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Radio Parameters

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Contents
• Network Identification Parameters（CGI, BSIC )

• System Control Parameters（RLT, CBA, CBQ,
etc )
• Cell Selection Parameters ( C1, C2 )
• Network Functional Parameters (INTAVE, LIMITn,
etc )

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Network Identification Parameters
• As a global cellular mobile communication system, the

GSM strictly numbers each GSM network in each country,
or even numbers each location area, every station or
every cell in every network in order that every cell around
the globe has an sole corresponding number.
This numbering mode aims to:

• Enable the MS to correctly identify the ID of the current
network so that it can correctly select the network the
user (or telecom operator) wants to access to in any
conditions. Enable the MS to correctly identify the ID of
the current network so that it can correctly select the
network the user (or telecom operator) wants to access to
in any conditions.

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Roles of Network Identification Parameters
• Enable the network to be real time informed of the

correct geographical location of the MS so that the
network can normally connect various service
requests with the MS as the terminal.
• Enable the MS to report correctly the adjacent cell

information during the conversation process so that
the network can hand-over the calls when necessary
to ensure the continuity of the conversation.

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Cell Global Identity（CGI）
MCC MNC LAC CI
LAI
CGI

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Setting of CGI
• MCC resource is allocated and managed by ITU. The

MCC of China is 460（decimal).
• MNC is usually allocated by the relevant
telecommunication administration department of a
country.
• The LAC encoding mode is specified correspondingly
by every country. Usually, the location area should be
as large as possible.
• Two or more cells in the same location area are not
allowed to share the same CI.

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BSIC
• In GSM system, each BS is allocated with a local

color code called base station identity code (BSIC). If,
in a physical location, one MS can receive the BCCH
TRX of two cells at the same time and their channel
numbers are the same, the MS will distinguish them
by the BSIC.

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BSIC
NCC BCC
BSIC
BSIC is composed of NCC(network color code) and

BCC(base station color code).
NCC ranges from 0～7. BCC ranges from 0～7.

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NCC and BCC
In the connection mode (during conversation), the MS must

measure the signals in the adjacent cells and report the
result to the network. As each measurement report sent by
the MS can only contain the contents of six cells, so it is
necessary to control the MS so as to only report the
information of cells factually related to the cell concerned.
The high 3 bits (i.e. NCC) in the BSIC serve this purpose.
The BCC is used to identify different BS using the same

BCCH in the same GSM PLMN.

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BSIC Configuration Principle
A B C
D E F
In general, it is required that Cells A, B, C, D, E and F use

different BSIC. When the BSIC resources are not enough,
the cells close to each other may take the priority to use
different BSIC.

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Roles of BSIC
1. When MS receives the SCH, it is considered to have

synchronized with the cell. But in order to correctly translate
the information on the downlink common signaling channel,
the MS must be aware of the training sequence code (TSC)
used by the common signaling channel. The TSC used by
the common signaling channel of each cell is determined by
the BCC. So one of the functions of the BSIC is to inform the
MS the TSC used by the common signaling channel of the
cell.
2. As the BSIC takes part in the decoding process of the
random access channel (RACH), it can be used to prevent
the BS from mis-decoding the RACH, sent by the MS to an
adjacent cell, as the access channel of this cell.

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3. When the MS is in the connection mode (during conversation), it
must measure the BCCH level of adjacent cells specified in adjacent
cell tables broadcasting by BCCH and report the results to the BS. In
the uplink measurement report, MS must show BSIC of this carrier it
has measured to every frequency point. In some special cases, i.e.
two or more adjacent cells in a cell use the same BCCH, the BS can
distinguish such cells by way of BSIC in order to avoid the wrong
handover or even the handover failure.

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BA
When a MS is turned on, it will scan from the BA
(Adjacent cell BCCH table) it remembered when turned
off last time. The MS will first search carriers from this
table and if none is found it will turns to find any of 30
carriers with highest levels, then try to decode BCCH
carriers one by one according to their level sequences.

