Vgcs/vbs and gprs Interactions:

SA1 work under WID SP-070653 covers the VGCS/VBS (Voice Group Call Service/Voice Broadcast Service) and GPRS interactions. Requirements for use of VGCS/VBS in public networks for communication of public authority officials have been defined already.

The improvements of the VGCS/VBS service functionality cover the following aspects:

• When a Class B MS is engaging in a GPRS data session and a VGCS/VBS (emergency) call is coming, the GPRS data session may be immediately aborted and the VGCS/VBS call will be accepted.

• Incoming call's priority information is now provided to the GPRS application, so the GPRS application can choose to interrupt the GPRS data session and accept the incoming call or not based on this priority information.

10.2 Personal Network Management (pnm) uid_31081

Resources: S1,C1,S3

References

Document	Title/Contents
WID(s)
SP-080327	S1 WID on Personal Network Management (PNM)
CP-080065	C1,C4 WID on Personal Network Management
Impacted Specifications
TS 22.259	Service requirements for Personal Network Management (PNM); Stage 1 - S1
TS 24.229	Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia call control protocol based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Session Description Protocol (SDP); Stage 3 - C1
New Dedicated Specifications/Reports
TS 23.259	Personal Network Management (PNM); Procedures and information flows - C1
TS 24.259	Personal Network Management (PNM); Stage 3 - C4

Supporting Individual Members: Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, NEC, Toshiba, Panasonic, Telcordia Technologies, Huawei.

UID	Name	Resource	Hyperlink	TS_TR
31081	Personal Network Management	S1,C1,S3	SP-080327	-
7012	Stage 1 for PNM	S1	SP-080327	22.259
350050	Stage 2 for PNM	C1	CP-080065	23.259
350041	Stage 3 for PNM	C1,C4	CP-080065	-
350001	CT1 aspects of Stage 3 PNM	C1	CP-080065	24.259, 24.229
350002	CT4 aspects of Stage 3 PNM	C4	CP-080065	-

The purpose of this WI is to define a Personal Network (PN) and a Personal Area Network (PAN) within the scope of All IP Based Network (AIPN).

AIPN has been studied some time ago and TR 22.978 was approved at 3GPP SP#27. In the context of this feasibility study, requirements on prospective PNs and PANs were discussed and considered for progress even beneficial for deployment in a mixed CS/PS domain, independent from AIPN or its successor EPS.

This Work Item was established to address such requirements and cater for creation of respective specifications.

"Personal Network: A Personal Network, in the context of AIPN, consists of more than one device (terminal or server provided by the AIPN operator) under the control of one user providing access to the AIPN. These devices are interconnected by the AIPN such that the user perceives a continuous secure connection regardless of their relative locations. The user controls the PN using facilities provided by the AIPN."

Why this feature: Already now, many subscriber own more than one terminal and subscription, e.g. ordinary handset for telephony, car phone, PDA for emails when on the move, data card with laptop for work when in semi-stationary mode. Although those devices mainly taken for particular usage, many are able to support more than one sort of services, e.g. telephony is supported by all but the data card. Customers may not carry always their full set of "gadgets", but still want to be reachable. Management for the user by setting forwarding options, switch on and off terminals, providing partners with multiple addresses is not very customer friendly. The Personal network will provide the efficient means for the customer to manage their terminals.

"Personal Area Network: A Personal Area Network (PAN), in the context of AIPN consists of more than one device (terminal) controlled by, and physically close to, the same user (person). All the devices within a PAN use the same USIM. These devices are connected together using internal PAN means. The user obtains services from the AIPN using his multiple devices which all access the users USIM through the PAN to gain access to the AIPN. The user controls the PAN directly."

Why this feature: Complimentary to the Personal Network, customers use devices which are capable to support certain services, but neither they are equipped with USIM nor with the radio access means, e.g. a PDA or laptop might be better suited to play a video stream with reasonable quality that a 3G phone with very limited screen size. Current interconnection means between auxiliary devices and 3G terminals are very much of a proprietary nature and come with security constrains, e.g. for setting up a session via an auxiliary device.

Further advanced features on PAN, initially planned to be part of Release 8, will finally be included in a later release.