Author/ Email: Sam Huang / huangshansong@huawei.com
Version: V1.0 (20140124) HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. TA – Timing Advance ➢TA (Timing Advance), is an advance time, for UE to send out UL frame before the start of the corresponding downlink radio frame at the UE, for channel sync purpose ➢UE will start a timer when sending Preamble for access. Upon succeed receive the response from eNodeB, UE will get the TA needed for following radio frame transmission
➢3GPP 36.213 (4.2.3) defines that 1 TA = 16*Ts=16*(0.5ms/15360)=0.52μs
➢So 1 TA time advance maps to the distance between eNodeB and UE is: (300,000km/s*0.52μs)/2 = 78m Here 300,000km/s is the spread speed of electic wave, 2 means a round trip between UE and eNodeB ➢ So the distance between UE and eNodeB = 78 * TA (m) Also from here the accuracy of the TA is 78m ➢Huawei has a counter to count the TA value when receive UE Radom Access
TA counter Counter ID Counter Name Counter Description Distance Number of times the TA value is 0 or 1 (index 0) in a UE-initiated 1526728956 L.RA.TA.UE.Index0 0~156m random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is 2 or 3 (index 1) in a UE-initiated 1526728957 L.RA.TA.UE.Index1 156~234m random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 4 to 7 (index 2) in a 1526728958 L.RA.TA.UE.Index2 234~546m UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 8 to 13 (index 3) in a 1526728959 L.RA.TA.UE.Index3 546~1014m UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 14 to 25 (index 4) in a 1526728960 L.RA.TA.UE.Index4 1014~1950 UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 26 to 45 (index 5) in a 1526728961 L.RA.TA.UE.Index5 1950-3510 UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 46 to 85 (index 6) in a 1526728962 L.RA.TA.UE.Index6 3510-6630 UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 86 to 185 (index 7) in 1526728963 L.RA.TA.UE.Index7 6630~14430 a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 186 to 385 (index 8) in 1526728964 L.RA.TA.UE.Index8 14430~30030 a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 386 to 685 (index 9) in 1526728965 L.RA.TA.UE.Index9 30030~53430 a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is ranging from 686 to 985 (index 10) 1526728966 L.RA.TA.UE.Index10 53430~76830 in a UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell Number of times the TA value is greater than 985 (index 11) in a 1526728967 L.RA.TA.UE.Index11 >76830 UE-initiated random access procedure in a cell