16 Short message service (SMS)

34.123-13GPPPart 1: Protocol conformance specificationRelease 15TSUser Equipment (UE) conformance specification

Ref.: 3GPP TS 23.040, 3GPP TS 24.011 (point to point)
3GPP TS 23.041, (cell broadcast)

General

The purpose of these tests is to verify that the UE can handle Iu mode system functions when submitting or receiving Short Messages (SM) between UE and a short message service centre as described in 3GPP TS 23.040.

The procedures are based upon services provided by the Mobility Management (MM) sublayer and GPRS Mobility Management (GMM) sublayer which are not tested in this case.

The SMS comprises three basic services; SMS point to point services on CS mode, on PS mode and SMS cell broadcast service. The SMS point to point services on CS mode shall work in an active UE at any time independent of whether or not there is a speech or data call in progress. The SMS point to point services on PS mode shall work in an active UE at any time independent of whether or not there is a PDP context in progress. The SMS cell broadcast service only works when the UE is in idle mode.

Since the timer TC1M currently is not standardized, the value of TC1M shall be declared by the manufacturer (to be used in clauses 16.1.1 and 16.1.2).

The manufacturer shall declare whether SMS messages are stored in the USIM and/or the ME. This shall be referred to as the SMS message store in the following tests.

Unless otherwise stated default message contents from 3GPP TS 34.108 applies for following tests.