamble
rampi ng cycles, Mmax, then the MAC l ayer noti fies the RRC layer of the RACH sending
failure.
The successful or unsuccessful control process sending by the MAC layer is meant for
every logic channel.
3.6.5.1 Establishment of access service classes
To di fferentiate user pri orities, di fferent RACH-rel ated physical resources (such access
slot and preamble signature) can be allocated to different ASCs. The same access slot
and signature may also be allocated to several or all ASCs.
ASC is numbered as I: 0 i NumASC 7 (there can be 8 ASCs at most). ASC
0
is of
the highest priority and is used for emergency call or other services with the same
priority. The ASC numbered as i corresponds to one type of PRACH-rel ated resource
allocation mode (PRACH partition) and corresponding persistence factor P
i
. The
informati on can be obtai ned from the system informati on broadcast.
The dynamic persistence factor P
i
is worked out accordi ng t o the dynamic persistence
level N=18 (sent in SIB7) corresponding to ASC
i
and the persistence scaling factor s
i
(sent in SIB5 or SIB56, confi gured with PSF). Table 3 shows the mappi ng rel ation. If
number k 1 of persistence factors s
i
is broadcast and also NumASC k+2, then for the
ASC of i > k +1, the persistence factor is defaulted as s
k+1.
Therefore, PSF only needs to
confi gure the persistence scaling factor s
i
for ASC
2
~ ASC
k+1
. (PSF is defi ned in the array
mode. )
P(N) =2
(N 1)
Table 3 ASCi-to-Pi Mapping Relation
ASC
i
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
P
i
1 P(N) s
2
P(N) s
3
P(N) s
4
P(N) s
5
P(N) s
6
P(N) s
7
P(N)
As shown in above tabl e, when ASC=0 and ASC=1, the factor s
i
is not needed. If s
i
is
not broadcast in the system information, then for the ASC with the NumASC>=2, its s
i
can be defaulted as 1.
3.6.5.2 AC-to-ASC mapping
AC is used for primary access only, for example, when the RRC CONNECTION
REQUEST is sent.



The AC-to-ASC mapping related is broadcast in the IE of SIB5: "AC-to-ASC mappi ng",
and is configured with AC2ASCMap. The rel ation between AC and ASC is listed in Table
4 . There can be 8 ASCs at most.
Table 4 AC-to-ASC Mapping Relation
AC 0 - 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
ASC 1
st
IE 2
nd
IE 3
rd
IE 4
th
IE 5
th
IE 6
th
IE 7
th
IE
In the case of random access, the parameters provided by respecti ve ASC are used.
When the UE can contains several ACs, the UE only needs to map the highest AC
number to the corresponding ASC. In connected mode, AC is not used.
4 Parameters and Configuration
4.1 Cell Selection/Reselection-related Parameters
4.1.1 Parameter List
Abbreviated name Parameter name
QQualMin Qqualmin(dB)
QRxLevMi n Qrxlevmin(dBm)
MaxRACHTxPwr (Prach) Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
MaxRACHTxPwr (external UtranCell) Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
UseOfHCS (utranCell) Use of HCS (utranCell)
UseOfHCS (utranRelation) Use of HCS (utranRelati on)
UseOfHCS (gsmRel ation) Use of HCS (gsmRelation)
SIntraSearchPre Sintrasearch Configurati on Tag
SIntraSearch Sintrasearch(dB)
SInterSearchPre Sintersearch Configurati on Tag
SInterSearch Sintersearch(dB)
OtherRATInfoPre Other RAT Informati on Configuration Tag
SSearchRat Ssearch,RAT(dB)
SLimitRat Slimit,SearchRAT(dB)
FreqPLInd MBMS Preferred Layer Indicator for Frequencies
in SAC
HcsPrio(utranCell) HCS_PRIO
HcsPrio(externalUtranCell ) HCS_PRIO
HcsPrio(externalGsmCell) HCS_PRIO
QoffMbms Qoffmbms(dB)
HcsOffMbms HCS_OFFmbms
SsearchHCS SsearchHCS(dB)



SSearchHCSPre SsearchHCS Configuration Tag
NoHcsTCrMax Non-HCS_TCRmax(s)
NoHcsNCr Non-HCS_NCR
NoHcsTCrMaxHyst Non-HCS_TCRmaxHyst(s)
TCRmax TCRmax(s)
NCr NCR
TCrmaxHyst TCrmaxHyst(s)
SHCSRatPre SHCS,RAT Configuration Tag
SHCSRat SHCS,RAT(dB)
QHcsEcNo Qhcs(Ec/No)(dBm)
QHcsRSCP Qhcs(RSCP)(dBm)
QhcsEcN0Sib11 Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB11(dB)
QhcsRscpSib11 Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB11(dBm)
QhcsEcN0Sib12 Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB12(dB)
QhcsRscpSib12 Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB12(dBm)
QHyst1S Qhyst1s(dB)
QHyst2S Qhyst2s(dB)
QHyst1SPch Qhyst1s for UE in CELL_PCH or URA_PCH
State(dB)
QHyst2SPch Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_PCH or URA_PCH
State(dB)
QHyst1SFach Qhyst1s for UE in CELL_FACH State(dB)
QHyst2SFach Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_FACH State(dB)
Qoffset1SNSib11 Qoffset1s,n in SIB11(dB)
TempOffset1Si b11(ut ranRel ation) Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)(ut ranRel ation)
TempOffset1Si b11(gsmRel ation) Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)(gsmRel ation)
TempOffset2Si b11 Temporary_offset2 in SIB11(dB)
TempOffset1Si b12(ut ranRel ation) Temporary_offset1 in SIB12(dB)(ut ranRel ation)
TempOffset1Si b12(gsmRel ation) Temporary_offset1 in SIB12(dB)(gsmRel ation)
TempOffset2Si b12 Temporary_offset2 in SIB12(dB)
PenaltyTimeSib11(utranRelation) Penalty Time in SIB11(s)(utranRelation)
PenaltyTimeSib11(gsmRel ation) Penalty Time in SIB11(s)(gsmRelation)
PenaltyTimeSib12(utranRelation) Penalty Time in SIB12(s)(utranRelation)
PenaltyTimeSib12(gsmRel ation) Penalty Time in SIB12(s)(gsmRel ation)
TResel ection Treselection(s)
TResel ectionPch Treselections,PCH(s)
TResel ectionFach Treselections,FACH(s)



SpSfPre Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for
Treselection Configuration Tag
SpSf Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for
Treselection
InterFreqSfPre Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Treselection
Confi guration Tag
InterFreqSf Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Treselection
InterRatSfPre Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Treselection
Confi guration Tag
InterRatSf Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Treselection
TBarred Tbarred(s)
ACBarredOmcr Access Class N Barred Indicat or (N=09)
CellBarredInd Cell Barred Indicator
Cell RsvExt Cell Reservation Extension
DltaQRxLevMinPr DeltaQrxlevmin Configuration Tag
DltaQRxLevMin DeltaQrxlevmin(dBm)
DtQrxLvMnSi b11Pr DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11 Configuration Tag
DtQrxLvMnSi b11 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11(dBm)
DtQrxLvMnSi b12Pr DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB12 Configuration Tag
DtQrxLvMnSi b12 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB12(dBm)
InFreqReselInd Intra-frequency Cell Resel ection Indicator
QualMeas Quality measure for Cell Selection and
Resel ection
Sib3orSib4 Broadcast in either SIB3 or SIB4
HcsSrvCel InfoPre HCS Servi ng Cell Information Configuration Tag
FDDInterFMeasInd UE Inter-frequency FDD Measurement Indicator
InterRatMIndPre UE Inter-RAT Measurement Indicat or
Sib11orSib11bis((ut ranRelation)
Broadcast in either SIB11 or
SIB11bis((utranRelation)
Sib11orSib11bis(gsmRelation)
Broadcast in either SIB11 or
SIB11bis(gsmRelati on)
FachMeasK
FACH Measurement Occasion Cycle Length
Coefficient
SIB12Ind SIB12 Indicator
SIB4Ind SIB4 Indicator
QqulmnOffstPre Qqualmin-Offset Present
QqualminOffset Qqualmin-offset
Qrxl vmnOffstPre Qrxlevmin-Offset Present
QrxlevminOffset Qrxlevmin-offset
MeasPrio(utranRel ation) Measurement Priority of Nei ghbori ng Cell
MeasPrio(gsmRelati on) Measurement Priority of Nei ghbori ng GSM Cell



