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Question 3

​Signalling requirements and protocols for emergency telecommunications

(Continuation of Question 3/11)

Motivation
In the emerging network environment, impacts of new emerging technologies, capabilities, and application services (e.g. IMT-2020 network and beyond, terrestrial and satellite network convergence, video and voice over LTE (VoLTE/ViLTE), machine to-machine (M2M) communication, Internet of things (IoT), Distributed Ledger Technology, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, QKDN and related technologies) on emergency telecommunications, including emergency telecommunication service (ETS), will need to be studied. In addition, it is needed to be studied how some of the emerging technologies and application services can be leveraged for the benefit of emergency telecommunications.

There is also a need to continue development of emergency telecommunications applications, e.g. voice, video, data signalling requirements and protocol enhancements.

The Question is responsible to ensuring the maintenance of existing ETS capabilities in SG11 Supplements and Recommendations, e.g. Q.931, Q.761, Q.762, Q.763, Q.764, Q.1902.1, Q.1902.3, Q.1902.4, Q.1950, Q.2630.3, Q.2931, Q-series Supplement 47, Q-series Supplement 49 for ETS specific information, Q-series Supplement 53, Q-series Supplement 57, Q-series Supplement 61, Q series Supplement 62, Q-series Supplement 63, Q-series Supplement 68, Q-series Supplement 69 and Q-series Supplement 70.

The Question will liaise with regional SDOs dealing with emergency telecommunications or capabilities required for their implementation. For example, 3GPP developments with respect to priority communications; IETF technical solution developments of congestion control techniques, all of which facilitate the implementations of priority communications for emergency telecommunication users; IEEE developments with respect to IEEE 802.11-series which apply to emergency telecommunication users.

Question
Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to: Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to: An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG11 work programme (https://itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?Q=3/11)

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Recommendations
Questions Study groups
The Question will relate to the following Study Groups, especially with Questions specifically related to emergency telecommunications: Other bodiesWSIS action linesSustainable Development Goals