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Figure 9 – Control Layer Management functional components

Control Plane Support
The Control Plane Support (CP-S) functional element provides a standard interface to the CP Management
support, Softwarization & Orchestration for requesting and receiving management operations and
associated information in CP.
Control Plane Resource Discovery

The Control Plane Resource Discovery (CP-RD) functional element is responsible for discovering control
resources in the CP and provides capabilities for:
• discovering control resources in the CP in the managed IMT-2020 networks. The discovered
resources are stored in the CP-Resource Repository.
Control Plane Resource Repository

The Control Plane Resource Repository (CP-RR) functional element is responsible for storing the contents
discovered by the Data Plane Discovery and Bootstrapping functional element in the DP and managing the
lifecycle of the contents in the repository and provides capabilities for:
• storing and providing APIs for query the contents discovered by the CP Resource Discovery functional
element

• storing and providing APIs for query the contents generated by the CP Resource Monitoring and
Analytics functional element

• lifecycle management of the contents in the repository (e.g., creation by storing, modification,
deletion, etc.)

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