Content for TS 23.002 Word version: 18.0.0
0 Introduction p. 12
This document presents the possible architectures of the 3GPP System covering both UTRAN and GERAN radio access technologies. In addition, this document also includes the Evolved Packet System providing support for E-UTRAN radio access technology in addition to UTRAN and GERAN radio access technologies. As well as providing support for E-UTRAN, UTRAN and GERAN radio access technologies, the Evolved Packet System also provides support for non-3GPP access technologies making it possible for these technologies to interwork with the 3GPP specified Evolved Packet Core network. The configuration of non-3GPP access networks using EPS is not within the scope of 3GPP specification.
This document also presents the architecture for the IP Multimedia Subsystem common to 3GPP and other access systems such as Fixed Broadband and those specified by 3GPP2 and provide architecture for interworking and session continuity between IMS and Circuit Switched systems.
Clause 3 of the document contains the definition of the PLMN entities.
Clause 4 of the document contains the description of the basic entities of the PLMN, and Clause 4a contains the description of the specific entities of the PLMN.
Clause 5 of the document contains the configuration of the PLMN.
Clause 6, Clause 6a and Clause 7 of the document contain the PLMN's basic and specific interfaces and reference points and the PLMN's interfaces towards other networks.
1 Scope p. 13
This document offers an overview of the 3GPP PLMN and its architectures and configuration. The configuration and the functional entities of the PLMN and the interfaces between them are described on a general level in order to cope with possible implementations. These descriptions include interfaces between and within the core networks, the access networks, the user equipment, different service platforms, different domains and subsystems, and functional entities within domains and subsystems.
This document covers different architectural aspects with varying level of detail. In general, other specifications shall be referred to for further details; these specifications enable the reader to acquire the full understanding of a system or service feature.
Note that this document does not cover, or even list, all features of PLMNs.
2 References p. 13
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1] Void.
[1a]
TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2]
TS 22.016: "International Mobile station Equipment Identities (IMEI)".
[2a]
TS 22.060: "General Packet radio Service (GPRS); Service description; Stage 1".
[2b]
TS 22.071: "Location Services (LCS); Service description; Stage 1".
[2c]
TS 22.078: "Customised Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL); Service description, Stage 1".
[3]
TS 23.003: " Numbering, addressing and identification".
[4]
TS 22.127: "Open Service Access (OSA)".
[5]
TS 23.008: "Organization of subscriber data".
[6]
TS 23.009: "Handover procedures".
[7]
TS 23.012: "Location Management Procedures".
[8]
TS 23.041: "Technical realization of Cell Broadcast Service (CBS)".
[9] Void.
[9a]
TS 23.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Service description; Stage 2".
[10] Void.
[10a]
TS 43.064: "Digital cellular telecommunication system (Phase 2+); General Packet Radio service (GPRS); Overall description of the GPRS radio interface; Stage 2".
[10b]
TS 25.305: "Stage 2 Functional Specification of UE Positioning in UTRAN".
[10c]
TS 23.078: "Customised Applications for Mobile network Enhanced Logic (CAMEL) Phase 3 - Stage 2".
[10d]
TS 43.059: "Functional Stage 2 Description of Location Services in GERAN".
[11]
ITU-T Recommendation Q.1214 (05/1995): "Distributed Functional Plane for Intelligent Network CS 1".
[11a]
TS 23.101: "General UMTS Architecture".
[11b]
TS 23.110: "UMTS Access Stratum); Services and Functions".
[12]
TS 24.002: "GSM - UMTS Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) access reference configuration".
[13]
TS 48.001: "Base Station System - Mobile-services Switching Centre (BSS - MSC) interface; General aspects".
[14]
TS 48.002: "Base Station System - Mobile-services Switching Centre (BSS - MSC) interface; Interface principles".
[14a]
TS 25.410: "UTRAN Iu Interface: general aspects and principles".
[15]
TS 48.004: "Base Station System - Mobile-services Switching Centre (BSS - MSC) interface Layer 1 specification".
