Content for TS 25.331 Word version: 16.1.0
1 Scope Word‑p. 41
The present document specifies the Radio Resource Control protocol for the UE-UTRAN radio interface.
The scope of the present document also includes:
- the information to be transported in a transparent container between source RNC and target RNC in connection with SRNC relocation;
- the information to be transported in a transparent container between a target RNC and another system.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1]
TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2]
TS 25.301: "Radio Interface Protocol Architecture".
[3]
TS 25.303: "Interlayer Procedures in Connected Mode".
[4]
TS 25.304: "UE Procedures in Idle Mode and Procedures for Cell Reselection in Connected Mode".
[5]
TS 24.008: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Core Network Protocols; Stage 3".
[6]
TS 25.103: "RF parameters in support of RRM".
→ to date, withdrawn by 3GPP
[7]
→ to date, withdrawn by 3GPP
TS 25.215: "Physical layer - Measurements (FDD)".
[8]
TS 25.225: "Physical layer - Measurements (TDD)".
[9]
TS 25.401: "UTRAN overall description".
[10]
TS 25.402: "Synchronization in UTRAN; Stage 2".
[11]
TS 23.003: "Numbering, addressing and identification".
[12]
ICD-GPS-200: "Navstar GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Interface".
[13]
RTCM-SC104: "RTCM Recommended Standards for Differential GNSS Service (v.2.2)".
[14]
TR 25.921: "Guidelines and principles for protocol description and error handling".
[15]
TS 25.321: "Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification".
[16]
TS 25.322: "Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification".
[17]
TS 24.007: "Mobile radio interface signalling layer 3; General aspects".
[18]
TS 25.305: "Stage 2 Functional Specification of UE Positioning in UTRAN".
[19]
TS 25.133: "Requirements for Support of Radio Resource Management (FDD)".
[20]
TS 25.123: "Requirements for Support of Radio Resource Management (TDD)".
[21]
TS 25.101: "UE Radio Transmission and Reception (FDD)".
[22]
TS 25.102: "UE Radio Transmission and Reception (TDD)".
[23]
TS 23.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Service description; Stage 2".
[24]
TS 23.032: "Universal Geographical Area Description (GAD)".
[25]
TS 23.122: "Non-Access-Stratum functions related to Mobile Station (MS) in idle mode".
[26]
TS 25.211: "Physical channels and mapping of transport channels onto physical channels (FDD)".
[27]
TS 25.212: "Multiplexing and channel coding (FDD)".
[28]
TS 25.213: "Spreading and modulation (FDD)".
[29]
TS 25.214: "Physical layer procedures (FDD)".
[30]
TS 25.221: "Physical channels and mapping of transport channels onto physical channels (TDD)".
[31]
TS 25.222: "Multiplexing and channel coding (TDD)".
[32]
TS 25.223: "Spreading and modulation (TDD)".
[33]
TS 25.224: "Physical Layer Procedures (TDD)".
[34]
TS 25.302: "Services provided by the physical layer ".
[35]
TS 25.306: "UE Radio Access Capabilities".
[36]
TS 25.323: "Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Specification".
[37]
TS 25.324: "Broadcast/Multicast Control BMC".
[38]
TR 25.922: "Radio resource management strategies".
[39]
TR 25.925: "Radio interface for broadcast/multicast services".
[40]
TS 33.102: "3G Security; Security Architecture".
[41]
TS 34.108: "Common Test Environments for User Equipment (UE) Conformance Testing".
[42]
TS 34.123-2: "User Equipment (UE) conformance specification; Part 2: Implementation Conformance Statement (ICS) proforma specification".
[43]
TS 44.018: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Radio Resource Control Protocol".
[44]
TS 44.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Mobile Station (MS) - Base Station System (BSS) interface; Radio Link Control/Medium Access Control (RLC/MAC) protocol".
[45]
TS 45.005: "Radio transmission and reception".
[46]
TS 45.008: "Radio subsystem link control".
[47]
ITU-T Recommendation X.680 (07/2002) "Information Technology - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation".
[48]
ITU-T Recommendation X.681 (07/2002) "Information Technology - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Information object specification".
[49]
ITU-T Recommendation X.691 (07/2002) "Information technology - ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Packed Encoding Rules (PER)".
