SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009
(Main)Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN) - Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) - Protocol specification
- Abstract
1 Interpretation of package support was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.14. 2.Interaction between filters after latching occurred was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.18.1.1.1. 3.Semantics for ignore was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.15 and 5.16. 4 Further identified corrections needed.
- Status
- Published
- Publication Date
- 08-Oct-2009
- Technical Committee
- SPN - Services and Protocols for Networks
- Current Stage
- 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
- Start Date
- 02-Oct-2009
- Due Date
- 07-Dec-2009
- Completion Date
- 09-Oct-2009
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ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-07) - Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN); Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS); Protocol specification
ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-09) - Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN); Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS); Protocol specification
ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 is an ETSI H.248 profile for controlling Border Gateway Functions (BGF) at the Ia reference point in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS). It specifies how the Service Policy Decision Function (SPDF) uses the Gateway Control Protocol (H.248.1) to control gates, address and port translation, bandwidth handling, statistics, and related border-gateway behavior for IP-to-IP media paths.
The standard is aimed at implementers of BGF, Media Gateway (MG), and Media Gateway Controller (MGC) functions in TISPAN/NGN architectures. In practice, it tells you which H.248 version, packages, descriptors, commands, transports, and procedures to support so the SPDF and BGF can interwork predictably.
What does SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 specify?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 defines a profile of H.248.1 Version 3 for controlling BGF functions, as defined in ES 282 003. The profile is used on the Ia reference point between the SPDF and the BGF, including both Core-BGF (C-BGF) and Interconnect BGF (I-BGF) cases.
The document is organized into a short set of front sections and a detailed profile body. Clause 4 covers applicability and architecture, clause 5 gives the profile description, and annexes A to E provide usage guidelines, comparisons, an IP processing example, and Ia-to-Gq' mapping guidance.
| Annex | What it covers |
|---|---|
| A | Border gateway guidelines and the relationship between gates and H.248 Streams |
| B | Comparison between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 and TS 102 333 (GCP) |
| C | Comparison with Ia Profile Version 1 |
| D | Example IP processing model for an H.248 (IP, IP) Context and filter interaction |
| E | Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping for session-independent procedures and bearer-specific events |
What are the key requirements of SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 is not a general H.248 tutorial. It tightly profiles the protocol for BGF control, so the practical question is whether an implementation supports the exact context model, descriptors, packages, transport, and procedure set used by this application.
Profile basics and context model
- Clause 5.1 identifies the profile as ETSI_BGF version 2, and clause 5.3 requires ITU-T Recommendation H.248.1 Version 3.
- Clause 5.4 limits the connection model to provisioned contexts with a maximum of 2 terminations per context and only the termination-type combination (IP, IP).
- Clause 5.5 allows the Priority Indicator and Emergency Indicator context attributes, which matters for admission decisions and emergency handling.
- In practice, this means the profile is for point-to-point IP media contexts, not a general multi-termination switching model.
Commands, encoding, transport, and security
- Table 35 in clause 5.8 shows the command set used in the profile: Add, AuditValue, Modify, Notify, ServiceChange, and Subtract.
- The same table shows how commands are associated with Root and IP terminations, and where wildcarding is supported. That is important for bulk auditing and cleanup operations.
- Clause 5.9 requires text encoding, with both Short Token Notation and Long Token Notation accepted on a control association.
- Clause 5.10 limits a transaction message to one request, one reply, one TransResponseAck, or one Segment Reply per message, and allows up to 2 commands per transaction request or reply.
- Clause 5.12 lists SCTP as the recommended transport and UDP as optional. Clause 5.13 states that no security mechanism is supported in the profile.
- In practice, implementers need to match both signaling behavior and transport behavior, especially if they rely on UDP monitoring or segmentation.
Packages and profile behavior
- Clause 5.14 lists the package usage for the profile. The optional package set includes MPLS, VLAN, MGC Information, Inactivity Timer, Segmentation, RTP, Application Data Inactivity Detection, IP Domain Connection, Media Gateway Overload Control, Hanging Termination Detection, and Statistic Conditional Reporting.
- Several packages are tied to specific functions: adid reports media inactivity, ipdc supports IP realm/domain indication, ocp supports overload control, hangterm supports hanging termination detection, and scr supports conditional statistics reporting.
- Clause 5.2 shows the main supported functions: gate opening and closing, NAPT address and port translation, IPv4/IPv6 interworking, topology hiding, hosted NAT traversal, packet marking, bandwidth reservation and policing, usage metering, transcoding, and inactive bearer detection.
- In practice, this is the part that tells a buyer or engineer whether the BGF can actually enforce policy and monitor bearer behavior the way the RACS design expects.
Session-dependent and session-independent procedures
- Clauses 5.17.1, 5.18, 5.19, and 5.20 describe the procedures the profile expects for session setup, mid-session change, auditing, notifications, and recovery.
- The session-dependent procedures cover Add Termination, Session Establishment Update, Mid-Session Update, auditing, notification of MG events, and Delete Session/Termination. They are the operational core for creating, changing, and removing IP bearer contexts.
- The profile also defines non-session-related use cases such as Enable MG, Disable MG, Disable Termination, MG failure and recovery, MGC failure and recovery, user plane failure, MGC-MG control association failure and recovery, MG overload, MGC hand-off, and MGC re-direct.
- In practice, this means the profile is not just about individual H.248 messages. It also fixes the behavior around boot, recovery, overload, and service change so both sides recover consistently.
What terms does SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 define?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 defines the BGF, MG, MGC, GATE, and related RACS terms used throughout the profile.
- BGF - A packet-to-packet gateway for user-plane media traffic that also performs policy enforcement and NA(P)T functions under SPDF control.
- GATE - A transport-plane function that enables or disables unidirectional IP packet forwarding under specified conditions, such as QoS.
- MG - The Media Gateway role used by the BGF in this profile to apply the H.248 control model to IP media traffic.
- MGC - The Media Gateway Controller role that sends H.248 commands and receives notifications, audits, and replies.
- SPDF - The Service Policy Decision Function that interacts with the BGF at the Ia reference point to request services and apply policy decisions.
- IP-to-IP Interworking Modes - The classification of how SDP media descriptions are interpreted at the BGF, either media-agnostic or media-aware.
Who uses SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 is used by engineers, system integrators, and equipment vendors working on TISPAN/NGN RACS architectures. It is also relevant to quality managers and test teams that need to verify H.248 interoperability at the SPDF-BGF interface.
