On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:56 AM Sridhar Bhaskaran <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Dino,
>
> Some clarifications on your comments
>
> >>> It was never clear to me and no one could ever explain exactly why a
> TEID is needed. I presumed for accounting reasons. But if there was a
> one-to-one mapping between tunnel and user, why couldn’t the inner
> addresses be used for accounting?
>
> [Sridhar] In EPC, each bearer has a GTPU tunnel. TEID identifies a tunnel
> and hence consequently a bearer. Once the bearer context is identified the
> QoS and charging policy applicable to the bearer is applied. So the purpose
> of TEID is not just for accounting. Its for QoS treatment, charging and
> bearer context identification.
>
> In 5G, each PDU session has a GTPU tunnel. So TEID identifies the PDU
> session whereas the QFI carried in GTPU extension header identifies the
> flow. So in 5G TEID + QFI is used for QoS treatment and charging.
>
> >>> How can packets be sent if the session is not setup. If the session is
> not setup, the encapsulator should have no state. And packets should be
> dropped locally and not go far to get an error back. This sounds
> architecturally broken.
>
> [Sridhar] The purpose of GTP-U error indication is to signal in band to
> the sender that a GTP-U tunnel endpoint (TEID) at the receiving side is
> lost for any reason. "No session exist" does not mean Session is not setup.
> "No session exist" scenario after a session setup can happen due to local
> error conditions, bearers released for administrative reasons etc.
>
> >>> You should explain in summary form the model the control-plane uses.
> Does it use TCP for reliability, does it use multicast, is it like a
> routing protocol, is it like a management protocol. What are the failure
> modes, the state/bandwidth tradeoffs.
>
> [Sridhar] Explaining all these in IETF draft is simply reproducing what is
> already there in TS 29.244. A reference to TS 29.244 should be enough. See
> section 6.4 of TS 29.244 for reliable delivery of PFCP messages.
>
>
I checked in IETF IANA UDP assignments,

pfcp 8805 udp Destination Port number for PFCP [Kimmo_Kymalainen
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?&page=112#Kimmo_Kymalainen>
] [Kimmo_Kymalainen
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?&page=112#Kimmo_Kymalainen>
] 2017-05-08
 for packet forwarding control protocol. What is PFCP, is it GTP-U?

Behcet

> Thanks
> Sridhar
> 3GPP CT4 Delegate
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