Policy Driven Emergency Traffic Handling for Machine-to-Machine Device Communication

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a machine-to-machine application server comprising a processor of an evolved packet core network, from a mobility management entity over a control plane interface of the evolved packet core network, a plurality of emergency messages originating from a plurality of machine-to-machine devices that form, at least in part, an Internet of Things (IoT) network, wherein the plurality of emergency messages are generated by the plurality of machine-to-machine devices to request emergency access to the evolved packet core network in response to an emergency event;
• filtering, by the machine-to-machine application server of the evolved packet core network, the plurality of emergency messages based on a policy to remove duplicate messages of the plurality of emergency messages and to create a clean group of emergency messages from the plurality of emergency messages;
• and
• forwarding, by the machine-to-machine application server, the clean group of emergency messages from the evolved packet core network to a public safety answering point, wherein forwarding the clean group of emergency messages comprises throttling an egress rate of the clean group of emergency messages to the public safety answering point.