ATIS/3GPP Common IMS Emergency Calling

Randall Gellens
Qualcomm Incorporated
randy@qualcomm.com

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 ATIS in Brief…
• Established in 1983, a technical planning and standards development
organization committed to rapidly developing and promoting global
technical and operations standards for the Information and
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• Uses a market-driven pragmatic, flexible and open approach to develop
end-to-end, implementable, interoperable standards and a broad array of
solutions.
• 250+ ATIS Member Companies Represent a Wide Cross Section of the
Global Information, Entertainment, and Communications Industry.
– With more than 20 committees and over 600 participants, ATIS actively formulates
worldwide technical and operations standards for the global ICT Industry
– The CTO/Senior Executive Level Board of Directors identifies priorities, needs and
opportunities at the intersection of business and technology
• North American Organizational Partner for the 3rd Generation
Partnership Project (3GPP), a member of and major contributor to the
ITU-R/ITU-T, and a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication
Commission (CITEL).
• Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
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 ATIS/3GPP IMS EC Architecture

• IMS is upper-layer control-plane signaling

– Uses SIP
– Same for all access types (e.g., UMTS, eHRPD, LTE)
– Wireless and wired (i.e., fixed, nomadic, mobile)
– Supports authorization, charging, services, etc.
– Handles call setup and teardown (using SIP signaling)
– Handles media path allocation/deallocation
• Location determination may differ by access
– SUPL is User Plane and does not differ by access type
– Control Plane (CP) location differs by access type

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 IMS Elements, Oversimplified
• User equipment (UE)
• Call Session Control Functions (SIP proxies)
– Proxy-, Emergency-, Serving-, Interrogating-
• Various specialized functional elements
– Location Retrieval Function (LRF)
• Includes Route Determination Function (RDF)
– Emergency Access Transfer Function (EATF)
• Anchors media for Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (SRVCC) between
Circuit Switched (CS) and Packet Switched (PS) modes
– Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF) – for CS interworking
– Media Gateway (MGW) – for CS interworking
• Home and visited (serving) networks
– P-CSCF, E-CSCF, LRF, and EATF always in serving network for
emergency calls

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 IMS Emergency Call Architecture

Le (e.g. E2)
LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

from 3GPP TS 23.167 11.0.1 2011-01-04

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ESInet
Termination

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 Architecture for IMS w/ Location
GMLC
E-SMLC
LRF ECRF
SLP

UE eNodeB MME P-CSCF E-CSCF ESRP i3

PSAP

ESInet

S-CSCF

ECRF Emergency Call Routing Function

Serving PDN
Gateway Gateway ESRP Emergency Services Routing Proxy
SIP related signaling
Voice/data
VPLMN (Visited Public Land Mobile Network) Control Plane (CP) LCS Signaling
SUPL LCS Signaling
Not yet defined
• VPLMN contains 3GPP and OMA architecture elements
• ESInet contains NENA i3 architecture elements
• VPLMN-to-ESInet interfaces are being evaluated by ATIS
• UE and internal VPLMN interfaces are defined by 3GPP and OMA
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 IMS Network
Call Flow Example ESInet

UE P-CSCF S-CSCF E-CSCF ESRP PSAP

Emergency registration (depending on circumstances)

SIP INVITE with emergency indication

Session setup and

Retrieve location initial media
exchange

Retrieve route

SIP INVITE

SIP 200 OK

Exchange media in the User Plane

Session and media

SIP BYE Release

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 3GPP IMS Emergency Call Status

• Release 9: Supports IP based emergency calls for voice and can support
Real Time Text (e.g. using TTY if there is handover to the CS domain)
• Release 10: Enhancements added to support emergency calls using
private numbering in an Enterprise network
• Release 11 and later:
– Non-Voice Emergency Services (NOVES)
– Improved support for location by reference is expected
– Network-provided cell ID for more reliable PSAP routing is expected
• ATIS:
– North American (NA) specific standards to augment 3GPP IMS solution
• E.g., define portions that are left to national variation or need more detail
• WTSC Issue P0030: “Implementation of 3GPP Common IMS Emergency Procedures
for IMS Origination and ESInet/Legacy Selective Router Termination”

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 Differences from IETF ECRIT (1)

• IMS Originating device

– Performs emergency registration (unless UE knows it is in
home network and already registered)
– Does not need to obtain own location
– No provision for performing LoST query
– Only SUPL and/or CP support required for location for
mobile UE

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 Differences from IETF ECRIT (2)
• Originating IMS network
– Must be capable of performing position determination
• Since originating device may not supply location
• May choose to validate a location supplied by device
– How location is delivered to PSAP
• Location-by-value vs. location-by-reference
– Route determination (especially for mobile)
• Not specified in 3GPP (no mention currently of ECRF)
• ATIS is expected to specify for North America
– Support for delivering calls to ESInet (SIP/IMS) and legacy CS
– No LIS
• LRF performs location dereference function (resolve location URI)
• No mechanism for originating device to obtain own location
• Location validation function (for fixed) not in scope for ATIS

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 Thank You

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 Abbreviations
• CP: Control Plane
• CS: Circuit Switched
• E-CSCF: Emergency Call Session Control
Function
• EATF: Emergency Access Transfer
Function
• E-SMLC: Evolved Serving Mobile Location
Server
• eHRPD: Evolved High-Rate Packet Data
• EVDO: Evolution – Data Optimized
• HRPD: High-Rate Packet Data
• GMLC: Gateway Mobile Location Center
• I-CSCF: Interrogating Call Session Control
Function
• IMS: IP Multimedia Subsystem
• IP: Internet Protocol
• MGCF: Media Gateway Control Function
• MGW: Media Gateway
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• LTE: Long-Term Evolution
• LRF: Location Retrieval Function
• P-CSCF: Proxy Call Session Control
Function
• PS: Packet Switched
• RDF: Route Determination Function
• S-CSCF: Serving Call Session Control
Function
• SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
• SLP: SUPL Location Platform
• SUPL: Secure User-Plane Location
• UE: User Equipment
• UMTS: Universal Mobile Telephone
Service
• UP: User Plane
• VCC: Voice-Call Continuity
• VPLMN: Visited Public Land Mobile
Network
 Backup Slides

• Call flows in more detail

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 Generalized Call Flow

Le (e.g. E2)
LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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 Ingress attributes
• Directory Number • maybe: L-by-V (PIDF-LO)
• MDN/MSISDN • maybe: L-by-R (Location URI, pANI, etc.)
• Cell ID

Le (e.g. E2)
LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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 Location Retrieval

• Cell Site Location

• Lat/Lon Location
Le (e.g. E2)
• Civic Location LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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 Routing Determination
• ESRK/ESQK
• PSAP URI
(Routing URI)

RDF Le (e.g. E2)

LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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 Call Delivery
• Directory Number
• ESRK/ESQK
• PIDF-LO
• Location URI
Le (e.g. E2)
LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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 Location acquisition
← DN, ESRK, ESQK, URI
→ E2 format, PIDF-LO
E2, HELD
Le (e.g. E2)
LRF from PSAP
From private
network via
MI to PSAP or ECS
IBCF/I-CSCF Mx/Mw
(via IBCF/IP
Mm/Mx
multimedia
Network)
Gm Mw
UE P-CSCF E-CSCF Mi/Mg
to PSAP
(via PSTN
I4 via BGCF/
Mw
MGCF)
From AS Mw EATF from I-CSCF
I5

ISC/Mw

Mm/Mx/Mw
S-CSCF from PSAP

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