Cell Reselection

Parameters

By Gideon M. Macaso
 TYPES of
Cell Reselection
1. When migrating from one cell of the 3G mobile
communication system (UMTS) to another cell,
a terminal performs an intra-frequency cell
reselection.
2. When migrating to a region having no UMTS
cell, the terminal performs the cell reselection
to a cell of the 2G mobile communication
system (GSM) (Inter RAT)
Continuation…

3. When signal level difference

between the current serving cell
and the other cell meets a certain
condition, the cell reselection to
the other cell is carried out.( Inter
cell reselection)
Signal Level Difference
Intra Squal > Sintrasearch
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Squal <= Sintrasearch

Inter Squal > Sintersearch

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Squal <= Sintersearch

InterRAT Squal > Ssearch.RAT

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Squal <= Ssearch.RAT
 Cell Reselection Criteria
 S Criteria (Suitable Criteria)
 R Criteria (Ranking Criteria)

› The cell that meet the S criteria are suitable cells to

camp on. All suitable cells are ranked based on R
criteria. If the highest ranked cell is a cell other
than the current serving cell. Then that cell is
chosen for CELL RESELECTION
 S criteria
 Srxlev>0 and Squal>0

› Where:
 Srxlev = Qrxlevmeas – Qrxlevmin-
Pcompensation
 Squal = Qqualmeas – Qqualmin
 Pcompensation =
max(UE_TXPOWER_MAX_RACH-
P_MAX)
 R criteria
 Rs = Qmeas,s + Qhysts

› Where:
 Qmeas,s – is the measured quality of
the serving cell.
 Qhysts – is the applied hysteresis
applied to the serving cell.
 PARAMETERS DESCRIPTION

Squal Cell Selection quality value (dB)

Srxlev Cell Selection RX level value (dB)

Measured cell quality value.

Qqualmeas
The quality of the received signal expressed in CPICH Ec/N0 (dB)
Measured cell RX level value.
Qrxlevmeas
This is received signal, CPICH RSCP for FDD cells (dBm)

Qqualmin Minimum required quality level in the cell (dB).

Qrxlevmin Minimum required RX level in the cell (dBm)

Pcompensation max(UE_TXPWR_MAX_RACH – P_MAX, 0) (dB)

 
   
UE_TXPWR_MAX_R Maximum TX power level an UE may use when accessing the cell on RACH
ACH (read in system information) (dBm)
 
 

P_MAX Maximum RF output power of the UE (dBm)