1 Scope

24.5493GPPNetwork slice capability enablement- Service Enabler Architecture Layer for Verticals (SEAL)Protocol specificationRelease 17Stage 3TS

Tools: ARFCN - Frequency Conversion for 5G NR/LTE/UMTS/GSM

The present document specifies the protocol aspects of the SEAL service for the network slice capability enablement to support re-mapping of a vertical application to different slices over the 3GPP system. The protocol aspects specify the User Equipment (UE) supporting the client functionality of this SEAL service and the network supporting the server functionality of this SEAL service, where the client functionality and server functionality are specified in 3GPP TS 23.434 [2].

The present document is also applicable to the application server supporting the Vertical Application Layer server (VAL server) functionality for a specific Vertical Application Layer service (VAL service). The specification for the VAL server for a specific VAL service is out of scope of the present document.