BMSat-36.300
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Keywords
BMSat, radio, architecture
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Contents
Foreword..........................................................................................................................................................
Introduction......................................................................................................................................................
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Scope......................................................................................................................................................
References..............................................................................................................................................
3.1
3.2
Definitions...........................................................................................................................................................
Abbreviations.......................................................................................................................................................
Overall architecture................................................................................................................................
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.7.1
4.7.2
4.7.3
4.7.4
4.7.5
4.7.6
4.7.7
Functional Split....................................................................................................................................................
Void......................................................................................................................................................................
Radio Protocol architecture.................................................................................................................................
Synchronization...................................................................................................................................................
IP fragmentation..................................................................................................................................................
Support of HeNBs...............................................................................................................................................
Support for relaying.............................................................................................................................................
General...........................................................................................................................................................
Architecture....................................................................................................................................................
S1 and X2 user plane aspects.........................................................................................................................
S1 and X2 control plane aspects....................................................................................................................
Radio protocol aspects...................................................................................................................................
Signalling procedures.....................................................................................................................................
Relay Node OAM Aspects.............................................................................................................................
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.3.1
5.4
5.5
Layer 2..................................................................................................................................................
RRC......................................................................................................................................................
E-UTRAN identities.............................................................................................................................
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Mobility................................................................................................................................................
10.1
10.1.1
10.1.2
10.1.3
10.1.4
10.1.5
10.1.5.1
10.1.5.2
10.1.5.3
10.1.6
10.1.7
10.1.8
10.2
10.3
10.4
10.5
Intra E-UTRAN.................................................................................................................................................
Mobility Management in ECM-IDLE..........................................................................................................
Mobility Management in ECM-CONNECTED..........................................................................................
Measurements..............................................................................................................................................
Paging and C-plane establishment...............................................................................................................
Random Access Procedure...........................................................................................................................
Contention based random access procedure...........................................................................................
Non-contention based random access procedure...................................................................................
Interaction model between L1 and L2/3 for Random Access Procedure...............................................
Radio Link Failure.......................................................................................................................................
Radio Access Network Sharing...................................................................................................................
Handling of Roaming and Area Restrictions for UEs in ECM-CONNECTED..........................................
Inter RAT...........................................................................................................................................................
Mobility between E-UTRAN and Non-3GPP radio technologies.....................................................................
Area Restrictions...............................................................................................................................................
Mobility to and from CSG and Hybrid cells.....................................................................................................
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10.7
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Measurement Model..........................................................................................................................................
Hybrid Cells.......................................................................................................................................................
11.1
11.2
11.3
11.4
11.5
11.6
11.7
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DRX in RRC_CONNECTED...............................................................................................................
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QoS.......................................................................................................................................................
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Security................................................................................................................................................
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MBMS..................................................................................................................................................
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Void......................................................................................................................................................
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UE capabilities.....................................................................................................................................
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S1 Interface..........................................................................................................................................
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X2 Interface..........................................................................................................................................
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Void......................................................................................................................................................
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Others...................................................................................................................................................
Foreword
This Technical Specification has been produced by China Communications Standards Association (CCSA).
The contents of the present document are subject to continuing work within CCSA and may change following formal
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Introduction
Broadband Mobile Satellite (BMSat) radio interface is mainly used for mobile satellite services (MSS) utilizing
geostationary satellite(s). BMSat is derived from the terrestrial LTE-Advanced specifications (also known as LTE
Release 10 and beyond developed by 3GPP) and supports access to LTE-Advanced core networks. Currently, BMSat
supports only FDD mode, and the descriptions of TDD mode in the terrestrial LTE-Advanced specifications are not
applied to BMSat.
NOTE: The LTE-Advanced standards documents referenced in BMSat specifications are the transposed documents
provided by CCSA which is one of the identified Transposing Organizations of 3GPP LTE-Advanced specifications in
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ITU-R Recommendation M.2012. The detailed transposing relationship between CCSA transposed LTE-Advanced
documents and 3GPP LTE-Advanced documents is shown in ITU-R Recommendation M.2012.
