Table of Contents


Part1: Introduction and Background
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Principles of WCDMA

Part2: UMTS Network Architecture and Protocols
Chapter 3: UMTS Network Architecture
Chapter 4: User Equipment
Chapter 5: Access Network
Chapter 6: Core Network

Part 3: Procedures in UMTS Network
Chapter 7: Radio Resource Control Procedures
Chapter 8: UTRAN Signaling Procedures
Chapter 9: Mobility Management
Chapter 10: Call Handling
Chapter 11: Session Management
Chapter 12: Supplementary Services
Chapter 13: Value-added Services
Chapter 14: Security Management

Part4: IP Initiatives in UMTS Network
Chapter 15: IP Based Signaling Transport
Chapter 16: IP Multimedia Subsystem

Appendices
Appendix A: Deployment of 3G Networks
Appendix B: 4G Mobile Networks
 
 

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PART I—INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

1. Introduction

1.1        Introduction
1.2        Second Generation Mobile Networks
1.2.1     Limitations of 2G Networks
1.3        Generation Mobile Networks
1.4        International Mobile Telecommunication-2000 (Imt-2000)
1.5        Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP)
1.5.1     Interaction of 3GPP with other bodies
1.5.2     Objective of 3GPP
1.5.3     3GPP Technical Specifications Group (TSG)
1.5.4     Stages of 3GPP Specifications
1.5.5     Series of 3GPP Specifications
1.5.6     Version Numbering of 3GPP Specifications
1.5.7     Releases of 3GPP Specifications
1.5.8     Evolution towards 3GPP Networks
Summary

2. Principles Of WCDMA

2.1        Introduction
2.2        Requirements for third Generation Air Interface
2.3        Schemes for Radio Access
2.4        WCDMA Overview
2.4.1     Direct-Sequence CDMA
2.4.2     Wideband
2.4.3     Synchronization Aspects
2.4.4     Modes of Operation
2.5        Spreading and De-spreading
2.5.1     Autocorrelation and Cross Correlation
2.5.2     Benefits of Spreading
2.6        Scrambling
2.7        Rake Receiver
2.7.1     Bearer Services
2.7.2     Other Bearer Service
2.7.3     Teleservices
2.7.4     Supplementary Services
2.7.5     Other Services
2.7.6     Toolkits
2.8        Multipath Diversity and Macrodiversity
2.9        Power Control Mechanisms
2.9.1     Conversational Class
2.9.2     Streaming Class
2.9.3     Interactive Class
2.9.4     Background Class
2.10      Soft and Softer Handover
2.11      SRNS Relocation
Summary

PART II—UMTS NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND PROTOCOLS

3. UMTS Network Architecture

3.1        Introduction
3.2        Basic Structure of UMTS Network
3.2.1     User Equipment (UE)
3.2.2     Access Network (AN)
3.2.3     Core Network (CN)
3.3        Access Stratum and Non-access Stratum
3.3.1     Access Stratum (AS)
3.3.2     Non-Access Stratum (NAS)
3.4        Hierarchical Network Organization
3.4.1     Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)
3.4.2     Location Area (LA)
3.4.3     Routing Area (RA)
3.4.4     UTRAN Registration Area (URA)
3.4.5     Cell Global Identity (CGI)
3.5        Addresses and Identifiers
3.5.1     Subscriber Identity
3.5.2     Service Identity
3.5.3     Temporary Identities
3.5.4     PDP Address
3.5.5     Equipment Identity
3.5.6     Location Number
3.5.7     Identifying Network Entities
3.6        Service Aspects
3.7        Service Classification
3.8        Quality of Service (QoS) Architecture
3.9        UMTS QOS Classes
Summary

