Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2+); Mobile-Services Switching Centre - Base Station System (MSC - BSS) Interface; Layer 3 Specification (GSM 08.08 Version 6.4.0 Release 1997)
The present document specifies the layer 3 procedures used on the Base Station System (BSS) to Mobile-services Switching Centre (MSC) interface for control of GSM services. For the purposes of call control and mobility management@ messages are not interpreted at the Base Station System (BSS) which acts as a relay function. These messages and procedures are documened in GSM 04.08@ the only relevant issues covering these messages in the present document are those concerned with error conditions at the interface@ and the headers that are required for the correct addressing of the correct addressing of the messages. This is specified in more detail in GSM 08.06. The functional split between MSC and BSS is defined in GSM 08.02 and states that the BSS is responsible for local radio resource allocation and in order to support this the required procedures between BSS and MSC are defined in detail in the present document. GSM 08.02 also states that the BSS is responsible for the scheduling of all CCCH/BCCH messages and therefore some procedures for providing the BSSwith the necessary information to be passed on these channels for individual calls (i.e. paging) are defined in the present document@ but the scheduling is not discussed. This interface and consequently these layer 3 procedures aredesigned to support BSSs providing one more cells.