User equipment assistance information for voice over cellular

One or more processors configured to execute instructions to perform operations comprising:

• determining a connection parameter of a multimedia telephony session between a user equipment (UE) and a remote UE;
• generating assistance information based on the connection parameter;
• and
• sending the assistance information to an access node (AN) serving the UE,
• wherein a plurality of Radio Link Control (RLC) bearers are connected to a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity of the UE, and wherein the assistance information further comprises a request to the access node to change a default RLC bearer of the plurality of RLC bearers.

A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining a connection parameter of a multimedia telephony session between a user equipment (UE) and a remote UE;
• generating assistance information based on the connection parameter;
• and
• sending the assistance information to an access node (AN) serving the UE,
• wherein a plurality of Radio Link Control (RLC) bearers are connected to a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity of the UE, and wherein the assistance information further comprises a request to the access node to change a default RLC bearer of the plurality of RLC bearers.