LTE EPS mobility management timers - EMM timers

Lately many times I had to reach towards the EPS Mobility Management (EMM) timers, because it took me some time to google
them here you go. Hope any one will find them as useful I did.
In the two tables you can easily find the times name it's default or suggested value, what is triggering it and what happens in
case it will finally expire.

EPS mobility management timers – UE side

TIMER TIMER STATE CAUSE OF START NORMAL STOP ON

NUM. VALUE EXPIRY
T3402 Default 12 EMM- At attach failure and the attempt ATTACH REQUEST Initiation of the
min. DEREGISTERED counter is equal to 5. sent attach procedure or
NOTE 1 EMM-REGISTERED At tracking area updating failure TRACKING AREA TAU procedure
and the attempt counter is equal UPDATE REQUEST
to 5. sent
T3410 15s EMM-REGISTERED- ATTACH REQUEST sent ATTACH ACCEPT Start T3411 or T3402
INITIATED received as described in
ATTACH REJECT subclause 5.5.1.2.6
received
T3411 10s EMM- At attach failure due to lower ATTACH REQUEST Retransmission of the
DEREGISTERED. layer failure, T3410 timeout or sent ATTACH REQUEST or
ATTEMPTING-TO- attach rejected with other EMM TRACKING AREA TRACKING AREA
ATTACH cause values than those treated in UPDATE REQUEST UPDATE REQUEST
subclause 5.5.1.2.5. sent
EMM-REGISTERED.
ATTEMPTING-TO- At tracking area updating failure
UPDATE due to lower layer failure, T3430
timeout or TAU rejected with
other EMM cause values than
those treated in
subclause 5.5.3.2.5.
T3412 Default 54 EMM-REGISTERED In EMM-REGISTERED, when When entering state Initiation of the
min. EMM-CONNECTED mode is left. EMM-DEREGISTERED periodic TAU
NOTE 2 or when entering procedure if the UE is
NOTE 5 EMM-CONNECTED not attached for
mode. emergency bearer
services.

Implicit detach from

network if the UE is
attached for
emergency bearer
services.

T3416 30s EMM-REGISTERED- RAND and RES stored as a result SECURITY MODE Delete the stored
INITIATED of a UMTS authentication COMMAND received RAND and RES
EMM-REGISTERED challenge SERVICE REJECT
EMM- received
DEREGISTERED- TRACKING AREA
INITIATED UPDATE ACCEPT
EMM-TRACKING- received
AREA-UPDATING- AUTHENTICATION
INITIATED REJECT received
EMM-SERVICE- AUTHENTICATION
REQUEST- FAILURE sent
INITIATED
TIMER TIMER STATE CAUSE OF START NORMAL STOP ON
NUM. VALUE EXPIRY
EMM-DEREGISTERED
or EMM-NULL
entered
T3417 5s EMM-SERVICE- SERVICE REQUEST sent Bearers have been Abort the procedure
REQUEST- EXTENDED SERVICE REQUEST sent set up
INITIATED in case f, g, i and j in subclause SERVICE REJECT
5.6.1.1 received
T3417ext 10s EMM-SERVICE- EXTENDED SERVICE REQUEST sent Inter-system change Abort the procedure
REQUEST- in case d in subclause 5.6.1.1 from S1 mode to
INITIATED EXTENDED SERVICE REQUEST sent A/Gb mode or Iu
in case e in subclause 5.6.1.1 and mode is completed
the CSFB response was set to "CS Inter-system change
fallback accepted by the UE" from S1 mode to
A/Gb mode or Iu
mode is failed
SERVICE REJECT
received
T3418 20s EMM-REGISTERED- AUTHENTICATION FAILURE (EMM AUTHENTICATION On first expiry, the UE
INITIATED cause = #20 "MAC failure" or #26 REQUEST received should consider the
EMM-REGISTERED "non-EPS authentication network as false and
EMM-TRACKING- unacceptable") sent follow item f of
AREA-UPDATING- subclause 5.4.2.7, if
INITIATED the UE is not
EMM- attached for
DEREGISTERED- emergency bearer
INITIATED services.
EMM-SERVICE-
REQUEST- On first expiry, the UE
INITIATED will follow subclause
5.4.2.7 under “For
items c, d, and e:”, if
the UE is attached for
emergency bearer
services.
T3420 15s EMM-REGISTERED- AUTHENTICATION FAILURE (cause AUTHENTICATION On first expiry, the UE
INITIATED = #21 "synch failure") sent REQUEST received should consider the
EMM-REGISTERED network as false and
EMM- follow item f of
DEREGISTERED- subclause 5.4.2.7, if
INITIATED the UE is not
EMM-TRACKING- attached for
AREA-UPDATING- emergency bearer
INITIATED services.
EMM-SERVICE-
REQUEST- On first expiry, the UE
INITIATED will follow subclause
5.4.2.7 under “For
items c, d, and e:”, if
the UE is attached for
emergency bearer
services.
T3421 15s EMM- DETACH REQUEST sent DETACH ACCEPT Retransmission of
DEREGISTERED- received DETACH REQUEST
INITIATED
TIMER TIMER STATE CAUSE OF START NORMAL STOP ON
NUM. VALUE EXPIRY
T3423 NOTE 3 EMM-REGISTERED T3412 expires while the UE is in When entering state Set TIN to "P-TMSI"
EMM-REGISTERED.NO-CELL- EMM-DEREGISTERED
AVAILABLE and ISR is activated. or when entering
EMM-CONNECTED
mode.
T3430 15s EMM-TRACKING- TRACKING AREA UPDATE TRACKING AREA Start T3411 or T3402
AREA-UPDATING- REQUEST sent UPDATE ACCEPT as described in
INITIATED received subclause 5.5.3.2.6
TRACKING AREA
UPDATE REJECT
received
T3440 10s EMM-REGISTERED- ATTACH REJECT, DETACH Signalling connection Release the signalling
INITIATED REQUEST, TRACKING AREA released connection and
EMM-TRACKING- UPDATE REJECT with any of the Bearers have been proceed as described
AREA-UPDATING- EMM cause #11, #12, #13, #14 or set up in subclause 5.3.1.2
INITIATED #15
EMM- SERVICE REJECT received with any
DEREGISTERED- of the EMM cause #11, #12, #13
INITIATED or #15
EMM-SERVICE- TRACKING AREA UPDATE ACCEPT
REQUEST- received after the UE sent
INITIATED TRACKING AREA UPDATE
EMM-REGISTERED REQUEST in EMM-IDLE mode with
no "active" flag
T3442 NOTE 4 EMM-REGISTERED SERVICE REJECT received with TRACKING AREA None
EMM cause #39 "CS domain UPDATE REQUEST
temporarily not available" sent
NOTE 1: The default value of this timer is used if the network does not indicate another value in an EMM signalling
procedure.
NOTE 2: The value of this timer is provided by the network operator during the attach and tracking area updating procedures.
NOTE 3: The value of this timer may be provided by the network in the ATTACH ACCEPT message and TRACKING AREA
UPDATE ACCEPT message. The default value of this timer is identical to the value of T3412.
NOTE 4: The value of this timer is provided by the network operator when a service request for CS fallback is rejected by the
network with EMM cause #39 "CS domain temporarily not available".
NOTE 5: The default value of this timer is used if the network does not indicate a value in the TRACKING AREA UPDATE
ACCEPT message and the UE does not have a stored value for this timer.

