D.1 Overview

32.1013GPPPrinciples and high level requirementsRelease 17Telecommunication managementTS

QoS Management, from an OAM&P perspective, in 3GPP systems primarily consists of two functional areas: QoS policy provisioning and QoS monitoring. QoS Policy Provisioning is the process of configuring and maintaining selected Network Elements with QoS policies that are created based upon customer SLAs and observed network performance. QoS Monitoring is the process of collecting QoS performance statistics and alarms; this data is then used to generate analysis reports for making changes/upgrades to the network. The detailed relationship between SLA Management and QoS Provisioning and Monitoring is for future study. A conceptual breakdown of QoS Management is shown in figure D.1.

Figure D.1: QoS Management

The following clauses provide descriptions of QoS Provisioning and Monitoring.

It should be noted that the same descriptions could apply to other Policy Management instantiations, e.g. Security and Service Provisioning.