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NETWORK IDENTIFICATION PARAMETERS As a global cellular mobile communication system, the GSM adopts a unique numbers to every country, networks in every country, location area of every network and cells of each location area.
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ROLES OF CGI
The CGI information is sent along broadcasting information in every cell. the system
When the MS receives the system information, it will extract the CGI information from it and determines whether to camp on the cell according to the MCC and MNC specified by the CGI. It judges whether the current location area is changed, then determines whether to take the location updating process. During the location updating process, the MS will report the LAI information to the network so that the network is fully aware of the cell where the MS is currently located.
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SETTING OF CGI
MCC Mobile Country Code : consists of 3 decimal digits, and the value range is the decimal 000 999. MNC Mobile Network Code : consists of 3 decimal digits, and the value range is the decimal 00 999. LACLocation Area Code: The range is 65535. CICell Identity: The range is 0-65535. 1-
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SETTING OF CGI
MCC resource is allocated and managed by ITU. The MCC of China is 460decimal).
MNC is usually allocated by the relevant telecommunication administration department of a country. The LAC encoding mode is specified correspondingly by every country. Usually, the location area should be as large as possible. Two or more cells in the same location area are not allowed to share the same CI.
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NCC Network/ National Color Code BCC Base Station Color Code
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BCC: The BCC is used to identify different BS using the same BCCH in the same GSMPLMN.
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In general, it is required that Cells A, B, C, D, E and F use different BSIC. When the BSIC resources are not enough, the cells close to each other may take the priority to use different BSIC.
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ROLES OF BSIC
1. Inform the MS the TSC used by the common signaling channel of the cell. 2. As the BSIC takes part in the decoding process of the random access channel (RACH), it can be used to prevent the BS from mis-decoding the RACH, sent by the MS to an adjacent cell, as the access channel of this cell. 3. When the MS is in the connection mode (during conversation), it must measure the BCCH level of adjacent cells broadcasting by BCCH and report the results to the BS. In the uplink measurement report, MS must show BSIC of this carrier it has measured to every frequency point.
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CELL SELECTION C1
When the MS is turned on, it will try to contact a public GSM PLMN, so the MS will select a proper cell and extract from the cell the control channel parameters and prerequisite system messages. This selection process is called cell selection. The quality of radio channels is an important factor in cell selection. The GSM Specifications defines the path loss rule C1. For the so-called proper cell, C1>0 must be ensured.
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CELL SELECTION C1
C1 = RXLEV - RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN - Max(MS_TXPWR_MAX_CCH - P ,0)
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C1 PATHLOSS CRITERION
All the candidate cells for MS must meet the path loss criterion, i.e C1>0. MS will select the cell with the maximal C1 to access and will camp on this cell unless some key conditions has changed greatly.
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RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN
In order to avoid providing unsatisfactory communication quality and avoid the unnecessary waste of radio resources if the MS accesses to the system (the communication quality after the access often cannot ensure the normal communication process) at the very low received level, the GSM system regulates that, when a MS is to access to a network, its receiving signal level must be larger than a threshold level, i.e. the minimum receiving level the MS is allowed to access to RXLEV_ACCESS_MIN). Default value is 0 (-110dBm).
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CELL RESELECTION C2
1. Cell Reselection (C2) is a process when MS change its service cell in idle mode. 2. When the MS selects a cell it will begin to measure the signal levels of the BCCH TRX of its adjacent cells, record 6 adjacent cells whose signal levels are the strongest and extract from them various types of system messages and control messages of each adjacent cell. 3. When given conditions are met, the MS will move from the current cell into another one. This process is called cell reselection.
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CELL RESELECTION C2
When C2 Parameter Indicator (PI) indicates YESthe MS will get parameters [CRO(cell reselect offset), TO(temporary offset) and PT(penalty time)] , from BCCH to be used to calculate C2(channel quality criterion), which serves as cell reselection norm. The equation is as follows:
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CRO, PT AND TO
The cell reselection initiated by the radio channel quality regards C2 as the standard. C2 is a parameter based on C1 plus some artificial offset parameters. The artificial influence is to encourage the MS to take the priority in accessing to some cells or prevent it from accessing to others. These methods are often used to balance the traffic in the network. In addition to C1, there are three other factors influencing C2, namely: CELL_RESELECT_OFFSET (CRO), TEMPORARY_OFFSET (TO) and PENALTY_TIME (PT).
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C2 TYPICAL APPLICATIONS
1. In general, its not expected that MS access the cells where the traffic is very heavy or the channel quality is very low. In this case , the PT may be set 31, making TO invalid, so C2=C1-CRO. Because the C2 is lowered deliberately, the possibility that the cell will be reselected by MS is lowered greatly. The greater the CRO, the less possibility that the cell will be reselected,
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C2 TYPICAL APPLICATIONS
2. Its expected that MS stay as much as possible in cells where the system utilization are very low and the traffic load is light. In this case, its recommended that CRO be ranged from 0 to 20dB. The greater the CRO, the more possible the cells will be reselected ,and vice versa. Its also suggested that TO is equal or a little higher than CRO. PT, whose main role is to avoid frequent cell reselection by MS, is generally recommended to be set at 20 seconds or 40 seconds.(20-640). 3. For cells where the traffic is moderate, the recommended value for CRO is zero and PT=31, thus causing C2=C1, i. e. no artificial impact will be imposed.