[50]
TS 31.102: "Characteristics of the USIM Application".
[51]
TS 25.308: "High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA): Overall Description; Stage 2".
[52]
IANA ROHC profile identifier definition (http://www.iana.org/assignments/rohc-pro-ids).
[53] Void.
[54]
TS 23.246: "Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service; Architecture and Functional Description".
[55]
TS 25.346: " Introduction of the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) in the Radio Access Network (Stage-2)".
[56]
TR 25.992: "Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS); UTRAN/GERAN Requirements".
[57]
TS 25.413: "UTRAN Iu Interface RANAP Signalling".
[58]
TS 25.309: "FDD Enhanced Uplink; Overall Description; Stage 2".
[59]
TS 25.319: "Enhanced Uplink; Overall Description; Stage 2".
[60]
TR 25.827: "1.28Mcps TDD Enhanced Uplink; Physical Layer Aspects".
[61]
Galileo OS Signal in Space ICD (OS SIS ICD), Issue 1.2, February 2014, European Union.
[62]
TS 26.101: "Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) speech codec frame structure".
[63]
TS 26.201: "Adaptive Multi Rate - Wideband (AMR-WB) speech codec frame structure".
[64]
TS 36.101: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception".
[65]
TS 36.104: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Base Station (BS) radio transmission and reception".
[66]
TS 36.304: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); User Equipment (UE) procedures in idle mode".
[67]
TS 36.331: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol Specification".
[68]
IS-GPS-200, Revision D, Navstar GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Interfaces, March 7th, 2006.
[69]
IS-GPS-705, Navstar GPS Space Segment/User Segment L5 Interfaces, September 22, 2005.
[70]
IS-GPS-800, Navstar GPS Space Segment/User Segment L1C Interfaces, March 31, 2008.
[71]
Specification for the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), US Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, DTFA01-96-C-00025, 2001.
[72]
IS-QZSS, Quasi Zenith Satellite System Navigation Service Interface Specifications for QZSS, Ver.1.0, June 17, 2008.
[73]
Global Navigation Satellite System GLONASS Interface Control Document, Version 5.1, 2008.
[74]
TS 36.133: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for support of radio resource management".
[75]
TS 22.011: "Service accessibility".
[76]
TS 23.003: "Numbering, addressing and identification".
[77]
TS 23.041: "Technical realization of Cell Broadcast Service (CBS)".
[78]
TS 33.401: "3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE): Security architecture".
[79]
TS 24.301: " Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for Evolved Packet System (EPS)".
[80]
TS 37.320: "Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio measurement collection for Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT); Overall description; Stage 2".
[81]
TS 32.422: "Telecommunication management; Subsriber and equipment trace; Trace control and confiuration management".
[82]
TS 22.368: "Service Requirements for Machine Type Communications; Stage 1".
[83]
RFC 3095: "RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles".
[84]
RFC 4815: "RObust Header Compression (ROHC): Corrections and Clarifications to RFC 3095".
[85]
TS 25.307: "Requirement on User Equipments (UEs) supporting a release-independent frequency band".
[86]
BDS-SIS-ICD-2.0: "BeiDou Navigation Satellite System Signal In Space Interface Control Document Open Service Signal (Version 2.0), December 2013".
[87]
IEEE 802.11-2012, Part 11: "Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) specifications, IEEE Std.".
[88]
TS 24.312: "Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF) Management Object (MO)".
[89]
ATIS-0500027: "Recommendations for Establishing Wide Scale Indoor Location Performance," May 2015.
[90]
Bluetooth Special Interest Group: "Bluetooth Core Specification v4.2", December 2014.
[91]
TS 23.401: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access".
[92]
TS 33.501: "Security Architecture and Procedures for 5G System".
3 Definitions and abbreviations Word‑p. 44
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in [1] apply, together as:
Activated uplink frequency (FDD only):
For a specific UE, an uplink frequency is said to be activated if the UE is allowed to transmit on that frequency. The primary uplink frequency is always activated when configured while a secondary uplink frequency has to be activated by means of an HS-SCCH order in order to become activated.
Adjacent Frequency:
A frequency whose centre is within 5 MHz of the centre of the currently used frequency and belongs to the same frequency band as that of the currently used frequency.
