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Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway
Administration Guide
Version 15.0
Last Updated September 30, 2013
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Cisco Systems, Inc.
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  • Page 1 Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide Version 15.0 Last Updated September 30, 2013 Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706 http://www.cisco.com Tel: 408 526-4000 800 553-NETS (6387) Fax: 408 527-0883...
  • Page 2 ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. Cisco and the Cisco Logo are trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco's trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    HeNB-GW Service Configuration Procedures ..........31 Information Required to Configure the System as an HeNB-GW ............32 Required Local Context Configuration Information ................32 Required Source Context Configuration Information ................. 32 Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 4 Using the GTPU Test Echo Command ....................60 Using the IPsec Tunnel Test Command ..................... 60 Using the SNMP TRAP command for debugging ................61 Using the RESOURCES SESSION command for debugging ............61 ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 5: About This Guide

    About this Guide This document pertains to the features and functionality that run on and/or that are related to the Cisco® ASR 5000 Chassis. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 6: Conventions Used

    Text represented as menu or sub- This typeface represents menus and sub-menus that you access within a software menu names application, for example: Click the File menu, then click New ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 7: Contacting Customer Support

    Use the information in this section to contact customer support. Refer to the support area of http://www.cisco.com for up-to-date product documentation or to submit a service request. A valid username and password are required to access this site. Please contact your Cisco sales or service representative for additional information.
  • Page 8: Additional Information

     Cisco ASR 5x00 Serving Gateway Administration Guide  Cisco ASR 5000 Session Control Manager Administration Guide  Cisco ASR 5000 Packet Data Gateway/Tunnel Termination Gateway Administration Guide  Release notes that accompany updates and upgrades to the StarOS for your service and platform ▄...
  • Page 9: Henb Gateway In Wireless Lte Network

    HeNB incorporates the capabilities of a standard eNode B. The Cisco® ASR5x00 provides LTE wireless carriers with a flexible solution that functions as a Home eNode B Gateway (HeNB-GW) in HeNB Access Network to connect UEs with existing LTE networks.
  • Page 10: Product Description

     Terminating non-UE associated S1 application part procedures towards the HeNB and towards the MME. Important: When an HeNB-GW is deployed, non-UE associated procedures shall be run between HeNBs and the HeNB-GW and between the HeNB-GW and MME. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 11: Protocol Architecture

     Access control for UEs that are members of CSG  Optionally performing paging optimization Important: Some of the features may not be available in this release. Kindly contact your local Cisco representative for more information on supported features. Protocol Architecture This section provides a brief description and pictorial representation of protocol stacks for User as well as Control planes in context to HeNB-GW.
  • Page 12 Control Plane data between the HeNB and the MME. The scope of any protocol function associated to a non-UE-dedicated procedure lies between HeNB and HeNB-GW, and/or between HeNB-GW and MME. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 13: Deployment Scenarios For Henb Access Network

    There are following two variants of deploying an LTE Femtocell Gateway (HeNB-GW) solution according to the TR 23.830:  Variant I: With dedicated HeNB-GW where HeNBs connect via HeNB-GW for control and data aggregation. This deplyment scenario is displayed in the following figure: Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 14  Variant II:With HeNB-GW for conrol plane aggregation only and directly connect to SGW for data plane. This deplyment scenario is displayed in the following figure: 2. With HeNB-GW for Control Plane ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 15: Henb Access Network Elements

    Figure 5. Without HeNB-GW Cisco’s LTE Femtocell network solution focuses on Variant 1 where HeNB-GW is mandatory for HeNBs to connect. Communication between the HeNB and the HeNB GW is secured by a security Gateway (SeGW) function. The SeGW function is optionally collocated or else offloaded to external security function node.
  • Page 16: Security Gateway (Segw)

    User Plane data between the HeNB and the S-GW. The HeNB-GW supports NAS Node Selection Function (NNSF). Important: NAS Node Selection Function (NNSF)supports S1-Flex or multiple S1-MME connections towards the EPC from any one HeNB. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 17: Henb Management System (Hems)

