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Table of Contents

1 Introduction to the feature ......................................................................................................... 5

2 Benefits .......................................................................................................................................... 6

3 Functional description .................................................................................................................. 7

4 System impact ............................................................................................................................... 9

5 LTE49 reference data ................................................................................................................ 10

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Table 1 Parameters introduced by LTE49 ................................................................................ 11

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1. Introduction to the feature
UE terminated service requests for connection with an UE in LTE_IDLE state.

The paging functionality consists of two components:

Paging on S1 via S1AP

Paging on Uu via RRC

The paging messages are scheduled in the time domain. The scheduling is based on UE-
specific DRX settings. The eNB supports cell specifc tracking areas (TA).

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2. Benefits
The LTE system can contact the UE when the core network gets a request for a connection
to it from another device.

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3. Functional description

Functional overview
Paging is a network-initiated procedure to find and contact a UE. The UE, which is in idle
mode and attached to the LTE network, listens regularly to the broadcasted paging
messages. When the UE detects a message intended to it, it initiates an access procedure to
connect to the network. As a result of a successful connect procedure, a radio bearer is
established and the state of the UE changes to RRC_CONNECTED.

The functional description part for paging describes the message flow applied and the
paging messages involved. Additionally, the discontinuous reception mechanism is explained
by which the UE has to monitor only a small fraction of subframes of a radio frame to detect
paging indications.

Paging is initiated by the mobile management entity (MME) as a function of the non-access
stratum (NAS). The MME sends paging messages via S1 interface to the relevant eNBs. The
eNBs are determined by the tracking areas (maintained in the MME) where the UE is
expected to be located. In the eNBs and between the UE and the eNB, paging is included in
the radio resource control (RRC) protocol which is a part of the access stratum (AS).

There are several reasons why the network needs to contact a UE. The most common is
when downlink data, that are to be delivered to a UE, arrives at the serving gateway (S-GW).
Another example is when the indication of a system configuration changes. In order to
contact a UE, a paging procedure is initiated. In case of arriving of the downlink data at the
S-GW, the S-GW requests the MME to page the UE. The MME then triggers a paging
procedure as it is responsible for UE tracking. Its role involves control, execution, and
supervision of the procedure. These functions are realized using the S1AP protocol. The
MME starts paging by distributing a PAGING message to all eNBs that are related to the cells
corresponding to the UE's registered tracking areas. The MME also coordinates paging
responses and supervises the process by scheduling retransmissions of PAGING messages.

The eNB, having received the paging request from the MME, allocates resources, schedules
the paging process related to the air interface, and transmits the PAGING messages in the
radio cells involved. The scheduling takes into account DRX (discontinuous reception) of the
UE. Once the UE has detected that it is being paged, it initiates a standard random access
procedure.

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Procedure and message flow
A UE that is attached to the network and is in idle state (ECM-IDLE) is traceable only to its
tracking areas (TAs) registered in the serving MME (as part of the mobility information kept
in the UE’s context). Every time the network needs to contact such a UE, a paging procedure
is performed taking into account the TAs.

The following steps are performed during paging:

1. The MME starts the paging procedure by sending a PAGING message via S1 interface to
each eNB belonging to one of the UE’s tracking areas. This message is part of the S1AP
protocol.
2. The eNBs derive the destination cells for the paging request.
3. For each destination cell, the related eNB calculates the radio frames for the paging
request and schedules (per cell) the paging request accordingly.
4. The eNBs transmit PAGING messages to the indicated cells according to the scheduling.
These messages are part of the RRC layer.
5. The addressed UE receives and decodes the PAGING message.
The UE responds to the successfully decoded PAGING message by initiating a random
access procedure in order to establish a connection to the network.

From the eNB perspective, multiple paging requests can arrive on S1 before they are
actually sent out on the Uu interface. They may need to be scheduled for the same or for
different paging occasions. Different paging requests scheduled for the same cell and
paging frame have to be transmitted on Uu within the same RRC: PAGING message.
Therefore, the eNB has to collect and buffer the received paging requests according to their
destination cells and their schedule. For each cell and at each paging frame with at least one
scheduled paging request, the eNB has to setup and send an RRC: PAGING message
including all paging requests scheduled for that same paging frame to the UEs.

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4. System impact
The feature has no additional impacts on the system.

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5. LTE49 reference data
LTE49: Paging requirements, alarms and faults, commands, measurements and counters,
KPIs, parameters, and sales information

For reference data descriptions, see Single RAN System/SRAN Reference Data

Requirements
For supported hardware and software, see Single RAN Features/List of Features and
Documents/List of Features Supported in Single RAN.

Alarms
There are no alarms related to the LTE49: Paging feature.

BTS faults and reported alarms

There are no faults related to the LTE49: Paging feature.

Commands
There are no commands related to the LTE49: Paging feature.

Measurements and counters

There are no measurements or counters related to the LTE49: Paging feature.

Key performance indicators

There are no key performance indicators related to the LTE49: Paging feature.

Parameters

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Table 1: Parameters introduced by LTE49

Full name Abbreviated name Manage Parent structure FDD/TDD

d object

Cell barred flag cellBarred LNCEL - common

Default paging defPagCyc LNCEL - common

cycle

Paging nB pagingNb LNCEL - common

Tracking area code tac LNCEL - common

Sales information
For licensing information, see 5G/System Descriptions/5G Licenses. Remember that for 5G
features, you also need to configure the Use Case Level Activation Parameters (UCLAPs). For
more information, see .

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