4G POOL and GW Selection

Course Objectives

 Upon finishing the course, you will be able to ：

 Know what is 4G Pool
 Know the machanism of GW selection

2
 4G Pool Topologty

EnodeB

3
© ZTE Corporation. All rights reserved
 4G Pool Connection
4G POOL have below features:
1. All EnodeB will connect to all MME in one pool.
2. All MME will connect to all SGW and PGW in one pool.
3. All SGW will connect to all PGW in one pool.
4. All EnodeB will accessable to all SGW for user plane.

How MME select SGW and PGW ？

1. MME select SGW to serve UE based on UE's TA.
2. MME select PGW to serve UE based on UE's APN.

What is the configuration for MME select SGW and PGW ？

MME select SGW :
ADD EPCHOST:NAME ="tac-lb01.tac-hb00.tac.epc.mnc002.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org" ,SERVICE ="x-3gpp-
sgw" ,HOST ="sgw85.epc.mnc002.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org" ,IPADDR ="115.169.135.159" ,PROTOCOL ="x-s5-
gtp"&"x-s8-gtp"&"x-s11" ;

MME select PGW :

ADD EPC APN:APN ="zte.com.apn.epc.mnc002.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org" ,HOST
="pgw85.epc.mnc002.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org" ,IPADDR ="115.169.135.160" ,SERVICE ="x-3gpp-
pgw" ,PROTOCOL ="x-s5-gtp"&"x-s8-gtp" ;

4
© ZTE Corporation. All rights reserved
 4G Pool Connection Machanism
MME selection priority:
When MME connect to all SGW and PGW, same TAC need point to all SGW and same APN will point to all PGW.
we need use weight and priority to opimize it.
MME select SGW priority configuratin :
ADD HOST SUBNET PRI:NAME="tac-lb01.tac-hb00.tac.epc.mnc002.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org",
SNPRI="45.1.234.4"-32-2;
MME select PGW priority configuratin :
ADD EPC APN SUBNET PRI:APN="zte.com.apn.epc.mnc222.mcc333.3gppnetwork.org",SNPRI="6.0.87.0"-23-5;

How EnodeB select MME ？

1. EnodeB select MME based on MME weight

What is the configuration for MME weight configuration ？

SET COMBOCFG:MMEWEIGHT=100;
Weight Description:
When one EnodeB connect to three MME (MME-A, MME-B and MME-C), MME-A weight is 100, MME-B weight
also is 100 and MME-C weight is 200, then EnodeB will distribute 100*100%/(100+100+200)=25% persentage
traffic to MME-A, 25% persentage traffic to MME-B and 50% traffic to MME-C.
When we want offline one MME, we just need to set the weight to zero.

5
© ZTE Corporation. All rights reserved
 4G Topon function Machanism
Topon function backgroud:
ZTE SGW and PGW deployed on same hardware. If traffic go through same hardware platform SGW and PGW,
traffic actually only go through one node. But if traffic go through different hardware platform SGW and PGW,
the traffic will go through two hardware node, the latency will increase. So the best way is make sure one UE will
use same hardware platform SGW and PGW. This is the Topon's function and purpose.

Topon function machanism

1. If want to enable topon function , we need put all PGW have same priority.
2. when MME select one SGW and MME will use this SGW hostname to compare with all highest priority PGW
hostname. Match the two host names from the back to the front.
3. MME will select one PGW which its hostname is most similar with the SGW hostname.
4. If we want MME select same hardware platform SGW and PGW, we need configure their hostname are most
similar than others.

For example:
SGW01 hostname : topon.s11.saegw1.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org
SGW02 hostname : topon.s11.saegw2.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org
PGW01 hostname : topon.pgw-s5.saegw2.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org.
PGW02 hostname : topon.pgw-s5.saegw1.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org.
PGW03 hostname : topon.pgw-a11.saegw1.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org.
If we enabled Topon function, SGW01 will select PGW02 and PGW03, SGW02 will select PGW01

6
© ZTE Corporation. All rights reserved
 4G Topon function Implementation
How to enable Topon function:
1. All SGW and PGW hostname need start from label “Topon”.
2. If we use DNS for SGW and PGW selection resolution, we need enable MME SRV query:
SET SOFTWARE PARAMETER:PARAID=786685,PARAVALUE=1;

3. Enable Topon function in MME

SET PACKET DOMAIN PARAMETER:TOPOLOGY="YES";

4. MME judge PGW availabe or not

SET SOFTWARE PARAMETER:PARAID=786601,PARAVALUE=1;
SET SOFTWARE PARAMETER:PARAID=786602,PARAVALUE=1;
SET SOFTWARE PARAMETER:PARAID=786605,PARAVALUE=1;
SET SOFTWARE PARAMETER:PARAID=786550,PARAVALUE=10800;

5. SGW need to charge all TA in one POOL

ADD SGW:SGWNAME="topon.s11.saegw1.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org.",GRPLIST=1;
ADD SGW:SGWNAME="topon.s11.saegw2.gz.gd.node.epc.mnc000.mcc460.3gppnetwork.org.",GRPLIST=1;
SYNA

Below documents describe all Topon machanism and implementation.

ZXUN uMAC
MME Engineering Implementation Guide on GE Selection_R1.9.docx

7
© ZTE Corporation. All rights reserved