Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification
The present document specifies the E-UTRA Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol for the UE – E-UTRAN radio interface.
The specification describes:
- E-UTRA RLC sublayer architecture;
- E-UTRA RLC entities;
- services expected from lower layers by E-UTRA RLC;
- services provided to upper layers by E-UTRA RLC;
- E-UTRA RLC functions;
- elements for peer-to-peer E-UTRA RLC communication including protocol data units, formats and parameters;
- handling of unknown, unforeseen and erroneous protocol data at E-UTRA RLC.