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Lte Initial Network Camping

The document discusses the initial network camping process for LTE mobiles. It involves 5 steps: 1) scanning frequency bands to detect the primary synchronization signal (PSS), 2) detecting the secondary synchronization signal (SSS) which provides physical cell ID and frame boundary information, 3) decoding the PBCH which contains important parameters in the MIB, 4) decoding system information blocks (SIBs) which provide cell access information, and 5) using reference signals for radio resource measurements to report to the network.

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Lte Initial Network Camping

The document discusses the initial network camping process for LTE mobiles. It involves 5 steps: 1) scanning frequency bands to detect the primary synchronization signal (PSS), 2) detecting the secondary synchronization signal (SSS) which provides physical cell ID and frame boundary information, 3) decoding the PBCH which contains important parameters in the MIB, 4) decoding system information blocks (SIBs) which provide cell access information, and 5) using reference signals for radio resource measurements to report to the network.

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LTE INITIAL NETWORK CAMPING

Initial Network Camping:


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What will happen when a mobile is switched on? The first thing the mobile has to do is to find a suitable
network and camp to it.
For LTE mobiles, camping happens through  following steps:
 1.Mobile scans the available frequency band for finding a suitable cell.First thing, mobile should know is
the presence of LTE cell. It is done using some predefined sequence known as Primary Synchronisation
Signal (PSS). PSS  is transmitted at  a specific time during specific frequencies and at specific position
(To be mroe technical, PSS is transmitted at the last OFDM symbol in first and 11th slots for FDD LTE
and third symbol of 3rd and 13th slots for TDD). PSS is a Zadoff-Chu sequence, There are three such
sequences defined and the sequence transmitted corresposnds to cells Physial cell ID group.

2. Once the mobile has got the PSS, next level is SSS-Secondary Synchronisation Signal. SSS is
transmitted in the same slots as PSS. For FDD, it is transmitted one symbol before PSS. For TDD it is
transmitted 3 symbols before. 168 values for SSS are defined  each corresponding to a Physical Cell
ID.Once the mobile decodes SSS, it comes to know
       ===>Physical Cell ID (From the pattern transmitted)
       ===>Frame boundaries (Different patterns for slot 0/slot11, hence can know the slot in which it is
transmitted,from the slot boundaries already known by PSS, Frame boundaries can be detected)
       ===>FDD/TDD -Since the slots in which PSS/SSS is transmitted is different, once we know the slot
boundary, Duplex tech can be known
       ===> CP  length (By blind decoding, if SSS is in symbol 5 or 6 is understood. If it is in 5, extended
CP. If it is in 6 normal CP.

If you want a very much deep understanding on synchronisation sequences ,please refer  the below link
http://www.steepestascent.com/content/mediaassets/html/LTE/Help/SynchSignals.html

3.Decoding of PBCH : PBCH corresponds to MIB; It gives the most important parameters like
SFN,Bandwidth and CFICH format. MIB is transmitted every 40 ms,fixed scheduling

4.Decoding SIBs: SIBs contain all the required information for initial access to the cell. It gives information
about the cells capabilities, common and shared channels,access restrictions etc. Once the SIBs are
decoded, mobile can access the network using common channels like RACH.

5.Reference Signals: Once the UE has identified the synchronisation signals-PSS and SSS, it will use the
reference signals for RSRP/RSRQ measurements and reporting.

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