Radio Network Temporary Identifier's in LTE
What is RNTI? RNTI stands for Radio Network Temporary Identifier. RNTIs are used to differentiate/identify a connected mode UE in the cell, a specific radio channel, a group of UEs in case of paging, a group of UEs for which power control is issued by the eNB, system information transmitted for all the UEs by the eNB etc… There are a several RNTI types in LTE such as SI-RNTI, P-RNTI, C-RNTI, Temporary C-RNTI, SPS-CRNTI, TPC-PUCCH-RNTI, TPC-PUSCH-RNTI, RA-RNTI, and M-RNTI. Each RNTI’s usage, its value range etc…are discussed in detail below SI-RNTI (System Information RNTI) SI-RNTI is used for broadcast of system information. It is a common RNTI meaning that, it is not allocated to any UE explicitly. SI-RNTI is of 16-bit in length and its value is fixed to 65535 (0xFFFF). A single SI-RNTI is used to address SystemInformationBlockType1 as well as all SI messages Broadcast of System Information uses BCCH logical channel which is then mapped to DL-SCH transport channel whic...