LTE: Random Access Response MAC PDU Decoder

RAR MAC PDU Decoder

MAC PDU (RAR)                      


Notes

A MAC PDU which is part of Random Access Response (RAR) consists of a MAC header and zero or more MAC Random Access Responses (MAC RAR) and optionally padding.
The MAC header is of variable size.

A MAC PDU (RAR) header consists of one subheader for each MAC RAR and only on subheader for Backoff Indicator.
The subheader for Backoff Indicator, if included, is always the first subheader.

There can be one or more MAC RARs in the MAC PDU (RAR).


Each MAC RAR has a fixed size of 6 Bytes which consists of 1 reserved bit, 11-bit Timing Advance Command, 20-bit UL Grant, and 16-bit Temporary C-RNTI.
Padding may occur after the last MAC RAR. Presence and length of padding is implicit based on TB size, size of MAC header and number of RARs.

Reference: 3GPP TS 36.321 and 36.213

8 comments:

  1. hi kumar , 100 ue's send rach req using same preamble or diff preamble's same subframefthen how many ue's get RA response.

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  2. Hi Kumar,
    I used your decoder to decode the following MAC RAR
    4f 00 a1 98 0c 00 3d
    The result shows that hopping flag is 1 but as I understand it should be 0. Could you please clarify ?

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    1. Hello,

      Thanks for spotting the bug. It was an incorrect array index used in the script. Now I have corrected it.

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  3. Hi,
    What if 2 UE sends same random number in msg3.
    What would happen in this case ?

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    1. The random number is a 40-bit number so the chances of generating the same random nummber by 2 UEs is almost zero.

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  4. Hi , How to get information of MAC RAR from EnodeB ? which traces should I active on EnodeB?

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  5. BI is part of RAR response. If UE sends RACH preamble and not received any RAR, how will UE get BI to figure out when I can send next RACH preamble?

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  6. Hi Guys, do we also have similar one for NR RAR MAC PDU decoding ? if yes pls let me know

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