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COPYRIGHT © 2013 ALCATEL-LUCENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

J ANUARY 22TH, 2013

 ALCATEL-LUCENT EVOLVED PACKET CORE OVERVIEW

Lilia Langan

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• What is different on the ePC?

•  Alcatel-Lucent ePC solution

• CNT trial overview

 ALCATEL LUCENT EPC OVERVIEW

 Agenda

• What is different on the ePC?

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LTE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

NETWORK ELEMENTS AND INTERFACES

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Serving Gateway• Focus on secure data connectivity with many eNB

• Local mobility anchor - for inter-eNB handover and inter-3GPP mobility

• Provides buffering capability in order to ensure lossless data delivery

PDN Gateway• Focus on highly scalable data connectivity (responsible for IP management and

connects with Internet)

• IP anchor

• High volume of real-time QoS processing, lots of per-flow filtering   D   A   T   A

   (   U   S   E   R   )

   P   L   A   N   E

SGW

-

LTE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

MAIN EPC NETWORK ELEMENTS

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• Policy Charging Enforcement Function and interfaces to charging systems

Mobility Management Entity• Control-plane element (mobility management, connection management) for high

volume of mobility/control plane signaling (managing thousands of eNBs)

• Authenticates UEs and controls access to network connections

• Controls attributes of established access (e.g., assignment of network resources)

Policy and Charging Rules Function• Performs network control of flows: detection, gating, QoS and flow-based charging

• Dynamic policy decision on service data flow treatment in the PCEF (xGW)

• Authorizes QoS resources   C   O   N   T   R   O   L

   P   L   A   N   E

4 | EPC update for EMEA | March 2009

MME

PCRF

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LTE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

3G TO LTE NODE MAPPING

GGSN

SGSN

P-GW

MME S-GW

3G LTE

C-Plane C-Plane U-PlaneU-Plane

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• In contrast to 3G architecture, no Radio Network Controller(RNC) isrequired: the RNC’s functions are collapsed into the eNodeB, MMEand S-GW

• In LTE the MME takes care of most of the signaling

RNC

NodeB eNodeB

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• Default Bearer

• An EPS bearer that established when the UE initially attaches to the network and connects to a PDN, it remains established throughout the lifetime of thePDN connection to provide the UE with always on IP connectivity to the PDN

• Dedicated bearer

LTE TERMINOLOGY 

DEFAULT & DEDICATED BEARERS

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• Is an additional EPS bearer that is established to the same PDN for which adefault bearer has already established for the same UE

• Only one Default Bearer with one or more dedicated bearers (per APN)

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• Aggregate set of packet flows matching a service data flow template

• Service Data Flow Filter• A set of IP header parameter values/ranges used to identify one or more of 

the packet flows constituting a service data flow.

• Service Data Flow Tem late

LTE TERMINOLOGY 

SERVICE DATA FLOW

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• The set of service data flow filters in a PCC rule, required for defining aservice data flow

PDN-GW

IP-Connectivity Access Network Session UE-IP1@

Dedicated bearer (GBR) UE-IP1@

UE Default bearer 

SDF-1

SDF-3

SDF-2

UE-IP1@

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LTE NETWORK PROTOCOLS

GTP-U PROTOCOL STACK IN EPS

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The Key Role of the SGW and PGW is to manage the User plane bearer traffic

• Note the 2 IP headers:

• Inner IP header from the UE going transparent through EPS

• Outer IP header to encapsulate GTP-U and is used inside the EPS

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• Diameter is a AAA protocol

• It defines clients, servers, relays, and proxies

• Runs over TCP or SCTP using port 3868

• Base protocol is defined in RFC 3588 (2003)

• Defined as part of the base protocol are a number of messages and AVPs

• AVP = Attribute Value Pair (similar to a TLV)

 

LTE NETWORK PROTOCOLS

DIAMETER PROTOCOL AND APPLICATIONS

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• Capability negotiation, i.e., which applications are supported• The Diameter protocol is used by Diameter applications. Each one defines its

own messages and AVPs on top of the base protocol

• NASREQ (authentication of users)

• Credit Control defined in RFC 4006 (prepaid accounting)• Gx, Rx

• Destination Realm (AVP) identifies the Diameter server

• Routing at relays/proxies: based on destination realm and application

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• UE sends Attach message to MME to register with the network for service access

• MME will signal the SGW via a Create Default Bearer Request message to establish thedefault bearer after successful authentication

