8.102 MBMS Flags

29.2743GPP3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS)Evolved General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C)Release 18Stage 3TS

MBMS Flags is coded as depicted in Figure 8.102-1.

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1

Type = 171 (decimal)

2 to 3

Length = n

4

Spare

Instance

5

Spare

LMRI

MSRI

6 to (n+4)

These octet(s) is/are present only if explicitly specified

Figure 8.102-1: MBMS Flags

The following bits within Octet 5 indicate:

– Bit 1 – MSRI (MBMS Session Re-establishment Indication): if set to 1, this flag indicates that the MBMS Session Start Request message is used to re-establish an MBMS session (see 3GPP TS 23.007 [13])

– Bit 2 – LMRI (Local MBMS Bearer Context Release Indication): if set to 1, this flag indicates that the MBMS Session Stop Request message is used to release the MBMS Bearer Context locally in the MME/SGSN (see 3GPP TS 23.007 [13]);

– Bit 3 to 8 – Spare, for future use and set to zero.