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S4-260286 / TSGS4_135_India / 10.5 / Nokia, Fraunhofer HHI, Deutsche Telekom, InterDigital Europe, Vodafone Group Plc / [AIML_IMS-MED] On Compression of AI/ML data in IMS
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S4-260286

[AIML_IMS-MED] On Compression of AI/ML data in IMS

Source: Nokia, Fraunhofer HHI, Deutsche Telekom, InterDigital Europe, Vodafone Group Plc
Meeting: TSGS4_135_India
Agenda Item: 10.5

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Agenda item description AI_IMS-MED (Media aspects for AI/ML in IMS services)
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  1. [Technical] The contribution proposes adopting ISO/IEC 15938-17 (NNC) “for IMS services” but does not identify any concrete IMS enabler, interface, or 3GPP spec target (e.g., SIP/SDP offer/answer, MSRP, HTTP over Ut, MMTel, RCS, or a new IMS media type), so it is impossible to assess feasibility or normative impact.




  2. [Technical] There is no definition of how NNC payloads would be negotiated (capability exchange, codec parameters, versioning, profiles/levels) in IMS; without SDP attributes or equivalent negotiation rules, interoperability and fallback behavior are undefined.




  3. [Technical] The document mixes “compression and transport” claims, but NNC is a coding format; it does not specify the IMS transport mapping (RTP payload format, MSRP chunking, HTTP object transfer, SIP MESSAGE, etc.), nor packetization/fragmentation rules needed to realize the cited “robustness” and “random access” benefits.




  4. [Technical] Security/privacy implications are not addressed: model updates and co-learning can expose proprietary IP and user data; IMS requires clear handling for integrity, confidentiality, authorization, and potential end-to-end vs hop-by-hop protection, none of which is scoped or mapped to IMS security mechanisms.




  5. [Technical] The “incremental updates” and PUT/MPS/LPS mechanisms are described, but there is no 3GPP-level procedure for synchronization, loss recovery, ordering, or consistency (e.g., what happens if a UE misses an update, how base_model_id is managed across sessions, or how to prevent applying incompatible deltas).




  6. [Technical] The claim of “transparent performance” at 0.1%–20% size is presented without constraints (model types, tasks, quantization settings, acceptable accuracy loss, compute cost), which is too broad for 3GPP requirements and risks overpromising in normative text.




  7. [Technical] UE constraints are discussed (storage/latency), but decoder complexity, memory footprint, and power impact of DeepCABAC/NNC (including random access entry points and dependent quantization state) are not quantified or bounded, which is critical for UE implementability in IMS contexts.




  8. [Technical] The contribution lists encapsulation for PyTorch/ONNX/NNEF/TensorFlow, but does not specify how 3GPP would ensure deterministic execution compatibility (operator sets, versions, endianness, numeric formats), so “interoperability through standardized data formats” is not substantiated at the system level.




  9. [Technical] Error resilience statements (“configurable prioritization/error-protection through packetization; missing update detection”) are not tied to any IMS bearer/QoS mechanism or media transport behavior, so it is unclear how these features would actually be realized over typical IMS paths.




  10. [Technical] No content-type / MIME registration, SIP/SDP media type identification, or IANA/3GPP registry impact is discussed; without a clear identification scheme, IMS entities cannot route, store, or apply policy to NNC objects.




  11. [Editorial] The document reads as a technology overview rather than a 3GPP contribution with actionable change requests: it lacks proposed normative text, spec references, and explicit work item scope (which TS/TR to update and what exact additions are requested).




  12. [Editorial] Several acronyms and structures (e.g., NNR_NDU, NNR_MPS, NNR_LPS, PUT) are introduced without aligning terminology to existing 3GPP AI/ML service discussions in SA4, making it hard to map to current 3GPP architecture and terminology.




  13. [Editorial] The annex-level detail (flags, syntax elements like bit_offset_delta1, dq_state_list, etc.) is overly granular for SA4 decision-making unless accompanied by a clear mapping to 3GPP signaling/transport; it risks distracting from the missing system integration aspects.




  14. [Editorial] The WASM decoder and “multi-fold latency reductions” are mentioned without citing test methodology, baseline, or conditions; as evidence for standardization, the performance claims need references or reproducible parameters.



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