Apparatus and method for 5g quality of service indicator management

A tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors of a device hosting a service producer in a New Radio (5G) system (5GS), cause the one or more processors to execute the instructions to perform operations including:

• decoding a request from a service consumer to manage one or more 5G quality of service (QoS) indicators (5QIs), each 5QI including a 5QI value and corresponding 5QI characteristics;
• configuring one or more network functions (NFs) of the 5GS with the 5QIs based on the request, wherein the request includes a request to one of configure the 5QIs or to obtain the 5QIs;
• and
• encoding for transmission to the service consumer a message including a result of managing the one or more 5QIs.

A method to be performed at a device hosting a service producer in a New Radio (5G) system (5GS) including:

• decoding a request from a service consumer to manage one or more 5G quality of service (QoS) indicators (5QIs), each 5QI including a 5QI value and corresponding 5QI characteristics;
• configuring one or more network functions (NFs) of the 5GS with the 5QIs based on the request;
• and
• encoding for transmission to the service consumer a message including a result of managing the one or more 5QIs.