(Initial) Cell Selection Process

There exist two cell selection procedures:

Initial Cell Selection

The UE has to find a suitable cell of the PLMN, which was selected by the NAS.
To do so, the mobile phone scans all radio frequency carriers of UTRA. Hereby,
the UE focuses its cell search to the strongest cell on each carriers. As soon as
the mobile phone has found a suitable cell, it selects it. In contrast to the cell
selection procedure stored information cell selection, this procedure does not
require knowledge in advance, which of the scanned radio frequency bands holds
UTRA carriers.
Cell Selection When Leaving the RRC Connected Mode
The subscriber just has terminated a call, i.e. the UE was in the RRC connected
mode, dropping back into the RRC idle mode. Which cell is then a candidate cell
for the UE to camp on?
 Cell Reselection procedure

There are 3 main parameters which control the Intra-frequency Cell

Reselection:
1. Cell reselection triggering time (WCEL): Treselection (default value = 2 sec)
2. Cell reselection hysteresis 2 (WCEL): Qhyst2 (default value = 2dB)
3. Cell Re-selection Quality Offset 2 (ADJS): AdjsQoffset2 (default value = 0dB)