In practice, the standard is used when designing or testing BGF control for access/core boundaries, interconnect gateways, NAT traversal, QoS marking, bandwidth reservation, and session recovery. It matters to anyone who has to make sure the SPDF and BGF exchange the same H.248 procedures and support the same packages.
What changed in SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 from the previous edition?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 is the upversioned Ia profile relative to ES 283 018 V1.1.4. Annex C states that QoS monitoring is now supported through H.248 statistics, the TerminationID structure retains the ip/// form while separating the meaning of “interface” from IP realm/domain indication, and clause 5.16 adds guidance for SDP usage.
The scope note also records later clarifications from ITU-T SG-16 that affect package support interpretation, filter interaction after latching, and the semantics of “ignore”, together with further identified corrections in clauses 5.14, 5.18.1.1.1, 5.15, and 5.16.
Which standards are used with SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009?
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 relies on a small set of base, package, architecture, and mapping documents. The most important ones are the H.248 core protocol, the TISPAN RACS architecture, and the package documents used by this profile.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.1 - the base Gateway Control Protocol, including Version 3 and its token and stream model.
- ETSI ES 282 003 - the RACS functional architecture that defines the BGF role and the Ia reference point.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.45 - provides the MGC Information package used for MGC-related audit and recovery behavior.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.40 - provides the Application Data Inactivity Detection package used for media inactivity reporting.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.14 - provides the Inactivity Timer package, especially relevant for UDP control associations.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.11 - provides the Media Gateway Overload Control package.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.41 - provides the IP Domain Connection package used for realm and domain indication.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248.52 - provides QoS support packages.
- ETSI TS 102 333 - the earlier Gate Control Protocol profile used for comparison in Annex B.
- ETSI TR 183 025 - the non-call related procedures and management-system interaction guide used for the session-independent procedures.
- IETF RFC 2327 - Session Description Protocol (SDP), used for media description.
- IETF RFC 4301 - Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, used in the abbreviation list for IPsec.
- IETF RFC 3550 - RTP, relevant to real-time media handling and statistics.
- ETSI ES 282 001 - the NGN functional architecture, used for the overall BGF placement.
- ITU-T Recommendation H.248 Sub-series Implementers' Guide - used in clause 5.14 for package meaning and package property interpretation.
What does the SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 document contain?
The document contains profile tables, support matrices, and worked H.248 message sequences rather than just abstract requirements. Clause 5 includes tables for profile identification, connection model, context attributes, command support, descriptor support, transport, transaction limits, and package usage.
It also includes detailed procedure clauses with examples for Add, Modify, Update, Audit, Notify, ServiceChange, and Subtract behavior. The annexes add diagrams for gate-to-stream relationships, an IP processing model, filter interaction, and Ia-to-Gq' mapping guidance, which makes the profile usable for implementation and interoperability testing.
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SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 is a standard published by the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST). Its full title is "Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN) - Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem (RACS) - Protocol specification". This standard covers: 1 Interpretation of package support was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.14. 2.Interaction between filters after latching occurred was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.18.1.1.1. 3.Semantics for ignore was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.15 and 5.16. 4 Further identified corrections needed.
1 Interpretation of package support was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.14. 2.Interaction between filters after latching occurred was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.18.1.1.1. 3.Semantics for ignore was further clarified by ITU-T SG-16 after Ia v2 was approved. This means text in Ia v2 needs to be updated correspondingly. Affects clause 5.15 and 5.16. 4 Further identified corrections needed.
SIST ES 283 018 V2.7.1:2009 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 33.040.01 - Telecommunication systems in general; 33.080 - Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN). The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.
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Final draft ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-07)
ETSI Standard
Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and
Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN);
Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling
Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and
Admission Control Subsystem (RACS);
Protocol specification
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Reference
RES/TISPAN-03176-NGN-R2
Keywords
H.248, interface
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 8
Foreword . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 References . 9
2.1 Normative references . 9
2.2 Informative references . 10
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 11
3.1 Definitions . 11
3.2 Abbreviations . 13
4 Applicability . 14
4.1 Architecture . 14
4.2 Border Gateway Guidelines . 14
5 Profile description . 15
5.1 Profile identification . 15
5.2 Summary . 15
5.3 Gateway Control Protocol Version . 15
5.4 Connection model. 16
5.5 Context attributes . 16
5.6 Terminations . 16
5.6.1 Termination names . 16
5.6.1.1 IP Termination . 16
5.6.1.1.1 Overview and prose specification . 16
5.6.1.1.2 Syntactical Specification . 19
5.6.2 Multiplexed terminations . 19
5.7 Descriptors . 19
5.7.1 TerminationState descriptor . 19
5.7.2 Stream descriptor . 20
5.7.2.1 LocalControl descriptor . 20
5.7.3 Events descriptor . 20
5.7.4 EventBuffer descriptor . 21
5.7.5 Signals descriptor . 21
5.7.6 DigitMap descriptor . 22
5.7.7 Statistics descriptor . 22
5.7.8 ObservedEvents descriptor . 22
5.7.9 Topology descriptor . 22
5.7.10 Error descriptor . 23
5.8 Command API . 23
5.8.1 Add . 24
5.8.2 Modify . 24
5.8.3 Subtract . 24
5.8.4 Move . 25
5.8.5 AuditValue . 25
5.8.6 AuditCapabilities . 25
5.8.7 Notify . 25
5.8.8 ServiceChange . 25
5.8.9 Manipulating and auditing context attributes . 26
5.9 Generic command syntax and encoding . 26
5.10 Transactions . 27
5.11 Messages . 27
5.12 Transport . 27
