The present document studies and evaluates architectural enhancements required for Group based features which include the following aspects:
The end-to-end application layer aspects between UEs and Application servers including SCS (which can be located outside or inside the network operator's domain) are out of the scope of this study.
The following documents contain provisions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the present document.
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References are either specific (identified by date of publication, edition number, version number, etc.) or non specific.
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For a specific reference, subsequent revisions do not apply.
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For a non-specific reference, the latest version applies. In the case of a reference to a 3GPP document (including a GSM document), a non-specific reference implicitly refers to the latest version of that document in the same Release as the present document.
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TR 21.905: "Vocabulary for 3GPP Specifications".
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TS 22.368: "Service Requirements for Machine-Type Communications".
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TS 23.682: "Architecture enhancements to facilitate communications with packet data networks and applications".
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TS 23.041: "Technical realization of Cell Broadcast Service (CBS)".
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TR 23.708: "Architecture Enhancements for Service Exposure".
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TS 23.401: "General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) enhancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access".
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TS 23.246: "Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS); Architecture and functional description".