SMS GW 2.

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I. Introduction
II. Features of Alcatel-lucent SMS GW2.1
III. Modes of Operation
IV. SMSGW sms flow
FDA Mode
Gateway Mode
V. Home Rerouting
VI. Responses at VMSC/HLR
VII. Configuration
VIII. Load testing
Table Of Contents
Introduction
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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 Alcatel-
Lucent SMS Gateway is also a cost-efficient way to decrease the SMS traffic.

Short Message Service Gateway
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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
Features of Alcatel Lucent SMS Gateway
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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.)
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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.


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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.

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SMSGW SMS Flows
FDA mode
Mobile to Mobile

Application to Mobile

Mobile to Application

Gateway mode
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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 1
teleserviceNotProvisioned 11 (B)
callBarred 13 (D)
absentSubscriberSM 6
MT_FSM response ERROR
systemFailure 34 (22)
dataMissing 35 (23)
unexpectedDataValue 36 (24)
facilityNotSupported 21 (15)
unidentifiedSubscriber 5
illegalSubscriber 9
illegalEquipment 12 (C)
subscriberBusyForMT-SMS 31 (1F)
sm-DeliveryFailure 32 (20)
absentSubscriberSM 6
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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.



CPU % CAPS RTD[min] RTD[max] RTD[Avg]
Gateway 58.18 5000 3.35099 19.7051 4.452
M2M 70 5000 5.86 37.51 8.729
A2M 44.7 2500 1000.596 5302.818 1413.1
M2A 74.126 5000 9.214 28.8058 10.643