E-CellID

Enhanced Cell ID, E-CellID, or E-CID is a positioning feature introduced in rel9 E-UTRA (LTE radio). The UE reports to the network (ESMLC) the serving cell ID, the timing advance (difference between its transmit and receive time) and the IDs, estimated timing and power of the detected neighbor cells. The enodeB may report extra information to the ESMLC like the angle of arrival. The ESMLC estimates the UE position based on this information and its knowledge of the cells positions.

Cell ID based methods were already possible before rel9. Enhanced cell ID aggregates together some already available measurements, some of them with increased accuracy requirements to improve the positioning accuracy capabilities.

Technology

Similarly to a OTDOA procedure, a E-CID procedure is initiated through the LPP[1] protocol by the ESMLC, with a ECID-RequestLocationInformation request message.

The UE performs and collects the necessary measurements, and reports them back using the ECID-ProvideLocationInformation. This message contains a list with the following details, depending on the UE capability, for each cell it detected:

From these the ESMLC estimates the UE position.

The RSRP, RSRQ and Rx-Tx time difference measurements are defined in the 36.214 specification,[2] and their accuracy requirements are specified in the 36.133 specification.[3]

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