3 Definitions and abbreviations

3GPP44.069Broadcast Call Control (BCC) protocolRelease 17TS

3.1 Definitions

For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions defined in 3GPP TS 42.069 and the following apply:

Attachment of the user connection: See 3GPP TS 24.008, subclause 5.2.

Broadcast call channel: downlink channel to be allocated in each cell of the group call area for a particular broadcast call. All MSs of the listening service subscribers in one cell shall listen to the common downlink.

Broadcast call: is used in the same sense as "voice broadcast call".

Calling user: BCC entity in the Mobile Station (MS) initiating or having initiated a broadcast call.

Clearing the context related to the broadcast call establishment: all running BCC timers in the relevant BCC entity are stopped, all attributes in the relevant BCC entity are deleted.

Downlink: network to MS direction.

Group receive mode: See 3GPP TS 44.018.

Originating mobile station: MS initiating or having initiated the broadcast call.

Uplink: Mobile station to network direction.

3.2 Abbreviations

For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviation defined in 3GPP TR 21.905 [1a] and the following applies:

BCC Broadcast Call Control