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UMTS Networks
Graduate course in Computer Science
Integrated Communication Systems (ICS) Group
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics
-> Education -> Master Courses -> UMTS-Networks
Winter Semester
Andreas Mitschele-Thiel
Jens Mückenheim
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Course Motivation – Why is this important?
Enormous growth in mobile communications
Enormous growth of Internet traffic
Transition from voice to data services
Transition from pay-per-data to flat rates
Convergence of the Telecommunication world and the Internet world
Transition from circuit-switched to packet-switching technology
Mobile/Wireless Internet
New applications and services
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Convergence of Mobile Communication and the InternetM
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Course Contents
• Review of the basics of mobile communications• Overview on GSM, GPRS and EDGE• UMTS networks, including
- network architecture,- network elements,- protocols and- service aspects
• Architecture, protocols and services of UMTS networks especially- the radio access network and- the core network
• Evolution towards the 4th generation- High-speed Packet Data (HSPA),- Long-term Evolution (LTE) and System Architecture Evolution (SAE)
Focus on network aspects rather than radio details
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Course Objectives
Understand how UMTS networks work
Be able to navigate and understand UMTS standards
Understand why UMTS has been defined the way it is
Understanding of a real (non-trivial) integrated HW/SW system
Understand the evolution path towards and beyond UMTS
=> Understanding of the system from the system architect´s view
or: forget about the details as soon as you understand the whole
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Working Method
Study of a real Telco system with its specific problems
Identify and solve the identified problems instead of a general study
of abstract problems
Acquire a reasonable deep understanding of a highly complex system
Lots of discussion (hopefully)
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Organisational Stuff
Lecture: first half of semester (meet twice a week)Seminar: second half of semester (individual studies and presentations)
Course prerequisites: Basics of Communication Systems and Protocols (mandatory) Basics of Mobile Communications, e.g. Wireless Internet course
(recommended)
Slides and additional information are provided athttp://www.tu-ilmenau.de/ics-> Education -> Master Courses -> UMTS-Networks
Instructor contact:Andreas Mitschele-Thiel Dr. Jens MückenheimEmail: mitsch@tu-ilmenau.de Email: Jens.Mueckenheim@nashtech.comPhone: 03677-69 2819 Phone: 0911-30874-2842
Course budget: 30 hours (15 sessions a 2 hours)
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Schedule1 Introduction 12.10.20102 Basics of Wireless Transmissions
Media Access SchemesBasic Functions of Mobile Systems
3 2G: GSM and GSM Evolution 19.10.2010Protocol Engineering Basics, Standards
4 UMTS Architecture5 UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) 26.10.2010
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA)6 UTRAN Procedures 7 Numbering, Addressing and Location Identities 02.11.2010
UE Modes 8 Mobility Management
Communication Management9 Wideband CDMA Principles 09.11.2010
10 Radio Resource Management11 High-Speed Packet-Access (HSPA) 16.11.201012 High-Speed Packet-Access (HSPA), cont´d13 UMTS-Evolution (HSPA+) 23.11.201014 LTE/SAE
Red topics are provided by Dr. Mückenheim
Introduction
Mobile Business and Services Market Expectations UMTS Services and Applications
Technical Trends From 2G to 4G
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First Mobile Radio (1924) – How it began...
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... And what‘s next?
Mobile TVVideo camera
Game consoleGPS device
Digital cameraMP3 player
Memory cardColor display
Portable radioPDA
FaxPager
Phone
A mobile phone today is a ... communication, entertainment, transaction & navigation center...
