Step I - Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS)
Step I - Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS)
Step I - Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS)
Step I Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) The UE first looks for the primary synchronization signal (PSS) which is transmitted in the last OFDM symbol of the first time slot of the first sub frame (sub frame 0) in a radio frame. This enables the UE to acquire the slot boundary independently from the chosen cyclic prefix selected for this cell
Step II Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) After the mobile has found the 5 ms timing, the second step is to obtain the radio frame timing and the cells group identity. This information can be found from the SSS. In the time domain, the SSS is transmitted in the symbol before the PSS.
Master Information Block: The MIB includes a limited number of most essential and most frequently transmitted parameters that are required to acquire other information from the cell. MIB uses a fixed schedule with a periodicity of 40 ms and repetitions made within 40 ms. The first transmission of MIB is scheduled at sub frame #0 of radio frame for which SFN mod 4 = 0, and repetition are scheduled at sub frame #0 for all other radio frames.
3-Random Access: The random access procedure is used to request initial access, as part of handover, or to reestablish uplink synchronization. 1-Preamble takes 6 adjacent resource blocks , The subframe and the format which the preamble is sent is determined by System info. Block 2 . It uses Zadoff-Chu sequence , there are also 5 formats the first 4 is used for FDD & TDD and the 5th is used only for TDD , The Preamble allows the eNodeB to estimate the transmission timing of the terminal. If there is no response the UE will increase the preamble power . 2 -Response to the preamble on the DL-SCH , The network is transmitting a timing advance command to adjust the terminal transmit timing, based on the timing estimate in the first step Initial uplink resource grant(required in transmission in step 3), Assignment of temporary identity . 3- UE will (for initial access) send an RRC CONNECTION REQUEST message (transmission of the mobile-terminal identity to the network ) on the uplink common control channel (CCCH), based on the uplink grant received in step 2, Scheduling request . 4- Contention resolution is done, by mirroring back in the uplink CCCH service data unit (SDU) received in step 3. The message is sent on DL-SCH and addressed to the UE via the temporary CRNTI. When the received message matches the one sent in step 3, the contention resolution is considered successful.