TIA-707-A-4[E]:2013

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.

Some features require capabilities first available in cdma2000
Release A (see [10]). cdma2000 systems supporting only [1] do not
support the following:

• Radio Configurations greater than 5.

• Multiplex options 0x704 and 0xf20.

• Variable Length Frame Mode (VLF).