ETSI TS 129 468 V15.8.0 (2020-01)

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); LTE; Group Communication System Enablers for LTE (GCSE_LTE); MB2 reference point; Stage 3 (3GPP TS 29.468 version 15.8.0 Release 15)

RTS/TSGC-0329468vf80

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• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 14-Jan-2020
• Technical Committee: 3GPP CT 3 - Interworking with external networks (formely CN3)
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Completion Date: 15-Jan-2020

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ETSI TS 129 468 V15.8.0 (2020-01)






TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS);
LTE;
Group Communication System Enablers for LTE (GCSE_LTE);
MB2 reference point;
Stage 3
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RTS/TSGC-0329468vf80
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 2
Legal Notice . 2
Modal verbs terminology . 2
Foreword . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 References . 7
3 Definitions, symbols and abbreviations . 8
3.1 Definitions . 8
3.2 Abbreviations . 8
4 Architectural Overview . 9
4.1 Reference Model . 9
4.2 Functional Elements . 9
4.2.1 Group Communication Service Application Server (GCS AS) . 9
4.2.2 Broadcast-Multicast Service Centre (BM-SC). 10
5 Procedures over the MB2 Reference Point . 10
5.1 TMGI and Flow ID handling . 10
5.2 TMGI Management . 11
5.2.1 TMGI Allocation Procedure . 11
5.2.2 TMGI Deallocation Procedure . 11
5.2.3 TMGI Expiry Notification Procedure . 12
5.3 MBMS Bearer Control Procedures . 12
5.3.1 General . 12
5.3.2 Activate MBMS Bearer Procedure . 12
5.3.3 Deactivate MBMS Bearer Procedure . 13
5.3.4 Modify MBMS Bearer Procedure . 13
5.3.5 MBMS Bearer Status Indication Procedure . 14
5.4 BM-SC selection . 15
5.5 BM-SC overload control . 15
5.6 Restoration Procedures . 15
5.6.1 General . 15
5.6.2 Restart Counter . 15
5.6.3 GCS AS initiated Heartbeat Procedure . 15
5.6.4 BM-SC initiated Heartbeat Procedure . 16
5.6.5 GCS AS procedures after detection of BM-SC Restart . 16
5.6.6 BM-SC procedures after detection of GCS AS Restart . 16
5.6.7 GCS AS procedures upon detection of MB2-C path failure . 16
5.6.8 BM-SC procedures upon detection of MB2-C path failure . 16
6 MB2-C Protocol . 16
6.1 Protocol support . 16
6.1.1 Use of Diameter base protocol . 16
6.1.2 Transport protocol . 17
6.1.3 Advertising Application Support . 17
6.2 Initialization and maintenance of connection and session . 17
6.3 Security on the MB2-C interface . 17
6.4 MB2-C specific AVPs . 17
6.4.1 General . 17
6.4.2 BMSC-Address AVP . 18
6.4.3 BMSC-Port AVP . 19
6.4.4 MBMS-Bearer-Event AVP . 19
6.4.5 MBMS-Bearer-Event-Notification AVP . 19
6.4.6 MBMS-Bearer-Request AVP . 19
6.4.7 MBMS-Bearer-Response AVP . 20
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6.4.8 MBMS-Bearer-Result AVP . 20
6.4.9 MBMS-Start-Time AVP . 21
6.4.10 Radio-Frequency AVP . 21
6.4.11 TMGI-Allocation-Request AVP . 21
6.4.12 TMGI-Allocation-Response AVP . 22
6.4.13 TMGI-Allocation-Result AVP. 22
6.4.14 TMGI-Deallocation-Request AVP . 22
6.4.15 TMGI-Deallocation-Response AVP . 22
6.4.16 TMGI-Deallocation-Result AVP . 23
6.4.17 TMGI-Expiry AVP . 23
6.4.18 TMGI-Number AVP . 23
6.4.19 MB2U-Security AVP . 23
6.4.20 Local-M1-Information AVP . 24
6.4.21 Local-MB2-U-Information AVP . 24
6.4.22 MBMS-eNB-IP-Multicast-Address AVP . 24
6.4.23 MBMS-eNB-IPv6-Multicast-Address AVP . 24
6.4.24 MBMS-GW-SSM-IP-Address AVP . 24
6.4.25 MBMS-GW-SSM-IPv6-Address AVP . 24
6.4.26 Common-Tunnel-Endpoint-Identifier AVP . 24
6.4.27 FEC-Request AVP . 24
6.4.28 ROHC-Request AVP . 25
6.4.29 ROHC-Full-Header-Periodicity AVP . 25
6.4.30 ROHC-Profile AVP . 25
6.4.31 Userplane-Protocol-Result AVP . 25
6.4.32 ROHC-Result AVP . 25
6.4.33 FEC-Result AVP . 26
6.4.34 ROHC-Max-CID AVP . 26
6.5 MB2-C re-used AVPs . 26
6.5.1 General . 26
6.5.2 Supported-Feature-List AVP . 28
6.5.2.1 Use of the Supported-Features AVP . 28
6.5.2.2 Supported-Feature-List AVP for the MB2-C application . 28
6.6 MB2-C Messages . 29
6.6.1 Command-Code Values . 29
6.6.2 GCS-Action-Request (GAR) command. 29
6.6.3 GCS-Action-Answer (GAA) command . 29
6.6.4 GCS-Notification-Request (GNR) command . 30
6.6.5 GCS-Notification-Answer (GNA) command . 30
7 MB2-U Protocol . 31
7.1 Protocol Stack . 31
7.2 Procedures . 32
Annex A (informative): Call Flows . 34
A.1 TMGI Management . . 34
A.1.1 TMGI Allocation Procedure . 34
A.1.2 TMGI Deallocation Procedure . 34
A.1.3 TMGI Expiry Notification . 35
A.2 MBMS Bearer Control Procedures . 36
A.2.1 Activate MBMS Bearer Procedure . 36
A.2.2 Deactivate MBMS Bearer Procedure . 36
A.2.3 Modify MBMS Bearer Procedure . 37
A.2.4 MBMS Bearer Status Indication Procedure . 38
A.3 Restoration Procedures . 39
A.3.1 GCS AS initiated Heartbeat Procedure . 39
A.3.2 BM-SC initiated Heartbeat Procedure . 39
Annex B (normative): Diameter message priority mechanism . 40
B.1 General . 40
B.2 MB2-C interface . 40
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B.2.1 General . 40
B.2.2 GCS AS behaviour . 40
B.2.3 BM-SC behaviour . 40
C.1 General . 41
C.2 GCS AS behaviour . 41
C.3 BM-SC behaviour. 41
Annex D (informative): Change history . 42
History . 43

