Study on Protocol for AI Data Collection from UPF
The present document aims at studying UPF data Collection for AI/ML and whether alternative protocols, or enhancements to the existing SBI protocol, are needed to optimize the AI/ML data collection while ensuring secure, scalable and reliable data transfers across the core network identifies. The present document will focus on the following aspects:
- To identify the use cases for UPF data Collection for AI/ML where current mechanisms do not suffice.
- To study on the potential optimized protocol solutions for efficient AI/ML data collection.
- To study on the mechanisms to optimize the protocol selection when different protocols exist.
NOTE 1: Data collection from 5GC NFs other than UPF is out of scope of this study.
NOTE 2: The study remains within the limits of the existing 5GC architecture and stage 2 requirements. Only the protocol for collecting the data is the object of this study.