ETSI TS 138 306 V17.1.0 (2022-08)

5G ; NR; User Equipment (UE) radio access capabilities (3GPP TS 38.306 version 17.1.0 Release 17)

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• Completion Date: 17-Aug-2022

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ETSI TS 138 306 V17.1.0 (2022-08)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
5G;
NR;
User Equipment (UE) radio access capabilities
(3GPP TS 38.306 version 17.1.0 Release 17)

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3GPP TS 38.306 version 17.1.0 Release 17 3 ETSI TS 138 306 V17.1.0 (2022-08)
Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal Notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 References . 7
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations . 8
3.1 Definitions . 8
3.2 Symbols . 8
3.3 Abbreviations . 9
4 UE radio access capability parameters . 9
4.1 Supported max data rate . 9
4.1.1 General . 9
4.1.2 Supported max data rate for DL/UL . 9
4.1.3 Void . 11
4.1.4 Total layer 2 buffer size for DL/UL . 11
4.1.5 Supported max data rate for SL . 11
4.1.6 Total layer 2 buffer size for NR SL . 12
4.2 UE Capability Parameters . 13
4.2.1 Introduction. 13
4.2.2 General parameters . 15
4.2.3 SDAP Parameters . 18
4.2.4 PDCP Parameters . 19
4.2.5 RLC parameters . 22
4.2.6 MAC parameters . 23
4.2.7 Physical layer parameters . 27
4.2.7.1 BandCombinationList parameters . 27
4.2.7.2 BandNR parameters . 34
4.2.7.2a SharedSpectrumChAccessParamsPerBand . 78
4.2.7.2b FR2-2-AccessParamsPerBand . 84
4.2.7.3 CA-ParametersEUTRA . 88
4.2.7.4 CA-ParametersNR . 89
4.2.7.5 FeatureSetDownlink parameters . 107
4.2.7.6 FeatureSetDownlinkPerCC parameters . 114
4.2.7.7 FeatureSetUplink parameters . 119
4.2.7.8 FeatureSetUplinkPerCC parameters . 130
4.2.7.9 MRDC-Parameters . 133
4.2.7.10 Phy-Parameters . 137
4.2.7.11 Other PHY parameters . 151
4.2.7.12 NRDC-Parameters . 154
4.2.7.13 CarrierAggregationVariant . 155
4.2.7.14 Phy-ParametersSharedSpectrumChAccess . 156
4.2.8 Void . 158
4.2.9 MeasAndMobParameters . 159
4.2.9a MeasAndMobParametersMRDC . 169
4.2.10 Inter-RAT parameters . 172
4.2.10.1 Void. 172
4.2.10.2 Void. 172
4.2.11 Void . 172
4.2.12 Void . 172
4.2.13 IMS Parameters . 172
4.2.14 RRC buffer size . 173
4.2.15 IAB Parameters . 173
4.2.15.1 Mandatory IAB-MT features . 173
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4.2.15.2 General Parameters . 179
4.2.15.3 SDAP Parameters . 179
4.2.15.4 PDCP Parameters . 179
4.2.15.5 BAP Parameters . 179
4.2.15.6 MAC Parameters . 180
4.2.15.7 Physical layer parameters . 180
4.2.15.7.1 BandNR parameters . 180
4.2.15.7.2 Phy-Parameters . 181
4.2.15.8 MeasAndMobParameters Parameters . 183
4.2.15.9 MR-DC Parameters . 183
4.2.15.10 NRDC Parameters . 183
4.2.16 Sidelink Parameters . 184
4.2.16.1 Sidelink Parameters in NR . 184
4.2.16.1.1 Sidelink General Parameters . 184
4.2.16.1.2 Sidelink PDCP Parameters . 184
4.2.16.1.3 Sidelink RLC Parameters . 184
4.2.16.1.4 Sidelink MAC Parameters . 185
4.2.16.1.5 Other PHY parameters . 185
4.2.16.1.6 BandSidelink Parameters . 186
4.2.16.1.7 BandCombinationListSidelinkEUTRA-NR Parameter s . 195
4.2.16.2 Sidelink Parameters in E-UTRA . 197
4.2.16.2.1 BandSideLinkEUTRA parameters . 198
4.2.17 SON parameters . 198
4.2.18 UE-based performance measurement parameters . 199
4.2.19 High speed parameters . 200
4.2.20 Application layer measurement parameters . 201
4.2.21 RedCap Parameters . 201
4.2.21.1 Definition of RedCap UE . 201
4.2.21.2 General parameters. 202
4.2.21.3 PDCP parameters . 202
4.2.21.4 RLC parameters . 202
4.2.21.5 MeasAndMobParameters . 202
4.2.21.6 Physical layer parameters . 203
4.2.21.6.1 BandNR parameters . 203
5 Optional features without UE radio access capability parameters . 203
5.1 PWS features . 203
5.2 UE receiver features . 203
5.3 RRC connection . 203
5.4 Other features . 204
5.5 Sidelink Features . 204
5.6 RRM measurement features . 204
5.7 MDT and SON features . 205
5.8 Extended DRX features . 205
5.9 Sidelink Relay Features . 205
5.10 MBS features . 205
6 Conditionally mandatory features without UE radio access capability parameters . 206
7 Void . 206
8 UE Capability Constraints . 206
Annex A (normative): Differentiation of capabilities. 208
A.1: TDD/FDD differentiation of capabilities in TDD-FDD CA . 208
A.2: FR1/FR2 differentiation of capabilities in FR1-FR2 CA . 209
A.3: TDD/FDD differentiation of capabilities for sidelink . 210
A.4: Sidelink capabilities applicable to Uu and PC5 . 211
A.5: General differentiation of capabilities in Cross-Carrier operation . 214
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Annex B (informative): UE capability indication for UE capabilities with both FDD/TDD and
FR1/FR2 differentiations . 216
Annex C (informative): Change history . 218
History . 225

