August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
13h 56m
English
This chapter described the overall NR architecture. DIfferent alternatives for connecting the NR RAN to the core netwrok (EPC or 5GCN) are discussed. The overall protocol structure and the different channel types are also outlined.
5GCN; EPC; architecture; dual connectivity; gNB; RAN; user plane; control plane; protocol architecture; paging
This chapter contains a brief overview of the overall architecture of an NR radio-access network and the associated core network, followed by descriptions of the radio-access network user-plane and control-plane protocols.
In parallel to the work on the NR (New Radio) radio-access technology in 3GPP, the overall system architectures ...