Diameter
      EMM           EMM
                               PROTOCOLS and their SPECIFICATIONS
                    Diameter RFC 3588, RFC 3589, RFC 4006, RFC 4740
                               EPS Mobility Management, 24.301
                                                                                         LTE NETWORK REFERENCE
      ESM           ESM        EPS Session Management, 24.301
      GRE           GRE        Generic Routing Encapsulation, RFC 2784, RFC 2890
    GTPv2-C         GTPv2-C GPRS Tunneling Protocol ver. 2 Control Plane, 29.274                       P-GW/PCEF                                                                                            H-PCRF                                                           PSTN
     GTP-U          GTP-U      GPRS Tunneling Protocol User Plane, 29.281                                                                              Gx
     IKEv2

    MAC
         IP
                    IKEv2
                    IP
                    MAC
                               Internet Key Exchange ver. 2, RFC 5996
                               Internet Protocol, RFC 791
                               Medium Access Control, 36.321
                                                                                                                                                     Diameter
                                                                                                                                                    SCTP TCP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          IMS
   PDCP             PDCP       Packet Data Convergence Protocol, 36.323
    PHY             PHY        Physical Layer for the Radio Link, 36.302
                                                                                                                                                                                                                IP                                                                             CPE




                                                                                                  GTPv2-C
    PMIPv6          PMIPv6 Proxy Mobile IP version 6, 23.402, 29.275




                                                                                                   UDP
    RLC             RLC        Radio Link Control, 36.322                                                                                                                                                    Network                                     3GPP ACRONYMS and NODES
        RRC         RRC        Radio Resource Control, 36.331
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              3GPP       Third Generation Partnership Project




                                                                                             S8
       RTP          RTP        Real-Time Transport Protocol, RFC 3550                                                                                                                                                                         AAA        Authentication, Authorization and Accounting




                                                                                                  Payload
                    S1AP       S1 Application Protocol, 36.413




                                                                                                   GTP-U
      S1AP




                                                                                                    UDP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              CPE        Customer Premise Equipment




                                                                                                                                                                                       Diameter (S9 & Rx)
    S101-AP         S101-AP S101 Application Protocol, 29.276                                                                            SWx           3GPP AAA                                                                               eAN        Evolved Access Network
                                                                                                                        HSS                                                                                                                   eHRPD      Evolved High Rate Packet Data
        SCTP        SCTP       Stream Control Transmission Protocol, RFC 4960                                                        Diameter           Server                                                                                eNB        Evolved Node B




                                                                                                                                                                                             SCTP
                    SIP        Session Initiation Protocol, RFC 3261                                                                SCTP TCP




                                                                                                                                                                                  S9
       SIP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    ePDG       Evolved Packet Data Gateway
         TCP        TCP        Transmission Control Protocol, RFC 793                                                                                                                                                                         E-UTRAN    Evolved UTRAN
         UDP        UDP        User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768                                                                                                                                                                                GERAN      GSM-EDGE Radio Access Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              H-PLMN     Home PLMN
      X2AP          X2AP       X2 Application Protocol, 36.423                                                                                                                                                                                HRPD       High Rate Packet Data
    not specified   Not Specified (proprietary)                                                                                                                                                                                               HSGW       HRPD Serving Gateway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              HSS        Home Subscriber Server

H-PLMN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        IMS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              LTE
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         IP Multimedia Subsystem
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Long Term Evolution
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              MME        Mobility Management Entity

V-PLMN                                  MME
                                                                          MME
                                                                                                                                  3GPP AAA                            Sp
                                                                                                                                                                                                     V-PCRF                                   NAS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              PCC
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Non-Access Stratum
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Policy and Charging Control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              PCEF       Policy and Charging Enforcement Function
                                                                                                                                    Proxy                   SPR   not specified                                                               PCRF       Policy and Charging Rules Function
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              PDN        Packet Data Network
                S4 SGSN                                                                                     HSS                                                                                                                               P-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              PLMN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         PDN Gateway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Public Land Mobile Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              PSTN       Public Switched Telephone Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              RAT        Radio Access Technology
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              RNC        Radio Network Controller
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              SGSN       Serving GPRS Support Node
      UTRAN                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   S-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              SPR
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Serving Gateway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Subscription Profile Repository
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              UE         User Equipment
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              UTRAN      Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              V-PLMN     Visited PLMN

