RAN Interface and

Protocols

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UTRAN Interface

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Control Plane and User Plane

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Radio and Transport Layer

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Bearer
Bearer is a transport entity with specify capacity and QoS

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Transport ATM AAL5

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Transport ATM AAL2

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Transport Network Control Plane
ALCAP : Access Link Control Application Part

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Iub Interface

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Iur Interface

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Iu-CS and Iu-PS

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UE-SRNC Interface

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MAC: Medium Access Control

Mapping
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RLC : Radio Link Control Protocol

Sequence control

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RRC : Radio Resource Control

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 Functional communication between UMTS domains

Home Stratum

USIM - HN

USIM - MT MT - SN SN - HN

Serving Stratum

USIM - MT MT - SN Protocols dedicated to Stratum Specific

Functions
UTRAN Application Protocols
Transport Stratum
Access Stratum NBAP, RNSAP, RANAP

MT - AN AN - SN
RRC

Access Serving Home

USIM MT/ME Network Network Network
Domain Domain Domain
3G TS Uu Iu
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Interface between layers

Layer N SDU Service Data Unit

PCI Protocol Control

Information

PDU Protocol Data Unit

Interface Control
ICI Information

IDU Interface Data Unit

(N-1) SAP Service Access Point

Layer N-1 ICI SDU

PCI

PDU

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