4. User Equipment

4.1        Introduction
4.2        Components of User Equipment
4.2.1     Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC)
4.2.2     Mobile Equipment (ME)
4.2.3     User Equipment Combination
4.3        Interfaces of User Equipment
4.3.1     External Interfaces
4.3.2     Internal Interfaces
4.4        UE Functions
4.4.1     Mobile Termination Functions
4.4.2     Terminal Equipment Functions
4.4.3     Terminal Adaptation Functions
4.4.4     USIM Functions
4.5        UE Protocols
4.6        Classification of UE
Summary

5. Access Network

5.1        Introduction
5.5.1     Access Stratum Protocols
5.5.2     Non-Access Stratum Protocols
5.2        Access Network Entities
5.2.1     Base Station Sub-system (BSS)
5.2.2     Radio Network Subsystem (RNS)
5.3        Network Interfaces
5.3.1     Abis Interface between BSC and BTS
5.3.2     Iub Interface between RNC and Node B
5.3.3     Iur Interface between RNCs
5.3.4     A Interface between MSC/VLR and BSS
5.3.5     Gb Interface between SGSN and BSS
5.3.6     Iu Interface between CN and RNS
5.4        Radio Interface Protocol Architecture
5.5        UTRAN Protocol Architecture
5.5.1     Iu_CS Protocol Architecture
5.5.2     Iu_PS Protocol Architecture
5.5.3     Iur Protocol Architecture
5.5.4     Iub Protocol Architecture
5.5.5     Iu_BC Protocol Architecture
5.6        Functions
5.6.1     Transfer of User Data
5.6.2     System Access Control
5.6.3     Security Functions
5.6.4     Mobility Management
5.6.5     Radio Resource Management
5.6.6     Broadcast and Multicast services
5.6.7     Other Functions
5.7        Radio Interface Protocols
5.7.1     Physical Layer
5.7.2     Medium Access Control (MAC)
5.7.3     Radio Link Control (RLC)
5.7.4     Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP)
5.7.5     Broadcast/Multicast Control (BMC)
5.7.6     Radio Resource Control (RRC)
5.8        ATM-based Transport Network Protocols
5.8.1     Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
5.8.2     ATM Adaptation Layer 2 (AAL2)
5.8.3     ATM Adaptation Layer 5 (AAL5)
5.8.4     Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP)
5.8.5     Service-Specific Co-ordination Function for NNI (SSCF-NNI)
5.8.6     Service-Specific Co-ordination Function for UNI (SSCF-UNI)
5.8.7     Message Transfer Part 3 for Broadband (MTP3b)
5.8.8     Signaling Transport Converter (STC)
5.8.9     AAL2 Signaling
5.9        Application Layer Protocols
5.9.1     Radio Access Network Application Part (RANAP)
5.9.2     Radio Network Sub-system Application Part (RNSAP)
5.9.3     NBAP
5.9.4     Service Area Broadcast Protocol (SABP)
5.9.5     Iu User Plane (UP) Protocol
5.9.6     Framing Protocols for Iub and Iur Interface
Summary

