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- the invention relates to communications systems, and particularly to enhancing tolerance to failures in network elements and transmission systems.
- a mobile communications system generally refers to any telecommunications system wherein the access point (typically wireless access) to the system can change when users are moving within the service area of the system.
- a typical mobile communications system is a Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN).
- PLMN Public Land Mobile Network
- the mobile communications network is an access network providing a user with a wireless access to external networks, hosts, or services offered by specific service providers.
- third-generation mobile communication systems such as the Universal Mobile Communication System (UMTS) and the Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System (FPLMTS), which was later renamed as the International Mobile Telecommunication 2000 (IMT-2000) are under development.
- UMTS Universal Mobile Communication System
- FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunication System
- the UMTS is being standardized by the European Telecommu- nication Standards Institute (ETSI), whereas the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standardizes the IMT-2000 system. These future systems are basically very similar.
- ETSI European Telecommu- nication Standards Institute
- ITU International Telecommunication Union
- the UMTS as all mobile communication systems, provides wireless data transmission services to mobile subscribers.
- the system supports roaming, which means that UMTS users can be reached and they can make calls anywhere as long as they are situated within the coverage area of the UMTS.
- the UMTS terrestrial radio access network consists of a set of radio access networks RAN (also called radio network subsystem RNS) connected to a core network CN through the in- terface lu.
- RAN also called radio network subsystem RNS
- Each RAN is responsible for the resources of its set of cells.
- a RAN consists of a radio network controller RNC and a plurality of base stations BS.
- the RNC is responsible for the handover decisions that require signalling to the MS.
- the base stations are connected to the RNC through the lub interface.
- the base station BS communicates with the mobile stations MS (or user equipments UE) over the radio interface Uu.
- the Uu and lub interfaces are not relevant to the present invention and will not be described in more detail herein. Further information can be found in the UMTS specifications.
- the transfer technique is the ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode).
- the ATM transmission technique is a switching and multiplexing solution particularly relating to a data link layer (i.e. OSI layer 2, hereinafter referred to as an ATM layer.
- OSI layer 2 a data link layer
- the ATM cell comprises a header, the main object of which is to identify a connection number for a sequence of cells forming a virtual channel (VC) for a particular call through the transport network.
- a physical layer i.e. OSI layer 1
- GPRS general packet radio service
- GSM Global System for Mobile communication
- 3G mobile systems A subnetwork comprises a number of packet data service nodes SN, which in this application will be referred to as serving GPRS support nodes SGSN (or 3G-SGSNs in the 3G systems).
- SGSN serving GPRS support nodes SGSN (or 3G-SGSNs in the 3G systems).
- each 3G-SGSN is connected to the RNC in the UTRAN over a transport network so that the 3G-SGSN can provide a packet service for mobile data terminals via several base stations, i.e. cells.
- the intermediate UTRAN provides a radio access and a packet-switched data transmission between the 3G-SGSN and mobile stations MS.
- Different subnetworks are, in turn, connected to an external data network, e.g. to a public switched data network PSPDN, via GPRS gateway support nodes GGSN.
- the GPRS sen/ice thus allows to provide packet data transmission between mobile data terminals and external data networks when the UTRAN (or the GSM) network functions as a radio access network.
- the present 3G specifications specify that the RNC and the 3G-SGSN are connected using point-to-point ATM permanent virtual channel (PVC) connections. These signals can be carried over different transport networks, such as the ATM network or the Synchronous Digital Hier- archy (SDH) network.
- PVC point-to-point ATM permanent virtual channel
- SDH Synchronous Digital Hier- archy
- the 3G specifications do not, however, specify how these ATM PVC connections are set up but allow the operators and vendors to use different solutions.
- a problem in such a system may be fault tolerance of the ATM PVC connections.
- a failure in the PVC connections or in the interfaces at the RNC and the 3G SGSN may block all communication.
- the current 3GPP lu interface specifications only specify that if redundancy of pathways of the ATM layer between the CN and the RNC is supported, it shall be implemented using ATM protection switching according to ITU-T recommen- dation 1.630. Since 1.630 does not support 1 :n and m:n architectures another backup PVC connection is required for each ATM PVC connection, which doubles the number of ATM PVCs between RNC and 3G-SGSN.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a new mechanism for providing fault tolerance.
