Enhanced Multi Level Precedence and Preemption (EMLPP)
Availability
This feature is available from GBSS6.1.
Summary
The enhanced multi level precedence and preemption (eMLPP) is a supplementary service that is used to ensure a normal conversation of the subscriber with higher priority by preemption, queuing, directed retry, and forced handover.
Benefits
This feature ensures the QoS of the VIP subscribers and improves their satisfaction. This feature allows operators to classify subscribers into different categories. Thus, operators can provide different levels of services for users with different priorities to increase revenue.
Description
The eMLPP is a supplementary service offered by the GSM system. The eMLPP service allows a subscriber to initiate calls with different priorities. The network side employs different channel assignment strategies for the subscribers according to the priorities. If the network is congested, the call with higher priority is served preferably. The eMLPP service requires the support from MS to ensure that the subscriber can initiate calls of different priorities under different situations. A normal conversation of the subscribers with higher priority is ensured by preemption, queuing, directed retry, and forced handover. With this service, the high-priority subscribers have an advantage in call establishment rate and completion rate compared with the lower-priority subscribers according to different priority configurations in a network. The eMLPP service provides the following two mechanisms: Preemption The MSC determines whether preemption is allowed. Then, the MSC sends an assignment request or handover request message to the BSC to notify the BSC whether the preemption is allowed. If the MSC allows to perform the preemption and eMLPP is enabled, the BSC forcibly switches the call with lowest priority to a neighboring cell when the TCHs are congested so as to release the resource for the call with high priority. However, if eMLPP is not enabled, the BSC releases the resource of a low-priority user directly to ensure that the call with high priority is normal. Queuing
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The MSC determines whether queuing is allowed. Then, the MSC sends an assignment request or handover request message to the BSC to notify the BSC whether queuing is allowed. When the cell has no idle TCH and the MSC allows queuing, the BSC puts the TCH request into the queue. Then, when idle TCHs are available, the TCH is assigned to the waiting call in the queue. If the directed retry is allowed, the BSC performs directed retry before the queue timer expires.
Enhancement
None.
Dependency
Impacts on the BSC hardware None. Impacts on the BTS hardware None. Dependency on other features of the GBSS None. Dependency on other NEs The eMLPP feature should be supported by the CN, HLR, and MS.
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