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LTE: What is the use of shortMAC-I comes in rrc re-establishment request message ?

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LTE: What is the use of shortMAC-I comes in rrc re-establishment request message ?
posted Dec 11, 2013 by Harshita

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shortMAC-I is used for integrity of RRC re-establishment request message. Since this message comes over SRB0 which is nothing but CCCH channel. We know CCCH channel doesn't impose any security related stuff. One more thing I would like to mention, rrc re-establishment message comes only after AS security has been activated. It means somehow we need to make sure that rrc re-establishment request message is a valid message.

answer Dec 11, 2013 by Vimal Kumar Mishra
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