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LTE: Does PCI and Cell Identity has one to one mapping ?

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When an eNodeB supports more than one cells then each cell at the enodeb would have different PCI . what happens with cell identity ? Does each cell has different cell Identity or same ?

posted Mar 8, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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I checked S1-AP SETUP REQ message which is originated by eNodeB towards MME. It has only one Global EnodeB Identity and It may carry information of all the max no. (256) of supported cells within the same S1-AP SETUP REQ message. So I conclude that all cells supported by an eNodeB would share same Global Cell Identity.
Since each cell has its own PCI. In this way, Many PCI map to same global cell identity.

Please correct me if I concluded wrongly.

answer Mar 8, 2014 by Vimal Kumar Mishra
Thanks Vimal to answer my query.
commented Mar 8, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar
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