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3G Mobile Communication Systems: UMTS
New standard for mobile communication
Multi media
Ubiquitous communicationalways on
Virtual home environment
Data communication
Selling licenses is a great
business model for the
secretary of finance
expensive hot air
New services
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Mobile Networks in Germany 1950: isolated network coverage,
30MHz, 50MHz, 160Mhz, manual exchange/operator
1. Generation (analog) 1958-77: A-Netz 156-174 MHz,
10.000 subs, manual exchange1972-94: B-Netz 146-156 MHz, 27.000 subs, direct dialling
1986-00: C-Netz 451-466 MHz, Max. 800.000 subs, National Roaming
2. Generation (digital: GSM/GPRS) since 1991: D-Netze 890-960Mhz,
Intern. Roaming since 1993:
E-Netze 1710-1880MHz Now: 81 Mio subscribers3. Generation (digital: UMTS) since 2004: UMTS 2100 MHz Now: 15 Mio subscribers
Since commercial launch of 2nd generation “GSM” (1992): strong growth of subscribers,now: more than 100% penetration (of population) Since commercial launch of 3rd generation “UMTS” (2004): today 15 mio subscribers, 15% is 3G
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Revenue for Mobile Operators (total) in Germany
Total revenue
Average revenue per user (ARPU)
[US$m] [US$] [%]Total Mobile Revenues $27,559 $25.33 100.0%Voice Revenue $21,417 $19.68 77.7%Data Revenue $6,142 $5.64 22.3%Messaging Revenue $4,704 $4.32 17.1%SMS $4,026 $3.70 14.6%MMS $260 $0.24 0.9%Email $399 $0.37 1.4%Other Messaging $19 $0.02 0.1%Non-Messaging Revenue $1,438 $1.32 5.2%Ringtones $332 $0.31 1.2%Graphics/Images $162 $0.15 0.6%Games $263 $0.24 1.0%Information Services $163 $0.15 0.6%Music $59 $0.05 0.2%Video $88 $0.08 0.3%Mobile Data/Remote Access $371 $0.34 1.3%
German Mobile Operators‘ Revenue, estimates for 2007:more than 27 B$ = 21 B€
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Worldwide Number of Subscribers by Technology
Region Q2 2006 Q2 2007 Q2 2007 (%)
World
Total 2,431,732,781 2,948,357,080 100.0%
GSM 2G 1,934,109,924 2,377,790,703 80.6%
UMTS (WCDMA) 3G 70,242,769 131,240,644 4.5%
UMTS/HSPA 3G 259,396 4,987,178 0.2%
TDMA 2G 31,491,377 12,126,883 0.4%
PDC 2G 39,319,525 23,481,602 0.8%
iDEN 2G 25,321,560 27,078,771 0.9%
Analog 1G 4,467,113 2,021,415 0.1%
cdmaOne 2G 29,466,577 15,551,230 0.5%
CDMA2000 1X 3G 260,661,808 288,503,817 9.8%
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO 3G 36,394,017 65,405,731 2.2%
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A 3G - 171,311 0.0%
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) states that, as of November 2006, GSM/UMTS services are available in 134 networks in 59 countries,
with 85% of mobile subscriptions worldwide = more than 2.5 billion(source: www.gsacom.com).
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source: www.gsacom.com
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Services:- Traditional Voice- Teleservices like and Fax, SMS, MMS messaging- Wide-band Data for Multimedia and Wireless Internet:
via dedicated access (Basic Release99)up to 144 kb/s for high speed mobiles up to 384 kb/s for low speed mobilesup to 2 Mb/s for portable/fixed users
via high-speed packet access (HSPA, Release5, 6&7)up to 7.2-14.4/28.8 Mbit/s downloadup to 5.7/11.5 Mbit/s upload
Spectral Efficiency: High Mobility & Roaming: Worldwide Compatibility: with 2G systems, especially GSM Physical characteristics:
Wideband (W-)CDMA system with 5MHz bandwidth, 3.84 Mchps around 2000 MHz (EU), 1900 MHz (US), 1700 MHz (Japan)
UMTS:Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
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Why UMTS?
GSM (2nd generation): Optimized for circuit-switched voice High delay (180 ms round-trip) Small band, inflexible assignment of
data rates Low data rates
Suboptimal use of radio resources(spectral efficiency)
Complicated RF planning(layout of frequency usage)
Standard set by Europe
Globally available, but not planned as such
UMTS (3rd generation): Focus on packet-switched data Lower latency Flexible assignment of spectrum
with variable data rates Higher data rates for multimedia
services Higher capacity of radio system
Simplified RF engineering (no frequency planning)
Worldwide agreed standard
Worldwide roaming by design
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What is 3GPP?
