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Basic telecom services, including voice service, emergency call service and
SMS.
Supplementary services, the same as the supplementary services defined in
GSM.
Bearer services, including circuit bearer service and packet bearer service.
Intelligent service, an intelligent network service based on CAMEL mechanism
inherited from the GSM system.
Location services, services related to location information, such as charging by
area, mobile yellow page and emergency locating.
Multimedia services, including circuit real-time multimedia service, packet realtime multimedia service and non real-time store-and-transfer multimedia
message service.
The above services are roughly classified. Actually these services may overlap. For
example, charging by area is not only a location service, but also an intelligent
service.
The real-time services such as voice service generally have the QoS
requirement.
Compatible backward with all the services provided by GSM.
The concept of multimedia service is introduced.
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Service) and CF (Call Forwarding). On this base, Phase 3 has added support for
GPRS, SMS, MM and LCS (optional).
Service category:
In the United States, October 1, 2001 started the provisioning of the Enhanced
Emergency Services. The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) stipulated
that wireless operators should provide an estimated value of longitude and latitude of
the caller. The precision should be within 125 meters (67% of the estimated value) or
lower than the result by root mean square. Mainly driven by national laws, this kind of
service is provided by operators for the public interest. It is available without users
application. To operators, it is a non-profitable service but can promote operators
image. And this service is an inevitable development result of mobile communication
technologies.
Besides emergency calls, there is also vehicle rescues: If a vehicle is broken on the
road, a fault locating automatic report is available. If there is an accident, the
detection device will detect it and auto report the related information such as location
of the accident.
Specific user charging: Some location areas (LAs) can be set as discount areas. In
these LAs, calling and answering will be discounted.
Close location charging: If the caller and the called are in the same LA or close LAs,
they will get a discount.
Specific area charging: If one or both of the caller and called are in a specific location,
such as shopping area, a discount will be given. It is to encourage the user to enter
this area.
The ECR enables users calls to be routed to the nearest service point according to
the location. The user can implement corresponding tasks with specific access
numbers. For example, the user can input 427 to have access to the nearest gas
station. This service is available for chain companies, such as Caltex and KFC. The
companies can apply for specific access numbers or preferential access number that
will be preferred for access among the counterparts (such as gas stations). To bank
services, the user can get the latest bank information or ATM information through
ECR.
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Radio network
Return the subscriber
location information
Get the subscriber
location information
Query
SP Web
Web Server
Server
PORTAL
PORTAL
Mobile yellow page is similar to ECR. It provides contact information of the nearest
service point according to users needs. For example, the customer can input an entry
restaurant or more conditions such as Chinese food and within 3 kilometers to
search. The output result can be phone numbers or addresses.
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Multimedia service in the packet domain is mainly implemented via the SIP protocol.
The major applications include 384 Kbps Video On Demand (VOD) and mobile
teleconference. An example of VOD service is illustrated in Figure 1.1.
Application
server
Intranet
DB
Router
TMS2402
Qui dway
TMS2402
Qui dway
Platform
RAS server
Portal
WAP GW
WS
WS
GGSN
Huawei OSS
GPRS/ WCDMA
WIN- CDMA
Still one hour before
boarding, so I can see a
movie with my 3G MS
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HLR
MAP
gsmSCF
MAP
CAP
GMSC
gsmSSF
VLR
gsmSSF
Incoming line
CAP
MAP
Roaming leg
MS
MSC
MAP
MO call - Outgoing leg
(or Forwarding leg)
Forwarded leg
Interrogating Network
CAP
gsmSRF
Visited Network
Home/Interrogating/Visited Network
2.3.2 LCS
Figure 1.1 shows the network structure of LCS implementation. Here, when
MSC/SGSN supports LCS, new interfaces to various network entities are added: The
Lg interface between MSC/SGSN and GMLC, the Lh interface between GMLC and
HLR, and the Lc interface between GMLC and gsmSCF.
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LMU
Type A
CBC
Note 1)
Uu
3GSGSN
IuBC
HLR
Lh
Node B
UE
Iub SRNC
(SMLC
functionality)
(LMU
Type B)
Iur
Node B Iub
(LMU
Type B)
RNC
Iu
3GLg
MSC/VLR
Lg
Le
Gateway
MLC
External
LCS client
Lc
Gateway
MLC
gsmSCF
Other PLMN
LCS Client
LCS Client is the source of sending location requests, and uses the location result to
implement related services based on location. There are four kinds of clients
according to the LCS Client functions.
1)
2)
3)
4)
GMLC is a gateway device in the network connecting to the external LCS Client. After
getting related location request messages through the Le interface, it is responsible
for HLR addressing, and delivering the location requests to the SGSN through the Lg
interface. GMLC is also responsible for delivering related location results to related
LCS Clients, or convents the results into local coordinate information upon request.
MSC/SGSN/VLR
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HLR stores the subscription data related to LCS, and provides the MSC number of
the located subscriber.
Target UE
The Target UE (also referred as MS) is a target mobile phone located. The network
needs to locate the current or last location of the mobile subscriber according to the
location request. Generally, the target MS is the object to be located. But for MO-LR
(Mobile Originated-Location Request), the target MS is the MS that initiates the
location request.
RNC
In 3G networks, RNC implements the specific locating testing and calculation in LCS
implementation.
LCS client
RNC
SGSN/SGSN Server
Le
GMLC
Lh
RNC
Lg
HLR
MSC/MSC Server
4)
5)
6)
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GMLC checks the ID of the client and the requested service, and then gets
UE/MS identification from the request information.
GMLC delivers a message to HLR/HSS to query the address of SGSN or
MSC/MSC Server. Upon receipt of the needed address, GMLC will deliver a
location request to SGSN.
If GMLC belongs to another PLMN, SGSN needs to check whether the LCS
request is allowed. Then SGSN will check whether the request can be initiated
according to the subscription information of the target UE/MS. If any item fails,
SGSN will directly return a failure response. If the check is passed, the SGSN
then delivers a location request to RAN.
If RAN stores location information that meets the requirements of SGSN, it
returns a location report to SGSN. Otherwise, RAN needs to initiate a special
location processing message with the used location method. RAN returns a
location information report that SGSN has estimated.
SGSN returns the estimated location information and acquisition time to GMLC.
GMLC returns the location information to the LCS Client. GMLC records the LCS
Client CDR and the CDR of SGSN inter-network cooperation.
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Message Store
2G Mobile
Network
MMSE
MMS Relay
User DB
(Profile/ hlr )
Mailbox
Internet/IP
Network
3G Mobile
Network
A
Mobile
Network
B
MMS User Agent
Roaming MMS User Agent
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SMTP
IP network
Email
Server
Arrow 1
MMSC
WAP GW
GGSN
1
GPRS backbone network
SGSN1
SGSN2
SMSC
BTS1
BTS2
BSC1
BSC2
MSC/VLR/HLR
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The MS activates the MMS service and sends a message to the MMSC via BTS,
BSC, SGSN, GGSN and WAP Gateway in turn.
The MMSC distributes the message according to the terminal type and sends a
short message notification to the MS via the SMSC if the type of terminal is an
MS.
Upon receipt of the notification, the called accesses the MMSC via the GPRS
network and the WAP Gateway, so as to distribute the MMS short message.
If the subscriber does not get the message within the specified time limit, the
MMSC forwards the message to the mailbox system.
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