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Cell Selection
When the MS is turned on, it will try to contact a public

GSM PLMN, so the MS will select a proper cell and
extract from the cell the control channel parameters and
prerequisite system messages. This selection process is
called cell selection. The quality of radio channels is an
important factor in cell selection.
The GSM Specifications defines the path loss rule

C1.For the so-called proper cell, C1>0 must be ensured.

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C1
C1 = RXLEV - RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN
- Max(MS_TXPWR_MAX_CCH - P ,0)
where,
RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN is the minimum received level the
MS is allowed to access the network
MS_TXPWR_MAX_CCH is the maximum power level of
the control channel (when MS sending on RACH);
RXLEV is average received level;
P is the maximum TX power of MS;
MAX（X, Y）＝X; if X≥ Y.
MAX（X, Y）＝Y; if Y≥ X.

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Path loss Criterion
• All the candidate cells for MS must meet the path

loss criterion, i.e C1>0. MS will select the cell with the
maximal C1 to access and will camp on this cell
unless some key conditions has changed greatly.

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RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN
In order to avoid providing unsatisfactory communication

quality and avoid the unnecessary waste of radio
resources if the MS accesses to the system (the
communication quality after the access often cannot
ensure the normal communication process) at the very
low received level, the GSM system regulates that, when
a MS is to access to a network, its receiving signal level
must be larger than a threshold level, i.e. the minimum
receiving level the MS is allowed to access to
（RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN).
Default value is 0 (-110dBm).

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Cell Reselection
The necessity to make a cell reselection

• Parameters regarding to cell reselection
PI
C2
Cell Selection Hysteresis
CRO、TO and PT
CBA
CBQ

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Definition
Cell reselection is a process MS change its service cell in

idle mode. When the MS selects a cell and if there are not
major changes in the various conditions, the MS will stay
in the selected cell, and the MS will begin to measure the
signal levels of the BCCH TRX of its adjacent cells, record
6 adjacent cells whose signal levels are the strongest and
extract from them various types of system messages and
control messages of each adjacent cell. When given
conditions are met, the MS will move from the current cell
into another one. This process is called cell reselection.

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C2
When PI indicates YES，the MS will get parameters

(CRO, TO and PT) , from BCCH, to be used to
calculate C2(channel quality criterion), which serves
as cell reselection norm. The equation is as follows:
C2＝C1＋CRO－H（PT－T）×TO, when PT ＝ 31
C2＝C1－CRO , when PT＝31
Where T is a timer. When a cell is recorded by MS as one of the

six strongest cells,timer starts counting, otherwise, T is reset to
zero.

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PI
• PI is used to notify the MS whether to use C2 as the

cell reselect parameter and whether the parameters
calculating C2 exist.
• PI consists of 1 bit. “1”means the MS should extract

parameters from the system message broadcasting
in the cell to calculate the C2 value, and use the C2
value as the standard for cell reselect; “0” means the
MS should use parameter C1 as the standard for cell
reselect (equivalent to C2＝C1）.

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C2
• If the MS calculates that the C2 value of an adjacent

cell (in the same location area with the current cell)
surpasses the C2 value of the cell where the MS
stays and maintains for 5s or longer, the MS will start
cell reselection and access to the adjacent cell. If the
MS detects a cell that is not in the same location area
with the current cell, the calculated C2 value
surpasses the sum of the C2 value of the current cell
and the cell selection hysteresis (CSH) parameter
and if it remains for 5s or longer, the MS will start
the cell reselection and access to the new cell. Note
that the cell reselection caused by the parameter C2
should be originated at least at the interval of 15s so
as to avoid the frequent cell reselection by MS.
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CELL SELECTION HYSTERESIS
When a MS reselects a cell, if the old cell and the

target cell are in different locations, then the MS must
initiate a location updating process after cell
reselection. Due to the fading features of the radio
channel, the C2 values of two adjacent cells measured
along their borders will fluctuate greatly. As a result,
the MS will frequently conduct the cell reselection,
which will not only increase the network signaling flow
and lead to low efficiency use of radio resources, but
reduces the access success rate of the system, as the
MS cannot respond to paging calls in the location
updating process.

