LTE - RLC

2008. 12. 31 Yong Hak, Jung / Onnet Technologies Tel :016-500-8582 E-Mail : jyhpan@ont.co.kr


Acronyms

RLC Overview
Transfer Mode
TM UM AM

Common Q&A

LTE RLC

Acronyms (1/2)
AM AMD ARQ BCCH BCH CCCH DCCH DL DL-SCH DTCH

Acknowledged Mode AM Data Automatic Repeat reQuest Broadcast Control CHannel Broadcast CHannel Common Control CHannel Dedicated Control Channel DownLink DL-Shared CHannel Dedicated Traffic CHannel

E
eNB E-UTRA E-UTRAN FI HARQ LI
LTE RLC

Extension bit
E-UTRAN Node B Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network Framing Info Hybrid ARQ Length Indicator
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Acronyms (2/2)
LSF MAC PCCH PDU RLC RRC SAP SDU SN SO

Last Segment Flag Medium Access Control Paging Control CHannel Protocol Data Unit Radio Link Control Radio Resource Control Service Access Point Service Data Unit Sequence Number Segment Offset

TB
TM TMD UE UL UM UMD
LTE RLC

Transport Block
Transparent Mode TM Data User Equipment UpLink Unacknowledged Mode UM Data
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RLC Overview
Radio Link Control
Data

Application

RRC

PDCP
RLC SDU RLC PDU

RLC

RLC

MAC

LTE RLC

RLC Overview

TM, UM, AM

Control Plane > Data Plane Data > Data

Upper Layer TM, UM, AM(with ) Lower Layer , () , HARQ delivery failure RLC re-establishment

PDCP RLC SDU MAC

Fragmentation Concatenation
RLC PDU .
LTE RLC 6

RLC Mode - TM
TM (Transparent Mode)
Not segment, not concatenate
Not include any RLC Header

TMD PDU
Transmitting TM-RLC entity Receiving TM-RLC entity

Data

Oct 1 Transmission buffer Oct N

TMD PDU

BCCH, PCCH, CCCH

LTE RLC

RLC Mode - UM
UM (Unacknowledged Mode)
Segment, Concatenate
RLC Header Detect loss, duplicate Reorder Reassemble Sequence delivery
Segmentation & Concatenation Remove RLC Header

Transmitting TM-RLC entity

Transmission buffer

Receiving TM-RLC entity

SDU Reassembly

Add RLC header

Reception buffer & HARQ reordering

UMD PDU

DCCH, DTCH

LTE RLC

RLC Mode - UM
UM Mode
VT(US)
VR(UR) VR(UX) VR(UH) T_reordering

LTE RLC

RLC Mode - UM
TX
SN

RX
Reordering Window Upper Layer Window Size Upper Layer Config

SN 5Bit, 10Bit . Window Size

..

..

100

..

..

..

..

229 230

VR(UR)

VR(UH)

UM Window Size Reordering Window

LTE RLC

10

RLC Mode - UM
UMD PDU
Fixed Part

FI

SN

Oct 1

FI SN

SN

Oct 1 Oct 2

SN (5Bit, 10Bit)

Extension Part

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E, LI ,

E LI LI Padding Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k E LI

LI E LI LI Oct n+k-2 Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k

Data Payload
Data

LTE RLC

11

RLC Mode - UM
LI Data field element
Data field Data (Concatenate)

RLC SDU segment + one or more RLC SDUs One or two RLC SDU segments + zero or more RLC SDUs

LI Data field element .

) LI 1 = 10, LI 2 = 20, LI 3 = 20 50Byte First Data elements 10, Second Data elements 20 Third Data elements 20

FI ( Framing Info )
Fragment

00 : Not Segment, 01 : Start, 10 : End, 11 : Continue

LTE RLC

12

RLC Mode - AM
AM (Acknowledged Mode)
ARQ
Segment, Concatenate RLC Header Detect loss, duplicate Reorder Reassemble Sequence delivery
Reception buffer & HARQ reordering Segmentation & Concatenation Retransmission buffer Remove RLC Header Transmission buffer RLC control SDU Reassembly

Add RLC header

Routing

DCCH, DTCH

LTE RLC

13

RLC Mode - AM
AM Mode
VT(S)
VT(A) VT(MS) VR(R)

VR(MR)
VR(X) VR(H) VR(MS)

T_reordering
T_poll_retransmit T_status_prohibit Max_Retx_threshold ( RETX_COUNT)

Poll_PDU (PDU_WITHOUT_POLL)
Poll_Byte (BYTE_WITHOUT_POLL)

LTE RLC

14

RLC Mode - AM
AM
AM_Window_Size = 512
ARQ Upper Layer Data ACK Upper Layer

ARQ

NACK
RETX_COUNT Max_Retx_Threshold Poll Bit

LTE RLC

15

RLC Mode - AM
Polling

Data
PDU Poll

PDU_WITHOUT_POLL >= Poll_PDU BYTE_WITHOUT_POLL >= Poll_Byte ,

T_poll_retransmit

STATUS

T_status_prohibut Status NACK

SN NACK_SN SN NACK_SN SO start, end

LTE RLC

16

RLC Mode - AM
AMD PDU
Fixed Part

D/C

RF

FI SN

SN

Oct 1 Oct 2

D/C = Data PDU RF = AMD PDU

Extension Part

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E, LI ,

E LI LI Padding Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k E LI

LI E LI LI Oct n+k-2 Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k

Data Payload

Data

LTE RLC

17

RLC Mode - AM
AMD PDU Segment
Fixed Part

D/C

RF

FI SN

SN

Oct 1 Oct 2 Oct 3 Oct 4

D/C = Data PDU RF = AMD PDU Segment

LSF

SO SO

Extension Part

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E LI LI

LI E LI

Oct n Oct n+1 Oct n+2

E, LI ,

E LI LI Padding Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k E LI

LI E LI LI Oct n+k-2 Oct n+k-1 Oct n+k

Data Payload

Data

LTE RLC

18

RLC Mode - AM
AMD STATUS PDU
Fixed Part

D/C = Control PDU CPT = STATUS PDU

D/C

CPT

ACK_SN E1

Oct 1 Oct 2

ACK_SN
NACK_SN

Oct 3
Oct 4 Oct 5 Oct 6 SOend Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct ..

Extension Part

E1

E2 NACK_SN

NACK_SN

E1

E1

E2

NACK_SN, E1, E2

SOstart SOstart

E2

SOstart, SOend
SOend

SOend

LTE RLC

19

RLC - Common
SDU Discard
Upper Layer SDU

Re-establishment
Upper Layer Data Upper Layer

PDU Error
PDU

LTE RLC

20

Question & Answer

LTE RLC

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