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Cell Reselection
Cell Reselection is a kind of mechanism to change cell after UE is camped on a cell and stay in
IDLE mode. This is to let UE get connected to cell which has the best condition among all the
cells to which the UE is allowed to camp on. But UE does not change cells randomly, it uses a
set of pretty complicated criteria and algorithms for this reselection process. The details of
these criteria andalgorithms will be described later but the high level guideline is as follows :
First Level Criteria : Absolute Priority
How to detect and reselect to another LTE cell while in LTE Cell (LTE to LTE Cell
Reselction) ?
How to detect and reselect to LTE cell while in WCDMA (WCDMA to LTE Cell
Reselction) ?
How to detect and reselect to WCDMA cell while in LTE (LTE to WCDMA Cell
Reselction) ?
A little bit detailed criteria can be described as follows and you will see ever
further details after this.
UE always have to measure frequecies and RAT with higher priority
just examples to show you which SIB carries what kind of parameters and you should change
the values of each of the parameters (IE) depending on your own test cases. Blind copy of this
example may not work for your specific scenario.
Following is the contents of SIB1 for your reference (The parameter shown here is just an
example. You have to set it properly based on your own test requirement)
c1: systemInformationBlockType1 (1)
systemInformationBlockType1
cellAccessRelatedInfo
plmn-IdentityList: 1 item
Item 0
PLMN-IdentityInfo
plmn-Identity
<...>
cellReservedForOperatorUse: notReserved (1)
trackingAreaCode: 0001
cellIdentity: 00000000
cellBarred: notBarred (1)
intraFreqReselection: allowed (0)
.... ..0. csg-Indication: False
cellSelectionInfo
q-RxLevMin: -130dBm (-65)
p-Max: 23dBm
freqBandIndicator: 4
schedulingInfoList: 3 items
<...>
si-WindowLength: ms20 (5)
systemInfoValueTag: 0
nonCriticalExtension
Following is the contents of SIB3 for your reference (The parameter shown here is just an
example. You have to set it properly based on your own test requirement)
sib-TypeAndInfo item: sib3 (1)
sib3
cellReselectionInfoCommon
q-Hyst: dB0 (0)
cellReselectionServingFreqInfo
s-NonIntraSearch: 62dB (31)
threshServingLow: 62dB (31)
cellReselectionPriority: 7
intraFreqCellReselectionInfo
q-RxLevMin: -140dBm (-70)
s-IntraSearch: 62dB (31)
.0.. .... presenceAntennaPort1: False
neighCellConfig: Not all neighbour cells
have the same MBSFN subframe allocation as serving cell (0)
t-ReselectionEUTRA: 0s
lateNonCriticalExtension: <MISSING>
s-IntraSearch-v920
s-IntraSearchP-r9: 62dB (31)
s-IntraSearchQ-r9: 0dB
s-NonIntraSearch-v920
example. You have to set it properly based on your own test requirement). This gets involved
in LTE-GSM InterRAT/Interfrequency cell reselection
sib-TypeAndInfo item: sib7 (5)
sib7
t-ReselectionGERAN: 0s
carrierFreqsInfoList: 1 item
Item 0
CarrierFreqsInfoGERAN
carrierFreqs
startingARFCN: 5
bandIndicator: dcs1800 (0)
followingARFCNs: explicitListOfARFCNs (0)
explicitListOfARFCNs: 0 items
commonInfo
cellReselectionPriority: 2
ncc-Permitted: 80 [bit length 8, 1000 0000 decimal value 128]
q-RxLevMin: -79dBm (18)
p-MaxGERAN: 27dBm
threshX-High: 12dB (6)
threshX-Low: 12dB (6)
How to detect and reselect to another LTE cell while in LTE Cell (LTE to LTE Cell
Reselction) ?
In order for UE to reselect from one LTE cell to another LTE Cell, the internal evaluation result
in UE side (SrxLev and Squal) should meet a certain criteria, otherwise it may not even
monitor (measure) neighboring cell and in result would not perform reselection. LTE
SIB1,SIB3 and SIB4 defines various parameter to influence the evaluation result and the
expected UE side behavior is described in 36.304 5.2.4.2 Measurement rules for cell reselection.
If your device does not perform Cell Reselection, first Check if Cell Measurement Criteria is
met and the check if Cell Reselection Criteria is met and also check if following condition is
met (Following statement come from 36.304 5.2.4.1 Reselection Priority Handling. I saw some
UE ignore this requirement but some UE strictly follows this requirement.)
