17.7 Conformance testing for the Latency Reductions feature (ctlatred) uid_51149

Resources: G1, G3new

References

Document	Title/Contents
WID(s)
GP-080367	WID on Conformance testing for the Latency Reductions feature
GP-080368	WID on MS conformance testing for the Latency Reductions feature
GP-080369	WID on BTS conformance testing for the Latency Reductions feature
Impacted Specifications
TS 51.010	Mobile Station (MS) conformance specification - G3new
TS 51.021	Base Station System (BSS) equipment specification; Radio aspects - G1
New Dedicated Specifications/Reports
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Supporting Individual Members: Huawei, InterDigital Communications, LG Electronics, Nokia, Research in Motion, Rodhe & Schwarz, Ericsson, T-Mobile International, Vodafone.

This work adds test cases to TS 51.010 and TS 51.021 for GERAN Rel-7 Latency Reductions (LATRED) UID_50582.

17.8 Ms conformance testing of changes introduced by wi "Support of Packet-switched Handover for geran a/Gb mode" (pshct-mStest) uid_53091

Resources: G3new

References

Document	Title/Contents
WID(s)
GP-080411	WID on Mobile Station conformance testing of Packet-switched Handover
Impacted Specifications
TS 51.010	Mobile Station (MS) conformance specification
New Dedicated Specifications/Reports
-	-

Supporting Individual Members: Rohde & Schwarz, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola

This work provides MS testing for Rel-6 Support of PS Handover for GERAN A/Gb mode (SPSHAGB) UID_50559.

18 Sa1 Studies

18.1 Study on Customised Alerting Tone (fs_cat) Requirements uid_7026

Resources: S1

References

Document	Title/Contents
WID(s)
SP-060474	SID on Study of Customised Alerting Tone (CAT) Requirements
Impacted Specifications
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New Dedicated Specifications/Reports
TR 22.982	Study of Customised Alerting Tone (CAT) requirements

Supporting Individual Members: China Mobile, Ericsson, Siemens, Huawei, NEC, Comverse, Lucent.

The Customized Alerting Tone (CAT) service is an operator-specific service by which an operator enables the subscriber to customize the alerting tone which is played to the calling party. CAT service should not negatively affect the conversation between calling and called parties. The caller can experience favourite songs, multi-media clips or other CAT instead of the traditional ringing tones.

As there are many methods to realize the basic functions of CAT, standardization was needed especially for roaming support. Obviously, CAT should be available in spite of the called party's roaming status. Interoperability between different vendors and interoperability between different Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) are required. Furthermore, more and more additional features of CAT are expected by the subscribers, e.g. a user may be able to easily subscribe to the same alerting tone at the same time as he is hearing it by for instance pressing a key.

Currently, most of the CAT mechanisms cannot support roaming scenarios perfectly and some lack scalability.

This work studied the CAT requirements to be standardized e.g.:

• Users can access and choose the alerting tones with more facility, e.g. the caller can easily subscribe to a called party's alerting tone by pressing a key. Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues should be covered in order to make sure that copyrights are not infringed.

• When calling a user of another PLMN, the caller can still hear the alerting tone set by the called party.

• When roaming to another PLMN, the caller can still hear the alerting tone set by the called party.

• The caller can experience the alerting tone set by the called party who is roaming to another PLMN.

• Interactions with: PS services, Supplementary Services, IMS Multimedia Telephony Service, Charging Services and the Generic User Profile (GUP).

TR 22.982 conclusions

• studied requirements and potential new capabilities in 3GPP that need to be standardized for the CAT service, especially additional features for roaming and interoperability support;

• specified the requirements for CAT service in CS and PS domains;

• Voice services were the main focus, but CAT for IMS Multimedia Telephony Service and supplementary services was also considered;

Genealogy of this spec:

antecedent(s)	this spec	descendant(s)
(no antecedents)	22.982	22.182

Spin-off Rel-8 Feature Customized Alerting Tone (CAT) Service UID_340029.