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S1-Flex
Koichiro Kunitomo
Takashi Morita
Radio Access Network Development Department
1. Introduction
Keisuke Suzuki
*1
Tadashi Uchiyama
EV-DO, etc.)[3].
0
0
trol.
*3
*3 Iu Flex: A control system of an area by multiple core nodes in the same area.
*2
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*4
2. S1-Flex
ure 2).
*5
*7
MME
#a
MME controls
all eNodeB in
a Pool Area
MME
#b
MME
#c
MME
#d
eNodeB
eNodeB
Register location
when moving
between Pool Areas
eNodeB
TA#1-1
eNodeB belongs
to multiple MMEs
TA#1-2
TA#1-3
eNodeB
Mobile terminal
TA#1-4
TA#2-1
Pool Area#1
TA#2-2
TA#2-3
TA#2-4
Pool Area#2
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*6 Pool Area: An area with a full-mesh connection among MMEs and eNodeBs. Also called
an MME Pool Area.
MME#a
MME#b
MME#a
MME#b
Service request
(MME Code: #a)
Select MME
by MME Code
eNodeB
Registration request
(MME Code: Unknown)
Registration response
(MME Code: #a)
eNodeB
Service request
(MME Code: #a)
Mobile terminal
Mobile terminal
to be reduced.
mobile terminal.
is increased.
2) Mobile
Increased reliability
3. Registration to
Multiple TAs
On LTE and EPC, multiple TAs
can be allocated within a Pool Area,
Terminal
Location-
Allocated a TA-list
1) Allocation of TA-lists
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TA-list
TA
#a_1
TA#1, TA#2
#a_2
TA#3
#b_1
TA#1
#b_2
TA#2, TA#3
MME
TAU (TA#1)
TAU accept
(TA-list#a_1
(TA#1, TA#2))
#a Group
(TA-list#a_2
(TA#3))
TA#1
TA#2
TAU (TA#1)
#b Group
TAU accept
UE#a
TA#3
TAU (TA#2)
TA accept
TAU accept
(TA-list#b_1
(TA#1))
(TA-list#b_2
(TA#2, TA#3))
UE#b
TA#1
TA#2
TA#3
*9
ly camped.
re-established.
4. IPv6 Support
accept.
*8
3) Paging
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TAU (TA#3)
sup-
address
*12
IPv6 Prefix
to each mobile
terminal. EPC can assign the IPv6 pre(2) Bearer connection response (Interface ID, PCO (DNSv6))
Mobile terminal
EPC
U-Plane tunnel
(5) Generate
global unicast
address
Radius .
link-local address
(6) If launching
DHCPv6 is requested
cast address. How each of these is configured, and how this differs from gen-
Protocol (DHCP)
*15
v6 Notification
*16
*18
(DNS)
allocation.
the EPC.
*17
(PCO)
Notification
5. Conclusion
to the
nal.
2) RA Notification
IPv6 address.
*16 EUI-64: A 64-bit interface identifier created
from a MAC address.
*17 RA: A signal sent from a router to notify terminals within a link of various types of IPv6
information.
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June 2010.
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References
2011.
[5] IETF RFC4862: IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration, 2007.
[6] IETF RFC3736: Stateless Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Service
for IPv6, Dec. 2004.