GPRS Family

BCC
3G TS 24.069 version 3.1.0

The Broadcast Call Control (BCC) protocol is used by the Voice Group Call Service (VGCS) on
the radio interface. It is one of the Connection Management (CM) sublayer protocols (see GSM
04.07).
Generally a number of mobiles stations (MS) participate in a broadcast call. Consequently,
there is generally more than one MS with a BCC entity engaged in the same broadcast call,
and there is one BCC entity in the network engaged in that broadcast call.
The MS ignores BCC messages sent in unacknowledged mode and which specify as
destination a mobile identity which is not a mobile identity of that MS. Higher layers and the MM
sub-layer decide when to accept parallel BCC transactions and when/whether to accept BCC
transactions in parallel to other CM transactions.
The broadcast call may be initiated by a mobile user or by a dispatcher. The originator of the
BCC transaction chooses the Transaction Identifier (TI).
The call control entities are described as communicating finite state machines which exchange
messages across the radio interface and communicate internally with other protocol
(sub)layers. In particular, the BCC protocol uses the MM and RR sublayer specified in GSM
04.08. The network should apply supervisory functions to verify that the BCC procedures are
progressing and if not, take appropriate means to resolve the problems.
The elementary procedures in the BCC include:

Broadcast call establishment procedures,

Broadcast call termination procedures

Broadcast call information phase procedures

Various miscellaneous procedures.

All messages have the following header:

8

Transaction identifier

Octet

Protocol discriminator

Message type

Information elements

3-n

BCC beader structure

Protocol discriminator
The protocol discriminator specifies the message being transferred

Transaction identifier
Distinguishes multiple parallel activities (transactions) within one mobile station. The format of
the transaction identifier is as follows:
8

TI flag

TI value
Transaction identifier

TI flag
Identifies who allocated the TI value for this transaction. The purpose of the TI flag is to resolve