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LTE Quick Reference: Physical Cell ID
LTE Quick Reference: Physical Cell ID
Physical Cell ID
As the terminology implies, Physical Cell ID is an indentification of a cell at physical layer. It has similar role as
Primary Scrambling Code of UMTS cell.
This physical cell ID is determined by Primary Sync Signal and Secondary Sync Signal as described below.
Refer to Cell ID Detection ans System Information Detection to know specifically how this physical cell is used in the
process of initial cell detection.
Note 2 : Relationship between Physical Cell ID and Cell Specific Reference Signal
The resource element locations for Cell Specific Reference signal is influenced by Physical Cell ID(see NOTE2
of Reference Signal - Downlink for details). In case all other variables are the same, there can be conditions where
the resource element for the reference signal is same even when the physical cell ID is different if any two Physical
Cell IDs (let's call them PCI1 and PCI2) meets the following condition.
If these values are same and the reference signal from two cells may interfere each other and UE would have
difficulties detecting cell.
It means that you should be carefull when you are allocating Physical Cell IDs in eNodeB deployment or when you
assign physical cell IDs for multiple cells on Network Simulator (UE test equipment).
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