MRA International Workshop 2013

Feb. 27, 2013⑤-1 Recent history of certification ofTelecommunications Business Act.
－Test method of Internet Protocol mobile telephones－

Japan Approvals Institute for
Telecommunications Equipment

Yukio Hashimoto
財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Agenda• Regulations for VoLTE• Test items for IP telephone, LTE and VoLTE• Measuring method of VoLTE• Informational source about Certification• JATE will be a general-incorporated foundation
LTE: Long Term Evolution
VoLTE: Voice over LTE
IP Phone: Internet Protocol Phone

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Radio equipment subject to Certification in
Telecommunications Business Act.
• Terminal equipment using radio waves forwhich user's request for connection cannot berefused(Public notice of MPT No.72 of 1994)– Para 1： Act. 9 of Ordinance Concerning TerminalFacilities, etc.
– Para 2： Mobile telephone terminals, terminals forprivate circuit facilities, etc. using radio equipment• http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000192344.pdf
財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Amendment of Ordinances, etc.
to institute technical regulation for VoLTE• Ordinance Concerning Technical Standards
Conformity Approval, etc. for Terminal Equipment– Test method of Technical Standards ConformityApproval, etc. for Terminal Equipment*• Ordinance Concerning Terminal Facilities, etc.
– Mobile telephone terminals for which the application ofOrdinance Concerning Terminal Facilities, etc. isextremely unreasonable– Electrical conditions, etc. for VoIP Phone Terminals andTerminals for private circuit facilities, etc.

• Ordinance Concerning Telecommunications Facilities
for Telecommunications Business
財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会* Public notice of MIC No.99 of 2004

Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Regulations about VoLTE• LTE terminals (Act. 49-6-9 of Ordinance Regulating RadioEquipment)– 2010.7.22 amendment• Internet Protocol telephone terminals– 2011.4.1 enforcement• AXGP terminals (Act. 49-29 of Ordinance Regulating RadioEquipment)
AXGP: Advanced eXtended Global Platform– 2011.7.12 amendment• Internet Protocol mobile telephone terminals– 2013.3 enforcement (schedule)– Public comment (2012.11.27), result presentation (2013.1.29)• http://www.soumu.go.jp/menu_news/s-news/01kiban05_02000035.html財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Test method of LTE (Appended Table 7)
1 Basic functions (Originating a call)
2 Basic functions (Responding to a call)
3 Basic functions (Terminating communication)
4 Restriction of originating calls
5 Timing of transmission
6 Random access control
7 Time alignment control
8 Function to comply with instruction to suspend transmission
9 Location registration control
10 Function to comply with instruction to switch channel
11 Reception signal level notification functions
12 Function to automatically suspend transmission in the event ofdeterioration of reception level, etc.
13 Function to secure essential communications
財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Test method of IP telephone terminals*(Appended Table 1, Para 6)
1 Sending message to set up, respond and disconnect a call.
originating a call, responding to a call and terminating communication.

2 Transmission timing of communication termination message.
non-response and busy line

3 Automatic redialing
4 Registration of identification information
5 Congestion notification function
6 Emergency call function
7 Electrical conditions, etc. of metallic transmission channel or
optical transmission channel interface, etc.
8 Signal output power in the case of communications with ananalog telephone terminal, etc.
* Test method of “Terminals using coaxial
cable interface” is also written inappended Table 3.

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Test method of VoLTE
1 Basic functions
1.1 Circuit control(i) Originating a call(ii) Responding to a call(iii) Terminating communication

1.2 Phone call control(i) Originating a call(ii) Responding a call(iii) Terminating communication

2 Call origination functions
2.1 Restriction of originatingcalls
2.2 Time restriction of automatic
redialing
2.3 Limitation of automatic
redialing

3 Timing of transmission
4 Random access control
5 Time alignment control
6 Function to comply with instruction
to suspend transmission
7 Location registration control
8 Function to comply with instruction
to switch channel
9 Reception level notification
functions
10 Function to automatically suspendtransmission in the event ofdeterioration of reception level, etc.
11 Function to secure essentialcommunications
12 Emergency call function
財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Example of measurement structure
Printer[Output measuring data]
Signal analyzer

IP mobile telephone

Digitaloscilloscope
PC [controller][SIP server]

Measurement offunction of IP telephone*
LTE Protocol analyzer[Test Scenario]

Measurement for LTE function* A SIP server may function as a LTE Protocol
analyzer as well

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

LTE Test form and measuring data

• Example of LTE Test Scenario andmeasuring data output by software.
• Development-measuring instruments
for VoLTE by cooperating withmeasuring instrument manufacturers.
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Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Informational source about certification oftelecommunications equipment•Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment– http://www.jate.or.jp•

Japan Voluntary Laboratory Association for Telecommunications Equipment– http://www.jvlate.gr.jp/•

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications– “Certification System for terminal equipment”•

http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/tanmatu/index.html– Electronic government “e-Gov” legal research system•

http://law.e-gov.go.jp/cgi-bin/idxsearch.cgi– “Information and Communication Policy Site”•

http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/joho_tsusin/eng/Resources/Legislation/MRA/index.html– “Japanese Law Translation”••

http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/

CIAJ– 2011.03.10 Seminar “Function requirement and Test method for IP telephone terminals ”•

http://www.ciaj.or.jp/jp/topics/topics2011/2011/03/16/6350/

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

JATE will be a general-incorporated
foundation
Japan Approvals Institutefor Telecommunications Equipment(JATE)
will become a general-incorporated foundation
on April 1, 2013.

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Summarize• Regulations for VoLTE• Test method of VoLTE• Measuring method of VoLTE• Test scenario , development of software to output
measuring data.

• Informational source about certification

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment

Thank you for your attention!

財団法人 電気通信端末機器審査協会
Japan Approvals Institute for Telecommunications Equipment