Study on policy management for mobile networks based on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) scenarios
From mobile service and network function management perspective, the present document studies the end-to-end network policy management for mobile network based on NFV scenarios:
- Study the concepts and classification of the policy management for mobile networks based on the NFV scenarios, analyse and classify the potential policy management scenarios.
- Identify the use cases and requirements of policy management for mobile networks based on the NFV scenario.
- Study the potential logical roles of the policy management for mobile networks based on the NFV scenarios.
- Identify the impacts of logical architecture and the potential requirements to 3GPP management system. Analyse the existing 3GPP Management reference model, interfaces, protocols and procedures to determine what can be re-used, adapted or extended. Propose enhancements or extensions to the 3GPP solutions, if an impact is foreseen.
- Identify the impacts to NFV-MANO framework from the 3GPP service perspective.
- Provide recommendations to the standardization of policy management for mobile networks based on the NFV scenario.
The study will focus on the policy solutions which are related to NFV scenarios and will take into account of the outcome of SA5 existing specifications and the outcome produced by ETSI. The study will investigate whether the existing specification can be reused or not.