5.2.10 AUSF Services

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5.2.10.1 General

The following table illustrates the AUSF Services.

Table 5.2.10.1-1: List of AUSF Services

Service Name

Service Operations

Operation

Semantics

Example Consumer(s)

Nausf_UEAuthentication

Authenticate

Request/Response

AMF

Nausf_SoRProtection

Protect

Request/Response

UDM

Nausf_UPUProtection

Protect

Request/Response

UDM

5.2.10.2 Nausf_UEAuthentication service

5.2.10.2.1 General

Service Description: the AUSF provides UE authentication service to the requester NF. For AKA based authentication, this operation can be also used to recover from synchronization failure situations.

5.2.10.2.2 Nausf_UEAuthentication_Authenticate service operation

See TS 33.501 [15].

5.2.10.2.3 Void

5.2.10.3 Nausf_SoRProtection service

5.2.10.3.1 General

Service Description: The AUSF provides the Steering of Roaming information protection service to the requester NF.

5.2.10.3.2 Nausf_SoRProtection Protect service operation

See TS 33.501 [15].

5.2.10.4 Nausf_UPUProtection service

5.2.10.4.1 General

Service Description: The AUSF provides the UE Parameters Update protection service to the requester NF.

5.2.10.4.2 Nausf_UPUProtection Protect service operation

See TS 33.501 [15].

5.2.10.5 Void