- a first aspect of the invention is a communications system comprising a core network element, at least one access network element, a transport network providing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) permanent virtual channel (PVC) connections between the core network element and said at least one access network element, two or more ATM interface units in the core network element, two or more active ATM PVC connections between each of said at least one access network element and said core network element, different ATM PVC connections from any one of said at least one access network ele- ment being connected to different ones of said two or more ATM interface units, and ATM traffic being spread over said different ATM PVC connections in order to improve tolerance of the communications system to failures in the ATM PVC connections or in the ATM interface units.
- ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- PVC permanent virtual channel
- the fault tolerance is achieved by 1) providing two or more active ATM PVC connections between a core network element, such as an SGSN, and an access network element, such as an RNC, and 2) providing a separate ATM interface unit for each such ATM PVC connection in the core network element.
- active connec- tion refers to a connection carrying user communication or signalling (in contrast to standby or redundant connections which are kept inactive or in reserve until the primary connection fails). The user and signalling traffic is distributed among these active connections and interface units. In case of a failure in one of the ATM PVC connections or interface units, the communication is main- tained over the other connection(s) and interface unit(s).
- the traffic of the lost connection is rerouted via the other connections. Thus, outside of the peak traffic periods, all or major part of the traffic can be served.
- the present invention does not require redundant connections as the ATM protection switching proposed in the prior art, thus offering savings in transport network costs. Further, in the primary embodiment of the invention, no special functionality, such as a special protocol, is required. Still further, a link or physical layer protection, such as the ATM or SDH protection switching, is not needed.
- Figure 1 illustrates a prior art interconnection of a radio access network and a third-generation core network over a transport network
- Figure 2 illustrates a generic protocol stack for the lu interface
- Figure 3 shows a communications system having two RNCs con- nected to the 3G-SGSN in accordance with the principles of the present invention
- Figure 4 shows a more detailed internal structure of the RNC and 3G-SGSN for user data and signalling, respectively.
- the present invention can be applied in any telecommunication system using ATM PVC connections over a transport network for interconnecting an access network to a core network.
- the primary field of application of the invention is an interconnection between a third-generation mobile network, such as the UMTS, and a third generation core network, such as the 3G- GPRS.
- a third-generation mobile network such as the UMTS
- a third generation core network such as the 3G- GPRS.
- the preferred embodiments of the invention will be de- scribed by using the UMTS and the 3G-GPRS as examples.
- Fig. 2 illustrates the protocol stack for signalling and user data in the lu interface.
- AAL ATM adaptation layer
- the AAL performs mapping between the ATM layer and the next higher layer.
- AAL1 type 1 AAL
- AAL2 type 2 AAL
- AAL5 type 5 AAL
- SDH layers such as SDH VC-4 path, SDH multiplex section, SDH Regenerator Section, etc.
- SDH SDH to carry the ATM connections.
- the transport network 1 is preferably an ATM network having at least one ATM switch between the RNC and the SGSN.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a communication system having improved fault tolerance in accordance with the present invention.
- Two access network elements such as radio network controllers RNC1 and RNC2 are connected to a core network element, such as a third generation SGSN.
- the 3G-SGSN is provided with several ATM interface units.
- In the RNC1 the user data traffic is distributed over several GTP units GTP1 , GTP2, GTP3 and GTP4.
- the units GTP1 and GTP2 are connected via an ATM switch 33 to an SDH interface unit 34 and further over the ATM network 1 to different interface units IU1 and IU2 by means of dedicated ATM permanent virtual channel (PVC) connections 31 A and 31 B, respectively.
- PVC dedicated ATM permanent virtual channel
- the units GTP3 and GTP are connected through the ATM switching unit 33 to an SDH interface unit 35 and further over the ATM network 1 to different interface units IU3 and IU4 by means of dedicated ATM PVC connections 31 C and 31 D, respectively.
- the connection between the RNC2 and the 3G-SGSN is based on the same principles.
- Each of the units GTP1 to GTP6 are connected over dedicated ATM-PVC connections to different interface units 1-4 in the 3G- SGSN.
