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Why do we have these EPS security context: Native and mapped contexts?

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Why do we have these EPS security context: Native and mapped contexts?
posted May 20, 2014 by Kapil Kapoor

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There are different types of EPS security context, namely 'native and mapped'.

These types point to the origin of the context: a native EPS security context is a context whose Kasme was created during a run of EPS AKA, while a mapped EPS security context is converted from a UMTS security context when the UE moves to LTE from UTRAN or GERAN.

A mapped EPS security context is always 'full' while a native EPS security context may be full or partial.
A partial native EPS security context is created by an EPS AKA tun, for which no corresponding successful NAS SMC procedure has been run; in other words, a partial native EPS security context is always in state 'non-current'.

After having been put into use by running a NAS SMC procedure, a partial native EPS security context becomes full as the NAS security algorithms and the NAS keys have been agreed between the UE and the MME.

answer May 21, 2014 by Hiteshwar Thakur
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These are used during combined 3G 4G attach for MME to SGSM context mapping in case of switchover .

answer May 20, 2014 by Shyam Purkayastha
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