CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
 3     Definitions
 4     Abbreviations
 5     Overview
        5.1     Call and connection control
                  5.1.1     Call control
                  5.1.2     Call admission control
                  5.1.3     Connection control
                  5.1.4     Connection admission control
                  5.1.5     Relationship between call state and connection state
 6     Transport resources and their organization
        6.1     Transport entities
        6.2     Routing areas
        6.3     Topology and discovery
 7     Control plane architecture
        7.1     Notation
        7.2     Policy and federations
                  7.2.1     General model of policy
                  7.2.2     General model of federation
        7.3     Architectural components
                  7.3.1     Connection controller (CC) component
                  7.3.2     Routing Controller (RC) component
                  7.3.3     Link resource manager (LRMA and LRMZ) component
                  7.3.4     Traffic Policing (TP) component
                  7.3.5     Call controller components
        7.4     Protocol controller (PC) components
        7.5     Component interactions for connection set-up
                  7.5.1     Hierarchical Routing
                  7.5.2     Source and step-by-step routing
 8     Reference points
        8.1     UNI
        8.2     I-NNI
        8.3     E-NNI
 9     Network management of control plane entities
10     Addresses
11     Connection availability enhancement techniques
Appendix I -ASON layer networks
Appendix II - Bibliography