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Foreword
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1 Scope
This document defines the protocol for the MB2 reference point between the Group Communication Service
Application Server (GCS AS) and the Broadcast-Multicast Service Centre (BM-SC).
The MB2 reference point and related stage 2 procedures are defined in TS 23.468 [4] as part of the Group
Communication System Enablers for LTE. The stage 1 requirements for Group Communication System Enablers are
specified in TS 22.468 [2].
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 22.468: "Group Communication System(GCSE)".
[3] 3GPP TS 23.246: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Architecture and functional
description".
[4] 3GPP TS 23.468: "Group Communication System Enablers for LTE (GCSE_LTE); stage 2".
[5] 3GPP TS 26.346: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Protocols and codecs".
[6] 3GPP TS 29.061: "Interworking between the Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) supporting
packet based services and Packet Data Networks (PDN)".
[7] 3GPP TS 29.212: "Policy and Charging Control (PCC); Reference points".
[8] 3GPP TS 29.274: "3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS); Evolved General Packet Radio Service
(GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C); Stage 3".
[9] 3GPP TS 29.281: "General Packet Radio System (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol User Plane
(GTPv1-U)".
[10] 3GPP TS 33.246: "Security of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS)".
[11] IETF RFC 791: "Transmission Control Protocol".
[12] IETF RFC 768: "User Datagram Protocol".
[13] IETF RFC 2234: "Augmented BNF for syntax specifications".
[14] Void
[15] IETF RFC 4960: "Stream Control Transmission Protocol".
[16] IETF RFC 5719: "Updated IANA Considerations for Diameter Command Code Allocations".
[17] IETF RFC 5996: "The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)".
[18] IETF RFC 3947: "Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE".
[19] IETF RFC 3948: "UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets".
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[20] IETF RFC 4303: "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)".
[21] IETF RFC 6347: "Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2".#
[22] 3GPP TS 23.007: "Restoration procedures".
[23] 3GPP TS 29.229: "Cx and Dx interfaces based on the Diameter protocol".
[24] 3GPP TS 36.300: "E-UTRA and E-UTRAN overall description; Stage 2".
[25] IETF RFC 7944: "Diameter Routing Message Priority".
[26] IETF RFC 8583: "Diameter Load Information Conveyance".
[27] IETF RFC 6733: "Diameter Base Protocol".
[28] 3GPP TS 23.285: "Architecture Enhancements for V2X services".
[29] IETF RFC 5795: "The Robust Header Compression (ROHC) Framework".
[30] IETF RFC 3095, "Robust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four profiles: RTP,
UDP, ESP, and uncompressed"
[31] IETF RFC 6363: "Forward Error Correction (FEC) Framework,".
[32] Void.
[33] 3GPP TS 29.214: " Policy and Charging Control over Rx reference point".
3 Definitions, symbols 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:
MBMS bearer: The service provided by the EPS to deliver the same IP datagrams to multiple receivers in a designated
location.
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].
ARP Allocation and Retention Priority
AVP Attribute-Value Pair
BM-SC Broadcast-Multicast Service Centre
DRMP Diameter Routing Message Priority
DSCP Differentiated Services Code Point
DTLS Datagram Transport Layer Security
ESP Encapsulating Security Payload
FEC Forward Error Correction
GAA GCS-Action-Answer
GAR GCS-Action-Request
GCS Group Communication Service
GCSE Group Communication System Enablers
GCS AS Group Communication Service Application Server
GNA GCS-Notification-Answer
GNR GCS-Notification-Request
MBMS-GW MBMS Gateway
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PCRF Policy and Charging Rules Function
P-GW PDN Gateway
ROHC Robust Header Compression
TMGI Temporary Mobile Group Identity
UDP User Datagram Protocol
V2X Vehicle-to-Everything
4 Architectural Overview
4.1 Reference Model
Figure 4.1-1 shows a high level reference model of the architectural elements relevant to understand the MB2 reference
point. More complete reference models for GCSE are contained in TS 23.468 [4].
Application
PLMN
domain
Rx
PCRF
Gx
GCS AS
SGi
P-GW
MB2-U
MB2-C
SGi-mb
UE MBMS-GW BM-SC
SGmb
Scope of this
GC1
specifi
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