OperatorUseInd Cell Reserved for Operator Use
QhcsSib11 Qhcs in SIB11
QhcsSib12 Qhcs in SIB12
QqualMinSib11 Qqualmin in SIB11
QqualMinSib12 Qqualmin in SIB12
QrxLevMinSi b11(externalUtranCell ) Qrxlevmin in SIB11(external UtranCell)
QrxLevMinSi b11(externalGsmCell) Qrxlevmin in SIB11(externalGsmCell )
QrxLevMinSi b12(externalUtranCell ) Qrxlevmin in SIB12(external UtranCell)
QrxLevMinSi b12(externalGsmCell) Qrxlevmin in SIB12(externalGsmCell )
Sib11orSib12 Broadcast in SIB11 or SIB12
AbsPriReselSwch Absolute Pirority Reselection Criteria Switch
ServCelPriority Absolute Priority of Serving Cell for Cell
Resel ection
Spri oritySearch1 CPICH RSCP Measurement Trigger Threshold
for Absolute Pirority Reselection Criteri a
(S
prioritysearch1
)
Spri oritySearch2 CPICH EcN0 Measurement Trigger Threshold
for Absolute Pri ority Reselection Criteri a
(S
prioritysearch2
)
ThreshServingLow Servi ng Cell Reselection Threshold for Absolute
Priority Resel ection Criteri a(Thresh
serv ing,low
)
UtranInterFNum Number of UTRAN Centre Frequencies
EutranInt erFNum Number of EUTRAN Centre Frequencies
GsmCell GroupNum Number of GSM Frequency Groups
UtranHi ghThresh[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_
FREQ]
Resel ection Threshold for Inter-frequency
Layers of Hi gh Priority in UTRAN
(interThresh
x,high
)
UtranLowThresh[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_
FREQ]
Resel ection Threshold for Inter-frequency
Layers of Low Priority in UTRAN(Thresh
x,low
)
EutranHighThresh[MAX_NUM_EUTRA
N_FREQ]
Resel ection Threshold for Inter-RAT Layers of
High Pri ority in EUTRAN(interThresh
x,high
)
EutranLowThresh[MAX_NUM_EUTRA
N_FREQ]
Low Priority in EUTRAN(Thresh
x,low
)
GeranHighThresh[MAX_NUM_GERAN
_CELL_GROUP]
High Pri ority in GERAN(i nterThresh
x,high
)
GeranLowThresh[MAX_NUM_GERAN
_CELL_GROUP]
Low Priority in GERAN(Thresh
x,low
)
QrxlevminFDD[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_F
REQ]
Qrxlevmin of UTRAN for Cell
Resel ection(QrxlevminFDD)
QqualminFDD[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FR
EQ]
Qqualmin of UTRAN for Cell
Resel ection(QqualminFDD)
QrxlevminGSM[MAX_NUM_GERAN_C
ELL_GROUP]
Qrxlevmin of GSM for Cell
Resel ection(QrxlevminGSM)
QrxlevminEUTRA[MAX_NUM_EUTRA Qrxlevmin of EUTRAN for Cell



N_FREQ] Resel ection(QrxlevminEUTRA)
UtranPriority[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_FRE
Q]
Absolute Priority of Inter-Frequency Layers in
UTRAN
EutranPriority[MAX_NUM_EUTRAN_F
REQ]
Absolute Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in
EUTRAN
GeranPri ority[MAX_NUM_GERAN_CE
LL_GROUP]
Absolute Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in GERAN
UtranUARFCN[MAX_NUM_UTRAN_F
REQ]
UTRAN Absolut e Radio Frequency Channel
Number
GsmBandIndicator[MAX_NUM_GERA
N_CELL_GROUP]
GSM Band Indicator
StartARFCN[MAX_NUM_GERAN_CEL
L_GROUP]
GSM Starting ARFCN
DlEARFCN[MAX_NUM_EUTRAN_FRE
Q]
Downlink EUTRAN Absolute Radi o Frequency
Channel Number
AllowMeasBand[MAX_NUM_EUTRAN
_FREQ]
EUTRAN Allowed Measurement Bandwidt h
4.1.2 Parameter Configuration
4.1.2.1 Qqualmin(dB)
OMCR
Interface Path: View->Confi guration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Resel ection-> Cell Selection
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qqualmi n(dB)
Parameter Confi guration
This parameter indicates the minimum requi red quality level of the cell which satisfies
the condition of bei ng selected or reselected by UE. When the quality measure is CPICH
Ec/No, only the measured quality of the cell is over Qqualmin can the cell be sel ected.
Its -18dB by default.
If value of the parameter is increased, its harder for the cell to satisfy the condition of
being selected.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, its easier for the cell to satisfy the condition of
being selected.
4.1.2.2 Qrxlevmin(dBm)
OMCR
Path: View->Configuration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Reselection-> Cell Selection
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter->Qrxlevmin(dBm)



This parameter indicates the minimum requi red recei ved power level of the cell which
satisfies the condition of bei ng selected or r eselected by UE. When the quality measure
is CPICH RSCP, only the measured recei ved power level of the cell is over Qrxlevmin
can the cell be selected.
If value of the parameter is increased, its harder for the cell to satisfy the condition of
being selected.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, its easier for the cell to satisfy the condition of
being selected.
4.1.2.3 Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
OMCR
Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter->PRACH->
Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
This parameter indicates the maximum allowed UL transmission power of RACH.
If value of configurati on is increased, the maximum allowed UL transmission power of
RACH increases.
If val ue of configuration is decreased, the maximum all owed UL transmission power of
RACH decreases.
4.1.2.4 Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH()(dBm)(externalUtranCell)
OMCR
Management->External Utran Cell-> External Utran Cell XX-> Modi fy Advanced
Parameter-> Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
This parameter indicat es the maximum all owed UL transmission power of RACH of
neighbor cell not in this RNC.
If value of configurati on is increased, the maximum allowed UL transmission power of
RACH increases.
If val ue of configuration is decreased, the maximum all owed UL transmission power of
RACH decreases.
4.1.2.5 Use of HCS (utranCell)
OMCR



Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX-> Cell Setup Parameter->Use of HCS
This parameter indicates whether the UTRAN Cell HCS is used or not.
1: Not Used
2: Used
4.1.2.6 Use of HCS (utranRelation)
OMCR
Management->Nei ghbouring Cell -> Nei ghbouring Cell XX-> Use of HCS
This parameter indicates whether the UTRAN Neighbor Cell HCS is used or not.
1: Not Used
2: Used
4.1.2.7 Use of HCS (gsmRelation)
OMCR
Management->Utran Cell -> Utran Cell XX->GSM Neighbouring Cell-> Use of HCS
This parameter indicates whether the GSM Nei ghbor Cell HCS is used or not.
1: Not used.
2: Used.
4.1.2.8 Sintrasearch Configuration Tag
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-int rasearch Configuration Tag
This parameter is a switch indicating whether S
intrasearch
is configured or not. If the value
is False, S
intrasearch
is not configured to UE, and UE performs the intra-frequency



measurement. If the value is True, S
intrasearch
is configured to UE, and UE judges whet her
to perform the intra-frequency measurement. For the judgment rule, see 3.2.4. The
parameter decri ption in For the description, see TS 25.304
0: Not configured to UE.
1: Configured to UE.
4.1.2.9 Sintrasearch(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-int rasearch(dB)
This parameter indicates the intra-frequency measurement triggering threshol d for cell
reselection (S
intrasearch
) used by UE to judge whether intra-frequency measurement
should be performed. When HCS is not used, i f the quality of serving cell exceeds
S
intrasearch
, UE may choose to not perform intra-frequency measurement. If the quality of
servi ng cell is not larger than S
intrasearch
or if S
intrasearch
is not configured, UE performs
intra-frequency measurement. For more information, see TS 25.304.
When S
intrasearch
is delivered to the UE, if its value is increased, its easier for the UE to
trigger intra-frequency measurement.
If value of the parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to t rigger i ntra-frequency
measurement.
4.1.2.10 Sintersearch Configuration Tag
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-int ersearch Configuration Tag
This parameter is a switch which indicates whether S
intersearch
is configured or not. If the
value is False, S
intersearch
is not configured to UE, and UE performs the inter-frequency
measurement. If the value is True, S
intersearch
is configured to UE, and UE judges whet her
to perform the inter-frequency measurement. For more information, see TS 25. 304.
0: Not configured to UE.
4.1.2.11 Sintersearch(dB)
OMCR



and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-int ersearch(dB)
This parameter indicates the inter-frequency measurement triggering threshol d for cell
reselection (S
intersearch
) used by UE to judge whether inter-frequency measurement
should be performed. When HCS is not used, i f the quality of serving cell exceeds
S
intersearch
, UE may choose to not perform inter-frequency measurement. If the quality of
servi ng cell is not larger than S
intersearch
or if S
intersearch
inter-frequency measurement. For more information, see TS 25.304.
When S
intersearch
trigger inter-frequency measurement.
If value of the parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to t rigger i nter -frequency
measurement.
4.1.2.12 Other RAT Information Configuration Tag
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Other RAT Infor Configurati on Tag
This paramet er is a switch indicating whether i nter -RAT i nformation parameters used for
cell reselection are configured or not. If the val ue is False, inter -RAT i nformation
parameters are not configured to UE, and UE performs the inter-RAT measurement. If
the value is True, inter-RAT information paramet ers are configured to UE, and UE
judges whether to perform the inter-RAT measurement. For more information, see TS
25.304.
O: Not confi gured to UE.
4.1.2.13 Ssearch,RAT(dB)
OMCR
Path: Confi guration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource Management-
>UtranCell ->UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Reselection-> Cell Selection and
Resel ectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-search, RAT(dB)
This paramet er i ndicates the i nter-RAT measurement tri ggering threshol d for cell
reselection (S
search,RAT
) used by UE to judge whether inter-RAT measurement should be
performed. When HCS is not used, if the quality of serving cell exceeds S
search,RAT
, UE



may choose to not perform int er-RAT measurement. If the quality of servi ng cell is not
larger than S
search,RAT
or if S
search,RAT
is not configured, UE performs inter -RAT
measurement. For more information, see TS 25.304.
When S
search,RAT
trigger inter-RAT measurement.
If value of the parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to trigger inter -RAT
measurement.
4.1.2.14 Slimit,SearchRAT(dB)
OMCR
>UtranCell ->UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Reselection-> Cell Selection and
Resel ectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-limit,SearchRAT(dB)
This parameter i ndicates the inter-RAT measurement triggering threshold for higher
HCS priority cell resel ection(S
limit,SearchRAT
) used by UE to j udge whether i nter -RAT
measurement shoul d be performed. When HCS is used, i f Srxlev<=S
HCS,RAT
or S
HCS,RAT

is not configured, UE performs inter-RAT measurement. In case Srxlev>S
HCS,RAT
, if
Squal>S
limit,SearchRAT
, UE does not perform i nter-RAT measurement. If Squal
<=S
limit,SearchRAT
, performs inter-RAT measurement on the neighbor inter-RAT cells
havi ng hi gher HCS priority. For more information, see TS 25.304.
In case Srxlev>S
HCS,RAT,
if val ue of the paramet er is increased, its easier to trigger
measurement of inter-RAT neighbor cells with a HCS priority equals to or higher than
that of the servi ng cell.
If value of the parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to trigger inter -RAT
measurement.
4.1.2.15 MBMS Preferred Layer Indicator for Frequencies in SAC
OMCR
>UtranCell Information in MBMS Seri ve Area-> UtranCell Informati on in MBMS Seri ve
AreaX ->Modi fy Advanced Parameter->MBMS Preferred Layer Indicator for Frequencies
in SAC
This parameter indicates whether the MBMS cell is on MBMS preferred layer in SAC.
0: Non Preferred Layer
1: Preferred Layer



