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ZXG10-BTS (V2.9) Technical Manual 
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The L3 message is sent in the information frame mode which requires 
the confirmation from the receiver. This mode provides a whole set of 
control mechanism for error recovering and flow control, the 
establishment mechanism and release mechanism for multi-frame 
operations. 
The I frame structure of  is shown in Figure 28. 
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I G U R E  
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I -
F R A M E  
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T R U C T U R E   O F  
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Address
Control
Information
SAPI
N(S)
N(R)
 
 
The I-frame in LapDm is made up of the address field, control field and 
information field. 
The address field contains the SAPI (Service Access Point Identifier). At 
the radio interface, LapDm supports two kinds of information: 
Signaling and short message service. These two kinds of information 
links are distinguished by the SAPI.SAPI=0 represents the signaling 
link, and SAPI=3 represents the short message link. 
In the LapDm frame, the maximum length of the information on all the 
TCHs is 23 bytes, and that on the SACCH is 21 bytes. This difference is 
because each SACCH block has two special bytes: Time advance 
amount and transmitting power control. Since the maximal length of 
the frame on the radio interface is of 21 or 23 bytes which cannot 
meet the need of most signaling, segmentation and regrouping  need 
to be defined in LapDm. Thus an “additional” bit is used to distinguish 
the last packet frame from other frames. Thanks to this mechanism, 
there will be no restriction to fix the packet length on the radio path, 
with the only exception that these messages must be transmitted on 
other interfaces, namely, 260 bytes mentioned in the radio interface 
specification. 
In the control field, N (S) represents the sending serial number and the 
I frame’s serial number currently sent by the sending end; N (R) 
represents the receiving serial number, the expected sending serial 
number of the next I frame. N (R) is used to predict the instruction 
from the receiving end. 
2.  UI frame operation 
The L3 message is sent in the no-serial-number frame mode, and the 
receiver is not required to send the received confirmation after 
receiving the UI frame. This operation mode does not provide a flow 
control or error recovering mechanism. 
The UI frame structure of  is shown in Figure 29: