Speaker 1: Singe Radio Voice Call Continuity, SRVCC is not an alternative for voice

delivery, but rather a voice call end of a process. SRVCC is a method for ensuring
fast and reliable handover often LTE user, while it is in an active IMS-based voice
session. While it leaves the LTE coverage area to a legacy network coverage area.
The challenge with SRVCC is to make a handover, while the UE is connected to
only a single radio at the given time.

Two versions of SRVCC exist, SRVCC Handover from LTE to GSM, or to UMTS
networks defined by the 3GPP and SRVCC handover to 1xRTT networks defined by
the 3GPP2. To allow SRVCC continuity, the UE and voice networks LTE and the
target legacy networks should support SRVCC. In addition, a special interface SV
has been introduced between the MME and MSC.

For supporting SRVCC, the IMS network, should also include an application server
called Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server SCC AS. This
application server and there's the signaling required for the process. When the LTE
signal strengths, start diminishing in the UEs area, the UE signal signals back to the
eNodeB about the change in the single strengths and the SRVCC handover is
initiated.

The eNodeB then, calculates the best network available to handle the service of the
served UE and sends the request for handover to the MME. In the end of the
request, the eNodeB also specifies that the handover is SRVCC-based. A new voice
call request is then sent to the IMS, using special number known as STN-SR
(Session Transfer Number for SRVCC). STN-SR is a unique number that is
generated for each UE and is stored in the HSS. This number is sent to the MME, by
the HSS when the UE first contacts is the network.

Receiving the STN-SR number indicates the SCC-AS that the corresponding call
needs to be routed, to a different network and it starts the redirection process to the
legacy end point. After the resource preparation is complete, the MME confirms the
handover request, provided earlier by the eNodeB.

The eNodeB then transmits this confirmation to the UE, and also provide the
required information about the target network. In the final steps, the UE is detected
in the legacy networks, and the call is re-established with the UE. In this figure, we
see the UE after the completion of the SRVCC handover. Voice packets and non-
voice packets can be handed over using this method. Although, data rates will be
limited by the capabilities of the legacy network.

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