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In the system message broadcasting in each cell, there is a bit information indicating whether to allow the MS to access to it, which is called cell bar access (CBA). The parameter CBA is to indicate whether the cell bar access is set in a cell. The parameter is represented in character string. Its value range is: YES: NO: the cell is barred for access the cell is not barred for access
The CBA bit is a parameter for the network operator to set. Usually all the cells are allowed to be accessed by MS , so the bit is set NO. However, in special cases, the telecom operator may want to assign a certain cells for handover service only, then the bit can be set YES.
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YES: The cell has low priority NO: The cell has normal priority
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For some reasons, the traffic of Cells A and B is apparently higher than that of other adjacent cells. To balance the traffic in the whole area, you can set the priority of Cells A and B as low, and set the priority of the rest cells as normal so that the traffic in the shade area will be absorbed by adjacent cells. It must be noted that the result of this setting is that the actual coverage of Cell A and Cell B is narrowed. However, this is different from reducing the transmitting power of Cell A and Cell B, the latter may cause blind areas of the network coverage and the reduction of communication quality.
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RANDOM ACCESS
Random access is the process that messages being transmitted on RACH when a MS turns from idle to specialized mode. The main parameters includes:
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MAX RETRANS
When starting the immediate assignment process (e.g, when MS needs location updating, originating calls or responding to paging calls), the MS will transmit the "channel request" message over the RACH to the network. As the RACH is an ALOHA channel, in order to enhance the MS access success rate, the network allows the MS to transmit multiple channel request messages before receiving the immediate assignment message. The numbers of maximum retransmission (MAX RETRANS) are determined by the network.
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MAX RETRANS
The MAX RETRANS is often set in the following ways: For areas (suburbs or rural areas) where the cell radius is more than 3km and the traffic is smaller, the MAX RETRANS can be set 11 (i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 7). For areas (not bustling city blocks) where the cell radius is less than 3km and the traffic is moderate, the MAX RETRANS can be set 10i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 4). For micro-cellular, its recommend that the MAX RETRANS be set 01i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 2). For microcellular areas with very high traffic and cells with apparent congestion, its recommend that the MAX RETRANS be set 00i.e. the MAX RETRANS is 1).
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ACCESS CONTROL AC
In some special conditions, the telecom operator wants to bar all or part of MS from sending out the access request or paging response request in some special areas. For example, in case some areas are in emergency state or in case a GSM PLMN encounters a serious fault. For this reason, GSM Specification 02.11 stipulates that each GSM subscriber (ordinary subscriber) is allocated with an access level. The access level ranges from 0 to 9 and is stored in the SIM card of the subscriber. The GSM Specifications reserves 5 special access levels for some special subscribers, which range from 11 to 15. These levels usually have higher access priority. Special subscribers can have one or more access levels (11~15), and their access levels are also stored in the SIM cards.
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ACCESS CONTROL AC
The access levels are distributed as follows:
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SETTING OF AC
In the BS installation and commissioning process or in the process of maintaining or testing some cells, the operator can set C0 C9 as 0 to forcedly forbid the access of ordinary subscribers so as to reduce the unnecessary effects on the installation or maintenance work. In some cells with very high traffic, the congestion will occur in busy hours. For example, the RACH conflict happens frequently, the AGCH is overloaded and the Abis interface flow is overloaded. The network operator can set proper access control parametersC0C15to control the traffic of some cells.
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LIMITn
1. According to GSM Specification 05.08, the BTS must measure the interference levels of the upward links of all the free channels for the purpose of providing basis for managing and allocating radio resources. Moreover, the BTS should analyze its measured results, divide the interference levels into 5 grades and report them to the BSC. The division of the 5 interference grades (i.e. the so-called interference bands) is set by the operator through the man-machine interface. The parameter "Interference band border(LIMITn) determines the borders of the 5 interference bands.
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LIMITn
Value Range Specified dBm Level 0 <-110 dBm 1 -110 dBm ~ -109 dBm 2 -109 dBm ~ -108 dBm 61 62 -50 dBm ~ -49 dBm -49 dBm ~ -48 dBm
Default: LIMIT14 LIMIT28 LIMIT315 LIMIT425 The division of the interference bands should be favorable in describing the interference in the system. Generally the default values are recommended. In the ordinary situations, the free channel interference level is smaller, so the LIMIT1 4 value should be smaller. When apparently large interference appears in the system, you can properly increase the LIMIT1~4 values in order to know the exact interference.
