Fast Dormancy

RAN13.0

Feature Parameter Description

Issue

02

Date

2011-10-30

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Contents

Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Overview .....................................................................................................................................2-1
3 Fast Dormancy ..........................................................................................................................3-1
4 Enhanced Fast Dormancy ......................................................................................................4-1
4.1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................... 4-1
4.2 Identifying Fast Dormancy UEs..................................................................................................... 4-2
4.3 State Transitions for Fast Dormancy UEs ..................................................................................... 4-3

5 Parameters .................................................................................................................................5-1
6 Counters ......................................................................................................................................6-1
7 Glossary ......................................................................................................................................7-1
8 Reference Documents .............................................................................................................8-1

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1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the fast dormancy feature, WRFD-020500 Enhanced Fast Dormancy.

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:

Personnel who need to understand fast dormancy.

Personnel who work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:

Feature change: refers to the change in the fast dormancy feature of a specific product version.

Editorial change: refers to the change in wording or the addition of the information that was not
described in the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:

02 (2011-10-30)

01 (2011-04-30)

Draft B (2011-03-30)

Draft A (2010-12-30)

02 (2011-10-30)
This is the document for the second commercial release of RAN13.0.
Compared with issue 01 (2011-04-30) of RAN13.0, the description about standard fast dormancy is
added.

01 (2011-04-30)
This is the document for the first commercial release of RAN13.0.
Compared with issue Draft B (2011-03-30) of RAN13.0, this issue has no change.

Draft B (2011-03-30)
This is the second draft of the document for RAN13.0.
Compared with Draft A (2010-12-30) of RAN13.0, this issue optimizes the description.

Draft A (2010-12-30)
This is the first draft of the document for RAN13.0.
Compared with issue 01 (2010-03-30) of RAN12.0, this issue optimizes the description.

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2 Overview

2 Overview
When fast dormancy, enhanced fast dormancy, or standard fast dormancy is applied, the UE can request
the RNC to release the PS signaling connection if no more PS data is being transmitted. Upon receiving
such a request, the RNC can either release the signaling connection and put the UE into idle mode, or
maintain the signaling connection and put the UE through Cell_FACH to CELL/URA_PCH state to
reduce battery consumption.
The descriptions about fast dormancy, enhanced fast dormancy, and standard fast dormancy are as
follows:

With fast dormancy, after receiving a Signaling Connection Release Indication (SCRI) message from a
UE, the RNC releases the UE RRC connection regardless of whether the message contains the cause
value "UE Requested PS Data session end."

With enhanced fast dormancy, UEs send SCRI messages that do not contain the cause value "UE
Requested PS Data session end" to the RNC. After receiving such an SCRI message, the RNC moves
the UE through Cell_FACH to CELL/URA_PCH state.

Standard fast dormancy is applicable to fast dormancy UEs that comply with 3GPP Release 8 (R8 for
short). With standard fast dormancy, UEs send SCRI messages that contain the cause value "UE
Requested PS Data session end" to the RNC. After receiving such an SCRI message, the RNC moves
the UE through Cell_FACH to CELL/URA_PCH state. Standard fast dormancy is valid only when the
RNC has enabled the timer T323 in system information block type 1 (SIB1).

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