Table of Contents

 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 of functional architecture               
        6.1     User roles       
        6.2     LINP federation without LINP exchangers        
 7     Resources and LINPs             
        7.2     Virtual resources          
        7.3     LINPs 
        7.4     Allocation and binding
 8     Physical node architecture 
 9     Physical resource management functions   
        9.1     Physical resource configuration functions         
        9.2     Physical resource monitoring and fault management function
        9.3     Physical resource discovery function   
10     Virtual resource management functions     
       10.1     Virtual resource configuration functions          
       10.2     Virtual resource monitoring and fault management function  
       10.3     Virtual resource discovery function    
11     LINP management functions            
       11.1     Resource coordination function           
       11.2     LINP configuration functions 
       11.3     LINP monitoring and fault detection function
       11.4     Authorization functions           
12     LINP operator functions     
13     Service deployment functions         
14     Service developer functions             
15     Gateway functions               
16     User terminal functions      
17     Federation functions           
18     Reference points  
       18.1     User-to-network interface (UNI)        
       18.2     Network-to-network interface (NNI)
       18.3     Virtual resource management interface (VMI)              
       18.4     LINP management interface (LMI)      
       18.5     Service management interface (SMI)
       18.6     Programmer-to-redirector interface (PRI)       
19     Security considerations      
Appendix I – Implementation example of network virtualization    
Bibliography