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01-04 Immediate Assignment Procedure
01-04 Immediate Assignment Procedure
Contents
Contents
4 Immediate Assignment Procedure .........................................................................................4-1
4.1 Overview of the Immediate Assignment Procedure ......................................................................................4-2
4.2 Immediate Assignment Procedure.................................................................................................................4-2
4.3 Signaling Procedure in the BSC....................................................................................................................4-5
4.4 Abnormal Cases and Troubleshooting...........................................................................................................4-6
4.4.1 Not Receiving Establish Indication After Channel Activation.............................................................4-6
4.4.2 Immediate Assignment Reject from the BSC ......................................................................................4-6
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Figure 4-1 Immediate assignment procedure .....................................................................................................4-3
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Describes
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The channel request of an MS is subject to the access classes of the MS and to the access classes
of the cell visited by the MS. Each MS is a member of one out of 10 access classes numbered 0
to 9. In addition, an MS may be a member of one or more out of 5 special access classes
numbered 11 to 15. The access classes are stored in the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). If
the establishment cause for the request of an MS is not "emergency call," access to the network
is allowed only if the MS is a member of at least one authorized access class or special access
class.
For the immediate assignment procedure, see GSM Rec. 04.18 and 08.58.
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BTS
BSC
RACH
RACH
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This message contains the absolute frame number, which is used by the BSC to calculate the
Starting Time.
Step 5 The BSC sends the MS an Immediate Assignment or an Immediate Assignment Extended
message.
The Immediate Assignment message is sent on the AGCH. The Immediate Assignment
Extended message, which contains the Immediate Assignment messages for two MSs, is used
to enhance the channel usage. An Immediate Assignment message contains the following
parameters:
z
Page Mode
The purpose of this field is to control the action of the MS belonging to a paging subgroup.
Channel Description
This field describes an assigned channel and its SACCH and contains the Channel Type,
TDMA offset, timeslot, and absolute RF channel number.
Request Reference
This field contains the random access reference value sent by the MS in the Channel
Request message and the absolute frame number for receiving the access burst.
Timing Advance
This field provides the initial timing advance value.
If no channel is available for assignment, the BSC sends an Immediate Assignment Reject message or
Immediate Assignment Extended Reject message to the MS.
Upon receipt of an Immediate Assignment Reject message corresponding to one of its last three Channel
Request messages, the MS starts timer T3122. Before timer T3122 expires, the MS is not allowed to make
a new attempt to establish a connection. The MS returns to CCCH idle mode and listens to the paging
channel. The MS is not allowed to make a new attempt to establish a non-emergency RR connection in the
same cell until timer T3122 expires. Upon the first receipt of an Immediate Assignment Reject message,
the MS also starts timer T3126. When the number of Channel Request messages sent by the MS reaches
the maximum value, timer T3126 starts. The immediate assignment procedure fails when timer T3126
expires.
Upon receipt of an Immediate Assignment message, the MS compares the received assignment instruction
with the stored information in the Channel Request message to determine whether the channel is assigned
to itself. If the received message corresponds to one of its last three Channel Request messages, the MS
stops timer T3120 or T3160. Then the MS switches to the assigned channel and sends an SABM command
to establish a main signaling link.
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CM service request
IMSI detach
Paging response
These messages contain the IMSI of the MS, detailed access cause, and the classmark of the
MS.
In RR connection mode, only two channels are used as DCCHs. One channel is an SACCH, and the other
channel is an SDCCH or an FACCH. The SDCCH or FACCH is called the main DCCH.
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Probable Causes
The cause may be one of the following:
z
The design of the MS does not comply with protocols. Because the MS resends Channel
Request messages several times, the BSS assigns and activates multiple signaling
channels.
Although the BSS is functional, the MS may send several Channel Request messages in
one RR connection attempt. The BSS activates multiple signaling channels, but the MS
uses only one of them. The BSC cannot receive Establish Indication messages from other
channels and releases the channel after timer T3101 expires. If the number of slots to
spread transmission (shorted as is correct, the fact is that the BTS receives the uplink
signal correctly but the MS cannot receive the downlink signal. Meanwhile if the Um
interface is traced on the MS side, the result shows that after sending a Channel Request
message to the BTS, the BSC cannot receive response messages from the BTS.
The and the CCCH configuration of the test cell are not correct. They affect the intervals
at which an MS resends Channel Request messages.
Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting is as follows
z
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Probable Causes
The cause may be one of the following:
z
The BSC does not find suitable signaling channel, that is, an SDCCH or a TCH, to assign
to the MS because the channels are busy or blocked.
After sending a Channel Activation message, the BSC receives a Channel Activation
Negative Acknowledge message from the BTS.
Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting is as follows:
z
Adding TRXs
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The message transmission on the Abis interface is not stable, so the channel states of
the BSC and the BTS are not consistent.
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