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Radio Link Control, RLC, protocol is responsible for data transfer in

unacknowledged, acknowledged or transparent mode. For example, unacknowledged mode


could be used for Voice over IP while acknowledged mode is used to carry TCP-based
traffic. The transparent mode shall be only used to send RRC messages when no RLC
unacknowledged or acknowledged mode entity is set up yet.
Medium Access Control, MAC, layer is responsible for Uplink/Downlink Scheduling,
Link Adaptation, Preamble based Random Access, Mapping between Logical channels to
Transport channels, Error Correction by means of The Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) protocol.
The Physical Layer is responsible for the actual transmission over the radio
interface. It is also responsible for channel coding, Modulation and the mapping
between Transport Channels to Physical Channels.

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