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 32.443 "Trace Management Integration Reference Point (IRP): Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Solution Set (SS)".
• TS 32.445 "Trace Management Integration Reference Point (IRP): eXtensible Markup Language (XML) file format definition".

The present document is part of a TS-family which describes the information service 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 describes the mechanism used for control and configuration of the Trace, Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) and Radio Link Failure (RLF) reporting functionality through Itf-N. This specification is applicable to UMTS networks and EPS networks. GSM Trace is outside of the scope of this specification. The conditions for supporting Network Sharing are stated in TS 32.441.