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LTE: Does the application function (AF) involve during the establishment of each dedicated bearer (GBR/non-GBR) ?

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LTE: Does the application function (AF) involve during the establishment of each dedicated bearer (GBR/non-GBR) ?
posted Jul 18, 2017 by Harshita

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I worked for VoLTE feature and found that AA-Request and AA-Answer messages are exchanged between AF and PCRF to get established a dedicated bearer at LTE network nodes for an UE. For VoLTE call, dedicated bearer is established with QCI "1" and that is a GBR bearer.
Though I have not worked on any other service other an VoLTE, I believe AF can ask network to establish more dedicated bearers and those bearers can be GBR/non-GBR.

answer Apr 11, 2018 by Ganesh
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