CPC H04W 80/08 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1642 (2013.01); H04W 12/0431 (2021.01); H04W 36/0011 (2013.01); H04W 36/0022 (2013.01); H04W 36/305 (2018.08); H04W 80/02 (2013.01)] | 12 Claims |
1. An apparatus for a User Equipment (UE), the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry; and
memory, wherein one or more processors of the processing circuitry are configured to:
reorder a group of packet convergence and link control (PCLC) protocol data units (PDUs) based at least partly on PCLC sequence numbers (SNs) of the PCLC PDUs;
after reordering the group of PCLC PDUs, decipher the reordered PCLC PDUs in accordance with decipher keys that are based at least partly on the PCLC SNs; and
generate, based on the reordered, deciphered PCLC PDUs, one or more PCLC service data units (SDUs) for usage by an application layer of the UE,
wherein the PCLC PDUs are received from a PCLC layer of the UE, the PCLC layer comprising a single layer having functionality of both a radio link control (RLC) layer and a Package Data Converge Protocol (PDCP) layer,
wherein the PCLC PDUs are based on medium access control (MAC) PDUs received from a Fifth Generation (5G) Evolved Node-B (eNB), and
wherein when a group of deciphered PCLC PDUs is based on a segmentation, at the 5G eNB, of an outbound PCLC SDU, the processing circuitry is further configured to reassemble the group of deciphered PCLC PDUs as part of the generation of the PCLC SDUs for usage by the application layer of the UE, and
wherein the memory is configured to store the group of PCLC PPDUs.
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