3 Definitions, Symbols and Abbreviations

25.4233GPPRelease 17TSUTRAN Iur interface Radio Network Subsystem Application Part (RNSAP) signalling

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions apply:

Elementary Procedure: RNSAP protocol consists of Elementary Procedures (Eps). An Elementary Procedure is a unit of interaction between two RNCs. An EP consists of an initiating message and possibly a response message. Two kinds of Eps are used:

– Class 1: Elementary Procedures with response (success or failure);

– Class 2: Elementary Procedures without response.

For Class 1 Eps, the types of responses can be as follows:

Successful

– A signalling message explicitly indicates that the elementary procedure has been successfully completed with the receipt of the response.

Unsuccessful

– A signalling message explicitly indicates that the EP failed.

Class 2 Eps are considered always successful.

Prepared Reconfiguration: A Prepared Reconfiguration exists when the Synchronised Radio Link Reconfiguration Preparation procedure has been completed successfully. The Prepared Reconfiguration does not exist anymore only after either of the procedures Synchronised Radio Link Reconfiguration Commit or Synchronised Radio Link Reconfiguration Cancellation has been completed. In particular, the Prepared Reconfiguration still exists if the object (e.g. Radio Link) concerned by the Synchronised Radio Link Reconfiguration (e.g. in the case of an HS-DSCH Setup) is removed, but the UE Context still exists.

UE Context: The UE Context contains the necessary information for the DRNC/DBSS to communicate with a specific UE. The UE Context is created by the Radio Link Setup procedure or by the Uplink Signalling Transfer procedure when the UE makes its first access in a cell controlled by the DRNS/DBSS or by Enhanced Relocation procedure when the procedure is the first dedicated RNSAP procedure for the UE. The UE Context is deleted by the Radio Link Deletion procedure, by the Common Transport Channel Resources Release procedure, or by the Downlink Signalling Transfer procedure when neither any Radio Links nor any common transport channels are established towards the concerned UE. The UE Context is identified by the SCCP Connection for messages using connection oriented mode of the signalling bearer and the D-RNTI for messages using connectionless mode of the signalling bearer, unless specified otherwise in the procedure text.

Distant RNC Context: The Distant RNC context is created by the first Common Measurement Initiation Procedure or Information Exchange Initiation Procedure initiated by one RNC/BSS and requested from another RNC/BSS. The Distant RNC Context is deleted after the Common Measurement Termination, the Common Measurement Failure, the Information Exchange Termination or the Information Exchange Failure procedure when there is no more Common Measurement and no more Information to be provided by the requested RNC/BSS to the requesting RNC/BSS. The Distant RNC Context is identified by a connection oriented signalling bearer (See TS 25.422 [68]) as, for common measurements and information exchange, only the connection oriented mode of the signalling bearer is used.

Signalling radio bearer 2: The signalling radio bearer 2 is used by the UE to access a GERAN cell in order to perform RRC procedures.

UE Link: see definition in TS 25.346 [50].

URA Link: see definition in TS 25.346 [50].

MBMS Bearer Service: see defintion in TS 23.246 [51].

MBMS session: see defintion in TS 25.346 [50].

MBMS session start: see defintion in TS 25.346 [50].

MBMS session stop: see defintion in TS 25.346 [50].

MBMS Selected Services: see defintion in TS 25.346 [50].

PUESBINE feature: as defined in TS 23.195 [65].

3.2 Symbols

Void.

3.3 Abbreviations

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

A-GPS Assisted-GPS

ALCAP Access Link Control Application Part

APN Access Point Name

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One

BDS BeiDou Navigation Satellite System

BER Bit Error Rate

BLER Block Error Rate

BSS Base Station Subsystem

CBSS Controlling BSS

CCCH Common Control Channel

CCPCH Common Control Physical Channel

CCTrCH Coded Composite Transport Channel

CFN Connection Frame Number

C-ID Cell Identifier

CM Compressed Mode

CN Core Network

CPICH Common Pilot Channel

CRNC Controlling RNC

CLTD Closed Loop Transmit Diversity

DBDS Differential BDS

DBSS Drift BSS

C-RNTI Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier

CS Circuit Switched

CTFC Calculated Transport Format Combination DCH Dedicated Channel

DGANSS Differential GANSS

DGPS Differential GPS

DL Downlink

DPC Downlink Power Control

DPCCH Dedicated Physical Control Channel

DPCH Dedicated Physical Channel

DPDCH Dedicated Physical Data Channel

DRNC Drift RNC

DRNS Drift RNS

D-RNTI Drift Radio Network Temporary Identifier

DRX Discontinuous Reception

DSCH Downlink Shared Channel

Ec Energy in single Code

E-AGCH E-DCH Absolute Grant Channel

E-DCH Enhanced UL DCH

E-HICH E-DCH HARQ Acknowledgement Indicator Channel

E-PUCH Enhanced Uplink Physical Channel (TDD only)

