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"Cell Search" in this page means the collective term representing the combined procedure of
Measurement, Evaluation, Detection process.
This is very tightly related to Cell Selection process because UE goes through this search process first
before it goes through the cell selection.
Also this process influence greatly on engergy consumption of UE during the idle mode.
Basic Terminology
ii) Then UE go through the list from step i) and figure out all the channels which shows RSSI
value greater than the threshold (this threshold is also up to UE/chipset implementation, not
determined by 3GPP).
Then the question would be "Any frequency with Passing RSSI value can be the one that UE
can camp on ?". The answer is "Not Necessarily". >
For find the more proper candidate to camp on, UE performs following steps.
ii) UE decode PCPICH and measure the power and detect physical cell ID from the each
candidate from step ii).
(Some candidate give successful result but some would not. UE make the list of all the
successful tries).
iv) From the list with successful result from step iii), UE decode MIBs for each and every
candidate. With this procedure, now UE can make a list of frequency, Physical Cell ID (PSC in
case of WCDMA) and PLMN.
v) Based on USIM information and the candidate table from the step iv), can figure out which
cell is the real candidate cell to camp on and try decoding System Information and proceed to
registration process.
If UE fail to find any Home PLMN cell in the step v) above and find only VPLMN cell, it would camp on
the VPLMN cell. But once it gets into Idle mode in VPLMN cell, UE would try performing searching cell
with HPLMN. This process may include all the steps described above or a little bit simplified process
depending on UE implementation.
Usually these HPLM search process happens periodically as illustrated below. The search cycle
(periodicity of HPLMN search is determined by a USIM parameter, but the detailed search algorithm is
up to UE implementation). The period marked as 'backoff' is not defined by 3GPP.
If UE performs this periodic search in the area where there is no HPLMN, it would drain the battery too
much.
So to save energy consumption, most of UE maker/chipset maker tend to implement a kind of 'backoff'
method.
If S_intrasearch (SIB3) is sent in the serving cell and S_servingCell (Srxlev) > S_instrasearch,
UE may choose to not perform intra-frequency measurement
If S_servingCell (Srxlev) <= S_instrasearch or S_intrasearch is not sent in the serving cell, UE
shall perform intra-frequency measurement. --> This means 'If you omit S_intrasearch IE in
SIB3, UE has to perform instra-frequency measurement all the time regardless of Srxlev value.
Regarding Inter Frequency Measurement : SIB3 and SIB5 are involved in this process
Case 1 : When the reselection priority of a neighbour cell is higher than the current cell,
The UE shall be able to evaluate whether a newly detactable intra frequency cell meets the
reselection criteria (36.304) within [T_detect,EUTRAN_Intra] when Treselection = 0 (i.e, TReselectionEUTRA in SIB3 = 0).
The UE shall measure RSRP and RSRQ at least every [T_measure,EUTRAN_Intra] for intrafrequency cells that are identified and measured according to the measurement rules.
The major parameters mentioned in above statements came from SIB3 and 36.133 Table 4.2.2.3-1 as
follows.
Regarding Inter Frequency Measurement : -------------Refer to 36.133 section 4.2.2.4 for the details.
Regarding Inter RAT GSM Measurement : -------------Refer to 36.133 section 4.2.2.5.3 for the details.