Service Reliability

VoLTE Solution Network-level Reliability: Voice Service Restoration in the Event of an MME, S-GW, or P-GW Fault

VoLTE for the Vibrant 4G Era

Huawei SingleEPC VoLTE Solution: Flexible (MO Call) Successful Second Attempt
MME Fault (MT Call) Failure Lasting 54 Minutes (Max.)
Deployment and Higher Voice Service Reliability
(MO call) First
attempt fails.
Opportunities and Advantages The MT call fails.
The selected MME 3
requests UE A to
(MO call) Second
attempt succeeds.
reattach due to The MO call succeeds
The attempt to MME Pool after UE A is reattached.
The 4G era is here. information absence.
VoLTE outperforms OTT and increases mobile voice S-GW/P-GW call UE A fails.
revenues for carriers
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MME 1 MME 3
LTE
2G 3G HSPA LTE UE A
Various Services MME 1 where MME 2
Optimum Experience UE A is registered
Carriers' Challenges is faulty.

Long standby time

Short call delay

High call quality

● Reduced revenues from mobile voice services
● Fast developing over the top (OTT) services

3.0 (MO Call) Successful First Attempt

2.5 MME Redundancy (MT Call) Successful First Attempt
2.0
1.5
1.0
30% 500 ms E2E QoS (MT call) First (MO call) First
0.5
attempt succeeds. attempt succeeds.
OTT Voice 0.0 Basic voice call, emergency call, multimedia services
The selected MME 3 The selected MME 3
obtains the obtains the
information about MME Pool information about
Flexible Deployment S-GW/P-GW
UE A from MME 2. UE A from MME 2.
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Flexible Voice Policies Based on Subscriber Homing Attributes, UE Capabilities, and Locations MME 1 MME 3
LTE
UE A
MME 1 where MME 2
Inconsistent UE Capability Home subscriber UE A is registered
is faulty.
Vo
LT EPC Roaming subscriber
E
IMS
VoLTE not supported VoLTE supported VoLTE-capable UE
CSFBRAN CS MME 1
Different VoLTE Plans of Carriers VoLTE-incapable UE

13% Deployed
18% Homing Attribute
2014
13% Voice Service UE Voice Service
Capability Mode MME 3 MME 2
18% 2015 Mode Selection
2016 in VoLTE- VoLTE CSFB
38%
No Plan Supporting
Areas CSFB CSFB
User Information Backup
Area-based Deployment VoLTE
supported

IMSI
UEs use CSFB MM Context
EPC to perform voice SM Context
CSFB IMS services in areas EPS Security Context
that do not ……
RAN CS support VoLTE.

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 (MO Call) Successful Second Attempt
S-GW Fault P-CSCF Fault MT Call Failure for a Long Period
(MT Call) Failure

S-CSCF HSS MME

(MO call) First attempt fails.
The MT call fails. The MME cannot communicate with
the S-GW and requests UE A to reattach.
SIP INVITE cannot
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reach the S-GW.
If UE A does not initiate an MO call, the SIP INVITE
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message cannot be sent to the P-GW. The MT call
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fails before the expiry of the IMS registration timer.
LTE UE A
IMS
P-GW S-GW Pool LTE UE A
MME Pool
P-CSCF P-GW S-GW
(MO call) Second attempt succeeds.
After UE A is reattached, the MME selects MO call failure for a long period
another S-GW for PDN connection setup. The SIP INVITE message cannot be
sent to the P-GW. The second attempt
of the MO call succeeds for UE A.

P-CSCF Redundancy Fast Recovery of an MT Call

(MO Call) Successful First Attempt

S-GW Redundancy (MT Call) Successful First Attempt The S-CSCF notifies the The HSS instructs the MME to start
1 HSS of a P-CSCF fault. 2 a P-CSCF restoration procedure.

S-CSCF HSS MME

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IMS
3
P-GW LTE UE A
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MME Pool is selected for IMS
(MO call) First attempt succeeds. Fast recovery of an MT call
PDN connection
The MME selects another S-GW for PDN LTE UE A reestablishment and
connection setup during the service request SIP registration for
procedure of the MO call. UE A.

P-CSCF P-GW S-GW

The P-GW selects (MT call) First

1
a functional S-GW. attempt succeeds. Glossary:
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CS LTE P-CSCF
IMS
Circuit Switched Long Term Evolution Proxy-Call Session Control Function
P-GW S-GW Pool LTE UE A
The S-GW interacts MME Pool CSFB MME RAN
2 with the MME to set
up a PDN connection. Circuit Switched Fallback Mobility Management Entity Radio Access Network

EPC OTT S-CSCF

Evolved Packet Core Over The Top Serving-Call Session Control Function

IMS P-GW S-GW

IP multimedia subsystem PDN Gateway Serving Gateway

UE
User Equipment

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