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1 WRFD-150215 SRVCC from LTE to UMTS with PS

Handover
Availability
This feature is available from RAN15.0.

Summary
This feature is part of the UMTS/LTE interoperability solution. This feature must be
supported by the UEs, radio access network (RAN), and core network (CN). Huawei
RAN supports the single radio voice call continuity (SRVCC) from LTE to UMTS with
PS handover.

Benefits
With this feature, SRVCC is supported from the RAN side.
This feature ensures voice service continuity by allocating VoIP services and PS
services (or default PS bearers) from the LTE network to the UMTS network.

Description
In the initial phase of LTE network construction, the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is
not deployed and IMS VoIP cannot be used to provide emergency and common voice
call service. Therefore, it is required that the UE fall back to the UMTS network
through the circuit switched fallback (CSFB) with PS handover.
After deployed with IMS, the LTE network supports Voice over Internet Protocol
(VoIP) services. When a UE performing VoIP services on the LTE network moves out
of the LTE coverage, if there is UMTS coverage, the UE should be handed over to the
UMTS network for voice service continuity. When a UE is performing VoIP services
on the LTE network, there must be at least one PS bearer. The reason is that there must
be a default PS bearer for a UE in connected mode on the LTE network, even if the UE
is not performing PS services. When SRVCC from LTE to UMTS is being performed,
the PS bearers will also be handed over to the UMTS network.
Based on network configuration, the LTE network selects one handover scheme to
perform an LTE-to-UMTS handover. Candidate handover schemes are as follows:
 CS-only SRVCC, which is called SRVCC from LTE to UMTS without PS
handover. That is, VoIP services are first handed over to the CS domain of the
UMTS network through the switchover of the core network, while PS bearers are
transferred to the UMTS network through a routing area update (RAU) procedure.
From the perspective of UMTS RAN, the process is only an inter-RAT CS
handover.
 PS+CS SRVCC, which is called SRVCC from LTE to UMTS with PS handover.
That is, through the switchover of the core network, VoIP and PS services are
handed over to the CS and PS domains of the UMTS network, respectively. From
the perspective of UMTS RAN, the process is an inter-RAT CS+PS handover.
The first handover scheme has already been supported by Huawei RAN. The last
handover scheme will be implemented by this feature.
Enhancement
 RAN16.0
For an emergency-call SRVCC handover, this feature improves its admission
priority and supports resource preemption, thereby preferentially guaranteeing the
continuity of emergency calls.
 RAN17.1
For a combined-service SRVCC handover, the following is true:
− The RNC preferentially allocates the PS bearer of an incoming PS handover
request to HSPA+ channels. If the admission fails, the RNC performs channel
fallback to HSPA or R99, thereby ensuring a high PS service rate and a high
incoming handover preparation success rate.
− If the RNC receives an incoming CS handover request and a PS incoming
handover request expires, the RNC separately admits the incoming CS
handover request to increase the SRVCC handover preparation success rate.

Dependency
 RNC
None
 NodeB
None
 UE
The UE must support 3GPP Release 8 or later and also support SRVCC.
 Other Network Units
The eRAN must support SRVCC.
 CN
The CN must support SRVCC.
 Other Features
None