Summary

ITU-T Recommendation Q.3304.1 provides the Stage 3 technical specifications for a protocol variant which uses COPS to satisfy the requirements for information transfer across the Rc reference point, as defined in clause 8.3 of ITU-T Recommendation Y.2111. This protocol allows a Transport resource control physical entity (TRC-PE) to collect network topology and resource status information from elements of an access or a core network.

The COPS protocol is defined in IETF RFC 2748.