3GPP stands for 3rd Generation Partnership Project 3GPP is a collaboration agreement, established in December 1998, to
ensure a worldwide acceptance of 3G W-CDMA/UMTS standards It is a partnership of 6 regional SDOs (standard development
organization)
These SDOs take 3GPP specifications and transpose them to regional (Europe, NorthAmerica, Korea, Japan, China) standards
ITU references the regional standards “IMT-2000”, “IMT-Advanced” see: www.3gpp.org
Japan
USA
S.KoreaEurope
China
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3GPP Members
Organizational Members: ARIB Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, Japan ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, USA CCSA China Communications Standards Association, China ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute, EU (France) TTA Telecommunications Technology Association, S. Korea TTC The Telecommunication Technology Committee, Japan
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3GPP Standards Releases (summary from/links to Wikipedia, 2008)
Version Released InfoRelease 99 2000 Q1 Specified the first UMTS 3G networks, incorporating a
CDMA air interface
Release 4 2001 Q2 Originally called the Release 2000 - added features including an all-IP Core Network
Release 5 2002 Q1 Introduced IMS and HSDPARelease 6 2004 Q4 Integrated operation with Wireless LAN networks and adds
HSUPA, MBMS, enhancements to IMS such as Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC), GAN (UMA)
Release 7 2007 Q4 Focuses on decreasing latency, QoS and improvements to real-time applications like VoIP. This specification will also focus on HSPA+ (High Speed Packet Access Evolution), SIM high-speed protocol and contactless front-end interface (Near Field Communicationenabling operators to deliver contactless services like Mobile Payments), EDGE Evolution.
Release 8 2008 Q4 E-UTRA, All-IP Network (SAE). Release 8 constitutes a refactoring of UMTS as an entirely IP based fourth-generation network.
Release 9 2009 Q4 SAES Enhancements, WiMAX and LTE/UMTS Interoperability. Dual-Cell HSDPA with MIMO, Dual-Cell HSUPA.
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Evolution of 3GPP Standards (Europe & Asia)
Release 99 Specs are Functionally frozen in March
2000 Essential corrections until late 2003
Release 4 Specs Functionally frozen in March 2001 Small delta to Release 99 Main features: TD-SCDMA, HSDPA
feasibility study Release 5
Functionally frozen in March 2002 & June 2002.
corrections until late 2004 Main features: HSDPA, IP-RAN, Network
Sharing, feasibility study of UTRAN evolution, IMS
Release 6 Functionally frozen in Dec. 2004 Corrections still ongoing. Main features: MBMS, Enhanced UL DCH,
Remote Electrical Tilting, Voice over IP, LTE Study
Release 7 Specs are Functionally frozen in March
2006. Main features: MIMO, gaming on IP,
Enhanced Push over Cellular, Evolved-UTRA (LTE) feasibility study. System Arch. Evolution (SAE) Study.
Release 8 Published in Dec. 2007/ March 2008 Main features: HSPA+, LTE (E-UTRA), SAE,
enhancements for UMTS
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Evolution of 3GPP2 Standards (mainly USA)
2G technology:CDMAone = IS-95
Beyond 3G technology:was: EV-DO Rev.C now: UMB = Ultra Mobile Broadband;
3G technology:CDMA2000
EV-DO = Evolution-Data Optimized EV-DV = Evolution-Data/Voice
3GPP2 is the 3G partnership project to promote the US-driven 3G standards family of cdma2000 in competition to W-CDMA/UMTS of 3GPP
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IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) Roadmap
IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) is an US-based international organization that sets industry standards,
like 802.3 Ethernet, 802.11 Wireless LAN
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3G Applications: Personal Lifestyle
always on IP: at home,
on the move, at work
messaging audio broadcast music games information travel planning shopping banking stock trading chat rooms video streaming
on demand mobile TV
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Applications: Location-based Services and Personalized Services
Location-based Services Position information Emergency call Advertisements Tourist information Maps and Route planning Support for sales Construction plans
Personalized Services Fast food, chinese, local food, vegetarian Adaptive quality of video clips and graphics Advertisements (yes/no/some)
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Applications: Mobile Office
E-Mail & Unified Messaging Schedule Management File & Database Access Secure Internet Access Corporate VPN Route Planning
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Applications: M-Commerce
Mobile Access to Information- travel updates and route descriptions
M-Commerce will provide people on the move with:
Mobile Access to Entertainment- music and video-on-demand
Mobile Ordering/Reservation of Service- ticket purchase and hotel reservations
Mobile Financial Services- stock trading and money transfers
Future revenue model is content and advertisingdriven rather than airtime driven
For details on 3G revenue model see: J A Harmer and C D Friel: 3G products -what will the technology enable? BT Technol J Vol 19 No 1 January 2001.