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CELL SELECTION HYSTERESIS
• To minimize the influence of this issue, the GSM

specifications put forward a parameter called cell
selection hysteresis (CSH), which requires that the
signal level of adjacent cell (in a different location area)
be larger than the local cell signal level, and their
difference be larger than the value specified by the
cell selection hysteresis. In this case, the MS will start
the cell reselection.
• The cell selection hysteresis is represented in decimal

numerals, its unit is dB, its range is 0～14, its step
length is 2dB, and its default value is 4.

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CRO,TO and PT
• The cell reselection initiated by the radio channel
quality regards C2 as the standard. C2 is a
parameter based on C1 plus some artificial offset
parameters. The artificial influence is to encourage
the MS to take the priority in accessing to some cells
or prevent it from accessing to others. These
methods are often used to balance the traffic in the
network.
• In addition to C1, there are three other factors

influencing C2, namely: CELL_RESELECT_OFFSET
(CRO), TEMPORARY_OFFSET (TO) and
PENALTY_TIME (PT).

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CRO,TO and PT
The adjustments of above 3 parameters are as

followed:
1. In general, it’s not expected that MS access the

cells where the traffic is very heavy or the
channel quality is very low. In this case , the PT
may be set 31, making TO invalid, so C2=C1-CRO.
Because the C2 is lowered deliberately, the
possibility that the cell will be reselected by MS is
lowered greatly. The greater the CRO, the less
possibility that the cell will be reselected, and
vice versa.

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CRO,TO and PT
2. On the other hand, it’s expected that MS stay

as much as possible in cells where the system
utilization are very low and the traffic load is light.
In this case, it’s recommended that CRO be
ranged from 0 to 20dB. The greater the CRO, the
more possible the cells will be reselected ,and
vice versa. It’s also suggested that TO is equal or
a litter higher than CRO. PT, whose main role is to
avoid frequent cell reselection by MS, is generally
recommended to be set at 20 seconds or 40
seconds.

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3. For cells where the traffic is moderate, the
recommended value for CRO is zero and PT 620
seconds, thus causing C2=C1, i. e. no artificial
impact will be imposed.

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CBA
In the system message broadcasting in each cell, there is
a bit information indicating whether to allow the MS to
access to it, which is called cell bar access (CBA). The
parameter CBA is to indicate whether the cell bar access
is set in a cell.
The parameter is represented in character string. Its value
range is:
YES: Set the CBA; NO: Do not set the CBA.
The CBA bit is a parameter for the network operator to
set. Usually all the cells are allowed to be accessed by
MS , so the bit is set NO. However, in special cases, the
telecom operator may want to assign a certain cells for
handover service only, then the bit can be set YES.
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Application of CBA
Area A
BTS B
BTS A
BTS C

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Application of CBA
• Suppose Area A (shaded part) in the figure is the

busy area (e.g. commercial area in a large city), we
usually adopt the micro cellular mode to increase the
access rate of the area via the limited frequency
resources. We often use the double layer network
concept, i.e. to set up BTS A (its capacity can be
smaller) to cover the whole Area A, in order to reduce
the handoff times while the MS is moving rapidly.

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Application of CBA
• In general situations, the MS works in the micro

cellular (you can set the priority of the cell and proper
reselect parameter to achieve this purpose). When
the MS is moving at a fast speed during a
conversation, the network will force the MS to be
handed over to BTS A.

