RRC(Radio Resource Control)

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RRC Introduction DRX in RRC_Idle Analysis

Radio Resource Control (RRC)

UE management and control is handled in the Radio Resource Control (RRC)

LTE Protocol Architecture Control Plane

NAS control protocol

AS control protocol
Between UE and eNB Radio-specific functionality Interaction with NAS RRC as main controlling function in AS RRC as Layer 3 in AS protocol stack

Between UE and EPC PLMN selection Tracking area update Paging Authentication EPS bearer establishment, modification, release

RRC Main Functions

Broadcast of system information

Including NAS common information Information applicable for UEs in RRC_Idle and information applicable for UEs in RRC_Connected

Including ETWS(Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System) and CMAS(Commercial Mobile Alert Service) notifications
Paging

RRC connection control

Establishment/modification/release of RRC connection Initial security activation RRC connection mobility

handover

Establishment/modification/release of RBs carrying user data (DRBs) Radio configuration control

Assignment/modification of ARQ, HARQ, DRX configurations

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QoS control

Assignment/modification of semi-persistent scheduling configuration

Recovery from radio link failure

Inter-RAT(Radio Access Technology) mobility Measurement configuration and reporting

RRC state

RRC protocol has two states

RRC_Idle RRC_Connected

When an RRC connection has been establishment, the UE is in RRC_Connected state Otherwise, the UE is RRC_Idle state

RRC_Idle RRC_Connected Connection

establishm / release ent

RRC_IDLE:

A UE specific DRX may be configured by upper layers. UE controlled mobility; The UE:

Monitors a Paging channel to detect incoming calls, system information change, for ETWS capable UEs, ETWS notification, and for CMAS capable UEs, CMAS notification Performs neighbouring cell measurements and cell (re-)selection Acquires system information.

RRC_CONNECTED:

Transfer of unicast data to/from UE. At lower layers, the UE may be configured with a UE specific DRX. Network controlled mobility, i.e. handover The UE:

Monitors a Paging channel and/ or System Information Block Type 1 contents to detect system information change, for ETWS capable UEs, ETWS notification, and for CMAS capable UEs, CMAS notification; Monitors control channels associated with the shared data channel to determine if data is scheduled for it; Provides channel quality and feedback information; Performs neighbouring cell measurements and measurement reporting; Acquires system information.
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RRC state characteristics

Paging

The purpose of paging procedure

Transmit paging information provided to upper layers which in response may initiate RRC connection establishment

e.g. to receive an incoming call

Inform UEs in RRC_Idle and Ues in RRC_Connected about a system information change Inform an ETWS notification Inform a CMAS notification
E-UTRAN initiates the paging procedure by transmitting the Paging message at the UEs paging occasion

Initiation

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RRC Connection EstablishmentSRB1

SRB(Signalling Radio Bearer): defined as Radio Bearers (RB) that are used for the transmission of RRC and NAS messages 11

RRC Connection EstablishmentSRB2

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DRB Establishment

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RRC Signal Low Layer Key Configuration for DRB (1)

MAC : scheduling in eNB

Distributes the available radio resources

In one cell among the UEs Among the bearers of each UEs Downlink data buffered in the eNB Buffer Status Reports(BSRs), received from the eNB QoS of each DRB

Accordance

Scheduling algorithm left to the eNB implementation, signalling to support the scheduling standardized Scheduling mode

Dynamic scheduling Persistent scheduling Semi-persistent scheduling

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RRC Signal Low Layer Key Configuration for DRB (2)

MAC : Discontinuous Reception (DRX)

Configured for RRC_Conneted UE Short-Cycle and Long-Cycle configured tradeoff between battery saving and latency

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RRC Connection Release

When the UE does not have packets to be received/transmitted for an extended period of time

The eNB initiates the release of the UEs RRC connection Request MME to release the UEs S1 connection

eNB removes the UE context MME and SGW only remove the eNB specific part of the UE context

S1 release procedure

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DRX in RRC_Idle

In RRC_Idle state, the discontinuous reception is focus on paging in order to reduce power consumption Paging Frame (PF) :

One Radio Frame which may contain one or multiple Paging Occasion

Paging Occasion (PO) :

A subframe where there may be P-RNTI transmitted on PDCCH addressing the paging message

PF and PO is determined by using the DRX parameters provided in System Information System Information DRX parameters stored in the UE shall be updated locally in the UE whenever the DRX parameter values are changed in SI When DRX is used the UE needs only to monitor one PO per DRX cycle
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DRX parameters in Idle state

DRX parameters

T : DRX cycle of the UE. T is determined by UE specific DRX cycle if configured by upper layer Default DRX cycle nB: 4T, 2T, T, T/2, T/4, T/8, T/16, T/32 N: min(T,nB) Ns: max(1,nB/T) UE_ID: IMSI mod 1024

Default DRX cycle broadcast in System Information UE specific DRX cycle is sent to MME by Attach Request or Tracking Area Update Request (NAS control message), then MME notifies the eNB

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PF is determined by SFN mod T= (T div N)*(UE_ID mod N) PO is determinde by i_s = floor(UE_ID/N) mod Ns

FDD:
Ns PO when i_s = 0 PO when i_s = 1 PO when i_s = 3 PO when i_s = 4

1 2 4

9 4 0

N/A 9 4

N/A N/A 5

N/A N/A 9

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Network Re-entry time

The UE in RRC_Idle state may be paged by the network when there is data addressed to that particular UE Then the UE will returns to RRC_connected state

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Express the network re-entry time as k = t0 + t1 + t2 + t3 + 1 + 2 + krtx

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Analytical Result

For simplifying the analysis, assume that

1 (eNB pages UE) is uniform distribution with mean T/2 Paging messages are successfully received by the UE with a probability of 0.9 The maximum page retransmissions are limited to 4 The preamble detection error rate is 3% The maximum number of preamble retransmission is 5 UEs preparation time to send the RACH preamble is 2ms The time to receive RACH response from the eNB is 15ms RACH transmission backoff time is 6ms

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Multiple pages per paging frame improve the reentry time significant

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Reference

LTE-Advanced Radio Layer 2 and RRC aspects Magnus Lindstrm, Ericsson 3GPP TSG-RAN WG2 Long Term Evolution Protocol Overview freescale DRX Mechanism for Powe Saving in LTE Chandra S. Bontu, ED Illidge, IEEE Communication Magazine 3GPP TS 36.331 Radio Resource Control (RRC) Protocol specification 3GPP TS 36.304 User Equipment (UE) procedures in idle mode

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