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   <front>
      <title>5G Distributed UPFs for 5G Multicast and Broadcast Services (5MBS)</title>
      <author initials="T." surname="Jiang" fullname="Tianji Jiang">
         <organization>China Mobile</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="L." surname="Han" fullname="Lin Han">
         <organization>Futurewei Technologies, Inc</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="March" day="8" year="2023" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   The drafts [I-D.zzhang-dmm-5g-distributed-upf] and
   [I-D.zzhang-dmm-mup-evolution] have described the 5G mobile user
   plane (MUP) via the refinement of distributed UPFs and a more radical
   proposal by integrating gNB &amp; UPF as a single network function (NF).
   Some user plane implementation requirements that vendors and
   operators are exploring are not introducing changes to 3GPP
   architecture &amp; signaling, if possible.  The document 3GPP TS 23.247
   [_3GPP-23.247] for 5G multicast and broadcast services, or 5MBS,
   specifies the 5GS architecture to support MBS communication.  Thanks
   to the addition of new 5GS network functions (NFs) and MB-interfaces
   on 5G CP &amp; UP, specifically if coupled with the increasingly popular
   satellite-related requirements, these would certainly post additional
   provisioning &amp; implementation challenges to the underlay transport
   infrastructure.

   This document is not an attempt to do 3GPP SDO work in IETF.
   Instead, it discusses how to potentially integrate distributed UPFs
   with the delivery of 5MBS communication, as well as the benefits of
   using distributed UPFs to handle 5MBS traffic delivery.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-tjiang-dmm-5g-dupf-5mbs-01" />
   
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