System Information Broadcasted by an eNB

Features

Main Parameters

MIB

Most essential PHY parameters

to access the cell

DL bandwidth, SFN, PHICH configuration

SIB 1

Access restriction info of a UE

and the scheduling of other SIBs

Access restriction info, Cell selection

info, scheduling info list (SI periodicity,
SIB types)

SIB 2

Radio resource configuration

common for all UEs

Common and shared channel info (RACH,

BCCH, PCCH, PRACH, PDSCH, PUSCH,
PUCCH, Sounding RS, UL power control),
MBSFN sub-frame configuration)

LTE System Information

SI: Group of SIBs

(SIB 2 ~ SIB 16)
MIB

SI 2
SIB 1

MIB

SI 1

MIB
SI
SIB
SFN

SI 2
SIB 1

SI 1

MIB
SIB 1 SI 1

Radio frame = 10ms

SFN #: 0

Cell Re-selection Info

SI 3
SI 2

New MIB Repeted MIB

: Master Information Block

: System Information
: System Information Block
: System Frame Number

New SIB 1

Repeted SIB 1

10

11

12

13

14

15

SIB 3

Cell re-selection info common

for all UEs in Idle state

q-Hyst, q-RxLevMin, s-IntraSearch,

s-NonIntraSearch, Cell reselection
priority, t-ReselectionEUTRA

SIB 4

Neighbor cell info relevant for

intra-frequency cell re-selection

Neighbor cell list, Black cell list, PCI for

CSG

SIB 5

E-UTRA frequencies and

neighbor cell info relevant for
inter-frequency cell re-selection

Supported E-UTRA frequency list (EUTRA frequency, Neighbor cell list, Black
cell list, Reselection threshold)

SIB 6/7/8

Inter-RAT cell re-section info

(for UTRA/GERAN/CDMA2000)

SIB 9

Home eNB name info

HeNB name

SIB 10

ETWS* primary notification

SIB 11

ETWS* secondary notification

* Earthquake and Tsunami Warning

System

SIB 12 (R9)

CMAS** notification

** Commercial Mobile Alert Service

SIB 13 (R9)

Info required to acquire the

MBMS control info

MCCH configuration (MCCH offset,

MCCH repetition period, MCCH
modification period, SF allocation info)

16
...

MIB (Fixed): SFN mod 4 = 0, Subframe #0

...

SIB 1 (Fixed): SFN mod 8 = 0, Subframe #5

Other SIBs (Variable)

Feb. 2013

Other SIBs (Variable)

Scheduled as defined by SIB 1

Type of System
Information

MIB

SIB 1

Mandatoty/Optional

Mandatory

Mandatory

SI (Group of SIBs)
SIB 2

SIB 3 ~ SIB 16

Mandatory

Optional

Fixed

Fixed

Dynamic

Scheduling

Periodicity: 40ms
(Repetitions: 10ms)

Periodicity: 80ms
(Repetitions: 20ms)

Scheduled as defined by SIB 1

SIB 14 (R11)

EAB*** parameters

*** Extended Access Barring

Transport Message

RRC Message MIB

RRC Message SIB 1

RRC Message SI

SIB 15 (R11)

MBMS Service Area Identities

(SAI) info

MBMS SAIs for the current/neighbor

frequencies

SIB 16 (R11)

GPS time and coordinated

universal time (UTC) related info

Day light saving time, GPS time, UTC,

Local time offset

L2
L1

Logical CH

BCCH

BCCH

Transport CH

BCH

DL-SCH

Physical CH

PBCH

PDSCH

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