• SGW forwards the request to PGW

• PGW requests from the PCRF the new session policy then installs necessary filter for thenew session

LTE BASIC SIGNALING

 ATTACHMENT & DEFAULT-BEARER CREATION

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SGi

S11

S5

eUTRANS1-U

S1-MME

MME

SGW PGW IP Network

Gx

X2

eNB

eNB

An Always-on IP connection is

established & anchored at

the PDN-GW

PCRF

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• PCRF is consulted when UE attaches (during default bearer creation phase)

• Receives request for dynamic policies for the default bearer (from the PGW)

• Retrieves user profile and executes ruleset for decision on policy & charging

• Responds to PGW with PCC rule

• Traffic Flow Template

• oS rofile

LTE BASIC SIGNALING

PCRF INTERACTION FOR DEFAULT-BEARER CREATION

HSS/SPR

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• Charging profile

Other inforules

Rules Engine

1. IMSI,

UEIP@,

location, RAT,

CAN type…

2. IMSI,

subscriptionprofiles

3. PCC rules:

TFT, QoS,Charging rules

PGW

PCRF

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LTE BASIC SIGNALING

UE ATTACH & DEFAULT BEFAULT CREATION CALL FLOW

User authentication &confidentiality

PDN-GW & SGW

selection

Setup context for default data path

 Attachment RequestSwitch-on

eNB MME SGW PDN-GW PCRF

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Default bearer for “always on” IP connectivity

Default Policy &Charging Rules

(per sub, per service)UL/DL MBR, delay,

BER

User IP address

allocation

Default Data pathcreated

UE context setupRadio bearer configuration

SDF IMS signaling

SDF HSI

Downlink Data

Uplink Data

Update default data path(eNB tunnel end-points)

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• Two types of service requests are supported by the EPC (UE or Network initiated)

• Either service requests can trigger creation of Dedicated Bearers

• UE can send Request Bearer Allocation message to MME after service request

• PCRF can trigger creation based on received service request

LTE BASIC SIGNALING

SERVICE REQUEST & DEDICATED BEARERS

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SGi

S11

S5

eUTRANS1-U

S1-C

MME

SGW PGW IP Network

Gx

X2

eNB

eNB

1. UE sends NAS

Service Request

message towards MME

2. Update Bearer Requestis sent to the S-GW

to establish / modify

S1-bearer

3. Dedicated bearerestablished after

interaction with PCRF

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2. PCC Provision:

SDF, QoS,

• Subsequent to interaction with user, the Application requests for a media flowfor the application session. Example: Voice, Video call/streaming, etc.

• PCRF executes ruleset and authorizes a Dedicated Bearer for it (GBR or not)• QoS and charging rules determined and sent to PGW

LTE BASIC SIGNALING

PCRF INTERACTION FOR DEDICATED BEARER REQUEST

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Other info

rules

Rules Engine

3. Response

Charging rules

 Application

Function

SPR

Cache

. , ,

Media, AF info,

Priority,

Emergency

4. Response

Session

Cache

PGW

PCRF

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LTE BASIC SIGNALING

DEDICATED BEARER CREATION CALL FLOW

Service Request & Authentication

Call set-up

SIP: INVITE (SDP Offer)

 Application Info

Policy Decision:

 

eNB MME SGW PDN-GWPCRF P-CSCF

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Voice stream = Guaranteed

Bit Rate

SessionModification

Setup context for new

dedicated data path

New dedicated datapath created

Radio bearer configuration

Session modified

Successfulnotification

SIP: 200 OK

Voice stream

Dedicated bearer (GBR) Voice stream (SDF)

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• The EPS maintains two types of state information to manage UE mobility & UE/EPC connectivity

• EPS Mobility Management (EMM) states describe the mobility status of UE’s resultedfrom mobility management procedures (e.g. Tracking Area Update)

• EPS Connection Management (ECM) states describe the signaling connectivity between

the UE & the EPC

LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

MOBILITY & CONNECTION MANAGEMENT IN EPS

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Air InterfaceConnectivity

Network(Signaling)

Connectivity

Bearer &Mobility

Management

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LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

MOBILITY MANAGEMENT STATES

• EMM context holds no valid location

EMM_REGISTEREDEMM_DEREGISTERED

• UE successfull re isters with MME

Attach

Detach

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 or routing info for UE

• UE is not reachable by the MME, asthe UE location is not known

 with Attach procedure or a Tracking Area Update (TAU) procedure

• UE location is known withintracking area

• MME can send page to UE

• UE always has at least one activePDN connection

TA2

TA1

MME

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LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

