WO1997018681A1 - Mobility management interworking - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to mobile communications sys- terns and, in particular, to mobility management between an overlay radio system having a mobile switching center and a radio system connected to local exchanges.
- Known access mobile networks are so called overlay networks, enabling the setting up of calls between mobile network subscribers and subscribers to other telecommuni ⁇ cation networks.
- Network elements belonging to the mobile network are kept separate from elements belonging to other networks and in consequence of this the networks can be easily managed by different operators.
- the access element from the mobile network to another telecommunication net ⁇ work, and vice versa, is a mobile switching center MSC, through which not only calls and call-related signalling but also non-call related signalling transit.
- a base station sub-system BSS includes a plurality of base transceiver stations BTS for communicating with mobile sta- tions MS through the radio interface and a base station controller BSC.
- the base station system is connected to the mobile switching center MSC, which can access location re ⁇ gisters like a home location register HLR and a visitor lo ⁇ cation register VLR, the latter one usually being included to the MSC.
- the location registers are essential elements for mobility management. Using several switching centers connected with trunk lines to each other it is possible to build a mobile subscribers serving network which has large covering area.
- the MSC is connected via SS#7 interfaces to a communication network like Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN or Integrated Services Digital Network ISDN and through these networks a mobile subscriber can use services offered by an intelligent network IN.
- Fig. 2 depicts the known stack of protocols on the SS#7 interfaces used in communication between networks.
- Call-related signalling between MSC and external networks makes use of TUP for PSTN, ISUP for ISDN or national va- riants of these protocols.
- Non-call related signalling corresponds to many different protocols, which are grouped together in MAP (Mobile Application Part) .
- All MAP proto ⁇ cols use the services provided by the SS#7 protocol TCAP (Transaction Capabilities Application Part), itself using the service offered by the SS#7 protocol SCCP (Signalling Connection Control Part). All these protocols use signal ⁇ ling transport, the lowest layer referred as MTP (Message Transfer Part) .
- MTP Message Transfer Part
- the AIN-network is not a network separated from the ISDN coi - munication network but it utilizes the existing ISDN-net ⁇ work with its transmission lines and exchanges.
- the phy ⁇ sical elements of the AIN include a Service Switching Point SSP, which is a digital exchange being capable to detect calls requiring AIN-services.
- the services reside in a physical element called Service Control Point SCP, which contains application programs and service logic, whereas service data is stored in data bases called the Service Data Point SDP.
- the document TR-N T-001285 'Advanced Intel ⁇ ligent Network (AIN) 0.1 Switch- Service Control point (SCP) Application Protocol Interface Generic Requirements' published by Belcore, contains application layer protocol generic requirements for the LE-SCP interface.
- the appli- cation layer protocol is based on the ANSI Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP).
- the ra ⁇ dio system has access to the SS#7-signalling network so being capable to communicate with the SCP and an overlay network element directly through the SS#7 network.
- This first type is named later in this application as RS/SS#7- type.
- the radio system has no access to the SS#7 signalling network but it can communicate with the SCP using non-call associated signalling NCAS as access protocol.
- This second type is called RS/NCAS type later in this application.
- all call associated sig ⁇ nalling i.e.
- call control signalling between the radio sys ⁇ tem and the local exchange LE uses as the access protocol ISDN's DSS1 (Digital Subscriber Signalling System No. 1), which is described in ANSI (American National Standard) Tl.602-1989 (Layer 1 specification) and T1607-1990 (Layer 3 specification) .
- Signalling between the local exchange LE and the SCP uses the known AIN application protocol.
- the application programs in AIN Service Control Point (SCP) are used to provide the mobi ⁇ lity management functions.
- the block RS (Radio System) in fig. 3 includes not only some of the functions of the traditional BSC but also a part of the functions of the visitor location register VLR and the mobile switching center MSC. It takes care of many of the MSC responsibilities like hand-over related swit ⁇ ching.
- the local exchange LE handles basic call process and may, according the above-mentioned second type of the radio system, support non-call associated (NCAS) signalling. It is Standard National ISDN 3 LE or some later version.
- SCP has ability to communicate with MAP added sc it can do locating queries to HLR and locating queries to VLR.
- the functions of VLR are divided between SCP and RS.
- a protocol for managing the mobility of subscribers is called Mobile Application Part MAP.
- a mobility proto ⁇ col shall be specified between each of the radio systems RS and between each radio system RS and the service control point SCP.
