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TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

APPLICATION ENABLEMENT

STANDARDS IN 3GPP –

MAXIMIZING THE POTENTIAL OF 5G!

By Suresh Chitturi, 3GPP Working Group SA6 Chair.

With the most recent 5G standards (Release Within the 3GPP Technical Specification
15 to Release 17), and the advent of the Group Service and System Aspects (SA), TSG
industry 4.0 revolution, there has been a SA WG6 (SA6) is the application enablement
greater emphasis within 3GPP to develop and critical communication applications group
features that go beyond typical end-consumer for vertical markets.
expectations (e.g. higher speeds, better
coverage), and towards capabilities that can The main objective of SA6 is to provide
enhance the communications for vertical application layer architecture specifications
industries such as public safety, automotive, for 3GPP verticals, including critical
drones, factories of the future, IoT… and in communications applications, service
a manner that such capabilities are natively frameworks and vertical application enablers.
available within the 5G system. Established in December 2014, and since
Release 13, SA6 has been the home to
While radio and core network standards are global standards for Mission Critical (MCX)
essential to the robust functioning of 3GPP Applications such as MCPTT, MCVideo and
networks, application enablement standards MCData. While the initial MCX standards
have been receiving significant attention in were defined to address the needs of public
the recent years.
safety industry, we are seeing strong interest
With the help of these standards, it is now in adoption of these standards in other critical
possible for 3rd party application developers communications sectors such as Railways,
and vertical specific application providers Utilities, Maritime and Transportation.
to seamlessly integrate and leverage the
underlying capabilities of the 3GPP system to
its full potential.

Application Enablement Standards
TM
Release 17
Release 16
MCPTT 5.0
MCPTT 4.0 MCData 4.0
MCData 3.0 Railways 3.0
MC Interworking 2.0 MCIOPS
Release 15 Railways 2.0 MCOver5GS
MCPTT 3.0 MC MBMS API Edge Applications (EDGEAPP)
MCVideo 2.0 MC Location (Study) 5G Message Service (5GMARCH)
Release 14 MCData 2.0 MC Logging Factories of the Future (FFAPP Study)
Release 13 MC Interworking SEAL Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UASAPP)
MCPTT 2.0 CAPIF 2.0 V2XAPP 2.0
MCVideo Railways
MCPTT CAPIF V2XAPP SEAL 2.0
Standards MCData
Timeline
March 2016 June 2017 June 2018 June 2020 March 2022
During Release 15, the SA6 Terms of Reference (ToR) were expanded to look beyond critical communications, accelerating the development
of application enablement initiatives such as Service Frameworks and Vertical Enablers.

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