    Operations chapter in the System Administration Guide. Platform Requirements The HeNB-GW service runs on a Cisco® ASR 5x00 chassis running StarOS Rel. 15.0 or later. The chassis can be configured with a variety of components to meet specific network deployment requirements. For additional information, refer to the Installation Guide for the chassis and/or contact your Cisco account representative.
  • Page 18: Network Deployment And Interfaces

    Variant 1 where HeNB-GW is mandatory for HeNBs to connect. HeNB-GW may also be frequently deployed or co-located together with MME and/or S-GW/P-GW in the same system. These collocations are not yet supported in the Cisco ASR5x00 chassis and are planned for future releases. Supported Logical Interfaces This section provides the brief information on supported interfaces on HeNB-GW node.
  • Page 19  Overload function for indicating the load situation in the control plane of the S1 interface.  Load balancing function for ensuring equally loaded MMEs within an MME pool area.  S1 Setup functionality for initial S1 interface setup for providing configuration information. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 20 RAN information (For example, GERAN system information) between two RAN nodes via the core network.  Configuration Transfer Function: This functionality allows the request and transfer of RAN configuration information (For example, SON information) between two RAN nodes via the core network ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 21: Features And Functionality - Base Software

    Once configured, an ACL can be applied to any of the following:  An individual interface  All traffic facilitated by a context (known as a policy ACL) Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 22: Bulk Statistics Support

    PostgreSQL database. If XML file generation and transfer is required, this element generates the XML output and can send it to a Northbound NMS or an alternate bulk statistics server for further processing. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 23: Dscp Marking On S1-U Relay

    Manager server. DSCP Marking on S1-U Relay Cisco supports the DSCP marking of S1-U traffic traversing the HeNB-GW. This functionality on HeNB-GW is supported through command line interface (CLI). CLI configuration capability has been enabled for DSCP marking for both Access and Network service.
  • Page 24: Troubleshooting Features Support

    The above listed in addition to the existing facilities can be enabled to capture logs at different levels, for example: information, trace, debug etc. Important: For more information on troubleshooting, refer the Troubleshooting the Service chapter of this guide. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 25: Features And Functionality - Optional Enhanced Feature Software

    In order to have a complete paging optimization solution, the allowed CSG list of the paged UE is included in the paging message. The paging message is then sent with the allowed CSG list of the paged UE to the HeNB-GW by MME. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 26: License-Based Control For No. Of Henb Connections

    HeNB-GW rejects the extra UE connection attempts with Error Indocation message with proper cause code once the license control is configured for maximum number of HeNBs to connect to the HeNB-GW. Important: For troubleshooting License related issues, refer the Troubleshooting the Service chapter of this guide. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 27: Understanding The Service Operation

    Prior to connecting to the command line interface (CLI) and beginning the system's configuration, there are important things to understand about how the system supports these applications. This chapter provides terminology and background information that must be considered before attempting to configure the system. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 28: Terminology

     S1-MME Interface: This interface is the reference point for the control plane protocol between E-UTRAN and MME in the LTE Femtocell network. Protocol stack architecture for the S1-MME interface has been described in the Protocol Architecture section of the Overview chapter of this guide. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 29: Bindings

    This provides a higher degree of deployment flexibility as it allows a wireless carrier to support multiple services and facilitates seamless connections to multiple networks. Services and Networks This section describes the services configured on HeNB-GW to support various functionality. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 30 S1-U Relay is disabled by default. Also when S1-U relay is enabled, both Access and Network GTP-U services need to be in STARTED state for the HeNB-GW access service to be STARTED. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 31: Henb-Gw Service Configuration Procedures

    Access Control List configuration, use of inappropriate port number may result in communication loss. Refer respective feature configuration document carefully before assigning any port number or IP address for communication with internal or external network. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 32: Information Required To Configure The System As An Henb-Gw

    The type of remote access that will be used to access the system such as telnetd, sshd, and/or ftpd. type(s) Required Source Context Configuration Information The following table lists the information that is required to configure the Source context on an HeNB-GW. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 33: Required Destination Context Configuration Information