Assisting serving HS-DSCH Cell:
In addition to the serving HS-DSCH cell, a cell in the same frequency, where the UE is configured to simultaneously monitor a HS-SCCH set and receive HS-DSCH if it is scheduled in that cell.
Assisting secondary serving HS-DSCH Cell:
In addition to the serving HS-DSCH cell, a cell in the secondary downlink frequency, where the UE is configured to simultaneously monitor a HS-SCCH set and receive HS-DSCH if it is scheduled in that cell.
Blind HARQ retransmissions for HSDPA (FDD only):
A HARQ operation where a UE in CELL_DCH state supports reception of MAC-hs/ehs PDU within 5 sub-frames from the reception of the previous MAC-hs/ehs PDU intended for the same HARQ process.
Common E-DCH resource:
In FDD, common E-DCH resources are under direct control of the Node B and are shared by UEs in CELL_FACH state and IDLE mode. In 1.28 Mcps TDD, common E-DCH resources used by UEs in CELL_FACH and IDLE mode are under direct control of Node B and are shared by UEs in the CELL_DCH state.
Common E-RGCH RL:
Cell which is not the serving E-DCH radio link and from which the UE can receive one Relative Grant in CELL_FACH state. The UE can have zero, one or up to 3 Common E-RGCH RL(s).
Configured Uplink Frequency (FDD only):
For a specific UE, an uplink frequency is said to be configured if the UE has received all relevant information from RRC in order to perform transmission on that frequency.
CSG member cell:
a cell broadcasting the identity of the selected PLMN, registered PLMN or equivalent PLMN and for which the CSG whitelist of the UE includes an entry comprising the cell's CSG ID and the respective PLMN identity.
Current Frequency (FDD only):
The frequency that is currently used by the UE. In case of dual cell or dual band configured, the serving HS-DSCH cell frequency is treated as current frequency.
Data Description Indicator (DDI):
MAC-e header field used to identify the logical channel, MAC-d flow and the size of the MAC-d PDUs concatenated into a MAC-es PDU.
Designated non-serving HS-DSCH cell:
The non-serving HS-DSCH cell from which the UE estimates the F-DPCH quality for TPC derivation, when the UE is configured with DPCCH2 in the uplink or the Serving E-DCH cell decoupling is configured. This TPC is transmitted on UL DPCCH.
E-DCH active set (FDD only):
The set of cells on the primary uplink frequency which carry the E-DCH for one UE. Only radio links for which an E-HICH configuration is stored are considered part of the E-DCH active set.
Enhanced Uplink in CELL_FACH state and Idle mode:
In FDD, combines the REL99 random access power ramping phase with E-DCH transmission. The procedure can be started in idle mode and RRC Connected mode, but not in CELL_DCH state. In 1.28 Mcps TDD, the REL7 enhanced random access procedure for E-DCH in CELL_DCH is used in idle mode and CELL_FACH state.
HARQ profile:
One HARQ profile consists of a power offset attribute and maximum number of transmissions.
Implicit Grant handling:
A scheduling scheme where a UE's Scheduling Grant on the Secondary Serving E-DCH cell may be revoked by means of an Absolute Grant addressed to another UE.
MBMS activated services:
the MBMS multicast services the UE has joined as well as the broadcast services the UE is interested in.
MCCH acquisition:
the procedure for acquiring all MCCH information relevant for the UE ie. includes reception of the RB information for the UE's MBMS activated services.
MBMS controlling cell:
the cell from which the UE receives MCCH.
MBMS notification:
a notification provided by UTRAN indicating a change in the provision of one or more MBMS services.
MBMS Selected Services:
a subset of the MBMS activated services of the Broadcast type for which the UE applies RRC procedures to inform UTRAN that the service has been selected (by upper layers).
MBMS transmission:
a possibly repeated session of an MBMS service. An MBMS transmission is uniquely identified by the combination of the MBMS service identity and the MBMS session identity.
MBSFN cluster:
Set of cells operating in MBSFN mode providing only MBMS service in PtM mode and seen as one cell by a UE.
MBSFN mode:
Transmission mode where a set of synchronized cells transmit exactly the same data for provision of MBMS service.
Multiflow (FDD only):
A mode of operation with two simultaneous HS-DSCH transport channels per carrier frequency, where the HS-DSCH transport channels may belong to the same or different Node Bs.