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CCCH_CONF
The CCCH can be one or more physical channels. The CCCH and SDCCH can share the same physical channel. The combination mode of the common control channel in a cell is determined by the CCCH_CONF
CCCH message blocks in one BCCH 9 3 18 27 36 Reserved
Meanings CCCH use one basic physical channel, not shared with SDCCH CCCH use one basic physical channel, shares with SDCCH CCCH use two basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH CCCH use three basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH CCCH use 4 basic physical channels, not shared with SDCCH
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CCCH_CONF
The CCCH_CONF is determined by the telecom operation department according to the traffic model of a cell. It is often decided in the system design period. The common configurations in practice are the following:
If a cell has 1 or 2 TRX, we recommend that the CCCH uses one basic physical channel and shares it with the SDCCH If a cell has 3 or 4 TRX, we recommend that the CCCH uses one basic physical channel but does not share it with the SDCCH.
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AGBLK
Since the CCCH consists of the access grant channel (AGCH) and paging channel (PCH), it is necessary to set how many blocks of the CCCH information blocks are reserved and dedicated to the AGCH. To let the MS know about the configuration information, the system message of every cell contains a configuration parameter, that is, the access grant reserve blocks (AGBLK). AGBLK is represented in decimal numerals, and its value range is: CCCH is not combined with SDCCH: 07. CCCH is combined with SDCCH: 02.
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AGBLK
SETTING AND IMPACT OF AGBLK The AGBLK setting principle is: given that the AGCH is not overloaded, try to reduce the parameter as much as possible to shorten the time when the MS responds to the paging and improve the quality of service of the system. The recommended value of AGBLK is usually 1 (when the CCCH is combined with the SDCCH), 2 or 3 (when the CCCH is not combined with the SDCCH).
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BS-PA-MFRMS
According to the GSM specifications, every mobile subscriber belongs to a paging group. In every cell, every paging group corresponds to a paging subchannel, the MS calculates the paging group to which it belongs by its own IMSI, then calculates the location of the paging subchannel belonging to the paging group. In an actual network, the MS only "receives the contents in the paging subchannel to which it belongs but ignores the contents in other paging subchannels, or even turn off the power supply of some hardware equipment of the MS for other paging subchannels to save the MS power overhead (i.e. DRX source). The BS-PA-MFRMS refers to how many multi-frames are used as a cycle of a paging subchannel. This parameter in fact determines how many paging sub-channels are to be divided from the paging channels of a cell.
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BS-PA-MFRMS (2)
BS-PA-MFRMS is represented in decimal numerals and its value range is 29, its unit is multiframe 51 frames, its default value is 2
BS-PA-MFRMS 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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NCCPERM
In the connection mode (during the conversation), the MS will report the measured signals of the adjacent cells to the BS, but each report may contain at most 6 adjacent cells, Therefore, let the MS only report the information of the cells that may become the hand-over target cells, do not let the MS report the information merely according to the signal level without selection (usually do not let the MS report other GSMPLMN cells). The above functions can be fulfilled by limiting the MS to merely measure the cells whose NCC have been specified. The NCCPERM lists the NCCs of cells to be measured by the MS.
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NCCPERM (2)
In general, each area is allocated with one (or several) NCC. The NCCPERM of each cell in the area should contain the NCC of the area, otherwise a large number of cross-cell drop calls will occur and the cell reselection will fail. To ensure the normal roaming between different areas, the border cells of an area should contain the NCC of its adjacent areas
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data) quality is degraded to be unacceptable and cannot be improved through the RF power control or handover (i.e. the socalled radio link fault), the MS will either start the call reconnection or forcedly disconnect the link. As the forced disconnection actually means a "drop call" process, the MS will regard it as a downward radio link fault when the communication quality is unacceptable (usually the user has to hang up). In this case, it is provided in the GSM specifications that the MS needs a counter S to assign an initial value--"downward radio link timeout"--. When S is counted to 0, the MS will report the downward radio link fault.
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MBCR (1)
In the single band GSM system, when the MS reports the adjacent cell measurement result to the network, it only needs to report the contents of the 6 adjacent cells with the strongest signals in a band. When multiple bands form a network, the telecom operator often, according to the actual situation of the network, wants the MS to access to a frequency band with priority during the handover, so the operator hopes that the MS will report the measurement result on the basis of not only signal strength but signal band as well. The parameter "multiband indication (MBCR)" is used to notify the MS that it should report the multiband adjacent cell contents. The value is 0-3
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MBCR (2)
0: Based on the signal strength of adjacent cells, the MS reports the measurement results of 6 adjacent cells whose signals are the strongest, whose NCC are known and allowed no matter in which band the adjacent cells lie. The default value is 0 1: The MS should report the measurement result of an adjacent cell in each band (not including the band used by the current service area) in the adjacent table, whose signal is the strongest and whose NCC is already known and allowed. It should also report in the rest position the adjacent cells in the band used by the current service area. If there are still rest positions, it will report the information of the rest adjacent cells no matter in which band these adjacent cells lie.
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MBCR (3)
2: The MS should report the measurement results of two adjacent cells in each band (not including the band used by the current service area) in the adjacent table, whose signals are the strongest and whose NCC are already known and allowed. It should also report in the rest position the adjacent cells in the band used by the current service area. If there are still rest positions, it will report the information of the rest adjacent cells no matter in which band these adjacent cells lie. 3: The MS should report the measurement results of three adjacent cells in each band (not including the band used by the current service area) in the adjacent table, whose signals are the strongest and whose NCC are already known and allowed.
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