5.13 Security . 28
5.14 Packages . 28
5.14.1 Overview . 28
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5.14.2 Package usage information . 29
5.14.2.1 Generic (g) . 29
5.14.2.2 Base root (root) . 30
5.14.2.3 Network (nt) . 31
5.14.2.4 Differentiated Services (ds) . 32
5.14.2.5 Gate Management (gm) . 33
5.14.2.6 Traffic management (tman) . 34
5.14.2.7 IP NAPT Traversal (ipnapt) . 34
5.14.2.8 MPLS (mpls) . 35
5.14.2.9 VLAN (vlan) . 35
5.14.2.10 MGC Information (mgcinfo) . 36
5.14.2.11 Inactivity (it) . 36
5.14.2.12 Segmentation (seg) . 37
5.14.2.13 RTP (rtp) . 38
5.14.2.14 Application Data Inactivity Detection (adid) . 38
5.14.2.15 IP Domain Connection (ipdc) . 39
5.14.2.16 Media Gateway Overload Control (ocp) . 39
5.14.2.17 Hanging Termination Detection (hangterm) . 40
5.14.2.18 Statistic Conditional Reporting (scr) . 40
5.15 Mandatory support of SDP and annex C information elements . 41
5.16 Optional support of SDP and annex C information elements . 42
5.17 Overview of Procedures . 43
5.17.1 Overview of Session Dependent Procedures . 43
5.17.1.1 Gate control . 44
5.17.1.2 Allocation and translation of IP addresses, ports and versions (NAPT-PT) . 46
5.17.1.3 Support of Hosted NAT Traversal . 47
5.17.1.4 QoS marking . 47
5.17.1.4.1 Copying DSCP/ToS values from the ingress to egress . 47
5.17.1.4.2 Auditing the "Per-Hop Behaviour" . 47
5.17.1.5 Bandwidth control - Reservation, Allocation and Policing . 47
5.17.1.5.1 Admission Control. 48
5.17.1.5.2 Traffic Descriptor . 48
5.17.1.5.3 Bandwidth reservation and allocation . 48
5.17.1.5.4 Bandwidth policing . 49
5.17.1.5.5 Non-specification of tman properties . 49
5.17.1.6 Usage metering and statistics reporting. 49
5.17.1.6.1 Statistics for Media/Transport-agnostic IP packets . 49
5.17.1.6.2 Traffic Volume related Statistics . 49
5.17.1.7 RTCP Handling . 50
5.17.1.7.1 RTCP Transport Address Allocation . 50
5.17.1.7.2 RTP/RTCP to-H.248 Stream Mapping . 51
5.17.1.8 RTCP Forwarding . 51
5.17.1.8.1 Conditions for RTCP packet policing . 51
5.17.1.8.2 Forwarding of regular RTCP traffic . 51
5.17.1.8.3 Handling of RTCP XR/HR traffic . 51
5.17.1.9 Media Inactivity . 51
5.17.1.10 IP Realm/Domain Indication . 52
5.17.1.10.1 Codepoint and format/encoding . 52
5.17.1.10.2 Unsuccessful indication . 52
5.17.1.10.3 Fix assignment per termination lifetime . 52
5.17.1.10.4 Number of IP Realms/Domains . 52
5.17.1.11 Two-Stage BGF Resource Reservation . 53
5.17.1.12 Hanging Termination Detection . 53
5.17.1.13 Real Time Statistics Reporting . 53
5.17.1.14 Transcoding . 54
5.17.1.14.1 Media types and formats (Codecs) . 54
5.17.1.14.2 Decision for transcoding . 54
5.17.1.15 Void. 54
5.17.1.16 VPN identification . 54
5.17.1.16.1 VLAN marking . 54
5.17.2 Overview of Session Independent Procedures . 55
5.17.2.1 Introduction - Relation to TR 183 025 [i.2] . 55
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5.17.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 55
5.17.2.3 MG Overload Control: Rate limitation of H.248 Messages from MGC-to-MG . 55
5.18 Session Dependent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 55
5.18.1 Add Termination . 56
5.18.1.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port . 57
5.18.1.1.1 Conditions for Address Policing: SAF, SPF, SAM, SPR, SPRR . 59
5.18.1.1.2 Assigning IP Domain/Realm to Termination . 60
5.18.1.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port - Examples. 61
5.18.1.2 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port. 62
5.18.1.2.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port - Examples . 65
5.18.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr . 66
5.18.1.3.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr - Examples . 68
5.18.1.4 Add Termination - Select Local Addr . 69
5.18.1.4.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr - Examples . 70
5.18.1.5 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port . 71
5.18.1.5.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port -
Examples . 72
5.18.2 Session Establishment Update . 72
5.18.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known . 73
5.18.2.1.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples . 75
5.18.2.2 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known . 78
5.18.2.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known - Examples . 79
5.18.2.3 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect . 80
5.18.2.3.1 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect - Examples . 82
5.18.2.4 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port . 83
5.18.2.4.1 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port - Examples . 86
5.18.2.5 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change . 87
5.18.2.5.1 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples . 89
5.18.2.6 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream. 89
5.18.2.6.1 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 92
5.18.3 Mid-Session Update . 92
5.18.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change . 92
5.18.3.1.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples. 95
5.18.3.2 Mid-Session Update - Media Change . 96
5.18.3.2.1 Mid-Session Update - Media Change - Examples . 98
5.18.3.3 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change . 99
5.18.3.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change - Examples . 102
5.18.3.4 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known . 103
5.18.3.4.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples. 106
5.18.3.5 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream . 107
5.18.3.5.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream - Examples . 110
5.18.3.6 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream . 111
5.18.3.6.1 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 112
5.18.3.7 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local
Addr and Port . 115
5.18.3.7.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no
Local Addr and Port - Examples . 116
5.18.4 Auditing . 117
5.18.4.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit . 117
5.18.4.1.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit - Example . 118
5.18.4.2 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit . 119
5.18.4.2.1 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit - Example . 120
5.18.5 Notification of MG Events . 120
5.18.5.1 Notification of IP Media Stop . 120
5.18.5.2 Notification of Hanging Termination . 121
5.18.5.3 Notification of Statistic Conditional Reporting . 122
5.18.6 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1.1 Delete Session/Termination - Examples . 124
5.18.6.2 Delete Session/Termination - Wildcarded Reply . 127
5.18.6.2.1 Delete Session - Wildcarded Reply - Examples . 127
5.19 Non-Session Related Use Cases . 127
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5.19.1 Enable MG . 128
5.19.1.1 Enable MG (at MGC). 128
5.19.1.2 Enable MG (at MG) . 128
5.19.1.2.1 Enable MG (at MG): Cold Boot . 129
5.19.1.2.2 Enable MG (at MG): Warm Boot . 130
5.19.2 Enable MGC . 131
5.19.3 Disable MG (Graceful) . 131
5.19.3.1 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MGC) . 131
5.19.3.2 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MG) . 132
5.19.4 Disable MG (Immediate) . 132
5.19.4.1 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MGC) . 132
