1 Scope

3GPP45.001General descriptionGSM/EDGE Physical layer on the radio pathRelease 17TS

The present document is an introduction to the 45 series of the digital cellular telecommunications systems GSM technical specifications. It is not of a mandatory nature, but consists of a general description of the organization of the physical layer with reference to the technical specifications where each part is specified in detail. It introduces furthermore, the reference configuration that will be used throughout this series of technical specifications.

1.1 References

The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.

– References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non‑specific.

– For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.

– For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.

[1] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".

[2] 3GPP TR 23.003: "Numbering, Addressing and Identification".

[3] 3GPP TS 23.034: "High Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCSD); Stage 2".

[4] 3GPP TS 43.020: "Security-related Networks Functions".

[5] 3GPP TS 43.022: "Functions related to Mobile Station (MS) in idle mode and group receive mode".

[6] 3GPP TR 43.030: "Radio network planning aspects"

[7] 3GPP TS 43.052: "Lower layers of the GSM Cordless Telephony System (CTS) radio interface; Stage 2".

[8] 3GPP TS 43.064: "Overall description of the GPRS radio interface; Stage 2".

[9] 3GPP TS 44.003: "Mobile Station – Base Station System (MS – BSS) Interface Channel Structures and Access Capabilities".

[10] 3GPP TS 44.018: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Radio Resource Control Protocol"

[11] 3GPP TS 44.021: "Rate Adaption on the Mobile Station – Base Station System (MS-BSS) Interface"

[12] 3GPP TS 44.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Mobile Station (MS) – Base Station System (BSS) interface; Radio Link Control/ Medium Access Control (RLC/MAC) protocol".

[13] 3GPP TS 45.002: "Multiplexing and multiple access on the radio path".

[14] 3GPP TS 45.003: "Channel coding".

[15] 3GPP TS 45.004: "Modulation".

[16] 3GPP TS 45.005: "Radio transmission and reception".

[17] 3GPP TS 45.008: "Radio subsystem link control".

[18] 3GPP TS 45.009: "Link adaptation".

[19] 3GPP TS 45.010: "Radio subsystem synchronization".

[20] 3GPP TS 45.056: "GSM Cordless Telephony System (CTS); Phase 1; CTS-FP Radio subsystem".

[21] 3GPP TR 45.902: "Flexible Layer One".

[22] 3GPP TR 45.914: "Circuit Switched Voice Capacity Evolution for GERAN".

1.2 Abbreviations

Abbreviations used in the present document are listed in 3GPP TR 21.905. In addition to abbreviations in 3GPP TR 21.905 the following abbreviations apply:

BTTI Basic Transmission Time Interval

CC Coverage Class

EDAB Extended Dual slot Access Burst

ESAB Extended Synchronization Access Burst

FANR Fast Ack/Nack Reporting

PAN Piggy-backed Ack/Nack

PCS PAN Check Sequence

RTTI Reduced Transmission Time Interval

VAMOS Voice services over Adaptive Multi-user Channels on One Slot

AQPSK Adaptive Quadrature Phase Shift Keying

1.2a Definitions

Blind physical layer transmissions: see definition in 3GPP TS 43.064 [8].

Coverage Class: see definition in 3GPP TS 43.064 [8].

EC-GSM-IoT: see definition in 3GPP TS 43.064 [8].

Extended Coverage: see definition in 3GPP TS 43.064 [8].

1.3 Restrictions

Independently of what is stated elsewhere in this and other 3GPP specifications, mobile station support for PBCCH and PCCCH is optional for A/Gb-mode of operation. The network shall never enable PBCCH and PCCCH.