Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Mobile Station (MS) - Base Station System (BSS) Interface; Radio Link Control/ Medium Access Control (RLC/MAC) Protocol (GSM 04.60 Version 6.3.1 Release 1997)
"The present document specifies the procedures used at the radio interface (Reference Point Um@ see GSM 04.02) for the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Medium Access Control /Radio Link Control (MAC/RLC) layer. When the notations for ""further study"" or ""FS"" or ""FFS"" are present in the present document they mean that the indicated text is not a normative portion of the present document. The present document is applicable to the following GPRS Um functional layers: - Radio Link Control functions@ - Medium Access Control functions@ and - Physical Link Control functions. The procedures described in the present document are for the RLC/MAC functions of the GPRS radio interface (Um) when operating on a Packet Data Channel (PDCH). GSM 03.64 contains an overview of the GPRS radio interface (Um). GSM 04.03 and GSM 04.04 contains the definition of the control channels used in the present document. GSM 04.07 contains a description in general terms of the structured functions and procedures of this protocol and the relationship of this protocol with other layers and entities. GSM 04.08 contains the definition of GPRS RLC/MAC procedures when operating on the Common Control Channel (CCCH). GSM 04.64 contains functional procedures for the Logical Link Control (LLC) layer. Application to interface structure The RLC/MAC procedures apply to the interface structures defined in GSM 04.03. They use the functions and services provided by layer 1 defined in GSM 04.04. GSM 04.07 gives the general description of layer 3 including procedures@ messages format and error handling. Test procedures Test procedures of the GSM radio interface signalling are described in GSM 11.10 and GSM 11.2x series. Use of logical control channels The logical control channels are defined in GSM 05.02. Two similar sets of logical channels are defined. The first set consists of the logical channels: - Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH): downlink only@ used to broadcast Cell specific information; - Paging Channel (PCH): downlink only@ used to send page requests to Mobile Stations (MSs); - Random Access Channel (RACH): uplink only@ used to request GPRS resources or a Dedicated Control Channel; - Access Grant Channel (AGCH): downlink only@ used to allocate GPRS resources or a Dedicated Control Channel; - The second set consists of the logical channels: - Packet Broadcast Control Channel (PBCCH): downlink only@ used to broadcast Cell specific information; - Packet Paging Channel (PPCH): downlink only@ used to send page requests to Mobile Stations (MSs); - Packet Random Access Channel (PRACH): uplink only@ used to request GPRS resources; - Packet Access Grant Channel (PAGCH): downlink only@ used to allocate GPRS resources; - Packet Associated Control Channel (PACCH): bi-directional@ associated with a Temporary Block Flow (TBF); - Packet Timing advance control channel uplink (PTCCH/U): used to transmit random access bursts to allow estimation of the timing advance for one MS in transfer state; - Packet Timing advance control channel downlink (PTCCH/D): used to transmit timing advance updates for several MS. One PTCCH/D is paired with several PTCCH/U's."