Overall LTE Architecture

WLAN

AS MTAS

AS

AS

Service Layer

Application Servers IMS Control layer

I-CSCF
MGC P-CSCF S-CSCF

Network & Service management

OSS-RC MM EMA DNS/ENUM

Broadband Wired Access PSTN

DNS/ ENUM

A-SBG
MGW
Rx+

N-SBG

IMS Connectivity layer

Internet
SGi

Gx
GPRS CS Core GWMSC Packet Core MSC 2G/3G

PCRF HSS
S6a Gxa

SWx S6b

AAA

GGSN SGSN

EPC
S6d S4 S3

P-GW
MME S11 S5/S8

S2a S101

S103

CDMA2000 HRPD PDSN (EV-DO)

RNC

User data RTP/UDP GTP/U SIP/UDP or SIP/T GTP-C ISUP S1-AP, X2-AP H.248 Diameter Other

GERAN

UTRAN

Platforms / Concepts
CPP / RBS6000 SWa Juniper/ Redback WPP TSP/NSP or TSP/IS SUN

S-GW
S1-UP S2b

Gxb
WAG/ePDG

S1-CP
E-UTRAN

STa SWn
Untrusted Non-3GPP (WiFi etc)

X2-UP eNodeB

Uu

S2a

X2-CP eNodeB
S2c

Trusted Non-3GPP (WiMAX, CDMA, ADSL)

IS