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Fixed–mobileconvergenceFuncRonalconvergenceConvergedsubscriberandsessionmanagement

DirkBreuerTiborCinkler

StéphaneGosselinAnnieGraveyAliHamidianStefanHöst

TaharMamouniPéterOlaszi

StephanPachnickeBjörnSkubic

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Convergedsubscriberandsessionmanagement

Aim:haveamechanismformanagingallthese

inaconvergedway

IncommunicaEonnetworks:amulEtudeof–�  idenEEes,�  user/subscriberprofiles,�  authenEcaEonmechanisms

�  Currentlynoglobalsubscribermanagementforafixed–mobileoperator

�  Fullmergingmaynotberequired–aunifiedviewofallsubscriberdataisnecessary

�  NeedasetoftechnicalsoluEonswhichsmoothlyworkswiththecurrenttechnology

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Stateoftheart:MobiletrafficoffloadtoWi-Finetworks

The3GPPAAAserverconnectstheHSSandthenon-3GPP(e.g.Wi-Fi)network

InaWi-FinetworkmobileusersareauthenEcatedandauthorizedthroughregisteredAAAclients

3GPPandnon-3GPPwirelessinterworkingisaddressedinthemobile

core

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Alice(motherofBob):Subscribertomobile,fixedline,publichotspotandvideo-on-demandOTTservicesUserofalltheaboveservices–hasherownuserprofileforeachservice

Bob(childofAlice):Useroffixedlineandvideo-on-demandservices–withlimiteduserprofiles

UserversusSubscriber

User:Apersonoramachineusingtheaccess/serviceatagivenEme.Subscriber:Asdefinedby3GPPTR21.905version12.0.0Release12:“A Subscriber is an en.ty (associatedwith one ormore users) thathassubscribedaservicewithaprovider.Thesubscriberisallowedtosubscribeandunsubscribeservices,toregisterauseroralistofusersauthorisedtoenjoytheseservices,andalsotosetthelimitsrela.vetotheusethatassociatedusersmakeoftheseservices”.

Example

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Specifiedbythe3GPPTS23.335technicalspecificaEon

Stateoftheart:TheUserDataConvergenceconcept

TheUDCconceptseparatesuserdatafromapplicaEonlogic

UserdataisstoredintheUserDataRepository–theUDCdatabase

TheUDRisreplicatedforredundancy

ClientrequestsarehandledbytheUDR

Frontends

But:StoringallsubscriberanduserprofilesinasingledatabasemaynotberealisEcordesirable

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uAUT:UniversalSubscriberandUserAuthenRcaRon

SinglefuncEonalblockcomplementsandimprovestheUDCconcept.•  consideraEonofdatamodel•  newFrontendapplicaEons•  databaseaccessopEmizaEon•  extendedtoOTTservicesAuthenEcateonceandhaveaccessto

mulEplenetworksand/orservices.

Partofthecontrolplane,interfaceswiththemanagementplane

AllowsauthenEcaEonmechanismsbasedonWebtechnologies

uAUTserver

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ShorttermtransiRontoconvergedsubscriberandsessionmanagement

Step-by-stepevoluEon:minimalchangeintheshortterm.

Today’suserauthenEcaEon

serversarekeptastheyarenow

IntheshorttermtheuAUTonlyforwardsrequeststotheexisEngservers

A“Hybrid”userisaccessingservicesfrommulEpleserviceproviders

AuthenEcaEonrequestsaredirectedtothe

UniversalAuthenEcaEon

Server

uAUTserver

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LongtermtransiRontoconvergedsubscriberandsessionmanagementIn the long term the UDC architecture is progressively taking the lead for all subscriber related databases

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Presentedbyannie.gravey@telecom-bretagne.eupeter.olaszi@aiRa.aibjorn.skubic@ericsson.com

DirkBreuerTiborCinkler

StéphaneGosselinAnnieGraveyAliHamidianStefanHöst

TaharMamouniPéterOlaszi

StephanPachnickeBjörnSkubic

JoseTorrijosGijón

DeutscheTelekomLaboratories,GermanyBudapestUniversityofTechnologyandEconomics,HungaryOrangeR&D,FranceTelecomBretagne,FranceEricssonResearch,SwedenLundUniversity,SwedenOrangeR&D,FranceAITIAInternaRonal,Inc.,HungaryADVAOpRcalNetworkingSE,GermanyEricssonResearch,SwedenTelefónicaInvesRgaciónyDesarrollo,Spain

AnnieGraveyPéterOlasziBjörnSkubic