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Flexible RLC PDU Size (Release 7)

Flexible RLC PDU Size was interdicted in Release 7 in order to decrease RLC protocol overhead and to avoid sequence number stalling Flexible RLC is used with MAC-ehs in Release 7. Mac-ehs is a new feature interdicted in Release 7 to increase the downlink throughput.

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - April 15, 2010 at 11:04 am

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UMTS Radio Link Protocol Decoder

UMTS-RLCDecoder is small but powerful tool for decoding RLC header information both for Acknowledged Mode RLC PDUs and Unacknowledged Mode RLC PDUs.

It Can decode the following

  • RLC AMD PDU Header and Length Indicator
  • RLC Control PDUs including SUFIs
  • RLC UMD PDU header and Length Indicator

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - January 12, 2010 at 11:38 am

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UMTS Cell Selection Procedure

Whenever PLMN has been selected by NAS, the UE shall attempt to camp on the selected cell. This tutorial tells how a particular cell is selected.

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - November 4, 2009 at 5:19 pm

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HSUPA: High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) is introduced in 3GPP Release 6 standards to improve the uplink UE data rate which was significantly low up to Release 5. To improve the uplink data rate some new functionality are added:

  1. New MAC entities: MAC-e/es in UE and MAC-e in NodeB and MAC-es in RNC.
  2. Transport channel: E-DCH
  3. Physical channels: E-DPDCH/DPCCH, E-HICH, E-RGCH, E-AGCH
  4. Transmission Time Interval: 2 ms or 10 ms
  5. SF = 2 can be used
  6. Fast Layer 1 transmission and retransmission
  7. Hybrid- ARQ using soft combining and incremental redundancies
  8. NodeB control grants or data rate
  9. New Frame Protocol in Iub/Iur interface (E-DCH FP)

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - October 3, 2009 at 4:47 pm

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UMTS RLC Status PDU: SUFI RLIST

The STATUS PDU is used to exchange status information between two RLC AM entities. In this tutorial following topics are discussed:

  • What is SUFI RLIST?
  • Different fields in the SUFI RLIST
  • Example with encoding details

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - September 23, 2009 at 3:00 pm

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UMTS RLC Status PDU: SUFI LIST

This tutorial describes the UMTS RLC SUFI LIST. In this tutorial following topics are discussed:

  • What is SUFI LIST?
  • Different fields in the SUFI
  • Example with encoding details

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - September 21, 2009 at 1:47 pm

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UMTS RLC Status PDU: SUFI NO_MORE & SUFI ACK

The STATUS PDU is used to exchange status information between two RLC AM entities. In this tutorial following topics are discussed:

  • Why STATUS PDU is required?
  • Status PDU Parameters
  • Different type of SUFIs
  • SUFI ACK described with an example

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Posted by Prashant Panigrahi - September 21, 2009 at 11:43 am

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