Due to the differences between terrestrial and satellite channels, a number of modifications to LTE-Advanced are made
to adapt to satellite radio transmission.
Some LTE-Advanced specifications are directly applicable, whereas others are applicable with modifications. Similarly,
some LTE-Advanced specifications do not apply, while some BMSat specifications have no corresponding LTEAdvanced specification.
Since BMSat is derived from LTE-Advanced, the organization of the BMSat specifications closely follows that of LTEAdvanced. The BMSat numbers have been designed to correspond to the LTE-Advanced numbering system. All BMSat
specifications are allocated a unique BMSat number as follows:
BMSat xx.yyy.z
where:
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xx.yyy.z (z = 0) is used for BMSat specifications that have a corresponding LTE-Advanced specification. In
this case, the numbers xx and yyy correspond to the LTE-Advanced numbering scheme.
xx.yyy.z (z = 2) is used for BMSat specifications that do not correspond to a LTE-Advanced specification.
In this case, only the number xx corresponds to the LTE-Advanced numbering scheme and the number yyy
is allocated by BMSat.
A BMSat system is defined by the combination of a family of BMSat specifications and LTE-Advanced specifications
as follows:
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If a BMSat specification exists it takes precedence over the corresponding LTE-Advanced specification (if any).
This precedence rule applies to any references in the corresponding LTE-Advanced specifications.
NOTE: Any references to LTE-Advanced specifications within the BMSat specifications are not subject to this
precedence rule. For example, a BMSat specification may contain specific references to the corresponding LTEAdvanced specification.
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If a BMSat specification does not exist, the corresponding LTE-Advanced specification may or may not apply.
The applicability of the LTE-Advanced specifications is defined in BMSat-36.001.2 [1].
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Scope
The present document provides an overview and overall description of the E-USRAN radio interface protocol
architecture. Details of the radio interface protocols are specified in companion specifications of the 36 series.
References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or
non-specific.
For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including
a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same
Release as the present document.
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[2]
CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300: Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN);Overall description;
3.1 Definitions
Same as clause 3.1 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply
E-PPCH
Other abbreviations used in the present document are same as clause 3.2 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
Overall architecture
4.2 Void
Same as clause 4.2 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
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4.4 Synchronization
Same as clause 4.4 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
4.5
IP fragmentation
4.7.1 General
Same as clause 4.7.1 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
4.7.2 Architecture
The radio-access network interfaces for BMSat supporting CGCs are shown in Fig.4.7.2-1. The CGC terminates the S1,
X2 and Un interfaces. The Donor SAT-GW(DSAT-GW) provides S1 and X2 proxy functionality between the CGC and
other network nodes (other SAT-GWs, MMEs and S-GWs). The S1 and X2 proxy functionality includes passing UEdedicated S1 and X2 signalling messages as well as GTP data packets between the S1 and X2 interfaces associated with
the CGC and the S1 and X2 interfaces associated with other network nodes. Due to the proxy functionality, the DSATGW appears as an MME (for S1-c), an SAT-GW (for X2) and an S-GW (for S1-u) to the CGC.
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Downlink and uplink transmissions are organized into radio frames with 10 ms duration.
Frame structure is illustrated in Figure 5.1-1. Each 10 ms radio frame is divided into ten equally sized sub-frames. Each
sub-frame consists of two equally sized slots. For FDD, 10 subframes are available for downlink transmission and 10
subframes are available for uplink transmissions in each 10 ms interval. Uplink and downlink transmissions are
separated in the frequency domain.
Switch-point periodicity
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The coded BCH transport block is mapped to four subframes within a 40 ms interval;
Each subframe is assumed to be self-decodable, i.e. the BCH can be decoded from a single reception,
assuming sufficiently good channel conditions.
