PRACH Root Sequence Planning

1. . Zadoff-Chu Sequence length=839 in LTE.

2. Every Cell needs 64 preambles.
3. To generate the needed 64 preamble for each cell, we use cyclic shift(CS):
4. We need a larger CS for a larger cell radius, since the larger the cell radius, the longer the
transmission delay
5. Each cell, then must have a different RootSequenceIndex to avoid the reception of false
preambles in adjacent eNodeBs.
Background of PRACH Planning
PrachCS and rootSeqIndex

PrachCS defines the number of cyclic shifts (in

terms of number of samples) used to
generate multiple preamble sequences from
a single root sequence
Example based on PrachCS=12 -> number of
cyclic shifts: 119
Root sequence length is 839 so a cyclic shift of
119 samples allows ROUNDDOWN (839/119)=
7 cyclic shifts before making a complete
rotation (signatures per root sequence)
64 preambles are transmitted in the PRACH
frame. If one root is not enough to generate
all 64 preambles then more root sequences
are necessary
To ensure having 64 preamble sequences
within the cell it is necessary to have
ROUNDUP (64/7)= 10 root sequences per cell
Parameters Related To RSI

Allowed Range
Parameter Name -Engineering unit recomned values Parameter Description

parameter used to calculate cyclic shifts

NCs Configuration(Zero of the root Zadoff-chu sequence in the
correlationZone config) 0 to 15 12 cell
 

TRUE -high Defines the use of restricted set of cyclic

Speed , Fasle shifts of the Zadoof chu root sequence
High speed flag other wise FALSE used for high speed moving UE