CONNECTION MANAGEMENT STATES

ECM_CONNECTEDECM_IDLE

Signaling connectionestablished

Signaling connectionreleased

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• Signaling connection isestablished between the UEand MME consists of twocomponents: RRC connectionand S1-MME connection

• UE location is known to the

accuracy of the cell ID

• No signaling connectionbetween UE and core network (no S1-U, S1-MME)

• No RRC connection (RRC_IDLE)

• UE performs cell reselection andtracking area updates (TAU)

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• SGW initiates process when it receives downlink packets for a UE in idle mode

•  A Downlink Data Notification message is sent from SGW to MME

• SGW begins to buffer the received DL packets• MME sends Paging message eNBs within the TA that the UE is registered. Upon paged,

UE initiates the service request procedure, re-establishing the S1 bearer

LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

PAGING & DOWNLINK PACKET BUFFERING

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eNB

SGi

S11

S5

eUTRANS1-U

S1-MME

MME

SGW PGW IP Network

X2

Gx

eNB

2. Downlink Data

Notificaation message

is sent to the MME

1. DL packets received &

buffered by S-GW since

there is no active

S1-bearer

3. MME initiated Paging

procedure towardseNBs

PCRF

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• X2 Handovers

• Without SGW relocation: only eNodeB changes but not MME and SGW

• With SGW relocation: eNodeB and SGW changes (but not MME)• S1 Handover

• Only performed when X2 handover is not possible

•  

LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

HANDOVER TYPES

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• When there is no IP connectivity between source SGW and target eNodeB

• When serving PLMN changes (=provider of access network changes)

• X2 handover failed

• MME and/or SGW can change

• Inter-RAT handovers

• Handovers between 2G/3G and 4G, as well as non-3GPP access (eHRPD, WLAN)

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LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

LTE / 3G iRAT HANDOVER (Pre-R8 interworking architecture)

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LTE MOBILITY MANAGEMENT

LTE / 3G iRAT HANDOVER (R8 interworking architecture)

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SGiHSS

S6a

HPLMN

VPLMN

Gx RxH-PCRF

LTE ROAMING

ROAMING TO HOME NETWORK 

UTRAN

GERAN

SGSN

PGWPDN1

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S11

S3S8

S4

S1-U

S1-MME

MME

S12X2

eNode B

eNode B

EUTRAN SGW

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HSS

S6a

H-PCRF

HPLMN

VPLMN S9

LTE ROAMING

LOCAL BREAKOUT

UTRAN

GERAN

SGSN

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SGi

S11

S3

S5

S4

S1-U

S1-MME

MME

V-PCRF

S12

SGW PGW

Gx

X2

eNode B

eNode B

EUTRAN PDN1

Rx

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QoSChargingForwardingClassification

Policy 1Policy 1

Policy 2Policy 2

Policy 3Policy 3

Subscriber Traffic inbearer/PDP context

E-mailOffline charging

 

POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL

CUSTOMIZED SERVICE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

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Policy 4Policy 4

Subscriber Traffic Management based on• Subscription package• QoS and Charging profiles• subscriber balance/status•Network and external events

Enforced through PCC architecture

Social NetworkingFree of Charge

Peer-to-PeerOnline charging (real time)

Rate enforcement

Malicious trafficDiscarded

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• Subscriber profile/package/class/tariff 

• Standard, Lite, Premium, Corporate, …

• Network information• Subcriber location (e.g, home-zone), inter-RAT, …

• Subscriber data consumption (fair usage): € Remaining

POLICY AND CHARGING CONTROL

CUSTOMIZED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT – CRITERIA 

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, ,…

• External events

• E.g, Time of day

• Service Provider may have additional constraints

• Peer-to-peer limitation at PGW/GGSN level

• Global or per APN Gi/SGi throughput control

• e.g, per MNO basis for MVNE

Consumed

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QCIRESOURCE

TYPEPRIORITY 

PACKET DELAY BUDGET

PACKET ERROR LOSS RATE

EXAMPLE SERVICES

1

GBR 

2 100 ms 10-2 Conversational Voice

2 4 150 ms 10-3 Conversational Video (Live Streaming)

3 3 50 ms 10-3 Real Time Gaming

 Non-Conversational Video Buffered

QOS IN LTE NETWORKS

EVOLVING TO A QOS-AWARE MULTI-SERVICE CORE

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ms -  Streaming)

5

Non-GBR 

1 100 ms 10-6 IMS Signaling

6 6 300 ms 10-6

 Video (Buffered Streaming), TCP-based (e.g.www, e-mail, chat, ftp, p2p, file sharing,

progressive video, etc.)

