1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Conventions
6 Overview
6.1 MC component overview
6.2 Call and connection control
6.3 Functional characteristics of SDN for transport networks
6.4 Architecture of SDN for transport networks
6.5 Interaction between SDN controller and transport network
6.6 Interaction between SDN controller and applications
6.7 Management functions interactions
7 Transport resources and their representation
7.1 Transport resources and their representation
7.2 Domains
7.3 Control view of transport resource for connection management
7.4 Virtualization
7.5 Multi-layer control
7.6 Interlayer client support
7.7 Calls supported by calls at same layer
7.8 Mapped server interlayer relationships
8 MC components
8.1 Notation
8.2 Policy
8.3 Common components
9 Control communications network
10 Management aspects
10.1 Management of SDN controllers
10.2 Management of control plane interfaces (CPI)
10.3 Management of control communication network (CCN)
11 Identifiers
11.1 Resources in the transport network
11.2 Control view of transport resources
11.3 MC components
11.4 Control artifacts
11.5 Reference points
11.6 Control communications network
12 Resilience
13 Connection availability enhancement techniques
14 Topology and discovery
14.1 Creation of network topology by auto discovery procedure
14.2 Creation of abstracted network topology
15 Controller interactions
15.1 Interaction type 1
15.2 Interaction type 2
15.3 Interaction type 3
15.4 Interaction type 4
15.5 Interaction type 5
16 Scalability considerations
16.1 Scalability of the controller
16.2 Scalability of components
Annex A – Use of the CIM to represent resources
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