NodeB triggered HS-DPCCH transmission:
Transmission on a common E-DCH resource to provide HS-DPCCH feedback in CELL_FACH state, which is triggered by the reception of an HS-SCCH order as defined in [16].
Primary Absolute Grant (FDD only):
Absolute Grant received with the primary E-RNTI.
Primary uplink frequency (FDD only):
If a single uplink frequency is configured for the UE, then it is the primary uplink frequency. In case more than one uplink frequencies are configured for the UE, then the primary uplink frequency is the frequency on which E-DCH corresponding to the serving E-DCH cell associated with the serving HS-DSCH cell is transmitted. The association between a pair of uplink and downlink frequencies is indicated by higher layers.
Radio Links without DPCH/F-DPCH operation (FDD only):
An operation mode in which UE supports to not receive both DPCH and F-DPCH downlink channels from the indicated Non-serving E-DCH cell(s).
Secondary Absolute Grant (FDD only):
Absolute Grant received with the secondary E-RNTI.
Secondary E-DCH Active Set (FDD only):
The set of cells on the secondary uplink frequency where E-DCH is carried for one UE. Only radio links for which an E-HICH configuration is stored are considered part of the secondary E-DCH active set. The secondary E-DCH active set and the active set on the secondary uplink frequency are always the same set of cells.
Secondary Serving E-DCH cell (FDD only):
Cell from which the UE receives Absolute Grants from the Node-B scheduler on the downlink frequency associated with secondary uplink frequency. A UE has one Secondary Serving E-DCH cell on the secondary uplink frequency.
Secondary Serving E-DCH RLS or Secondary Serving RLS (FDD only):
In Dual Cell E-DCH operation, the set of cells which contains at least the Secondary Serving E-DCH cell and from which the UE can receive and combine one Relative Grant. A UE can have zero or one Secondary Serving E-DCH RLS.
Secondary serving HS-DSCH cell(s):
In addition to the serving HS-DSCH cell, the set of cells where the UE is configured to simultaneously monitor an HS-SCCH set and receive the HS-DSCH if it is scheduled in that cell. There can be up to 7 secondary serving HS-DSCH cells. If the UE is configured with two uplink frequencies, the first secondary serving HS-DSCH cell is the secondary serving HS-DSCH cell that is associated with the secondary uplink frequency.
Secondary Non-serving E-DCH RL or Secondary Non-serving RL (FDD only):
In Dual Cell E-DCH operation, the cell which belongs to the Secondary E-DCH active set but does not belong to the Secondary Serving E-DCH RLS and from which the UE in CELL_DCH can receive one Relative Grant. The UE can have zero, one or several Secondary Non-serving E-DCH RL(s).
Secondary uplink frequency (FDD only):
A secondary uplink frequency is a frequency on which an E-DCH corresponding to a serving E-DCH cell associated with a secondary serving HS-DSCH cell is transmitted. The association between a pair of uplink and downlink frequencies is indicated by higher layers.
Serving E-DCH cell:
Cell from which the UE receives Absolute Grants from the Node-B scheduler. In TDD, a UE has one Serving E-DCH cell. In FDD, a UE has one Serving E-DCH cell on the primary uplink frequency.
Serving E-DCH cell decoupling (FDD only):
An E-DCH operation mode in which the Serving HS-DSCH cell and the Serving E-DCH cell are different.
Serving E-DCH RLS or Serving RLS (FDD only):
Set of cells which contains at least the Serving E-DCH cell and from which the UE can receive and combine one Relative Grant. In TDD, the UE has only one Serving E-DCH RLS. In FDD, a UE has one Serving E-DCH cell on the primary uplink frequency.
Non-serving E-DCH RL or Non-serving RL (FDD only):
Cell which belongs to the E-DCH active set but does not belong to the Serving E-DCH RLS and from which the UE in CELL_DCH can receive one Relative Grant. In TDD, the UE can have zero, one or several Non-serving E-DCH RL(s). In FDD, the UE can have zero, one or several Non-serving E-DCH RL(s) on the primary uplink frequency.
SR-VCC:
Single Radio Voice Call Continuity, Voice call or Voice and Video call continuity between IMS over PS access and CS access for calls that are anchored in IMS when the UE is capable of transmitting/receiving on only one of those access networks at a given time. Single Radio Voice Call Continuity between CS access and IMS over PS access is referred to as Reverse SRVCC (rSR-VCC).
