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Table I.1 – Differences between NICE capabilities and S-NICE capabilities

Capabilities group NICE capabilities S-NICE capabilities
• providing user traffic analysis • providing additional analysis results,
results; including abstracted information of
• providing information related to physical and logical transport layer
user's application data; networks;
• providing network status • support of SDN related protocols.
analysis results.
Policy control The policy control capability of The policy control capability of S-NICE is
NICE is required to support: aligned with that of NICE with support of the
• functional requirements of following additional requirements:
RACF [ITU-T Y.2111]; • providing control policies concerning
• intelligent assignment of security, reliability, energy usage,
bandwidth and QoS level network monitoring and statistics, etc.;
according to: • translating policy decisions into
– on-demand requirements straightforward instructions and
from users via a user self- transferring these instructions to the
service portal; policy enforcement capability of S-NICE;
– requirements from a third- • support of SDN related protocols.
party application provider
or, possibly, NICE provider
via open environment
capabilities;
– the content and context
analysis results.

Traffic The traffic scheduling capability of The traffic scheduling capability of S-NICE is
scheduling NICE is required to align with the aligned with that of NICE with support of the
requirements of NGN [ITU-T following additional requirements:
Y.2201] with support of the • traffic engineering based on multicast
following additional requirements routing optimization, processor and
in terms of generation of traffic storage optimization, etc.;
scheduling rules: • translating traffic scheduling rules into
• traffic localization; straightforward instructions and
• selection of the traffic delivery transferring these instructions to the
network node; traffic scheduling enforcement capability
• network status; of S-NICE;
• intelligent routing based on • support of SDN related protocols.
route selection policy;
• network virtualization.
Transport Content and The content and context detection The content and context detection capability
capabilities context capability of NICE is required to of S-NICE is aligned with that of NICE with
detection extract the following transport- support of the following additional
related information: requirements:
• user location information; • detecting abstracted information of
• user application data physical and logical transport layer
information; networks;
• application data statistics; • support of SDN related protocols.
• user terminal parameters;
• network resource
information;
• access network related
information.

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