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Foreword
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3GPP TS 38.306 version 17.1.0 Release 17 7 ETSI TS 138 306 V17.1.0 (2022-08)
1 Scope
The present document defines the NR UE Radio Access Capability Parameters.
2 References
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present
document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or
non-specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including
a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same
Release as the present document.
[1] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2] 3GPP TS 38.101-1: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception Part 1: Range 1
Standalone".
[3] 3GPP TS 38.101-2: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception Part 2: Range 2
Standalone".
[4] 3GPP TS 38.101-3: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception Part 3: Range 1
and Range 2 Interworking operation with other radios".
[5] 3GPP TS 38.133: "NR; Requirements for support of radio resource management".
[6] 3GPP TS 38.211: "NR; Physical channels and modulation".
[7] 3GPP TS 37.340: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and NR Multi-
connectivity".
[8] 3GPP TS 38.321: "NR; Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol specification".
[9] 3GPP TS 38.331: "NR; Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol specification".
[10] 3GPP TS 38.212: "NR; Multiplexing and channel coding".
[11] 3GPP TS 38.213: "NR; Physical layer procedures for control".
[12] 3GPP TS 38.214: "NR; Physical layer procedures for data".
[13] 3GPP TS 38.215: "NR; Physical layer measurements".
[14] 3GPP TS 36.101: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) radio transmission and
reception".
[15] 3GPP TS 36.306: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) User Equipment (UE)
radio access capabilities".
[16] 3GPP TS 38.323: "NR; Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification".
[17] 3GPP TS 36.331: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) Radio Resource
Control (RRC); Protocol Specification".
[18] 3GPP TS 38.101-4: "NR; User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception Part 4:
Performance requirements".
[19] 3GPP TS 36.213: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Physical layer
procedures".
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[20] 3GPP TS 25.306: "UE radio access capabilities".
[21] 3GPP TS 38.304: "User Equipment (UE) procedures in Idle mode and RRC Inactive state".
[22] 3GPP TS 37.355: " LTE Positioning Protocol (LPP)".
[23] 3GPP TS 38.340: "NR; Backhaul Adaptation Protocol (BAP) specification".
[24] 3GPP TR 38.822: "NR; User Equipment (UE) feature list".
[25] 3GPP TS 37.324: "E-UTRA and NR; Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) specification"
[26] 3GPP TS 38.314: "NR; Layer 2 Measurements".
[27] 3GPP TS 36.133: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Requirements for
support of radio resource management".
[28] 3GPP TS 38.300: "NR; NR and NG-RAN Overall Description; Stage-2".
[29] 3GPP TS 26.247: "Transparent end-to-end Packet-switched Streaming Service (PSS); Progressive
Download and Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (3GP-DASH)".
[30] 3GPP TS 26.114: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Multimedia Telephony; Media handling and
interaction".
[31] 3GPP TS 26.118: "Virtual Reality (VR) profiles for streaming applications".
[32] 3GPP TS 37.213: "Physical layer procedures for shared spectrum channel access".
[33] 3GPP TS 38.401: "NG-RAN; Architecture description".
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. A
term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905 [1].
Fallback band combination: A Uu band combination that would result from another Uu band combination (parent
band combination) by releasing at least one SCell or uplink configuration of SCell, or SCG, or SUL. A PC5 band
combination that would result from another PC5 band combination (parent band combination) by releasing at least one
sidelink carrier. An intra-band non-contiguous band combination is not considered to be a fallback band combination of
an intra-band contiguous band combination. A fallback band combination supports the same channel bandwidth(s) for
each carrier as its parent band comb
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