- This protocol called Mobility Management Proto ⁇ col (MMAP) is being standardized by ANSI/T1 subcommittee T1S1. The MMAP for PCS1900 will be based on MAP.
- a problem in modifying an overlay network architectu ⁇ re to fit to the ISDN/AIN architecture is caused by the lack of MSC.
- the known GSM network is designed to fit to the ISDN-network by means of the MSC.
- Another problem is caused by the lack of means for realising mobi ⁇ lity management between the C-interface radio systems wit ⁇ hout MSC and the traditional overlay mobile network with MSC. This can be reduced to the problem how to create a mechanism for exchanging information between C-interface radio system and the MSC or another element belonging to the overlay network.
- the hand-off and roaming ope ⁇ rations transferred via SS#7 between two RSs and between the radio system RS and overlay network elements are standardized MAP operations or corresponding MMAP opera ⁇ tions. Due to this the anchor RS does not need to know whether the target is MSC/VLR or another RS. Additionally, some C-interface specific MMAP protocol operations not ha- ving counterparts in the traditional MAP protocol may be defined between the radio system RS and the SCP. Also the SCP uses the MAP protocol when communicating with the HLR.
- One objective of the present invention is; to provide a mobility management in a communication system comprising the C-interface system capable to access an overlay network only via SCP and using NCAS signalling and the overlay net ⁇ work using SS#7 signalling.
- the RS/SS#7 is comparable to an overlay network element in this communication system and therefore in the following the term overlay network element refers also to RS/SS#7.
- Another objective is to provide means which ensure that a message sent by the overlay network element is routed exactly to that radio system element RS defined in the destination address of the message. This means that when routing a message via a plurality of SS#7 network nodes, sufficient information to uniquely identify the target RS shall be preserved in the destination address field of the message.
- These protocols shall enable mobility management and so roaming and handovers between the C-interface radio sys ⁇ tems and overlay networks as well as between different kind of the C-interface radio systems without doing any changes in the existing overlay network elements e.g. MSC/VLR, HLR.
- the service control point SCP has access to a common channel signalling network for sending and receiving mobility management messages by means of a first application layer protocol.
- the telephone switch for transmitting mobility management messages between the radio system and the service control point SCP uses a second application layer protocol.
- a network element having access to said common channel signalling network for send- ing and receiving the mobility management messages uses said first application layer protocol.
- the service control point SCP includes a protocol conversion means for converting the first application layer protocol of the mobility management message to the second application layer protocol and vice versa.
- the first application layer protocol could be MAP and the second application layer protocol could be MMAP. If the second application layer protocol is both MMAP and MAP, SCP further includes a relay protocol means for either di ⁇ recting the incoming message to the protocol entity (MMAP) or for routing it transparently forward (MAP).
- MMAP protocol entity
- MAP transparently forward
- the C-interface radio system together with the associated Service Control Point SCP will act as the corresponding overlay network element like the Mobile Switching Center MSC, Visitor Location Re ⁇ gister VLR etc.
- the SCP will provide the access to the ap ⁇ intestinalte signalling system like SS#7. No modifications are needed to the overlay network elements and the communica- ting elements do not even have to know whether the other element is the C-interface Radio System or the overlay net ⁇ work element.
- the C-interface radio system uses DDS.1 sig ⁇ nalling, an overlay network element uses SS#7 and all the information is transferred via SCP. As to the protocols, there are in this case two alternatives depending on the role of the SCP.
- the radio system RS uses NCAS signalling and communicates with the SCP using the MMAP protocol.
- the SCP then makes the conversion to traditional MAP protocol when necessary to communicate with other network entities.
- the SCP takes care of the in ⁇ terworking between these two transactions.
- the SCP only relays the MAP operations transparently between the radio system RS and the overlay network element when the communication takes place between the RS and the overlay network.
- the MMAP protocol is used and the transaction is established between these two entities .
- a Relay Protocol is needed bet ⁇ ween the RS and the SCP to carry the appropriate address information and to discriminate between the transparent MAP operations and non-transparent MMAP operations .
- the SCP communicates with the HLR using the MAP protocol.
- an overlay network element uses the Radio System number (E.164 number) as a Global Title (GT) address in SS#7 network.
- GT Global Title
- the GT translation for this address is then defined in such a way that the message is routed to the SCP and the original address is also passed to the SCP.
- the number o the target radio system RS is placed to the Global Title- field of the message.
- the Global Title remains during routing through several nodes up to SCP and therefore the target RS is identified to the SCP, which then can relay the message to the RS.
