O.3 Information element identifier

24.0083GPPCore network protocolsMobile radio interface Layer 3 specificationRelease 18Stage 3TS

The information element identifier and its use are defined in 3GPP TS 24.007 [20].

For the information elements defined in subclause O.4, the coding of the information element identifier bits is defined in table O.2/3GPP TS 24.008.

For a method to determine from the information element identifier whether an unknown information element is of type 1 or 2 (i.e. it is an information element of one octet length) or type 4 (i.e. the next octet is the length indicator indicating the length of the remaining of the information element) see 3GPP TS 24.007 [20], subclause 11.2.4.

Table O.1/3GPP TS 24.008: Information element identifier coding for user-user protocol information elements

Reference clause

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

Type 1 information elements:

1

0

0

0

Radio environment capability

O.4.2

1

1

0

0

IM Status

O.4.4

Type 2 information elements:

1

0

1

0

Unused

Type 3 and 4 information elements:

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

Personal ME identifier

O.4.1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

UE capability version

O.4.3

All other values are unused