The MMTelDetermineFlexibleAlertingMode feature determines if and how the Flexible Alerting features will execute based on feature configuration and the HSS Subscriber Data. .

The Determine Flexible Alerting Mode feature runs before the Flexible Alerting features. It reads subscriber data and configuration profile tables to determine the flexible alerting mode and supplies this information to the MMTelParallelFA and MMTelSequentialFA features as a session state field.

Feature cheat sheet

B2BUA Instance Originating/Terminating Point(s) in Session Plan Network Operator Data Subscriber Data Stateful or Stateless POJO Feature or SBB Feature

All

Terminating

Subscriber Check

Yes

Yes

Stateless

POJO

Prerequisite features

Source Code

This feature’s source code is available in the Sentinel VoLTE SDK in the mmtel-flexible-alerting module pack. It can be viewed by using the create-module command in the SDK with that module pack, for example:

> create-module new-mmtel-flexible-alerting opencloud#mmtel-flexible-alerting#volte/2.7.0;2.7.0.0

This command will prompt you for information needed to create the new modules, once completed the original source for the feature can be found in the new modules.

The module-pack includes the following modules:

Module Name Description

mmtel-determine-flexible-alerting-mode

Group module for the Determine Flexible Alerting Mode feature.

mmtel-determine-flexible-alerting-mode-profile

The profile for this feature

mmtel-determine-flexible-alerting-mode-library

The common library for this module pack

mmtel-parallel-fa

The flexible alerting parallel feature.

mmtel-sequential-fa

The flexible alerting sequential feature.

Network Operator Data

The data present in JSLEE profile table MMTelDetermineFAConfigProfileTable is used to configure the behaviour of the Flexible Alerting features: MMTelParallelFA and MMTelSequentialFA. This profile table is scoped by the sentinel key and the Pilot Number.

Here is an example of a profile entry:

'SomeOperatorName::::sip:callcentre@someoperator.com':
            ModeIsParallel: true
            ParallelMaxWaitTimeout: 5000
            SequentialAnyResponseTimeout: 2000
            SequentialFinalResponseTimeout: 5000

The default profile entry is not scoped by a Pilot Number:

'SomeOperatorName::::':
            ModeIsParallel: true
            ParallelMaxWaitTimeout: 5000
            SequentialAnyResponseTimeout: 2000
            SequentialFinalResponseTimeout: 5000
Variable Name Type Comments 
ParallelMaxWaitTimeout

int

Set the amount of time in milliseconds that the MMTelParallelFA waits for a final response before canceling the session for a pilot number.

 
ModeIsParallel

boolean

Set the mode to parallel (true) or sequential (false).

 
SequentialAnyResponseTimeout

int

Set the amount of time in milliseconds that the MMTelSequentialFA waits for a any response from the INVITE before start alerting the next member.

 
SequentialFinalResponseTimeout

int

Set the amount of time in milliseconds that the MMTelSequentialFA waits for a final response from the INVITE before start alerting the next member.

Session Input Variables

Variable Name Type Comments 
MMTelServiceData

Complex

Service data read from HSS

Session Output Variables

Variable Name Type Comments 
FlexibleAlertingMode

Enum

Determines whether the FA Group will be alerted in sequential or parallel way or if none of the flexible alerting features will run. Possible values are: NONE, PARALLEL or SEQUENTIAL.

 
FlexibleAlertingGroupMode

Enum

Determines whether the FA Group is of type single-user or multiple-users. Possible values are: GROUP_NONE, SINGLE_USER or MULTIPLE_USERS

Statistics

MMTelDetermineFAMode statistics are tracked by the volte.sentinel.sip SBB and can be found under the following parameter set:
SLEE-Usage → volte.sentinel.sip service → volte.sentinel.sip SBB

Statistic Incremented when…​ 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFAModeStarted

each time the feature runs

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFailedDuringExecution

a fatal error occurs while the feature is executing

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFailedToStart

sentinel VoLTE encounters an error while attempting to start the feature.

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureIssuedWarning

a non-fatal problem is encountered and the feature and issues a warning.

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureTimedOut

the feature takes too long to complete and Sentinel VoLTE aborts execution.

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFAModeNoFA

the feature fails to trigger Flexible Alerting under FA mode

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFANoProfile

no valid profile is loaded for poilt subscriber

 
MMTelDetermineFAModeFeatureFAValidPilotNumber

subscriber data equals the requestUri header.