Target Cell Pre-Configuration (FDD only):
HS-DSCH Cell configuration provided to UE in Active Set Update for which HS-DSCH serving Cell Change may be initiated by HS-SCCH order sent from target cell.
Target cell HS-SCCH order:
A HS-DSCH serving cell change command signaled to an UE by using HS-SCCH order in the target cell:
- for which a measurement report was trigged by an Event 1d intra frequency event; or
- for which a measurement report was trigged by an Event 1c intra frequency event on the primary frequency, which indicates the current serving HS-DSCH cell as the only active CPICH triggering this event 1c report, and the target cell is the best cell in the current active set reported in this Event 1c measurement report. If more than one cell in the active set share the same quality, the target cell will be the first one listed in the in "Intra-frequency measured results list" in the Event 1c measurement report.
If a single E-DCH carrier is configured for the UE, then it is the primary E-DCH carrier. In case more than one E-DCH carriers are configured for the UE, then the primary E-DCH carrier is the carrier on which the E-RUCCH will be transmitted.
Additional E-DCH carrier (1.28Mcps TDD only):
An additional E-DCH carrier is an E-DCH carrier other than the primary E-DCH carrier . The UE can have zero, one or several additional E-DCH carrier(s).
3.2 Abbreviations Word‑p. 47
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
ACDC
Application specific Congestion control for Data Communication
ACK
Acknowledgement
AG
Absolute Grant
AICH
Acquisition Indicator CHannel
AM
Acknowledged Mode
ANDSF
Access Network Discovery and Selection Function
ANR
Automatic Neighbour Relation
AP
Access Point
AS
Access Stratum
ASC
Access Service Class
ASN.1
Abstract Syntax Notation.1
BCCH
Broadcast Control Channel
BCD
Binary Coded Decimal
BCFE
Broadcast Control Functional Entity
BDS
BeiDou Navigation Satellite System
BER
Bit Error Rate
BLER
BLock Error Rate
BSS
Base Station Sub-system
CCCH
Common Control Channel
CCPCH
Common Control Physical CHannel
CH
Conditional on history
CLTD
Closed Loop Transmit Diversity
CM
Connection Management
CN
Core Network
C-RNTI
Cell RNTI
CSFB
CS Fallback
CSG
Closed Subscriber Group
CTCH
Common Traffic CHannel
CTFC
Calculated Transport Format Combination
CV
Conditional on value
DBDS
Differential BDS
DCA
Dynamic Channel Allocation
DCCH
Dedicated Control Channel
DCFE
Dedicated Control Functional Entity
DCH
Dedicated Channel
DCN
Dedicated Core Networks
DC-SAP
Dedicated Control SAP
DDI
Data Description Indicator
DGANSS
Differential GANSS
DGPS
Differential Global Positioning System
DL
Downlink
DPCCH2
Dedicated Physical Control Channel 2
DSCH
Downlink Shared Channel
DTCH
Dedicated Traffic Channel
DTM
Dual Transfer Mode
EAB
Extended Access Barring
E-AGCH
E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel
ECEF
Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed
ECI
Earth-Centered-Inertial
E-DCH
Enhanced uplink DCH
E-DPCCH
E-DCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel (FDD Only)
E-DPDCH
E-DCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel (FDD Only)
EGNOS
European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service
E-HICH
E-DCH HARQ Acknowledgement Indicator Channel
E-PUCH
Enhanced Uplink Physical Channel (TDD only)
E-RGCH
E-DCH Relative Grant Channel (FDD only)
E-RNTI
E-DCH RNTI
E-ROCH
E-DCH Rank and Offset Channel (FDD only)
E-RUCCH
E-DCH Random Access Uplink Control Channel (TDD only)
E-TFCI
E-DCH Transport Format Combination Indicator
ETWS
Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System
E-UCCH
E-DCH Uplink Control Channel (TDD only)
E-UTRA
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access
E-UTRAN
Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
FACH
Forward Access Channel
FDD
Frequency Division Duplex
F-DPCH
Fractional DPCH
F-TPICH
Fractional Transmitted Precoding Indicator Channel
GAGAN
GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation
