ETSI EG 202 090 V1.1.2 (1999-03)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST-V ETSI/EG 202 090 V1.1.2:2005
01-januar-2005
Širokopasovno digitalno omrežje z integriranimi storitvami (B-ISDN) –
Medobratovalnost signalizacij H.323/B-ISDN
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN); H.323/B-ISDN signalling
interoperability
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EG 202 090 Version 1.1.2
ICS:
33.080 Digitalno omrežje z Integrated Services Digital
integriranimi storitvami Network (ISDN)
(ISDN)
SIST-V ETSI/EG 202 090 V1.1.2:2005 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EG 202 090 V1.1.2 (1999-03)
ETSI Guide
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN);
H.323/B-ISDN signalling interoperability

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Reference
DEG/SPS-05173 (jco00ide.PDF)
Keywords
ATM, audio, B-ISDN, broadband, interoperability,
IP, ISDN, multimedia, speech, video
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 6
Foreword. 6
1 Scope. 7
2 References . 7
3 Abbreviations. 9
4 Introduction. 10
4.1 Overview of H.323 and related recommendations. 10
4.1.1 H.323 concept and entities . 10
4.1.2 Channels defined in H.323 . 11
4.1.3 Protocols and related standards. 11
4.1.4 Call procedures . 12
4.1.5 Fast connect. 13
4.1.6 Inter-domain signalling . 13
4.2 Overview of modelling work relating to B-ISDN signalling . 13
4.3 Overview of B-ISDN signalling - combined call/bearer control. 15
4.4 Overview of B-ISDN signalling - separated call and bearer control. 15
5 Related work. 16
5.1 ECMA TC32-TG15 and ETSI SPS5 WG5. 16
5.2 ITU-T Study Group 16 . 17
5.3 ETSI project TIPHON. 17
5.3.1 General. 17
5.3.2 Gateway functional decomposition . 19
5.4 ATM Forum SAA/RMOA . 20
5.5 ECMA TC32-TG13. 20
5.6 IETF. 20
5.6.1 SIP. 20
5.6.2 IPTEL. 20
5.6.3 E.164 Birds of a Feather activity. 20
5.6.4 NAVDEC. 20
6 H.323 and modelling of B-ISDN signalling . 20
7 H.323 interworking via a gateway with B-ISDN separated call and bearer control . 21
7.1 Scenarios. 21
7.2 Protocol interworking architecture. 23
7.2.1 Scenario 1. 23
7.2.1.1 Sub-scenario 1a - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - LAN-based H.323 environment . 23
7.2.1.2 Sub-scenario 1b - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - IP-over-ATM-based H.323
environment without H.323 annex C . 24
7.2.1.3 Sub-scenario 1c - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - use of H.323 annex C in H.323
environment. 25
7.2.2 Scenario 2. 25
7.2.2.1 Sub-scenario 2a - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - LAN-
based H.323 environment . 25
7.2.2.2 Sub-scenario 2b - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - IP-over-
ATM-based H.323 environment without H.323 annex C . 26
7.2.2.3 Sub-scenario 2c - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - use of
H.323 annex C in H.323 environment . 27
7.2.3 Scenario 3. 27
7.2.3.1 Sub-scenario 3c - end-to-end session/resource control protocols - use of H.323 annex C in H.323
environment. 27
7.3 Session control in B-ISDN environment. 28
7.4 Resource control in B-ISDN environment. 28
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7.5 Call establishment. 29
7.6 Bearer establishment. 29
7.7 Addressing . 30
7.7.1 Addressing in H.323. 30
7.7.2 Addressing in B-ISDN and B-PISN. 31
7.7.3 Address interworking between H.323 and B-ISDN . 31
7.8 Message sequences for basic communication establishment . 32
7.8.1 Scenarios 1a and 1b. 32
7.8.2 Scenario 1c. 34
7.8.3 Scenarios 2a and 2b. 35
7.8.4 Scenario 2c. 37
7.8.5 Scenario 3c. 39
7.9 Generic Functional Protocol . 40
7.10 Supplementary services. 40
7.10.1 Introduction. 40
7.10.2 Supplementary services in scenario 1. 41
7.10.3 Supplementary services in scenario 2. 41
7.10.4 Supplementary services in scenario 3. 41
7.10.5 Areas for further work. 42
7.11 Conferencing. 42
7.12 Impact of T.120 . 42
8 H.323 interworking via a gateway with B-ISDN combined call/bearer control . 42
8.1 Scenarios. 43
8.2 Protocol interworking architecture. 45
8.2.1 Scenario 1. 45
8.2.1.1 Sub-scenario 1a - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - LAN-based H.323 environment . 45
8.2.1.2 Sub-scenario 1b - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - IP-over-ATM-based H.323
environment without H.323 annex C . 45
8.2.1.3 Sub-scenario 1c - null session/resource control in B-ISDN - use of H.323 annex C in H.323
environment. 45
8.2.2 Scenario 2. 45
8.2.2.1 Sub-scenario 2a - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - LAN-
based H.323 environment . 46
8.2.2.2 Sub-scenario 2b - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - IP-over-
