Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection and

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Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection and Handover

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• Inter-Freq Cell Reselection

• Measurement Parameters
• Measurement IEs in SIB 3/4 and 11/12
• FACH Measurement Occasion calculation

• Inter-Freq Handover
• Measurement Parameters
• Virtual Active Set
• Call flow for HO Blind and non-Blind Handover
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Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection

 Inter-Frequency Cell Reselection
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UTRAN may specify:

• Up to 32 inter-frequency cells
• Up to 2 additional carriers

• Sintersearch threshold
– If serving Squal > Sintersearch, UE need not
perform inter-frequency measurements
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SIB Type 3 and Type 4

Cell Reselection

SIB 4 Cell Reselection Cell Access

Cell Identity
Indicator Param eters Restriction

Cell Barred Indicators

Cell Reserved Indicators
Quality Reselection Reselection Maxim um UL Cell Barred Timer
Measure Thresholds Tim er TX Pow er Access Class Barred Indicators

Sintrasearch
Sintersearch
SinterRATsearch
Qqualmin
Qrxlevmin
Qhyst1
Qhyst2
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SIB Type 11 and Type 12

Measurement Information
Value Tag Cell Scope

SIB 12 FACH Measurement Measurement

Indicator Occasion Information Control Information

Cycle Length FDD TDD Inter-RAT

Coefficient Indicator Indicator Indicator

Traffic Volume UE Internal Intra-frequency Inter-frequency Inter-RAT

Measurements Measurements Measurements Measurements Measurements

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Inter-frequency Inter-RAT Intra-frequency

Measurem ents Measurem ents Measurem ents

Cell Info List RACH Reporting DCH Reporting

Inform ation Inform ation

Cells to Rem ove Cells to Add

Cell Info ... Cell Info

For exam ple:

Cell reselecton param eters
Frequency
BSIC, band, Frequency
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Measurements for Cell Reselection

All Measurements
Inter-frequency and
Idle, Cell_PCH, URA_PCH States Inter-RAT Measurements

UE Sleeping UE Sleeping

Paging Occasion

Cell_FACH State

UE Receiving FACH UE Receiving FACH

FACH Measurement Occasion

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FACH Measurement Occasion

• Determines the SFN during which UE may “tune away” from FACH
to perform inter-freq or inter-RAT measurements
• UTRAN must not send UE data during that frame
• A FACH Measurement Occasion of N frames will be repeated every
N * M_REP frame

SFN div N = C_RNTI mod M_REP + n * M_REP

N is the TTI (in number of 10ms frames) of the FACH having the largest TTI
on the SCCPCH monitored by UE
M_REP = 2k is the FACH Measurement Occasion Cycle Length
k is the FACH Measurement occasion cycle length coefficient (1..12)
n = 0,1,2… as long as SFN is below its maximum value
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Inter-Frequency Handover
 Compressed Mode Measurements for Inter-
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Compressed Mode Measurements Inter-Frequency Handover

Inter-frequency and
Inter-RAT Measurements

Cell_DCH State

UE Receive/Transmit UE Receive/Transmit UE Receive/Transmit UE Receive/Transmit

DCH DCH DCH DCH

Compressed Mode Compressed Mode Compressed Mode Compressed Mode

Gap Gap Gap Gap
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Inter-frequency Reporting Events

• Event 2a – Change of best frequency.
Change of best frequency
Triggering condition: Qnot best >= Qbest + hyst/2
Leaving triggering condition:
Q not best: Quality estimate of a non-used freq
Q best : Quality estimate of current "best freq"

• Event 2b – The estimated quality of the currently used frequency is below a certain threshold and the estimated
quality of a nonused frequency is above a certain threshold.

The estimated quality of the currently used freq is below a certain threshold and that of a non-used freq is above a
certain threshold.
Entering Triggering condition:
1) Qnon-used >= Tnon-used + H2b / 2
2) Qused <= Tused - H2b / 2
Leaving triggering condition:
3) Qnon-used < Tnon-used - H2b / 2
4) Qused > Tused + H2b / 2
Q non used: Quality estimate of a non-used freq
Q used : Quality estimate of current freq
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• Event 2c – The estimated quality of a nonused frequency is above a certain threshold.

The estimated quality of a non-used freq is above certain threshold.