            RNC                                                                                                                                                                                                     P-GW/PCEF            3GPP INTERFACES and TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
RRC    IP                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Interface   Nodes                      Technical Specification
  PDCP                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Gx          PCRF    PCEF               29.212
   RLC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Gxa         HSGW     PCRF              29.212
  MAC                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  LTE-Uu      UE   eNB                   36.300
   PHY               UE                                                                                                                                                                                                                NAS         UE   MME                   24.301
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Rx          AF   PCRF                  29.214
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S1-MME      eNB   MME                  36.413
        OFDMA
                                                                                                   S-GW                                                                                                                                S1-U
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S2a
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   eNB
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   HSGW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          S-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            P-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              36.414
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              23.402, 29.275

       LTE-Uu
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S2b         P-GW    ePDG               23.402, 29.275
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S3          MME    Rel. 8 SGSN         29.274
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S4          S-GW    Rel. 8 SGSN        29.274


                                                                                                                                    SWa
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S5/S8       S-GW    P-GW               29.274 (control plane)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29.281 (user plane)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S6a         HSS     MME                23.401, 29.272
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S6b         3GPP AAA       P-GW        29.273
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          ePDG         S6d
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S9
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   SGSN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   H-PCRF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             HSS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              V-PCRF
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29.272
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29.215
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S10         MME      MME               29.274
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S11         MME      S-GW              29.274
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S12         RNC     S-GW               29.281
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Interface LEGEND           S101        MME      eHRPD eAN         29.276, 23.402

eNB                                                                                                                                                                                                            Traffic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       S103
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SGi
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   S-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   P-GW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            HSGW
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            IP Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29.276, 23.402
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              29.061
                                       eNB                                                                                                                                                                     Traffic and Signaling
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Sp          PCRF     SPR               29.203
                                                                                                                  3GPP2 AAA                                                                                                            STa         Trusted Access     AAA     23.002, 23.402, 29.273
                E-UTRAN                                                               HSGW                          Proxy
                                                                                                                                                                                                               Signaling Only          SWa         Untrusted Access     AAA   23.002, 23.402, 29.273

                                                                                   Trusted non-3GPP                                   Untrusted non-3GPP                                                       Service Control Plane   SWd
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       SWm
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   AAA Proxy
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ePDG
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 AAA Server 23.002, 29.273, 23.234
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             3GPP AAA         23.002, 29.273
                                                                          eAN                                                               (Wi-Fi)                                                            Inter-RAT               SWn         ePDG      Untrusted Access 23.402, 23.234
                                                                                        eHRPD                                                                                                                  Radio                   SWx
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       X2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   HSS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   eNB
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           3GPP AAA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           eNB
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              23.002, 29.273, 23.402
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              36.423 (control plane)
                                                                                                                                                                                                               NAS                                                            36.424 (user plane)
                      © 2011 Award Solutions, Inc.                                                                            LTE_901 Version 3.4

