Reference Guide

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Apex Lifestyle Small Cell features

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Casa System has developed a hybrid Son architecture using both cSON (implemented

on AeMS) and dSON (deployed on Apex Lifestyle Small Cells).

— The solution is fully compliant with the new Apex Lifestyle Small Cell

Forum’s SON API.

— Configuration Management and reporting of PM is performed by the OAM

interface of the 3GPP standard existing TR-069 and the X2 interfaces.

— Single Apex Lifestyle Small Cell Forum SON API for Apex Lifestyle

Small Cell and data model for OAM and SON.

— The SON Manager, our cSON (Centralized SON server) uses a JSON

REST interface on the AeMS Northbound Interface for it through the ACS

to interact with the cells using standard TR-069 messaging.

— It can also use an X2 connection.

— The interaction is made through the TR-069 protocol.

— The dSON or distributed SON agent may also interact with other dSON

agents of neighbor small cells or macrocells using the X2 interface.

— To differentiate between cells with 20bits Apex Lifestyle Small Cell IDs

and 28bits Apex Lifestyle Small Cell IDs is recommended to define a

reserved range of PCIs for Small Cells.

— The Small Cells support automatic discovery of IP (X2 TNL Discovery)

using the S1 Apex Lifestyle Small Cell/MME Configuration Transfer pro-

cedure.

— The SON Manager can be integrated in the SCM’s system architecture as

an additional element and entity of the overall end-to-end system.

The following SON features are supported by the Apex Lifestyle Small Cell:

• Manual Configuration of Neighbor Lists.

• Supports neighbor blacklisting and whitelisting.

• Supports removing neighbors from NR list

• Cell soft lock

• Support for auto-IPSec link setup with the Casa Security Gateway (including

support of IKEv2, RFC4945) for the Apex Lifestyle Small Cell network