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Hand Over Parameter
3)
There are three ways of optimizing handovers in LTE:
These set of blogs will dealt with parameter setting for Periodic Reporting of Event A3
only. The intention is to deal with each of the cases mentioned above, one at a time.
Hence, this blog will concentrate in case a).
Definitions:
Event A3 is defined as a triggering event when a neighbour cell becomes an offset
better than the serving cell. The UE creates a measurement report, populates the
triggering details and sends the message to the serving cell. The parameters that define
the trigger include:
a3offset: This parameter can be found in 3GPP 36.331. It configures the RRC IE
a3-Offset included in the IE reportConfigEUTRA in the
MeasurementConfiguration IE. The value sent over the RRC interface is twice
the value configured, that is, the UE has to divide the received value by 2.The
role of the offset in Event A3 is to make the serving cell look better than its
current measurement in comparison to the neighbor.
Hysteresisa3: The role of the hysteresis in Event A3 is to make the measured
neighbor look worse than measured to ensure it is really stronger before the UE
decides to send a measurement report to initiate a handover.
timetoTriggera3: The role of ttt in Event A3 is to avoid a ping-pong effect.
CellIndividualoffsetEutran: This parameter is applied individually to each
neighbor cell with load management purposes. The higher the value allocated to
a neighbor cell, the “more attractive” it will be. This parameter can only be used if
the neighbor list is broadcast in SIB4 or in an RRC connection reconfiguration.
Examples:
The table below assumes that cellindividualoffsetEutran is not used and shows when
the eventa3offset is triggered and when the UE ceases sending measurement reports.
e) The higher the value of a3offset+hysteresisa3 the more difficult we make it for calls
do handover to other cells.
In our next blog, we will discuss the parameter timetotriggera3, which is another tool for
optimizing handovers in LTE.