Management of Converged Networks; Requirements
The present document is part of a TS family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects; Telecommunication management; as identified below:
TS 32.xy1 Fixed Mobile Convergent (FMC) Network Management; FMC Architecture and Model; Requirements
TS 32.xy2 Fixed Mobile Convergent (FMC) Network Management; FMC Architecture and Model; Stage 2
In a fixed mobile convergent (FMC) network, the services offered to end users need resources from networks of different technologies.
NM standards of different technologies are the responsibilities of various standardization organizations (SDOs) and organizations. Various SDO/organizations may have defined different network management (NM) protocols to manage their respective network resources. Their managed resource models are mostly different from one another. Different parts of the large FMC network may be managed by different organizations.
The key challenge of FMC NM is the production of a set of specifications whose implementations would
a) Reduce FMC operators’ CAPEX and OPEX and
b) Facilitate OSS (playing the role of IRPManager) to integrate the various NM services consumed into the so-called “end-to-end” view of the FMC network under management.
Since network resource models are designed and maintained by different SDO/organizations and the provision of the “end-to-end” view requires defined relations among network resource models, this set of specifications would include:
1. Model architecture, called Federated Network Model (FNM), identifying various network resource models and their relations among each other;
2. The governance of each network resource model and the working procedures among SDO/organizations (that are designers and maintainers of the network resource model) involved.
The present document defines, in addition to the requirements defined in [1], [2] and [3], the Requirements for item 1 and item 2 above.
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