[16]
TS 48.006: "Signalling transport mechanism specification for the Base Station System - Mobile-services Switching Centre (BSS - MSC) interface".
[17]
TS 48.008: "Mobile-services Switching Centre - Base Station System (MSC - BSS) interface; Layer 3 specification".
[18] Void.
[19]
TS 48.051: "Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; General aspects".
[20]
TS 48.052: "Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Interface principles".
[21]
TS 48.054: "Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Layer 1 structure of physical circuits".
[22]
TS 48.056: "Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Layer 2 specification".
[23]
TS 48.058: "Base Station Controller - Base Transceiver Station (BSC - BTS) interface; Layer 3 specification".
[24]
TS 48.060: "In-band control of remote transcoders and rate adaptors for full rate traffic channels".
[25]
TS 48.061: "In-band control of remote transcoders and rate adaptors for half rate traffic channels".
[26]
TS 29.002: "Mobile Application Part (MAP) specification".
[27]
TS 22.228: "Service requirements for the IP Multimedia Core Network Subsystem".
[28]
TS 23.207: "End-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) concept and architecture".
[29] Void.
[30] Void.
[31]
TS 29.007: "General requirements on interworking between the Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) or Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)".
[32]
TS 29.010: "Information element mapping between Mobile Station - Base Station System (MS - BSS) and Base Station System Mobile-services Switching Centre (BSS - MSC); Signalling procedures and the Mobile Application Part (MAP)".
[33]
TS 29.011: "Signalling interworking for supplementary services".
[34]
TS 23.228: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Stage 2".
[35]
[36]
TS 43.051: "Technical Specification Group GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network; Overall description, Stage 2".
[37]
TS 23.226: "Global Text Telephony (GTT); Stage 2".
[38]
TS 26.226: "Cellular Text Telephone Modem; General Description".
[39]
TS 23.016: "Subscriber data management; Stage 2".
[40]
TS 23.066: "Support of Mobile Number Portability (MNP); Technical realization; Stage 2".
[41]
TS 43.068: "Voice Group Call Service (VGCS); Stage 2".
[42]
TS 43.069: "Voice Broadcast Service (VBS); Stage 2".
[43]
TS 23.205: "Bearer independent circuit switched core network; Stage 2".
[44]
TS 48.014: "Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) interface; Gb interface Layer 1".
[45]
TS 48.016: "Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) interface; Network service".
[46]
TS 48.018: "Base Station System (BSS) - Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN); BSS GPRS Protocol (BSSGP)".
[47]
TS 48.031: "Serving Mobile Location Centre - Serving Mobile Location Centre (SMLC -SMLC); SMLCPP specification".
[48]
TS 29.016: "Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) - Visitor Location Register (VLR); Gs interface network service specification".
[49]
TS 29.018: "Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) - Visitor Location Register (VLR); Gs interface Layer 3 specification".
[50]
TS 49.031: "Network Location Services (LCS); Base Station System Application Part LCS extension (BSSAP-LE)".
[51]
TS 29.060: "GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP) across the Gn and Gp Interface".
[52]
ITU-T Recommendation H.248: "Gateway Control Protocol".
[53]
ITU-T Recommendation E.164: "The International public telecommunication numbering plan".
[54]
ITU-T Recommendation H.323: "Packet-based multimedia communications systems".
[55]
TS 44.071: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 Location Services (LCS) specification".
[56]
TS 23.271: "Functional stage 2 description of LCS".
[57]
ITU-T Recommendation I.363-2 :"B-ISDN ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL) type 2 specification".
[58]
ITU-T Recommendation H.245: "Control protocol for multimedia communication".
[59]
RFC 768: "User Datagram Protocol".
[60]
RFC 1889: "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications".
[61]
RFC 3261: "SIP: Session Initiation Protocol".
[62]
OMA MLP TS: "Mobile Location Protocol", [http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ ].
[63]
TS 29.198: "Open Service Access (OSA) Application Programming Interface (API)".
[64]
TS 33.210: "3G Security; Network Domain Security; IP network layer security".
