5.1 Introduction

29.5023GPP5G SystemRelease 16Session Management ServicesStage 3TS

The SMF supports the following services.

Table 5.1-1: NF Services provided by SMF

Service Name

Description

Example Consumer

Nsmf_PDUSession

This service manages the PDU sessions and uses the policy and charging rules received from the PCF. The service operations exposed by this NF service allows the consumer NFs to establish, modify and delete the PDU sessions, and to send mobile originated data.

V-SMF, H-SMF, I-SMF, SMF, AMF

Nsmf_EventExposure

This service exposes the events happening on the PDU sessions to the consumer NFs.

PCF, NEF, AMF, SMF

Nsmf_NIDD

This service enables the delivery of Non-IP data towards a UE.

NEF

The Nsmf_EventExposure service is specified in 3GPP TS 29.508 [6]. The Session Management services for Non-IP Data Delivery (NIDD) are specified in 3GPP TS 29.542 [37].

Table 5.1-2 summarizes the corresponding APIs defined in this specification.

Table 5.1-2: API Descriptions

Service Name

Clause

Description

OpenAPI Specification File

apiName

Annex

Nsmf_PDUSession

6.1

SMF PDU Session Service

TS29502_Nsmf_PDUSession.yaml

nsmf-pdusession

A.2