7 7 100 ms 10-3  Voice, Video (Live Streaming), Interactive

Gaming

8 8300 ms 10-6

 Video (Buffered Streaming), TCP-based (e.g.www, e-mail, chat, ftp, p2p, file sharing,

progressive video, etc.)9 9

* 3GPP TS 23.203

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QOS IN LTE NETWORKS

KEY BEARER / AGGREGATE ATTRIBUTES

• QoS Class Identifier (QCI)- Used to identify the traffic class of a specific bearer

• Allocation and Retention Priority (ARP)- The primary purpose or ARP is to decide if a bearer establishment/modification request

can be accepted or rejected in case or resource limitation

• Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) and Maximum Bit Rate (MBR)

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- GBR bearers are assigned a guaranteed rate and a maximum rate• APN Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate (APN-AMBR)- Aggregate rate for the total traffic of a UE’s Non-GBR bearers on a given APN

- Enforced by the PGW on Downlink and the UE on Uplink 

• UE Aggregate Maximum Bit Rate (UE-AMBR)- Aggregate rate for the total traffic generated by a UE across all APNs

- Enforced by the eNodeB on Uplink 

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QOS IN LTE NETWORKS

SDFs AND QOS MANAGEMENT

• The SGW and PGW need to support fine-granularity of QoS andcharging enforcement functions beyond transport / bearer level

- Multiple Service Data Flow (SDF) can be aggregated onto a single bearer- Uplink (UL) and Downlink (DL) packet filters are defined for each bearers

and QoS enforcements (policing, shaping, scheduling, etc.) are applied

- PGW acts as the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF) point to

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maintain QoS SLA or eac o t e earers an SDFs

TerminaleNodeB Serving GW PDN GW

PCRF

Terminal

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• What is different on the ePC?

•  Alcatel-Lucent ePC solution

• CNT trial overview

 ALCATEL LUCENT EPC OVERVIEW

Programme

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 ALCATEL-LUCENT APPROACH

MIRRORING DATA/USER PLANE SPLIT WITH DEDICATED PORTFOLIO

control plane SGSN/MME

PCRF

Control plane:

• Highly scalable, dynamic mobility and

connection management

• Network-wide, real-time policy control

HIGH PERFORMANCE, RELIABLE, SCALABLE,

IN-HOUSE OPTIMIZED ATCA-BASED PLATFORM

FOR PACKET CORE CONTROL-PLANE ELEMENTS

OTHER NETWORKS

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E-UTRANUTRANGERAN

user (data) plane PGW/GGSN

SGW

Data plane:

• High aggregate throughput (over 100 Gbps) forhigh bandwidth on-demand services

• Per-subscriber, per-application, per-session

QoS/policy enforcement and control

HIGH PERFORMANCE, RELIABLE AND SCALABLE,PROVEN INDUSTRY-LEADING SERVICE ROUTERSFOR WIRELESS PACKET GATEWAYS

CORE NETWORK (CN)RADIO ACCESS NETWORK (RAN) INTERNET

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Converged

Service Control

 ALCATEL-LUCENT WIRELESS PACKET CORE

Policymanagement

Sessioncontrol

2G, 3G, LTE 

MobilePacketCore

5780 Dynamic ServicesController

PCRF for 3G and LTE

7750 SR Mobile Gateway4G packet gateway for

3G/3G+ GGSN andLTE gateway functions

(SGW, PGW)

9471 Wireless Mobility ManagerMobility managerfor 2G/3G (SGSN)and LTE (MME)

Mobilitymanagement

Common routing stack 

Common routing platform

Common control platform

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Converged All-IPService-aware

Network Management

Multi-screen servicesWeb and Enterprise 2.0

  Mobile

Backhaul

Pre-integrated Solutions5620 Service Aware Manager- NM for Packet Core

- NM for RAN and backhaul

Backbone

KEY GGSN: Gateway GPRS Support NodeSGSN: Serving GPRS Support NodeMME: Mobility Management EntityPCRF: Policy Charging & Rules Function

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LTE/4G: ALL-IP ENVIRONMENT

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• HIGH-SCALE IP ADDRESS SPACEMANAGEMENT (FOR ALL UES)

•  APN MANAGEMENT• EPC PDN IP ROUTING

• SESSION MANAGEMENT• QOS ENFORCEMENT•  APPLICATION ASSURANCE (L4-L7)• PACKET FILTERING AND CHARGING

• HIGH-SCALE ENODEB AND

MME CONNECTIVITY • PACKET BUFFERING• SESSION MANAGEMENT• ENCRYPTION• HIERARCHICAL QOS• PER-BEARER SCHEDULING

UEs

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WHY ATCA FOR CONTROL PLANE?

