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Content

1. UTRAN Network Overview

2. Basic Concept UTRAN
3. UTRAN Signaling Procedure

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Development of Mobile communication

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WCDMA Network Architecture

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Uu Interface Protocol Structure

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General Protocol UTRAN

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Iu-CS Interface

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Iu-CS Interface

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Iub - Interface

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Iur - Interface

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Content

1. UTRAN Network Overview

2. Basic Concept UTRAN
3. UTRAN Signaling Procedure

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SRNC & DRNC

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UE Working Mode

 Idle Mode
 Connected Mode
- CELL_DCH
- CELL_FACH
- CELL_PCH
- URA_PCH

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UE In Idle Mode
- The Idle mode tasks may be divided in five different processes:
- PLMN selection and reselection •
- Cell selection and reselection
- Location area (LA) and routing area (RA) registration
- Paging procedure
- Reading system information

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Connected Mode

 When UE in connected mode

- The UE Position can be known on different levels :
- Cell Level (CELL_DCH/CELL_PCH/CELL_FACH
- UTRAN Registration Area URA Level (URA_PCH
- The UE can use different type of channel in connected mode
- Dedicated Transport Channel (CELL_DCH)
- Common Transport Channel (CELL_FACH)

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Connected Mode

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Connected Mode

 If there is huge data to be transmitted, it must allocate dedicated

channel. Thus UE will be in Cell-DCH. UE in Cell-DCH state is
communicating via DCH (downlink and uplink) with UTRAN.
 If there is only few data to be transmitted, there is no need to allocate
dedicated channel. Thus UE will be in Cell-FACH. UE in Cell-FACH
state is communicating via FACH (downlink) and RACH (uplink) with
UTRAN. UE need to monitor the FACH for its relative information
because FACH is shared for all users in the cell.

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Connected Mode

 If UE has no data to be transmitted or received, UE will be in Cell-PCH or URA PCH. In

these two states, UE needs to monitor PICH,to receive its paging. UTRAN knows which
cell or URA UE is now in. The difference between Cell PCH and URA-PCH is that UTRAN
update UE information only after UE which is in URA-PCH state has roamed to other
URA.
 UTRAN have to update cell information of UE when UE roams to
another cell. UE migrates to cell-FACH state to complete the cell update. If there is
also no data to be transmitted or received, UE is back to CELL-PCH state after cell update.
If the cell update times in a fixed time reach a preset value, UTRAN will let UE migrate to
URA-PCH. URA is an area of several cells.

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Connected Mode

It is the same as the CELL-PCH state. UE should migrate to CELL-

FACH state to complete the URA update.

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UE Working mode & State

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Content

1. UTRAN Network Overview

2. Basic Concept UTRAN
3. UTRAN Signaling Procedure

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Introduction of system
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Introduction of system
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Introduction of system
information

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Paging

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Paging Type

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Call process

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RRC Connection Establish (CCH)

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RRC Connection Establish (DCH)

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Direct Transfer Message

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Call Setup Flow

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RAB Establish Flow

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RRC Connection Release Flow
(CCH)

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RRC Connection Release Flow
(DCH)

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NAS Signaling

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UE to UE CS Call Process

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UE to UE CS Call Process

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UE to UE CS Call Process

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UE to UE CS Call Process

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UE to UE CS Call Process

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PS Call Process

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PS Call Process

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HANDOVER

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Soft Handover Flow

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Soft handover Flow (SNRC-DNRC)

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Soft Handover Flow Signaling

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Soft handover Flow(add branch in AS)

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Soft handover Flow(deleted branch in
AS)

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Hard Handover

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IRAT

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CS – Domain IRAT (UMTS – GSM)

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CS – Domain IRAT (CELL_FACH,
CELL_PCH or URA_PCH)

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CS – Domain IRAT (CELL_DCH)

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IRAT Handover Flow

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IFHO

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Thank’s

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