4.1.2.16 HCS_PRIO
OMCR
>UtranCell ->UtranCell XX->Modi fy Advanced Parameter->Ut ranCell -> HCS_PRIO
This parameter indicat es the HCS priority level (0-7) for the access cell. 7 is the highest
priority, 0 is the lowest priority. Its 0 by default.
4.1.2.17 HCS_PRIO
OMCR
Management->External UTRAN Cell-> External UTRAN Cell XX->Modi fy Advanced
Parameter-> HCS_PRIO
This parameter indicates the HCS priority level (0-7) for the neighbor cells. 7 is the
highest priority, 0 is the lowest pri ority. Its 0 by default.
4.1.2.18 HCS_PRIO
OMCR
Path: View-> View->Configuration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Management->External GSM Cell-> External GSM Cell XX->Modi fy Advanced
Parameter-> HCS_PRIO
This parameter indicates the HCS pri ority level (0-7) for the GSM cells. 7 is the highest
priority, 0 is the lowest priority. Its 0 by default.
4.1.2.19 Qoffmbms(dB)
OMCR
>UtranCell ->UtranCell XX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter->MBMS Confi guration
Information In A Cell-> Qoffmbms(dB)
This parameter i ndicates the additional offset added to cells bel ongi ng t o the MBMS
preferred frequency layer when judging the cell-ranking criteri on R of cell reselection for
the non-HCS cell. The parameter is part of the judgment criterion R. If val ue of the
parameter is increased, the measurement value of the cell obtained through criteri on R



is greater. If val ue of the paramet er is decreased, the measurement value of the cell
obtained through criteri on R is smaller.

4.1.2.20 HCS_OFFmbms
OMCR
Path: Interface Path: Configurati on Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter->MBMS
Confi guration Information In A Cell-> HCS_OFFmbms
This paramet er indicates the HCS pri ority offset added to t he HCS cells belonging to the
MBMS preferred frequency layer when UE in the cell is in low mobility state.
When the HCS cell is in low-mobility state: If val ue of the parameter is increased, the
scale of HCS pri ority increase gets larger. If value of the parameter is decreased, the
scale of HCS pri ority increase gets smaller.
4.1.2.21 SsearchHCS(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-searchHCS(dB)
This parameter indicat es the triggering threshold for HCS cell reselection(S
searchHCS
)
used by UE to judge whether intra-frequency and inter-frequency measurements should
be performed. When UEs serving cell belongs to HCS, i f the recei ved level of serving
cell is not larger than S
searchHCS
or if S
searchHCS
measurements on all i ntra-frequency and inter-frequency nei ghbor cell. For more
informati on, see TS 25.304.
When S
searchHCS
is delivered to the UE and if its val ue is increased, its easier for the UE
to trigger the measurement of inra-frequency and int er-frequency cells. If value of the
parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to tri gger the measurement of inra-
frequency and inter-frequency cells.
4.1.2.22 SsearchHCS Configuration Tag
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-searchHCS Confi guration Tag



This parameter is a switch which indicates whether S
searchHCS
is configured or not. When
UEs serving cell bel ongs to HCS, if the quality of servi ng cell is not larger than S
searchHCS
,
UE performs i ntra-frequency and i nter-frequency measurements. if S
searchHCS
is not
confi gured, UE al ways performs intra-frequency and i nter-frequency measurement. For
more information, see TS 25.304.
0: Not configured for the UE.
1: Configured for the UE.
4.1.2.23 Non-HCS_TCRmax(s)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Non-HCS_TCRmax(s)
This paramet er indicates the duration for evaluating all owed number of cell reselection(s)
in case of non-HCS usage.

It is valid when a judgment is made whether the UE stays in
the high-mobility state.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, the period for eval uating number of cell
reselections gets longer and its easier for the UE to enter the high-mobility state.
If value of the parameter is decreased, the period for eval uating number of cell
reselections gets shorter and its harder for the UE to enter the high-mobility state.
4.1.2.24 Non-HCS_NCR
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Non-HCS_NCR
This parameter indicates the maximum number of cell reselections in case of non-HCS
usage. It is vali d when a j udgment is made whether the UE enters or leaves the hi gh-
mobility state.
If val ue of the parameter is increased: The maximum number of cell reselections within
the peri od of NoHcsTCrMax in non-HCS cells increases and its harder for the UE to
enter t he high-mobility state. The maximum number of cell resel ecti ons withi n the period
of NoHcsTCrMaxHyst in non-HCS cells increases and its easier for the UE to leave the
high-mobility state.
If value of the parameter is decreased: The maximum number of cell reselections within
the peri od of NoHcsTCrMax in non-HCS cells decreases and its easier for the UE to
enter t he high-mobility state. The maximum number of cell resel ections withi n the period



of NoHcsTCrMaxHyst in non-HCS cells decreases and its harder for the UE to leave the
high-mobility state.
4.1.2.25 Non-HCS_TCRmaxHyst(s)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Non-HCS_TCRmaxHyst(s)
This paramet er indicates the additional time period before the UE can t ransit to low-
mobility measurements in case of non-HCS usage.
If value of the parameter is i ncreased, the period for evaluating t hat the UE transits to
low-mobility state gets longer and the its easier for the UE to enter the low-mobility state.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, the period for eval uating that the UE transits to
low-mobility state gets shorter and the its harder for the UE to enter the low-mobility
state.
4.1.2.26 TCRmax(s)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> TCRmax(s)
This parameter indicates the period for eval uating allowed number of cell resel ection(s)
in case of HCS usage.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, the period for eval uating number of cell
reselections gets longer and its easier for the UE to enter the high-mobility state.
If value of the parameter is decreased, the period for eval uating number of cell
reselections gets shorter and its harder for the UE to enter the high-mobility state.
4.1.2.27 NCR
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> NCR



This parameter indicates the maximum number of cell reselections in case of HCS
usage. It is vali d when a j udgment is made whether the UE enters or leaves the hi gh-
mobility state.
If val ue of the parameter is increased: The maximum number of cell reselections within
the period of TCrMax increases and its harder for the UE to enter the hi gh-mobility state.
The maximum number of cell reselections withi n the peri od of TCrMaxHyst increases
and its easier for the UE to leave the high-mobility state.
If value of the parameter is decreased: The maximum number of cell reselections within
the period of TCrMax decreases and its easier for the UE to enter the hi gh-mobility state.
The maximum number of cell reselections within the period of TCrMaxHyst decreases
and its harder for the UE to leave the high-mobility state.
4.1.2.28 TCrMaxHyst(s)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> T-CrMaxHyst(s)
This parameter i ndicates the additional time duration before the UE transits from hi gh-
mobility state to low-mobility state in case of HCS usage.
If value of the parameter is i ncreased, the period for evaluating t hat the UE transits to
low-mobility state gets longer and its easier for the UE to enter the low-mobility state.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, the period for eval uating that the UE transits to
low-mobility state gets shorter and its harder for the UE to enter the low-mobility state.
4.1.2.29 SHCS,RAT Configuration Tag
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> SHCS,RAT Configuration Tag
This parameter is a switch which indicates whether SHCS, RAT is configured or not. If
SHCS,RAT is not configured, UE performs inter -RAT measurement, otherwise UE
judges whether to performs i nter-RAT measurement. For more information, see TS
25.304.
O: Not confi gured for UE.
1: Configured for UE.



4.1.2.30 SHCS,RAT(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> S-HCS, RAT Configuration Tag
This parameter indicates the inter-RAT measurement triggering threshol d for HCS cell
reselection(S
HCS,RAT
) used by UE to judge whether inter-RAT measurement shoul d be
performed. Assume the recei ved level of servi ng cell is Srxlev, the quality of servi ng cell
is Squal, when HCS is used, if Srxlev<=SHCS,RAT or SHCS,RAT is not configured, the UE performs
inter-RAT measurement. in case Srxlev>S
HCS,RAT
, if Squal>S
limit,SearchRAT
, UE does not
perform inter-RAT measurement. If Squal <=S
limit,SearchRAT
, the UE performs measurement
on the neighbor inter-RAT cells having equal or hi gher HCS priority than the serving cell.
For more information, see TS 25.304.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its easier for the UE to trigger i nter -RAT
measurement. If value of the parameter is decreased, its harder for the UE to trigger
inter-RAT measurement.
4.1.2.31 Qhcs(Ec/No)(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs(Ec/No)(dB)
This parameter indicates the quality threshold levels for applying pri oritised hi erarchical
cell reselection, when quality measure is CPICH Ec/No.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its not easy for the cell to satisfy the criterion H.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, its easy for the cell to satisfy the criterion H.
4.1.2.32 Qhcs(RSCP)(dBm)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs(RSCP)(dBm)
This parameter indicates the quality threshold levels for applyi ng prioritised hierarchical
cell reselection, when quality measure is CPICH RSCP.



