8.70 MBMS Service Area

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

The MBMS Service Area is defined in 3GPP TS 23.246 [37]. The MBMS Service Area information element indicates the area over which the Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service is to be distributed. The payload shall be encoded as per the MBMS‑Service‑Area AVP defined in 3GPP TS 29.061 [38], excluding the AVP Header fields (as defined in IETF RFC 3588 [39], clause 4.1).

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1

Type = 139 (decimal)

2 to 3

Length = n

4

Spare

Instance

5 to (n+4)

MBMS Service Area

Figure 8.70-1: MBMS Service Area