5.19.4.2 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.5 Disable MGC . 133
5.19.6 Enable Termination. 133
5.19.7 Disable Termination (Graceful) . 133
5.19.8 Disable Termination (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.9 MG Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.10 MG Termination Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.11 MGC Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.12 User Plane Failure . 135
5.19.13 MGC-MG Control Association Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.14 MG Overload . 138
5.19.15 MGC Overload . 139
5.19.16 MGC Hand-Off . 139
5.19.17 MGC Re-Direct . 139
5.19.18 MG Failover. 140
5.20 Session Independent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 140
5.20.1 MG Registration (Cold Boot) . 141
5.20.2 MG Restoration . 142
5.20.3 Packages Audit . 142
5.20.4 Context Audit. 143
5.20.5 MG Termination Available . 144
5.20.6 MG Termination Unavailable . 144
5.20.7 Audit Termination State . 145
5.20.8 Set ROOT Termination Events/Properties . 145
5.20.9 MGC Initiated Service Restoration . 146
5.20.10 Check MG Availability . 146
5.20.11 MG Service Cancellation (Graceful) . 147
5.20.12 MG Service Cancellation (Immediate) . 147
5.20.13 MGC Hand-Off . 148
5.20.14 MG Re-Registration (Hand-Off) . 149
5.20.15 MG Termination OOS Graceful . 149
5.20.16 MGC Overload Notification . 149
5.20.17 Registration Redirect . 150
5.20.18 User Plane Failure . 151
5.20.19 ROOT Event Notification . 152
5.20.20 MG Lost Communication (Disconnected) . 152
5.20.21 MG Lost Communication (Failover) . 153
5.20.22 MG Redundant Takeover (Primary) . 153
5.20.23 Void . 153
5.20.24 MG Re-Registration (Restart) . 154
5.20.25 Wildcarded Subtract . 154
5.20.26 MG Redundant Takeover (Secondary) . 155
5.20.27 MGC Initiated Service Cancellation . 155
5.20.28 Audit Service State . 155
5.20.29 Audit ROOT Properties . 155
Annex A (informative): Illustration of Gate/Pinhole Concept . 156
A.1 General . 156
A.2 Relationships between gates and H.248 Streams . 156
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Annex B (informative): Comparison between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and
TS 102 333 (GCP) . 157
B.1 General . 157
B.2 Differences between TS 102 333 (GCP) and ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) . 157
Annex C (informative): Comparison with Ia Profile Version 1 . 158
C.1 General . 158
C.2 Differences between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (Ia Profile
Version 2) . 158
Annex D (informative): Illustration of an IP processing model for an H.248 (IP, IP) Context . 160
D.1 Example model . 160
D.2 Aspects of filter interaction . 162
D.2.1 Interaction between address latching and address policing . 162
Annex E (informative): Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping . 164
E.1 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to session-independent procedures . 164
E.1.1 Introduction . 164
E.1.2 Mapping guidelines . 164
E.1.2.1 Session-dependent procedures . 164
E.1.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 165
E.2 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to bearer-specific events . 165
E.2.1 Introduction . 165
E.2.2 Mapping guidelines . 166
E.2.2.1 Guidelines for Specific Action AVPs . 166
E.2.2.2 Other AVPs . 166
Annex F (informative): Bibliography . 167
Annex G (informative): Change history . 168
History . 169
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pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for ETSI members and non-members, and can be found
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Foreword
This ETSI Standard (ES) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Telecommunications and Internet
converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN), and is now submitted for the ETSI standards
Membership Approval Procedure.
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9 Final draft ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-07)
1 Scope
The present document defines a profile of the Gateway Control Protocol (H.248.1) to be used for controlling Border
Gateway Functions (BGF), as defined in ES 282 003 [2].
2 References
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• Non-specific reference may be made only to a complete document or a part thereof and only in the following
cases:
- if it is accepted that it will be possible to use all future changes of the referenced document for the
purposes of the referring document;
- for informative references.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
2.1 Normative references
The foll
...
ETSI Standard
Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and
Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN);
Resource and Admission Control:
H.248 Profile for controlling
Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and
Admission Control Subsystem (RACS);
Protocol specification
2 ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-09)
Reference
RES/TISPAN-03176-NGN-R2
Keywords
H.248, interface
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 8
Foreword . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 References . 9
2.1 Normative references . 9
2.2 Informative references . 10
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 11
3.1 Definitions . 11
3.2 Abbreviations . 13
4 Applicability . 14
4.1 Architecture . 14
4.2 Border Gateway Guidelines . 14
5 Profile description . 15
5.1 Profile identification . 15
5.2 Summary . 15
5.3 Gateway Control Protocol Version . 15
5.4 Connection model. 16
5.5 Context attributes . 16
5.6 Terminations . 16
5.6.1 Termination names . 16
5.6.1.1 IP Termination . 16
5.6.1.1.1 Overview and prose specification . 16
5.6.1.1.2 Syntactical Specification . 19
5.6.2 Multiplexed terminations . 19
5.7 Descriptors . 19
5.7.1 TerminationState descriptor . 19
5.7.2 Stream descriptor . 20
5.7.2.1 LocalControl descriptor . 20
5.7.3 Events descriptor . 20
5.7.4 EventBuffer descriptor . 21
5.7.5 Signals descriptor . 21
5.7.6 DigitMap descriptor . 22
5.7.7 Statistics descriptor . 22
5.7.8 ObservedEvents descriptor . 22
5.7.9 Topology descriptor . 22
5.7.10 Error descriptor . 23
5.8 Command API . 23
5.8.1 Add . 24
5.8.2 Modify . 24
5.8.3 Subtract . 24
5.8.4 Move . 25
5.8.5 AuditValue . 25
5.8.6 AuditCapabilities . 25
5.8.7 Notify . 25
5.8.8 ServiceChange . 25
5.8.9 Manipulating and auditing context attributes . 26
5.9 Generic command syntax and encoding . 26
5.10 Transactions . 27
5.11 Messages . 27
5.12 Transport . 27
5.13 Security . 28
5.14 Packages . 28
5.14.1 Overview . 28
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5.14.2 Package usage information . 29
5.14.2.1 Generic (g) . 29
5.14.2.2 Base root (root) . 30
5.14.2.3 Network (nt) . 31
5.14.2.4 Differentiated Services (ds) . 32
5.14.2.5 Gate Management (gm) . 33
5.14.2.6 Traffic management (tman) . 34
5.14.2.7 IP NAPT Traversal (ipnapt) . 34
5.14.2.8 MPLS (mpls) . 35
5.14.2.9 VLAN (vlan) . 35
5.14.2.10 MGC Information (mgcinfo) . 36
5.14.2.11 Inactivity (it) . 36
5.14.2.12 Segmentation (seg) . 37
5.14.2.13 RTP (rtp) . 38
5.14.2.14 Application Data Inactivity Detection (adid) . 38
5.14.2.15 IP Domain Connection (ipdc) . 39
5.14.2.16 Media Gateway Overload Control (ocp) . 39
5.14.2.17 Hanging Termination Detection (hangterm) . 40
