1 Scope

24.0113GPPPoint-to-Point (PP) Short Message Service (SMS) support on mobile radio interfaceRelease 17TS

The present document specifies the procedures used across the mobile radio interface by the signalling layer 3 function Short Message Control (SMC) and Short Message Relay function (SM‑RL) for circuit switched in A/Gb mode, GPRS, EPS, and 5GS.

1.1 References

The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.

– References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non‑specific.

– For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.

– For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.

[1] Void.

[1a] 3GPP TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".

[2] 3GPP TS 23.040: "Technical realization of the Short Message Service (SMS) Point‑to‑Point (PP)".

[3a] 3GPP TS 23.060: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Service description; Stage 2".

[3] 3GPP TS 44.006: "Mobile Station ‑ Base Station System (MS ‑ BSS) interface; Data Link (DL) layer specification".

[4] 3GPP TS 24.007: "Mobile radio interface signalling layer 3; General aspects".

[5] 3GPP TS 24.008: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification".

[5a] 3GPP TS 25.331: "Radio Resource Control (RRC); Protocol Specification".

[5b] 3GPP TS 33.102: "3G Security; Security Architecture".

[5c] 3GPP TS 42.017: "Subscriber Identity Modules (SIM); Functional characteristics".

[6a] 3GPP TS 44.064: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS); Logical Link Control (LLC) layer specification ".

[6] ISO 7498: "Information processing systems ‑ Open Systems Interconnection ‑ Basic Reference Model".

[7] 3GPP TS 44.018: "Mobile radio interface layer 3 specification; Radio Resource Control Protocol".

[8] 3GPP TS 25.413: "UTRAN Iu interface RANAP signalling".

[9] 3GPP TS 23.401: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access"

[10] 3GPP TS 24.301: "Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for Evolved Packet System (EPS); Stage 3"

[11] 3GPP TS 23.272: "Circuit Switched Fallback in Evolved Packet System; Stage 2"

[12] 3GPP TS 29.118: "Mobility Management Entity (MME) – Visitor Location Register (VLR) SGs interface specification"

[13] 3GPP TS 23.501: " System Architecture for the 5G System; Stage 2".

[14] 3GPP TS 23.502: " Procedures for the 5G System; Stage 2".

[15] 3GPP TS 24.501: "Non-Access-Stratum (NAS) protocol for 5G System (5GS); Stage 3".

[16] 3GPP TS 29.518: "5G System; Access and Mobility Management Services; Stage 3".

[17] 3GPP TS 29.540: "5G System; SMS Services; Stage 3".

1.2 Abbreviations

For the purpose of the present document, the abbreviations given in 3GPP TR 21.905 [1a] and the following apply:

RR connection: a RR connection is a dedicated physical circuit switched domain connection used by the two RR or RRC peer entities to support the upper layers’ exchange of information flows.

PS signalling connection: is a peer to peer UMTS connection between MS and CN packet domain node.

GPRS: Packet Services for GSM and UMTS system.

The label (A/Gb mode only): indicates this section or paragraph applies only to GSM system. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

The label (Iu mode only): indicates this section or paragraph applies only to UMTS system. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

The label (S1 mode only): indicates this section or paragraph applies only to Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and E-UTRAN access. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

In A/Gb mode,…: Indicates this paragraph applies only to GSM System. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

In Iu mode,…: Indicates this paragraph applies only to UMTS System. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

In S1 mode,…: Indicates this paragraph applies only to Evolved Packet Core and E-UTRAN access. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

In N1 mode: Indicates this paragraph applies only to 5G core network and NG-RAN access. For multi system case this is determined by the current serving radio access network.

SIM: Subscriber Identity Module (see 3GPP TS 42.017 [5c]). This specification makes no distinction between SIM and USIM.

MS: Mobile Station. This specification makes no distinction between MS and UE.

For the purposes of the present document, the following terms and definitions given in 3GPP TS 24.301 [10] apply:

UE using EPS services with control plane CIoT EPS optimization