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Mobile Terminated Roaming Forwarding for LTE CSFB

As described in a previous post one of the issues with LTE CSFB is what happens when
the UE falls back to the target RAT but the the LA is not same as the one the UE is
registered in during the combined attach procedure. This typically occurs on the borders
of Location Areas (LA) and Tracking Areas (TA) or when the target layer is 3G and the
UE can only acquire 2G (e.g. indoors).

In order to avoid MT call setup failures, operators must implement either MTRR (Mobile
Terminating Roaming Retry) described here or MTRF (Mobile Terminating Roaming
Forwarding) which will be described in this post.

The signalling FLOW for MTRF is shown above (click to enlarge) and essentially
consists of 3 phases.

Phase 1 and phase 2 are identical to the MTRR signalling FLOW , with the exception
that the network elements involved must support MTRF and signal as such with the
applicable IE (MTRF Supported) defined in the specs.

In phase 3 however rather than cancelling the call setup procedure and re-initiating it
towards the "new" MSC like MTRR, with MTRF the old MSC is used as a relay and the
call setup procedure continues with an additional PRN & IAM procedure.

So essentially MTRF manages to cut down the signalling FLOW and the whole MT
procedure completes in 3 phases as opposed to 4. This results in a reduced call setup
delay and as such better customer experience.

In the final post on the subject I will describe the IWF solution which overcomes the
problem of misaligned LA & TA (and a number of other issues) with the inclusion of an
additional core network element.

Posted by radio access blogger at 15:26

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