1. A system for managing resources in a wireless metropolitan area network, comprising: a control and data plane, including: a service specific convergence sublayer; a medium access control (MAC) common part sublayer (CPS); and a physical sublayer; and a management plane, including: a service specific convergence sublayer management entity; a MAC CPS management entity; a radio resource management sublayer; a handover sublayer; a physical sublayer management entity; and a management service access point, through which the components of the management plane communicate with each other.