CAMEL

Rogier Noldus is Senior Specialist, Intelligent Networks, at Ericsson Telecommunications, Netherlands.  Within Ericsson, he is responsible for the development and implementation of the CAMEL technology.  Rogier has played a key role in the development of the CAMEL standard in ETSI and 3GPP.  He has chaired various conferences on CAMEL, has been speaker at various other international conferences, and represents Ericsson at the ETSI and 3GPP standardization organizations.

• Foreword by Keijo Palviainen xiiiForeword by Gerry Christensen xvPreface xvii1 Introduction to GSM Networks 11.1 Signalling in GSM 31.2 GSM Mobility 31.3 Mobile Station 41.4 Identifiers in the GSM Network 41.5 Basic Services 61.6 Supplementary Services 92 Introduction to Intelligent Networks 112.1 History of Intelligent Networks 112.2 Principles of Intelligent Networks 122.3 Service Switching Function 142.4 Service Control Function 152.5 Basic Call State Model 152.6 Dialogue Handling 172.7 Evolution of the CAMEL Standard 192.8 Principles of CAMEL 222.9 Signalling for CAMEL 282.10 Dynamic Load Sharing 342.11 Using Signalling Point Code for Addressing in HPLMN 353 CAMEL Phase 1 373.1 Architecture for CAMEL Phase 1 373.2 Feature Description 453.3 Subscription Data 653.4 Basic Call State Model 693.5 CAMEL Application Part 753.6 Service Examples 794 CAMEL Phase 2 854.1 Introduction 854.2 Architecture 874.3 Feature Description 924.4 Subscription Data 1604.5 Basic Call State Model 1624.6 CAMEL Phase 2 Relationship 1734.7 Interaction with GSM Supplementary Services 1744.8 Interaction with Network Services 1825 CAMEL Phase 3 1875.1 General Third-generation Networks 1875.2 Call Control 1965.3 CAMEL Control of GPRS 2245.4 CAMEL Control of MO-SMS 2605.5 Mobility Management 2735.6 CAMEL Interaction with Location Services 2775.7 Active Location Retrieval 2785.8 Subscription Data Control 2805.9 Enhancement to USSD 2835.10 Pre-paging 2846 CAMEL Phase 4 2856.1 General 2856.2 Call Control 2896.3 GPRS Control 3246.4 SMS Control 3256.5 Mobility Management 3316.6 Any-time Interrogation 3346.7 Subscription Data Control 3366.8 Mobile Number Portability 3366.9 Control of IP Multimedia Calls 3427 Charging and Accounting 3557.1 Architecture 3557.2 Call Detail Records 3557.3 Transfer Account Procedure Files 3597.4 Inter-operator Accounting of CAMEL Calls 3617.5 Correlation of Call Detail Records 3667.6 Global Call Reference 3697.7 Call Party Handling CDRs 3708 3GPP Rel-6 and Beyond 3718.1 General 3718.2 Enhancements to 3GPP Rel-6 3738.3 Enhancements to 3GPP Rel-7 379Appendix 383A.1 Overview of CAP Operations 383A.2 Overview of MAP Operations 384A.3 Overview of ISUP Messages 386A.4 Overview of CAMEL Subscription Information 386References 389Abbreviations 395Index 401