5.14.2.18 Statistic Conditional Reporting (scr) . 40
5.15 Mandatory support of SDP and annex C information elements . 41
5.16 Optional support of SDP and annex C information elements . 42
5.17 Overview of Procedures . 43
5.17.1 Overview of Session Dependent Procedures . 43
5.17.1.1 Gate control . 44
5.17.1.2 Allocation and translation of IP addresses, ports and versions (NAPT-PT) . 46
5.17.1.3 Support of Hosted NAT Traversal . 47
5.17.1.4 QoS marking . 47
5.17.1.4.1 Copying DSCP/ToS values from the ingress to egress . 47
5.17.1.4.2 Auditing the "Per-Hop Behaviour" . 47
5.17.1.5 Bandwidth control - Reservation, Allocation and Policing . 47
5.17.1.5.1 Admission Control. 48
5.17.1.5.2 Traffic Descriptor . 48
5.17.1.5.3 Bandwidth reservation and allocation . 48
5.17.1.5.4 Bandwidth policing . 49
5.17.1.5.5 Non-specification of tman properties . 49
5.17.1.6 Usage metering and statistics reporting. 49
5.17.1.6.1 Statistics for Media/Transport-agnostic IP packets . 49
5.17.1.6.2 Traffic Volume related Statistics . 49
5.17.1.7 RTCP Handling . 50
5.17.1.7.1 RTCP Transport Address Allocation . 50
5.17.1.7.2 RTP/RTCP to-H.248 Stream Mapping . 51
5.17.1.8 RTCP Forwarding . 51
5.17.1.8.1 Conditions for RTCP packet policing . 51
5.17.1.8.2 Forwarding of regular RTCP traffic . 51
5.17.1.8.3 Handling of RTCP XR/HR traffic . 51
5.17.1.9 Media Inactivity . 51
5.17.1.10 IP Realm/Domain Indication . 52
5.17.1.10.1 Codepoint and format/encoding . 52
5.17.1.10.2 Unsuccessful indication . 52
5.17.1.10.3 Fix assignment per termination lifetime . 52
5.17.1.10.4 Number of IP Realms/Domains . 52
5.17.1.11 Two-Stage BGF Resource Reservation . 53
5.17.1.12 Hanging Termination Detection . 53
5.17.1.13 Real Time Statistics Reporting . 53
5.17.1.14 Transcoding . 54
5.17.1.14.1 Media types and formats (Codecs) . 54
5.17.1.14.2 Decision for transcoding . 54
5.17.1.15 Void. 54
5.17.1.16 VPN identification . 54
5.17.1.16.1 VLAN marking . 54
5.17.2 Overview of Session Independent Procedures . 55
5.17.2.1 Introduction - Relation to TR 183 025 [i.2] . 55
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5.17.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 55
5.17.2.3 MG Overload Control: Rate limitation of H.248 Messages from MGC-to-MG . 55
5.18 Session Dependent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 55
5.18.1 Add Termination . 56
5.18.1.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port . 57
5.18.1.1.1 Conditions for Address Policing: SAF, SPF, SAM, SPR, SPRR . 59
5.18.1.1.2 Assigning IP Domain/Realm to Termination . 60
5.18.1.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port - Examples. 61
5.18.1.2 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port. 62
5.18.1.2.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port - Examples . 65
5.18.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr . 66
5.18.1.3.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr - Examples . 68
5.18.1.4 Add Termination - Select Local Addr . 69
5.18.1.4.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr - Examples . 70
5.18.1.5 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port . 71
5.18.1.5.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port -
Examples . 72
5.18.2 Session Establishment Update . 72
5.18.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known . 73
5.18.2.1.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples . 75
5.18.2.2 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known . 78
5.18.2.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known - Examples . 79
5.18.2.3 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect . 80
5.18.2.3.1 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect - Examples . 82
5.18.2.4 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port . 83
5.18.2.4.1 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port - Examples . 86
5.18.2.5 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change . 87
5.18.2.5.1 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples . 89
5.18.2.6 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream. 89
5.18.2.6.1 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 92
5.18.3 Mid-Session Update . 92
5.18.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change . 92
5.18.3.1.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples. 95
5.18.3.2 Mid-Session Update - Media Change . 96
5.18.3.2.1 Mid-Session Update - Media Change - Examples . 98
5.18.3.3 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change . 99
5.18.3.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change - Examples . 102
5.18.3.4 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known . 103
5.18.3.4.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples. 106
5.18.3.5 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream . 107
5.18.3.5.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream - Examples . 110
5.18.3.6 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream . 111
5.18.3.6.1 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 112
5.18.3.7 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local
Addr and Port . 115
5.18.3.7.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no
Local Addr and Port - Examples . 116
5.18.4 Auditing . 117
5.18.4.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit . 117
5.18.4.1.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit - Example . 118
5.18.4.2 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit . 119
5.18.4.2.1 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit - Example . 120
5.18.5 Notification of MG Events . 120
5.18.5.1 Notification of IP Media Stop . 120
5.18.5.2 Notification of Hanging Termination . 121
5.18.5.3 Notification of Statistic Conditional Reporting . 122
5.18.6 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1.1 Delete Session/Termination - Examples . 124
5.18.6.2 Delete Session/Termination - Wildcarded Reply . 127
5.18.6.2.1 Delete Session - Wildcarded Reply - Examples . 127
5.19 Non-Session Related Use Cases . 127
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5.19.1 Enable MG . 128
5.19.1.1 Enable MG (at MGC). 128
5.19.1.2 Enable MG (at MG) . 128
5.19.1.2.1 Enable MG (at MG): Cold Boot . 129
5.19.1.2.2 Enable MG (at MG): Warm Boot . 130
5.19.2 Enable MGC . 131
5.19.3 Disable MG (Graceful) . 131
5.19.3.1 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MGC) . 131
5.19.3.2 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MG) . 132
5.19.4 Disable MG (Immediate) . 132
5.19.4.1 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MGC) . 132
5.19.4.2 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.5 Disable MGC . 133
5.19.6 Enable Termination. 133
5.19.7 Disable Termination (Graceful) . 133
5.19.8 Disable Termination (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.9 MG Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.10 MG Termination Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.11 MGC Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.12 User Plane Failure . 135
5.19.13 MGC-MG Control Association Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.14 MG Overload . 138
5.19.15 MGC Overload . 139
5.19.16 MGC Hand-Off . 139
5.19.17 MGC Re-Direct . 139
5.19.18 MG Failover. 140
5.20 Session Independent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 140
5.20.1 MG Registration (Cold Boot) . 141
