ETSI TS 129 281 V15.6.0 (2019-10)

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; General Packet Radio System (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol User Plane (GTPv1-U) (3GPP TS 29.281 version 15.6.0 Release 15)

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• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 02-Oct-2019
• Technical Committee: 3GPP CT 4 - MAP/CAMEL/GTP/BCH/SS/TrFO/IMS/GUP/WLAN (formely CN4)
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Completion Date: 03-Oct-2019

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ETSI TS 129 281 V15.6.0 (2019-10)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS);
LTE;
General Packet Radio System (GPRS)
Tunnelling Protocol User Plane (GTPv1-U)
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal Notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 References . 6
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 7
3.1 Definitions . 7
3.2 Abbreviations . 8
4 General . 9
4.1 GTP Path . 9
4.2 GTP-U Tunnels . 9
4.2.1 GTP-U Tunnel description . 9
4.2.2 IP transport. 9
4.2.3 GTP-U Tunnel IP transport . 9
4.2.4 Ingress GTP tunnel (GTPv1-U sending endpoint) . 10
4.2.5 Egress GTP tunnel (GTPv1-U receiving endpoint) . 10
4.2.6 MBMS IP Multicast Distribution of the User Plane Data . 10
4.3 GTP-U Protocol Entity . 11
4.3.0 General . 11
4.3.1 Handling of Sequence Numbers . 11
4.4 Protocol stack . 12
4.4.0 GTP-PDU Stacks . 12
4.4.1 UDP/IP . 12
4.4.2 UDP header and port numbers . 13
4.4.2.0 General . 13
4.4.2.1 Echo Request Message . 13
4.4.2.2 Echo Response Message . 13
4.4.2.3 Encapsulated T-PDUs . 13
4.4.2.4 Error Indication . 13
4.4.2.5 Supported Extension Headers Notification . 13
4.4.2.6 End Marker . 13
4.4.3 IP header and IP addresses . 13
4.4.3.1 Echo Request Message . 13
4.4.3.2 Echo Response Message . 13
4.4.3.3 Encapsulated T-PDUs . 14
4.4.3.4 Error Indication . 14
4.4.3.5 Supported Extension Headers Notification . 14
4.4.3.6 End Marker . 14
4.5 Transmission Order and Bit Definitions . 14
4.6 New Functionality . 14
5 GTP-U header . 14
5.1 General format . 14
5.2 GTP-U Extension Header . 16
5.2.1 General format of the GTP-U Extension Header . 16
5.2.2 Extension Header types . 17
5.2.2.1 UDP Port . 18
5.2.2.2 PDCP PDU Number . 18
5.2.2.2A Long PDCP PDU Number . 18
5.2.2.3 Service Class Indicator . 19
5.2.2.4 RAN Container . 20
5.2.2.5 Xw RAN Container . 20
5.2.2.6 NR RAN Container . 21
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5.2.2.7 PDU Session Container . 21
6 GTP-U Message Formats . 21
6.1 General . 21
6.2 Presence requirements of Information Elements . 22
7 GTP-U Messages . 22
7.1 General . 22
7.2 Path Management Messages. 22
7.2.1 Echo Request . 22
7.2.2 Echo Response . 23
7.2.3 Supported Extension Headers Notification . 23
7.3 Tunnel Management Messages . 23
7.3.1 Error Indication . 23
7.3.2 End Marker . 24
8 Information Elements . 25
8.1 Information Element Types . 25
8.2 Recovery. 25
8.3 Tunnel Endpoint Identifier Data I . 26
8.4 GTP-U Peer Address . 26
8.5 Extension Header Type List . 26
8.6 Private Extension . 27
9 Error Handling . 27
9.1 Protocol Errors . 27
9.2 Path Failure . 27
10 Security. 27
11 Reliable Delivery of Signalling Messages . 27
12 GTP Parameters . . 28
12.1 General . 28
12.2 Timers . 28
12.3 Others . 28
13 Tunnelling Scenarios . 28
13.1 General . 28
13.2 Tunnelling between SGWs . 28
13.3 Transfer of the user plane data between PDN GWs . 28
13.4 Tunnelling between SGSNs . 29
13.5 Tunnelling between Source RNC and Target RNC . 29
13.6 Transfer of the user plane data between GGSNs . 29
13.7 Tunnelling between RNC and eNodeB . 29
13.8 Tunnelling between SGSN and eNodeB . 29
13.9 Tunnelling between Source eNodeB and Target eNodeB . 29
13.10 Tunnelling between SGSN and RNC . 29
13.11 Tunnelling between SGSN and SGW . 30
13.12 Tunnelling between SGW and eNodeB . 30
13.13 Tunnelling between SGW and RNC . 30
13.14 Tunnelling between SGW and SGSN . 30
Annex A (Normative): PDU session user plane protocol over N9 . 31
Annex B (informative): Change history . 32
History . 34