6. Core Network

6.1        Introduction
6.2        Entities Common to CS and PS Domain
6.2.1     Home Location Register (HLR)
6.2.2     Authentication Center (AuC)
6.2.3     Equipment Identity Register (EIR)
6.2.4     Short Message Service (SMS) entities
6.3        Entities Specific to the CS Domain
6.3.1     Visitor Location Register (VLR)
6.3.2     Mobile Switching Center (MSC)
6.3.3     Gateway Mobile Switching Center (GMSC)
6.4        Entities Specific to the PS Domain
6.4.1     Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
6.4.2     Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN)
6.4.3     Border Gateway (BG)
6.5        Service-specific Entities of the Core Network
6.5.1     Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC)
6.5.2     CAMEL Entities
6.5.3     Cell Broadcast Center (CBC)
6.6        Network Interfaces of CS Domain
6.6.1     B Interface between MSC and VLR
6.6.2     C Interface between GMSC and HLR
6.6.3     D Interface between VLR and HLR
6.6.4     E Interface between MSC and MSC
6.6.5     F Interface between MSC and EIR
6.6.6     G Interface between VLR and VLR
6.6.7     Nb/Nc Interface between MSC and GMSC
6.6.8     Interface between VLR and SMS-MSC
6.7        Interfaces of PS Domain
6.7.1     Gn/Gp Interface between two GSNs
6.7.2     Gi Interface between GGSN and PDN
6.7.3     Gr Interface between SGSN and HLR
6.7.4     Gs Interface between SGSN and MSC/VLR
6.7.5     Gf Interface between SGSN and EIR
6.7.6     Gc Interface between GGSN and HLR
6.7.7     Gd Interface between SGSN and SMS-MSC
6.8        CS Domain Protocol Architecture
6.8.1     User Plane
6.8.2     Control Plane
6.9        PS Domain Protocol Architecture
6.9.1     User Plane
6.9.2     Control Plane
6.10      Core Network Functions
6.10.1    Mobility Management
6.10.2    Call Handling
6.10.3    Session Management
6.10.4    Supplementary Services
6.10.5    Short Message Service
6.10.6    Security Functions
6.11       Subscriber Data
6.12       SS7 Protocols
6.12.1    Message Transfer Part (MTP)
6.12.2    Signaling Connection Control Part (SCCP)
6.12.3    ISDN User Part (ISUP)
6.13       Application Protocols
6.13.1    Transaction Capabilities (TCAP)
6.13.2    Mobile application part (MAP)
6.13.3    NAS Signaling
6.13.4    GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP)
6.13.5    Base Station Sub-system Application Part + (BSSAP+)
Summary

PART III—PROCEDURES IN UMTS NETWORK

7. Radio Resource Control Procedures

7.1        Introduction
7.2        RRC Protocol States
7.3        RRC Connection Management Procedures
7.3.1     Broadcast of System Information
7.3.2     Paging
7.3.3     UE Dedicated Paging
7.3.4     RRC Connection Establishment
7.3.5     RRC Connection Release
7.3.6     Signaling Connection Release Procedure
7.3.7     Transmission of UE Capability Information
7.3.8     Direct Transfer of NAS Messages
7.3.9     Security Functions
7.4        Radio Bearer Control Procedures
7.4.1     Radio Bearer Establishment
7.4.2     Radio Bearer Reconfiguration
7.4.3     Radio Bearer Release
7.4.4     Transport Channel Reconfiguration
7.4.5     Physical Channel Reconfiguration
7.5        RRC Connection Mobility Procedures
7.5.1     Cell Update Procedure
7.5.2     UTRN Registration Area (URA) Update Procedure
7.5.3     UTRAN Mobility Information
7.5.4     Soft Handover and Active Set Update
7.5.5     Hard Handover
7.5.6     Inter-system Handover
7.6        Measurement Procedures
7.6.1     Measurement Control
7.6.2     Measurement Report
Summary

8. UTRAN Signaling Procedures

8.1        Introduction
8.2.1     System Information Broadcasting
8.2.2     Service Area Broadcast
8.2        UTRAN Global Signaling Procedures
8.3        UTRAN Signaling Procedures for a Specific UE
8.3.1     Paging
8.3.2     NAS Signaling Connection Establishment
8.3.3     RRC Connection Establishment
8.3.4     RRC Connection Release
8.3.5     Radio Access Bearer Establishment
8.3.6     Radio Access Bearer Release
8.3.7     Physical Channel Reconfiguration
8.3.8     Transport Channel Reconfiguration
8.3.9     Soft Handover
8.3.10   SRNC Relocation
8.3.11   Cell Update
8.3.12   URA Update
8.3.13   Direct Transfer
Summary

9. Mobility Management

9.1        Introduction
9.2        State Model for Mobility Management
9.3        Hierarchical Management of Location Information
9.4        Paging
9.5        MM/GMM Procedures Overview
9.6        MM Procedures in the Mobile Station
9.6.1     MS ‘Idle Mode’ Procedures
9.6.2     MS ‘Connected Mode’ Procedures
9.7        MM Procedures in the Access Network
9.8        MM Procedures in the Core Network
9.8.1     MM Procedures in CS Domain
9.8.2     MM Procedures in PS Domain
9.8.3     Super-Charger Functionality
Summary

