SMS & SMSC

Presented By: Click to edit Master subtitle style AJAY CHAUHAN

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SMS Overview
SMS stands for Short Message Service SMS is the ability to send and receive short

alphanumeric messages to and from mobile telephones.

SMS works on store and forward method Besides text, SMS messages can also carry binary

data. It is possible to send ringtones, pictures,

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operator logos, wallpapers, animations, business

SMS Overview
One SMS message can contain at most 140 bytes

(1120 bits) of data, so one SMS message can contain up to:

160 characters if 7-bit character encoding is used (suitable

for encoding Latin characters like English alphabets.)

70 characters if 16-bit Unicode UCS2 character encoding is

used (SMS text messages containing non-Latin characters like Chinese)

SMS text messaging supports languages

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Concatenated/Long SMS
One SMS message can only carry a very limited

amount of data. To overcome this drawback, an extension called concatenated SMS

A concatenated SMS text message can contain

more than 160 English characters.

The sender's mobile phone breaks down a long

message into smaller parts and sends each of them as a single SMS message.
The recipient mobile phone will combine them back

to one long message.

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SMSC Overview
SMSC stands for Short message service center SMSC is a network element in the mobile telephone

network which delivers short messages (SMS)

SMSC works on store and forward principle i.e.

when a user sends a text message to another user, the message gets stored in the SMSC which delivers it to the destination user when destined user is available.
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SMSC Overview
An SMS center (SMSC) is responsible for handling the SMS operations of a wireless network.
When an SMS message is sent from a mobile

phone, it will reach an SMS center first.

The SMS center then forwards the SMS

message towards the destination.

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Network Architecture

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SMS technical realization

The SMS is realized by the use of the Mobile

Application Part (MAP) of the SS#7 protocol

These MAP messages may be transported using

'traditional' TDM based signaling, or over IP using SIGTRAN and an appropriate adaptation layer.
SMS on Store and forward technique.

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SMS Call Flow

Basic SMS Call Flow : End to end SMS transaction completes in 2 parts : Message submission by originating subscriber to its

SMSC (Mobile Originating Part)

Message delivery by SMSC to recipient Subscriber

(Mobile terminating Part)

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SMS Call Flow

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MO-SM Submit
The SM is sent from the originating Mobile Station

(MS) to the serving Mobile Switching Center (MSC). The address of the SMSC where the SM should be submitted to is stored on the SIM card of the subscriber and forwarded to the MSC with the message.
The MSC forwards the SM to the SMSC. The SMSC

returns a positive (ACK) or negative (NACK) response 5/5/12 indicating whether the message was

MT-SM Deliver
To delivers a SM SMSC has to find out the location

(serving MSC) and the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) of the recipient subscriber first. This information (routing information) is retrieved from the Home Location Register (HLR) of the recipient subscriber based on the recipient number (MSISDN).
HLR Provides routing Information to SMSC, which

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IMSI and serving MSC of recipient number.