4.5 IP fragmentation

36.3003GPPEvolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN)Overall descriptionRelease 17Stage 2TS

Tools: ARFCN - Frequency Conversion for 5G NR/LTE/UMTS/GSM

Fragmentation function in IP layer on S1 and X2 shall be supported.

Configuration of S1-U (X2-U) link MTU in the eNB according to the MTU of the network domain the node belongs to shall be considered as a choice at network deployment. The network may employ various methods to handle IP fragmentation, but the specific methods to use are implementation dependant.