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• Real-time policy management• High-scale processing• Interaction with subscriber

databases, gateways, chargingand reporting systems

• High-scale UE and eNodeBmanagement (millions of 

users, thousands of eNBs)• High-performance, low-cost

carrier-class platform• Flexible, multi-core

processors blades distributesignaling load

UEs

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7750 SERVICE ROUTER MOBILE GATEWAY 

-Mobile Gateway

 - -

+ =

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• Full-featured service routing platform

• Field-proven as multiservice edge, core routerand broadband network gateway: nearly50,000 units shipped in 6 years

• 99.999+% availability with non-stop services,

in-service software upgrade (ISSU)• I/O Modules (IOM) with 100 Gb/s wire-speed

• Feature-Rich: H-QoS, DPI, IPSec, MPLS...

• Full set of IPv4/IPv6 routing capabilities to tiedirectly to IP aggregation and backbone

• Mobile Gateway Integrated Services Module

• 20M PPS (25 Gb/s) L3/L4 Shallow PacketInspection on Network Processing Units (NPU)

• 2M PPS (7-10 Gb/s) L4-L7 Deep PacketInspection on Central Processing Units (CPU) of 

dedicated MG-ISA daughterboard (IntegratedServices Appliance)

• Second MG-ISA entirely dedicated to ControlPlane traffic (GTP-C, RADIUS, DIAMETER,...)

• 1+1 Stateful Resiliency

(SGW, PGW/GGSN)

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PGW/GGSN User Plane processing: 5-tuple and L4-L7 (AA)

  g   f  a   b  r   i  c

 Advanced Data

Plane ISAP-chip

1M Policers

MDA/ISA

SLOT

MDA/ISA

SLOT

   I   O   M   3

Gn/S5

User plane subject to 5-tuple classification

User plane subject to Layer4-L7 protocol analysis

Application Assurance (AA):

Up to 10 Gbps processing

25 Gbps processing

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   S  w   i   t  c   h   i  n

 

Control Plane

ISA

IOM control

Q-chip

64K Queues

MDA/ISASLOT

MDA/ISASLOT

   I   O   M   3

Gi/SGi

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 ALCATEL-LUCENT 9471 WIRELESS MOBILITY MANAGER 

(MME/SGSN)

Scalability

• Up to 8 million subs, 8 million PDP contexts, and

thousands of eNodeBs

Configuration flexibility

• 2G/3G SGSN, MME, combo SGSN/MME

Performance

 

High performance, MME/SGSNcombo for 2G, 3G & LTE

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• p to ps t roug put us ng ua core,

dual density processors

Carrier-class reliability

• Five 9’s+, field proven

 Architecture

 ATCA platform, multi-core processors; leverages Alcatel-Lucent LCP middleware

 Advanced Optimization capabilities

• Smart paging

• PCMD

 Alcatel-Lucent 9471 WMMMME / SGSN

Differentiator: Per Call Measurement Data (PCMD)

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Differentiator: Per Call Measurement Data (PCMD)

Post processing

MMEMME

PCMD file

PCMD stream

PCMD start/stop

Real-Time Client(Optional connection)

SGW

OPTIMISATIONPLANNING

CUSTOMER

CARE

Analysis

EVOLVED RANMGMT

LTE no longer has the ‘RNC view’ 

•  Valuable data (e.g. UE RF metrics & TP) is restricted tothe eNB while only the MME has UE IMSI and mobility

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eNodeB

eNodeB

PCMD data

eNodeBeNodeB

eNodeB

eNodeB

PCMD data

PCMD data

. . . . . . . . . . .

PCMD start/stopPCMD start/stop

Simplified data collection and analysis for ALL calls at ALL times

 

•  ALU MME aggregates eNB & MME data in a centralized

manner for e2e analysis•  All the UE mobility related activities are logged to analyse

the entire call.

