Actions performed by the mobile phone in Idle Mode Actions performed by the mobile phone in Idle state The mobile phone mainly performs the following actions from power on to entering Idle Mode: network selection, cell selection and location update, as shown in Figure 1. Generally speaking, network selection can be divided into two types: manual and automatic. The so-called automatic mode is that the mobile phone automatically completes network selection based on the information pre-stored in the user\'s SIM card; while the manual mode is that the mobile station displays a table of available networks and the user selects one of them. Figure 1 The mobile phone enters Idle Mode after the network selection is successful. In Idle Mode, the mobile station must lock a cellular cell, that is, regularly monitor a beacon channel and detect the signal strength of its surrounding cells in real time in order to reselect the cell and update the location. 1. Actions performed by the mobile phone in Idle state 1.1 Cell selection and reselection The cell selection process can be divided into two situations: ➢ When the mobile station has the beacon channel (i.e. BCCH carrier frequency) of the PLMN, it selects from the channel table; ➢ When the mobile station does not know anything, it searches on the possible frequency set of GSM or DCS. When the mobile station finds a suitable cell, it reads the identity code of the positioning area, logs in and registers if necessary, and after the registration is accepted, the mobile station locks on the beacon channel. When the mobile station is locked on a cell, it receives a table of BCCH carrier frequencies to be studied on the BCCH channel. This table is established by the operator and corresponds to the beacon channels of adjacent cells. The mobile station periodically measures the field strength of each BCCH carrier frequency and decides on the cell reselection based on parameters C1 and C2. To select a cell, the mobile station measures the signal level of the current cell and adjacent cells. It also obtains the following parameters by listening to the BCCH channel: RXLEV-ACCESS-MIN (the minimum level required in the cell) and MS-TXPWR-MAX-CCH (the maximum power the mobile station is authorized to transmit when accessing the system), and calculates parameter C1 using the above two parameters. 1.2 Location Update When the mobile station is located...
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