and Beyond
Matt Kolon
Mobility Architect
matt@juniper.net
Access Point
Call Session Media Transit
Control Resource Switching
Site Router
Function Function (MRF) Center (TSC)
(CSCF)
PSTN/
Media
Base Transceiver Mobile Gateway ISDN
Station (BTS) Switching
Center (MSC)
Base Station
Controller (BSC) Serving GPRS
Support Node
(SGSN)
Base Switching Station
(GSM/EDGE) Mobile Packet Backbone
Gateway
Network GSN
Base Transceiver
Station (BTS)
Intranets/
Radio Network
Controller (RNC) Multimedia Internet
Gateway
WLAN Access
Server
UTRAN (WCDMA)
IS-95B
CDMA CDMA2000
CDMA 1xRTT 1xEV-DO 1xEV-DV
IS-95A 3xRTT
HSCSD
SCP
RNC Iu r 3G MSC
AAL2 TDM
Iu b Iu cs
NodeB
PSTN
IP Internet
Corporate
Gn Gi
3G SGSN 3G GGSN
Packet transfer to & from serving area
Multiple PDP contexts
Registration, authentication
QoS (GPRS extensions for
Mobility management real time traffic classes etc)
logical links to RNC, tunnel to GGSN
QoS
SIP H.248
RTP
STACK or
UDP/IP or AAL2 AAL2 TDM
Iu cs ATM
Iu b IP
NodeB
PSTN
Iu ps
USIM IP/AAL5
FA
Mobile
Node WAP ESS Internet
FA
RAN
Mobile
HA
Core
Home
SGSN Network
Recommends use of FA Care Of Addresses (CoA), not collocated, to conserve IPv4 addresses
Source:
3GPP
HLR
ABBREVIATIONS
SERVICE
PLANE
SCIM: Service Capability Interaction Manager
MRFC: Multimedia Resource Function Controller SCIM
CSCF: Call Session Control Function (Service Broker Platform)
HSS: Home Subscriber Server
HLR: Home Location Register
PDF: Policy Decision Function
MRFC S-CSCF
HSS
BGCF: Breakout Gateway Control Function
CONTROL
I-CSCF HLR
MGCF: Media Gateway Control Function
PLANE
MGW: Media Gateway P-CSCF BGCF
GGSN: Gateway P\GPRS Support Node
SGSN: Serving GPRS Support Node PDF MGCF
MRFP PSTN
Node B RNC MG MG
W
PLMN
W
A
Reference
Point A1 A2 A5
Radio
A9 A11 Pi External IP
Source
Network Network
BSC
(RN) A8 A10
PCF PDSN
Aquinter Aquater
Ater A3 Reference Reference
Reference Point Point
Point A7 (R-P Interface)
Source
BTS
Target
BSC Ref: 3GPP2 A.S0011
Circuit SCP
Switched BSC & PCU
TDM
Um Abis A
BTS
PSTN
Packet Control Unit Serving GPRS Support Node Gateway GPRS Support
(PCU) (SGSN) Node (GGSN)
Forward data frames from Packet transfer to, from serving area Gateway to external IP
TDM BSS to packet core networks (VPN/ISP etc)
Registration, authentication, mobility IP network security
New hardware in BSC management / handover, CDRs
GPRS session mgmt, AAAA
logical links to BTS, tunnel to GGSN CDRs for charging