Radio

Network Control Plane

Layer Application Nokia RAN
Protocol

Transport
Network Transport
Layer Network
User Plane
UTRAN Interfaces
and Protocols
Signalling
Bearer(s)

Physical Layer

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 Module objectives

At the end of this module you will be able to identify and

describe the following UTRAN interfaces and their protocols:

• Iub interface (between WBTS and RNC)

• Iur interface (between RNC and RNC)
• Iu interface (between RNC and CN)
• Uu interface (air interface)

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 UTRAN elements and interfaces

UTRAN
WCDMA
Uu BTS
RNC
WCDMA
BTS

Iub Iur Iu Core Network

(CN)
User Equipment WCDMA
(UE) BTS

RNC
WCDMA
BTS

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 UMTS bearer services

Radio Access Bearers

Non-Access
Stratum
Signalling connection

RRC RRC Iu
connection connection

Access Stratum
Radio bearer service Iu bearer service

: SAP

UE Uu RAN Iu CN
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 General protocol model
for UTRAN terrestrial interfaces
Radio
Network Control Plane User Plane
Layer Application
Data Stream(s)
Protocol

Transport
Network Transport Transport Transport
Layer Network Network Network
User Plane Control Plane User Plane
ALCAP(s)

Signalling Signalling
Data Bearer(s)
Bearer(s) Bearer(s)

Physical Transmission layer

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 Transmission and transport layers
e.g. BTS e.g. Iub e.g. RNC

O & M connection
IP IP

AAL2 & AAL5

Transport layer ATM ATM

Interfaces E1, STM-1

Physical Transmission
PDH / SDH PDH / SDH
layer
DWDM Fiber DWDM
Physical Media layer Microwave, Microwave,
Copper
fiber, copper fiber, copper
Microwave

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 Protocol structure for Iub
Radio
Network Control Plane User Plane

RACH FP

DSCH FP
FACH FP
Layer

DCH FP

PCH FP

HS-
NBAP

Transport Transport Network Transport Network Transport Network

Network User Plane Control Plane User Plane
Layer Q.2630.1

Q.2150.2
SSCF-UNI SSCF-UNI
SSCOP SSCOP
AAL5 AAL5 AAL2

ATM

Physical Transmission layer

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 Iub: Common NBAP procedures
• Radio Link Setup
• BTS Logical Resource Management
• Broadcast information
• BTS configuration
• BTS capability query
• Operational state query
• Channel handling
• Common channel power control
• RACH Setup, Release and Reconfiguration
• FACH/PCH Setup, Release and Reconfiguration
• HS-DSCH Setup, Release and Reconfiguration
• Physical Shared Channel Management
• Fault Management
• RNC Restarted Indication
• Traffic termination point failure notification
• Error Indication

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 Iub: Dedicated NBAP procedures

• Radio link addition, reconfiguration and deletion

• DL power drifting prevention ( in RAS05.1)
• Compressed Mode Control (in RAS07 earliest)
• Error Indication

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 Protocol structure for Iur
Radio
Network Control Plane User Plane
Layer RNSAP DCH FP CCH FP

Transport Transport Network Transport Network Transport Network

Network User Plane Control Plane User Plane
Layer Q.2630.1

SCCP Q.2150.1
MTP-3b MTP-3b
SSCF-NNI SSCF-NNI
SSCOP SSCOP
AAL5 AAL5 AAL2

ATM

Physical Transmission layer

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 Iur: RNSAP procedures
• Basic Mobility Management procedures
• UL/DL signalling transfer
• Relocation execution
• Paging
• DCH procedures
• Radio link management
• Physical channel reconfiguration
• Measurements on dedicated resources
• Compressed mode control
• DL power drifting correction (in RAS05.1)
• Common Transport Channel procedures
• Common transport channel initialisation/release
• Global Procedures
• Error indication
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 Protocol structure for Iu-CS
Radio
Network Control Plane User Plane
Layer RANAP
Iu User Plane
Protocol

Transport Transport Network Transport Network Transport Network

Network User Plane Control Plane User Plane
Layer Q.2630.1

SCCP Q.2150.1
MTP-3b MTP-3b
SSCF-NNI SSCF-NNI
SSCOP SSCOP
AAL5 AAL5 AAL2

ATM

Physical Transmission layer

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 Protocol structure for Iu-PS
Radio
Network Control Plane User Plane
Layer RANAP
Iu User Plane
Protocol

