ETSI ETS 300 133-7 ed.2 (1997-11)

ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters (ERM); Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES); Part 7: Operation and maintenance aspects

RE/ERM-RP04-007-7

Elektromagnetna združljivost in zadeve v zvezi z radijskim spektrom (ERM) – Izboljšani sistem za radijsko sporočanje (ERMES) – 7. del: Vidiki obratovanja in vzdrževanja

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 27-Nov-1997
• Technical Committee: ERM RP04 - Land Mobile Radio B
• Current Stage: 13 - TB decision to make document historical
• Completion Date: 17-Jun-2005
• Ref Project: SIST ETS 300 133-7 E2:2003 - ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters (ERM); Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES); Part 7: Operation and maintenance aspects

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ElectroMagnetic Compatibility and Radio Spectrum Matters (ERM); Enhanced Radio
MEssage System (ERMES); Part 7: Operation and maintenance aspects
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: ETS 300 133-7 Edition 2
ICS:
33.070.20 Sistem za osebni klic Paging systems
33.100.01 Elektromagnetna združljivost Electromagnetic compatibility
na splošno in general
SIST ETS 300 133-7 E2:2003 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN ETS 300 133-7
TELECOMMUNICATION November 1997
STANDARD Second Edition
Source: ERM Reference: RE/ERM-RP04-007-7
ICS: 33.020
Key words: ERMES, paging, radio
Electromagnetic compatibility
and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM);
Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES);
Part 7: Operation and maintenance aspects
ETSI
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Whilst every care has been taken in the preparation and publication of this document, errors in content,
typographical or otherwise, may occur. If you have comments concerning its accuracy, please write to
"ETSI Editing and Committee Support Dept." at the address shown on the title page.

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Contents
Foreword .7
Intellectual Property Rights.7
1 Scope .9
2 Normative references.9
3 Definitions, abbreviations and symbols.10
3.1 Definitions .10
3.2 Abbreviations .11
3.3 Symbols .12
4 ERMES telecommunication management network architecture.12
5 Network management functions.14
5.1 General .14
5.2 Operations .14
5.2.1 Subscriber data management .14
5.2.2 System configuration management.14
5.2.3 Status control .15
5.2.4 Traffic records for charging and accounting.15
5.3 Maintenance .15
5.3.1 Alarm management.16
5.3.1.1 Alarm generation .16
5.3.1.2 Alarm processing and logging .16
5.3.2 Corrective maintenance .16
5.3.2.1 Failed unit isolation .17
5.3.2.2 Fault localization .17
5.3.2.3 Repair and replacement phases.17
5.3.2.4 Test functions .17
5.3.2.5 Restoration to service.17
5.3.3 Preventive maintenance.18
5.4 Performance and QOS management.18
5.4.1 Traffic data .18
5.4.1.1 Average rate of input requests .18
5.4.1.2 Average rate of call not accepted or conditionally
accepted ACK.19
5.4.1.3 Average rate of input messages.19
5.4.1.4 Average rate of outgoing page messages.19
5.4.1.5 Average message length.19
5.4.1.6 Number of requests for subscriber feature and
supplementary services.20
5.4.1.7 Roaming data .20
5.4.2 QOS and network performance parameters .20
5.4.2.1 Average call accepted acknowledgement delay.20
5.4.2.2 Average page accepted acknowledgement delay .21
5.4.2.3 Average waiting time for transmission in PNC .21
5.4.2.4 Average waiting time for transmission in PAC.21
5.4.2.5 Average message delivery time.22
5.4.2.6 PNC throughput.22
5.4.3 Traffic management actions.22
5.4.3.1 Flow control .22
5.4.3.2 Active channels re-arrangement.23
5.4.3.3 Modification of control parameters in PAC .23
6 Interfaces.23