5.20.2 MG Restoration . 142
5.20.3 Packages Audit . 142
5.20.4 Context Audit. 143
5.20.5 MG Termination Available . 144
5.20.6 MG Termination Unavailable . 144
5.20.7 Audit Termination State . 145
5.20.8 Set ROOT Termination Events/Properties . 145
5.20.9 MGC Initiated Service Restoration . 146
5.20.10 Check MG Availability . 146
5.20.11 MG Service Cancellation (Graceful) . 147
5.20.12 MG Service Cancellation (Immediate) . 147
5.20.13 MGC Hand-Off . 148
5.20.14 MG Re-Registration (Hand-Off) . 149
5.20.15 MG Termination OOS Graceful . 149
5.20.16 MGC Overload Notification . 149
5.20.17 Registration Redirect . 150
5.20.18 User Plane Failure . 151
5.20.19 ROOT Event Notification . 152
5.20.20 MG Lost Communication (Disconnected) . 152
5.20.21 MG Lost Communication (Failover) . 153
5.20.22 MG Redundant Takeover (Primary) . 153
5.20.23 Void . 153
5.20.24 MG Re-Registration (Restart) . 154
5.20.25 Wildcarded Subtract . 154
5.20.26 MG Redundant Takeover (Secondary) . 155
5.20.27 MGC Initiated Service Cancellation . 155
5.20.28 Audit Service State . 155
5.20.29 Audit ROOT Properties . 155
Annex A (informative): Illustration of Gate/Pinhole Concept . 156
A.1 General . 156
A.2 Relationships between gates and H.248 Streams . 156
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Annex B (informative): Comparison between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and
TS 102 333 (GCP) . 157
B.1 General . 157
B.2 Differences between TS 102 333 (GCP) and ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) . 157
Annex C (informative): Comparison with Ia Profile Version 1 . 158
C.1 General . 158
C.2 Differences between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (Ia Profile
Version 2) . 158
Annex D (informative): Illustration of an IP processing model for an H.248 (IP, IP) Context . 160
D.1 Example model . 160
D.2 Aspects of filter interaction . 162
D.2.1 Interaction between address latching and address policing . 162
Annex E (informative): Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping . 164
E.1 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to session-independent procedures . 164
E.1.1 Introduction . 164
E.1.2 Mapping guidelines . 164
E.1.2.1 Session-dependent procedures . 164
E.1.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 165
E.2 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to bearer-specific events . 165
E.2.1 Introduction . 165
E.2.2 Mapping guidelines . 166
E.2.2.1 Guidelines for Specific Action AVPs . 166
E.2.2.2 Other AVPs . 166
Annex F (informative): Bibliography . 167
Annex G (informative): Change history . 168
History . 169
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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 ETSI SR 000 314: "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in
respect of ETSI standards", which is available from the ETSI Secretariat. Latest updates are available on the ETSI Web
server (http://webapp.etsi.org/IPR/home.asp).
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 ETSI 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 Standard (ES) has been produced by ETSI Technical Committee Telecommunications and Internet
converged Services and Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN).
ETSI
9 ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-09)
1 Scope
The present document defines a profile of the Gateway Control Protocol (H.248.1) to be used for controlling Border
Gateway Functions (BGF), as defined in ES 282 003 [2].
2 References
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific.
• For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
• Non-specific reference may be made only to a complete document or a part thereof and only in the following
cases:
- if it is accepted that it will be possible to use all future changes of the referenced document for the
purposes of the referring document;
- for informative references.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
2.1 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of the present document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For non-specific references, the
...
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2009
Zlite telekomunikacijske in internetne storitve ter protokoli za napredno omreženje
(TISPAN) - Krmiljenje vira in pristopa: profil H.248 za krmiljenje funkcij mejnega
prehoda (BGF) v podsistemu za krmiljenje vira in pristopa (RACS) - Specifikacija
protokola
Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and Protocols for Advanced
Networking (TISPAN) - Resource and Admission Control: H.248 Profile for controlling
Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem
(RACS) - Protocol specification
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: ES 283 018 Version 2.7.1
ICS:
33.040.01 Telekomunikacijski sistemi Telecommunication systems
na splošno in general
33.080 Digitalno omrežje z Integrated Services Digital
integriranimi storitvami Network (ISDN)
(ISDN)
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
ETSI Standard
Telecommunications and Internet converged Services and
Protocols for Advanced Networking (TISPAN);
Resource and Admission Control:
H.248 Profile for controlling
Border Gateway Functions (BGF) in the Resource and
Admission Control Subsystem (RACS);
Protocol specification
2 ETSI ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (2009-09)
Reference
RES/TISPAN-03176-NGN-R2
Keywords
H.248, interface
ETSI
650 Route des Lucioles
F-06921 Sophia Antipolis Cedex - FRANCE
Tel.: +33 4 92 94 42 00 Fax: +33 4 93 65 47 16
Siret N° 348 623 562 00017 - NAF 742 C
Association à but non lucratif enregistrée à la
Sous-Préfecture de Grasse (06) N° 7803/88
Important notice
Individual copies of the present document can be downloaded from:
http://www.etsi.org
The present document may be made available in more than one electronic version or in print. In any case of existing or
perceived difference in contents between such versions, the reference version is the Portable Document Format (PDF).
In case of dispute, the reference shall be the printing on ETSI printers of the PDF version kept on a specific network drive
within ETSI Secretariat.
Users of the present document should be aware that the document may be subject to revision or change of status.
Information on the current status of this and other ETSI documents is available at
http://portal.etsi.org/tb/status/status.asp
If you find errors in the present document, please send your comment to one of the following services:
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Copyright Notification
No part may be reproduced except as authorized by written permission.
The copyright and the foregoing restriction extend to reproduction in all media.
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All rights reserved.
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DECT , PLUGTESTS , UMTS , TIPHON , the TIPHON logo and the ETSI logo are Trade Marks of ETSI registered
for the benefit of its Members.
TM
3GPP is a Trade Mark of ETSI registered for the benefit of its Members and of the 3GPP Organizational Partners.
LTE™ is a Trade Mark of ETSI currently being registered
for the benefit of its Members and of the 3GPP Organizational Partners.
GSM® and the GSM logo are Trade Marks registered and owned by the GSM Association.