4.1.2.33 Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB11(dB)
OMCR
Management->UtranCell->UtranCell XX->Neighbouring Cell -> Neighbouring Cell X->
Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB11(dB)
When cell resel ection is set to CPICH Ec/No, this parameter speci fies the quality
threshol d levels for applying prioritised hi erarchical cell reselection. This parameter is
broadcasted i n SIB11.
4.1.2.34 Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB11(dBm)
OMCR
Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB11(dBm)
When cell resel ection is set to CPICH RSCP, this parameter specifies the quality
4.1.2.35 Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB12(dB)
OMCR
Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs for CPICH Ec/No in SIB12(dB)
When cell resel ection is set to CPICH Ec/No, this parameter speci fies the quality



4.1.2.36 Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB12(dBm)
OMCR
Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhcs for CPICH RSCP in SIB12(dBm)
When cell resel ection is set to CPICH RSCP, this parameter specifies the quality
threshol d levels for applying prioritised hi erarchical cell resel ection. This parameter is
4.1.2.37 Qhyst1s(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhyst1-s(dB)
This parameter indicates the hysteresis val ue for FDD cells in case the quality measure
for cell selection and reselection is set to CPICH RSCP. In cell-ranking criterion R of cell
reselection, the R value of servi ng cell equals to the measured val ue plus the hysteresis
value. For more information, see TS 25.304.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its harder to trigger cell reselection as the R value
of the servi ng cell will increase.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, its easier to trigger cell reselection as the R
value of the serving cell will decrease.
4.1.2.38 Qhyst2s(dB)
OMCR
and ReselectionX-> Modi fy Advanced Parameter-> Qhyst2-s(dB)
This parameter indicates the hysteresis value for FDD cells in case the quality measure
for cell selection and resel ection is set to CPICH Ec/No. In cell-ranking criteri on R of cell



reselection, the R value of servi ng cell equals to the measured value plus Qhyst2
s
. For
more information, see TS 25.304.
4.1.2.39 Qhyst1s for UE in CELL_PCH or URA_PCH State(dB)
OMCR
and Resel ectionX-> Advanced Parameter Manager ->Qhyst1s for UE i n CELL_PCH or
URA_PCH State(dB)
This parameter indicat es the hysteresis value (Qhyst) when UE is in CELL_PCH
/URA_PCH, in case the quality measure for cell reselection is set to CPICH RSCP. If this
parameter is not provided in SIB4, Qhyst1s will be used. In cell-ranking criteri on R of cell
value. For more information, see TS 25.304.
4.1.2.40 Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_PCH or URA_PCH State(dB)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->Cell Sel ection and Reselection -> Advanced
Parameter Manager->Advanced Parameter Manager ->Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_PCH or
URA_PCH State(dB)
This parameter indicat es the hysteresis value (Qhyst) when UE is in CELL_PCH
/URA_PCH, in case the quality measure for cell resel ection is set to CPICH Ec/No. If this
parameter is not provided i n SIB4, Qhyst2
s
will be used. In cell-ranking criterion R of cell
value.
of the servi ng cell in state PCH will increase.
value of the serving cell in state PCH will decrease.



4.1.2.41 Qhyst1s for UE in CELL_FACH State(dB)
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Advanced Parameter Manager ->Qhyst1s for UE in CELL_FACH
State(dB)
This parameter indicates the hysteresis value (Qhyst) when UE is in CELL_FACH, in
case the quality measure for cell reselection is set to CPICH RSCP. If this parameter is
not provided in SIB4, Qhyst1s will be used. In cell-ranking criterion R of cell reselection,
the R value of servi ng cell equals to the measured value plus the hysteresis val ue.
of the servi ng cell in state FACH will increase.
value of the serving cell in state FACH will decrease.
4.1.2.42 Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_FACH State(dB)
OMCR
Parameter Manager ->Advanced Parameter Manager ->Qhyst2s for UE in CELL_FACH
State(dB)
This parameter indicates the hysteresis value (Qhyst) when UE is in CELL_FACH, in
case the quality measure for cell reselection is set to CPICH Ec/No. If this parameter is
not provided in SIB4, Qhyst2
s
will be used. In cell-ranking criterion R of cell resel ection,
the R value of servi ng cell equals to the measured value plus the hysteresis val ue.
of the servi ng cell in state FACH will increase.
value of the serving cell in state FACH will decrease.

4.1.2.43 Qoffset1s,n in SIB11(dB)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->Nei ghbouring Cell -> Advanced Parameter
Manager->Qoffset1s,n in SIB11(dB)



This parameter i ndicates the quality offset of t he servi ng cell and neighbor cell when the
quality measure is CPICH RSCP. This parameter is required when queues cells in t he
cell reselection rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB11. R of neighbor cell =
measured signal quality of neighbor cell - this offset.
of the neighbor cell will decrease.
value of nei ghbor cell will probably increase.
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX-> Nei ghbouring Cell -> Advanced Parameter
Manager-> Qoffset2s,n in SIB11(dB)
This parameter i ndicates the quality offset of t he servi ng cell and neighbor cell when the
quality measure is CPICH Ec/No. This parameter is required when queues cells in the
cell reselection rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB11. R of neighbor cell =
measured signal quality of neighbor cell - this offset.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its harder to t rigger cell reselection as the R value
value of nei ghbor cell will increase.

OMCR
Manager->Qoffset1s,n in SIB12(dB)
This parameter i ndicates the quality offset of t he servi ng cell and neighbor cell for
CPICH RSCP. This parameter is requi red when queue the cells in the cell reselection
rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB12.



OMCR
Manager-> Qoffset2s,n in SIB12(dB)
This parameter i ndicates the quality offset of t he servi ng cell and neighbor cell for
CPICH Ec/No. This parameter is required when queue the cells in the cell reselection
of neighbor cell will probably decrease.

4.1.2.47 Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)(utranRelation)
OMCR
Manager->Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)
This parameter indicates the temporary offset for CPICH RSCP. The cell belongs to the
HCS structure. This parameter is required when queue the cells in the cell reselection
When the nei ghbor cell and servi ng cell have the same HCS priority: If value of the
parameter is increased, its harder to trigger cell resel ection as the R val ue of nei ghbor
cell will probably decrease. If val ue of the paramet er is decreased, its easier to trigger
cell reselection as the R val ue of neighbor cell will probably increase.
4.1.2.48 Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)(gsmRelation)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX-> GSM Nei ghbouring Cell -> Advanced
Parameter Manager->Temporary_offset1 in SIB11(dB)
This parameter indicates the temporary offset for CPICH RSCP. The cell belongs to the
HCS structure. This parameter is required when queue the cells in the cell reselection



4.1.2.49 Temporary_offset2 in SIB11(dB)
OMCR
Manager-> Temporary_offset 2 in SIB11(dB)
This paramet er indicates the temporary offset of the nei ghbor cell for CPICH Ec/No. The
cell belongs to the HCS structure. This parameter is requi red when queue the cells in
the cell reselection rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB11.
4.1.2.50 Temporary_offset1 in SIB12(dB)(utranRelation)
OMCR
This parameter indicates the temporary offset of the neighbor cell for CPICH RSCP. The
4.1.2.51 Temporary_offset1 in SIB12(dB)(gsmRelation)
OMCR
Parameter Manager ->Temporary_offset 1 in SIB12(dB)



This parameter indicates the temporary offset of the neighbor cell for CPICH RSCP. The
4.1.2.52 Temporary_offset2 in SIB12(dB)
OMCR
This paramet er indicates the temporary offset of the nei ghbor cell for CPICH Ec/No. The
4.1.2.53 Penalty Time in SIB11(s)(utranRelation)
OMCR
Manager-> Penalty Time i n SIB11(s)
This parameter indicates the effecti ve time of the neighbor cell temporary offset. The cell
belongs to the HCS structure. This parameter is required when queue the cells in the
cell reselection rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB11.
4.1.2.54 Penalty Time in SIB11(s)(gsmRelation)
OMCR



Parameter Manager-> Penalty Time i n SIB11(s)
cell reselection rule. This parameter is broadcast to UE in SIB11.

4.1.2.55 Penalty Time in SIB12(s)(utranRelation)
OMCR
Manager-> Penalty Time i n SIB12(s)
cell reselection rule. When the neighbor cell and servi ng cell have the same HCS pri ority:
of the neighbor cell will decrease. If val ue of t he parameter is decreased, its easier to
trigger cell resel ection as the R value of the nei ghbor cell will probably increase.
4.1.2.56 Penalty Time in SIB12(s)(gsmRelation)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->GSM Neighbouring Cell -> Advanced
Parameter Manager -> Penalty Time in SIB12(s)
cell reselection rule. When the neighbor cell and servi ng cell have the same HCS pri ority:
of the neighbor cell will decrease. If val ue of t he parameter is decreased, its easier to
trigger cell resel ection as the R value of the nei ghbor cell will probably increase.



