index_R

R

Radio access capability update, 297

Radio environment monitoring, 75-76

Radio frequency layer (RFL), 65

Radio interface, 72-83

physical layer, 72-77, 107-73

radio resource management, 77-83

RLC/MAC layer, 175-268

Radio interface (GSM), 14-46

bursts format, 32-33

frequency bands, 14

general characteristics, 14-116

logical channels, 16-18

mapping of logical channels, 18-25

measurements performed by MS, 44-46

MS cell synchronization procedure, 41

MS operations in idle mode, 42-44

RF characteristics, 33-41

voice digital communication chain, 25-32

Radio link control/medium access control. See RLC/MAC

Radio resource allocation, 208-37

downlink TBF establishment, 229-35

management report in packet idle mode, 235-37

uplink TBF establishment, 209-29

Radio resource (RR)

management principles, 77-83

operating modes, 77-78

packet idle mode, 77

packet transfer mode, 77-78

transition between operating modes, 78

Radio status, 297-98

Random access channel (RACH), 17

RAs, 88-89

concept, 88, 89

defined, 88

RAI, 88, 89

update, 328-30

Reassembly

LLC PDUs from RLC data blocks, 239-40

RLC/MAC control messages, 245

SNDCP, 371

See also Segmentation

Received signal level (RXLEV) measurements, 75, 150-51

computation, 151

defined, 150

Receiver path characteristics, 130-38

AM suppression, 137-38

blocking, 135

interference performance, 133-34

intermodulation, 135-37

reference sensitivity performance, 130-33

See also RF physical layer

Reception characteristics, 35-37

Reference path performance, 130-33

Reliability class, 51

Reset

BVC, 305-6

NS-VC, 286-88

Resource allocation

algorithm, 254

dynamic, 256-57

mechanism flexibility, 256

MS, 257-62

strategy, 254-62

RF characteristics, 33-41

radio link control, 37-41

reception characteristics, 35-37

transmission characteristics, 33-35

RF physical layer, 125-38

multislot classes, 125-28

receiver path characteristics, 130-38

transmitter path characteristics, 128-30

RF receivers

AGC constraints, 168-69

architecture summary, 159, 160

constraints, 159-69

IF, 153-55

linearity , 165-67

near-zero-IF, 258-59

noise figure, 159-65

structures of, 153-59

zero-IF, 156-58

RLC data blocks, 179-82

downlink, 180-81

header fields, 180

LLC PDU reassembly from, 239-40

LLC PDU segmentation into, 238-39

size , 179-80

size by coding scheme, 179

transfer, 240-45

transfer during downlink TBF, 243-44

transfer during uplink TBF, 241-43

transmission in sequence, 244

in unacknowledged RLC mode, 244-45

uplink, 181-82

See also RLC/MAC

RLC layer, 237-46

ACK/NACK request period, 262-65

automatic repeat request (ARQ), 237

data block transfer, 240-45

segmentation/reassembly of LLC PDUs, 238-40

segmentation/reassembly of RLC/MAC control messages, 245-46

transmission modes, 237-38

unacknowledged mode, 244-45

See also RLC/MAC

RLC/MAC, 64, 175-268

block, 175, 176

block structure, 176-82

broadcast information management, 182-89

case studies, 249-68

cell reselection , 189-97

control block, 176-79

control messages, segmentation/ reassembly, 245-46

defined, 175

listening to MS paging blocks, 197-208

radio resource allocation, 208-37

RLC, 237-46

RLC data block, 179-82

TBF release, 246-48

Roaming, 7

ROUTING AREA UPDATE ACCEPT message, 329