E-RNTI E-DCH RNTI

E-RUCCH E-DCH Random Access Uplink Control Channel (TDD only)

E-TFCI E-DCH Transport Format Combination Indicator

E-UCCH E-DCH Uplink Control Channel (TDD only)

E-UTRA Evolved UTRA

EDSCHPC Enhanced Downlink Shared Channel Power Control

EGNOS European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

EP Elementary Procedure

FACH Forward Access Channel

FDD Frequency Division Duplex

F-DPCH Fractional DPCH

FN Frame Number

FP Frame Protocol

F-TPICH Fractional Transmitted Precoding Indicator Channel

GANSS Galileo and Additional Navigation Satellite Systems

GERAN GSM EDGE Radio Access Network

GA Geographical Area

GAGAN GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation

GAI Geographical Area Identifier

GLONASS GLObal’naya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (Engl.: Global Navigation Satellite System)

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System

GPS Global Positioning System

GRA GERAN Registration Area

GSM Global System Mobile

GWCN Gateway Core Network

HSDPA High Speed Downlink Packet Access

HW Hardware

IB Information Block

ICD Interface Control Document

ID Identity or Identifier

IE Information Element

IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity

IP Internet Protocol

IPDL Idle Period DownLink

ISCP Interference Signal Code Power

LAC Location Area Code

LCR Low Chip Rate (1.28 Mcps)

LCS Location Services

MAC Medium Access Control

MBMS Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service

MDT Minimization of Drive Tests

MOCN Multi-Operator Core Network

MRNC MBMS Master RNC

MS Mobile Station

MSAS Multi-functional Satellite Augmentation System

NACC Network Assissted Cell Change

NAICS Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression

NAS Non Access Stratum

No Reference Noise

NRT Non Real Time

O&M Operation and Maintenance

P(-)CCPCH Primary CCPCH

PCH Paging Channel

OTD Observed Time Difference

P(-)CPICH Primary CPICH

PCS Personal Communication Services

PDSCH Physical Downlink Shared Channel

PDU Protocol Data Unit

PhCH Physical Channel

PICH Paging Indication Channel

PLCCH Physical Layer Common Control Channel

Pos Position or Positioning

PRACH Physical Random Access Channel

PTP Point To Point

PTM Point To Multipoint

PS Packet Switched

PUESBINE Provision of UE Specific Behaviour Information to Network Entities

QE Quality Estimate

QZSS Quasi-Zenith Satellite System

RAC Routing Area Code

RACH Random Access Channel

RAN Radio Access Network

RANAP Radio Access Network Application Part

RB Radio Bearer

RL Radio Link

RLC Radio Link Control

RLS Radio Link Set

RM Rate Matching

RNC Radio Network Controller

RNS Radio Network Subsystem

RNSAP Radio Network Subsystem Application Part

RNTI Radio Network Temporary Identifier

RRC Radio Resource Control

RT Real Time

RSCP Received Signal Code Power

SBAS Satellite Based Augmentation System

SBSS Serving BSS

Rx Receive or Reception

Sat Satellite

SCCP Signalling Connection Control Part

S(-)CCPCH Secondary CCPCH

SCH Synchronisation Channel

SCTD Space Code Transmit Diversity

S-DPCCH Secondary Dedicated Physical Control Channel

SDU Service Data Unit

SF System Frame

SFN System Frame Number

SHCCH Shared Control Channel

SIR Signal-to-Interference Ratio

SNA Shared Network Area

SRB2 Signalling radio bearer 2

SRNC Serving RNC

SRNS Serving RNS

S-RNTI Serving Radio Network Temporary Identifier

STTD Space Time Transmit Diversity

TDD Time Division Duplex

TF Transport Format

TFCI Transport Format Combination Indicator

TFCS Transport Format Combination Set

TFS Transport Format Set

TGCFN Transmission Gap Connection Frame Number

TMGI Temporary Mobile Group Identity

ToAWE Time of Arrival Window Endpoint

ToAWS Time of Arrival Window Startpoint

TPC Transmit Power Control

TrCH Transport Channel

TS Time Slot

TSG Technical Specification Group

TSTD Time Switched Transmit Diversity

TTI Transmission Time Interval

TX Transmit or Transmission

UARFCN UTRA Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UC-ID UTRAN Cell Identifier

UE User Equipment

UL Uplink

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

URA UTRAN Registration Area

U-RNTI UTRAN Radio Network Temporary Identifier

USCH Uplink Shared Channel

UTC Universal Coordinated Time

UTRA Universal Terrestrial Radio Access

UTRAN Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network

WAAS Wide Area Augmentation System