4.1.2.57 Treselection(s)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell-> UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Resel ection-> Cell
Selection and ReselectionX->Advanced Parameter Manager -> Treselection(s)
This parameter indicates the cell reselection timer value. UE will reselect the new cell if
the new cell is best ranked accordi ng to the criterion R during a time interval i ndicated by
Treselection and the new cell can be selected as new serving cell only after extension of
the resel ection timer.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its harder to tri gger cell resel ection.
If val ue of the parameter is decreased, its easier to trigger cell resel ection.
4.1.2.58 Treselections,PCH(s)
OMCR
Management->UltranCell-> UtranCell XX->Cell Selection and Resel ection-> Cell
Selection and ReselectionX-> Advanced Paramet er Manager ->Tresel ections,PCH(s)
This parameter indicates the cell reselection timer value the UE will use in states
CELL_PCH and URA_PCH i f provided i n SIB4, otherwise Treselection
s
will be used. UE
will reselect the new cell if the new cell is best ranked according to the cell -ranking
criterion R duri ng a time interval indicated by Treselection and the new cell can be
selected as new serving cell only after extension of the resel ection timer.
If val ue of the parameter is increased, its harder for the UE in state PCH to trigger cell
reselection.
If value of the parameter is decreased, its easier for the UE in state PCH to trigger cell
reselection.
4.1.2.59 Treselections,FACH(s)
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Treselections,FACH(s)
This paramet er indicates the cell reselection timer val ue the UE will use i n state
CELL_FACH. If it is not provi ded in SIB4 broadcast, the UE will use Tresel ection
s
. If the
UE is in state CELL_FACH, it will reselect the new cell if the new cell is best ranked



according to the cell-ranking criterion R during a time interval indicated by Treselection
and the new cell can be selected as new serving cell only after extension of the
reselection timer.
If value of the parameter is i ncreased, its harder for the UE i n state FACH to t rigger cell
reselection.
If val ue of t he parameter is decreased, its easier for the UE in state FACH t o trigger cell
reselection.
4.1.2.60 Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for Treselection Configuration Tag
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for Tresel ection Confi guration
Tag
This parameter indicates whether scaling factor for cell reselection timer in UE high
mobility state is configured or not. 0: Not configured; 1: Confi gured.
4.1.2.61 Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for Treselection
OMCR
Parameter Manager->Speed Dependent Scaling Factor for Tresel ection
This parameter indicates the scaling factor of cell reselection timer in UEs high mobility
state. If value of this parameter is increased, then the resel ection timer for the UE in high
mobility state gets longer.
If val ue of this parameter is decreased, then the resel ection timer for the UE in high
mobility state gets shorter.
4.1.2.62 Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Treselection Configuration Tag
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Tresel ection Configurati on Tag
This parameter indicates whether scaling factor for cell reselection timer for the int er-
frequency case is configured or not. 0: Not configured; 1: Configured.



4.1.2.63 Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Treselection
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Inter-frequency Scaling Factor for Tresel ection
This parameter i ndicates the scaling factor for cell resel ection timer for t he int er-
frequency case. If the parameter is configured, the following situations are possible:
If UE is not detected in hi gh mobility state, the cell reselection timer value for the inter-
frequency case is Treselection
s
or Treselection
s, PCH
or Tresel ection
s, FACH
multiplexing
Inter-Frequency ScalingFactor for Treselection..
If UE is detected in high mobility state, the cell reselection timer val ue for the inter-
frequency case is Tresel ection
s
or Tresel ection
s, PCH
or Tresel ection
s, FACH
multiplexing
Inter-Frequency ScalingFactor for Treselection. and Speed dependent ScalingFactor for
Treselection.
If value of this parameter is increased, then the resel ection timer for inter-frequency cell
reselection gets longer.
If value of this parameter is decreased, then the reselection timer for i nter -frequency cell
reselection gets shorter.
4.1.2.64 Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Treselection Configuration Tag
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Tresel ection Configuration Tag
This parameter indicates whether scaling factor for cell reselect ion timer for the int er-
RAT case is configured or not. 0: Not configured; 1: Confi gured.
4.1.2.65 Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Treselection
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Inter-RAT Scaling Factor for Tresel ection
This parameter indicates the scaling factor for cell reselection timer for the inter -RAT
case. If the parameter is configured, the following si tuations are possible:



If UE is not detected in hi gh mobility state, the cell reselection timer value for the int er-
RAT case is Treselection
s
or Treselection
s,PCH
or Treselection
s
,FACH multiplexing Int er-
RAT ScalingFactor for Treselection.
If UE is detected in high mobility state, the cell reselection timer value for the inter -RAT
case is Treselection
s
or Treselection
s,PCH
or Tresel ection
s,FACH
multiplexing Inter-RAT
ScalingFactor for Treselectionand Speed dependent ScalingFactor for Treselection.
If value of this parameter is increased, then the resel ection timer for inter-frequency cell
reselection gets longer.
If value of this parameter is decreased, then the reselection timer for i nter -frequency cell
reselection gets shorter.
4.1.2.66 Tbarred(s)
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Tbarred(s)
This parameter indicates the barred time of a barred cell.
If value of this parameter is increased, then the UE will not try again accessing the
orignally barred cell until after a longer time.
If value of this paramet er is increased, then the UE will try again accessing the orignally
barred cell after a short er time.
4.1.2.67 Access Class N Barred Indicator (N=09)
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Access Class N Barred Indicator (N=09)
This parameter is the access class barred indicator for AC0~AC9. Bit0 ~ bit9 correspond
to AC0~AC9. 0: Barred, 1: Not Barred.
4.1.2.68 Cell Barred Indicator
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Cell Barred Indicator



This parameter is cell barred indicator. If the cell barred indicator is set to Barred, UEs
are not permitted to select/re-sel ect this cell, even for emergency calls.
4.1.2.69 Cell Reservation Extension
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> Cell Reservation Extension
This parameter is cell reservation extension indicator. If it is set reserved, i f the value of
Intra-frequency Cell Reselection Indicator is not allowed, UEs shall behave as if cell
status "barred" is indicated. And if cell status not barred is indicated, the "Cell
Reservation Extension" is invalid.
4.1.2.70 DeltaQrxlevmin Configuration Tag
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> DeltaQrxlevmi n Configuration Tag
This parameter indicates whether DeltaQrxlevmin used for cell reselection is confi gured
or not.
4.1.2.71 DeltaQrxlevmin(dBm)
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> DeltaQrxlevmi n(dBm)
This parameter indicates the extension of Qrxlevmi n, which means Qrxlevmin =
Qrxlevmin + DeltaQrxlevmin.
4.1.2.72 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11 Configuration Tag
OMCR



Management-> External UTRAN cell -> Advanced Parameter Manager->
DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11 Confi guration Tag
This parameter indicates whether DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11 is configured.
4.1.2.73 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11(dBm)
OMCR
Management-> External UTRAN cell -> Advanced Parameter Manager->
DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB11(dBm)
This parameter is the DeltaQrxl evmi n increment in SIB11. If present, the actual val ue of
Qrxlevmin = Qrxlevmin + Delta
Qrxlevmin.
4.1.2.74 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB12 Configuration Tag
OMCR
Management->External UTRAN Cell-> External UTRAN Cell XXX-> Advanced
Parameter Manager -> DeltaQrxlevmin i n SIB12 Confi guration Tag
This parameter indicates whether DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB12 is configured.
4.1.2.75 DeltaQrxlevmin in SIB12(dBm)
OMC Path
Interface Path: View->Configurati on Management ->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Management-> External UTRAN Cell-> External UTRAN Cell XXX-> Advanced
Parameter Manager -> DeltaQrxlevmin i n SIB12(dBm)
This parameter is the DeltaQrxl evmi n increment in SIB12. If present, the actual val ue of
Qrxlevmin = Qrxlevmin + Delta
Qrxlevmin.
4.1.2.76 Intra-frequency Cell Reselection Indicator
OMCR



Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX-> Cell Selection and Resel ection -> Advanced
Parameter Manager-> Intra-frequency Cell Reselection Indicator
This parameter is intra-frequency cell reselection indicator. If cell is barred, i f the value of
this parameter is All owed, UE is allowed t o select other intra-frequency cell in case it
satisfies the cell selection/relection condition. If it is set Not Allowed, when cell is
barred, UE will not select another i ntra-frequency cell.
4.1.2.77 Quality measure for Cell Selection and Reselection
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX-> Cell Selection and Resel ection -> Advanced
Parameter Manager-> Measurement Quality for Cell Sel ection and Reselection
This parameter indicates the quality measure for cell selection and resel ection.
4.1.2.78 Broadcast in either SIB3 or SIB4
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->Cell Sel ection and Reselection ->
Broadcast in either SIB3 or SIB4
This parameter indicates whether the cell selection/resel ection parameters are
broadcast in SIB3 or SIB4. Its SIB3 by default.
4.1.2.79 HCS Serving Cell Information Configuration Tag
OMCR
Parameter Manager-> HCS Serving Cell Information Configuration Tag
This parameter indicates whether HCS serving cell information is confi gured or not.
4.1.2.80 UE Inter-frequency FDD Measurement Indicator
OMCR



Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->Advanced Paramet er Manager->UE
Measurement Confi guration Information Block->UE Inter-frequency FDD Measurement
Indicator
This parameter indicates whether UE performs FDD inter-frequency measurement in CELL_FACH
state
4.1.2.81 UE Inter-RAT Measurement Indicator
OMCR
Management->UltranCell->UltranCell XXX->Advanced Paramet er Manager->UE
Measurement Confi guration Information Block->UE Inter-RAT Measurement Indicator
This parameter indicates whether UE performs inter-RAT measurement In CELL_FACH state.
4.1.2.82 Broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis((utranRelation)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx -> Neighbouri ng Cell ->Nei ghbouring
Cell xxx -> Modify -> Broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis
This parameter indicates UTRAN neighbour cell broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis, the default
parameter is broadcast in SIB11. If there are so many neighbour cells, and the size of system
message larger than 3552bit, select part of cells broadcast in SIB11bis
4.1.2.83 Broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis(gsmRelation)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx -> GSM Neighbouring Cell ->Modi fy->
Broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis(gsmRelation)
This parameter indicates GSM neighbour cell broadcast in either SIB11 or SIB11bis, the default
parameter is broadcast in SIB11. If there are so many neighbour cells, and the size of system
message larger than 3552bit, select part of cells broadcast in SIB11bis
4.1.2.84 FACH Measurement Occasion Cycle Length Coefficient
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx -> UE Measurement Configuration In
System Information Block-> FACH Measurement Occasion Cycle Length Coefficient



