School of Specs 24.501v20.0.0

3GPP 24.501 v20.0.0 — the document's own text

6.4.2.6 Abnormal cases on the network side

Taught in 4. Inside TS 24.501, the document at the centre (CT1 — the group that writes what your phone says, overview).

The following abnormal cases can be identified:

  • If the PDU session is an emergency PDU session and the 5GSM cause IE is not included in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message which is not triggered according to clause 6.4.2.1, item e), or is set to a 5GSM cause other than the 5GSM causes #41, #42, #44, #45, #83, #84, and #85, the SMF shall reject the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message with 5GSM cause #31 "request rejected, unspecified".
  • PDU session inactive for the received PDU session identity.

If the PDU session ID in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message belongs to any PDU session in state PDU SESSION INACTIVE in the SMF, the SMF shall set the 5GSM cause IE to #43 "Invalid PDU session identity" in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.

  • Collision of network-requested PDU session modification procedure and UE-requested PDU session modification procedure.

The handling of the same abnormal case as described in clause 6.3.2.5 applies.

  • AMF provides a "message was exempted from the DNN based congestion activated in the AMF" but the UE-requested PDU session modification procedure is not exempt from DNN based congestion control.

If the SMF receives an exemptionInd attribute indicating "message was exempted from the DNN based congestion activated in the AMF" as specified in 3GPP TS 29.502 [20A], and the Extended protocol configuration options IE of the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message does not indicate 3GPP PS data off UE status, then the SMF shall set the 5GSM cause #26 "insufficient resources" in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.

  • AMF provides a "message was exempted from the S-NSSAI and DNN based congestion activated in the AMF" but the UE-requested PDU session modification procedure is not exempt from S-NSSAI only based congestion control.

If the SMF receives an exemptionInd attribute indicating "message was exempted from the S-NSSAI and DNN based congestion activated in the AMF" as specified in 3GPP TS 29.502 [20A], and the Extended protocol configuration options IE of the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message does not indicate 3GPP PS data off UE status, then the SMF shall set the 5GSM cause #67 "insufficient resources for specific slice and DNN" in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.

  • AMF provides a "message was exempted from the S-NSSAI only based congestion activated in the AMF" but the UE-requested PDU session modification procedure is not exempt from S-NSSAI only based congestion control.

If the SMF receives an exemptionInd attribute indicating "message was exempted from the S-NSSAI only based congestion activated in the AMF" as specified in 3GPP TS 29.502 [20A], and the Extended protocol configuration options IE of the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message does not indicate 3GPP PS data off UE status, then the SMF shall set the 5GSM cause #69 "insufficient resources for specific slice" in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.

  • 5G access network cannot forward the message.

If the SMF determines based on content of the n2SmInfo attribute specified in 3GPP TS 29.502 [20A] that the DL NAS TRANSPORT message carrying the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION COMMAND message was not forwarded to the UE by the 5G access network due to a cause other than handover procedure in progress, then the SMF shall reject the UE-requested PDU session modification procedure with an appropriate 5GSM cause value in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.

NOTE: The use of an appropriate 5GSM cause value is implementation specific.

  • UE-requested MA PDU session modification with unspecified steering functionality and steering mode:

If the SMF receives the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REQUEST message for an MA PDU session including the 5GSM capability information element that does not indicate support for any steering functionality or steering mode, the SMF shall reject the PDU session modification procedure with the 5GSM cause set to #95 "Semantically incorrect message" in the PDU SESSION MODIFICATION REJECT message.