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INTRODIUCTION

General Description

This document specifies procedures for Radio Link Protocol Type 3. Radio Link Protocol Type 3 is used with a cdma2000 Traffic Channel to support CDMA data services. For the remainder of this chapter, Radio Link Protocol Type 3 shall be called RLP.

RLP provides an octet stream transport service over forward and reverse traffic channels. RLP is unaware of higher layer framing; it operates on a featureless octet stream, delivering the octets in the order received.

RLP has procedures to substantially reduce the error rate exhibited by CDMA traffic channels. There is no direct relationship between higher layer packets and the underlying traffic channel frames; a large packet may span multiple traffic channel frames, or a single traffic channel frame may contain all or part of several small higher layer packets.

Section 2 is a general description of RLP that defines its use by any service option for which it is suited. Section 3 defines the RLP procedures for encrypted or non-encrypted applications. Section 4 defines the RLP frame formats.