    HeNB-GW Network Service can be configured per system and therefore there is 1:1 mapping between HeNB-GW Access and Network services.. Required Destination Context Configuration Information The following table lists the information that is required to configure the destination context. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 34 An identification string from 1 to 63 characters (alpha and/or numeric) by which the Diameter endpoint configuration is recognized by the system. This Diameter Endpoint is required by the SeGW to communicate with the AAA server. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 35 Logical eNodeBs are supported per HeNB-GW Network service. Caution: Deleting or modifying any of the parameters for a fully configured logical eNodeB results in the termination of SCTP connections to MMEs from that logical eNodeb. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 36 Mobile Network Code (MNC): The MNC can be configured to any integer value from 0 to 999. Tracking Area TAC is an integer value rainging from 0..65535. The HeNB-GW Network service searches these TACs for Code (TAC) establishing UE connections. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 37: Henb-Gw Service Configuration

    HeNB-GW Service Configuration example. Using this step, the user enters in the HeNB-GW Access Service Configuration Mode. Step 11 Bind the S1-MME using IP address of this interface to the HeNB-GW service created in Step 10. Enter the IP address in dotted decimal notation. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 38: Henb-Gw Service Configuration

    -------- Access and Network GTP-U Services Configuration ------ gtpu-service <gtpu_svc_access> -noconfirm bind ipv4-address <secondary1_ipv4_addr> exit gtpu-service <gtpu_svc_network> -noconfirm bind ipv4-address <secondary2_ipv4_addr> exit ------------- HeNB-GW Network Service Configuration ----------- henbgw-network-service <henb_network_svc_name> -noconfirm ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 39 > is the name of the second GTP-U service configured in the < > gtpu_svc_network ingress_ctxt_name context mode to provide GTP-U tunnel for HeNBGW Network service. This GTP-U service will be used as Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 40: Ipsec Configuration

    IPSec Configuration Use the following example to configure the IPSec configuration which goes with the Security Gateway (SeGW) configuration on the HeNB-GW Access Service. Configure context <ctxt_name> eap-profile <eap_profile_name> mode authenticator-pass-through exit ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 41: Gtp-U Service Configuration

    Use the following example to configure the GTP-U service parameters to provide GTP-U tunnel over S1-U interface. The two GTP-U configure context <dest_ctxt_name> -noconfirm gtpu-service <gtpu_svc_access> -noconfirm bind address { ipv4-address | ipv6-address } <ip_address> configure context <dest_ctxt_name> -noconfirm gtpu-service <gtpu_svc_network> -noconfirm bind address ipv4-address <ip_address> Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 42: Lte Policy Configuration

    > is two/three digit number between 00 to 999 mnc_id  < > is the tracking area code value ranging as a integer from 0 ... 65535. Up to 256 can be defined on tac_code1 one line. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 43: Verifying Henb-Gw Configuration

    Verify configuration errors of your HeNB-GW services by entering the following command in Exec Mode: show configuration errors section henbgw-network-service} The output of this command displays current configuration errors and warning information for the target configuration file as specified for HNeB-GW Network service Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 44: Logging Facility Configuration

    { critical | error | warning | unusual | info | trace | debug } Important: Refer System Administration Guide for more information on logging facility configuration. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 45: Displaying Logging Facility

    Verify the logging facilities configured on HeNB-GW system node by entering the following command in Exec Mode: show logging [ active | verbose] The output of this command provides the display of event logs for all configured logging facilities. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 46: Alarm And Alert Trap Configuration

     There are several additional SNMP Traps which can be configured. Refer Global Configuration Mode chapter of the Command Line Interface Reference for more information.  For more information on SNMP Traps, refer System SNMP-MIB Reference.  Repeat this configuration as needed for additional traps. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 47: Snmp Mib Traps For Henb-Gw Service

