ZTE RIM Description

ZTE RIM Description

ZTE RIM Description

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Table of Contents

ZTE RIM Description .......................................................................................................... 3

1.Purpose............................................................................................................................ 5

2.Feature description ......................................................................................................... 5

3.Requirements .................................................................................................................. 5

4.Benefit and impact .......................................................................................................... 5

5. Test Guide ...................................................................................................................... 6

5.1 Parameters .................................................................................................................... 6
5.1.1 RNC Parameter List .................................................................................................... 6
5.1.2 eNodeB Parameter List ............................................................................................... 6
5.2 Test step ........................................................................................................................ 7
5.3 Expect result .................................................................................................................. 8
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1.Purpose
The scope of this document is to provide the necessary detail to RIM, In order to achieve the
purpose, the document has been structured to provide:

1) A brief description of the feature;

2) 2) A brief description of the architecture used for testing.

2.Feature description
RAN Information Management (RIM) is a function that exchanges information between each

other for UTRAN, E-UTRAN, GERAN through CN. For detailed information, see 3GPP

TS48.018.

UTRA System Information (UTRA SI), a subfunction of RIM, is used for ENB to get RNC cell

SI. Then the ENB sends the SI to UE in RRC connection release message, and requires UE

reselecting to the new RNC cell. In this case, UE does not need to read SI of cell in Uu, and it

can make use of the known SI to access the RNC cell directly. This feature shortens the time of

UE accessing to RNC. It speeds up the access duation that UE accesses to RNC for CSFB

obviously improving performance of CSFB, and providing better access service for user.

3.Requirements
1) Need the support of SGSN and MME;

2) ZTE ENB and RNC support this feature;

4.Benefit and impact

1) Shorten the time of CSFB, 400ms~1000s, no impact to the ENB and RNC;

2) No impact to the SGSN and MME ,according to the use of other operators.
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5.Test Guide
5.1 Parameters
5.1.1 RNC Parameter List
Parameter Abbreviation Value Default Test
Range Value Value

0：Off
UTRA SI Switch UtraSISwitch 0 1
1：On

0：Off
The switch for sib7 update notification RIM sib7NotifRimSwi 0 1
1：On

0:NodeB
SIB7 Originator SIB7Originator 0 0
1：RNC

The resend number of RAN

INFORMATION/Multiple report or RAN utraSiReSendNum 0---5 0 2
INFORMATION/End for UTRA SI of RIM

The time for the timer of waiting for

response message of RAN
waitAckTimer 1s---6s 2s 2s
INFORMATION/Multiple report or RAN
INFORMATION/End for UTRA SI of RIM

The maximum number for send the RIM

maxSenRimMessNum 30---500 90 90
message

The maximum number for received the

RAN-INFORMATION-REQUEST MaxRecRimMessNum 20---500 80 80
message

The Number of Update UTRA SI 1..300,

utraSiUpdaNum 80 80
Information to ENB per Second step 1

0：Off；
The Switch of UTRA SI information utraSiInfOptSwi 0 1
1：On

5.1.2 eNodeB Parameter List

Value Default Test

Parameter Abbreviation
Range Value Value
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0:Close
Switch for UTRAN RIM switchUtranRim 0:Close 1:Open
1:Open

Number of UTRAN Cell for R9 Redirection utranCellNum4R9Red 0~16 8 8

5.2 Test step

Step1: Need SGSN and MME support;

Step2: Add the Utran-relation for Eutran cell;

Note: Each e-utran cell need to add utran cell neighbor relationship with correct
information, it is suggest to add no more than 12 for each e-utran cell.
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Step3: Set “UtraSISwitch=1” from RNC side

Step4: Set “switchUtranRim=1” from ENB side;

5.3 Expect result

1) Open the UTRAN RIM switch of eNodeB, E-UTEAN system will send UTRAN SI request message
to MME.
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2) MME send UTRAN SI request message to SGSN, then SGSN transfer to RNC.

In this case, “uTRANcellID” is 201685046(dec)=1100000001010111100000110110(bin), the RNC ID

extracted from higher 12 bits of “uTRANcellID”, and Cell ID extracted from lower 16 bits, so we can get
RNC ID is 3077, Cell ID is 30774.

3) After RNC receive UTRAN SI request, RNC response the message.

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4) eNodeB get the SI information of UTRAN Cell.

5) UE1 make a CSFB , then UE redirect to UTRAN cell, “RRC Connect Release” message include
UTRAN Cell frequency and Cell System Information. It will accelerate the produce of access the
UTRAN network.

6) UE has been redirected to UTRAN cell successfully,without reading the SIB message. In this way,
CSFB access time is shorten.
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