(Initial) Cell Selection Process

There exist two cell selection procedures:

Initial Cell Selection

The UE has to find a suitable cell of the PLMN, which was selected by
the NAS. To do so, the mobile phone scans all radio frequency carriers of
UTRA. Hereby, the UE focuses its cell search to the strongest cell on
each carriers. As soon as the mobile phone has found a suitable cell, it
selects it. In contrast to the cell selection procedure stored information
cell selection, this procedure does not require knowledge in advance,
which of the scanned radio frequency bands holds UTRA carriers.
Cell Selection When Leaving the RRC Connected Mode
The subscriber just has terminated a call, i.e. the UE was in the RRC
connected mode, dropping back into the RRC idle mode. Which cell is
then a candidate cell for the UE to camp on?
Candidate cells are the ones, the UE was connected immediately before
call termination. But these cells must be suitable cells. If non of these
cells is suitable or fulfils the criterion S - , the UE starts the Stored
Information Cell Selection procedure.
 Cell Reselection procedure

There are 3 main parameters which control the Intra-frequency Cell

Reselection:
1. Cell reselection triggering time (WCEL): Treselection (default value = 2 sec)
2. Cell reselection hysteresis 2 (WCEL): Qhyst2 (default value = 2dB)
3. Cell Re-selection Quality Offset 2 (ADJS): AdjsQoffset2 (default value = 0dB)