RRC Connection re-establishment

request
This process starts when UE is in RRC_CONNECTED mode. The purpose of this
procedure is to re-establish the RRC connection to continue RRC connection, which
involves the resumptions of SRB1 operation and the re-activation of security.

This process would not be initiated if UE does not have AS security activated and UE
goes to RRC_IDLE mode directly.

Here is the possible overview of the process:

RRC connection re-establishment, successful

RRC connection re-establishment, failure

Reasons of initiation of this procedure may one of the following:

 Upon detecting radio link failure

 Upon handover failure
 upon mobility from E-UTRA failure
 upon integrity check failure from indication from layers
 upon an RRC connection reconfiguration failure.
Upon initiation of the procedure, the UE shall:

 stop timer T310, if running;

 start timer T311;
 suspend all RBs except SRB0;
 reset MAC;
 apply the default physical channel configuration
 apply the default semi-persistent scheduling configuration
 apply the default MAC main configuration
 release reportProximityConfig and any associated proximity status reporting
timer;
 perform cell selection in accordance with the cell selection process.
When UE goes for cell selection while T311 is running it goes through
following steps:

 stop timer T311;

 start timer T301;
 apply the timeAligmentTimerCommon included in SIB2;
 initiate transmission of RRCConnectionReestablishmentRequest message.
If UE is returning to source cell then also it has to go through above 4 steps.

Now lets look what UE sends

in RRCCOnnectionRestablishmentRequest message:
The UE shall set the contents of this message as follow

1. set the ue-Identity as

a. set the c-RNTI to the C-RNTI used in the source cell (handover and mobility
from E-UTRA failure) or used in the cell in which the trigger for the re-
establishment occurred (other cases);
b. set the physCellId to the physical cell identity of the source cell (handover and
mobility from E-UTRA failure) or of the cell in which the trigger for the re-
establishment occurred (other cases);
c. set the shortMAC-I to the 16 least significant bits of the MAC-I calculated:
i. over the ASN.1 encoded as per section 8 (i.e., a multiple of 8 bits)
VarShortMAC-Input;
ii. with the KRRCint key and integrity protection algorithm that was used in
the source cell (handover and mobility from E-UTRA failure) or of the
cell in which the trigger for the re-establishment occurred (other cases);
and
iii. with all input bits for COUNT, BEARER and DIRECTION set to binary
ones;
2. set the reestablishmentCause as follows:
a. if the re-establishment procedure was initiated due to reconfiguration
failure (the UE is unable to comply with the reconfiguration):
i. set the reestablishmentCause to the value ‘reconfigurationFailure’;
b. else if the re-establishment procedure was initiated due to handover failure
as intra-LTE handover failure or inter-RAT mobility from EUTRA failure:
i. set the reestablishmentCause to the value ‘handoverFailure’;
c. else:
i. set the reestablishmentCause to the value ‘otherFailure‘;
The UE shall submit the RRCConnectionReestablishmentRequest message to
lower layers for transmission