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Who does radio bearer mapping during UTRAN to E-UTRAN handover where source RNC is pre-release 8

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Who does radio bearer mapping during UTRAN to E-UTRAN handover where source RNC is pre-release 8 ? From the spec what I can see is if the source RNC is pre release 8, then it sends Source RNC to Target RNC transperant container (which I believe carries all the radio bearer related information). The EPC will transperantly forward it to the Target enodeB. Does the target EnodeB do the mapping from RNC container for the radio bearer in the new RAT ?

posted Dec 28, 2015 by anonymous

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could you let us know the spec and secton please ?
commented Dec 28, 2015 by anonymous
TS 23401: rel 9f0 sec 5.5.2.2.2 Also checked in rel 13 ver d50. It says "relocation required" message contains Source RNC to Target RNC transparent container.

TS 25413 ver 7a0 section 8.6.2 about "relocation required" message does not mentioned anything about handover to E-UTRAN.

However TS 25413 Ver 9a0 sec 8.6.2. or any release 8 ver, do mention about sending Source eNB to Target eNB Transparent container.
commented Dec 30, 2015 by Jyoti Prasad

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