SMS GW 2.

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I.
II.
III.
IV.

Introduction
Features of Alcatel-lucent SMS GW2.1
Modes of Operation
SMSGW sms flow

FDA Mode
Gateway Mode

V. Home Rerouting
VI. Responses at VMSC/HLR
VII. Configuration
VIII. Load testing

Introduction

Short Message Service Gateway

A short message service center (SMSC) is an entity in the GSM/CDMA network which
take care of the SMS delivery.
The term used to describe a service transforming messages to mobile network traffic from
other media, or vice versa is known as SMS Gateway , and allowing transmission or
receipt of SMS messages without the use of a mobile phone.

The Alcatel-Lucent SMS Gateway however features a first delivery attempt capability.
Since a great many SMSs are delivered upon their first delivery attempt, the AlcatelLucent SMS Gateway is also a cost-efficient way to decrease the SMS traffic.

Features of Alcatel Lucent SMS Gateway

Leading IN platform ensuring Reliability, Redundancy and Scalability
Simple SMS forwarding solution
Prepaid/post-paid billing convergence
Flexible real time billing per type of SMS traffic
Mobiles & applications connectivity
External SMSC connectivity
Filtering of Incoming and Outgoing traffic
SMS traffic statistics
Service management and monitoring

Modes Of Operation
Gateway mode
Instant Delivery attempt mode
Store and Forward mode
( S & F mode is the complete Functionality of SMSC. This was not in the test scope.)

Gateway mode
It intercepts MO-SMSs to forward them to external SMSCs with conversion from incoming
MAP version to selected MAP version for the external SMSCs.

Instant Delivery attempt mode [First Delivery Attempt]

It attempts to deliver each valid MO-SMS it receives and, suppose the delivery fails, it
forwards failed SMS to external SMSC (fallback as gateway) or discards it.

SMSGW SMS Flows

FDA mode
Mobile to Mobile
Application to Mobile
Mobile to Application

Gateway mode

FDA Mode

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Mobile to Mobile [m2m] flow

A mobile initiate a sms to another mobile.

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Application to Mobile [a2m] flow

An application initiate a sms to a mobile.

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Mobile to Application [m2a] flow

An mobile initiate a sms to an application .

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Gateway Mode

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Gateway mode flow

The MOFSM received is forwarded to External SMSC defined in the routing table.

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Home Rerouting

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Home Rerouting Concept

Home rerouting is to avoid SMSs towards operators subscribers to be rejected in case there
is no interworking agreement between the originating SMSs HPLMN and the visited PLMN
(the one the operators subscriber is roaming in).

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Home rerouting SMS flow

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Responses from VMSC/HLR

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Errors at VMSC/HLR [Negative testing]

HLR SRI Response ERROR
systemFailure

34 (22)

dataMissing

35 (23)

unexpectedDataValue

36 (24)

facilityNotSupported

21 (15)

unknownSubscriber

teleserviceNotProvisioned

11 (B)

callBarred

13 (D)

absentSubscriberSM

MT_FSM response ERROR

systemFailure

34 (22)

dataMissing

35 (23)

unexpectedDataValue

36 (24)

facilityNotSupported

21 (15)

unidentifiedSubscriber

illegalSubscriber

illegalEquipment

12 (C)

subscriberBusyForMT-SMS

31 (1F)

sm-DeliveryFailure

32 (20)

absentSubscriberSM

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Configurations

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Configuration:
The configuration what is the Originating GT. Timer to read configuration, CAN, Delivery,
Charging, Number formatting of Called.

Routing Information:
Routing is based on prefix to route to HLR/ESME.

HLR:
SRISM is send to HLR defined here.

Blacklist and Whitelist:

Origination/Destination number whitelist/blackilst as a single number and range.

ESME:
The definition of port, username and password of external Application.

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Load testing

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Load was running in 10 instances of HLR and VMSC loadsim as a single loadsim was not
able to push the load above 1000 CAPS.
Load ran at 5000 CAPS for all the testcases except A2M as the DPE transaction was very
high so it could reach only 2500 CAPS.
As of now Home rerouting scenario is not executed in the loadsim as there was a problem at
shared memory. Shared memory gets hanged.

Gateway
M2M
A2M
M2A

CPU %
58.18
70
44.7
74.126

CAPS
5000
5000
2500
5000

RTD[min] RTD[max] RTD[Avg]

3.35099 19.7051
4.452
5.86
37.51
8.729
1000.596 5302.818 1413.1
9.214
28.8058
10.643

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