Rte_security is being updated to support the PDCP protocol. PDCP handles functions like ciphering, integrity protection, header compression for LTE radio protocol stacks. The rte_security API will be enhanced to allow creation of PDCP security sessions through rte_security_session_create. This will configure PDCP specific parameters like bearer ID, sequence number size. Hardware offloading of PDCP lookaside processing for control and data planes will also be supported.