Idle Mode DRX in 5G NR

Discontinuous Reception (DRX) is a power-saving feature designed to extend the battery life of mobile devices. It achieves this by allowing the device to switch off its radio receiver when not expecting network communication, thus reducing power consumption significantly. DRX…

Non-Cell Defining SSB (NCD-SSB)

What is NCD-SSB and why is it needed and what’s the use case here ? In Release-15 the term CD-SSB was referred to the SSB that accompanies RMSI i.e. the MIB of the CD-SSB carries information of the scheduled SIB1…

Cell Defining SSB (CD-SSB)

A PCell is always associated with a CD-SSB located on the synchronization raster. In NR Cell selection and Cell re-selection are always based on CD-SSBs located on the synchronization raster. The UE searches the NR frequency bands and for each…

Delta signaling in 5G NR

In 5G New Radio (NR), delta signaling refers to a signaling mechanism used to efficiently transmit control information between the base station (gNB) and user equipment (UE). It’s designed to reduce overhead and improve spectral efficiency in the wireless communication…

SCHEDULING REQUEST

Scheduling Request in 5G-NR

The concept of Scheduling request is same for LTE and 5G NR. Scheduling request is way for UE to tell the network that it has some data in its MAC buffer and it needs PHY resources in Uplink to send…