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Foreword
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1 Scope
The present document defines the user plane of GTP used on:
- the Gn and Gp interfaces of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS);
- the Iu, Gn and Gp interfaces of the UMTS system;
- the S1-U, S11-U, S2a, S2b, X2, S4, S5, S8, S12, M1 and Sn interfaces of the Evolved Packet System (EPS);
- the F1-U, Xn, N3 and N9 interfaces of the 5G System (5GS);
This definition ensures full backwards compatibility with RNC, SGSN and GGSN implementations according to release
7 of 3GPP TS 29.060 [6].
NOTE: Releases previous to Release-8 have used 3GPP TS 29.060 [6] as normative definition of the user plane
of GTP. This shall be considered when essential corrections are included in the present document or in
pre-release-8 version of 3GPP TS 29.060 [6].
Fallback from GTPv1-U to GTPv0-U shall not be supported. Therefore, 3GPP Rel-8 and onwards GTPv1-U entity
should not listen to the well-known GTPv0 port 3386. If GTPv1 entity listens to the GTPv0 port, the entity shall silently
discard any received GTPv0-U message.
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, 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] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
[2] 3GPP TS 23.003: "Numbering, addressing and identification".
[3] 3GPP TS 23.007: "Restoration procedures".
[4] 3GPP TS 23.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Service description; Stage 2".
[5] 3GPP TS 23.401: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access".
[6] 3GPP TS 29.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); GPRS Tunnelling Protocol (GTP)
across the Gn and Gp interface".
[7] 3GPP TS 29.274: "3GPP Evolved Packet System; Evolved GPRS Tunnelling Protocol for EPS
(GTPv2)".
[8] 3GPP TS 32.295: "Telecommunication management; Charging management; Charging Data
Record (CDR) transfer".
[9] IETF RFC 768 (STD 0006): "User Datagram Protocol", J. Postel.
[10] IETF RFC 791 (STD 0005): "Internet Protocol", J. Postel.
[11] IETF RFC 4291: "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture".
[12] 3GPP TS 33.210: "3G security; Network Domain Security (NDS); IP network layer security".
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[13] 3GPP TS 23.121: "Architectural requirements for Release 1999".
[14] 3GPP TS 43.129: "Packet-switched handover for GERAN A/Gb mode; Stage 2".
[15] IETF RFC 2460: "Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", Standards Track
[16] 3GPP TS 25.413: "UTRAN Iu interface RANAP signalling".
[17] 3GPP TS 36.300: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) and Evolved Universal
Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN); Overall description; Stage 2".
[18] 3GPP TS 23.246: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Architecture and functional
description; Stage 2".
[19] IETF RFC 4604 (2006): "Using Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and
Multicast Listener Discovery Protocol Version 2 (MLDv2) for Source-Specific Multicast".
[20] IETF RFC 4607 (2006): "Source-Specific Multicast for IP".
[21] 3GPP TS 33.102: "3G Security; Security architecture".
[22] 3GPP TS 33.401: "3GPP System Architecture Evolution (SAE): Security architecture ".
[23] 3GPP TS 23.402: "Architecture enhancements for non-3GPP accesses".
[24] 3GPP TS 36.323: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Packet Data
Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification".
[25] 3GPP TS 36.425: "E-UTRAN X2 interface user plane protocol".
[26] IETF RFC 2474, "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6
Headers".
[27] 3GPP TS 36.465: "Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRAN) and Wireless LAN
(WLAN) Xw interface user plane protocol".
[28] 3GPP TS 23.501: "System Architecture for the 5G System; Stage 2".
[29] 3GPP TS 23.502: "Procedures for the 5G System; Stage 2".
[30] 3GPP TS 38.425: "NG-RAN; NR user plane protocol".
[31] 3GPP TS 38.415: "NG-RAN; PDU Session User Plane Protocol".
[32] 3GPP TS 33.250: "Security assurance specification for the PGW network product class".
[33] 3GPP TS 23.527: "5G System; Restoration Procedures".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in TR 21.905 [1] and the following apply. A
term defined in the present document takes precedence over the definition of the same term, if any, in TR 21.905 [1].
Common Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (C-TEID): Unambiguously identifies a tunnel endpoint in the receiving GTP-U
protocol entity for a given UDP/IP endpoint. The sending end side of a GTP tunnel locally assigns the C-TEID value
used in the TEID field and signals it to the destination Tunnel Endpoint using a control plane message.
GTP-U Message: GTP-U (user plane) messages are either user plane messages or signalling messages. User plane
messages are used to carry user data packets between GTP-U entities. Signalling messages are sent between network
nodes for path management and tunnel management.GTP-U peer: node implementing at least one side of any of the
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GTP user plane based protocols. RNC, SGSN, GGSN, eNodeB, SGW, ePDG, gNB, N3IWF, UPF, PGW or TWAN or
MME.
GTP-U Tunnel: A GTP-U tunnel is identified in each node with a TEID, an IP address and a UDP port number. A
GTP-U tunnel is necessary to enable forwarding packets between GTP-U entities.
GTP-U Tunnel Endpoint: A GTP-U tunnel endpoint identifies a user plane context (e.g EPS bearer, PDU session or a
RAB) for which a received GTP-U packet is intended. A given GTP-U tunnel endpoint may receive GTP-U packets
from more than one source GTP-U peer (See clause 4.3.0).UDP/IP Path: Connection-less unidirectional or
bidirectional path defined by two end-points. An IP address and a UDP port number define an end-point. A UDP/IP
path carries GTP messages between network nodes related to one or more GTP tunnels.
GTP-PDU: GTP Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is a GTP-U message, which may be either a G-PDU or a signalling
message.
G-PDU: User data packet (T-PDU) plus GTP-U header, sent between GTP network nodes.
Signalling Message: A GTP-U message (GTP-PDU that is not a G-PDU) sent between GTP network nodes. These may
be Path Management messages or Tunnel Management messages.
T-PDU: A user data packet, for example an IP datagram, sent between a UE and a network entity in an external packet
data network. A T-PDU is the payload that is tunnelled in the GTP-U tunnel.
Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID): Unambiguously identifies a tunnel endpoint in the receiving GTP-U protocol
entity for a given UDP/IP endpoint. The receiving end side of a GTP tunnel locally assigns the TEID value the
transmitting side has to use. The TEID values are exchanged between tunnel endpoints using control plane message.
Trusted WLAN Access Network: see 3GPP TS 23.402 [23].
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of the present document, the abbreviations given in TR 21.905 [1] 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 [1].

C-TEID Common Tunnel
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