    518 starHenbgwAccessServiceStart starentTraps 1193 starHenbgwAccessServiceStop starentTraps 1194 starHenbgwNetworkServiceStart starentTraps 1195 starHenbgwNetworkServiceStop starentTraps 1196 Important: For more information on SNMP trap configuration and supported object ids, refer System SNMP- MIB Reference. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 48: Event Ids For Henb-Gw Service

    87300-87499 AAA Client Facility Events 6000-6999 Alarm Controller Facility Events 65000-65999 Card/Slot/Port (CSP) Facility Events 7000-7999 Command Line Interface Facility Events 30000-30999 Event Log Facility Events 2000-2999 Threshold Facility Events 61000-61999 ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 49: Monitoring The Henb-Gw Service

    In addition to the CLI, the system supports the sending of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps that indicate status and alarm conditions. Refer to the SNMP MIB Reference Guide for a detailed listing of these traps. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 50: Monitoring System Status And Performance

     SCTP  GTP-U monitor protocol Monitor UE through Protocol Monitoring Use following protocol options for HeNB monitoring:  S1-AP  SCTP  GTP-U View Subscriber Information Display Session Resource Status ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 51 View HeNB-GW Manager facility statistics View HeNB Manager facility statistics show logs facility henbgwmgr View HeNB App facility statistics show logs facility henbapp show logs facility henbgwdemux View HeNB-GW Demux facility statistics Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 52 [ buffer | View HeNB-GW Network service SCTP statistics verbose ] View GTP-U Service Statistics show gtpu statistics peer-address ip_address View GTP-U peer information show gtpu statistics gtpu-service gtpu_svc_name View GTP-U Service information ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 53: Monitoring Logging Facility

    | unusual | info | trace | debug } GW system Monitor threshold logging facility on logging filter active facility threshold level { critical | error | warning | unusual | info | trace | debug } HeNB-GW system Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 54: Clearing Statistics And Counters

    (HeNBGW-Access-Service, HeNBGW-Network- Service, GTP-U, etc.). Statistics and counters can be cleared using the CLI command. Refer to Command Line Interface Reference for clear detailed information on using this command. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 55: Henb-Gw Service Thresholds

    Threshold value the alert or alarm is cleared. If a trigger condition occurs within the polling interval, the alert or alarm is not generated until the end of the polling interval. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 56: Saving Your Configuration

    Exec mode command . For additional information on how to verify and save save configuration configuration files, refer to the System Administration Guide and the Command Line Interface Reference. ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 57: System-Level Henb-Gw Service Thresholds

    <high_thresh> [ clear <low_thresh>] threshold total-henbgw-henb-sessions <high_thresh> [ clear <low_thresh>] threshold total-henbgw-ue-sessions <high_thresh> [ clear <low_thresh>] threshold poll henbgw-paging-messages interval <dur> threshold poll total-henbgw-henb-sessions interval <dur> threshold poll total-henbgw-ue-sessions interval <dur> threshold monitoring henbgw-service Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 59: Troubleshooting The Service

    Chapter 6 Troubleshooting the Service This chapter provides information and instructions for using the system command line interface (CLI) for troubleshooting issues that may arise during service operation. Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 60: Test Commands

    This command tests the system’s ability to communicate through an IPsec Tunnel. This functionality is useful for troubleshooting and/or monitoring. The command has the following syntax: test ipsec tunnel ip-pool ip_pool_name destination-ip des_ip_address source-ip src_ip_address ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...
  • Page 61: Using The Snmp Trap Command For Debugging

    (only HeNB-GW related sessions have been shown): HENBGW Service: In Use : 1161 Max Used : 1161 ( Monday May 06 05:22:00 IST 2013 ) Limit : 2000 License Status : Within Acceptable Limits HENBGW UE Service: Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide ▄...
  • Page 62 HENBGW UE Service: In Use : 2000 Max Used : 2000 ( Monday May 06 05:20:10 IST 2013 ) Limit : 2000 License Status : Over License Capacity (Rejecting Excess Calls) ▄ Cisco ASR 5x00 Home eNodeB Gateway Administration Guide...

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