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why Ciphering is done for both user plane and control plane data, why not integrity done for both data in PDCP protocol

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why Ciphering is done for both user plane and control plane data, why not integrity done for both data in PDCP protocol

posted Jun 15, 2019 by Srujan Kumar

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