What are RRC states?

There are three RRC states; RRC_IDLE, RRC_INACTIVE, and RRC_CONNECTED are defined for a 5G NR UE. While RRC_IDLE and RRC_CONNECTED states in NR are almost same as those of LTE, the RRC_INACTIVE states is newly introduced in 5G NR.

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What is RRC connected state in LTE?

RRC Connected State LTE UE monitors control channels associated with shared data channel to determine if the data is scheduled for it or not . The Channel quality feedback information is also provided by the UE after measurements. It also performs neighbor cell measurements of UTRAN,EUTRAN and GSM cells.

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What is RRC UE?

In summary, a UE is in RRC_CONNECTED when an RRC connection has been established or in RRC_INACTIVE (if the UE is connected to 5GC) when RRC connection is suspended . If this is not the case, i.e. no RRC connection is established, the UE is in RRC_IDLE state.

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