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6.1 General. 23
6.2 Functional interfaces (internal to the network operation) . 24
6.2.1 OMC to PNC-OS functional interface . 24
6.2.1.1 OMC to PNC-OS messages . 24
6.2.1.2 PNC-OS to OMC messages . 25
6.2.2 OMC to PAC-OS interface. 25
6.2.2.1 OMC to PAC-OS messages . 25
6.2.2.2 PAC-OS to OMC messages . 26
6.2.3 OMC to BS interface. 26
6.2.3.1 OMC to BS messages . 26
6.2.3.2 OMC to MD messages. 27
6.2.3.3 MD to OMC messages. 27
6.2.3.4 MD to BS messages . 27
6.3 IOMC (OMC to OMC) interface. 27
6.3.1 OMC operations. 27
6.3.2 Use of ACSE. 28
6.3.3 Use of ROSE . 28
6.3.4 OMC addressing. 30
7 Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC). 30
7.1 Functions. 30
7.1.1 Operations . 30
7.1.2 Maintenance . 31
7.1.3 Performance and QOS management. 32
7.1.4 Calculation of call acceptance . 32
7.1.4.1 Availability evaluation for GAs. 33
7.1.4.2 Delay evaluation for geographical areas. 33
7.2 OMC database . 34
8 Paging Network Controller - Operations System (PNC - OS) . 35
8.1 Functions. 35
8.1.1 Operations . 35
8.1.2 Maintenance . 36
8.1.3 Performance and QOS management. 36
8.2 Interworking with the telecommunication network. 37
8.2.1 Data from PNC to PNC-OS . 37
8.2.2 Actions and data from PNC-OS to PNC . 37
8.3 PNC-OS database. 38
9 PAC-OS and mediation device functions . 38
9.1 PAC-OS. 38
9.1.1 Functions . 39
9.1.1.1 Operations. 39
9.1.1.2 Maintenance. 39
9.1.1.3 Performance and QOS management . 40
9.1.2 Interworking with the telecommunication network . 40
9.1.2.1 Data from PAC to PAC-OS. 40
9.1.2.2 Actions and data from PAC-OS to PAC. 40
9.1.3 PAC-OS database . 41
9.2 Mediation device . 41
10 The operations and maintenance part of the base station . 42
10.1 Functions. 42
10.1.1 Operations . 42
10.1.2 Maintenance . 42
10.2 BS database. 43
Annex A (normative): Formal description of the IOMC. 44
A.1 IOMC ROSE operations . 44
A.2 IOMC ROSE ASN-1 transcription. 52

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Annex B (informative): General aspects of telecommunication management.66
B.1 Network management concepts.66
B.1.1 Operations .66
B.1.2 Maintenance .66
B.1.3 Performance and QOS management.68
B.2 Network management functions.70
B.2.1 General .70
B.2.2 Functional distribution.71
Annex C (informative): Conformance with the I3 and I2 interfaces.72
C.1 I3 Interface .72
C.2 I2 interface.73
History.75

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Foreword
This second edition European Telecommunication Standard (ETS) has been produced by the
Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum Matters (ERM) Technical Committee of the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
This ETS comprises seven parts with the generic title "Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum
Matters (ERM)" Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES)". The title of each part is listed below:
Part 1: "General aspects";
Part 2: "Service aspects";
Part 3: "Network aspects";
Part 4: "Air interface specification";
Part 5: "Receiver conformance specification";
Part 6: "Base station conformance specification";
Part 7: "Operation and maintenance aspects".
This part, ETS 300 133-7, specifies the network management of the Enhanced Radio MEssage System
(ERMES) system, specifically the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) aspects, including performance
and Quality Of Service (QOS) management.
Transposition dates
Date of adoption: 7 November 1997
Date of latest announcement of this ETS (doa): 28 February 1998
Date of latest publication of new National Standard
or endorsement of this ETS (dop/e): 31 August 1998
Date of withdrawal of any conflicting National Standard (dow): 31 August 1998
Intellectual Property Rights
IPRs essential or potentially essential to this ETS 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 ETR 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.fr/ipr).
Pursuant to the ETSI Interim 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 ETR 314 (or the
updates on http://www.etsi.fr/ipr) which are, or may be, or may become, essential to this ETS.

