Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP)

Services and Functions

• Transmission and reception of Network PDUs in acknowledged, unacknowledged, and transparent RLC mode
• Mapping of Network PDUs from one network protocol to one RLC entity
• Compression of redundant Network PDU control information (header compression/ decompression, RFC 2507 (TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6))
• Buffering of transmitted PDCP SDUs and associating PDCP SDU Sequence Numbers to guarantee SRNS relocation without information loss