ATM-based H.323 environment without H.323 annex C . 46
8.2.2.3 Sub-scenario 2c - each environment operates own session/resource control protocols - use of
H.323 annex C in H.323 environment . 46
8.2.3 Scenario 3. 46
8.2.3.1 Sub-scenario 3c - end-to-end session/resource control protocols - use of H.323 annex C in H.323
environment. 46
8.3 Session control in B-ISDN environment. 47
8.4 Resource control in B-ISDN environment. 47
8.5 Call/bearer establishment. 47
8.6 Addressing . 47
8.7 Message sequences for basic communication establishment . 48
8.7.1 Scenarios 1a and 1b. 48
8.7.2 Scenario 1c. 49
8.7.3 Scenarios 2a and 2b. 50
8.7.4 Scenario 2c. 52
8.7.5 Scenario 3c. 53
8.8 Generic functional protocol . 53
8.9 Supplementary services. 54
8.10 Conferencing. 54
8.11 Impact of T.120 . 54
9 Summary of interworking scenarios in 7 and 8 . 54
9.1 Scenario 1 . 54
9.2 Scenario 2 . 54
9.3 Scenario 3 . 55
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10 Application of B-ISDN separated protocols to gatekeeper-to-gatekeeper communication. 55
11 Connection of remote H.323 environments via B-ISDN. 55
11.1 Case 1 - full interworking . 56
11.2 Case 2 - tunnelling . 56
11.2.1 Scenario T1 - tunnelling of session and resource control protocols . 56
11.2.1.1 Scenario T1.1 - tunnelling of session and resource control protocols through B-ISDN. 56
11.2.1.2 Scenario T1.2 - transmission of session and resource control protocols through IP network, by-
passing B-ISDN. 57
11.2.2 Scenario T2 - tunnelling of session control protocol only. 57
11.2.3 Scenario T3 - tunnelling of resource control protocol only. 57
11.2.3.1 Scenario T3.1 - tunnelling of resource control protocol through B-ISDN. 57
11.2.3.2 Scenario T3.2 - transmission of resource control protocol through IP network, by-passing
B-ISDN. 58
11.2.4 Additional considerations when endstations employ H.323 annex C (native IP network or IP over
ATM network) . 58
11.2.5 Conclusions on tunnelling scenarios . 58
12 Co-existence of H.323 annex C and B-ISDN signalling in the same network. 59
13 Impact of H.323 on future mobility protocols. 59
13.1 Introduction . 59
13.2 Mobility concepts . 59
13.3 Mobility architecture. 60
13.4 Virtual Home Environment (VHE). 61
14 Conclusions and recommendations . 62
Bibliography . 64
History. 65
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Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information
pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
in SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in respect
of ETSI standards", which is available free of charge from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the
ETSI Web server (http://www.etsi.org/ipr).
Pursuant to the ETSI IPR Policy, no investigation, including IPR searches, has been carried out by ETSI. No guarantee
can be given as to the existence of other IPRs not referenced in SR 000 314 (or the updates on the ETSI Web server)
which are, or may be, or may become, essential to the present document.
Foreword
This ETSI Guide (EG) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Signalling Protocols and Switching (SPS).
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1 Scope
The present document is to investigate the interoperability of H.323 and B-ISDN signalling environments with a view to
identifying possible standardization activities in this area. The following aspects of interoperability are investigated:
• the interworking of H.323 and B-ISDN environments, both separated and combined, via a gateway;
• the connection of remote H.323 environments via B-ISDN;
• the use of H.323 annex C (H.323 on ATM), including the co-existence of H.323 annex C and B-ISDN signalling
in the same network and possible future enhancement of annex C;
• the application of the B-ISDN separated call control protocol to gatekeeper-to-gatekeeper communication;
• the impact of H.323 on future mobility protocols.
For each of the above, due consideration is given to the following: addressing impact (including use of IP addressing);
conferencing models; T.120 data impact; basic call procedures; generic functional procedures (GFP) and supplementary
services; end-to-end resource and session level protocols.
Possible future standardization activities resulting from the present document will include H.323 work items as well as
B-ISDN signalling work items.
2 References
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, subsequent revisions do apply.
• A non-specific reference to an ETS shall also be taken to refer to later versions published as an EN with the same
number.
[1] ECMA-155 (1997): "Private Integrated Services Networks - Addressing".
