Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
0 Scope
   0.1 Scope of the Technical Specification
   0.2 Application to the interface structures
   0.3 Structure of layer 3 procedures
   0.4 Test procedures
   0.5 Use of logical channels
   0.6 Overview of control procedures
   0.7 Applicability of implementations
1 Normative references
2 Definitions and abbreviations
   2.1 Random values
   2.2 Vocabulary
3 Radio Resource management procedures
   3.1 Overview/General
   3.2 Idle mode procedures
   3.3 RR connection establishment
   3.4 Procedures in dedicated mode and in group
       transmit mode
4 Elementary procedures for Mobility Management
   4.1 General
   4.2 Behaviour in MM IDLE State
   4.3 MM common procedures
   4.4 MM specific procedures
   4.5 Connection management sublayer service
       provision
   4.6 Receiving a MM STATUS message by a MM entity
5 Elementary procedures for circuit-switched Call
   Control
   5.1 Overview
   5.2 Call establishment procedures
   5.3 Signalling procedures during the "active"
       state
   5.4 Call clearing
   5.5 Miscellaneous procedures
6 Support of packet services.
7 Examples of structured procedures
   7.1 General
   7.2 Abnormal cases
   7.3 Selected examples
8 Handling of unknown, unforeseen, and erroneous
   protocol data
   8.1 General
   8.2 Message too short
   8.3 Unknown or unforeseen transaction identifier
   8.4 Unknown or unforeseen message type
   8.5 Non-semantical mandatory information element
       errors
   8.6 Unknown and unforeseen IEs in the
       non-imperative message part
   8.7 Non-imperative message part errors
   8.8 Messages with semantically incorrect contents
9 Message functional definitions and contents
   9.1 Messages for Radio Resources management
   9.2 Messages for mobility management
   9.3 Messages for circuit-switched call control
10 General message format and information elements
   coding
   10.1 Overview
   10.2 Protocol Discriminator
   10.3 Skip indicator and transaction identifier
   10.4 Message Type
   10.5 Other information elements
11 List of system parameters
   11.1 Timers and counters for radio resource
        management
   11.2 Timers of mobility management
   11.3 Timers of circuit-switched call control
Annex A (informative): Example of subaddress
        information element coding
Annex B (normative): Compatibility checking
Annex C (normative): Low layer information coding
        principles
Annex D (informative): Examples of bearer capability
        information element coding
Annex E (informative): Comparison between call
        control procedures specified in GSM 04.08
        and CCITT Recommendation Q.931
Annex F (informative): GSM specific cause values for
        radio resource management
Annex G (informative): GSM specific cause values for
        mobility management
Annex H (informative): GSM specific cause values for
        call control
Annex J (informative): Algorithm to encode frequency
        list information elements
Annex K (informative): Default Codings of Information
        Elements
Annex L (informative): Change Record
History

Abstract

Describes the procedures used at the radio interface for Call Control (CC), Mobility Management (MM) and Radio Resource (RR) management.

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Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	European Telecommunications Standards Institute
Pages
ISBN
Committee	SMG 3
Supersedes	PRETS 300 940 : MAY 98