8.123 Remote User ID

29.2743GPP3GPP Evolved Packet System (EPS)Evolved General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C)Release 18Stage 3TS

Remote User ID is transferred via GTP tunnels and is coded as depicted in Figure 8.123-1. The Remote User ID IE shall contain one IMSI identity and, if available, one IMEI identity and/or one MSISDN identity. The flag MSISDNF in octet 5 indicates if the MSISDN shall be present in the respective field. The flag IMEIF in octet 5 indicates if the IMEI shall be present in the respective field. The IMSI field including the Length of IMSI shall be always present.

Bits

Octets

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

1

Type = 192 (decimal)

2 to 3

Length = n

4

Spare

Instance

5

6

7 to a

b

b+1 to c

d

d+1 to e

(e+1) to (n+4)

Spare

IMEIF

MSISDNF

Length of IMSI

IMSI

Length of MSISDN

MSISDN

Length of IMEI

IMEI

These octet(s) is/are present only if explicitly specified

Figure 8.123-1: Remote User ID

The coding of IMSI field, from octets 7 to ‘a’ shall be encoded as the octets 5 to n+4 of the IMSI IE type specified in clause 8.3.

The coding of MSISDN field, octets ‘b+1’ to ‘c’ shall be encoded as the octets 5 to n+4 of the MSISDN IE type specified in clause 8.11.

The coding of IMEI field, octets ‘d+1’ to ‘e’ shall be encoded as the octets 5 to n+4 of the MEI IE type specified in clause 8.10.