Content for TS 43.051 Word version: 16.0.0

2.1 Normative references 2.2 Informative references 3.1 Symbols 3.2 Abbreviations
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1 Scope Word‑p. 8

The present document defines the stage 2 service description for a GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN). ITU-T Recommendation I.130 describes a three-stage method for characterisation of telecommunication services, and CCITT Q.65 defines stage 2 of the method.

The present document illustrates how the services requested by a GSM/UMTS Core Network are realized by the GERAN.

The main focus of the present document is on functionality related to the Iu interfaces. The aim of the present document is not to describe functionality related to the A and Gb interfaces in details. There is no detailed description of the interfaces towards the core network and only references are given to the appropriate specifications.

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.

2.1 Normative references

[1]

TS 25.410: "UTRAN Iu Interface: General Aspects and Principles".

[2]

TS 25.411: "UTRAN Iu interface Layer 1".

[3]

TS 25.412: "UTRAN Iu interface signalling transport".

[4]

TS 25.413: "UTRAN Iu interface RANAP signalling".

[5]

TS 25.414: "UTRAN Iu interface data transport & transport signalling".

[6]

TS 25.415: "UTRAN Iu interface user plane protocols".

[7]

TS 48.014: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) interface; Gb interface Layer 1".

[8]

TS 48.016: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) interface; Network Service".

[9]

TS 48.018: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN); BSS GPRS Protocol (BSSGP)".

[10]

TS 45.001: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Physical layer on the radio path; General description".

[11]

TS 45.002: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Multiplexing and multiple access on the radio path".

[12]

TS 43.002: "Network Architecture".
→ to date, withdrawn by 3GPP

[13]

TS 48.001: "Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface General Aspects".

[14]

TS 48.002: "Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface - Interface Principles".

[15]

TS 48.004: "Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface Layer 1 Specification".

[16]

TS 48.006: "Signalling Transport Mechanism Specification for the Base Station System - Mobile Services Switching Centre (BSS-MSC) Interface".

[17]

TS 48.008: "Mobile Switching Centre - Base Station system (MSC-BSS) Interface Layer 3 Specification".

[18]

TS 48.063: "Inband Tandem Free Operation (TFO) of Speech Codecs; Service Description; Stage 3".
→ to date, withdrawn by 3GPP

[19]

TS 25.420: "UTRAN Iur Interface: General Aspects and principles".

[20]

TS 25.421: "UTRAN Iur Interface Layer 1".

[21]

TS 25.422: "UTRAN Iur Interface signalling transport".

[22]

TS 25.423: "UTRAN Iur Interface RNSAP signalling".

[23]

TS 24.022: "Radio Link Protocol (RLP) for Circuit Switched Bearer and Teleservices".

[24]

TS 44.018: "Radio Resource Control Protocol".

[25]

TS 24.008: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Core Network Protocols - Stage 3".

[26]

TS 44.060: "Radio Link Control / Medium Access Control (RLC/MAC) protocol".

[27]

TS 45.008: "Radio subsystem Link Control".

[28]

TS 23.003: "Numbering, Addressing and Identification".

[29]

TS 23.221: "Architectural requirements (Release 5)"

[30]

TS 23.236: "Intra Domain Connection of RAN Nodes to Multiple CN Nodes"

[31]

TS 23.195: "Provision of User Equipment Specific Behaviour Information (UESBI) to network entities"

2.2 Informative references Word‑p. 9

[32]

TS 23.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Service Description; Stage 2".

[33]

TS 43.064: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Overall description of the GPRS radio interface; Stage 2".

[34]

TS 23.034: "High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD); Stage 2".

[35]

TS 41.004: "Digital cellular telecommunications system (Phase 2+); Abbreviations and acronyms".
→ to date, withdrawn by 3GPP

[36]

ITU-T Recommendation I.130: "Method for the characterization of telecommunication services supported by an ISDN and network capabilities of an ISDN".

