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How SGW knows ENB tunneling ID because MME will select SGW in the initial attach but SGW not aware of ENB?

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How SGW knows ENB tunneling ID because MME will select SGW in the initial attach but SGW not aware of ENB?
posted Aug 24, 2017 by Charan Shah

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Yes, Charan Shah you are right, MME selects SGW based on the position/eNodeB from where UE is trying to connect to network. There would be many factor while selecting a SGW for UE. I am not interested to explain that logic since it varies vendor to vendor. Specifications cover only message definition and about the signaling messages.
During the attach procedure when SGW sends "Create Session Response" to MME, it sends its tunnel ids to MME and MME forwards the same tunnel ids to eNodeB in "Initial Context Setup Request" message. eNodeB responds to MME by sending the "Initial Context Setup Response" message. This ICS response message carries eNodeB sides tunnel ids. MME retrieves these tunnel ids from ICS response and shares the same with SGW using the "Modify Bearer Request" message.

Hopefully my explanation will help you.

answer Aug 25, 2017 by Vikram Singh
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