Dialling, Numbering & Addressing

Pieter de Kruyff R&S BICK Mobilfunk GmbH

Agenda
Definition of terms Dialling & Man Machine Interface (MMI) Addresses and Identities Numbering and Addressing Call Scenarios

Definition of terms
(as used in this presentation) DIALLING - Identity exchange mechanism between User and Terminal NUMBERING - decimal representation of air-interface addresses as seen by the user i.e. user visible numbering ADDRESSING - Identity exchange mechanism over air- interface, provides the routing information for the network

TETRA Dialling & MMI

ID exchange between user and terminal TR 102 300-5: Leading Digit dialling Relative and Shortened dialling Number presentation (CLI & TPI) Special numbers e.g. 999/ 112 Mode keys Full dialling Man-Machine Interface MMI - ETR 294

Display scrolling Soft keys

TETRA Identity
MOBILE NETWORK ID
24 BINARY BITS MOBILE COUNTRY CODE (MCC) 10 BITS 3/4 DIGITS

SHORT SUBSCRIBER ID
24 BINARY BITS

MOBILE NETWORK CODE (MNC) 14 BITS 4/5 DIGITS

SHORT SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY (SSI)

24 BINARY BITS 7/8 DECIMAL DIGITS

Family of TETRA Addresses

HOME NETWORK

(ITSI) INDIVIDUAL TETRA SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY

(GTSIs) GROUP TETRA SUBSCRIBER IDENTITIES (ATSI) ALIAS TETRA SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY
VISITING NETWORK (V)ATSI VISITING ALIAS TETRA SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY (V)GTSIs VISITING GROUP TETRA SUBSCRIBER IDENTITIES

How many numbers for a TETRA Terminal?

One Family of Home Network TSIs
One Individual TETRA Number ITSI One Alias of individual Number ATSI One or more TETRA Group Numbers GTSIs

One or more Families of Visiting Network TSIs

Unassigned SSI (USSI) One Visiting Alias (V)ATSI One or more Visiting Group Numbers (V)GTSIs

One telephone number (E.164)

Numbering & Addressing

Numbering and Addressing Plans Basic Numbering Enhanced Numbering Leading Digit Dialling Call Scenarios
Home & Foreign Network PABX & E.164

Linking TETRA Addressing & Numbering

TETRA NUMBER
3/4 DIGITS MOBILE COUNTRY CODE (MCC) 4/5 DIGITS 7 / 8 DECIMAL DIGITS

MOBILE NETWORK CODE (MNC)

SHORT SUBSCRIBER IDENTITY (SSI)

TETRA ADDRESS

Basic TETRA Number SSI

Communication within home TETRA Network No need for algorithm selection Home dialling algorithm applies
decimal value range from 0 to 16,777,215 (224) User may dial between 1 and 8 digits 7 digit with max value 9 999 999 recommended

Decimal digits are converted to binary SSI

Enhanced TETRA Numbering

Communication beyond home TETRA Network e.g. another TETRA, PABX, PSTN, ISDN Need for algorithm selection Selection of Dialling Plan
Direct number entry via keypad, Mode selection buttons, Soft key menu selection, Leading Digit Dialling

DTMF can be used to access services outside TETRA networks during a call.

Leading Digit Dialling

Leading Digit Dialling is the only dialling algorithm selection defined in TR 102 300-5 Recommended way to achieve commonality between manufacturers implementations
Predefined value for E.164 gateway access is 16,777,184 Predefined value for ISDN gateway access is 16,777,185 14 more values reserved for future use.

Dialling methods
Relative dialling
The last digits of the own SSI are replaced with the dialled digits to form the identity of the subscriber to be called

Shortened dialling
The last digits of a predefined base address (SSI) are replaced with the dialled digits to form the identity of the subscriber to be called

Private Numbering Plans

A private numbering plan uses a number space which is independent of TETRA SSI or E.164 numbering. The TETRA MoU has prepared two specifications for private numbering: Fleet Specific Short Number (FSSN, TTR001- 7) Radio User Number (RUN, TTR001 - 18) The TETRA Standard describes Short Number Addressing (SS-SNA, ETS 300 392-10-7), which provides a private numbering space of 256 addresses.

Fleet Specific Short Number

FSSN uses one million addresses from the SSI addressing space with a base address of 15.000.000. The calling user may dial the FSSN of up to 6 digits, which are added to the base address. The Air Interface provides the transposed number (15.nnn.nnn) to the infrastructure where the number is translated to the real SSI of the called subscriber. The calling subscribers identity is translated to the associated FSSN number and presented as CLI at the called terminal. The FSSN numbering space may be re-used by several user organisations.

Radio User Number

The RUN identifies the user rather than the radio terminal. When the user authenticates himself (RUA, TTR001-17), part of the process is entering his RUN, which is mapped by the system to the ITSI of the used radio terminal. The infrastructure resolves the called ITSI from the called RUN for the routing of the call as well as the calling RUN from the calling ITSI for display as the CLI at the called terminal. The call setup message is addressed to the SSI identifying the RUN application. The RUN is carried in the ESN field in the same way as an E.164 number.

Call Scenarios
Call originating and terminating on same Network, Call originating and terminating on different Networks Calls between TETRA and PABX Calls between TETRA and E.164 (PSTN, GSM, TETRA!)

Scenario 1- Home Network

12 3456 92
MCC MNC SSI

TETRA

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Calling Subscriber
MCC MNC SSI

Scenario 2 - Foreign TETRA Net

TETRA (UK)
ISI MCC ISI ISI MNC SSI

TETRA (UK)

MCC

MNC

SSI

TETRA (France)

Scenario 3 - PABX

PABX GW MNI

PABX GW SSI

PABX Subscriber Number (24 digits)

TETRA (A)
PABX GW

ISI

TETRA (B )
PABX GW

PABX (A)

PABX (B)

Scenario 4 - E.164 (PSTN, GSM)

TETRA (UK)
ISI

TETRA (Germany)

E.164 GW

E.164 GW MNI

E.164 GW SSI

External Subscriber Number (24 digits)

E.164 GW

E.164 (PSTN, GSM)

UK Phone

E.164 GW MNI

E.164 GW SSI

E.164 Subscriber Number (24 digits) German Phone

TETRA IP
TETRA uses IP numbers in the same way as any other IP network Individual TETRA user can have a fixed IP number or the number can be allocated dynamically In order to do the air interface signalling, TETRA IP numbers need to be mapped to TETRA ITSIs

Conclusions
TETRA dialling plans provide the benefits of flexibility and interoperability to meet the huge variety of needs of professional users TETRA numbering plans have flexibility to efficiently deal both with simple fleet numbers & full E.164 international numbers TETRA addressing alignment allows for future interoperability/ roaming with GSM