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Informs the UE about the number of OFDM symbols used for the PDCCHs;
Informs the UE about the resource allocation of PCH and DL-SCH, and Hybrid ARQ information related to
DL-SCH;
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Figure 5.3.1-1: Mapping between downlink transport channels and downlink physical channels
Figure 5.3.1-2: Mapping between uplink transport channels and uplink physical channels
Layer 2
RRC
E-UTRAN identities
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Mobility
10.1.3 Measurements
Same as clause 10.1.3 of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
10.1.5.1
The contention based random access procedure is outlined on Figure 10.1.5.1-1 below:
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There are two possible groups defined and one is optional. If both groups are configured the size of message
3 is used to determine which group a preamble is selected from. The group to which a preamble belongs
provides an indication of the size of the message 3 and the radio conditions at the UE. The preamble group
information along with the necessary thresholds are broadcast on system information.
Semi-synchronous (within a flexible window of which the size is one or more TTI) with message 1;
No HARQ;
Conveys at least RA-preamble identifier, Timing Alignment information, initial UL grant and assignment of
Temporary C-RNTI (which may or may not be made permanent upon Contention Resolution);
Size of the transport blocks depends on the UL grant conveyed in step 2 and is at least 80 bits.
Conveys the RRC Connection Request generated by the RRC layer and transmitted via CCCH;
Conveys the RRC Connection Re-establishment Request generated by the RRC layer and transmitted via
CCCH;
Conveys the ciphered and integrity protected RRC Handover Confirm generated by the RRC layer and
transmitted via DCCH;
Conveys the C-RNTI of the UE (which was allocated via the Handover Command);
Early contention resolution shall be used i.e. satellite gateway does not wait for NAS reply before resolving
contention
Addressed to:
The Temporary C-RNTI on PDCCH for initial access and after radio link failure;
For initial access and RRC Connection Re-establishment procedure, no segmentation is used (RLC-TM).
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The Temporary C-RNTI is promoted to C-RNTI for a UE which detects RA success and does not already have a CRNTI; it is dropped by others. A UE which detects RA success and already has a C-RNTI, resumes using its C-RNTI.
When CA is configured, the first three steps of the contention based random access procedures occur on the PCell while
contention resolution (step 4) can be cross-scheduled by the PCell.
10.1.5.2
10.1.5.3
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For UE has established the uplink synchronization in advance, contention uplink resource can be used if no dedicated
resource is assigned. The method UE establishes the uplink synchronization is left to UE implementation, three example
cases are followings:
1) The UE has accessed the satellite and obtained the TA value before. And the TA value stored by UE in still valid for
the time span between the last access and current access is short.
2) The UE deduces the TA value between itself and the satellite through implementation method, e.g. the UE can
obtain the propagation time between itself and the satellite using the global navigation satellite system (GNSS).
3) A satellite broadcast a reference time in UTC, a UE equipped with GNSS can deduce the TA value according to the
time difference between the time it receives the broadcast message and the reference time value from the satellite.
In contention base uplink date transmission procedure, the satellite gateway broadcasts a set of contention-based PRBs,
the access UE chooses one contention-based PRB to send data with its identifier. If the data transmission is successful,
the satellite gateway should send UE a response. Otherwise, an access collision may occur, UE may retry the access
procedure after a random back-off time.
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DRX in RRC_CONNECTED
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QoS
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Security
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MBMS
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Void
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UE capabilities
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S1 Interface
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X2 Interface
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Void
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Others
Annex A (informative):
NAS Overview
Same as Annex A of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
Annex B (informative):
MAC and RRC Control
Same as Annex B of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
Annex C (informative):
Void
Same as Annex C of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
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Annex D (informative):
Void
Same as Annex D of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
Annex E (informative):
Void
Same as Annex E of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2].
Annex F (informative):
Void
Same as Annex F of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex G (informative):
Guideline for E-USRAN UE capabilities
Same as Annex G of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex H (informative):
Void
Same as Annex H of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex I (informative):
SPID ranges ad mapping of SPID values to cell reselection
and inter-RAT/inter frequency handover priorities
Same as Annex I of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex J (informative):
Carrier Aggregation
Same as Annex J of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex K (informative):
Time domain ICIC
Same as Annex K of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
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Annex J (informative):
Carrier Aggregation
Same as Annex J of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex K (informative):
Time domain ICIC
Same as Annex K of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex L (informative):
Relaying
Same as Annex L of CCSA-TSD-LTE-36.300 [2]
Annex M (informative):
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