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Applications: Push Services (e.g. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service)
Increased bandwidth and the evolution of the user interface willmake services like video streaming a reality
Mobile is starting to penetrate in conjunction with companies like CNN
Newspaper, TV, Radio
Mobile News Channelimmediate,
quick, selective,
personalized, ubiquitous
Traditional
One-to-many is the traditional domain of the media companies
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New IP-based services – can be created quickly...
... a simple example
Your PersonalVacation Planner
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IMT
RAS
Class 4Switch
IPATM
IPATM
TrunkingGateway
Access
IP LAN
ACD
IPATM
AccessGateway
Web Server Web/Push Server
VideoWeb Server
SCP
SS7
DistributedNetwork
Controllere- Tailer
CTIServer
Call Center
e-Shopper
DB
JavaApplet
GK
. . . but it is not as simple as it looks
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2G to 3G Evolution: GSM - GPRS - UMTS
GSMRAN
Base station
Base stationcontroller
Base station
Base station
MSC
ISDN
GSM Core (Circuit switched)
HLRAuCEIR
GMSC
ATM based transport
GSM
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2G to 3G Evolution: GSM - GPRS - UMTS
GPRS Core (PacketSwitched)
SGSN
GGSN
Inter-net
GSMRAN
Base station
Base stationcontroller
Base station
Base station
MSC
ISDN
GSM Core (Circuit switched)
HLRAuCEIR
GMSC
ATM based transport
GSM+GPRS
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2G to 3G Evolution: GSM - GPRS - UMTS
GPRS Core (PacketSwitched)
SGSN
GGSN
Inter-net
GSMRAN
Base station
Base stationcontroller
Base station
Base station
UTRAN
Radio networkcontroller
Base station Base station
Base station
MSC
ISDN
GSM Core (Circuit switched)
HLRAuCEIR
GMSC
ATM based transport
GSM+GPRS+UMTS R99
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2G to 3G Evolution: GSM - GPRS - UMTS
GPRS Core (PacketSwitched)
SGSN
GGSN
Inter-net
GSMRAN
Base station
Base stationcontroller
Base station
Base station
UTRAN
Radio networkcontroller
Base station Base station
Base station
IP based transport
3G Core
GERANGERAN+UMTS R5 + IMS
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IP Multimedia System (IMS)- Architecture (simplified)
PSTN
PDN
MediaGateway
MGWControl
SessionControl
Services
CommonMultimedia
Service Network (IMS)
AccessProxy
BTS BSC/RNC MSC/SGSN/GGSNUEUE
GSM/GPRS RAN(GERAN)
CommonIP
CoreNetwork
NodeB RNC SGSN/GGSN IP Router
UEUE
UMTS/HSPA RAN
UEUE
802.11 WiFi802.16 WiMax
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Service and Core Architecture is “Access Agnostic”
AGFW GGSN
PDNRANSGSN
Access GatewayFirewallGateway GPRS Serving NodePacket Data NetworkRadio Access NetworkServing GPRS Serving NodeFWUESIP phone
Cable, ethernet, DSL, etc
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Technical Perspectives: Radio Access Technologies
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HSCSD
GPRS
EDGE
UMTS
Voice
Text Messaging
Still Imaging
Audio Streaming
Video Streaming
Ubiquitous TVInfotainment
Virtual Homes
High Speed Internet
PAN/LAN Convergence
Bluetooth
HomeRF
HIPERPAN
2.4GHz
5GHz
60GHz
802.16
802.20
HSDPA
802.11n
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4G Mobile Communication Systems: Radio Integration
WirelessIP
SocietyS-UMTS
SatelliteBroadband
DVB-SDVB-T
DAB
GSMGPRS/EDGE
DECTIR
BroadbandW-LAN
UMTS
Satellite/HAPS
Broadcasting
Cellular
Indoor
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Broadband WFA
Wireless Local Loop
Body LANs
PersonalArea Networks
UMTS ++
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Local Area NetworksMBS 60 MWS
Bluetooth
Quasi-Cellular