10. Call Handling

10.1         Introduction
10.2        Architecture of MO and MT Calls
10.2.1     Architecture of Mobile-Originated Call
10.2.2     Architecture of Mobile-Terminated Call
10.2.3     Architecture of a Basic Mobile-to-Mobile Call
10.3        Mobile-originated Call Handling
10.4        Mobile-terminated Call Handling
10.4.1     Retrieval of Routing Information
10.4.2     MT Call Handling at VPLMN
10.5        Interaction of CF and CB Services With Call Handling Procedures
10.5.1     Interaction of CF and CB Services with MT Calls
10.5.2     Interaction of CB Service with MO Calls
10.6        Support for Optimal Routing
10.6.1     Conditions for Optimal Routing
10.6.2     Information Flows for Optimal Routing
10.7        Immediate Service Termination (IST)
10.7.1     IST Alert Service
10.7.2     IST Command Service
Summary

11. Session Management

11.1        Introduction
11.2.1     Addressing
11.2.2     PDP Context Activation and Deactivation
11.2.3     Packet Routing
11.2.4     Encapsulation and Tunneling
11.2.5     Packet Filtering
11.2        Session Management Concepts
11.3        PDP Protocol States
11.4        PDP Context Activation Procedures
11.4.1     PDP Context Activation Procedure
11.4.2     Secondary PDP Context Activation Procedure
11.4.3     Network-requested PDP Context Activation Procedure
11.5        PDP Context Modification Procedures
11.5.1     MS-Initiated PDP Context Modification Procedure
11.5.2     SGSN-Initiated PDP Context Modification Procedure
11.5.3     Other PDP Context Modification Procedures
11.6        PDP Context Deactivation Procedures
11.6.1     MS-Initiated PDP Context Deactivation Procedure
11.6.2     SGSN-Initiated PDP Context Deactivation Procedure
11.6.3    Other PDP Context Deactivation Procedure
Summary

12. Supplementary Services

12.1        Introduction
12.2        Supplementary Service Concepts
12.2.1     Association with Basic Services
12.2.2     SS Operations
12.2.3     SS State Information
12.3        Call Independent SS Management
12.3.1     Call Independent SS Management Procedures
12.3.2     Man-Machine Interface for SS Management
12.4        Supplementary Services in UMTS
12.4.1     Enhanced Multilevel Precedence and Pre-emption (eMLPP)
12.4.2     Call Deflection (CD)
12.4.3     Line Identification
12.4.4     Call Forwarding (CF)
12.4.5     Call Barring
12.4.6     Call Waiting (CW) and Call Hold (CH)
12.4.7     Multiparty
12.4.8     Closed User Group (CUG)
12.4.9     Advice of Charge (AoC)
12.4.10   User-to-User Signaling (UUS)
12.4.11   Explicit Call Transfer (ECT)
12.4.12   Multi-Call (MC)
12.4.13   Other Supplementary Services
12.5        Unstructured Supplementary Service Data
12.5.1     USSD Architecture
12.5.2     USSD Message Flows
Summary

13. Value-added Services

13.1        Introduction
13.2.1     SMS Network Architecture
13.2.2     Mobile-Originated SMS Procedures
13.2.3     Mobile-Terminated SMS Procedures
13.2        Short Message Service
13.3        Cell Broadcast Service
13.3.1     CBS Network Architecture
13.3.2     CBS Message Transfer Procedures
13.4        Multimedia Messaging Service
13.4.1     MMS Reference Architecture
13.4.2     MMS Protocol Framework
13.4.3     MMS Message Transfer Procedures
13.5        Location Services
13.5.1     LCS Logical Reference Model
13.5.2     LCS Control Procedures
13.5.3     LCS Network Architecture
13.5.4    Mechanisms for Determination of Location Information
13.5.5    Location-based Services
13.6       Service Capability Features
13.6.1    SCF Types
13.6.2    SCF Toolkits
Summary