The UE shall only perform cell reselection evaluation for E-UTRAN frequencies and inter-RAT
frequencies that are give in system information and for which the UE has a priority provided.
How to detect and reselect to LTE cell while in WCDMA (WCDMA to LTE Cell
Reselction) ?
UE must measure the LTE frequencies and detect the available LTE cell in order to perform cell
reselection to LTE.
UE measures two physical properties called for WCDMA signal. One is CPICH RSCP and
CPICH EcNo. RSCP determines Srxlev and EcNo determines Squal.
Srxlev = Qrxlevemeas - qRxLevMin. Qrxlevemeas is RSCP level measured by UE and
qRxLevMin is the value specified in SIB.
Squal = Qqualmeas - qQualMin. Qqualmeas is EcNo level measured by UE and
qQualMin is the value specified in SIB.
The detection measurement of LTE frequencies should be done at least once every 60s
for higher priority LTE frequencies.
In following condition, detection measurements of lower priority LTE frequency is not
required.
Srxlev > absPrioCellRes.sPrioritySearch1
Squal > absPrioCellRes.sPrioritySearch2
In following condition, UE should detect once every 30s for both lower and higher
priority LTE frequencies
Srxlev <= absPrioCellRes.sPrioritySearch1
Squal <= absPrioCellRes.sPrioritySearch2
The maximum number of LTE FDD Frequencies are 4. In this case, UE should have
performed measurement for detecting LTE cells on all 4 LTE frequencies once every 240
(4 x 60) s or 120(4 x 30) s depending if UE measures above or below parameter
threshold absPrioCellRes.sPrioritySearch1
How to detect and reselect to WCDMA cell while in LTE (LTE to WCDMA Cell
Reselction)?
Measurement Criteria (From High Priority LTE Cell to Lower Priority WCDMA Cell): When LTE
cell has higher priority than WCDMA, it would stay in LTE cell but it performs measurement for
the low priority WCDMA if UE is under the following condition :
Srxlev of the serving cell < sNonIntraSearch (SIB3),
If we express this using dB/dBm, Srxlev of the serving cell < (2 x
sNonIntraSearch (SIB3))
where Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas - qRxLevMin (SIB1),
If we express using dB/dBm, Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas [dBm] - (2 x qRxLevMin
(SIB1)) [dBm]
where Qrxlevemeas = measured RSRP level, qRxLevMin = minimum RSRP
level for camping
Measurement Criteria (From Lower Priority LTE Cell to Higher Priority WCDMA Cell): When LTE
cell has lower priority than WCDMA (WCDMA cell priority defined in SIB6 is higher than the
serving cell priority),The UE always have to perform measurements on WCDMA cell. How often
UE has to measure for WCDMA depends on whether Srxlev of the serving cell is greater or
lower than sNonIntraSearch(SIB3). If no parameter is set (meaning in default condition),
detection of WCDMA cell should be performed at least every 60 seconds.
Reselection Criteria (From High Priority LTE Cell to Lower Priority WCDMA Cell): If UE in LTE
cell is under the following condition with the duration longer than tReselectionUtra (SIB6), it
should reselect to WCDMA cell.
Srxlev of LTE cell (serving cell) < threshServingLow (SIB3),
where Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas - qRxLevMin (SIB1),
where Qrxlevemeas = measured RSRP level, qRxLevMin = minimum RSRP
level for camping
Srxlev of WCDMA cell > threshXLowP (SIB6),
where Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas - qRxLevMin (SIB1),
If we express using dB/dBm, Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas [dBm] - (2 x qRxLevMin
(SIB1)) [dBm]
where Qrxlevemeas = measured RSCP level, qRxLevMin = minimum RSCP
level for camping
Note : If more than one WCDMA meet this condition, UE should select to the cell with highest
Srxlev
Note : If these values are not specified in SIB and UE has to apply default values, UE has to
perform reselection when LTE RSRP is lower than -145 dBm and WCDMA cell is better than
-119 dBm for at least 2 seconds.
Reselection Criteria (From Lower Priority LTE Cell to Higher Priority WCDMA Cell): If UE in LTE
cell is under the following condition with the duration longer than tReselectionUtra (SIB6), it
should reselect to WCDMA cell.
Srxlev of WCDMA cell > threshXHighP (SIB6),
where Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas - qRxLevMin (SIB1),
where Qrxlevemeas = measured RSCP level, qRxLevMin = minimum RSCP
level for camping