Feature Description

The SMF supports the deregistration of Network Function (NF) Repository Function (NRF), wherein the NF deregister service operation of the SMF removes the profile of a network function that is registered in the NRF.

The SMF starts the NF deregister service operation in the following scenarios:

  • When the Service Based Interface (SBI) endpoint is not configured and all the rest endpoints stop functioning.

  • When all the configured SBI endpoints VIP IP and N11 VIP IPs are offline.