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Temporary Block Flow (TBF) : Data Units (Pdus) On Packet Data Physical Channels (PDCHS) (Or Timeslots)

Temporary Block Flow (TBF) is a connection established between a mobile station and base station in GPRS networks to enable packet exchange. TBF setup requires time on the random access channel and can adversely affect real-time applications due to delay. TBF is released when all buffered packets are sent, but this can result in frequent reestablishments and increased signaling overhead for some applications like VoIP that regularly transmit voice frames. A TBF is a logical connection that supports unidirectional transfer of data on packet channels, with downlink and uplink TBFs required to transfer data in each direction.

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Temporary Block Flow (TBF) : Data Units (Pdus) On Packet Data Physical Channels (PDCHS) (Or Timeslots)

Temporary Block Flow (TBF) is a connection established between a mobile station and base station in GPRS networks to enable packet exchange. TBF setup requires time on the random access channel and can adversely affect real-time applications due to delay. TBF is released when all buffered packets are sent, but this can result in frequent reestablishments and increased signaling overhead for some applications like VoIP that regularly transmit voice frames. A TBF is a logical connection that supports unidirectional transfer of data on packet channels, with downlink and uplink TBFs required to transfer data in each direction.

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Temporary Block Flow (TBF)

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service in Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM) protocol networks.
Temporary Block Flow (TBF) is a connection established between a Mobile Station (MS) and a Base
Station (BS) to enable packet exchanges between the BS and MS entities in GPRS networks.
The current TBF handling in GPRS is based upon burst traffic models, such as Web surfing and email
transfer.
TBF setup is initiated upon buffering a packet for transmission in the MS.
In GPRS, TBF set-up is performed on a random access channel (RACH) and requires some time.
The TBF set-up delay however adversely affects the performance of some real-time applications such as
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) among other delay sensitive applications.
TBF is released when all buffered packets are de-queued before the arrival of the next packet.
This release mechanism may result in frequent TBF re-establishments and associated delays for some
applications, for example, in VoIP applications, which include a sequence of packets containing voice
frames are regularly separated by an inter-arrival time within a talk spurt illustrated in FIG. 1. Frequent
TBF setup/release events may also unnecessarily increase signaling overhead.
A Temporary Block Flow (TBF) is a logical connection used by two General Packet Radio Service
(GPRS) entities to support the unidirectional transfer of lower layer compatibility (LLC) and protocol
data units (PDUs) on packet data physical channels (PDCHs)(or timeslots).
In a typical GPRS system, the network needs to establish a downlink (DL) TBF to transfer data in the
DL direction and an uplink (UL) TBF to transfer data in the UL direction. TBFs are typically short-lived
and are generally only active during data transfers. i.e. until there are no more RLC (Radio Link
Control) / MAC (Medium Access Control) blocks to be transmitted

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