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 8
Foreword . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 References . 9
2.1 Normative references . 9
2.2 Informative references . 10
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 11
3.1 Definitions . 11
3.2 Abbreviations . 13
4 Applicability . 14
4.1 Architecture . 14
4.2 Border Gateway Guidelines . 14
5 Profile description . 15
5.1 Profile identification . 15
5.2 Summary . 15
5.3 Gateway Control Protocol Version . 15
5.4 Connection model. 16
5.5 Context attributes . 16
5.6 Terminations . 16
5.6.1 Termination names . 16
5.6.1.1 IP Termination . 16
5.6.1.1.1 Overview and prose specification . 16
5.6.1.1.2 Syntactical Specification . 19
5.6.2 Multiplexed terminations . 19
5.7 Descriptors . 19
5.7.1 TerminationState descriptor . 19
5.7.2 Stream descriptor . 20
5.7.2.1 LocalControl descriptor . 20
5.7.3 Events descriptor . 20
5.7.4 EventBuffer descriptor . 21
5.7.5 Signals descriptor . 21
5.7.6 DigitMap descriptor . 22
5.7.7 Statistics descriptor . 22
5.7.8 ObservedEvents descriptor . 22
5.7.9 Topology descriptor . 22
5.7.10 Error descriptor . 23
5.8 Command API . 23
5.8.1 Add . 24
5.8.2 Modify . 24
5.8.3 Subtract . 24
5.8.4 Move . 25
5.8.5 AuditValue . 25
5.8.6 AuditCapabilities . 25
5.8.7 Notify . 25
5.8.8 ServiceChange . 25
5.8.9 Manipulating and auditing context attributes . 26
5.9 Generic command syntax and encoding . 26
5.10 Transactions . 27
5.11 Messages . 27
5.12 Transport . 27
5.13 Security . 28
5.14 Packages . 28
5.14.1 Overview . 28
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5.14.2 Package usage information . 29
5.14.2.1 Generic (g) . 29
5.14.2.2 Base root (root) . 30
5.14.2.3 Network (nt) . 31
5.14.2.4 Differentiated Services (ds) . 32
5.14.2.5 Gate Management (gm) . 33
5.14.2.6 Traffic management (tman) . 34
5.14.2.7 IP NAPT Traversal (ipnapt) . 34
5.14.2.8 MPLS (mpls) . 35
5.14.2.9 VLAN (vlan) . 35
5.14.2.10 MGC Information (mgcinfo) . 36
5.14.2.11 Inactivity (it) . 36
5.14.2.12 Segmentation (seg) . 37
5.14.2.13 RTP (rtp) . 38
5.14.2.14 Application Data Inactivity Detection (adid) . 38
5.14.2.15 IP Domain Connection (ipdc) . 39
5.14.2.16 Media Gateway Overload Control (ocp) . 39
5.14.2.17 Hanging Termination Detection (hangterm) . 40
5.14.2.18 Statistic Conditional Reporting (scr) . 40
5.15 Mandatory support of SDP and annex C information elements . 41
5.16 Optional support of SDP and annex C information elements . 42
5.17 Overview of Procedures . 43
5.17.1 Overview of Session Dependent Procedures . 43
5.17.1.1 Gate control . 44
5.17.1.2 Allocation and translation of IP addresses, ports and versions (NAPT-PT) . 46
5.17.1.3 Support of Hosted NAT Traversal . 47
5.17.1.4 QoS marking . 47
5.17.1.4.1 Copying DSCP/ToS values from the ingress to egress . 47
5.17.1.4.2 Auditing the "Per-Hop Behaviour" . 47
5.17.1.5 Bandwidth control - Reservation, Allocation and Policing . 47
5.17.1.5.1 Admission Control. 48
5.17.1.5.2 Traffic Descriptor . 48
5.17.1.5.3 Bandwidth reservation and allocation . 48
5.17.1.5.4 Bandwidth policing . 49
5.17.1.5.5 Non-specification of tman properties . 49
5.17.1.6 Usage metering and statistics reporting. 49
5.17.1.6.1 Statistics for Media/Transport-agnostic IP packets . 49
5.17.1.6.2 Traffic Volume related Statistics . 49
5.17.1.7 RTCP Handling . 50
5.17.1.7.1 RTCP Transport Address Allocation . 50
5.17.1.7.2 RTP/RTCP to-H.248 Stream Mapping . 51
5.17.1.8 RTCP Forwarding . 51
5.17.1.8.1 Conditions for RTCP packet policing . 51
5.17.1.8.2 Forwarding of regular RTCP traffic . 51
5.17.1.8.3 Handling of RTCP XR/HR traffic . 51
5.17.1.9 Media Inactivity . 51
5.17.1.10 IP Realm/Domain Indication . 52
5.17.1.10.1 Codepoint and format/encoding . 52
5.17.1.10.2 Unsuccessful indication . 52
5.17.1.10.3 Fix assignment per termination lifetime . 52
5.17.1.10.4 Number of IP Realms/Domains . 52
5.17.1.11 Two-Stage BGF Resource Reservation . 53
5.17.1.12 Hanging Termination Detection . 53
5.17.1.13 Real Time Statistics Reporting . 53
5.17.1.14 Transcoding . 54
5.17.1.14.1 Media types and formats (Codecs) . 54
5.17.1.14.2 Decision for transcoding . 54
5.17.1.15 Void. 54
5.17.1.16 VPN identification . 54
5.17.1.16.1 VLAN marking . 54
5.17.2 Overview of Session Independent Procedures . 55
5.17.2.1 Introduction - Relation to TR 183 025 [i.2] . 55
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5.17.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 55
5.17.2.3 MG Overload Control: Rate limitation of H.248 Messages from MGC-to-MG . 55
5.18 Session Dependent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 55
5.18.1 Add Termination . 56
5.18.1.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port . 57
5.18.1.1.1 Conditions for Address Policing: SAF, SPF, SAM, SPR, SPRR . 59
5.18.1.1.2 Assigning IP Domain/Realm to Termination . 60
5.18.1.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr and Port Known, Select Local Addr and Port - Examples. 61
5.18.1.2 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port. 62
5.18.1.2.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr and Port - Examples . 65
5.18.1.3 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr . 66
5.18.1.3.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known, Select Local Addr - Examples . 68
5.18.1.4 Add Termination - Select Local Addr . 69
5.18.1.4.1 Add Termination - Select Local Addr - Examples . 70
5.18.1.5 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port . 71
5.18.1.5.1 Add Termination - Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local Addr and Port -
Examples . 72
5.18.2 Session Establishment Update . 72
5.18.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known . 73
5.18.2.1.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples . 75
5.18.2.2 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known . 78
5.18.2.2.1 Session Establishment Update - Remote Addr Known - Examples . 79
5.18.2.3 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect . 80
5.18.2.3.1 Session Establishment Update - Through Connect - Examples . 82
5.18.2.4 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port . 83
5.18.2.4.1 Session Establishment Update - Select Local Port - Examples . 86
