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A reference configuration of the transmission chain is shown in GSM 05.01. According to this reference configuration, this technical specification specifies the data blocks given to the encryption unit. It includes the specification of encoding, reordering, interleaving and the stealing flag. It does not specify the channel decoding method. The definition is given for each kind of logical channel, starting from the data provided to the channel encoder by the speech coder, the data terminal equipment, or the controller of the MS or BS. The definitions of the logical channel types used in