 What speed does LTE offer?

“LTE provides downlink peak rates of at least 100Mbit/s, 50 Mbit/s in the uplink and RAN (Radio
Access Network) round-trip times of less than 10 ms.”

 What are LTE Interfaces?

 What is the range of available PCI
 What is the range of available Root Sequence
 How does ANR works in LTE forn intra RAT and inter RAT?
 How does Scheduling feature works in LTE?
 What is MIMO and what do you know about the use of the TM#.
 What is CS Fallback in LTE?
 Related to CSFB signaling, in Mobile-Originated, what is the main different between Redirection
and Flash Redirection.
 How SMS works in LTE? What interface it uses, What kind of message is it?, What equipments
are involved?.
 What is Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC)?
 What is VoLTE?
 What are the main Roles of the CSCF node? (Call Session Control Function)? P (proxy => First
point of contact and all SIP message go to Proxy) – S (Serving, Brain, Control of Services) – I
(Interrogating => Registration and Terminating Precoess).
 What is IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)?
 How does policy control and charging works in LTE?
 What is SON & how does it work in LTE?
 How does Timing Advance (TA) works in LTE?
 What escenarios is performed TAU for?
 During the TAU Procedure, when is implemented the Security Phase. (Idle Mode, after
the Context Response – Conn Mode, after TAU Complete because the UE and Network
need to use the same Kasme Key for the authentication procedure)

SRS, activation impact?

Q1. What is the difference between CFRA and CBRA?

CFRA – Contention FREE Random Access – Preamble reserved Used for Handover between
cells and Downlink data transfer requiring UE synchronization

CBRA – Contention BASED Random Access – Preamble randomly selected used for Initial network
access, Access following a radio link failure, Handover between cells, Downlink data
transfer requiring UE synchronization, Uplink data transfer requiring UE synchronization

Q2. What is Link Adaptation in LTE?

Adjusting transmission parameters according to the channel condition is called link adaptation.

Transmission parameters that can be adjusted are coding rate, modulation scheme, transport block
size and tx rank.

Q3. Which transmission scheme is used if two transport blocks are used per TTI and
transmission mode 3 is used?

Transmission Mode 3 = Open loop spatial multiplexing

Open loop spatial multiplexing can be TX Diversity or Large Delay CDD.
As question states two transport blocks in one TTI = Two code words in one TTI => Transmission
scheme to be used is Large Delay CDD

Q4. Whar are benifits of “Uplink Frequency Selective Scheduling”?

It may improve the peak rate, cell Capacity, covetage and tries to schedule the best part of the
frequency band for each UE

Q5. What does the feature “Dynamic GBR Admission Control” mean?

It secures that that there are resources for GBR users and protects non-GBR users from starvation

Q6. What is the difference between connected mode mobility and idle mode mobility?

Idle mode mobility relies on UE measurements and UE decisions whether to make a cell reselection or
not. The MME keeps track of the UEs on a TA level.

Connected mode mobility relies on UE measurements and eNB decisions whether to make Handover or
not. The UE position is known on cell level by the eNB.

Q7. What is the main task of the UE in handover?

The UE is ordered to make certain measurements and to report events when the event criteria are
fulfilled. The eNB evaluates
the measurements and makes HO decisions. In case of an HO, the eNB orders the UE to go to the
target cell.

Q8. How many HO events are there in LTE?

A2: Serving cell quality drops below and absolute threshold

A3: A neighboring cell becomes better than serving cell by a certain amount (qHyst).
A5: Serving cell becomes worse than absolute threshold1 AND neighbor cell becomes better than
another absolute threshold2.
B2: Serving cell worse than threshold1 AND IRAT neighbor better than threshold2
Q9. Event A2 may trigger in which of following cases?

Blind release with redirect to WCDMA

IRAT HO to WCDMA
IRAT HO to GSM
Blind release with redirect to GSM

Q10. What are the benefits of Redirect with System Information?

 The interruption time at release with redirect is shortened as the UE does not have to read
system information before accessing the cell.
 It improves the end user experience of the CS Fallback feature and also Inactive UEs can be
released quicker.
 System information from target cell is included in the release message

Q11. List ANR functionality in LTE.

 Neighboring cells are added to neighbor lists

 X2 interface is established
 Neghboring cells can be removed from list if they are not used during a predefined time
 OSS-RC is notified about add/remove of neighbor

Q12. Which are the requirements from the UE side in ANR?

 The UE must be capable of reading and reporting CGI. (If a UE capable of reporting CGI is
not available, all external cells that

are possible neighbor cells must be defined manually.)

 For inter-frequency ANR and ANR for UTRAN or GERAN it must of course also support the
wanted other frequency.
 It must support measurement gaps to measure PCI on other LTE frequencies, scrambling
code (SC) of UTRANand Base Station Identity Code (BSIC) of GERAN.
 It must support DRX to be able to measure CGI from neighboring cells.

Q13: Whats is the range of RSRQ in LTE?

UE usually measures RSRP or RSRQ based on the direction (RRC message) from the network and
report the value. When it report this value, it does use the real RSRQ value. It sends a non-negative
value ranging from 0 to 34 and each of these values are mapped to a specific range of real RSRQ
value as shown in the following table from 36.133.
 Q13: How many resource elements are used to carry reference signals?

8 RE's are used to carry reference signals and 16 RE's used when 2 antenna ports are in used. To
allow the UE to distinguish between the anttena ports reference signals are staggred in time with
transmission suspended alternatively on each antenna port when the other is transmitting.

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