3GPP Work Item description

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Feature: Multimedia Priority Service 

To a large degree, responders to emergency situations (e.g. floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks) depend on the communication capabilities of public networks to provide critically needed restoration services.  Such services may be needed when the communication capability of the serving network may be impaired, for example due to congestion or partial network infrastructure outages, perhaps due to a direct or indirect result of the emergency situation.

Work is underway to provide standardized Priority Service for emergency responders in the context of circuit switched speech communications (e.g. TR 22.952). Similar prioritized service provision is needed for packet (e.g. IP) based multimedia services including data, video, audio, and text transmission capabilities.

The objective of this work item is to develop a feasibility study to consider the concepts, features, and requirements for the support of packet based Multimedia Priority Services.