KTH TELIA MOBILE SIP in an Interconnector and Service Provider Role Master of Science Thesis by: Saman Ahmedi (
[email protected]) Martin Altinkaya (
[email protected]) Stockholm, December 2001 Version 2 Supervisor: Examiner and supervisor: Stefan Hagbard Prof. Gerald Q. “Chip” Maguire Jr. Telia Mobile AB, Nacka Strand, Stockholm KTH/IMIT, Kista, Stockholm
[email protected] [email protected] SIP in an Interconnector and Service Provider Role ABSTRACT This Master's Thesis concerns the technical problems and solutions in the Telia Mobile’s Golden Gate Architecture. The Golden Gate project will bridge service control from the IP- network to the circuit switched network. Connecting the different users of PSTN, GSM, W-LAN, and GPRS networks together will require solutions to many problems. Most of the problems have already been defined by Telia. Our task is to evaluate two parts of the Golden Gate architecture, namely the Interconnect- and Service Provider roles. The Interconnector provider connects networks of different technical standards and enables other network operators to reach Service Providers on the Internet or other IP-based networks. The role concerns mainly mapping between SS7 signaling and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), charging and billing. Via the Interconnector the Service Provider can connect different services to any network. We will describe the SIP-protocol in detail and then we will look into the mapping between SS7 and SIP. We will also propose a charging model. It is important to have a solution that supports roaming between the different networks, we will evaluate such a solution. Most of the protocols (INAP, ENUM, MAP and ISUP) that are involved in the Golden Gate architecture are not completely defined.