5 Requirements

28.5403GPP5G Network Resource Model (NRM)Management and orchestrationRelease 17Stage 1TS

5.1 Requirements for management of NG-RAN

The following specific requirements apply to NG-RAN:

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions shall support management of NG-RAN, containing gNB or/and ng-eNB.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-002: The NRM definitions shall support management of either gNB without split function or gNB with split functions defined in 3GPP TS 38.401 [4].

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-003: The NRM definitions shall support management of virtualized network functions that are part of gNB, e.g. virtualized gNB-CU.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-004: The NRM definitions shall support management of intra-NG-RAN handover between any combinations of gNB and ng-eNB.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-005: The NRM definitions shall support management of inter-system handover between 5GS and EPS.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-006: The NRM definitions shall support management of network slicing feature in NG-RAN.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-007: The NRM definitions shall have a read-only representation of NR beam properties in NG-RAN.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-008: The NRM definitions shall support configuration of sector carrier coverage properties in NG-RAN.

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-009: The NRM definitions shall support management of radio access network sharing feature in NG-RAN.

5.2 Requirements for management of MR-DC

The following specific requirements apply to MR-DC management, including management of NR in EN-DC and other MR-DC operations.

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions shall support management of NR node in EN-DC operation (en-gNB).

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-002: The NRM definitions shall support management of en-gNB with different user plane connectivity options defined in 3GPP TS 37.340 [5].

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-003: The NRM definitions shall support management of NG-RAN nodes in NGEN-DC operation.

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-004: The NRM definitions shall support management different user plane connectivity options in NGEN-DC operation defined in 3GPP TS 37.340 [5].

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-005: The NRM definitions shall support management of NG-RAN nodes in EN-DC operation.

REQ-MRDC_NRM-CON-006: The NRM definitions shall support management different user plane connectivity options in NE-DC operation defined in 3GPP TS 37.340 [5].

5.3 Requirements for management of 5GC NFs

The following specific requirements apply to management of 5GC NFs:

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions shall support management of 5GC containing variety of network functions defined in 3GPP TS 23.501 [2].

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-002: The NRM definitions should support management of all the relationships between network functions and corresponding data storage functions where the network functions store/retrieve their data.

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-003: The NRM definitions shall support management of interworking between 5GC and EPC.

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-004: The NRM definitions shall support management of network slicing feature in 5GC.

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-005: The NRM definitions shall support management of 5GC network function services independently to align with requirements of 3GPP TS 23.501 [2].

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-006: The NRM definitions shall support NF service instance registration, deregistration, update, etc., with NRF during NF service instance lifecycle to align with requirements of 3GPP TS 23.501 [2] and 3GPP TS 23.502 [x].

REQ-5GC_NRM-CON-007: The NRM definitions shall support configuration of NF profile for NF Service registration and discovery to align with requirements of 3GPP TS 23.501 [2] and 3GPP TS 23.502 [7].

5.4 Requirements for management of AMF Set

REQ-AMFSET_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions shall support management of AMF Region and AMF Set, including AMF load balancing management.

5.5 Requirements for management of edge computing

REQ-ECM_NRM-CON-001 The NRM definitions shall support management of 5GC NFs supporting edge computing.

5.6 Requirements for management of network slice and network slice subnet

The following requirements apply to network slice and network slice subnet:

REQ-NS_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions shall support management of network slice.

REQ-NS_NRM-CON-002: The NRM definitions shall support management of network slice subnet.

REQ-NS_NRM-CON-003: The NRM definitions shall support the attributes of the Generic network Slice Template (GST) defined by GSMA [8].

NOTE: The NEST attributes values represent the SLS requirements for a network slice. These attribute values are used as input for network slice SLA management related activities.

5.7 Requirements Remote Interference Management

REQ-NGRAN_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions should support Remote Interference Management.

5.8 Requirements MnS Access Control

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-001: The NRM definitions should support MnS Access Control.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-002: The NRM definitions should support MnS Access Control identity information.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-003: The NRM definitions should support MnS authentication services.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-004: The NRM definitions should support MnS authorization services.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-005: The MnS Access Control policies should support authorization at MOI level.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-006: The MnS Access Control policies should support authorization at MOI attribute level.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-007: The MnS Access Control policies should support authorization of operations.

REQ-MSAC_NRM-CON-008: The MnS Access Control policies should support authorization of notifications.

Annex A (informative):
Change history

Change history

Date

Meeting

TDoc

CR

Rev

Cat

Subject/Comment

New version

2018-12

SA#82

SP-181046

0001

2

C

Support read-only representation of NR beam properties in NG-RAN NRM definitions

15.1.0

2019-06

SA#84

SP-190373

0002

1

B

Update NRM requirement to support SBA management

16.0.0

2019-12

SA#86

SP-191166

0003

2

B

Add OAM support for RIM parameters

16.1.0

2019-12

SA#86

SP-191170

0004

1

C

Add GSMA GST mapping related requirements

16.1.0

2019-12

SA#86

SP-191166

0007

1

B

Add requirement on NR sector carrier coverage configuration

16.1.0

2020-03

SA#87E

SP-200169

0009

F

Correction of requirement number

16.2.0

2020-09

SA#89e

SP-200748

0011

B

Add requirements for NR NRM to support RAN sharing scenario

17.0.0

2021-06

SA#92e

SP-210410

0014

1

B

Update the requirements for management of network slice and network slice subnet

17.1.0

2021-12

SA#94e

SP-211468

0016

B

Add NRM requirements for authentication and authorization

17.2.0

2022-12

SA#98e

SP-221167

0019

F

EditorialCorrections

17.3.0