• Signalling, User and Scheduler info in one record

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9959 NPO

PCMD stream

 ARQUITECTURA PCMD

Counters, alarms, parameters, topology, events

User interface

QoS Alerters/ tuning

External query interface

eNodeB data is:

1. Captured from UE to eNB

2. Sent to MME via S1private message

3. Consolidated at the MME

4. Sent to NPO

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S-GW 

P-GW 

5620 SAM

Evolved Packet Core

MME

RAN

counterscounters

eNB records

eNB

C

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PCMD content

Control Plane

• Procedure id: Attach/Detach, Bearer Mgt, HO,

TAU, Paging, etc.

• Procedure duration, error code, source failure

 

User plane

• UL/DL data volume per Bearer (non-

GBR)

• Bearer information (QCI, etc)

Record identificationTimestamp, IMSI, EMEI, Cell Id, MME Id, S/GW, …

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• Relevant data according to procedure,

RF information• Radio quality: Channel Quality Indicator, dropped packets at RLC layer 

• UE measurements: RSRP, RSRQ, etc.

• Round Trip Delay (RTD)

• RF measurement of other cells for HO preparation

 A PCMD record is generated for each procedure that is executed for a particular UE.

 A PCMD record is a semi-colon separated set of about 200 fields (grows with each release) containing data of interest for 

that procedure. The actual structure is different from the figure.

5780 DYNAMIC SERVICES CONTROLLER

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5780 DYNAMIC SERVICES CONTROLLER 

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ALCATEL LUCENT MOBILE CHARGING SOLUTION

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Mobile network domain

Subscriber database

 ALCATEL-LUCENT MOBILE CHARGING SOLUTION

8650 SDM (HLR/HSS)

Policy management

5780 DSC (PCRF)

Charging domain8610 ICC

(OCS)8615 IECCF

(CGF)

LDAP

GaGyGxS6a/Gr

Sy

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eNB

Internet

9471 WMMMME/SGSN

7750 SR SGW

RNC7750 SR 

PGW/GGSN

S11

S5

 A COMPLETE AND PRE-INTEGRATED SOLUTION RESPECTING 3GPP OPEN INTERFACES

IP/MPLSbackbone

Mobileaccess/backhaul

network 

Differentiator: Intelligent Traffic Management

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Differentiator: Intelligent Traffic Management

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5620 SERVICE AWARE MANAGER

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OSS Connected Partner Program

5620 SERVICE AWARE MANAGER 

SGSN/MME PCRF

Ultimate Wireless

Packet Core

SGW PGW/GGSN

Mobile Backhaul

GERAN

GPRS, EDGE

E-UTRANLTE

UTRAN

UMTS, HSPA

5620 SAM5620 SAM

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• Rapid Provisioning

• Minimized operator errors, optimized workflows, automated configuration

• Proactive Assurance

• Cross-layer visualization and correlation – detect issues before they affect subscribers

• Operational Fit and Flexibility

• Minimized integration cost, effort and risk 

Industry-leading IP/MPLS management with over 270 worldwide deployments

 

 Alcatel-Lucent ePC: A fully Geo-redundant solution

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BB A1

BB A2

SeGW

PGW

Site A

SGW

MME

PCRF

NMS

MME poolingS1 Flex on eNB

SGW pooling/geo-redundancyStateful geo-redundancy in MG R4.0

Geo-resilient SeGWStateless, stateful in SR R10r4

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eNB

BB A1

BB A2

Site B

SeGW

PGW

SGW

MME

PCRF

NMS

PGW geo-redundancyStateful geo-redundancy in MG R5.0

PCRF geo-redundancy Act/Sby stateless in DSC R4.0

 Act/Act stateful in DSC R5.0

NMS geo-redundancySAM Main, DB, Call trace

ALCATEL LUCENT EPC OVERVIEW

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• What is different on the ePC?

•  Alcatel-Lucent ePC solution

• CNT trial overview

 ALCATEL LUCENT EPC OVERVIEW

Programme

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CNT trial architecture

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WINDSServers (2)

FTPServers (2)

d2U

RRH

RRH

RRH

1 BBU

3RRH

eUTRAN

eNodeB #1 (Quito)

Core

Tools/Services

d2U

RRH

RRH

RRH

1 BBU

3RRH

eUTRAN

eNodeB #2 (Quito)

CNT trial architecture

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CNTTransport

Network

Internet

NPOClient

SAMClient

SGW PGW

(ePC +HSS)

MMEHSS

PCRF

9959NPO /PCMD OAM

5620SAM

DNS eDATClient

WPSClient

RAMSES

d2U

RRH

Toy Cell

eNodeB

7750 SR

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