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WG8 presentation of current
Subscription Management Activities
TISPAN WG8 – 3GPP SA#5 Joint meeting
Sophia Antipolis, May14th - 15th 2007.
Source: Idir FODIL, Rapporteur
France Telecom Group (idir.fodil@orange-ftgroup.com)
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Subscription Management
Selling (CRM)
End to End Info Model
Service Configuration
& Activation (SM&O)
Subscriber
Distribute, Retrieve, …. Data Across Nodes
Resource Provisioning
P-CSCF
AS
Manage Relations (IMS Functions  Nodes)
PDBF
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TISPAN Subscription Management
 Objectives:
 Allows service providers to provision their TISPAN NGN
network entities with the data necessary for delivering
services for a specific subscriber.
 allows subscribers to configure their services when they have
these capabilities.
 Consist in the specification of:
 An end-to-end information model to cover all the mandatory/optional
information related to subscription management that shall be
provisioned on the NGN Network.
 A subscription management functional architecture which hides the
complexity of the different functional entities to be configured
including the CPE and the AS.
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Overview
 Allows service providers to leverage their network resources to:
 Validate (register, authenticate, and authorize.) a request for service from a user;
 Collect, store, update, and distribute the Service Profile information for the user;
 Select the trusted network resources to manage access, distribution, and control
of the profile data information for the user; and
 Direct the network resources to promptly deliver the service requested to the
user according to said profile information.
 fulfils the following essential TISPAN NGN requirements:
 "User equipment Diversity" allows the users to access their TISPAN NGN
services by a variety of UEs.
 "Service Diversity" allows the users to access TISPAN NGN services provided
by service providers or third party application server providers.
 "Access Diversity" allows the users to access their TISPAN NGN services over a
wide variety of network access such as xDSL, WLAN, GPRS, etc.
 "Noamdism": allows the users to access their TISPAN NGN services in multiple
nomadism scenarios.
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Standards in Progress
 3 Work Items
 08015-1: Subscription Management Requirements (TS 188 002-1)
 08015-2: Subscription Management Information Model (TS 188 002-2)
 08015-3: Subscription Management Functional Architecture (TS 188
002-3)
 Currently
 Requirements: draft v0.0.10 : 12tTD350r1
• Approved standard
 Information Model : draft v0.0.5
 Functional Architecture: table of contents.
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SUM from ETOM Business Processes View
Operations
Operations Support & Readiness
Fulfillment
Customer Relationship
Management
Order
Handling
A
Service Management & Operations
Service
Management &
Operations
Readiness
C
Service
Configuration
& Activation
B
Resource Management & Operations
Resource Provisioning
Resource
Management &
Operations
Readiness
D
NGN Network
(A): Ordering Specific Subscription Activation
(B): Ordering Resource Configuration
(C): Checking Service Availability within Service Catalogue
(D): Checking Resource Availability
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SUM Functional View
Service Provider Service Delivery
Customer Care
Subscriber
Subscribe
Configure
Give rights
Subscription
Management
Assign Services
Users
AS
UPSF
Other
Applications
NASS
CPE
Use Services
Customize Services
NGN Functional Entities
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SuM Requirements
 Some Definitions
 Offered Services, Subscribed Services, User Assigned Services, User Activated &
Customized Services"
 Value Chain Model
 Definition of a high level use case
 Definition of detailed use cases
 Help in the design of the information model and the specification of the provisioning
interfaces.
 It was agreed to describe use cases using 3GPP TR 32.803: Process Guide: Use Cases in
Unified Modelling Language (UML).
 High Level Requirements
 Requirements on Information Model
•
Re use of 3GPP SUM NRM if possible.
 Requirements on Functional Architecture
•
Re use of 3GPP IRP and 3GPP GUP if necessary
 Requirements on NGN entities
 Security Requirements
 Annex
 Example Scenarios of TISPAN SuM
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SuM Information Model
 Current version: draft v0.0.5
 High Level Model
 Identification of candidate entity groupings that need to be modelled, possible
relations between those groupings and the associated candidate attributes.
 Does not specify any information model, but is used as the basis for the
design of the SuM Information Model.
 The attributes are the one defined within TISPAN & 3GPP (Services,
Architecture & protocols) + other attributes if needed
 Information Object Classes
 Based on 3GPP TS 32.151 Template.
 Annex A: SuM Information Reference Table
 Information used within this specification, and its corresponding definition
and location in 3GPP and TISPAN specifications.
 Annex B: Summary of SuM Information
 Give the sub clause within this document where SuM Information are used.