[37]

ITU-T Recommendation Q.65: "The unified functional methodology for the characterization of services and network capabilities including alternative object-oriented techniques".

[38]

TS 23.153: "Out of Band Transcoder Control"

[39]

TR 45.902: "Flexible Layer One"

3 Symbols and abbreviations Word‑p. 10

3.1 Symbols

For the purposes of the present document, the following symbols apply:

Interface between a BSS and a 2G MSC

Interface between a BSS and a 2G SGSN

Iu-cs

Interface between a BSS and a 3G MSC

Iu-ps

Interface between a BSS and a 3G SGSN

Iur-g

Interface between two BSSs

Interface between MS and BSS

3.2 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply. Additional applicable abbreviations can be found in 3GPP TS 41.004 [27] and 3GPP TS 43.064 [25].

ADCH

Associated Dedicated CHannel

ARQ

Automatic Repeat reQuest

Access Stratum

BCCH

Broadcast Control CHannel

BSS

Base Station Subsystem

CBCH

Cell Broadcast CHannel

Call Control

CDCH

Control-plane DCH

Core Network

CPBCCH

COMPACT PBCCH

CS-i

GPRS Coding Scheme i

Dedicated Control

DCH

Dedicated CHannel

DLC

Data Link Control

DBPSCH

Dedicated Basic Physical Sub CHannel

ECSD

Enhanced Circuit Switched Data

EDGE

Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution

E-FACCH

Enhanced FACCH

E-IACCH

Enhanced Inband Associated Control CHannel

EGPRS

Enhanced GPRS

EPC

Enhanced Power Control

EPCCH

Enhanced Power Control CHannel

E-TCH

Enhanced TCH

FACCH

Fast Associated Control CHannel

FLO

Flexible Layer One

FPC

Fast Power Control

General Control

GERAN

GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service

GRA

GERAN Registration Area

G-RNTI

GERAN Radio Network Temporary Identity

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communications

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IMSI

International Mobile Subscriber Identity

Internet Protocol

LCS

LoCation Services

MAC

Medium Access Control

MCS-i

EGPRS Modulation and Coding Scheme i

Mobility Management

Mobile Station

NAS

Non Access Stratum

NSAPI

Network layer SAPI

Notification

O-FACCH

Octal FACCH

O-TCH

Octal TCH

PBCCH

Packet BCCH

PDCH

Packet Data CHannel

PDCP

Packet Data Convergence Protocol

PDP

Packet Data Protocol

PDTCH

Packet Data TCH

PDU

Packet Data Unit

PLMN

Public Land Mobile Network

PTCCH

Packet Timing advance Control CHannel

P-TMSI

Packet TMSI

PUESBINE

Provision of UE Specific Behaviour Information to Network Entities

QoS

Quality of Service

RAB

Radio Access Bearer

RANAP

Radio Access Network Application Part

Radio Bearer

RLC

Radio Link Control

RNSAP

Radio Network Subsystem Application Part

ROHC

Robust Header Compression

RRC

Radio Resource Control

RTP

Real Time Protocol

SACCH

Slow Associated Control CHannel

SACCH/TP

SACCH for enhanced power control

SAP

Service Access Point

SAPI

Service Access Point Identifier

SDCCH

Stand-alone Dedicated Control CHannel

SDU

Service Data Unit

SBPSCH

Shared Basic Physical Sub CHannel

Transport Block

TBF

Temporary Block Flow

TCH

Traffic Channel

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TFC

Transport Format Combination

TFCI

Transport Format Combination Indicator

TFCS

Transport Format Combination Set

TLLI

Temporary Logical Link Identifier

TMSI

Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity

TrCH

Transport Channel

TTI

Transmission Time Interval

UDCH

User-plane DCH

UDP

User Datagram Protocol

UESBI

UE Specific Behaviour Information

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunication System

USF

Uplink State Flag

UTRAN

UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network