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1 Scope
This European Telecommunication Standard (ETS), describes the operations and maintenance aspects
of the Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES). It defines and describes the architecture of the
telecommunication management network and also the network management functions.
Telecommunication management network entities and the functional interfaces between these entities
and the network elements are defined and described.
2 Normative references
This ETS incorporates by dated or undated reference, provisions from other publications. These
normative references are cited at the appropriate places in the text and the publications are listed
hereafter. For dated references, subsequent amendments to, or revisions of any of these publications
apply to the present document only when incorporated in it by amendment or revision. For undated
references the latest edition of the publication referred to applies.
[1] ETS 300 133-3 (1997): "Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum
Matters (ERM); Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES) Part 3: Network
aspects".
[2] ETS 300 133-2 (1997): "Electromagnetic compatibility and Radio spectrum
Matters (ERM); Enhanced Radio MEssage System (ERMES) Part 2: Service
aspects".
[3] ITU-T Recommendation M.60: "Maintenance terminology and definitions".
[4] ITU-T Recommendation G.106: "Terms and definitions related to quality of
service availability and reliability".
[5] ITU-T Recommendation M.20: "Maintenance philosophy for telecommunication
networks".
[6] ITU-T Recommendation M.30 (1990): "Principles for a telecommunication
management network".
[7] ITU-T Recommendation X.219: "Remote operations: model, notation and
service definitions".
[8] ITU-T Recommendation X.217: "Association control service definition for open
systems interconnection".
[9] ITU-T Recommendation X.213: "Network service definition for open systems
interconnection".
[10] ITU-T Recommendation X.208: "Specification of abstract syntax notation one
(ASN.1)".
[11] ITU-T Recommendation X.209: "Specification of basic encoding rules for
abstract syntax notation one (ASN.1)".

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3 Definitions, abbreviations and symbols
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of this ETS, the following definitions apply:
basic Operations System Functions (OSF): The operations system function which controls a network
element.
data communication function: The means for telecommunication management data exchange between
function blocks.
ERMES Telecommunication Management Network (TMN): The operations and maintenance part of
the overall ERMES paging network.
interface Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC) - Base Station (BS): The functional interface
between the operations and maintenance centre and a base station.
interface OMC - Paging Area Controller - Operations System (PAC-OS): The functional interface
between the operations and maintenance centre and the operations system of a paging area controller.
interface OMC - Paging Network Controller - Operations System (PNC-OS): The functional interface
between the operations and maintenance centre and the operations system of a paging network
controller.
IOMC (OMC - OMC): The interface between different network operators' OMCs.
maintenance: The technical, administrative and supervisory actions intended to keep an item in, or
restore it to, a state in which it can perform its defined function.
Maintenance Entity (ME): An equipment of the telecommunication network which is defined between two
or more interfaces as an object of the network management strategy. The main MEs are the Paging
Network Controller (PNC), the Paging Area Controller (PAC) and the BS.
mediation device: A stand alone device which performs mediation functions.
mediation functions: Functions which act on information passing between network element functions
and operator system functions. Major mediation functions include communication control, protocol
conversion and data handling, communication of primitive functions, processes involving decision making
and data storage.
network element: An element of the operator network.
network operations system: A system which performs the network basis telecommunication
management network application functions by communicating with the basic operations system functions.
operations: The combination of technical and administrative actions that enables an item to perform a
given function.
operations and maintenance centre: The control and data collection entity associated with a
telecommunication management network.
operations system: The stand alone system which performs operations system functions.
Operations Systems Functions (OSF): Functions performed by the operations system. The OSFs
process information related to telecommunication management to support and/or control the realization of
various telecommunication management functions.
paging area controller - operations system: The basic operations system dealing with the paging area
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paging network controller - operations system: The basic operations system dealing with the paging
network controller.
PNC throughput: The number of elementary operations performed by a PNC in a time unit. The term
"elementary operation" indicates the processing of an Address Code (AdC) or an information request
message or a complete message. The throughput offers an idea of load distribution within the network. It
can be used for singling out network bottle-necks, hence giving information for management and design
purposes.
Quality Of Service (QOS): A combination of traffic performance, availability, service integrity, service
support and service operability.
telecommunication management network: The operations and maintenance part of an operator
network. It provides management functions to the telecommunication network and offers communications
between itself and the telecommunication network.
work station function: The function providing communications between function blocks and the user.
3.2 Abbreviations
For the purposes of this ETS, the following abbreviations apply:
ACSE Association Control Service Element
AdC Address Code
ASN Abstract Syntax Notation
BS Base Station
DCF Data Communication Functions
DCN Data Communication Network
EOM End Of Message
ERMES Enhanced Radio MEssage System
FSI Frequency Subset Indicator
FSN Frequency Subset Number
GA Geographical Area
HW HardWare
LCN Local Communication Network
MD Mediation Device
ME Maintenance Entity
MEF Maintenance Entity Function
MF Mediation Function
MHS Message Handling System
NE Network Element
NE Network Entity
NEF Network Element Function
NM Network Management
O&M Operations and Maintenance
OMC Operations and Maintenance Centre
OS Operations System
OSF Operations System Functions
OSI Open System Interconnect
PA Paging Area
PAC Paging Area Controller
PAC-OS Paging Area Controller - Operations System
PDU Protocol Data Unit
PNC Paging Network Controller
PNC-H Paging Network Controller - Home
PNC-I Paging Network Controller - Input
PNC-OS Paging Network Controller - Operations System
PNC-T Paging Network Controller - Transmit
PSPDN Packet Switched Public Data Network
PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network
QAF Q-Adapter Function
QOS Quality Of Service
ROSE Remote Operations Service Element