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Application of CBA
• If the MS is just near BTS A and at the edge of a micro
cellular after the conversation, the MS will not start the
cell reselect process according to the GSM
specifications because the signal quality of BTS A is far
better than that of the micro cellular BTS . As a result,
the MS cannot return to the micro cellular cell. As the
capacity of BTS A is usually smaller, the above
situation will lead to the congestion of BTS A. To solve
this problem, you can set the CBA of BTS A as 1, that
is to forbid the MS from directly accessing to BTS A,
and permit only the handover service to access to the
coverage of BTS A.

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CBQ
In areas where the cells overlay with each other and differ in
capacity, traffic and functions, the telecom operator often
hopes that the MS can have priority in selecting some cells,
that is, the setting of cell priority. This function is set by way of
the parameter "Cell Bar Qualify" (CBQ).
CBQ CBA Cell selection priority Cell reselection state

NO NO Normal Normal
NO YES Barred Barred
YES NO Low Normal
YES YES Low Normal

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Example of CBQ Setting
A B
For some reasons, the traffic of Cells A and B is apparently higher

than that of other adjacent cells. To balance the traffic in the whole
area, you can set the priority of Cells A and B as low, and set the
priority of the rest cells as normal so that the traffic in the shade area
will be absorbed by adjacent cells. It must be noted that the result of
this setting is that the actual coverage of Cell A and Cell B is narrowed.
However, this is dissimilar to reducing the transmitting power of Cell A
and Cell B, the latter may cause blind areas of the network coverage
and the reduction of communication quality.。

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Random Access
Random access is the process that messages being

transmitted on RACH when a MS turns from “idle” to
“specialized” mode.
The main parameters includes:
•MAX RETRANS
•AC
•RE

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MAX RETRANS
• When starting the immediate assignment process

(e.g, when MS needs location updating, originating
calls or responding to paging calls), the MS will
transmit the "channel request" message over the
RACH to the network. As the RACH is an ALOHA
channel, in order to enhance the MS access success
rate, the network allows the MS to transmit multiple
channel request messages before receiving the
immediate assignment message. The numbers of
maximum retransmission (MAX RETRANS) are
determined by the network.

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MAX RETRANS
The MAX RETRANS is often set in the following ways:

• For areas (suburbs or rural areas) where the cell radius is
more than 3km and the traffic is smaller, the MAX
RETRANS can be set 11(i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 7).
• For areas (not bustling city blocks) where the cell radius is
less than 3km and the traffic is moderate, the MAX
RETRANS can be set 10（i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 4）.
• For micro-cellular, it’s recommend that the MAX
RETRANS be set 01（i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 2）.
• For microcellular areas with very high traffic and cells with
apparent congestion, it’s recommend that the MAX
RETRANS be set 00（i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 1).

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Access Control (AC)
In some special conditions, the telecom operator wants to bar all

or part of MS from sending out the access request or paging
response request in some special areas. For example, in case
some areas are in emergency state or in case a GSM PLMN
encounters a serious fault. For this reason, GSM Specification
（ 02.11 ） stipulates that each GSM subscriber (ordinary
subscriber) is allocated with an access level. The access level
ranges from 0 to 9 and is stored in the SIM card of the subscriber.
The GSM Specifications reserves 5 special access levels for
some special subscribers, which range from 11 to 15. These
levels usually have higher access priority. Special subscribers can
have one or more access levels (11~15), and their access levels
are also stored in the SIM cards.

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AC
The access levels are distributed as follows:

• C 0～C9: ordinary subscribers;
• C11: used for PLMN management;
• C12: used by the security department;
• C13: public utilities （e.g. water, gas）;
• C14: emergency service;
• C15: PLMN staff.

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Setting of AC
• In the BS installation and commissioning process or
in the process of maintaining or testing some cells,
the operator can set C0～C9 as 0 to forcedly forbid
the access of ordinary subscribers so as to reduce
the unnecessary effects on the installation or
maintenance work.
• In some cells with very high traffic, the congestion will
occur in busy hours. For example, the RACH conflict
happens frequently, the AGCH is overloaded and the
Abis interface flow is overloaded. The network
operator can set proper access control parameters
（C0～C15）to control the traffic of some cells.