Triggering condition: Qnon-used >= Tnon-used + hyst/2
Leaving triggering condition: Qnon-used < Tnon-used - hyst/2
• Event 2d – The estimated quality of the currently used frequency is below a certain
threshold.

The estimated quality of the current freq is below certain threshold.

Triggering condition: Qused <= Tused - hyst/2
Leaving triggering condition: Qused > Tused + hyst/2
• Event 2e – The estimated quality of a nonused frequency is below a certain threshold.

The estimated quality of a non-used freq is below certain threshold.

Triggering condition: Qnon-used <= Tnon-used - hyst/2
Leaving triggering condition: Qnon-used > Tnon-used + hyst/2
• Event 2f – The estimated quality of the currently used frequency is above a certain threshold.

The estimated quality of the current freq is above certain threshold.

Triggering condition: Qused >= Tused + hyst/2
Leaving triggering condition: Qused < Tused - hyst/2
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Frequency Quality Estimate

• Based on:
– Active Set for used frequency
– Virtual Active Set for non-used frequency

Virtual Active Set

• The “best” cells of a non-used frequency
– One Virtual Active Set per non-used frequency
– Adding and removing cells from the set
 Autonomously by UE
 Directed by UTRAN
• Measurements from Virtual Active Set cells contribute to calculations of:
– Reporting Range
– Frequency Quality Estimate
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Frequency Quality Estimate

 NA j 
Q frequency j  W j 10  Log   M i j   (1  W j ) 10  LogM Best j
 i 1 
Qfrequency j is the estimated quality of the active or virtual active set on frequency j.

Mi j is a measurement result of cell i in the active or virtual active set on frequency j.

NA j is the number of cells in the active or virtual active set on frequency j.

MBest j is the measurement result of the cell in the active or virtual active set on
frequency j with the highest measurement result.

Wj is a parameter sent from UTRAN to UE and used for frequency j.

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Measurement Control Message

Measurement Measurement Reporting Additional Compressed

Identity Command Mode Measurements Mode Info

Setup Reference Information to

Reference Number Transfer Mode
Modify Numbers to other reconfigure
(AM or UM)
Release Measurements Compressed Mode
Periodic or
Event Triggered

One of the Following Measurement Types

Intra- Inter- UE Traffic

Inter-RAT Quality UE Internal
Frequency Frequency Positioning Volume
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Measurement Reporting Reporting Measurement Inter-frequenc y

Cell Info List
Quantity Quantity Cell Status Validity Set Update

Remov e All Filter Coeffic ient T ypes of c ells UE states

Remov e Some Measurement Quantity Maximum Number of Changes to
New Cells to Add c ells the v irtual
ac tiv e set
Additional Reporting Quantities

One of the following

Intra-Frequenc y I n t e r-Fre q u e n cy Periodic al

No
Measurement Reporting M e a su re me n t Re p o rt in g Reporting
Crit e ria Reporting
Criteria Criteria

Ev ents 1a through 1c Ev ents 2a through 2f Amount of Reporting

Reporting interv al
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Intra-frequency Reporting Events used with Virtual Active Set

• Event 1a – A Primary CPICH enters the Reporting Range.

• Event 1b – A Primary CPICH leaves the Reporting Range.

• Event 1c – A Nonactive Primary CPICH becomes better than an active

Primary CPICH.
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Event 1a – Primary CPICH enters Reporting Range

Measurement
Quantity
PCPICH 1

PCPICH 2

Reporting
range

PCPICH 3

Time to Trigger

Event 1a Event 1a
Time
Detected Reported
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Event 1c – Non-active CPICH becomes better than

(Virtual) Active CPICH

Measurement
quantity
P CPICH 1

P CPICH 2

P CPICH 3

P CPICH 4 Time to Trigger

Event 1c Event 1c Periodic Time

Detected Reported Reporting of
event 1c
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UE RNC

Measurement Control UTRAN configures Event 2c,

Initial Virtual Active Set
UE takes measurements

Event 2c triggered Measurement Report

UTRAN configures Event 1a

Measurement Control
for inter-frequency cells
UE takes measurements

Event 1a triggered Measurement Report

UTRAN decides to perform
Physical Channel inter-frequency handover
Reconfiguration
UE performs inter-
frequency handover Physical Channel
Reconfiguration Complete
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UE RNC

UTRAN decides to perform

Physical Channel inter-frequency handover
Reconfiguration
UE performs inter-
frequency handover Physical Channel
Reconfiguration Complete
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