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4G Mobile Communication Systems: Network Integration
Services andapplications
IP based core network
IMT-2000UMTS
WLANtype
cellularGSM
short rangeconnectivity
WirelinexDSL
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DABDVB
return channel:e.g. GSM
download channel
New radiointerface
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4G Mobile Communication Systems: System Integration
distribution layer
cellular layer
hot spot layer WLAN
DAB and/or DVB
2G: e.g.GSM
IMT-2000UMTS
personal network layer
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• full coverage• global access• full mobility• not necessaryindividual links
• full coverageand hot spots
• global roaming• full mobility• individual links
• local coverage• hot spots• global roaming• local mobility• individual links
• short rangecommunication(e.g. Bluetooth, DECT )
• global roaming• individual links
• no mobility• global roaming• individual links
horizontal handover within a system vertical handover between systems
possible return channels
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ITU‘s IMT-Advanced: the standards way to 4G
We will come back to the 3G/UMTS evolution path later on !
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5G: Interplanetary Internet
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Summary of the Evolution Path (European View)
1G: Analog systems
2G (GSM): global digital personal communication system
FDMA, TDMA, FDD circuit-switched voice (voice service) SMS global roaming
2G+ (GSM+GPRS): introduction of packet-switched data
IP to the terminal; ATM transport in the network multiplexing of packet-switched data on traffic channels of radio link IP tunneling in the packet-switched core network SS7 signaling, AAA, mobility management QoS: best effort still ongoing efforts
EDGE: enhanced radio efficiency (adaptive modulation) GERAN: generalized access network, to connect to 3G core networks
3G (UMTS): packet-switched data
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Summary of the Evolution Path (cont’d)
2G (GSM): global digital personal communication system
2G+ (GSM+GPRS): introduction of packet-switched data
3G (UMTS): packet-switched data CDMA-FDD/TDD predominantly data communication focus on services and content all IP transport (3GPP R4): mobile, radio access network, core network SS7 signaling: AAA, mobility management, etc. QoS support seamless service (global roaming) Enhanced packet data perfromance: HSDPA+HSUPA HSPA Common Ip-based service architecture (IMS)
4G: Integration of various radio technologies (satellite, broadcast, cellular, WLAN, BAN)
use of the ‘optimal’ radio link (w.r.t. spectral efficiency, delay, throughput, error rate, emission)
IETF protocols for everything (all IP for transport and control)
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Important Readings
Books: Kaaranen, Ahtiainen, Laitinen, Naghian, Niemi: UMTS Networks – Architecture, Mobility
and Services. 2nd edition, Wiley, 2005 Walke, Althoff, Seidenberg: UMTS – Ein Kurs. J. Schlembach Fachverlag, 2001 Schiller: Mobile Communications (German and English), 2nd ed, Addison-Wesley, 2003 Holma, Toskala: WCDMA for UMTS. 4th edition, Wiley, 2007 Ahonen, Barrett: Services for UMTS: Creating Killer Applications in 3G. Wiley, 2002
Important 3GPP Documents: 21.101 to 21.104: List of standards for Release 3 (R99), 4, 5 and 6, respectively 21.905: UMTS vocabulary and abbreviations 23.002: UMTS network architecture (core network and access network entities) 23.060: GPRS architecture 25.401: UTRAN overview 25.301: Radio link protocols (UTRA) 25.931: UTRAN procedures(all documents are available at www.3gpp.org)