UMTS Fundamentals

UMTS Network Architecture

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UMTS Network

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UMTS Release 99 Core Network

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Node B

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RNC Radio Network Controller

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UE User Equipment

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Number Translation Services

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Alternative Billing and Charging

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Personal Services

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 HLR & AuC

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Equipment Identity Register

• Storing IMEIs
(counterpart: ME)
on White / Gray / Black List
CS Domain • Performing IMEI Check
MSC / on VLR / SGSN request
• optional network function
VLR

F
EIR
Gf

SGSN
International Mobile station
Equipment Identity (IMEI)
PS Domain

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SMS-GMSC & SMS-IWMSC

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Visitor Location Register VLR

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Transcoding & InterWorking Function

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UMTS CN Release 4 CS Domain

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CAMEL Service Environment

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UMTS Release 5

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Rising demand for IMS/SIP based Session Control

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Reference Standard

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UMTS Release 5 IMS & PS Domain

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IMS 5.0 Solution Overview

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IMS - Key Component Architecture

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High Speed Downlink Packet Access

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UMTS Release 6 Features

• IMS Services
• MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service)
• WLAN interworking
– use WLAN as access network for IMS instead of PS Domain
• MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Ouput)
– Multiple antennas in UE and Node B / spacial multiplexing
and many more…

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UTMS Rel 6: IMS Services

IMS Messaging
• SIP-based messaging
• Interworks with Presence Service
Multiparty-multimedia conferencing Service in IMS
Push-to-talk
Location-based services in IMS

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UTMS Rel 6: Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast
Service (MBMS)
Application server submits multicast / broadcast data via Gi interface
• May be BMSC (Broadcast Multicast Service Center), or e.g. MRF
• Multicast effective especially on air interface
Control channel via Gmb interface
• Authorisation, sending encryption keys,…
• Network resource configuration
In multicast mode, data is transmitted only to cells with UEs that joined the service

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UTMS Rel 6: WLAN Interworking 1/2

• Architecture for supporting authentication, authorization and charging for scenarios1 and 2
• AAA Server is an IETF-standardized entity doing “authentication, authorization, accounting”
• AAA Server receives data from HSS / HLR
• WLAN UEs
– multihomed with WLAN and 3GPP access capability
– Contain USIM
• USIM in WLAN UE allows using 3GPP subscription

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UTMS Rel 6: WLAN Interworking 2/2
Architecture for supporting access to 3GPP
packetswitched services for scenarios 3

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The way: Macro-Level Network Architecture in 2012

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LTE System Architecture Evolution

GERAN Gb

SGSN GPRS Core PCRF

Iu

UTRAN Rx+
S7

S3 S4
S6 HSS
Op.
S5a S5b IP

S1 MME SGi Serv.

3GPP SAE
Evolved RAN
UPE Anchor Anchor (IMS,
PSS,
S2b WLAN
IASA
3GPP IP etc…)
S2a ePDG Access
Evolved Packet
Core

WLAN
Access NW
Trusted non 3GPP IP
Access

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