Delay budget within the access stratum
The present document evaluates the delay components introduced within the Access Stratum to provide guidelines useful both to provider for the dimensioning of a network and to manufacturers for the design of node elements. While the analysis of the possible delay sources is performed in an exhaustive way, the evaluation of single and global delay figures is limited to the case of Real Time services.
The estimation of Non Real Time service delays is not in scope of Release 99 and, therefore, it will not be considered in the present version of the Technical Report.
The figures of the present document sow possible scenarios and shall not be interpreted as requirements for a specific UTRAN implementation.