BICC BICC

Protocols
(SS7) Bearer Independent Call Control, ITU-T Q.1901
LTE-EPC AND IMS REFERENCE CPE
Diameter
DNS
Diameter RFC 3588, RFC 3589, RFC 4006, RFC 4740
DNS Domain Name System, RFC 1035 Interfaces LEGEND BGCF (another network) SGW 23.228
GTPv2-C GTPv2-C GPRS Tunneling Protocol ver.2 Control Plane, 29.274
GTP-U GTPv1-U GPRS Tunneling Protocol User Plane, 29.281 LTE Traffic and Signaling PLMN
HTTP
IP
HTTP
IP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, RFC 2616
Internet Protocol, RFC 791
User Traffic (indeterminate) 23.228 PSTN
LTE Signaling
ISUP
L1
ISUP
L1
(SS7) ISDN User Part, ITU-T Q.763
(SS7) Layer 1 (unspecified) IMS Media Plane MGCF
M3UA M3UA MTP3 User Adaptation Layer, RFC 4666 IMS Session Control Plane
MEGACO MEGACO Media Gateway Control Protocol, ITU-T H.248 IMS Media Control Mj
MTP2 MTP2 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 2, ITU-T Q.703
Service Control SIP
MTP3 MTP3 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 3, ITU-T Q.703 Acronyms and Nodes
IMS Application Plane UDP TCP SCTP
RTP RTP Real-Time Transport Protocol, RFC 3550
S1AP S1AP S1 Application Protocol, 36.413 PSTN Signaling BGCF AF
AS
Application Function
Application Server
SCTP SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol, RFC 4960 Charging Control 23.228
SIP SIP Session Initiation Protocol, RFC 3261 BGCF Breakout Gateway Control Function
Virtual Interfaces (different colors) CPE Customer Premise Equipment
TCP TCP Transmission Control Protocol, RFC 793
DNS Domain Name System
TDM TDM (PSTN) Time Division Multiplexing
ENUM E.164 Number Mapping
UDP UDP User Datagram Protocol, RFC 768
E-UTRAN Evolved UTRAN
Not Specified Not Specified (proprietary)
Mb HSS Home Subscriber Server

HSS 23.002
Payload
MGW I-CSCF Interrogating Call Session Control Function
MME RTP
UDP 23.228
IMS
ISC
IP Multimedia Subsystem
IMS Service Control
23.002 MGCF Media Gateway Control Function
MGW Media Gateway
UE 23.228 MME Mobility Management Entity
MRFC Media Resource Function Controller
MRFP MRFP Media Resource Function Processor
OCS Online Charging System
23.002 SPR AS 23.228 OFCS Offline Charging System
PCEF Policy and Charging Enforcement Function
Subscriber’s PCRF Policy and Charging Rules Function
service P-CSCF Proxy Call Session Control Function
management PDN Packet Data Network
Not Specified

23.228 P-GW PDN Gateway

Sp

PLMN Public Land Mobile Network

Subscriber’s SIP-
MRFC
GTPv2-C

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network

UDP
S11

based registrations
and session control S-CSCF Serving Call Session Control Function

Payload
Mb
SGW Signaling Gateway
PCRF

UDP
RTP
S-GW Serving Gateway
E-UTRAN 23.203
I-CSCF
SPR Subscription Profile Repository

23.228 3GPP Interfaces and Technical Specifications

Interface Nodes Technical Specifications
TCP SCTP
Diameter

Cx CSCF HSS 29.228. 29.229

Subscriber’s
Gx

Gm UE P-CSCF 23.002, RFC 3261

IMS-based
Gx PCEF PCRF 29.212
media stream
Gy PCEF OCS 32.299
AF Gz PCEF OFCS 32.299
S5 S-CSCF ISC S-CSCF AS 23.228
23.228 Mb RTP-based Bearer 29.162, RFC 4867
P-GW/PCEF Mg MGCF CSCF 23.002, RFC 3261
23.002; 23.401; 23.402/ Mi CSCF BGCF 23.002, RFC 3261
23.203
P-CSCF Mj BGCF MGCF 23.002, RFC 3261
S5 23.228 Mk BGCF BGCF 23.002, RFC 3261
Mn MGCF MGW 29.332, ITU-T H.248
Payload GTPv2-C Mp MRFC MRFP 29.333, ITU-T H.248
GTP-U UDP DNS Mr S-CSCF MRFC 23.002, RFC 3261
S-GW UDP Mw I-CSCF, P-CSCF, S-CSCF 23.002, RFC 3261
23.002 HSS ENUM Rx AF PCRF 29.214
S5 RFC 6116; S1-MME E-UTRAN (eNB) MME 36.412, 36.413
23.228 S1-U E-UTRAN (eNB) S-GW 36.414, 29.281
RFC 6117 S5 S-GW P-GW 29.274 (control plane)
29.281 (user plane)
Subscriber’s IP S6a MME HSS 29.272
Network Access
Payload
IP S11 MME S-GW 29.274
SGi P-GW PDN 29.061
OCS IP
TCP UDP
Network Sh HSS AS 29.328, 29.329
Sp SPR PCRF 23.203
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23.203; 32.251; 32.296 OFCS 23.203; 32.251 Ut UE AS RFC 2616
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