This parameter indicates FACH measurement occasion cycle Length coefficient. It wil l function
FACH mesurement neighbour cell occasion when in FACH status, the default parameter is 3, and
is the minimum value according to protocol.
4.1.2.85 SIB12 Indicator
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Advanced Parameter Manager-> UTRAN Cell-> SIB12
Indicator
This parameter indicates if SIB12 will broadcast in cell, the default parameter is not broadcast.
4.1.2.86 SIB4 Indicator
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Advanced Parameter Manager-> UTRAN Cell -> SIB4
Indicator
This parameter indicates if SIB4 will broadcast in cell, the default parameter is not broadcast.
4.1.2.87 Qqualmin-offset Present
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->Cell Selection and Reselection->
Advanced Parameter Manager-> Qqualmi n-offset Present
This parameter indicates whether the Qqualmin-offset will be broadcast in SIB3.
4.1.2.88 Qqualmin-offset
OMCR
Advanced Parameter Manager-> Qqualmi n-offset
The parameter indicates offset to Qqualmin, used to restrict PLMN ping-pong reselection when
cell selection and reselection.
4.1.2.89 Qrxlevmin-Offset Present
OMCR



Advanced Parameter Manager-> Qrxlevmi n-offset Present
The parameter indicates whether the Qrxlevmin-offset will be broadcast in SIB3.
4.1.2.90 Qrxlevmin-offset
OMCR
Advanced Parameter Manager-> Qrxlevmi n-offset
The parameter indicates offset to Qrelevmin, used to res trict PLMN ping-pong reselection when
4.1.2.91 Measurement Priority of Neighboring Cell
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->Neighbouring Cell -> Measurement
Priority of Neighbori ng Cell
The parameter indicates offset to Qrelevmin, used to restrict PLMN ping-pong reselection when
4.1.2.92 Measurement Priority of Neighboring GSM Cell
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->GSM Nei ghbouring Cell ->
Measurement Priority of Nei ghbori ng GSM Cell
4.1.2.93 Cell Reserved for Operator Use
OMCR
Advanced Parameter Manager-> Qrxlevmi n-offset Presen



4.1.2.94 Qhcs in SIB11
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->GSM Neighbouring Cell -> Advanced
Parameter Manager-> Qhcs in SIB11(dBm)
When cell selection and reselection is set to CPICH RSCP, this parameter specifies the quality
threshold levels for applying prioritised hierarchical cell reselection. This parameter is broadcasted
in SIB11.
4.1.2.95 Qhcs in SIB12
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->GSM Neighbouring Cell -> Advanced
Parameter Manager-> Qhcs in SIB12(dBm)
In the layered cell structure, this parameter indicates the quality threshold level of the neighboring
cell when performing the cell reselection for CPICH RSCP. This parameter is broadcast to UE in
SIB12.
4.1.2.96 Qqualmin in SIB11
OMCR
Management->External UTRAN Cell -> External UTRAN Cell xxx->Advanced Parameter
Manager-> Qqualmi n in SIB11(dB)
This parameter indicates the minimum requried quality level of the cell which satisfies the
condition of being selected or reselected by UE. When the measurement quantity is CPICH Ec/No,
only the measured quality of the cell is over Qqualmin can the cell be selected. This parameter is
the Qqualmin broadcast in SIB11.
4.1.2.97 Qqualmin in SIB12
OMCR
Path: View->Confi guration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource
Manager-> Qqualmi n in SIB12(dB)
This parameter indicates the minimum requried quality level of the cell which satisfies the
condition of being selected or reselected by UE. When the measurement quantity is CPICH Ec/No,
only the measured quality of the cell is over Qqualmin can the cell be selected. This parameter is
the Qqualmin broadcast in SIB12.
4.1.2.98 Qrxlevmin in SIB11(externalUtranCell)



OMCR
Manager-> Qrxlevmi n in SIB11(dBm)
This parameter indicates the minimum required received power level of the cell which satisfies the
condition of being selected or reselected by UE. When the measurement quantity is CPICH RSCP,
only the measured received power level of the cell is over Qrxlevmin can the cell be selected. This
parameter is the Qrxlevmin broadcast in SIB11.
4.1.2.99 Qrxlevmin in SIB11(externalGsmCell)
OMCR
Management->External GSM Cell -> External GSM Cell xxx->Advanced Parameter

4.1.2.100 Qrxlevmin in SIB12(externalUtranCell)
OMCR

4.1.2.101 Qrxlevmin in SIB12(externalGsmCell)
OMCR
Management->External GSM Cell -> External GSM Cell xxx->Advanced Parameter



4.1.2.102 Broadcast in SIB11 or SIB12
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->Advanced Paramet er Manager -> UE
Measurement Configuration In System Information Block->Broadcast in SIB11 or
SIB12
This parameter i ndicated whether t he confi guration of the set of measurement
parameters to be sent in system information is broadcast in SIB11 or SIB12.
4.1.2.103 Absolute Priority Reselection Criteria Switch
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell -> UTRAN Cell xxx ->Advanced Parameter Manager ->
UTRAN CELL->Absolute Pri ority Resel ection Criteria Swith
This parameter indicates whether absolute priority Reselection criteria is used. If
AbsPriReselSwch sets as Open, RNC will broadcast SIB19,otherwise, SIB19 will not be
broadcasted.
4.1.2.104 Absolute Priority of Serving Cell for Cell Reselection
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Pri ority-> Absolute
Priority of Servi ng Cell for Cell Reselection
This parameter indicates the absolute reselection priority of serving cell.
4.1.2.105 CPICH RSCP Measurement Trigger Threshold for Absolute Priority Reselection
Criteria(S
priority search1
)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> CPICH RSCP
Measurement Trigger Threshol d for Absolute Pri ority Resel ection Criteri a(S
prioritysearch1
)



This parameter is used in the measurement rules for cell re-selection when absolute priorities are
used. It specifies the value of Srxlev in the serving cell controlling the rate of inter -frequency and
inter-RAT measurements.
4.1.2.106 CPICH EcN0 Measurement Trigger Threshold for Absolute Priority Reselection
Criteria(S
priority search2
)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Pri ority-> CPICH EcN0
Measurement Trigger Threshol d for Absolute Pri ority Resel ection Criteri a(S
prioritysearch2
)
This parameter is used in the measurement rules for cell re-selection when absolute priorities are
used. It specifies the value of Squal in the serving cell controlling the rate of inter -frequency and
inter-RAT measurements.
4.1.2.107 Serving Cell Reselection Threshold for Absolute Priority Reselection
Criteria(Thresh
serv ing,low
)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> Servi ng Cell
Resel ection Threshol d for Absolut e Priority Reselection Criteria(Thresh
serv ing,low
)
This parameter is used in the rules for cell reselection when absolute priorities are used. It
specifies the limit for Srxlev in the serving cell below which the UE may perform cell reselection to
a cell on a lower absolute priority layer.
4.1.2.108 Number of UTRAN Centre Frequencies
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Resel ection and Priority-> Number of
UTRAN Centre Frequencies
This parameter indicates the number of inter-frequency layers in UTRAN.
4.1.2.109 Number of EUTRAN Centre Frequencies
OMCR
EUTRAN Centre Frequencies
This parameter indicates the number of EUTRA centre frequencies.
4.1.2.110 Number of GSM Frequency Groups



OMCR
GSM Frequency Groups
This parameter indicates the number of GSM frequency groups
4.1.2.111 Reselection Threshold for Inter-Frequency Layers of High Priority in
UTRAN(interThresh
s,high
)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> Reselection
Threshold for Int er-Frequency Layers of Hi gh Pri ority in UTRAN(interThresh
s,high
)
This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a higher priority UTRAN cell.
4.1.2.112 Reselection Threshold for Inter-Frequency Layers of Low Priority in
UTRAN(interThresh
s,low
)
OMCR
Threshold for Int er-Frequency Layers of Low Pri ority in UTRAN(interThresh
s,low
)
This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a lower priority UTRAN cell.
4.1.2.113 Reselection Threshold for Inter-RAT Layers of High Priority in
EUTRAN(interThresh
s,high
)
OMCR
Threshold for Int er-RAT Layers of High Priority in EUTRAN(i nterThresh
s,high
)
This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a higher priority UTRAN cell.
4.1.2.114 Reselection Threshold for Inter-RAT Layers of Low Priority in
EUTRAN(Thresh
s,low
)
OMCR
Threshold for Int er-RAT Layers of Low Priority in EUTRAN(Thresh
s,low
)



This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a lower priority UTRAN cell.
4.1.2.115 Reselection Threshold for Inter-RAT Layers of High Priority in
GERAN(interThresh
s,high
)
OMCR
Threshold for Int er-RAT Layers of High Priority in GERAN(interThresh
s,high
)
This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a higher priority GERAN cell.
4.1.2.116 Reselection Threshold for Inter-RAT Layers of Low Priority in
GERAN(interThresh
s,low
)
OMCR
Threshold for Int er-RAT Layers of Low Priority in GERAN(interThresh
s,low
)
This parameter indicates the threshold for cell reselection to a lower priority GERAN cell.
4.1.2.117 Qrxlevmin of UTRAN for Cell Reselection(QrxlevminFDD)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> Qrxlevmin of
UTRAN for Cell Reselection(Qrxlevmi nFDD)
This parameter indicates the minimum required received power level of UTRAN cell which
satisfies the condition of being reselected by UE.
4.1.2.118 Qqualmin of UTRAn for Cell Reselection(QqualminFDD)
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> Qqualmi n of
UTRAn for Cell Reselection(Qqualmi nFDD)
This parameter indicates the minimum required quality level of UTRAN cell which satisfies the
condition of being reselected by UE.
4.1.2.119 Qrxlevmin of GSM for Cell Reselection(QrxlevminGSM)
OMCR



