Jekyll Notes

As I mentioned in previous post, Jekyll on GitHub is lack of some basic features such as category and archive pages since it doesn’t support plugins. Here is how to add those features without plugin support. Of course, all tips were found from the open internet :smile:.

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2014H1 Summary

Every weekend, I would spend less than half an hour to summarize my personal and work issues during the past week according to my Emacs Org-mode records. And every month, I will collect all the weekly summaries to check monthly status as well as look forward to the future. Yes. I admit that I am kind of boring with regular habits. So here comes my 2014 first half year book.

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RACH Part 4: AICH transmission timing

AICH transmission timing, either 0 or 1, is informed to UE by RNC in SIB5/5bis via BCH.

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RACH Part 3: RACH info in SIB5

All of the RACH related information is broadcasted on SIB5/5bis via BCH. Last time, the PRACH partitioning, which contained the available PRACH preamble signatures and sub-channels, was elaborated in details. But as I mentioned, we need more info to check the exact available signatures and sub-channels.

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RACH Part 2: Access Class and Access Service Class

In previous post, I have illustrated the access slot and sub-channel is the basic time unit for PRACH. As we know, RACH is Random Access Channel which means UE shall initiate PRACH preamble somehow randomly. However, it doesn’t mean UE could access to network at any access slot. The Access Service Class(ASC) defines the available sub-channels as well as PRACH preamble signatures.

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