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RP Reference Point
SDU Service Data Unit
SEF Support Entity Function
SW SoftWare
TLC TeLeCommunication
TMN Telecommunication Management Network
TO Tone Only
TX Transmitter
WSF Work-Station Function
3.3 Symbols
For the purposes of this ETS, the following symbols apply:
ACK/NACK Positive/Negative acknowledgement
I2 Interface PAC-BS
I3 Interface PNC-PAC
IOMC Interface OMC-OMC
4 ERMES telecommunication management network architecture
The ERMES system functional architecture is shown in figure 1. The TeLeCommunication (TLC) and
Telecommunication Management Network (TMN) environments are clearly separated.
The network management actions and functions required to support this network can be grouped in three
categories:
- operations;
- maintenance;
- performance and Quality Of Service (QOS) management.
A further category covering network administration is the responsibility of individual network operators and
does not come within the scope of the present document.
Within each operator network the following network elements are the object of operations and
maintenance actions:
- the Paging Network Controller (PNC);
- the Paging Area Controller (PAC);
- the Base Station (BS);
- the interconnection links.
Three classes of Operations System Functions (OSFs) can be identified in the network. The basic OSFs
are associated with a particular network element. The network OSFs are responsible for management
actions involving the entire network. The service OSFs are responsible for transactions between operator
networks and interaction with service providers.
The entities which deal with the TMN part of the operator network are Operations and Maintenance Centre
(OMC), PNC-OS, PAC-OS and Mediation Device (MD). In particular:
- the OMC deals with the network Operations System (OS) and service OS functions. The OMC
controls all the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) functions in the operator network and
exchanges data with other OMCs;
- the PNC-OS and PAC-OS deal with the basic OSFs related to the associated telecommunication
entity;
- the MD handles the mediation functions for the connected BSs. It implements concentration,
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OS and MD can be functionally separated from the related network elements and they may be
implemented together.
Each OS can have its own database where information about the entity status is stored. If lower level
entities exist, some O&M information about them should also be stored in the database. This database
may also contain information required by the telecommunication network.
Every network element should contain maintenance entity functions and support entity functions involved
in the transfer of maintenance information, the failure handling process and basic traffic measurements.
General aspects and the philosophy of operations, maintenance and performance management are
described in annex B along with Network Management Functions (NMFs) contained in the network
elements and the OSFs.
TMN2
OMC
OMC
PNC-OS
PAC-OS MD
PAC-OS
TMN1
TLC1
PAC
PNC
BS
PAC
BS
Figure 1: ERMES system functional architecture

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5 Network management functions
5.1 General
The network management functions identified in clause 4 are defined in this clause and other information
which aids understanding of their characteristics and objectives, are described.
5.2 Operations
The term operations is intended to include configuration management as well as some of the more
classical concepts such as status handling and recording functions.
5.2.1 Subscriber data management
Subscriber data management, as an administrative function, is mainly a network operator matter.
The subscription status database for both mobile and fixed subscribers is associated with the PNC as
described in ETS 300 133-3 [1], subclauses 12.2.1 to 12.2.5.
The OMC can add or delete subscribers to the PNC database and modify the subscriptio
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