[65]
TS 23.236: "Intra Domain Connection of RAN Nodes to Multiple CN Nodes".
[66]
TS 25.453: "UTRAN Iupc interface Positioning Calculation Application Part (PCAP) signalling".
[67]
TS 23.234: "3GPP system to Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interworking".
[68]
TS 23.141: "Presence Service; Architecture and functional description".
[69]
OMA RLP TS: "Roaming Location Protocol", [http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ ].
[70]
TS 23.246: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Architecture and functional description".
[71]
TS 23.240: "3GPP Generic User Profile (GUP); Architecture (Stage 2)".
[72]
TS 33.222: "Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA); Access to network application functions using Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Transport Layer Security (HTTPS)".
[73]
TS 23.203: "Policy Control and Charging Architecture (Stage 2)".
[74]
TS 23.167: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) emergency sessions".
[75]
TS 23.204: "Support of Short Message Service (SMS) over generic 3GPP Internet Protocol (IP) access".
[76]
TS 23.401: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access".
[77]
TS 23.402: "Architecture enhancements for non-3GPP accesses".
[78]
TS 36.300: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2".
[79]
TS 36.401: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Architecture description".
[80]
Open Mobile Alliance, OMA ERP SUPL V2.0: "Secure User Plane Location Enabler Release Package", (http://www.openmobilealliance.org ).
[81]
TS 23.272: "Circuit Switched Fallback in Evolved Packet System; Stage 2".
[82]
TS 29.118: "Mobility Management Entity (MME) - Visitors Location Register (VLR) SGs interface specification".
[83]
TS 23.216: "Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC); Stage 2".
[84]
TS 33.107: "3G security; Lawful interception architecture and functions".
[85]
TS 32.240: "Telecommunication management; Charging management; Charging architecture and principles".
[86]
TS 29.272: "Evolved Packet System (EPS); Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) related interfaces based on Diameter protocol".
[87]
TS 33.401: "3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE); Security architecture".
[88]
TS 33.402: "3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE); Security aspects of non-3GPP accesses".
[89]
TS 24.301: "Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for Evolved Packet System (EPS); Stage 3".
[90]
TS 29.274: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Evolved GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (eGTP) for EPS".
[91]
TS 29.280: "Evolved Packet System (EPS); 3GPP Sv interface (MME to MSC, and SGSN to MSC) for SRVCC".
[92]
TS 29.213: "PCC Signalling Flows and Mapping Tables".
[93]
TS 29.275: "Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) based Mobility and Tunnelling protocols; Stage 3".
[94]
TS 24.304: "Mobility management based on Mobile IPv4; User Equipment (UE) - foreign agent interface; Stage 3".
[95]
TS 24.303: "Mobility management based on Dual-Stack Mobile IPv6; Stage 3".
[96]
TS 29.273: "Evolved Packet System (EPS); 3GPP EPS AAA interfaces".
[97]
TS 24.302: "Access to the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (EPC) via non-3GPP access networks".
[98]
TS 29.168: "Cell Broadcast Centre interfaces with the Evolved Packet Core; Stage 3".
[99]
TS 29.212: "Policy and Charging Control (PCC); Reference points".
[100]
TS 29.214: "Policy and Charging Control over Rx Interface".
[101]
TS 32.251: "Telecommunication management; Charging management; Packet Switched (PS) domain charging".
[102]
RFC 4006: "Diameter Credit-Control Application".
[103]
TS 29.215: "Policy and Charging Control over S9 Interface".
[104]
TS 29.061: "Interworking between PLMN supporting packet based services and PDN".
[105] Void.
[106]
3GPP2 A.S0008-C: "Interoperability Specification (IOS) for High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) Radio Access Network Interfaces with Session Control in the Access Network".
[107]
3GPP2 C.S0087 0: "E UTRAN - HRPD and CDMA2000 1x Connectivity and Interworking: Air Interface Aspects".
[108]
TS 32.296: "Telecommunication management; Charging management; Online Charging System (OCS): Applications and interfaces".
