A.1 General

26.5313GPPData Collection and ReportingGeneral description and architectureRelease 17TS

This annex documents a set of collaboration scenarios that illustrate potential deployments of the data collection and reporting architecture as defined in the present document.

In deployment, it is possible that some UE data is provided to the Data Collection AF using the direct data reporting method at reference point R2, while other (application-private) UE data is collected via reference R8 and provided to the Data Collection AF via the indirect data reporting method at reference point R3 (R3′ in Collaboration D). In certain domains, UE data is collected in the first instance by an AS and therefore needs to be provided to the Data Collection AF at reference point R4 (R4′ in Collaboration D). Hence, all three data reporting reference points are potentially in scope for all of the documented collaboration scenarios.

NOTE 1: In all of the documented collaboration scenarios, reference point R2 traverses the data plane between the Direct Data Collection Client and the Data Collection AF regardless of whether the latter is deployed inside or outside the trusted domain.

NOTE 2: In all of the documented collaboration scenarios, reference point R8 traverses the data plane between the UE Application the Application Service Provider. The traffic carried at this reference point is tunnelled transparently through the trusted domain without interacting with any control plane entities.