GSM for Cell Resel ection(QrxlevminGSM)
This parameter indicates the minimum required received power level of GERAN cell which
4.1.2.120 Qrxlevmin of EUTRAN for Cell Reselection(QrxlevminEUTRA)
OMCR
EUTRAN for Cell Reselection(Qrxl evmi nEUTRA)
This parameter indicates the minimum required received power level of EUTRAN cell which
4.1.2.121 Absolute Priority of Inter-Frequency Layers in UTRAN
OMCR
Priority of Inter-Frequency Layers in UTRAN
This parameter indicates the absolute reselection priority of inter-frequency layers in UTRAN.
4.1.2.122 Absolute Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in EUTRAN
OMCR
Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in EUTRAN
This parameter indicates the absolute reselection priority of inter-rat layers in EUTRAN.
4.1.2.123 Absolute Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in GERAN
OMCR
Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in GERAN
This parameter indicates the absolute reselection priority of inter-RAT layers in GERAN.
4.1.2.124 UTRAN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number



OMCR
Priority of Inter-RAT Layers in GERAN
This paramet er indicates the occupied upli nk carri er central frequency point of the cell. It
is UTRA absolute radio frequency channel No., cor respondi ng to the cent ral frequency
of the carrier used by the uplink channel.
4.1.2.125 GSM Band Indicator
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Reselection and Priority-> GSM Band
Indicator
This parameter identifies which frequency band the BCCH ARFCN GSM cell uses.
4.1.2.126 GSM Starting ARFCN
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Resel ection and Priority-> GSM Starting
ARFCN
This parameter indicates starting absolute radio frequency channel No. of GSM cell.
4.1.2.127 Downlink EUTRAN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Resel ection and Priority-> Downli nk
EUTRAN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
The parameter indicates the downlink E-UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number
(EARFCN). F_DL is center carrier frequency, F_DL_low is dl lowest carrier frequency, N_DL is
DlEARFCN, N_Offs-Dl is carrier frequency offset indicated by band indicator.
4.1.2.128 EUTRAN Allowed Measurement Bandwidth
OMCR
Management->UTRAN Cell ->Cell Frequency Resel ection and Priority-> Downli nk
EUTRAN Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number



This parameter indicates the maximum allowed measurement bandwidth on a carrier frequency.
4.2 PRACH-related Parameters
4.2.1 Parameter List
PreamScraCode PRACH Preamble Scrambli ng Code
Signature Available Signature
AvailableSF PRACH Avail abl e SF
RlcSize Transport Block Size
TrBlkNum Number of Transport Blocks
TTI Transmission Time Interval
CtfcNum CTFC Number
Ctfc CTFC Id
TfcsIndex(Prach) TFCS Index(Prach)
TfcsIndex(Ul Tfcs) TFCS Index(UlTfcs)
TfsIndex TFS Index
PunctLimit Puncturing Limit
AichTranTime AICH Transmission Timing
AsigStIdx Available Signature Begin Index
AsigEndIdx Available Signature End Index
AsubChNum Assigned Subchannel No.
PRStep PRACH Preamble Power Ramp Step
MaxPreamRetrans Maximum Number of Preamble Being Transmitted
POPpm Power Offset between PRACH Control Part and PRACH Data
Part
BetaD Data Part Gain Factor BetaD
BetaC Cont rol Part Gain Factor BetaC
ConstVal PRACH Initiation Tx Power Constant Value
AvailSubChanNum PRACH Avail abl e Subchannel Number
MaxRACHTxPwr Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH
DynPstLevel Init Initial Dynamic Persistence Level
PSF Persistence Scaling Factor
PsfNum Persistence Scaling Factor Number
PermitMaxASC Permitted Maximum Access Service Class
Mmax Maximum Number of Preamble Ramping Cycles
NB01mi n Sets Lower Bound for Random Back-off
NB01max Sets Upper Bound for Random Back-off



CPCId PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
PrachCPCId PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
CTCId RACH Common Transport Channel ID
Sib5OrSib6 Broadcast in either SIB5 or SIB6
AC2ASCMap AC-to-ASC Mapping
PreamThs Detected Preamble Threshold
4.2.2 Parameter Configuration
4.2.2.1 PRACH Preamble Scrambling Code
OMCR
Path: View->Configuration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radi o Resource
Management->External UTRAN Cell -> External UTRAN Cell XXX-> Advanced
Parameter Manager->PRACH-> PRACH Preamble Scrambling Code
This parameter indicates the preamble scrambling number that this PRACH can use.
The scrambling code that can be used for PRACH in each cell rel ates to the DL primary
scrambling code of the cell. In addition, there are at most sixteen preamble scrambling
codes available. This parameter can be used to distinguish the PRACHs.
4.2.2.2 Available Signature
OMCR
Management->External UTRAN Cell-> External UTRAN Cell XXX-> Advanced
Parameter Manager->PRACH-> Avail abl e Signat ure
This parameter indicates all effecti ve signatures when the PRACH is used. 16 bit
represents 16 signatures; the bit which equals 1 means the correspondi ng signature is
valid. Each signature corresponds one by one to the channelization code number of
PRACH whose SF is 16.
4.2.2.3 PRACH Available SF
OMCR
Path:View->Confi guration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radio Resource Management-
> UTRAN Cell -> Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> PRACH Available SF



This parameter indicates the minimum effecti ve spreading factor that this PRACH can
use (limiting the maximum rate that the PRACH can transmit). The greater the mi nimum
effecti ve spreading factor is, the l ower the maximum rate becomes at which the PRACH
can transmit.
4.2.2.4 Transport Block Size(bits)
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Paramet er Manager->Transmission Format Set-> Transport
Block Size(bits)
This parameter indicates the transport block size. Where MAX_TF =32.
4.2.2.5 Number of Transport Blocks
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager->Transmission Format Set-> Number of
Transport Blocks
This parameter indicates the number of transport blocks for each transport format.
Where, MAX_TF is the maximum transport formats and it is 32.
4.2.2.6 Transmission Time Interval
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager->Transmission Format Set->
Transmission Time Int erval
This parameter indicates the transmission time interval.
4.2.2.7 CTFC Number
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager->Transport Format Combination Set of
PRACH -> CTFC Number



This parameter indicates the number of TFCs (transport format combination) in TFCS
(transport format combi nation set). TFCS means the combination of the transport
formats of CCTrCH, and is the combination of transport formats allowed by the
corresponding transport channels.
4.2.2.8 CTFC Id
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager->Transport Format Combination Set of
PRACH -> CTFC Id
This parameter indicates the identity of each TFC (t ransport format combi nation) in
TFCS (transport format combination set). TFCS means the combinati on of the transport
formats of CCTrCH, and is the combination of transport formats allowed by the
corresponding transport channels.
4.2.2.9 TFCS Index(Prach)
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager-> Transport Format Combi nation Set of
PRACH-> TFCS Index
This parameter i ndicates the transport format combination set (TFCS) index used by the
SCCPCH. It is used for indexing the CTFC number and CTFC Id of the TFCS of one
SCCPCH.
4.2.2.10 TFCS Index(UlTfcs)
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager-> Transport Format Combi nation Set of
PRACH-> TFCS Index
This parameter i ndicates the transport format combination set (TFCS) index used by the
PRACH. It is used for indexing the CTFC number and CTFC Id of the TFCS of one
PRACH.



4.2.2.11 TFS Index
OMCR
Management-> UTRAN Cell-> Advanced Parameter Manager->RACH-> TFS Index
This paramet er indicates the transport format set index, used for i ndexi ng the
confi guration of a set of transport format paramet ers for a transport channel including
channel type, transport format number, number of transport blocks, transport bl ock size,
transmission time interval, codi ng rate, rate matching attri bute.

