Initial UL DCH Transmission

UTRAN shall start the transmission of the DL DPCCH and may start the
transmission of DPDCH if any data is to be transmitted.

The UE UL DPCCH transmission shall start

When higher layers consider the DL physical channel established, if no

activation time for UL DPCCH has been signalled to UE

If an activation time has been given, UL DPCCH transmission shall not

start before the DL physical channel has been established and the
activation time has been reached.

When we look to the PRACH, we can see, that preambles were used to avoid
UEs to access UTRAN with a too high initial transmission power.

The same principle is applied for the DPCH.

The UE transmits between 0 to 7 radio frames only the DPCCH UL, before the
DPDCH is code multiplexed.

The number of radio frames is set by the higher layers (RRC resp. the
operator).

Also for this period of time, only DPCCH can be found in the DL.

The UE can be also informed about a delay regarding RRC signalling this is
called SRB delay, which can also last 0 to 7 radio frames. The SRB delay
follows after the DPCCH preamble.

How to set the transmission power of the first UL DPCCH preamble?

Its power level is

DPCCH_Initial_power = CPICH_RSCP + DPCCH_Power_offset

The DPCCH Power Offset is retrieved from RRC messages. Its value
ranges between 164 and 6 dB (step size 2 dB). CPICH_RSCP is the
received signal code power on the P-CPICH, measured by the UE.