STAR enlightening seminar -

mobility

Pradeepa Ramachandra
(On behalf of ER STAR/SWEA mobility team)
overview
UE SgNB TgNB

Measurement configuration
SgNB Data transmission
TgNB
Event triggering

Measurement report

Handover decision

Handover request
‘Beams’ : SS-Blocks (used in RRC Connected and Idle mode) or
Handover ack
CSI-RS (used in RRC connected mode) Handover command

Random access

• Multi-beam based transmission of reference RAR + RRC re-configuration

signals (RS) Handover complete

• More than one RS type (SS-Block and/or CSI-RS)

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Reference signal (RS) properties
Tp
› SS-Block

frequency
– Consists of PSS, SSS and PBCH
– Blindly decodable

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1

L
CSI-RS-1
CSI-RS-2
– Fixed bandwidth per numerology
› 127 sub-carriers for PSS & SSS and 240 sub-carriers
for PBCH
SS Block time
– Configurable periodicity Tp=(5,10,20,40,80,160 ms)
– Limitation on maximum #SSBs per cell

NR-PBCH
› (4,8,64) SSBs in (<3, between 3&6, >6) GHz

240 sub-carrier
127 sub-carrier
› CSI-RS

NR-PBCH
NR-PBCH

NR-SSS
NR-PSS
– Explicitly configured (up to 96)
– Flexible bandwidth (=< BWP)

NR-PBCH
– Configurable periodicity

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Measurement configuration
› ARFCN
› SSB related configuration
– SSB presence flag, SCS, frequency offset Timing offset
– Primary SMTC window

frequency
› intra and inter-frequency measurements SSB duration

– Secondary SMTC window

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1

L
› specific PCIs of intra-frequency measurements
SSB periodicity
› CSI-RS related configuration ARFCN

– CSI-RS resource ID, Cell ID, SCS, transmission and

measurement bandwidth etc.
time
– Sync reference frequency offset

› Cell quality derivation parameters (‘N’ and ‘T’)

– RS type specific, measurement quantity specific
› S-Measure
– Configurable RS-type

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Measurement gaps
MN
› Measurements both in low freq (FR1 <
6GHz) and high freq (FR2 > 24GHz) 1 GHz 3 GHz 6 GHz 24 GHz 100 GHz

– Coupled radio chains of FR1 and FR2  per

UE gap configuration MN SN
measGap pattern config
– Independent radio chains of FR1 and FR2
per FR gap configuration Request for inter-intra freq
› Per UE measurement gap configuration measurements needing meas gap

– MN decides the configuration and informs the MN SN

SN about the configuration
› Per FR measurement gap configuration 1 GHz 3 GHz 6 GHz 24 GHz 100 GHz

– NR RRC configures measurement gap MN SN

configuration for FR2 Gap pattern configuration in FR1
– LTE RRC configures measurement gap
Request for FR2 measurements
configuration for LTE and NR FR1
Request for FR1 measurements
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Measurement model
RRC Configurable parameters
Configurable ‘T’ & ‘N’ Cell filter coefficients

beam1 Beam Evaluation of

beam2 consolidation/ triggering and
L1 filter Cell level L3
selection reporting criteria
filter
beamL
UE implementation specific

Beam level L3 Beam selection for

filter reporting
Beam filter coefficients

› Beam consolidation/selection function › Two sets of filtering coefficients (in QuantityConfig)

– Linear power scale averaging of top ‘N’ beams above – MeasObject level indexing
an absolute threshold ‘T’ › Each set has
– RS type specific, quantity specific (RSRP, RSRQ,
SINR)
› Beam level L3 filtering coefficients
› Cell level L3 filtering coefficients
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report triggering and report content
› Triggering › Reporting
– Supports both event based and periodic reporting – Supports reporting of cell and beam RSRP, RSRQ,
– Event triggering SINR quantities
› A1-A6 events (based on cell level – Serving cells’ measurements
measurements) – Best neighbors in serving frequencies
- Independent events for different RS types – Periodic reporting
(SSBs, CSI-RSs) › Single RS based, cell and beam level
- RSRP or RSRQ or SINR as the trigger measurements
quantity – Event based reporting
- No multi quantity based triggers › Cells triggered list
- No multi RS type based triggers - Up to ‘maxReportCells’ cells
- reportOnLeave for all events - Up to ‘X’ beams per cell
› B1-B2 events – No multi RS types based contents
– No C1-C2 events

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measurement report content in lte
› Serving NR cell measurements in LTE events
– For A3/4/5 events of LTE
– Beam level measurements
› Measurement quantities, #beams reported is FFS
– Best neighbor cell measurements
› No whiteCellList support for NR measurements in EN-DC
› Cell level SS-SINR can be used as trigger quantity in B1/B2 events
› S-Measure of LTE is not applicable for NR measurements
› reportOnLeave can be configured for B1/B2 events

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Handover execution

› HO command contains target cell UE SgNB TgNB

system information
Measurement configuration
› Contention Free and Contention Data transmission
Based Random Access (CFRA and
CBRA) resources Event triggering

Measurement report
– Selection criteria: Beam Quality > RSRP
Handover decision
threshold
– DL beam to RA mapping Handover request

› UE selects CFRA resource if any DL Handover command

beam associated to the CFRA Random access

resource is above the threshold RAR + RRC re-configuration

Handover complete
– If not, the CBRA resource is used

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RLF and re-establishment
› RLM › RLF triggers
– Supported on PCell and PSCell only – RLF timer expiry due to OOS indication
– Up to ‘X’ RLM-RS – Random access procedure failure detection
› Each of the ‘X’ RLM-RS can be either SSB or CSI-RS – RLC failure detection
Operating band ‘X’
Below 3 GHz 2 › After RLF declaration for SCG, the UE;
Between 3 and 6 GHz 4 – Suspends SCG transmissions for all DRBs
Above 6 GHz 8 – Suspends direct SCG SRB and SCG transmission
for MCG split SRB
– Reports the SCG Failure Information to the MN
– Hypothetical BLER calculation based, as in LTE › available beam level measurements for serving and
neighbour cells
› Periodic IS : estimated link quality based on at least
one RLM-RS resource is above Qin threshold – Maintains the current measurement configurations
› Periodic OOS : estimated link quality based on all RLM- from both the MN and the SN and continues
RS resource(s) is below Qout threshold measurements based on configuration from the SN
– Supports two BLER threshold pairs
› 2% and 10% (value 0  default value)
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› X% and Y% (value 1  values under RAN4
Expected in rel-15

› ANR
› Basic mobility enhancements
– Conditional HO
› Idle/In-active mode mobility details
– Cell selection/re-selection
– DRX
– Paging
› Beam failure recovery procedure’s relation to RLF

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