[109]
TS 32.295: "Telecommunication management; Charging management; Charging Data Record (CDR) transfer".
[110]
TS 23.292: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Centralized Services".
[111]
TS 23.237: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Service Continuity".
[112]
TS 23.327: "Mobility between 3GPP-Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Interworking and 3GPP Systems".
[113]
TS 23.218: "IP Multimedia (IM) session handling; IM call model; Stage 2".
[114]
TS 25.467: "UTRAN architecture for 3G Home Node B (HNB); Stage 2".
[115]
TS 25.468: "UTRAN Iuh Interface RANAP User Adaption (RUA) signalling".
[116]
TS 25.469: "UTRAN Iuh interface Home Node B (HNB) Application Part (HNBAP) signalling".
[117]
TS 24.285: "Allowed Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) List; Management Object (MO)".
[118]
TS 31.102: "Characteristics of the Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) application".
[119]
TS 48.049: "Base Station Controller - Cell Broadcast Centre (BSC-CBC) Interface Specification; Cell Broadcast Service Protocol (CBSP)".
[120]
TS 23.335: "User Data Convergence (UDC); Technical realization and information flows; Stage 2".
[121]
TS 29.335: "User Data Convergence (UDC); User Data Repository Access Protocol over the Ud interface; Stage 3".
[122]
TS 36.305: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Stage 2 functional specification of User Equipment (UE) positioning in E-UTRAN".
[123]
TS 29.172: "Location Services (LCS); Evolved Packet Core (EPC) LCS Protocol (ELP) between the Gateway Mobile Location Centre (GMLC) and the Mobile Management Entity (MME); SLg interface".
[124]
TS 29.171: "Location Services (LCS); LCS Application Protocol (LCS-AP) between the Mobile Management Entity (MME) and Evolved Serving Mobile Location Centre (E-SMLC); SLs interface".
[125]
TS 29.173: "Location Services (LCS); Diameter-based SLh interface for Control Plane LCS".
[126]
TS 29.281: "GPRS Tunnelling Protocol User Plane (GTPv1-U)".
[127]
TS 36.443: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M2 Application Protocol (M2AP)".
[128]
TS 36.444: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M3 Application Protocol (M3AP)".
[129]
TS 36.445: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); M1 data transport".
[130]
TS 22.220: "Service Requirements for Home NodeBs and Home eNodeBs".
[131]
TS 29.219: "Policy and charging control: Spending limit reporting over Sy reference point".
[132]
TS 23.682: "Architecture enhancements to facilitate communications with packet data networks and applications".
[133]
TS 29.336: "Home Subscriber Server (HSS) diameter interfaces for interworking with packet data networks and applications".
[134]
TS 29.337: "Diameter based T4 Interface for communications with packet data networks and applications".
[135]
TS 29.338: "Diameter based protocols to support of SMS capable MMEs".
[136]
TS 29.368: "Tsp interface protocol between the MTC Interworking Function (MTC-IWF) and Service Capability Server (SCS)".
[137]
TS 23.040: "Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS)".
[138]
RFC 793 (1981): "Transmission Control Protocol" (STD 7).
[139]
TS 26.233: "Transparent end-to-end Packet-switched Streaming Service (PSS); General Description".
[140]
TS 23.468: "Group Communication System Enablers for LTE (GCSE_LTE); Stage 2".
[141]
TS 23.303: "Proximity-based services (ProSe); Stage 2".
[142]
TS 23.179: "Functional architecture and information flows to support mission critical communication services; Stage 2".
[143]
TS 26.114: "IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); Multimedia telephony; Media handling and interaction".
[144]
TS 26.141: "IP Multimedia System (IMS) Messaging and Presence; Media formats and codecs".
[145]
TS 23.214: "Architecture enhancements for control and user plane separation of EPC nodes; Stage 2".
[146]
TS 26.346: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Protocols and codecs".
[147]
TS 23.501: "System Architecture for the 5G System; Stage 2".