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Reestablishment Enable
• For the drop calls caused by the radio link fault due to the burst
interference or blind areas owing to the high rise buildings, the MS
can start the call reestablishment process to resume the
conversation, but the network is entitled to determine whether the
call reestablishment is allowed or not. “0”=Yes, “1”=No.
• In some special circumstances, the drop call may occur when the
MS goes through a blind area during the conversation. If the call
reestablishment is allowed, the mean drop call rate will be reduced.
However, the call reestablishment process will occupy a longer
period of time, most of the subscribers have hung up before the
reestablishment process is over, as a result, the call reestablishment
failed to achieve its purpose and wasted many radio resources. We
recommend that the call reestablishment be not allowed in the
network except for some individual cells.

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LIMITn
According to GSM Specification 05.08, the BTS must

measure the interference levels of the upward links of all
the free channels for the purpose of providing basis for
managing and allocating radio resources. Moreover, the
BTS should analyze its measured results, divide the
interference levels into 5 grades and report them to the
BSC. The division of the 5 interference grades (i.e. the so-
called interference bands) is set by the operator through the
man-machine interface. The parameter "Interference band
border(LIMITn)” determines the borders of the 5
interference bands.

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Setting of LIMITn
0 <-110dBm
1 -110dBm － -109dBm
2 -109dBm － -108dBm
… …
61 -50dBm － -49dBm
62 -49dBm － -48dBm
Default: LIMIT1：4 LIMIT2：8 LIMIT3：15 LIMIT4：25
The division of the interference bands should be favorable in describing

the interference in the system. Generally the default values are
recommended. In the ordinary situations, the free channel interference
level is smaller, so the LIMIT1 ～ 4 value should be smaller. When
apparently large interference appears in the system, you can properly
increase the LIMIT1~4 values in order to know the exact interference.

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IMSI Attach/Detach(ATT)
The IMSI detach process is that: the MS notifies the network that it
is moving from the working state to the non-working state, or the
process of the SIM card being taken from the MS. When receiving
the notification from the MS, the network will indicate the IMSI
subscriber to be in the non-working state, so the connection
request ending the subscriber as the called party will be rejected.
The corresponding IMSI attach process is that the MS notifies the
network that it has been in the working state , or the SIM card is re-
inserted into the MS. When the MS re-enters the working state, it
will detect whether the current LAI is the same as the LAI finally
recorded in the MS. If they are the same, the MS will start the IMSI
attach process, otherwise the MS will start the location updating
process (instead of the IMSI attach process). When receiving the
location updating or IMSI attach process, the network will indicate
the IMSI subscriber being in the working state.
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IMSI Attach/Detach (ATT)
An ATT mark should be set as YES so that the network will no longer
process the connection process using the MS as the called after the
MS shuts down, thus saving the processing time of the network
entities and saving lots of network resources.
Please note that the ATT in different cells but in the same location
area should be set the same. Because the shutdown of the MS in
cells where the ATT is YES will start the IMSI detach process, and the
network will record the fact that the MS is in the non-working state and
reject all the connection requests when using MS as the called. When
the MS restarts and is in the same location area (so the location
update process is not started) as when it shuts down but is in a
different cell and the ATT of the cells is set as NO, so the MS will not
start the IMSI attach process, either. In this case, the MS cannot
become the called party until it starts the location updating process.

