LTE Questions and answers -3

Q1. What is the difference between CFRA and CBRA?

CFRA – Contention FREE Random Access – Preamble reserved Used for Handover between
cells and Downlink data transfer requiring UE synchronization

CBRA – Contention BASED Random Access – Preamble randomly selected used for Initial
network access, Access following a radio link failure, Handover between cells, Downlink
data transfer requiring UE synchronization, Uplink data transfer requiring UE
synchronization

Q2. What is Link Adaptation in LTE?

Adjusting transmission parameters according to the channel condition is called link adaptation.

Transmission parameters that can be adjusted are coding rate, modulation scheme, transport
block size and tx rank.

Q3. Which transmission scheme is used if two transport blocks are used per TTI and
transmission mode 3 is used?

Transmission Mode 3 = Open loop spatial multiplexing

Open loop spatial multiplexing can be TX Diversity or Large Delay CDD.
As question states two transport blocks in one TTI = Two code words in one TTI =>
Transmission scheme to be used is Large Delay CDD

Q4. Whar are benifits of “Uplink Frequency Selective Scheduling”?

It may improve the peak rate, cell Capacity, covetage and tries to schedule the best part of the
frequency band for each UE

Q5. What does the feature “Dynamic GBR Admission Control” mean?

It secures that that there are resources for GBR users and protects non-GBR users from
starvation

Q6. What is the difference between connected mode mobility and idle mode mobility?

Idle mode mobility relies on UE measurements and UE decisions whether to make a cell
reselection or not. The MME keeps track of the UEs on a TA level.

Connected mode mobility relies on UE measurements and eNB decisions whether to make
Handover or not. The UE position is known on cell level by the eNB.

Q7. What is the main task of the UE in handover?

The UE is ordered to make certain measurements and to report events when the event criteria
are fulfilled. The eNB evaluates
the measurements and makes HO decisions. In case of an HO, the eNB orders the UE to go to the
target cell.

Q8. How many HO events are there in LTE?

A2: Serving cell quality drops below and absolute threshold

A3: A neighboring cell becomes better than serving cell by a certain amount (qHyst).
A5: Serving cell becomes worse than absolute threshold1 AND neighbor cell becomes better
than another absolute threshold2.
B2: Serving cell worse than threshold1 AND IRAT neighbor better than threshold2

Q9. Event A2 may trigger in which of following cases?

Blind release with redirect to WCDMA

IRAT HO to WCDMA
IRAT HO to GSM
Blind release with redirect to GSM

Q10. What are the benefits of Redirect with System Information?

 The interruption time at release with

redirect is shortened as the UE does
not have to read system information
before accessing the cell.
 It improves the end user experience
of the CS Fallback feature and also
Inactive UEs can be released quicker.
 System information from target cell
is included in the release message

Q11. List ANR functionality in LTE.

 Neighboring cells are added to

neighbor lists
 X2 interface is established
 Neghboring cells can be removed
from list if they are not used during a
predefined time
 OSS-RC is notified about add/remove
of neighbor

Q12. Which are the requirements from the UE side in ANR?

  The UE must be capable of reading
and reporting CGI. (If a UE capable of
reporting CGI is not available, all
external cells that

are possible neighbor cells must be defined manually.)

 For inter-frequency ANR and ANR
for UTRAN or GERAN it must of
course also support the wanted
other frequency.
 It must support measurement gaps
to measure PCI on other LTE
frequencies, scrambling code (SC) of
UTRANand Base Station Identity
Code (BSIC) of GERAN.
 It must support DRX to be able to
measure CGI from neighboring cells.

Q13: Whats is the range of RSRQ in LTE?

UE usually measures RSRP or RSRQ based on the direction (RRC message) from the network
and report the value. When it report this value, it does use the real RSRQ value. It sends a non-
negative value ranging from 0 to 34 and each of these values are mapped to a specific range of
real RSRQ value as shown in the following table from 36.133.
Q13: How many resource elements are used to carry reference signals?

8 RE's are used to carry reference signals and 16 RE's used when 2 antenna ports are in used.
To allow the UE to distinguish between the anttena ports reference signals are staggred in time
with transmission suspended alternatively on each antenna port when the other is
transmitting.