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