- FIG. 1 depicts a typical overlay mobile network
- FIG. 2 shows stack of protocols on the SS#7 inter ⁇ faces
- FIG. 3 depicts a C-interface mobile network
- FIG. 4 depicts a known solution to connect networks
- Fig. 5 depicts a network according the first e bodi- ment
- Fig. 6 illustrates protocol stack of the first embo ⁇ diment
- Fig. 7 shows another network according to the second embodiment
- Fig. 8 shows protocol stack according to the second embodiment.
- MMAP operations relating to the C-in ⁇ terface are divided into two groups: MMAP1 and MMAP2.
- MMAP1 consists of the operations that are pure C-interface specific. They are completely new operations without having counterparts in MAP. These operations cover the interface between the lower part of the VLR resident in the radio system RS, and the upper part of the VLR resident in SCP. Note, that said VLR is the one belonging to the C- interface system.
- MMAP2 contains opera ⁇ tions that are analogous to respective MAP operations, but not necessary having equivalent ASN.l definitions.
- the basic network entities that are involved in roaming and hand-off procedures, are the radio system RS, the home location register HLR and the mobile switching center MSC/VLR, see fig.3. These procedures are controlled by MAP/MMAP operations that are carried using underlying signalling networks such as SS#7 and DSS.l. Naturally there are intermediate nodes, like signalling transfer points STP and switches, that provide connections between the basic entities.
- a network according to the fig. 5 contains all the three types of radio systems, RS/NCAS, RS/SS# ' ? and MSC/VLR as well as other essential network elements LEs, SCPs and HLR.
- RS/NCAS is based on NCAS signalling that could be either direct i.e via local exchanges, or indirect i.e. via one ore more SCPs. In the former case the SCP is not involved.
- the direct signalling between RS elements is based on unidirectional approach.
- the initiating RS addresses the destination by giving the number of the target RS in a RE ⁇ GISTER message.
- the local exchange LE receives the message and translates it to AIN 0.2 message and sends it further to the signalling transfer point STP.
- the STP does the Global Title Translation in order to route the query to the target LE in AIN 0.2 network.
- the indirect signalling route between two RS elements is via local exchanges LE and via one or more SCPs.
- the RSs does not necessary share the same SCP. This is the reason why there has to be two intermediate SCPs communicating with each other using MAP protocol on SS#7 network as shown in fig. 5.
- Fig. 6 shows the protocol stack for the: first embo ⁇ diment in case when the target system is a network element MSC/VLR, HLR or C-interface radio system with SS#7 inter ⁇ face. All the mobility management related communication from the RS takes place via the SCP using the MMAP proto ⁇ col.
- SCP makes the conversion between the MMAP and MAP operations.
- the SCP also links together the transactions between RS and SCP and the transactions between SCP and the other network entity.
- the address of the target network element is associated to the initiating MMAP operation
- the routing information can be derived 1 1 from the transaction on which they are sent.
- An adaptation entity is needed to map the MMAP and TCAP messages on the underlying protocol stack DSS.l in the RS.
- a similar adap ⁇ tation entity is needed in SCP.
- the adaptation entity blocks are shown in fig. 6.
- MMAP operations sent by RS have firstly to be routed via LE to SCP.
- SCP does the necessary routing and MMAP/MAP conversions so being the other MMAP end-point.
- it is a gateway between MAP and MMAP environments. This require that the MMAP operations must be slightly modified compared with respective MAP operations .
- RS Prepare Handover
- RS Send Identifica- tion
- HLR Authentication Information Request
- the SCP communicating with the RS/NCAS acts as a gateway between these two environments.
- the MMAP proto ⁇ col is used between the RS/NCAS and the SCP while the SCP communicates towards the other end in the SS#7 network using the MAP protocol.
- This other end may be an overlay MSC/VLR, HLR or RS/SS#7. It can also be another SCP.
- MMAP operations need to be transferred on SS#7 is the C-interface specific operations i.e. MMAP1 ope ⁇ rations between RS/SS#7 and SCP.
- a query from RS/NCAS to a network element in SS#7 is considered.
- the MMAP opera- tion between the RS/NCAS and the SCP has to carry the ISDN address of the target network element.
- the SCP After receiving a MMAP-message, the SCP decodes this address information from the MMAP operation and use it as a Global Title address on the SCCP level when sending the corresponding MAP message to the target.
- the address parameter is only needed in MMAP operations which open a new transaction, i.e. in operations like Prepare_Handover, Send_Identification and Authentica- tion_Information_Request.
