scope:

General

The present document specifies the procedures used at the radio interface (Reference Point GMR-1 Um, see 3GPP TS 24.002 [30]) for Radio Resource management. The Radio Resource Control Protocol (RRC) is specified. RRC is the Radio Resource control plane protocol for Radio Resource management that is used when a mobile station is operating in Iu mode.

Notation "Reserved clause number" is used to indicate which clauses of the specification were moved from this part of the standard to the other part when the present document was split between RAN and CN parts.

When the notations for "further study" or "FS" or "FFS" are present in the present document they mean that the indicated text is not a normative portion of the present document.

These procedures are defined in terms of messages exchanged over the control channels of the radio interface. The control channels are described in GMR-1 04.003 [3].

The structured functions and procedures of this protocol and the relationship with other layers and entities are described in general terms in 3GPP TS 24.007 [17] and GMR-1 3G 24.007 [4].