Implementing LTE with IMS

Rebecca Copeland
Head of Strategic Solutions
European Core Networks

ETSI IMS Implementation Deployment and Testing

Sophia Antipolis France, 24/25 November 2010

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Implementing LTE with IMS

Content
Role of IMS in LTE
Handover SRVCC and ICS
QoS Evolution
Migration to a Universal User Database
Interoperating IM with SMS

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Rebecca Copeland
Head of Strategic Solutions
European Core Networks

Huawei is Leading in LTE/EPC Deployments

18+ commercial contracts
Sweden

60 trials ongoing

Norway Oslo

Worlds 1st LTELTEEPC Commercial

Launch

Latvia

Poland

Armenia , Uzbekistan
USA

Germany
Kuwait

Major partnership
from 2G/3G to LTELTEEPC

Shanghai, Guangzhou

Worlds 1st
Commercial PCC
deployment in EPC

Worlds 1st EPC

commercial site with
end to end QoS

T-Mobile: major Migration Partner from 2/3G to LTE/EPC

st

China Mobile: Worlds 1 end to end QoS EPC

Cox: 1st Commercial PCC deployment in EPC
st

TeliaSonera: Worlds 1 commercial launched EPC

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Huawei IMS is now rolling

52%
60%
40%

China 30%

Europe 19%

25%

23%

CIS 8%
Asia Pacific
14%
American

20%

Middle East &

Africa 18%

11%

0%
Fixed

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FMC

Mobile

More than 120 (10Q2) contracts globally

Hungary - the earliest large-scale commercial deployment of IMS

Commercial TAS for DT Germany
Large IMS PSTN Migration in Asia, within 4M subscribers
North America, large VoCable network with PC2.0 architecture compliant
An overwhelming market share in China, more than 12M IMS subscribers

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Evolution from GPRS/CS to LTE

LTE

separates the signalling path from the media path

LTE allows one MME to be paired with any available S-GW

WiMax

IMS
CSCF

HSS

WLAN

PCRF

DSL

LTE
MME

S-GW

IP Bearer
PDN
S-GW

GPRS
SGSN

GGSN

The Role of IMS Provide Common Core for LTE as Another Access Network

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OneVoice to VoLTE IMS is Now Mandatory

RCS
Rich Communication Suite
NAB
XDMS
IM

Presence

Legacy SCP
or NGIN

Sharing

ISC

eMSS

I3

CSCF

Mc

IMS-SSF

ISC

2G/3G

Roaming & HO

cTAS

I2

IMS

MGW

Diameter

SIP

SBC

Sv
SGs

PCRF

HLR/HSS

LTE
All the components are ready:

EPC

MME
SAE GW

IMS AS: Common TAS for 2G/3G/LTE/PES/PSS

IMS AS: RCS service experience
SDB: HLR/HSS convergence data synchronization
CS: Enhanced MSS for SRVCC & ICS
PS: EPC for E2E QoS and SRVCC collaboration
Terminals: Unified Soft Client for MMTel and RCS

The Role of IMS Voice Session Control and service environment

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SR-VCC: Single Radio Voice Call Continuity

Attributes
on LTE/IMS Voice & IMS services MMTel
Uses IMS AS (the SCC) for transition solution
Parallel handover of signalling and media for faster call set-up
Low cost terminals that save battery life (Single Radio)
Can start to retire GPRS as both Voice & Data move to LTE

Service Centralisation
& Continuity

Based

Initiate Handover
to GPRS Data
ICS AS

IMS
HSS

Impact

CSCF

PCRF

Requires IMS handover service from day 1

Needs handover client
Has impact on OSS/BSS.

IP Bearer

Sv

CS Network

LTE

PDN
S-GW

MME

eMSC

Voice 2
Handover
to CS

LTE,
IMS,
GPRS
clients

media is NOT
interrupted

LTE Data &

Voice media

GPRS
3
SGSN

GGSN

The Role of IMS Provide Seamless & Efficient Anchor for Handover

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IMS Centralized Services Not Just Voice

MMTEL
SCC: Service Continuity Control
HLR/HSS

Ensures consistent service

Ready for user migration
Centralizes users services to
save OPEX

I/S-CSCF
eMSS for
ICS &
SRVCC

Efficient anchor mechanism

SIP
A-SBC

Mobile CS Core

EPC & MBB

A-SBC

xPON & FBB

Roaming & Handover

LTE

HGW

2G/3G
CS/LTE Dual mode
terminal

Fixed SIP
Phone

Implementation options:
SRVCC IWF can be integrated in
MSC-Server or enhanced MSS
Centralized (in a separate NE) for
several MSC servers.