- each of the interface units IU1-4 may be used by two or more RNCs, so that also the loss of capacity due to a failure in an interface unit in the 3G-SGSN will be distributed over several RNCs.
- the user traffic is distributed over four active ATM PVC connections and respective interface units IU. If there is a failure in one of the PVC connections or in one of the interface units IU1-IU4, only twenty-five percent of the capacity of the 3G-SGSN is lost. However, the traffic over the remaining PVC connections and interface units will be maintained. If the remaining capacity allows, the calls from the failed connection and interface unit may be rerouted or re-established via the unaffected PVC connec- tions and interface units.
- a call is established by setting up a protocol data protocol (PDP) context in the mobile station MS and in the SGSN.
- PDP protocol data protocol
- the PDP context defines different data transmission parameters, such as the PDP type (e.g. IP), PDP address (e.g. IP address), quality of service QoS, etc.
- PDP type e.g. IP
- PDP address e.g. IP address
- QoS quality of service QoS
- the 3G-SGSN releases the failed PDP context by sending a release_PDP_context message to the mobile station MS in accordance with the GPRS specifications.
- the mobile stations MS which have lost their active PDP context can activate them again for the unaffected PVC connections and interface units IU by sending an acti- vate_PDP_context_request to the 3G-SGSN in accordance with the GPRS specifications.
- the PDP context of the failed ATM-PVC may be moved (rerouted) to another ATM-PVC; the 3G-SGSN sends a modify RAB request (i.e.
- RNC connection Admission Control
- a failure in an ATM-PVC connection in the interface unit IU1-4 can be detected by periodically sending ATM loop-back cells from the RNC over the ATM PVC connection to the respective interface unit IU in the 3G-SGSN. If the connection and the interface unit are operating properly, the loop-back cell will be looped back by the 3G-SGSN and received at the RNC within a predetermined monitoring period. If the loop-back cells are not received, the RNC considers that the respective ATM-PVC connection or the respective interface unit IU has failed.
- the 3G-SGSN may also be provided with an internal control system which is able to detect whether the interface units are operating properly or not.
- FIG 4 illustrates a more detailed structure of the GTP units, an interface unit IU and the SDH interface unit 34.
- Each of the interface units IU1- 4 contains for the user data the following protocol stack (from top to bottom): IP, GPT, UDP, IP, AAL5, ATM, and SDH.
- the topmost IP layer is connected to the higher layers (see Figure 2) via an IP switching unit 36.
- each GTP unit 1-4 contains the following protocol stack (from top to bottom): IP, GTP, UDP, IP, AAL5, and ATMVC.
- Each SDH interface unit 34 and 35 contains the protocol layer ATMVP, and SDH.
- the ATM VC layers from the GTP units are multiplexed to the ATM VPs in the SDH interface unit 34 by means of the ATM switching unit 33.
- the ATM switching unit 33 allows a flexible cross- connection between the GTP units and the SDH interface units. It should be noted that the number of units shown in Figures 3-4 may vary on demand. The minimum requirement is that there is at least two ATM interface units in the 3G-SGSN.
- the set up of the new IP connection contains following steps: (1) the MS sends a PDP context activation message to the 3G-SGSN, (2) the 3G-SGSN checks the IP backbone and 3G-SGSN resources, (3) 3G-SGNS selects the GTP unit and sends a RAB_assignment message the to the RNC, (4) the RNC estimates the air interface and radio network resources, (5) the RNC selects a GTP unit and sends a RAB_assignment_complete message to the 3G-SGSN. Further, in accordance with the GPRS specifications, the PDP context is also created in a gateway support node GGSN.
- CAC Connection Admission Control
- the CAC func- tionality in the 3G-SGSN carries out the following steps: (1) selects an interface unit IU during PDP context activation, (2) If needed, triggers a PDP context modification in case of a Serving RNC Relocation procedure in order to place the PDP context into an interface unit IU having enough capacity, (3) keeps an equal traffic loading in all interface units IU, (4) estimates the re- sources of the interface units lUs based on the existing PDP contexts, configured maximum limits for each IP traffic class and CPU loading, and (5) estimates the resources of GTP units based on the existing PDP contexts and ATM PVC QoS parameters.
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