1 Introduction
1.1 General
1.2 Objectives
1.3 General characteristics
2
Signalling system structure
2.1 Basic functional division
2.2 Functional levels
2.3 Signalling message
2.4 Functional interface
3
Message Transfer Part and the signalling network
3.1 General
3.3 Signalling network management functions
3.4 Testing and maintenance functions
3.5 Use of the signalling network
4
Message transfer capability
4.1 General
4.2 User location in system structure
4.3 Message content
4.4 User accessibility
4.5 Transport service performance
5
Differences from the Blue Book
5.1 Processor outage
5.2 Availability of adjacent signalling point
5.3 Handling of level 3 messages
5.4 Transferred controlled messages
5.5 Load balancing during changeback
5.6 Time-controlled changeover procedure
5.7 Changeback
5.8 MTP restart
5.9 Signalling traffic flow control
5.10 User part availability control
5.11 Signalling route management
6
Compatibility in the Message
Transfer Part
6.1 Unreasonable information
6.2 Treatment of spare fields
6.3 Lack of acknowledgement
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Interworking of yellow, red and blue MTP implementations
7.1 Yellow Book to Red Book interworking
7.2 Red Book to Blue Book interworking
7.3 Yellow Book to Blue Book interworking
7.4 Blue Book to the present version interworking
7.5 Red Book to the present version interworking
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Primitives and parameters of the Message Transfer Part
8.1 Transfer
8.2 Pause
8.3 Resume
8.4 Status
8.5 Restart