GANSS
Galileo and Additional Navigation Satellite Systems
GC-SAP
General Control SAP
GERAN
GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network
GLONASS
GLObal'naya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (Engl.: Global Navigation Satellite System)
GNSS
Global Navigation Satellite System
GRA
GERAN Registration Area
G-RNTI
GERAN Radio Network Temporary Identity
HARQ
Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request
HCS
Hierarchical Cell Structure
HFN
Hyper Frame Number
H-RNTI
HS-DSCH RNTI
HS-DSCH
High Speed Downlink Shared Channel
ICD
Interface Control Document
ID
Identifier
IDNNS
Intra Domain NAS Node Selector
IE
Information element
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force
IMB
Integrated Mobile Broadcast
IMEI
International Mobile Equipment Identity
IMSI
International Mobile Subscriber Identity
IP
Internet Protocol
ISCP
Interference on Signal Code Power
L1
Layer 1
L2
Layer 2
L3
Layer 3
LAI
Location Area Identity
MAC
Media Access Control
MBS
Metropolitan Beacon System
MBMS
Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service
MBSFN
MBMS over a Single Frequency Network
MCC
Mobile Country Code
MCCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Control Channel
MD
Mandatory default
MDT
Minimization of Drive Tests
MICH
MBMS notification Indicator Channel
MM
Mobility Management
MNC
Mobile Network Code
MP
Mandatory present
MTCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Traffic Channel
MSAS
Multi-functional Satellite Augmentation System
MSCH
MBMS point-to-multipoint Scheduling Channel
NACC
Network Assisted Cell Change
NAS
Non Access Stratum
NR
NR Radio Access
Nt-SAP
Notification SAP
NW
Network
OLTD
Open Loop Transmit Diversity
OP
Optional
PCCH
Paging Control Channel
PCH
Paging Channel
PDCP
Packet Data Convergence Protocol
PDSCH
Physical Downlink Shared Channel
PDU
Protocol Data Unit
PLMN
Public Land Mobile Network
PNFE
Paging and Notification Control Functional Entity
PRACH
Physical Random Access CHannel
PRN
Pseudo-Random Noise
PSI
Packet System Information
p-t-m
Point-to-Multipoint
P-TMSI
Packet Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
p-t-p
Point-to-Point
PUSCH
Physical Uplink Shared Channel
QoE
Quality of Experience
QoS
Quality of Service
QZSS
Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
RAB
Radio access bearer
RACH
Random Access CHannel
RAI
Routing Area Identity
RAT
Radio Access Technology
RB
Radio Bearer
RFE
Routing Functional Entity
RG
Relative Grant
RL
Radio Link
RLC
Radio Link Control
RLS
Radio Link Set
RNC
Radio Network Controller
ROHC
RObust Header Compression
RNTI
Radio Network Temporary Identifier
RRC
Radio Resource Control
RSCP
Received Signal Code Power
RSN
Retransmission Sequence Number
RSRP
Reference Signal Received Power
RSRQ
Reference Signal Received Quality
RSSI
Received Signal Strength Indicator
SAP
Service Access Point
SBAS
Satellite Based Augmentation System
SCFE
Shared Control Function Entity
SCTD
Space Code Transmit Diversity
SCTO
Soft Combining Timing Offset (MBMS)
S-DPCCH
Secondary Dedicated Physical Control Channel
S-E-DPCCH
Secondary E-DPCCH (FDD only)
S-E-DPDCH
Secondary E-DPDCH (FDD only)
SF
Spreading Factor
SG
Serving grant
SHCCH
Shared Control Channel
SI
System Information
SIR
Signal to Interference Ratio
SPS
Semi-Persistent Scheduling
S-RNTI
SRNC - RNTI
SV
Space Vehicle
TDD
Time Division Duplex
TF
Transport Format
TFCS
Transport Format Combination Set
TFS
Transport Format Set
TM
Transparent Mode
TME
Transfer Mode Entity
TMSI
Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity
Tr
Transparent
TSN
Transmission Sequence Number
Tx
Transmission
UE
User Equipment
UL
Uplink
UM
Unacknowledged Mode
URA
UTRAN Registration Area
U-RNTI
UTRAN-RNTI
USCH
Uplink Shared Channel
UTC
Universal Coordinated Time
UTRAN
Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
WAAS
Wide Area Augmentation System
WGS-84
World Geodetic System 1984
WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network
