Referring now to FIG. 4, illustrated is an example of a QoS based traffic steering system architecture 400 in accordance with various aspects and embodiments described herein. The QoS based traffic steering system architecture 400 comprise 5G LTE-NR dual connectivity option 3× network architecture 300 having LTE eNB 402 5G NR to establish a legacy user plane link 406, a 5G option 3× control-plane (C-plane) link 408, and 5G option 3× user plane (U-plane) link 414 and a split link 414a to communicate with a 5G option 3× device 412. The legacy user plane link 406 can be used to transfer data packets generated by IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) 434 received through the system architecture evolution (SAE) user plane gateway (GW-U) 422, wherein the data packets transmitted are associated with guaranteed bit rate (GBR) QCI or SPID. The 5G option 3× control plane data packets are transmitted through SAE control plane gateway (GW-C) and mobile management entity (MME) 420, thereby establishing the 5G option 3× control-plane (C-plane) link 408.