Telecom Tutorials by Samir Amberkar

Inside PS - DL N PDU transfer [Under GPRS]
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Let us look inside PS as how network delivers N PDU to MS

APP

SN

GMM

LLC

GRR

AIR

Network would like to send N PDUs to MS. MS GPRS attached and PDP context is active. If GMM is in ready state, network can send packet dl assignment to start DL transfer. But if GMM is in standby state, network need to page the MS. We will take this scenario. Paging GMMRR-PAGE-IND GMM restarts ready timer and "triggers" LLC. LLC need to send Cell update frame at this point to let network know the cell. LLGMM-TRIGGER-REQ GRR-DATA-REQ [LLC Cell update frame] UL TBF One-phase access procedure is performed as shown in One phase cont. article. MS need to now wait for downlink assignment. As per the assignment, MS downloads the RLC/MAC blocks. DL TBF GRR-DATA-IND [LLC I frame] LLC in ack mode Once all segments are received, SNDCP sends assembled N PDU to Application user entity. LL-DATA-IND [SN PDU, TLLI] N PDU It depends on implementation as how SNDCP will interact with application. LLC is in ack mode, so after receiving UI frame, it need to send Receive Ready frame. GRR-DATA-REQ [LLC RR frame] LLC informs GMM about sending of data so that GMM can restart ready timer. UL TBF LLGMM-TRIGGER-IND GMM restarts ready timer. Above procedure is repeated as per the availability user data.

References: GPRS in Practice by McGuiggan

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