ZXWN WiMAX Core Network Introsuction

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Relationship Organizations

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IEEE

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WiMAX Forum
NWG 3GPP/3GPP2

NWG System Architecture

NAP network R2 NSP network ASP network

SS /MS
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R1

ASN
R4

R3

ASN
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R3

CSN
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ASP ASP

Home network

CSN

ASP ASP

WiMAX system is divided into three layers, according to the definition of the WiMAX systems NWG: ASNAccess Service Network) is the network accessing provider, that include visit ASN and home ASN, when support roaming, CSNConnectivity Service Networkis the NSPs network, that include visit CSN and home CSN, when support roaming. The network element takes hand in the function of visiting and home respectively, and the function such as v-AAA/h-AAA, FA/HA, v-PDF/h-PDF and so on. ASPApplication networkis the application service providers (such as ISPICP) network, providing application services or content services, usually Internet, and also corporate or other network.

Core Network Interface description for NWG Architecture(1)

NWG architecture defines 8 interface on total: R1: The interface between the MMS and ASN, following the definition of 802.16 air interface (physical layer and MAC layer). R2: The interface between the MMS and CSN, including authentication, authorization and IP address allocation and other functions. R3: The bearing surface and control surface interface between ASN and CSN. The bearing interface is the IP tunnel between ASN and CSN, and the control interface include the establishment of IP tunnel, releasing control, IP address assignment, TCP/IP protocol stack, and AAA, QoS strategy and implement between ASN and CSN. R4: The control surface and bearing surface interface between ASN and ASN for inter-ASN GW mobility. R5: The control surface and bearing surface interface between V-CSN of V-NSP management and H-CSN of H-NSP. The bearing interface including IP tunnel establishment, releasing control and AAA and QoS strategy , implement and other protocol between V-CSN and H-CSN.

Core Network Interface description for NWG Architecture(2)

Also, there are some criteria interfaces within the ASN, as follow: R6 interface: is the interface from BS/BSC to AGW in ASN, and it is the most important interface. It include control surface and bearing surface. The bearing surface include the tunnel between BS and AGW; the control surface include IP tunnel establishment, releasing control, paging in broadcast and protocol of AAA, DHCP, DNS, MIP, etc. (some protocol such as DHCP is not clearly defined to take the user plane or control plane. So it is regulated that if the end application support the protocol then take user plane, else take the control plane like Radius protocol) R8 interface: is the control and bearing interface between two BS/BCS for ensuring to fast and seamlessly switch. Bearing interface include the protocol that transferring data between BS when MCS cutoff between two BS; control interface include communication protocol between the BS, and control signal protocol of data transferring when MS cutoff. Generally it can be replace by R6 and R4 interface of AGW. R7 interface: is the interface between DP and EP module of ASN GW interior for control information of transmission AAA and related to strategy of QoS, and the intention is similar to control and exchanges separation model of NGN. If AGW entities did not separate, R7 interface dont use generally.

WiMAX Core network Architecture of our corp.

WiMAX adoption the hierarchical module of next generation network NGN. The whole network is divided into five layers: service layer, control layer, the core transport layer, edge accessing layer and the terminal layer.
Applications Layer
OMC/OSS Parley Gateway UP10

Control Layer

HLR

IMS/NGN/SCP

AAA

Core Layer

AGW

PS

AGW Ser ver AGW

Fire Wall

Internet Internet

MSTP/RPR/SDH

Access Layer

BSC PON BS

GE/FE

Terminal Layer

Card

SS

MS

AGW Hardware Architecture

AGW s hardware is based on the unified hardware platform of corporation. You can make up of a office by a shelf. The subrack has both front and rear boards, and the signal racks typical configuration is shown below:
FAN 1 G G U P 2 G G U P 3 G G U P 4 G G U P 5 G G U P 6 G G U P 7 P S N 8 P S N FAN 9 O M P 10 O M P 11 S M P 12 S M P 13 S M P 14 S M P 15 U I M FAN 16 U I M 17

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MONTOR

Key Indicators of AGW

Technical Characteristics Maximum number of users Maximum number of active users Maximum number of PDP Context Parameter Name Specific indicators 1million 1million 2million 2Gbps

Capacity indicators

Activation Throughput of data IP switching capacity STM-1 ATM interface

40Gbps
48 24 12 128

Interface indicators FE interface GE interface E1/T1interface

Main function of AGW

1. user authority authentication (do not support the device authentication) mannerAAA 2. IP address assignment Static IP address, private IP address + NAT, IP PoolDHCP client/relayAAA distribution. Support IP accessing. 3Route transmit Support default routing, static routing, RIP/OSPF/BFP; support MPLS, IPSecACL and load balancing; support QoS management functions, flow shaping. 4R6 interface realize R6 signaling plane and user plane processing, GRE tunnel management, session management, L2 mobility management. 5. statistics and billing Support flow statistics by user, address etc., support billing by time, flow rate and type of service. 6. Unified network management Support service management, data configuration function, SNMP,MIB. 7R3 interface Support RADIIUS client function, DHCP client function, DHCP Relay, Telnet server function.

AAA introduction

AAA is the AuthenticationAccountingAuthorization Server, also know as RADIUS server. It authentication information of user script file authentication, complete the data server authorization, realize billing function. AAA server is divided services AAA, intermediate AAA (agent AAA) and the home of AAA, when the MSC need to cutoff of roaming.

AAA Architecture

AAA products currently include Radius server module, Radius background configuration module, bill processing module, network management subsystem etc. modules. Database system adopt SQL Server2000 of MS. In addition there is a dog process on the Radius server, which the responsibility is monitoring function of Radius service and bill process service. It use the UDP unified among the modules. Network management interface adopt SNMP (simple network management protocol).
Background configuration

Bill process Agent network management Bill agent OMC OSS App server

AAA Server

AAA agent

AAA Function

Device/ user authentication and authorization when MSS access to network; Service authentication and authorization when the MSS service request; Billing; Support PKMV1/V2 authentication mechanism, support EAP-TLSEAP-MSCHAPV2 etc. many authentications methods; Distinguish between V-AAA and H-AAA, and an option needed B-AAA; Save the users QoS profile information, provide users QoS profile information for user authentication, and admission control.

The relationship between WiMax and other networks

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Broadband Metropolitan Area Network 3GPP network 3GPP2 network IMS network