J.1 General

23.2283GPPIP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)Release 18Stage 2TS

The complexity of operating a network increases with the number of supported subscribers, and one contributor will be the management of allocating subscribers to the application servers for the same set of services, where there is a requirement for a user to be assigned to an application servers longer than the duration of one session. This would occur when there is data which is to be retained together with the processing resources longer than a single session.

Possible solutions described below do not require impacts on the stage 3 specifications.