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TD-LTE Cell Timing Advance

Author/ Email: Sam Huang /
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TA Timing Advance
TA (Timing Advance), is an advance time, for UE to send out UL
frame before the start of the corresponding downlink radio frame at
the UE, for channel sync purpose
UE will start a timer when sending Preamble for access. Upon
succeed receive the response from eNodeB, UE will get the TA
needed for following radio frame transmission
3GPP 36.213 (4.2.3) defines that 1 TA =
16*Ts=16*(0.5ms/15360)=0.52s
So 1 TA time advance maps to the distance between eNodeB and UE
is: (300,000km/s*0.52s)/2 = 78m
Here 300,000km/s is the spread speed of electic wave, 2 means a
round trip between UE and eNodeB
So the distance between UE and eNodeB = 78 * TA (m)
Also from here the accuracy of the TA is 78m
Huawei has a counter to count the TA value when receive UE
Radom Access
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TA counter
Counter ID

Counter Name

1526728956

L.RA.TA.UE.Index0

1526728957

L.RA.TA.UE.Index1

1526728958

L.RA.TA.UE.Index2

1526728959

L.RA.TA.UE.Index3

1526728960

L.RA.TA.UE.Index4

1526728961

L.RA.TA.UE.Index5

1526728962

L.RA.TA.UE.Index6

1526728963

L.RA.TA.UE.Index7

1526728964

L.RA.TA.UE.Index8

1526728965

L.RA.TA.UE.Index9

Counter Description

Distance

Number of times the TA value is 0 or 1 (index 0) in a UE-initiated

0~156m
random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is 2 or 3 (index 1) in a UE-initiated
156~234m
random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 4 to 7 (index 2) in a
234~546m
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 8 to 13 (index 3) in a
546~1014m
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 14 to 25 (index 4) in a
1014~1950
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 26 to 45 (index 5) in a
1950-3510
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 46 to 85 (index 6) in a
3510-6630
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 86 to 185 (index 7) in a
6630~14430
UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 186 to 385 (index 8) in
14430~30030
a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell
Number of times the TA value is ranging from 386 to 685 (index 9) in
30030~53430
a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell

1526728966 L.RA.TA.UE.Index10

Number of times the TA value is ranging from 686 to 985 (index 10)
in a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell

53430~76830

1526728967 L.RA.TA.UE.Index11

Number of times the TA value is greater than 985 (index 11) in a UEinitiated random access procedure in a cell

>76830

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M2000 Counter

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Some cells TA example

TA Stats Query
for 6 eNodeBs_20140115-21

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