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SuM High Level Model: Simplified View
Engaged in Subscription with a Service Provider
Subscriber
Commercial Relationship
Consume Services
Subscription
NGN Service
Network Access
User
Network Access
Profile
NGN Service
Profile
Credentials
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Current SuM High Level IM
Subscriber
1..1
1..1
1..*
0..*
Subscription
User
• Subscription Identitfier
• User Identity
1..1
1..1
1..*
1..*
Subscribed NGN
Service
1..*
Subscribed Network
Access
1..1
1..1
1..*
1..1
Credentials
NGN Service Profile
• NGN Service Profile Identifier
• Reference location
• Registration Status
• Bandwidth capacity per service
• Subscribed Quality of Service
• NASS User ID
• UAAF ID
1..1
1..*
1..*
Network Access
Profile
• Network Access Identifier
• Network Access Type
• NGN Service Identifier
1..1
1..*
1..1
• Private User Identity
• Authentication Data
• Authentication Schema
1..1
0..*
1..*
Logical Access
• Logical Access ID
• RACS Point of Contact
Physical Access
• Physical Access ID
1..*
1..1
1..*
Sub Profile
• Sub Profile ID
• Set of Logical Access ID
• Network Access
authentication data
• Set of QoS profile info
• Initial gate settings
• Privacy indicator
1..*
User Service Instance
•
•
•
•
NGN Service Identifier
Service state
Service options
Service data
Location
• Location Information
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SuM Functional Architecture
Objective: Design NGN OSS Service Interfaces (NOSI)
Order Handling
Service Configuration
& Activation (SCA)
• Subscriber/Subscription/User Management
• Network Technology agnostic
• Allocation and Configuration of Network Resources
Resource Provisioning (RP)
• Hides NGN Functional entities
• Add/modify/remove related SuM Data
NGN Function Entities
NOSI Consumer
NOSI Interface
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TISPAN WG8 / 3GPP SA5
Subscription Managment Harmonization
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TISPAN WG8 / 3GPP SA5 Harmonization
 SuM Requirements
 Definitions
 Define common requirements for Fixed/Mobile Convergence ?
 Use Cases ?
 SuM Information Model
 Needed in order to reuse the 3GPP SUM IRP
 Start Harmonization from the High Level Model and not from the object
classes.
 SuM Functional Architecture
 Study the NGN OSS Service Interface reuse of 3GPP IRP ?
 At which level SUM IRP can be used according to eTOM ?
 The use of 3GPP Generic User Profile ?
 Need to take in account the 3GPP/TISPAN collaboration work
 General Question :
 What is 3GPP SA5 objectives and plan for Subscription Management in Next
Releases ?
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3GPP SuM NRM Containment
IOC
Managed Element
1
1
<<names>>
<<names>>
0..1
0..1
IOC
Subscription
Function
IOC
Service Provider
Function
1
1
<<names>>
<<names>>
0..n
0..n
IOC
SuMService
+offer
+contract
agreement
1
<<names>>
IOC
SuMSubscribedService
0..n
1
IOC
SuMSubscriberProfile
0..n
+specification
1
1
<<names>>
description
+service
0..n
0..n
IOC
SuMServiceProfile
<<names>>
0..n
IOC
SuMSubscriptionProfile
1
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Simplified view of 3GPP SUM NRM
Subscriber Profile
1
One Subscription = One User
One User  1 IMPI + 1 IMPU
0..n
Subscription Profile
TISPAN High Level Model
Service Profile
1
1
0..n
0..n
Subscribed Service
0..n
1
More attributes are needed
Credentials? Network Accesses ?
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Proposal for 3GPP SuM NRM IS Reuse in TISPAN
 In order to reuse the 3GPP SUM within TISPAN, we propose to proceed as follows
 Review the 3GPP SUM NRM according to the TISPAN High level model
• Introduce the concept of User
• Introduce the network access
 Some 3GPP SUM NRM IOC can be reused as they are with some
modifications
 SuMSubscriberProfile
 SuMServiceProfile
 SuMSubscribedService
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TISPAN WG8 / 3GPP SA5 Harmonization
 SuM Requirements
 Definitions
 Define common requirements for Fixed/Mobile Convergence ?
 Use Cases ?
 SuM Information Model
 Needed in order to reuse the 3GPP SUM IRP
 Start Harmonization from the High Level Model and not from the
object classes.
 SuM Functional Architecture
 Study the NGN OSS Service Interface reuse of 3GPP IRP ?
 At which level SUM IRP can be used according to eTOM ?
 The use of 3GPP Generic User Profile ?
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TISPAN SuM Functional Architecture vs 3GPP
 Which part of the eTOM business process are realized by 3GPP
SUM IRP ?
 Service Configuration & Activation ?
 Resource Provisioning ?
 How 3GPP SUM IRP and 3GPP GUP are related to each other ?
 Can we move current 3GPP SUM IRP toward SOA principles?
 May be using Web Services ?
 Is there any roadmap ?
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Additional Slide
3GPP SuMSubscriptionProfile IOC
•This class represents user’s subscription profile of the services contracted by
a subscriber.
•This class contains Service Profiles for the services contracted by a
subscriber and assigned to a user.
One User is limited to a single: IMPI, IMPU
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