RLC and MAC Overview | RLC and MAC Features | Aricent Deliverables | Related Products

Radio Link Control (RLC) and Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols Features

• Rich Set of API’s catering all need of system design
• Supports statistics collection
• Multilevel tracing support
• Includes documents describing the features, conformance and usage of the product
• Sample build environment and a port for UNIX-like systems.
• Integrated FP/RLC/MAC stack also available

Aricent provides RLC/MAC protocol for RNC side as an integrated offering consisting of following components:

Radio Link Control (RLC)

RLC supports following modes of data transfer with the higher layers:

• Upper Layer Interface for Data Transfer
• Unacknowledged Mode Data Transfer
• Acknowledged Mode Data Transfer
• Transparent Mode Data Transfer

Medium Access Control (MAC)

The MAC sub-layer provides a concept of logical channels and provides the function of multiplexing and scheduling onto transport channels. The physical layer provides a concept of transport channels and provides data transfer services to the MAC layer.

It consists of two separate components MAC-d and MAC-c/sh

MAC-d
The major functions of MAC-d include:

• Access for Dedicated Transport Channels.
• TFC selection
• Priority Handling

MAC-s/ch
The major functions of MAC-s/ch include:

• Access for Common and Shared Transport Channels
• Scheduling on Common Channels

Aricent Deliverables

• Product Source Code /Binaries
• Installation, Customization and Usage Manuals
• Application Programmers Interface
• Sample Test Applications and Stubs, Layer Management Entities
• Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS) document
• Operating System Plug-in Libraries, Hardware Convergence Layers
• Training and On-site support
• Warranty and Optional Annual Support Plans

Related Offerings from Aricent

• Framing Protocol
• RRC

Last updated : March 9, 2006