The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management; as identified below:

• TS 32.441: "Trace Management Integration Reference Point (IRP); Requirements".
• TS 32.442: "Trace Management Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS)".
• TS 32.446: "Trace Management Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions".

The present document is part of a TS-family which describes the requirements and information model necessary for the Telecommunication Management (TM) of 3G systems. The TM principles and TM architecture are specified in TS 32.101 and TS 32.102. Trace provides very detailed information on call level for a specific subscriber or MS. This data is an additional information source to Performance Measurements and allows deeper investigations in problems solving or in case of optimization.

The present document specifies the overall requirements for the Trace Management Integration Reference Point (TraceIRP) as it applies to Itf-N. The Trace IRP supports the operations that are required for the Subscriber and Equipment trace, the Service Level Trace, the Cell Traffic Trace, Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT) functionalities across UMTS networks or EPS networks and Radio Link Failure (RLF) reporting functionalities across EPS networks GSM Trace is outside of the scope of this specification.. All functions (trace, MDT etc.) specified in this specification supports Network Sharing, with the following condition:

1. It is accepted that the recorded information from the shared network can be sent to any of the operators sharing the network, taking user consent into account. Operators must also agree on sharing the information, but how that agreement is done is outside the scope of this specification. The mapping of TCE IP addresses and TCE addresses must be coordinated among the operators that shares the network. How that coordination is done is outside the scope of this specification..
2. For signalling based activation, the operators that share a network must coordinate the TCE IP addresses and the TCE address mapping must be coordinated. How that coordination is done, is outside the scope of this specification.
3. The 3GPP Managment reference model, TS 32.101 is followed.