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LTE : Does it mandatory to have default bearer as a non - GBR bearer ?

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LTE : Does it mandatory to have default bearer as a non - GBR bearer ?
posted May 5, 2014 by Ganesh Kumar

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I think, its not.
LTE provides always on-IP connectivity to its users. To met this objective only a non-GBR bearer is sufficient.
However, there is no constraint, a GBR-bearer can also be used as a default bearer at the cost of more radio resource since when for a GBR bearer, eNodeB MAC scheduler need to reserve more resource as compare to non-GBR bearer.

answer May 6, 2014 by Vimal Kumar Mishra
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