EPS mobility management timers – network side

TIMER TIMER STATE CAUSE OF START NORMAL STOP ON THE

NUM. VALUE 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
EXPIRY (NOTE 1)
T3413 NOTE 2 EMM-REGISTERED Paging procedure for EPS services Paging procedure for Network dependent
initiated EPS services
completed
T3422 6s EMM- DETACH REQUEST sent DETACH ACCEPT Retransmission of
DEREGISTERED- received DETACH REQUEST
INITIATED
T3450 6s EMM-COMMON- ATTACH ACCEPT sent ATTACH COMPLETE Retransmission of the
PROC-INIT received same message type,
TRACKING AREA UPDATE ACCEPT TRACKING AREA i.e. ATTACH ACCEPT,
sent with GUTI UPDATE COMPLETE TRACKING AREA
received UPDATE ACCEPT or
TRACKING AREA UPDATE ACCEPT GUTI REALLOCATION GUTI REALLOCATION
sent with TMSI COMPLETE received COMMAND

GUTI REALLOCATION COMMAND

sent
T3460 6s EMM-COMMON- AUTHENTICATION REQUEST sent AUTHENTICATION Retransmission of the
PROC-INIT RESPONSE received same message type,
SECURITY MODE COMMAND sent AUTHENTICATION i.e. AUTHENTICATION
FAILURE received REQUEST
SECURITY MODE or SECURITY MODE
COMPLETE received COMMAND
SECURITY MODE
REJECT received
T3470 6s EMM-COMMON- IDENTITY REQUEST sent IDENTITY RESPONSE Retransmission of
PROC-INIT received IDENTITY REQUEST
Mobile Default 4 All except EMM- Entering EMM-IDLE mode NAS signalling Network dependent,
reachable min greater DEREGISTERED connection but typically paging is
than T3412 established halted on 1st expiry if
the UE is not
attached for
emergency bearer
services.

Implicitly detach the

UE which is attached
for emergency bearer
services.
Implicit NOTE 3 All except EMM- The mobile reachable timer NAS signalling Implicitly detach the
detach DEREGISTERED expires while the network is in connection UE on 1st expiry
timer EMM-IDLE mode established
NOTE 1: Typically, the procedures are aborted on the fifth expiry of the relevant timer. Exceptions are described in the
corresponding procedure description.
NOTE 2: The value of this timer is network dependent.
NOTE 3: The value of this timer is network dependent. If ISR is activated, the default value of this timer is 4 minutes greater
than T3423.