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  • 1.
    Diameter EMM EMM PROTOCOLS and their SPECIFICATIONS Diameter RFC 3588, RFC 3589, RFC 4006, RFC 4740 EPS Mobility Management, 24.301 LTE NETWORK REFERENCE ESM ESM EPS Session Management, 24.301 GRE GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation, RFC 2784, RFC 2890 GTPv2-C GTPv2-C GPRS Tunneling Protocol ver. 2 Control Plane, 29.274 P-GW/PCEF H-PCRF PSTN GTP-U GTP-U GPRS Tunneling Protocol User Plane, 29.281 Gx IKEv2 MAC IP IKEv2 IP MAC Internet Key Exchange ver. 2, RFC 5996 Internet Protocol, RFC 791 Medium Access Control, 36.321 Diameter SCTP TCP IMS PDCP PDCP Packet Data Convergence Protocol, 36.323 PHY PHY Physical Layer for the Radio Link, 36.302 IP CPE GTPv2-C PMIPv6 PMIPv6 Proxy Mobile IP version 6, 23.402, 29.275 UDP RLC RLC Radio Link Control, 36.322 Network 3GPP ACRONYMS and NODES RRC RRC Radio Resource Control, 36.331 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project S8 RTP RTP Real-Time Transport Protocol, RFC 3550 AAA Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Payload S1AP S1 Application Protocol, 36.413 GTP-U S1AP UDP CPE Customer Premise Equipment Diameter (S9 & Rx) S101-AP S101-AP S101 Application Protocol, 29.276 SWx 3GPP AAA eAN Evolved Access Network HSS eHRPD Evolved High Rate Packet Data SCTP SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol, RFC 4960 Diameter Server eNB Evolved Node B SCTP SIP Session Initiation Protocol, RFC 3261 SCTP TCP S9 SIP ePDG Evolved Packet Data Gateway TCP TCP Transmission Control Protocol, RFC 793 E-UTRAN Evolved UTRAN UDP UDP User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768 GERAN GSM-EDGE Radio Access Network H-PLMN Home PLMN X2AP X2AP X2 Application Protocol, 36.423 HRPD High Rate Packet Data not specified Not Specified (proprietary) HSGW HRPD Serving Gateway HSS Home Subscriber Server H-PLMN IMS LTE IP Multimedia Subsystem Long Term Evolution MME Mobility Management Entity V-PLMN MME MME 3GPP AAA Sp V-PCRF NAS PCC Non-Access Stratum Policy and Charging Control PCEF Policy and Charging Enforcement Function Proxy SPR not specified PCRF Policy and Charging Rules Function PDN Packet Data Network S4 SGSN HSS P-GW PLMN PDN Gateway Public Land Mobile Network PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network RAT Radio Access Technology RNC Radio Network Controller SGSN Serving GPRS Support Node UTRAN S-GW SPR Serving Gateway Subscription Profile Repository UE User Equipment UTRAN Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network V-PLMN Visited PLMN RNC P-GW/PCEF 3GPP INTERFACES and TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS RRC IP Interface Nodes Technical Specification PDCP Gx PCRF PCEF 29.212 RLC Gxa HSGW PCRF 29.212 MAC LTE-Uu UE eNB 36.300 PHY UE NAS UE MME 24.301 Rx AF PCRF 29.214 S1-MME eNB MME 36.413 OFDMA S-GW S1-U S2a eNB HSGW S-GW P-GW 36.414 23.402, 29.275 LTE-Uu S2b P-GW ePDG 23.402, 29.275 S3 MME Rel. 8 SGSN 29.274 S4 S-GW Rel. 8 SGSN 29.274 SWa S5/S8 S-GW P-GW 29.274 (control plane) 29.281 (user plane) S6a HSS MME 23.401, 29.272 S6b 3GPP AAA P-GW 29.273 ePDG S6d S9 SGSN H-PCRF HSS V-PCRF 29.272 29.215 S10 MME MME 29.274 S11 MME S-GW 29.274 S12 RNC S-GW 29.281 Interface LEGEND S101 MME eHRPD eAN 29.276, 23.402 eNB Traffic S103 SGi S-GW P-GW HSGW IP Network 29.276, 23.402 29.061 eNB Traffic and Signaling Sp PCRF SPR 29.203 3GPP2 AAA STa Trusted Access AAA 23.002, 23.402, 29.273 E-UTRAN HSGW Proxy Signaling Only SWa Untrusted Access AAA 23.002, 23.402, 29.273 Trusted non-3GPP Untrusted non-3GPP Service Control Plane SWd SWm AAA Proxy ePDG AAA Server 23.002, 29.273, 23.234 3GPP AAA 23.002, 29.273 eAN (Wi-Fi) Inter-RAT SWn ePDG Untrusted Access 23.402, 23.234 eHRPD Radio SWx X2 HSS eNB 3GPP AAA eNB 23.002, 29.273, 23.402 36.423 (control plane) NAS 36.424 (user plane) © 2011 Award Solutions, Inc. LTE_901 Version 3.4