BSS Radio Parameters

Introduction
There are well over a hundred different radio parameters
specified for the BSS and some are controlled by the
MSC.

Cell selection and reselection

MS operates in two modes: idle mode and dedicated mode.
In the idle mode, MS monitors the broadcast channels in
order to "hear" if it is being paged.
It also measures other BTSs' BCCH carrier and decides
whether it should camp on another cell. This is called cell
reselection

Cell Selection
Cell selection is performed immediately after MS is
switched on.
Cell reselection is performed as MS traverses through a
network in idle mode.

Handover (HO)
The handover algorithm decides when, why, how and to
which cell the HO is made. Some of the many aspects of
HO are touched upon briefly in the following discussion.

Handover types
There are many different types of HOs. They can be enabled or
disabled by using several flags in the BSS parameter
database.
The different HO types, in the order of signaling complexity, are:
1. Intra cell HO
2. Intra-BSS HO
3. Intra-MSC HO
4. Inter-MSC HO

Handover causes
There are four causes for HO defined.
1. Quality, RXQUAL too high
2. Received level, RXLEV too low
3. MS BTS distance too large, maximum radius of a
GSM cell is about 35 km
4. Better cell, power budget for another cell is more
favorable, i.e., path loss is smaller

Some example of Parameters values

Parameters affiliated with cell selection/reselection.

HO activation parameters

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