Reselection Overview

Yogen Deshpande
August 07, 2006
 Operations in DRX Mode
 DRX cycle length coefficient – SIB1 (2IE
frames).e.g. IE= 7 => 128 frames
 Wake up and re-acquire serving cell
 Monitor paging indicator channel
 If page indicators are set, read the paging
message and establish a call
 If required, measure neighbor cells and do
ranking and reselection appropriately
 If no page and no reselection, store the
serving cell position and go to sleep
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 Reacquisition- where & when to wake up
 Reacquisition - search around known position
 “Cx8”
 Which SFN should I wake up in? =>

 WCDMA is asynchronous => may miss page

during reselection

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 S Criteria
 Squal > 0 AND Srxlev > 0 to camp on a cell
 Squal = CPICH Ec/Io – Qqualmin
 Qqualmin from SIB3 (-24dB to 0dB). Value = IE
 Srxlev = RSCP – Qrxlevmin – max(UE_TXPWR_MAX_RACH –
P_MAX, 0)
 q-RxlevMin from SIB3 (value = (IEx2 +1)dBm)
 maxAllowedUL-TX-Power IE in SIB3 (Typically 24
dBm)
 P_MAX = Maximum Tx output power of the UE (Fixed
to 24dBm for Qualcomm UEs)

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 Search Criteria
 Sintrasrch – SIB3 (-32..20 by step of 2. Negative=>0)
 Measure intra-frequency nbr cells when Squal <= Sintrasrch.
 When Squal > Sintrasearch, UE need not measure intraFreq
neighbors and a message “CR not eval” is displayed.
 Always measure intra-frequency nbr cells when not specified
 Optimization (sintr_int)that overrides Sintra from SIB3 such that
intraFreq measurements will be done when EcIo <= -14dB
 Sintersrch – SIB3 (-32..20 by step of 2.Negative=>0)
 Measure inter-frequency nbr cells when Squal <= Sintersrch
 Always measure inter-frequency nbr cells when not specified
 SsearchRAT (-32..20 by step of 2. Negative=>0)
 Measure inter-RAT neighbor cells when Squal <= SsearchRAT
 Always measure inter-RAT neighbor cells when not specified
 TmeasGSM – from DRX cycle length (25.133 table 4.1)

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 Search Criteria continued
DRX Cycle Length TmeasureGSM seconds/DRX Cycles
0.08 2.56/32
0.16 2.56/16
0.32 5.12/16
0.64 5.12/8
1.28 6.4/5
2.56 7.68/3
5.12 10.24/2
 If serving cell S<0 continuously for 5 sec, then G measurements are
done every DRX cycle
 BSIC verification in idle mode every 30 sec. Only top G cell BSIC
verified.
 Full search (step 123) - first time when the serving cell EcIo <=
Sintra. Thereafter every 30 sec or if Serving cell EcIo <=-16dB
 Reselection is not done within1 second from camping on the cell.

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 Ranking and Reselection
 SIB3 => EcIo or RSCP based reselection
Serving cell rank:
RSCP Ranking
Rank_s = RSCP + Qhyst1
 Qhyst1: sent in SIB 3 (Int 0..40 by step of 2)

Ec/Io Ranking
Rank_s = Ec/Io + Qhyst2
Qhyst2: sent in SIB 3 (Int 0..40 by step of 2)
When Qhyst2 not specified, then Qhyst2 = Qhyst1

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 Neighbor Cell Ranking (RSCP)
 FDD cells
 Rank_n = RSCP – Qoffset1(From SIB11Int(-50..50))
 GSM cells
 Rank_n = Filtered RSSI – Qoffset1
 Filtered RSSI is running average of 4 samples.
 Always perform RSCP ranking first, irrespective of
measurement quantity
 If RSCP ranking yields FDD cell as best cell, or
conditions for triggering W to G reselection are not met,
then re-rank FDD cells based on Ec/Io if measurement
quantity is set to Ec/Io

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 Neighbor Cell Ranking (Ec/Io)
 FDD Cells
 Rank_n = Ec/Io – Qoffset2(From SIB11Int(-50..50))

Default value of Qoffset2 is 0 and not Qoffset1.

 Rank of a cell that fails S criteria is set to -32768. Nbr S criteria
evaluated using their Qqualmin and Qrxlvemin from SIB11
 If rank_n > rank_s then start Tresel on that nbr
 Tresel (from SIB3. Value = IE in seconds)
 When serving cell fails S criteria, Tresel = 0
 When Squal >Sintra, reset Tresel on all intra cells, when
Squal > Sinter, reset Tresel on all interF cells, when
Squal > SsearchRAT,GSM, reset Tresel on all GSM cells
 If rank_n > rank_s for t >Tresel, then trigger reselection

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 Reacquisition Algorithm
 On serving cell reacq failure -
(a) Do intra list search and intra step 1/2/3 search
(b) If serving cell not reacquired
(1) Do inter freq list search (2) Do inter freq full search
(3) Perform ranking (4) If no best ngbr found perform GSM
search based on TmeasGSM
(d) If serving cell reacquired
(1) Recheck inter freq and irat measurement rules based on newly
measured serving cell Squal and Srxlev
(2) Do inter freq list and full search if scheduled
(3) Do irat search if scheduled
(4) Perform ranking and check for best ngbr
 Tresel is set to 0 on reacquisition failure

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 Measurements in FACH
 UE always performs measurements Without regard to
Sintrasrch, Sintersrch or SsearchRAT. But UE doesn’t
reselect if Squal>search threshold
 Intra-frequency cells measurements done every 80ms
 Can be pre-empted by FACH measurement occasions

 Step 1/2/3 search (per 360 ms) can stretch timing

 Inter-frequency and GSM measurements alternate

during FACH measurement occasions
 RACH can pre-empt FACH measurement
occasions
 Tresel = 0 if Serving cell fails S criteria.

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 USET Cells
 Unlisted Cells – not present in SIB11
 Network may want the UE to avoid these cells or the
network may not be configured well
 Reselection to USET cells is not spec compliant and it is
less favored
 If Serving cell EcIo > -16dB
 Eliminate step3 peaks corresponding to USET cells
 Reset Tresel on USET cells

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 Reselection Abortion Mechanisms
 Abort an ongoing reselection if serving cell rank > rank of
the current target cell + 3dB (instentaneous)
 Currently reselection is not aborted if yet another nbr cell
becomes stronger than the current target cell
 Abort an ongoing reselection if BLER on N-BCCH>=
50% over minimum 50 blocks
 SIB wait timer = 3 x Max SIB repetition time (given in
MIB)
 If neighbor SIBS not read till SIB wait timer expiry, cel
resel failure is declared.
 After reading all SIBs, if target cell fails S criteria, then
abort reselection (even if serving cell, too fails S criteria)

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 Reselection steps
 L1 gives cel resel ind after ranking
 RRC sends L1 command to read SIBs of nbr
cell.
 N-BCCH setup (2 second timeout)
 Read MIB
 InterSIB sleep and read SIBs
 Get_Specific_SIBS_cnf
 Check S criteria and suitability
 Camp on the new cell

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 Disabled Optimizations
 The following optimization features are currently disabled
at customer request. Their presence can be checked in
custwcdma.h in ..\build\cust directory of the build

 FEATURE_CELL_RESELECTION_RANK_OPT
 FEATURE_IMMEDIATE_RESEL_AT_LOW_CPICH_ECIO
 FEATURE_DELAY_3G_TO_2G_RESEL
 FEATURE_2G_RANK_Q_OFFSET_OPT
 FEATURE_G2W_RESEL_OPT_ADJUST_FDD_QMIN

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