5.18.2.5 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change . 87
5.18.2.5.1 Session Establishment Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples . 89
5.18.2.6 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream. 89
5.18.2.6.1 Session Establishment Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 92
5.18.3 Mid-Session Update . 92
5.18.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change . 92
5.18.3.1.1 Mid-Session Update - Bandwidth Change - Examples. 95
5.18.3.2 Mid-Session Update - Media Change . 96
5.18.3.2.1 Mid-Session Update - Media Change - Examples . 98
5.18.3.3 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change . 99
5.18.3.3.1 Mid-Session Update - Remote Addr/Port Change - Examples . 102
5.18.3.4 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known . 103
5.18.3.4.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr and Port Known - Examples. 106
5.18.3.5 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream . 107
5.18.3.5.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream - Examples . 110
5.18.3.6 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream . 111
5.18.3.6.1 Mid-Session Update - Delete Stream - Examples . 112
5.18.3.7 Mid-Session Update - Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no Local
Addr and Port . 115
5.18.3.7.1 Mid-Session Update - Add Add Stream, Remote Addr Known and Port Possibly Known, no
Local Addr and Port - Examples . 116
5.18.4 Auditing . 117
5.18.4.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit . 117
5.18.4.1.1 Mid-Session Statistics Audit - Example . 118
5.18.4.2 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit . 119
5.18.4.2.1 Mid-Session MGC Info Audit - Example . 120
5.18.5 Notification of MG Events . 120
5.18.5.1 Notification of IP Media Stop . 120
5.18.5.2 Notification of Hanging Termination . 121
5.18.5.3 Notification of Statistic Conditional Reporting . 122
5.18.6 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1 Delete Session/Termination . 123
5.18.6.1.1 Delete Session/Termination - Examples . 124
5.18.6.2 Delete Session/Termination - Wildcarded Reply . 127
5.18.6.2.1 Delete Session - Wildcarded Reply - Examples . 127
5.19 Non-Session Related Use Cases . 127
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5.19.1 Enable MG . 128
5.19.1.1 Enable MG (at MGC). 128
5.19.1.2 Enable MG (at MG) . 128
5.19.1.2.1 Enable MG (at MG): Cold Boot . 129
5.19.1.2.2 Enable MG (at MG): Warm Boot . 130
5.19.2 Enable MGC . 131
5.19.3 Disable MG (Graceful) . 131
5.19.3.1 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MGC) . 131
5.19.3.2 Disable MG (Graceful) (at MG) . 132
5.19.4 Disable MG (Immediate) . 132
5.19.4.1 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MGC) . 132
5.19.4.2 Disable MG (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.5 Disable MGC . 133
5.19.6 Enable Termination. 133
5.19.7 Disable Termination (Graceful) . 133
5.19.8 Disable Termination (Immediate) (at MG) . 133
5.19.9 MG Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.10 MG Termination Failure and Recovery . 134
5.19.11 MGC Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.12 User Plane Failure . 135
5.19.13 MGC-MG Control Association Failure and Recovery . 135
5.19.14 MG Overload . 138
5.19.15 MGC Overload . 139
5.19.16 MGC Hand-Off . 139
5.19.17 MGC Re-Direct . 139
5.19.18 MG Failover. 140
5.20 Session Independent Procedures (Command Level Details) . 140
5.20.1 MG Registration (Cold Boot) . 141
5.20.2 MG Restoration . 142
5.20.3 Packages Audit . 142
5.20.4 Context Audit. 143
5.20.5 MG Termination Available . 144
5.20.6 MG Termination Unavailable . 144
5.20.7 Audit Termination State . 145
5.20.8 Set ROOT Termination Events/Properties . 145
5.20.9 MGC Initiated Service Restoration . 146
5.20.10 Check MG Availability . 146
5.20.11 MG Service Cancellation (Graceful) . 147
5.20.12 MG Service Cancellation (Immediate) . 147
5.20.13 MGC Hand-Off . 148
5.20.14 MG Re-Registration (Hand-Off) . 149
5.20.15 MG Termination OOS Graceful . 149
5.20.16 MGC Overload Notification . 149
5.20.17 Registration Redirect . 150
5.20.18 User Plane Failure . 151
5.20.19 ROOT Event Notification . 152
5.20.20 MG Lost Communication (Disconnected) . 152
5.20.21 MG Lost Communication (Failover) . 153
5.20.22 MG Redundant Takeover (Primary) . 153
5.20.23 Void . 153
5.20.24 MG Re-Registration (Restart) . 154
5.20.25 Wildcarded Subtract . 154
5.20.26 MG Redundant Takeover (Secondary) . 155
5.20.27 MGC Initiated Service Cancellation . 155
5.20.28 Audit Service State . 155
5.20.29 Audit ROOT Properties . 155
Annex A (informative): Illustration of Gate/Pinhole Concept . 156
A.1 General . 156
A.2 Relationships between gates and H.248 Streams . 156
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Annex B (informative): Comparison between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and
TS 102 333 (GCP) . 157
B.1 General . 157
B.2 Differences between TS 102 333 (GCP) and ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) . 157
Annex C (informative): Comparison with Ia Profile Version 1 . 158
C.1 General . 158
C.2 Differences between ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (Ia Profile Version 1) and ES 283 018 V2.7.1 (Ia Profile
Version 2) . 158
Annex D (informative): Illustration of an IP processing model for an H.248 (IP, IP) Context . 160
D.1 Example model . 160
D.2 Aspects of filter interaction . 162
D.2.1 Interaction between address latching and address policing . 162
Annex E (informative): Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping . 164
E.1 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to session-independent procedures . 164
E.1.1 Introduction . 164
E.1.2 Mapping guidelines . 164
E.1.2.1 Session-dependent procedures . 164
E.1.2.2 Session-independent procedures . 165
E.2 Guidelines for Ia-to-Gq' mapping with regards to bearer-specific events . 165
E.2.1 Introduction . 165
E.2.2 Mapping guidelines . 166
E.2.2.1 Guidelines for Specific Action AVPs . 166
E.2.2.2 Other AVPs . 166
Annex F (informative): Bibliography . 167
Annex G (informative): Change history . 168
History . 169
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