Mobility Management Entity Overview 
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Paging Procedure 
Paging is initiated when there is data to be sent to an idle UE to trigger a service request from the UE. Once the UE 
reaches connected state, the data is forwarded to it. 
Paging retransmission can be controlled by configuring a paging-timer and retransmission attempts on system. 
 
Subscriber Session Processing 
This section provides information on how LTE/SAE subscriber data sessions are processed by the system MME. The 
following procedures are provided: 
 
  User-initiated Transparent IP: An IP EPS Bearer context request is received by the MME from the UE for a 
PDN. The subscriber is provided basic access to a PDN without the MME authenticating the subscriber. Either 
a static or dynamic IP address can be assigned to the MS in this scenario. 
  User-initiated Non-transparent IP: An IP EPS Bearer context request is received by the MME from the UE for 
a PDN. The MME provides subscriber authentication services for the data session. Either a static or dynamic IP 
address can be assigned to the MS in this scenario. 
  Network-initiated: An IP EPS Bearer context request is received by the MME from the PDN for a specific 
subscriber. If configured to support network-initiated sessions, the MME, will initiate the process of paging the 
MS and establishing a EPS Bearer context. 
 
Subscriber Registration Setup Procedure 
The following figure and the text that follows describe the message flow for a successful user-initiated subscriber 
registration setup procedure.