CONTENTS

 1 Scope 
2 References 
3 Definitions  
4 Abbreviations and acronyms        
5 Overview and requirements          
        5.1 Overview  
        5.2 High-level requirements      
6 RACF mechanisms and scenarios
        6.1 QoS resource control mechanisms and scenarios    
        6.2 NAPT control and NAT traversal mechanisms and scenarios          
        6.3 Resource control for unicast and multicast  
        6.4 Resource control scenarios for nomadicity  
7 Functional architecture     
        7.1 Overview  
        7.2 Functional entity descriptions          
        7.3 Mechanisms          
8 Reference points  
        8.1 Reference point Rs
        8.2 Reference point Rw           
        8.4  Reference point Ru           
        8.5 Reference point Rt 
        8.6 Reference point Rp
        8.7 Reference Point Ri 
        8.8 Reference point Rd
        8.9 Reference point Rn
       8.10 Reference point Rh           
       8.11 Summary  
9 Procedures
        9.1 Procedures for QoS control           
        9.2 Procedures for NAPT control and NAT traversal   
10 Inter-operator communications    
       10.1 End-to-end QoS control   
       10.2 Nomadicity           
11 Security considerations and requirements 
       11.1 Overview of threats and potential attacks  
       11.2 Security requirements        
Appendix I – Examples of the implementation of the RACF architecture     
Appendix II – TRC-FE over different transport technologies     
       II.1 TRC-FE over IP network  
       II.2 TRC-FE over MPLS network        
       II.3 TRC-FE over Ethernet network     
       II.4 TRC-FE over broadband wireless network
Appendix III – Example of methods for detecting and determining resource availability in TRC-FE     
Appendix IV – Examples of admission control procedures for unicast and multicast     
       IV.1 Examples of admission control procedures for unicast and multicast           
       IV.2 Example of multicast resource control scenario      
Appendix V – The consideration of the CPN gateway control mode     
Appendix VI – Resource control deployment scenarios for multicast     
Appendix VII – Inter-operator RACF communication scenarios for end-to-end QoS control involving nomadicity     
Appendix VIII – Comparison between reference point Rw and Rh     
     VIII.1     NAT traversal and dynamic firewall working mode           
     VIII.2     Related information components used in pull mode
     VIII.3     Information components specific to core network  
     VIII.4     Information components related to charging          
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