Content for  TS 23.280  Word version:  19.3.1

Mission critical priority and QoS management is situational. The MC Services provides a real-time priority and QoS experience for the MC users, who have significant dynamic operational requirements that determine their priority. For example, the type of incident a responder is serving or the responder's overall shift role needs to strongly influence a user's ability to obtain resources from the LTE system. Priority treatment applies on both application layer as well as on transport layer. The details on how the priority level is evaluated and used is outside the scope of this specification. What is specified is the necessary mechanisms to apply the priority and QoS and map different priority parameters between different entities, for example to map application layer priority to transport layer priority. One of the requirements for MC communication services is to coordinate the use of priority levels between the different MC service servers. This priority coordination is used to mitigate and manage the risk for network congestion situations.

In deployment scenarios with multiple MC service servers of different or the same type it is required to coordinate the priorities used by the different servers. The procedure defined below provides the necessary coordination between MC service servers to manage high priority levels. One of the involved MC service servers is assigned the role of being a priority arbitrator among a group of MC service servers serving the same geographical area. The priority arbitrator may also compete for the same limited network resources. Prior to using this procedure all MC service servers need to be configured with information about which MC service server will act as the priority arbitrator and under what conditions (e.g. priority level) the priority arbitrator should be used. The use of this procedure is not mandated. MC systems that support priority coordination between multiple MC service servers should support this procedure. Pre-condition:

1. One of the MC service servers is assigned the role of the priority arbitrator.
2. It is assumed that all MC service servers are part of the same trusted domain.
3. A MC communication session is ongoing or is about to commence. The operational situation together with static and dynamic attributes requires the use of elevated priority for network resources.