Transport Transport Network Transport Network Transport Network

Network User Plane Control Plane User Plane
Layer

SCCP
MTP-3b GTP-U
SSCF-NNI UDP
SSCOP IP
AAL5 AAL5

ATM

Physical Transmission layer

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 Iu: RANAP procedures
• Bearer establishment, renegotiation and release
• Handover procedures
• Serving RNC relocation
• Hard handover
• Reset
• Paging
• Flow control: processor/CCCH overload at the UTRAN
• Cipher Mode Control
• Location Reporting
• Resource Check
• Direct Transfer
• Trace Invocation
• Error Handling

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 Radio interface protocol architecture
CC, MM - NAS RABs - NAS Higher layer 3 sub layers
Control Plane signalling User Plane information

Radio Bearers
RRC control L3
control
control

control
control

PDCP
BMC

RLC RLC
RLC RLC L2
RLC
RLC RLC RLC

Logical Channels
MAC
Transport Channels
PHY (WCDMA L1) L1

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 Uu: RRC procedures

• System information broadcast

• Paging
• RRC connection management
• Control of radio bearers
• Control of security functions (ciphering and integrity checking)
• Integrity protection of signalling messages
• RRC connection mobility
• Control of UE measurements

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 Air interface control and user planes for DCHs
RRC RRC
RLC RLC Control
MAC MAC Plane
DCH FP DCH FP DCH FP
WCDMA WCDMA Transport and
L1 L1 Transport and Transport and
transmission
transmission layer transmission layer
layers
UE BTS DRNC SRNC

RT NRT & RT

PDCP
RLC RLC
User
MAC MAC Plane
DCH FP DCH FP DCH FP
WCDMA WCDMA Transport and
L1 L1 Transport and Transport and
transmission
transmission layer transmission layer
layers
UE BTS DRNC SRNC

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 HSDPA Protocol Model
• MAC-d flow RLC RLC
DCH
• UE-specific MAC-d MAC-d
• 1:1 with FP entity DCH DCH
• 1:1 with AAL2 connection FP FP
DPCH
• Up to 8 MAC-d flows per UE PHY PHY
• RAS05: 1 MAC-d flow per UE TNL TNL

• HS-DSCH UE Uu BTS Iub RNC

• Transport channel
• Shared by the UEs in the cell
• Controlled by MAC-hs
• Between BTS and UE(s) RLC RLC
MAC-d flow
MAC-d MAC-d
• HS-PDSCH
HS-DSCH HS-DSCH
• Physical Channels MAC-hs HS-DSCH
MAC-hs
FP FP
• 0 to 15 per cell
• RAN05: max. 5 per HSDPA cell PHY HS-PDSCH
PHY TNL TNL
• HS-SCCH, HS-DPCCH
• Physical Channles UE Uu BTS Iub RNC

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 CS side protocol stack (user plane)
U I I A E
u ub u
Transcoding function

UE ATM Module MSC

E.g., E.g.,
UTRAN Radio Interface
Vocoder Protocols RNC Vocoder
A/m- law, A/m- law,
RLC - U RLC - U PCM, PCM,
Iu-CS etc. etc.
MAC BTS MAC UP
Iu-CS UP PSTN/
N-ISDN
FP FP

WCDMA AAL2 AAL2 AAL2 AAL2 Link Link

WCDMA
L1 L1 Layer Layer
ATM ATM ATM ATM

PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY

UTRAN Transport Network Layer

SDH / PDH

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 ATM Adaptation Layer for User Plane

Iub Iu-CS A B
Uu
BS RNC MGW MSC PSTN
UE AAL2
AAL2

Iur
AAL2 Iu-PS

AAL2 AAL5
BS RNC

AAL2
Gn Gi
BS
SGSN GGSN IP network

UNI User Network Interface

NNI Network Node Interface
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 ATM Adaptation Layer for Control Plane

Iub Iu-CS A B
Uu
BS RNC MGW MSC PSTN
UE RANAP
NBAP SCCP
UNI SAAL (AAL5) MTP3
RNSAP NNI SAAL (AAL5)
SCCP Iur
MTP3 Iu-PS
RANAP
NNI SAAL (AAL5) SCCP
BS MTP3
RNC NNI SAAL (AAL5)

NBAP
UNI SAAL (AAL5) Gn Gi
BS
SGSN GGSN IP network

UNI User Network Interface

NNI Network Node Interface
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 ATM Adaptation Layer for Transport Network
Control Plane (AAL type 2 signalling)
Iub Iu-CS A B
Uu
BS RNC MGW MSC PSTN
UE AAL2 SIG
AAL2 SIG
STC
STC
MTP3b
UNI SAAL (AAL5)
NNI SAAL (AAL5)
AAL2 SIGIur
STC
Iu-PS
MTP3
NNI SAAL (AAL5)
BS RNC

AAL2 SIG
STC
UNI SAAL (AAL5) Gn Gi
BS
SGSN GGSN IP network

UNI User Network Interface

NNI Network Node Interface
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