Behaviour

When the feature starts, it tries to load the configuration profile for the pilot number present in the flexible alerting subscriber data. The table MMTelDetermineFAConfigProfileTable is expected to contain a profile with name scoped by the sentinel selection key and the Pilot Number, i.e, SomeOperatorName::::sip:callcentre@someoperator.com.

If there is no profile for the pilot number the feature try to get the configuration from the default profile: SomeOperatorName::::.

When there is no suitable profile the FlexibleAlertingMode is set to NONE and the FlexibleAlertingGroupMode is set to GROUP_NONE. It means that the neither MMTelParallelFA nor MMTelSequentialFA will run.

When there is a suitable profile, the feature checks if the flexible-alerting is active by checking the authorized field in the flexible-alerting Subscriber Data. If the service is not active, i.e authorized="false", neither MMTelParallelFA nor MMTelSequentialFA will run. The HSS schema for flexible alerting defines two sets of services that can contain the key authorized: operator-flexible-alerting and operator-flexible-alerting-group. The feature checks both to define if the service is authorized. The table below shows the logic:

operator-flexible-alerting authorized
 
operator-flexible-alerting-group authorized
 
service status
 
true
 
true
 
active
 
true
 
null
 
active
 
null
 
true
 
active
 
false
 
any
 
inactive
 
any
 
false
 
inactive
 
null
 
null
 
inactive

When flexible alerting is active, the group type in the Subscriber Data (single-user or multiple-users) is written into the Session State variable FlexibleAlertingGroupMode. The FlexibleAlertingMode Session State field is set according to the value in the configuration profile (ModeIsParallel attribute).

Subscriber data examples

MULTIPLE_USERS

HSS Subscriber Data

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Sh-Data>
    <RepositoryData>
        <ServiceIndication>MMTEL-Services</ServiceIndication>
        <SequenceNumber>1</SequenceNumber>
        <ServiceData>
            <MMTelServices
                xmlns="http://uri.etsi.org/ngn/params/xml/simservs/xcap"
                xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:common-policy">
                <complete-flexible-alerting>
                    <operator-flexible-alerting authorized="true"/>
                    <operator-flexible-alerting-group authorized="true">
                        <identity>sip:friends@home1.opencloud.co.nz</identity>
                        <group-type>multiple-users</group-type>
                        <membership>permanent</membership>
                        <members>
                            <member active="true">sip:bob@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                            <member active="true">sip:charlie@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                            <member active="true">sip:daisy@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                        </members>
                    </operator-flexible-alerting-group>
                </complete-flexible-alerting>
            </MMTelServices>
        </ServiceData>
    </RepositoryData>
</Sh-Data>

Profile configuration

ModeIsParallel: true
ParallelMaxWaitTimeout: 20000
SequentialAnyResponseTimeout: 2000
SequentialFinalResponseTimeout: 5000

In the example above, the group sip:friends@home1.opencloud.co.nz has three active members. The FlexibleAlertingGroupMode is set to MULTIPLE_USERS , the FlexibleAlertingMode is set to PARALLEL, and the timeout is set to 20 seconds.

SINGLE_USER

HSS Subscriber Data

<Sh-Data>
    <RepositoryData>
        <ServiceIndication>MMTEL-Services</ServiceIndication>
        <SequenceNumber>1</SequenceNumber>
        <ServiceData>
            <MMTelServices
                xmlns="http://uri.etsi.org/ngn/params/xml/simservs/xcap"
                xmlns:cp="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:common-policy">
                <complete-flexible-alerting>
                    <operator-flexible-alerting authorized="true"/>
                    <operator-flexible-alerting-group authorized="true">
                        <identity>sip:bob@home1.opencloud.co.nz</identity>
                        <group-type>single-user</group-type>
                        <membership>permanent</membership>
                        <members>
                            <member active="true">sip:bob@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                            <member active="true">sip:bob-mobile@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                            <member active="true">sip:bob-desk@home1.opencloud.co.nz</member>
                        </members>
                    </operator-flexible-alerting-group>
                </complete-flexible-alerting>
            </MMTelServices>
        </ServiceData>
    </RepositoryData>
</Sh-Data>

Profile configuration

ModeIsParallel: false
ParallelMaxWaitTimeout: 5000
SequentialAnyResponseTimeout: 2000
SequentialFinalResponseTimeout: 5000

In the example above, the group sip:bob@home1.opencloud.co.nz has three active members. The FlexibleAlertingGroupMode is set to SINGLE_USER, the FlexibleAlertingMode is set to SEQUENTIAL and the timeout is for receiving any response from a member is set to 2 seconds and the timeout for receiving a final response from a member is 5 seconds.

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