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4G Training Course

LTE eRAN16.1 Automatic OMCH for

Non-IPSec Scenario
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Objectives

• Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the principle of Automatic OMCH Establishment for Non-IPSec Scenario.

• Outline the procedure of Automatic OMCH Establishment for Non-IPSec Scenario.

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1. Automatic OMCH Establishment Principle Overview

3. Automatic OMCH Establishment Procedure in Non-IPsec Networking Scenarios

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Overview

• Operation and maintenance channels (OMCHs) are established between base stations and the operation
maintenance center (OMC), for instance, MAE or U2020.

• The Automatic OMCH Establishment feature enables a powered-on base station, which is configured with
hardware but no transmission information, to obtain OMCH configuration information through the
transport network and automatically establish an OMCH to the MAE.

• The base station can then automatically download software and configuration files/configuration data from
the MAE over the established OMCH and activate them. After being commissioned, the base station enters
the working state.

• The Automatic OMCH Establishment feature applies to base station deployment by PnP
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Benefits

• A base station can establish OMCHs by network communication (not requiring local end operations). This
enables remote base station deployment by PnP, thereby reducing site visits and deployment cost and time.

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Phase of Automatic OMCH Establishment

• After the Automatic OMCH Establishment the eNodeB is ready to be remotely commissioned
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Question

• Before an OMCH is established, a base station is not configured with any data and cannot perform end-to-
end communication with other devices at the IP layer. To implement this communication, the base station
needs to obtain the following information:

1. OMCH configuration data, including the OM IP address

2. OM VLAN ID
3. Interface IP address and interface IP address mask
4. IP address of the next-hop gateway
5. IP address of the MAE and IP address mask of the MAE

How the eNodeB will obtain these informations?

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1. Automatic OMCH Establishment Principle Overview

3. Automatic OMCH Establishment Procedure in Non-IPsec Networking Scenarios

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 DHCP

The base station uses DHCP to obtain the preceding information. DHCP is used to allocate and distribute
configuration parameters and adopts the client/server mode:

The DHCP procedure involves the following logical NEs:

DHCP client, a host that uses DHCP to obtain configuration parameters

DHCP server, a host that allocates and distributes configuration parameters to a DHCP client

DHCP relay agent, an NE that transmits DHCP packets between a DHCP server and a DHCP client.

After a DHCP client accesses the network, it actively exchanges DHCP packets with its DHCP server to obtain
configuration parameters.

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol to automate the process of configuring devices on IP networks
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 DHCP
Base station identifier:

ESN identifies the baseband unit (BBU) backplane of the base station. Each backplane has a unique ESN. The
ESN is reported by the base station.

Deployment ID (DID) is the site identifier planned by the operator. DID is scanned into the base station using a
barcode scanner connected to the USB port of the main control board during base station deployment.

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol is a protocol to automate the process of configuring devices on IP networks

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 DHCP Process (with the DHCP Relay Agent)
This networking has the following characteristics:

1)The DHCP server is not deployed on the L2 network of the base station.

2) The DHCP relay agent is deployed on the next-hop gateway of the base station.

3) IPsec does not secure OMCH data.

MAE

MAE DHCP Server

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 DHCP Process (with the DHCP Relay Agent)

1) The DHCP relay agent converts DHCP packets broadcast by the base station into unicast packets.
2) DHCP relay route the packets to the DHCP server.
3) The DHCP server sends unicast response packets to the DHCP relay agent
4) DHCP Relay broadcasts received response packets on the L2 network to the base station

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 Automatic OMCH Establishment procedure

1) MAE request the OMCH establishment request to the base station gateway
2) The gateway send a ARP packet to the Base Stations
3) Throughout DHCP process, one IPv4 transmission configuration is close between Base Station to MAE
4) The OMCH channel is established

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 Questions

1) What is the advantages to use Automatic OMCH Configuration?

2) Which network protocol is used to send OMCH information from MAE to the Base Station
3) In the case of MAE and Base Station has been in a different broadcast domain, which kind of OMCH
Establishment Procedure must be used?

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