Adaptive Network Control and Management for Beyond 3G End-to-End Reconfiguration

Abstract — Reconfiguration is the action of modifying the operation or behaviour of a system, a network node, or functional entity. The end-to-end notion dictates that, in certain cases, control and management plane interactions may occur from source to destination in order to adapt the system, the equipment, the application, the service, or the content. This paper describes an integrated control and management plane framework for end-to-end reconfiguration, and maps this model to a Beyond 3G mobile network architecture. Policy control aspects for end-to-end reconfiguration differentiation are also described, aiming at diverse service offering