Summary

The architectural structure of a distributed resource admission and control function (RACF) is considered in this Recommendation.  RACF is comprised of a transport resource control functional entity (TRC-FE) and a policy decision functional entity (PD-FE). This Recommendation defines an architecture, which considers a distributed RACF resulting from a distributed TRC-FE, it specifies supporting requirements, and it describes the resource reservation process for this specific architecture.