14. Security Management

14.1        Introduction
14.2        User Domain Security
14.3        Network Access Security
14.3.1     Mutual Authentication
14.3.2     Data Confidentiality
14.3.3     Data Integrity
14.3.4     User Identity Confidentiality
14.3.5     Access Security Flow Diagram
14.4        Network Domain Security Using MAPsec
14.4.1     Protection Modes and Message Formats
14.4.2     Components of MAPsec Protocol
14.4.3     Operations of MAPsec
14.4.4     Key Distribution in MAPsec
14.5        Network Domain Security Using IP Security
14.5.1     Architecture for NDS/IP
14.5.2     Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
14.5.3     Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
Summary

PART IV—IP INITIATIVES IN UMTS NETWORK

15. IP-based Signaling Transport

15.1        Introduction
15.2.1     Requirements
15.2.2     SIGTRAN Protocol Layering
15.2        IP-based Signaling Transport From Sigtran
15.3        Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
15.3.1     Functions of SCTP
15.4        SS7 MTP3 User Adaptation Layer (M3UA)
15.4.1     Functions of M3UA
15.4.2     Scenarios for Deployment of M3UA in UMTS Network
15.5        SCCP User Adaptation Layer (SUA)
15.5.1     Functions of SUA
15.5.2     Scenarios for Deployment of SUA in UMTS Network
15.6        Comparison Between M3UA and SUA
Summary

16. IP Multimedia Subsystem

16.1        Introduction
16.2        Entities of IP Multimedia Subsystem
16.2.1     Home Subscriber Server (HSS)
16.2.2     Call Session Control Function (CSCF)
16.2.3     Server Locator Function (SLF)
16.2.4     Application Server (AS)
16.2.5     Entities used for Interworking
16.2.6     Signaling Gateway Function (SGW)
16.3        Network Interfaces of IP Multimedia Subsystem
16.3.1     Cx Interface between HSS – CSCF
16.3.2     Dx Interface between CSCF and SLF
16.3.3     Sh Interface between HSS and AS
16.3.4     Si interface between HSS – CAMEL
16.3.5     ISC Interface between S-CSCF and AS
16.3.6     Gm Interface between UE and CSCF
16.3.7     Mc Interface between MGCF and MGW
16.3.8     Mg Interface between MGCF and S-CSCF
16.3.9     Mw Interface between x-CSCF and y-CSCF
16.3.10   Mi Interface between S-CSCF and BGCF
16.3.11   Mj Interface between BGCF and MGCF
16.3.12   Mk Interface between BGCF and BGCF
16.4        IMS Addressing
16.4.1     IMS Private User Identity (IMPI)
16.4.2     IMS Public User Identity (IMPU)
16.4.3     Relationship of IMPI and IMPU
16.5        Subscriber Data
16.6        Session-unrelated Procedures
16.6.1     Establishing IMS Transport
16.6.2     Registration
16.6.3     De-registration
16.6.4     Profile Update
16.7        Session-related Procedures
16.7.1     Service Control
16.7.2     Session Origination
16.7.3     Interworking Procedure
16.7.4     Session Termination
16.8        IMS Protocols
16.8.1     Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
16.8.2     Diameter
16.9        Security in IP Multimedia Subsystem
16.9.1     Access Security
Summary

APPENDICES

A. Deployment of 3G UMTS Network

A.1        Japan
A.2        UK
A.3        Italy
Summary

B. 4G Mobile Networks

B.1        Why 4G?
B.2        What Is 4G?
B.3        How To Achieve 4G?
B.4        When Should We Expect 4G?

I Specifications

II Books And Papers

III Web Resources

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