The Role of IMS Provide IMS Centralised Services for a Range of Applications

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Consistent Convergent Policy from the Core

Applications
Session Control

Policy
Control
Server
Single
Manager

xDSL/LAN

BRAS

IMS

SBC

2G/3G

GGSN

CDMA 1X
Evdo-Rev

PDSN

The Role of IMS Access Agnostic Policy and QoS

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LTE/SAE

UGW

Session Based QoS for Fine Tuning

Connection Based QoS

QoS Control

Absolute bandwidth as requested

by devices
Inefficient Input and Output
Expensive and not scalable

Flow Based QoS

Simple Classification

IntServ

QoS Control

Rough Classification
DiffServ

Controlled by edge devices

Relative Priority Policy only
Cannot avoid congestion
Low precision control

IMS
QoS Control

Session Based QoS

Controlled by Core server
Differentiated Policy with CAC
Per session, user and service
Best network resource usage

QoS
Request
Session Flow A

PCRF

Precision Classification

Session Flow B

The Role of IMS Finely Tuned User/Session based Policy

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E2E QoS Functions Distribution

LTE UE

RAN

EPC

IMS

MME
P-CSCF
Rx

IP Network
Network Centric
Unified Dynamic
QoS Control

E-UTRAN

End-to-End QoS

Radio Bearer QoS

PCRF
Gx

IP Transport
Network

SAE Bearer QoS

Transport Bearer QoS
S/P-GW

QoS Functions
VQE functions, e.g.
jitter buffer, etc
Radio optimization
tech for VoIP
Service QoS
request initiation

QoS Functions

QoS Functions

Radio resource
allocation, packet
scheduling,
filtering

EPS bearer setup

Radio
optimization for
VoIP

QoS mapping

PCEF functions
VQE functions
IP filtering, traffic
shaping, etc

QoS Functions

QoS Functions

PCC QoS
policy/rules
control

Enforce given
policy & QoS
profile

Retrieve user
QoS profile for
Policy

IP transport QoS
control and
guarantee

The Role of IMS Provide open standard QoS E2E

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Challenges of Subscriber Data Management

AS

AS

AS

AS

AS

AS

SMSC

AS

SDP

AS

AS

Network
Operations

BOSS

MMS

AS

AAA

High OPEX

Complex Provisioning

Many separate Databases

Complex IMSI/MSISDN
segment management

Mesh provision connections

Complex provisioning
procedures
Long Time-To-Market
Inconsistent data,
duplications

HLR

PCRF

Information Silo
Isolated silo data, not open
Hard to deploy new services
and facilitate service
innovation
Difficult to share with other
applications

The Role of IMS Create Network Based Data Repository

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Other DB

Unified Subscriber DB - Reliable, Unified and Open User DB

Open to
External Parties
Terminals

Diverse Application (Front End)

Status

Access

ID

Insight

HLR
FE

HSS
FE

AAA
FE

LDAP
FE

Personal info

Location

Unified Data Base (back end)

User Profile

APP DB

ID
management

Subscription
information
On-line
update

eGUP

Create a 360user profile

External Data
Source

The Role of IMS Enable allall-round user knowledge for context based applications

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Versatile Application Server for All Domains

Challenges

Challenges

Need to support CS-SMS,

IP- SMS and web IM

IM

3rd Applications

Service
Gateway

Too many AS, many similar

services for different domains

ICT

HTTP/SOAP/SMPP

APIs

Charging

Profiles
HSS
HLR

Legacy
IN &
NGIN

SCP

Sh
MAP

IMIM-SSF

Ro

TAS
ATS9900

Rf

Reachability

RCS

MMTel

ICS: Service
Continuity

IP Centrex

IP
IP--SMSSMS-GW

SIP

Challenges

E/ Gd

ISC

Need to keep VAS services

going for a while yet

Cr

Mr

mAGCF/MSS

OCS
CCF

S-CSCF

MRFC

Converged
Messaging

Challenges
Must re-create CS services &
provide service continuity

The Role of IMS Supports common AS for Mobile/Fixed, PES/PSS

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SMS

Using IMS for Seamless Messaging over LTE

Messaging AS

IM
IP-SM-GW

MMTel
SCC AS

Issues

ISC

Need to support SMS on

SGs (CSFB), IP-SMS
and web IM, plus
interworking

CSCF

Sh
Rx

PCRF

Service Level
Interworking

Cx

E/ Gd

SMS-IW-MSC
C/D

S7

Solution

HSS / HLR

PS Domain

S4

S6a

Non-IMS
Scenario

S-GW

Fully compliant with

3GPP (TS23.204) and
OMA standards

SMSC

Transport Level
Interworking

Sh/J

IMS

ISC

SGi

IP-SM-GW functionality
is mainly responsible for
IM/SMS interworking

CS Domain

P-GW
S11

MME

SGSN

MGW

S3

EPC
S1-U

S1-MME

PC Client with
Datacard / dongle

GPRS

E-UTRAN
UTRAN

GERAN
CS Handset

The Role of IMS Supports handover and session control for IP Messaging & SMS
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Using IMS Functions for non-Voice

Video
Streaming

Location
Services

Monitoring
QoS
per service
per user

CSCF

Policy &
Charging Rules

Gaming

Session
Control

PCRF

User Profiles &

service profiles

HSS

IMS

Centralised
Handover

Secure
Authentication

Data Sharing

On-line
Purchasing
Micropayments

The Role of IMS IMS based enablers supporting nonnon-Voice services

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Messaging

VoLTE /IMS are Complex? Make it Simpler

Converged Data
Converged Fix/Mobile
Converged Session
Converged Services
Converged Provisioning
Converged QoS & Policy
Converged Charging
Converged platform
Converged Management
Converged Gateways
Converged Core

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Single Core

Conclusions

Voice for LTE technical issues have been essentially resolved

IMS plays a major role for session control, QoS/Policy and User Data
IMS functions can support non-IMS LTE services too

The key is to

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