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Figure 5 – Slice Lifecycle Management functional components
IMT-2020 Slice Lifecycle Management Customer Care Support

The IMT-2020 Slice Lifecycle Management Support (SLM-S) functional element provides a standard interface
to the Slice Lifecycle Management functionality to its customers and applications, it supports requesting and
receiving management operations and associated information in SLM.

Slice Capacity Planning & Optimization
The Slice Capacity Planning and Optimization (SCPO) functional element is responsible for planning of
necessary resources for the requested slice provisioning and optimizing usage of resources for creating and
maintaining slices. It provides capabilities as follows:

• making planning decisions based on the available resources discovered by the Slice Resource
Monitoring & Analytics functional element and customers’ requests.
• trying always to find optimal available resource matches against the customer’s requests.

• monitoring and ensuring quality of the provisioned slices and take necessary actions (including re-
provisioning or modification of the existing slice resource) if resource re-optimization is needed.

Slice Provisioning
The Slice Provisioning (SP) functional element is responsible for provisioning requested slices by the
customers and provides capabilities for:
• provisioning the requested slices by the customers.

• mapping and translating customer’s high-level slice provisioning profile into technology-aware slice
provisioning policies
• managing provisioning policy lifecycle.

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