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CCCH_CONF
The CCCH can be one or more physical channels. The

CCCH and SDCCH can share the same physical channel.
The combination mode of the common control channel in a
cell is determined by the CCCH_CONF.
CCCH_CONF Coding Meanings CCCH message blocks in one
BCCH
000CCCH use one basic physical channel, not shared with SDCCH 9
001CCCH use one basic physical channel, shares with SDCCH 3
010CCCH use two basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH 18
100CCCH use three basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH 27
110CCCH use 4 basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH 36
Others Reserved

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Setting and Impact of CCCH_CONF
The CCCH_CONF is determined by the telecom

operation department according to the traffic model of a
cell. It is often decided in the system design period.
According to the ordinary experience, if a cell has 1 or 2
TRX, we recommend that the CCCH uses one basic
physical channel and shares it with the SDCCH; if a cell
has 3 or 4 TRX, we recommend that the CCCH uses one
basic physical channel but does not share it with the
SDCCH.

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AGBLK
Since the CCCH consists of the access grant channel

(AGCH) and paging channel (PCH), it is necessary to
set how many blocks of the CCCH information blocks
are reserved and dedicated to the AGCH. To let the MS
know about the configuration information, the system
message of every cell contains a configuration
parameter, that is, the access grant reserve blocks
(AGBLK).
AGBLK is represented in decimal numerals, and its
value range is:
• CCCH is not combined with SDCCH: 0～7.
• CCCH is combined with SDCCH: 0～2.

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Setting and Impact of AGBLK
The AGBLK setting principle is: given that the AGCH is

not overloaded, try to reduce the parameter as much as
possible to shorten the time when the MS responds to the
paging and improve the quality of service of the system.
The recommended value of AGBLK is usually 1 (when the

CCCH is combined with the SDCCH), 2 or 3 (when the
CCCH is not combined with the SDCCH).

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BS-PA-MFRMS
According to the GSM specifications, every mobile subscriber
belongs to a paging group. In every cell, every paging group
corresponds to a paging subchannel, the MS calculates the
paging group to which it belongs by basing on its own IMSI, then
calculates the location of the paging subchannel belonging to
the paging group. In an actual network, the MS only
"receives“ the contents in the paging subchannel to which it
belongs but ignores the contents in other paging subchannels,
or even turn off the power supply of some hardware equipment
of the MS for other paging subchannels to save the MS power
overhead (i.e. DRX source). The BS-PA-MFRMS refers to how
many multi-frames are used as a cycle of a paging subchannel.
This parameter in fact determines how many paging sub-
channels are to be divided from the paging channels of a cell.

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BS-PA-MFRMS
is represented in decimal numerals and its
value range is 2～9, its unit is multiframe
（51 frames）, its default value is 2
BS-PA-MFRMS Multiframes of the same paging
group that cycle on the paging
channel
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9

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Periodic Updating Timer (T3212）
The reasons for the location update in the GSM system are
of two types: one is that the MS finds its location area
changed (with a different LAC), the other one is that the
network requires the MS to periodically update its location.
The frequency of periodic location update is controlled via
the network and the period length is determined by the
parameter T3212.
In general, in areas with larger traffic and signaling flow,
you should select the larger T3212（e.g. 16 hours, 20
hours or even 25 hours）, but in areas with smaller traffic
and lower signaling flow, you can set the smallerT3212 (3
hours or 6 hours, etc.). In areas where traffic is far beyond
the system capacity, we recommend that you set T3212 as
0.
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NCCPERM
In the connection mode (during the conversation), the

MS will report the measured signals of the adjacent
cells to the BS, but each report may contain at most 6
adjacent cells, Therefore, let the MS only report the
information of the cells that may become the hand-over
target cells, do not let the MS report the information
merely according to the signal level without selection
(usually do not let the MS report other GSMPLMN cells).
The above functions can be fulfilled by limiting the MS
to merely measure the cells whose NCC have been
specified. The NCCPERM lists the NCCs of cells to be
measured by the MS.

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NCCPERM
• In general, each area is allocated with one (or several)

NCC. The NCCPERM of each cell in the area should
contain the NCC of the area, otherwise a large
number of cross-cell drop calls will occur and the cell
reselection will fail. To ensure the normal roaming
between different areas, the border cells of an area
should contain the NCC of its adjacent areas.

