Radio Connection Supervision

Radio Connection Supervision

• Supervision of the UE in State Cell-FACH and URA-

PCH

• Supervision of the UE in Cell-DCH

 Radio Connection Supervision
• The radio link supervision is the algorithm that supervises
the radio connection between the UE and the UTRAN
during all the connected states, the reason of this is to
check if the UTRAN still control the UE or not and to
prevent undue charging and increase the efficiency of
resources usage. Occurs in both of Uplink and Downlink
 Supervision in Cell-FACH and URA-PCH

• In CELL_FACH state, supervision is provided by monitoring periodic

Cell Update messages sent by the UE. An Internal timer is started
whenever the UE enters the CELL_FACH state, or upon
transmission of a Cell Update CONFIRM message to the UE. The
timer is stopped if the UE enters CELL_DCH state and is reset to
zero (but not stopped) upon receipt of a Cell Update from the UE.
Upon expiry of the timer, the overall release of the connection
shall be triggered. The Internal timer is set longer than
the timer t305. The timer t305 indicates how often the UE has to
send a Cell Update message.
 Cell Update Message will be sent either when t305 expires or
when the UE change its serving cell
In URA PCH state the UE sent URA_Update Message instead of
Cell_ Update as in Cell FACH case

T305 expires
Cell Update Overall Connection
Confirmation Release
Internal Timer
starts Cell Update Internal Timer Expire
Message

Internal Timer Timer Should

Reset stopped if UE
Enters CELL-DCH
UE Enters
Cell FACH
 Supervision in Cell-DCH
• In CELL_DCH state, the Radio Connection
Supervision functionality is provided by means of
two different algorithms: the Radio Link Set
Supervision algorithm, located in the RBS, the
Radio Connection Supervision Evaluation
algorithms, located in the SRNC
The Radio Connection is considered failed if and only if radio
link failure indication send from the 2 RBSs
• Radio Connection Supervision (RCS) Evaluation
The Radio Connection Supervision Evaluation
algorithm keeps track of the synchronization
status of the whole radio connection by assigning
a tag to every RLS.
• Radio Link Set (RLS) Supervision
The RLS Supervision function supervises the synchronization status
of the RLS provided by the RBS to the radio connection, and
reports any changes to the SRNC. When NOutsyncInd. number of
consecutive frames are out-of-sync a timer TRlFailure is started
and at expiry the RLS is considered out-of-sync and Radio Link
Failure is reported to the SRNC. When the RLS is out-of-sync and
NInsyncInd number of frames are in-sync, the RLS is considered in-
sync and Radio Link Restore is reported to the SRNC.
 • Uplink DPDCH/DPCCH
Dedicated Physical Data Channel (DPDCH) Slot (0.666 mSec)

Coded Data, 10 x 2^k bits, k=0…6 (10 to 640 bits) I

Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) Slot (0.666 mSec)
Pilot (FSW: is some of Pilot Bits) TFCI FBI TPC Q

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

1 Frame = 15 slots = 10 mSec

FSW: Frame Sync Words

• The connection is considered lost by the RCS when
the last RLS, for the connection, has been out-of-sync
for a time given by an RNC parameter, upon expiry,
an Iu Release will be requested to all involved CNs.
 SRNC Radio Link Restore
RNC Timer Starts
Radio Link out of
sync sent to SRNC

Number of good
Number of Bad
T.S 1 T.S 15 frames = nInSyncInd
frames = nOutSyncInd Good
………………………. Frame
Bad Frame #1

TRlFailure TRlFailure
starts Expires
What is the BER of this N.B if number of good frame that decoded by
frame (CRC decoding) NB before rlFailureT timer expiration equal to
UE sends FSW in each
Time Slot in DPCCH nInSyncInd then the RL consider ok and the
timer should stopped