[2] ECMA-254 (1996): "B-PISN - Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol - Generic Functional Protocol
(B-QSIG-GF)".
[3] ATM Forum P-NNI V1.0 (1996): "Private Network-Network Interface Specification Version 1.0
(af-pnni-0055.000)".
[4] ATM Forum UNI 4.0 (1996): "ATM User-Network Interface (UNI) Signalling Specification
Version 4.0 (af-sig-0061.000)".
[5] Void.
[6] TR 101 300 (V1.1): "Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Network
(TIPHON); Description of technical issues".
[7] TS 101 313: "Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks
(TIPHON); Network architecture and reference configurations; Scenario 2".
[8] TS 101 324 (V1.1): "Telecommunications and Internet Protocol Harmonization Over Networks
(TIPHON); Naming and addressing; Scenario 1".
[9] IETF RFC 1483 (1993): "Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5".
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[10] IETF RFC 1577 (1994): "Classical IP and ARP over ATM".
[11] ISO/IEC 13247 (1997): "Information technology - Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems - Broadband Private Integrated Services Network - Inter-exchange signalling
protocol - Basic call/connection control".
[12] ISO/IEC 11571: "Information technology - Telecommunications and information exchange
between systems - Numbering and sub-addressing in private integrated services networks".
[13] ITU-T Recommendation H.225.0 (1998): "Call signalling protocols and media stream
packetization for packet based multimedia communication systems".
[14] ITU-T Recommendation H.245 (1998): "Control protocol for multimedia communication".
[15] ITU-T Recommendation H.323 (1998): "Packet based multimedia communication systems".
[16] ITU-T Recommendation H.450.1 (1998): "Generic functional protocol for the support of
supplementary services in H.323".
[17] ITU-T Recommendation H.450.2 (1998): "Call transfer supplementary service for H.323".
[18] ITU-T Recommendation H.450.3 (1998): "Call diversion supplementary service for H.323".
[19] ITU-T Recommendation Q.2726.1 (1996): "B-ISDN user part - ATM end system address".
[20] ITU-T Recommendation Q.2931 (1995): "Digital Subscriber Signalling system No. 2 (DSS 2) -
User-Network Interface (UNI) Layer 3 specification for basic call/connection control".
[21] ITU-T Recommendation Q.2932.1 (1996): "Digital subscriber signalling system No. 2 - Generic
functional protocol: Core functions".
[22] ITU-T Recommendation Q.931 (1993): "ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for
basic call control".
[23] ITU-T Recommendation T.120 (1996): "Data protocols for multimedia conferencing".
[24] Void.
[25] Void.
[26] Void.
[27] ITU-T Recommendation H.235: "Security and encryption for H-Series (H.323 and other
H.245-based) multimedia terminals".
[28] ITU-T Recommendation G.711: "Pulse code modulation (PCM) of voice frequencies".
[29] ITU-T Recommendation G.723.1: "Dual rate speech coder for multimedia communications
transmitting at 5.3 and 6.3 kbit/s".
[30] ITU-T Recommendation G.728: "Coding of speech at 16 kbit/s using low-delay code excited linear
prediction".
[31] ITU-T Recommendation G.729: "Coding of speech at 8 kbit/s using conjugate-structure
algebraic-code-excited linear-prediction".
[32] ITU-T Recommendation H.261: "Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbit/s".
[33] ITU-T Recommendation H.263: "Video coding for low bit rate communication".
[34] ITU-T Recommendation E.164: "The international public telecommunication numbering plan".
[35] ITU-T Recommendation Q. 2761: "Functional description of the B-ISDN user part (B-ISUP) of
signalling system No. 7".
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[36] ITU-T Recommendation Q. 2762: "General Functions of messages and signals of the B-ISDN user
part (B-ISUP) of Signalling System No. 7".
[37] ITU-T Recommendation Q. 2763: "Signalling System No. 7 B-ISDN User Part (B-ISUP) -
Formats and codes".
[38] ITU-T Recommendation Q. 2764: "Signalling System No. 7 B-ISDN User Part (B-ISUP) - Basic
call procedures".
[39] ITU-T Recommendation H.246: "Interworking of H-Series multimedia terminals with H-Series
multimedia terminals and voice/voiceband terminals on GSTN and ISDN".
[40] ATM Forum UNI 3.1: "ATM User-Network Interface Specification V3.1".
[41] ITU-T Recommendation E.191: "B-ISDN numbering and addressing".
3 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the following abbreviations apply:
AESA ATM End System Address
AFI Authority and Format Identifier
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BC Bearer Control
B-HLI Broadband6 High Layer Information
B-ISDN Broadband-ISDN
B-ISUP Broadband-ISDN User Part
B-PISN Broadband-PISN
CC Call Control
CN Core Network
DC
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