3GPP 23060中规定明确规定“A Tunnel Endpoint Identifier (TEID) is used by the GPRS tunnelling protocol between GSNs, and between RNCs and SGSNs, to identify a tunnel endpoint in the receiving GTP‑C or GTP‑U protocol entity and to identify a PDP context ”
同时还指出“For the user plane, i.e. GTP-U, each PDP context has a one-to-one relationship between the TEID on one hand and NSAPI and IMSI on the other hand,”