- a query from SS#7 network element to RS/NCAS is now considered.
- the SS#7 network element sends the message with the target RS number as a Global Title Address and using the MAP protocol. With this address the message shall be routed to the SCP, which can communicate with the target RS using NCAS. It is essential that the SCP will receive the RS number in the Called Party Address of the SCP Unitdata message, even though it has been used in the STP for the Global Title Translation to get the Point Code and Subsystem Number.
- the SCP On receipt of the message, the SCP does the MAP/MMAP conversion, and sends the message to LE in the AIN 0.2 operation 'NCA_Data'.
- the Called ID argument of this AIN 0.2 operation is populated with the target RS number.
- the Called Party Address on the SCCP level has to be some other number with which the message will be routed to the LE. It cannot be the target RS number, since it is reserved in the SS#7 network as a global address to route the messages to the SCP.
- the RS number has two functions: it has to be used to route the message to the SCP and it has to identify the Radio System in that SCP area. Note that there is no possibility to have different addresses for these two purposes when the (MAP) message is coming from an overlay MSC or VLR.
- a network according to the fig. 7 contains all the three types of radio systems, RS/NCAS, RS/SS#7 and MSC/VLR as well as other essential network elements LEs , SCPs and HLR.
- the network is quite similar to the network according to the fig. 5 but differs from that with regard to the application layer protocols.
- Fig. 8 shows the protocol stack in this embodiment.
- SCP provides transparent MAP services for RS. It is based on assumption that the mobility ma- nagement interfaces between C-interface network elements are similar to those in overlay network except the addi ⁇ tional interface between the distributed VLR parts, i.e. between the RS and the SCP. Due to this the C-interface specific MMAP operations needed are those between the distributed parts of the VLR. The MMAP and TCAP protocol entities in the RS and the SCP are dedicated for this pur ⁇ pose. Said protocols are represented by the left stack in RS-part of fig. 8. Only the MAP operations are exchanged between the C-interface and overlay network elements. This is the first factor to provide interworking between these two networks.
- MAP protocol stack To ensure that the overlay network elements remain unchanged a similar MAP protocol stack must be found from the C-interface network architecture.
- the stack is distributed: the upper layers, i.e. MAP and TCAP, are implemented in RS and the lower layers, SCCP and MTP, are implemented in SCP.
- the MAP protocol with index (2) in SCP is a standard MAP protocol used for signalling with HLR. It is presented only to provide a complete picture of the different MAP interfaces in SCP.
- the MAP(l) and TCAP protocols are carried from RS to SCP, and vice versa, using NCAS signalling.
- the DSS.l pro ⁇ tocols are used between RS and LE, and AIN protocol over SS#7 between LE and SCP.
- the unidirectional approach is recommended in order to minimize the load of the network elements concerned.
- the MAP(1 ) operations between RS/NCAS and overlay network elements are transferred transparently via SCP.
- RPE Relay Protocol entity
- SCP routes the MAP-TCAP 'bundle' (TCAP message con ⁇ taining MAP operation) sent by RS either to HLR, MSC/VLR or RS in SS#7 network or to another RS/NCAS.
- the discriminator of the Relay Protocol denotes whether to give the embedded information in Relay Protocol frame to MMAP/TCAP entity or forward it further in SS#7 network.
- the Relay Protocol frame contains address information of the target system, which may be RS/NCAS, RS/SS#7 or an overlay network element.
- the source RS/NCAS sets the destination address field in Relay Protocol to indicate the target overlay network element in SS#7 network. It may be a Point Code, a Sub ⁇ system Number, a Global Title (E.164 or E.212 number) or any combination of these.
- the Relay Protocol data unit containing the bundle is transported over NCAS network to SCP. SCP may be capable to handle different kinds of net ⁇ works and addresses not only those specific Eor SS#7.
- the target RS/NCAS is addressed at SCCP level.
- the target RS address is put in the Called Party Address (CdPA) field at SCCP level.
- the message is transmitted to associated SCP because of no SS#7 access in RS/NCAS.
- the Called Party Address field of the received message is mapped in SCP to the actual RS, in which case the RPE forwards the bundle to the target RS. If the Called Party Address indicates the SCP itself, the SCCP gives the message to the MAP(2) stack.
- GT translations are performed in STP nodes.
- the information to uniquely identify the target RS shall be kept in the GT in the Called Party Address field. For example this can be ensured by defining the Routing Indicator (RI) in the results of the GTTs to indicate the GT.
- RI Routing Indicator
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