Telecommunication management; Subscriber and equipment trace
[Editor’s note: The text is still partly from 12.08. More updating needed.]
This Technical Specification (TS) specifies the Trace facility for GSM 3G mobile networks where it refers to:
- Subscriber tracing (tracing of International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI or Public ID));
- Equipment tracing (tracing of International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI)).
It does not cover:
- Types of trace which relate more to network elements than to individual subscribers e.g. tracing events within a Base Station System (BSS), and so on;
- Tracing of all possible parties in e.g. a multi-party call, (although multiple calls related to the IMSI specified in the trace type field are traceable).
The control signalings on different interfaces and the characteristics of user data are within the scope of this TS, but not the actual contents of the user data.
This TS does not specify any notification mechanisms or IRPs for trace. Only file transfer mechanism is specified for trace data transfer.
This TS does not specify any data compression mechanisms for trace data transfer.