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Senior Researcher: Xiaobo Wu, Wireless MBB Research Department, Wireless Network Research Department, Huawei
Area of expertise: LTE Voice, CSFB, VoLTE/SRVCC
Xiaobo Wu has over eight years of experience in telecommunications. As a leading technical member of Huaweis Wireless
Service and Network Evolution Research team, he is responsible for voice solution research and its standardization, e.g.
CSFB, VoLTE/SRVCC.
Xiaobo Wu is also a delegate representing Huawei in 3GPPs working group for system architecture. His expertise in LTE
voice is broadly acknowledged by the 3GPP standards community and he is recognized as an outstanding delegate of that
3GPP working group.
CSFB Challenges
VoLTE, i.e. IMS together with SRVCC, is clearly the means
for providing voice services via LTE. Deployment schedules,
however, may differ for different networks.
CSFB, as an interim on the way to VoLTE, has been
launched commercially in several markets worldwide, and
has already become the predominant global solution for
voice in early LTE handsets.
Furthermore, CSFB will remain in place for many years as a
principal LTE voice roaming solution, and as a principal LTE
emergency call solution even when VoLTE is deployed.
Compared to a native 2/3G CS call, a main drawback of
legacy CSFB is the amount of steps that are added for
switching from LTE to 2/3G networks before the voice call,
which incurs longer call-setup times, especially in case of
LTE to GSM CSFB, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 4
Table1 Mobile Originated call-setup times for Ultra-Flash CSFB compared to native UTRAN CS calls, PS HO-based CSFB
and redirection-based CSFB. (All units are in milliseconds.)
UTRAN Mobile Originating
Native UTRAN
CS Call
RedirectionBased CSFB
PS HOBased CSFB
Ultra-Flash
CSFB
150
150
150
IRAT Measurement
200
200
500
500
1100
CS Call-Setup Procedure
4850
5750
5650
2750
Total
4850
7000
6500
3600
Above data for CSFB to CSFB and Ultra-Flash CSFB to Ultra-Flash CSFB based on Huawei Lab test data. Call-setup
times are from UE triggering CS call to UE receiving Alerting.
Analysis shows Ultra-Flash CSFB to GERAN is similar to UTRAN. But legacy CSFB to GERAN is much worse than to
UTRAN as shown in Figure 3.
Call-setup time shown for legacy CSFB may even need to add another 1 to 2 seconds when the CSFB needs to
include a Location Area Update or MTRR/MTRF procedure.
Figure 7 Mobile Originated call-setup Times for UTRAN (All units are in milliseconds)
Conclusions
Transition to VoLTE will be gradual and will not occur over
a short period of time. CSFB will remain in place and
co-exist with VoLTE for a long time.
This, however, does not change the fact that legacy CSFB
has a long call-setup time and some difficulties for
deployment as well as for evolution towards
VoLTE/SRVCC.
Compared to legacy CSFB, Ultra-Flash CSFB requires
deploying the IRAT Handover from SRVCC but has no
impact on LTE-capable terminals and GERAN/UTRAN.
Due to using the SRVCC IRAT Handover procedure,
Ultra-Flash CSFB can significantly improve the CSFB
References
[1] 3GPP TS 23.216: "Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC); Stage 2".
[2] 3GPP TS 23.272: "Circuit Switched (CS) fallback in Evolved Packet System (EPS); Stage 2".
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