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MME is not responding to S1 setup request message

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What is the eNB behavior in-case MME is not responding to S1 setup request message (ie. MME is not sending S1 setup failure or success).

posted Aug 12, 2013 by Deepak Dasgupta

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Googled and found the following -

The specifications say that if the eNB receives “S1 setup failure” message, it includes the indicated time before retaining the S1 setup towards the same MME (TS 36.413). They does not say anything what happens if there’s no message incoming from the MME, but I presume, that it is up to the vendor that shall define another timer which the eNB uses (at expiry) to resend the message to the same MME. Another option is, that the eNB at this “vendor dependent timer” expiry will try to reach another MME (if connected to more than one), by sending “S1 setup request” message.

answer Aug 12, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
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Hi All,

I have a query regarding S1 setup procedure.
If MME receives S1 setup Request message from same eNB twice (Assuming the S1 connection is already up), what will be the behavior of MME in this case.
Will it erase both UE and non-UE related application data? Or does it send S1 setup failure message?

Thanks in advance.

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