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How UE connected with eNB in 5G. Does UE connected to gNB CU or gNB DU?

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How UE connected to gNB in 5G. gNB split into 2 parts, gNB CU and gNB DU. So to which part UE will connect to?

posted Jun 18, 2019 by anonymous

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gNB DU is the one deployed close or along with the Radio Unit. UEs always interfaced with Radio Unit through air interface and Radio Units are connected gNB DU.

DU as name suggests is distributed units, there could be more than one distributed units deployed and they talk to Central Unit(CU).
CU and DU communicate using and interface called F1.

answer Aug 19, 2020 by anonymous
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How gNB connected to 5G core network. GNB split into 2 parts. gNB CU and gNB DU, so which part will connected to 5G core network?

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