Content for TS 29.337 Word version: 18.0.0
1 Scope p. 6
The present document describes the Diameter based interface between the Machine Type Communications-InterWorking Function (MTC-IWF) and the Short Message Service-Service Centre (SMS-SC) for communications with packet data networks and applications.
This specification defines the Diameter application for the T4 reference point between the MTC-IWF and the SMS-SC. The interactions between the MTC-IWF and the SMS-SC are specified.
MTC-IWF and SMS-SC (SMS-IWMSC) may also support the Diameter application for the SGd reference point to exchange SGd-OFR and SGd-OFA commands via T4. The stage 3 description for the SGd Diameter application is specified in TS 29.338.
The stage 2 description for communications with packet data networks and applications (architecture and functionality) is specified in the TS 23.682.
2 References p. 6
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
- References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non-specific.
- For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
- For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
[1]
TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2]
TS 23.682: "Architecture enhancements to facilitate communications with packet data networks and applications".
[3] Void.
[4]
TS 33.210: "3G Security; Network Domain Security; IP Network Layer Security".
[5]
RFC 4960: "Stream Control Transmission Protocol".
[6]
TS 29.229: "Cx and Dx interfaces based on the Diameter protocol".
[7]
TS 29.228: "IP multimedia (IM) Subsystem Cx and Dx Interfaces; Signalling flows and Message Elements".
[8]
TS 23.003: "Numbering, addressing and identification".
[9]
TS 23.040: "Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS)".
[10]
RFC 5234: "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF".
[11]
TS 29.329: "Sh Interface based on the Diameter protocol".
[12]
TS 29.336: "Home Subscriber Server (HSS) diameter interfaces for interworking with packet data networks and applications".
[13]
TS 29.338: "Diameter based protocols to support SMS capable MMEs".
[14]
TS 29.173: "Diameter-based SLh interface for Control Plane LCS".
[15]
TS 29.368: "Tsp interface protocol between the MTC Interworking Function (MTC-IWF) and Service Capability Server (SCS)".
[16]
TS 29.272: "Mobility Management Entity (MME) and Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) related interfaces based on Diameter protocol".
[17]
RFC 4006: "Diameter Credit-Control Application".
[18]
RFC 7944: "Diameter Routing Message Priority".
[19]
RFC 6733: "Diameter Base Protocol".
3 Definitions and Abbreviations p. 7
3.1 Abbreviations p. 7
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 and the following apply. An abbreviation defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same abbreviation, if any, in TR 21.905.
ABNF
Augmented Backus-Naur Form
AVP
Attribute-Value Pair
C
Conditional
DRMP
Diameter Routing Message Priority
DSCP
Differentiated Services Code Point
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
MTC
Machine-Type Communications
MTC-IWF
MTC Interworking Function
O
Optional
SCS
Service Capability Server
SMSF
Short Message Service Function
UDM
Unified Data Management
4 General Description p. 7
The T4 reference point between the MTC-IWF and the SMS-SC is an intra PLMN interface, as defined in the TS 23.682.
This document describes the T4 interface related procedures, message parameters and protocol specifications.
The T4 interface allows transfer of device trigger from MTC-IWF to SMS-SC inside HPLMN domain, along with the serving SGSN/MME/MSC/SMSF identities, and allows SMS-SC to report to MTC-IWF the submission outcome of a device trigger and the success or failure of delivering the device trigger to the UE.