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RLT
• During the MS conversation-, when the downward
voice (or data) quality is degraded to be unacceptable
and cannot be improved through the RF power control
or handover (i.e. the so-called radio link fault), the MS
will either start the call re-connection or forcedly
disconnect the link. As the forced disconnection
actually means a "drop call" process, the MS will
regard it as a downward radio link fault when the
communication quality is unacceptable (usually the
user has to hang up). In this case, it is provided in the
GSM specifications that the MS needs a counter S to
assign an initial value--"downward radio link timeout"--.
When S is counted to 0, the MS will report the
downward radio link fault.
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MBCR
In the single band GSM system, when the MS reports

the adjacent cell measurement result to the network, it
only needs to report the contents of the 6 adjacent cells
with the strongest signals in a band. When multiple
bands form a network, the telecom operator often,
according to the actual situation of the network, wants
the MS to access to a frequency band with priority
during the handover, so the operator hopes that the MS
will report the measurement result on the basis of not
only signal strength but signal band as well. The
parameter "multiband indication (MBCR)" is used to
notify the MS that it should report the multiband
adjacent cell contents.
The value is 0-3
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MBCR
• 0: Based on the signal strength of adjacent cells, the

MS reports the measurement results of 6 adjacent
cells whose signals are the strongest, whose NCC
are known and allowed no matter in which band the
adjacent cells lie.
The default value is “0”

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MBCR
1: The MS should report the measurement result of an

adjacent cell in each band (not including the band used
by the current service area) in the adjacent table, whose
signal is the strongest and whose NCC is already
known and allowed. It should also report in the rest
position the adjacent cells in the band used by the
current service area. If there are still rest positions, it will
report the information of the rest adjacent cells no
matter in which band these adjacent cells lie.

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MBCR
2: The MS should report the measurement results of

two adjacent cells in each band (not including the band
used by the current service area) in the adjacent table,
whose signals are the strongest and whose NCC are
already known and allowed. It should also report in the
rest position the adjacent cells in the band used by the
current service area. If there are still rest positions, it
will report the information of the rest adjacent cells no
matter in which band these adjacent cells lie.

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MBCR
3: The MS should report the measurement results of

three adjacent cells in each band (not including the
band used by the current service area) in the adjacent
table, whose signals are the strongest and whose
NCC are already known and allowed.

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Welcome to ZTE University

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• Network Identification Parameters（CGI, BSIC )

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• As a global cellular mobile communication system, the

This numbering mode aims to:

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• Enable the network to be real time informed of the

• Enable the MS to report correctly the adjacent cell

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MCC MNC LAC CI

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• MCC resource is allocated and managed by ITU. The

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• In GSM system, each BS is allocated with a local

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BSIC is composed of NCC(network color code) and

NCC ranges from 0～7. BCC ranges from 0～7.

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In the connection mode (during conversation), the MS must

The BCC is used to identify different BS using the same

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In general, it is required that Cells A, B, C, D, E and F use

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1. When MS receives the SCH, it is considered to have

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When the MS is turned on, it will try to contact a public

The GSM Specifications defines the path loss rule

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• All the candidate cells for MS must meet the path

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In order to avoid providing unsatisfactory communication

Default value is 0 (-110dBm).

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The necessity to make a cell reselection

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Cell reselection is a process MS change its service cell in

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When PI indicates YES，the MS will get parameters

Where T is a timer. When a cell is recorded by MS as one of the

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• PI is used to notify the MS whether to use C2 as the

• PI consists of 1 bit. “1”means the MS should extract

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• If the MS calculates that the C2 value of an adjacent

When a MS reselects a cell, if the old cell and the

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• To minimize the influence of this issue, the GSM

• The cell selection hysteresis is represented in decimal

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• In addition to C1, there are three other factors

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The adjustments of above 3 parameters are as

1. In general, it’s not expected that MS access the

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2. On the other hand, it’s expected that MS stay

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