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MME Administration Guide, StarOS Release 18 ▄

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CONTENTS

About this Guide ............................................................................................... xv

Conventions Used .................................................................................................................................. xvi

Supported Documents and Resources ................................................................................................. xvii

Related Common Documentation ..................................................................................................... xvii

Related Product Documentation ................................................................................................... xvii

Obtaining Documentation ............................................................................................................. xvii

Contacting Customer Support .............................................................................................................. xviii

Mobility Management Entity Overview ........................................................... 19

Product Description ................................................................................................................................ 20

Qualified Platforms ............................................................................................................................. 22

Licenses ............................................................................................................................................. 22

Network Deployment and Interfaces ...................................................................................................... 23

MME in the E-UTRAN/EPC Network ................................................................................................. 23

Supported Logical Network Interfaces (Reference Points) ............................................................ 25

Features and Functionality - Base Software .......................................................................................... 33

3GPP R8 Identity Support .................................................................................................................. 34

ANSI T1.276 Compliance ................................................................................................................... 35

APN Restriction Support .................................................................................................................... 35

Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) ......................................................................................... 36

Backup and Recovery of Key KPI Statistics ...................................................................................... 36

Bulk Statistics Support ....................................................................................................................... 36

Cell Broadcast Center - SBc Interface ............................................................................................... 37

Closed Subscriber Groups ................................................................................................................. 37

Congestion Control ............................................................................................................................. 37

Define Same TAI in Multiple TAI Lists................................................................................................ 38

Emergency Call Release .................................................................................................................... 38

Emergency Session Support .............................................................................................................. 39

EPS Bearer Context Support ............................................................................................................. 39

EPS GTPv2 Support on S11 Interface ............................................................................................... 40

HSS Support Over S6a Interface ....................................................................................................... 40

IMSI Manager Scaling ........................................................................................................................ 41

Inter-MME Handover Support ............................................................................................................ 42

Interworking Support .......................................................................................................................... 42

Interworking with SGSNs ............................................................................................................... 43

Handover Support for S4-SGSNs .................................................................................................. 43

Unoptimized Non-3GPP Handover Support .................................................................................. 44

IPv6 Support ....................................................................................................................................... 44

MME Interfaces Supporting IPv6 Transport................................................................................... 45

Load Balancing ................................................................................................................................... 45

Load Re-balancing ......................................................................................................................... 46

Local Cause Code Mapping ............................................................................................................... 46

Management System Overview ......................................................................................................... 46

MMEMgr Scaling to Support VPC-DI ................................................................................................. 48

MME Pooling ...................................................................................................................................... 48

MME Selection ................................................................................................................................... 49