4.2.2.12 Puncturing Limit(%)
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell ->Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> Puncturing Limit(%)
This parameter limits the amount of puncturing that can be appli ed for PRACH in order
to avoid multicode or to enable the use of a hi gher spreading factor. The allowed
puncturi ng in % actually can not exceed (1- Puncturing Limit). If it is exceeded that
means the selected SF does not satisfy the requi rement and a smaller SF is needed.
4.2.2.13 AICH Transmission Timing
OMCR
Management-> UTRAN Cell ->Advanced Parameter Manager->AICH-> AICH
Transmission Timi ng
This parameter is used to calculate the timing relationshi p between PRACH preambles,
between the PRACH preamble and PRACH message, between PRACH transmits
preambl e and recei ves AICH. In addition, this parameter is used by the UE to calculate
the effecti ve sub-channel No. available to ASC.
4.2.2.14 Available Signature Begin Index
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell-> Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> Available Signature Begin
Index



The effecti ve signatures assigned to each ASC of a PRACH correspond to two
parameters: Availabl e signature Begi n Index and Available signature End Index. Their
relation with Available Signat ure is: After ordering the configured Available Signat ure
(whose bit is 1) i n the ascendi ng order (such as, 2:0; 5: 1; 12: 2), the Avail abl e signat ure
Begin Index and the Availabl e signature End Index are the starting index and ending
index after orderi ng. Range of available signatures (Availabl e signature End Index-
Available signature Begi n Index + 1) of di fferent ASCs can overl ap each other. Generally
speaking, the hi gher level the ASC is, the more signatures it will be confi gured.
Where, MAX_ASC =8.
4.2.2.15 Available Signature End Index
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell-> Advanced Paramet er Manager->PRACH-> Availabl e Signature End
Index
The effecti ve signatures assigned to each ASC of a PRACH correspond to two
parameters: Availabl e signature Begi n Index and Available signature End Index. Their
relation with Available Signat ure is: After ordering the configured Available Signat ure
(whose bit is 1) in the ascending order (such as, 2:0; 5: 1; 12:2), the Avail able signat ure
Begin Index and the Availabl e signature End Index are the starting index and ending
index after orderi ng. Range of available signatures (Availabl e signature End Index-
Available signature Begi n Index + 1) of di fferent ASCs can overl ap each other. Generally
speaking, the hi gher level the ASC is, the more signatures it will be confi gured.
Where, MAX_ASC =8.
4.2.2.16 Assigned Subchannel No.
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell ->Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> Assigned Subchannel No.
This parameter indicates the all ocated sub-channel number for each ASC of the PRACH.
This allocated sub-channel number can not be used directly, and after repeating
according to the configured AICH transmission timing, doing and operation with
Available Sub Channel Number then the actual val ue is obtained.
Where, MAX_ASC =8.



4.2.2.17 PRACH Preamble Power Ramp Step(dB)
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell-> Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> PRACH Preamble Power
Ramp Step(dB)
This parameter indicates the power ramp step used by the UE when it does not recei ve
any responses from AICH after sending a preamble. This parameter is used to be added
to the previous power, and then the next preamble is sent at this new power.
4.2.2.18 Maximum Number of Preamble Being Transmitted
OMCR
> UTRAN Cell -> Advanced Parameter Manager->PRACH-> Maximum Number of
Preamble Being Transmitted
This parameter indicat es the maximum number that the access preamble can be sent
before L1 recei ves ACK or NACK.
4.2.2.19 Power Offset between PRACH Control Part and PRACH Data Part(dB)
OMCR
Management-> Advanced Parameter Manager->Transmission Format Composition Set
of PRACH-> Power Offset between PRACH Control Part and PRACH Data Part(dB)
This parameter indicates the power offset between control part of the PRACH message
part and the last preamble. It shoul d be confi gured for each TFC.
Where, MAX_PRACH_TFC=32.
4.2.2.20 Data Part Gain Factor BetaD
OMCR
of PRACH-> Data Part Gai n Factor BetaD



This parameter indicates the data part gain factor d. Where, MAX_ SINGLESRV_TFC
is the maximum transport format combinations for a single service CCTrCh. MAX_
SINGLESRV_TFC=32.
4.2.2.21 Control Part Gain Factor BetaC
OMCR
of PRACH-> Control Part Gai n Factor BetaC
This parameter indicates the control part gai n factor of PRACH. Control part gai n factor
and data part gain factor are the power offset gai n factors between control part and data
part of PRACH. And they should be configured for each TFC of the PRACH. When
determining the initial transmit power, only the transmit power of control part is
determined and the transmit power of data part is calculat ed through the transmit power
of control part and gain factor
c
,
d
. Where MAX_PRACH_TFC=32.
4.2.2.22 PRACH Initiation Tx Power Constant Value(dB)
OMCR
Management-> UTRAN Cell-> UTRAN Cell XXX-> Advanced Parameter Manager-
>PRACH-> PRACH Initiation Tx Power Constant Value(dB)
This parameter is the correction value when calculating the initial transmission power of
PRACH preamble.
4.2.2.23 PRACH Available Subchannel Number
OMCR
>PRACH-> PRACH Available SubChannel Number
This parameter indicates the avail able effecti ve sub-channel number of this PRACH.
The sub-channel number actually defines the available time slot for the PRACH. The bit
indicates whet her this sub-channel number is valid or not (Bit=1 indicates that the
corresponding sub-channel is vali d). Each sub-channel number can correspond to
several access slots. For several PRACHs in the same cell, their sub-channel numbers
(correspondi ng bits) must be di fferent from each other.



4.2.2.24 Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
OMCR
>PRACH-> Maximum Allowed UL TX Power of RACH(dBm)
This parameter indicates the maximum allowed UL transmission power of RACH.
If t he parameter value is increased, the maximum allowed UL transmission power of
RACH increases.
If the parameter value is decreased, the maximum allowed UL transmission power of
RACH decreases.
4.2.2.25 Initial Dynamic Persistence Level
OMCR
>PRACH-> Initial Dynamic Persistence Level
This parameter indicates the initial dynamic persistence level used by the MAC layer to
calculate the transmission possibility for the ASCi>=1.
Each PRACH is configured with one value. The dynamic persistence level of several
PRACHs allocated to UE can be broadcast together in SIB7.
4.2.2.26 Persistence Scaling Factor
OMCR
>PRACH-> Persistence Scaling Factor
This parameter is used by the MAC l ayer to calculate the transmission possibility for the
access service class whose ASC is 2~7. Where MAX_ASC_PSF =6.
4.2.2.27 Persistence Scaling Factor Number
OMCR



>PRACH-> Persistence Scaling Factor
This parameter indicates the number of the ASCs which are confi gured persistence
scaling factors.

4.2.2.28 Permitted Maximum Access Service Class
OMCR
>PRACH-> Permitted Maximum Access Service Cl ass
This parameter indicates the permitted number of access services for the PRACH. It
sets the size of the following three arrays: Avail abl e signature Begin Index, Avail able
signature End Index and Assigned Sub-Channel Number[.
4.2.2.29 Maximum Number of Preamble Ramping Cycles
OMCR
>PRACH-> Maximum Number of Preamble Rampi ng Cycles
This parameter indicates the maximum times for re-sending attempts on MAC layer.
When the physical layer returns NACK (unacknowl edged) or NO ACK (Node B does not
response), adds the attempt times, M, by 1. When M is over Mmax, the MAC l ayer stops
the access process.
When the parameter value is increased, the MAC layer makes more sending attempts.
When the parameter val ue is decreased, the MAC layer makes less sending attempts.
4.2.2.30 Sets Lower Bound for Random Back-off
OMCR
>PRACH-> Sets Lower Bound for Random Back-off



This parameter indicates the smallest time limit waiting for re-sending after NACK is
recei ved.
When the UE recei ves NACK on AICH, the MAC layer starts the timer Tbo1, so that the
MAC can attempt to send agai n after certain time. This parameter can avoid frequent
rejection.
T
BO1
can be set as N
BO1
times of the interval of 10 ms and can vary randomly in a range.
Determination of NBO1: 0 NBO1min NBO1 NBO1max.
4.2.2.31 When Tbo1 expires, a new attempt on RACH is startedSets Upper Bound for
Random Back-off
OMCR
Interface Path: View->Configuration Management->RNC NE->RNC Radi o Resource
>PRACH-> Sets Upper Bound for Random Back-off
This paramet er indicates the l argest time limit waiting for re-sendi ng after NACK is
recei ved.
When the UE recei ves NACK on AICH from L1, the MAC layer starts the timer Tbo1, so
that the MAC can attempt to send agai n after certai n time. This parameter can avoid
frequent rejection.
T
BO1
can be set as N
BO1
times of the interval of 10 ms and can vary randomly in a range.
Determination of NBO1: 0 NBO1min NBO1 NBO1max.
When TBo1 expires, a new attempt on RACH is started.
4.2.2.32 PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
OMCR
>RACH-> PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
This parameter indicates the common physical channel ID of PRACH corresponding to
this RACH..One cell can contain several PRACH. Common physical channel ID is the
unique identifi er all ocated to one common physical channel within a cell.
4.2.2.33 PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
OMCR



>PRACH-> PRACH Common Physical Channel ID
This parameter indicates the common physical channel ID of PRACH. One cell can
contain several PRACH. Common physical channel ID is the unique identifi er all ocated
to one common physical channel within a cell.
4.2.2.34 RACH Common Transport Channel ID
OMCR
>RACH-> RACH Common Transport Channel ID
This parameter indicates the common transport channel ID of RACH. Common transport
channel ID is the unique identifi er all ocated to one common transport channel withi n a
cell. One cell can contain several RACHs.
4.2.2.35 Broadcast in either SIB5 or SIB6
OMCR
>PRACH-> Broadcast in either SIB5 or SIB6
This parameter indicates whether the SCCPCH information is broadcast in SIB5 or SIB6.
Its SIB5 by default.
4.2.2.36 AC-to-ASC Mapping
OMCR
>PRACH-> AC-t o-ASC Mappi ng
This parameter indicates the mappi ng relation between AC and ASC. AC is the access
level stored in UE IMSI. ASC is the RACH access level of PRACH channel. AC will be
used in initial setup state. And not be used in connected state.



Where, MAX_AC_ASC_MAPPING =7.
4.2.2.37 Detected Preamble Threshold(dB)
OMCR
>PRACH-> Det ected Preambl e Threshol d(dB)
This parameter indicates the preamble judgment threshol d when Node B detects
preambl es. To make the access preambl e of the PPRACH transmission be detected by
Node B, the proportion of the recei ved preamble power in the preambl e cycle and the
interference l evel shoul d be larger than this parameter.
5 Glossary
A
APLMN Available PLMN
E
EPLMN Equi valent PLMN
H
HLR Home Location Register
HPLMN Home PLMN
P
PLMN Public Land Mobil e-communication Network
S
SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node
V
VLR Visiting Location Register
VPLMN Visited PLMN

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