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ETSI TS 124 312 V12.11.0 (2016
3GPP TS 24.312 version 12.11.0 Release 12
the UE. Additionally, the ANDSF server may provide other than the requested ANDSF information during the same
ANDSF session.
ISMP prioritizes access networks when the UE is not capable to connect to the EPC through multiple accesses. ISRP
indicates how to distribute traffic among available accesses when the UE is capable to connect to the EPC through
multiple accesses (i.e. the UE is configured for IFOM, MAPCON, non-seamless WLAN offload or any combination of
these capabilities). IARP indicates which traffic should be routed across different PDN connections and which traffic
should be non-seamlessly offloaded to WLAN. DiscoveryInformation provides further information for the UE to access
the access network defined in the ISMP or in the ISRP. WLANSP provides information for the UE to select and reselect
a WLAN. RuleSelectionInformation indicates whether to prioritise ISMP, ISRP and WLANSP provided by HPLMN or
by VPLMN when the UE is roaming and ANDSF rules are available from both HPLMN and VPLMN. The PSPL in
HomeNetworkPreference is used by the UE to determine the selected service provider in order to construct NAI (see
IETF RFC 4282 [25]) to perform 3GPP-based access authentication over the selected WLAN as specified in
3GPP TS 23.402 [4]. HomeNetworkPreference policy also contains S2a Connectivity Preference which is used to
indicate whether or not the home operator prefers the UE to establish PDN connections over WLAN by using the
applicable S2a procedures specified in 3GPP TS 23.402 [4].
The MO defines validity areas, position of the UE and availability of access networks in terms of geographical
coordinates. The way such coordinates are retrieved is implementation dependant (e.g. GPS receiver).
The UE is not required to switch on all UE's supported radios for deducing its location for ANDSF purposes or for
evaluating the validity area condition of a policy or discovery information.
The Management Object Identifier is: urn:oma:mo:ext-3gpp-andsf:1.0.
The OMA DM Access Control List (ACL) property mechanism as standardized (see Enabler Release Definition OMA-
ERELD-DM-V1_2 [5]) may be used to grant or deny access rights to OMA DM servers in order to modify nodes and
leaf objects of the ANDSF MO.
The UE shall ignore any node which is a child of the ANDSF MO root node and is not supported by the UE. The
ANDSF server shall ignore any node which is a child of the ANDSF MO root node and is not supported by the ANDSF
server.
The UE shall support receiving OMA DM commands with bodies encoded as XML formatted as described in OMA-
TS-DM_TNDS-V1_2 [5B].
Validity criteria container of the ANDSF MO enables reducing redundancies in ANDSF MO.
4.1.2 Policy (ISMP)
The Policy node represents ISMP and the information consists of a set of one or more ISMP rules. At any point in time
there shall be at most one rule applied, that rule is referred to as the 'active' rule. There may hence be zero or one 'active'
rule.
The rules have a number of validity conditions (e.g. current access technology and location) where one or more may be
present and set to a value. The rules also have a number of results (e.g. preferred access technology and restricted access
technology) to be used whenever a rule is 'active'. If there are no results for the 'active' rule, it is implementation
dependent how UE performs network selection. When ANDSF policy selection rules identify an available network, the
highest priority rule becomes 'active' rule and network re-selection is performed. If the UE is roaming and ANDSF rules
from both Home ANDSF and Visited ANDSF are available, the active rule is selected according to the
<ANDSF>/RuleSelectionInformation as specified in subclauses 4.1.9 and 5.10.
While the rule remains 'active', UE shall keep considering higher priority networks, than currently selected, in the
prioritized network list of the rule. In addition to conditions and results there is a rule-priority that shall be set for each
rule in order for the UE to determine which rule, out of potentially several valid rules, it should consider as 'active'.
The validity of the rule can be restricted by validity conditions. The validity of the rule takes into account ValidityArea,
ValidityAreaRef, Roaming, TimeOfDay, and TimeOfDayRef, where each existing non-empty node must match in order
to make the rule valid. The UE does not make any evaluation on nodes which are present and empty. In addition, this
rule is considered valid if none of the validity conditions exist.
The UE capable of any combinations of IFOM or MAPCON or non-seamless WLAN offload with all those
combination of capabilities disabled, or a UE which is not IFOM capable and is not MAPCON capable and is not
non-seamless WLAN offload capable, may initiate the provision of ISMP information from the ANDSF, using a client