TR 101 971 : 1.1.1

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Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions and abbreviations
  3.1 Definitions
  3.2 Abbreviations
4 IP network survivability framework
5 Standards Organization Relationships to Network
  Reliability/Availability Issues
6 Key concepts
  6.1 Service view
  6.2 Network view
  6.3 Causal attributes
  6.4 Service characteristics
  6.5 Network outages versus service outages
  6.6 Service and operations dependability
7 Network design considerations for survivability
  7.1 Reference network architecture
  7.2 Traffic analysis issues in IP based networks
  7.3 Causes of service outages
  7.4 IP protection and restoration technologies
8 Guides and metrics
  8.1 Guides for operational measurement and improvement
      of the reliability/availability of IP-based networks and
      services
  8.2 Reliability/availability SLA types
  8.3 Prediction analysis modeling
  8.4 How to use the metrics
  8.5 Guides
9 Application to cable networks
  9.1 IPCablecom zones and domains
  9.2 Applying the reliability/availability metrics and SLAs
      to IPCablecom
Annex A: Related work of other standards organizations
      A.1 ITU-T Study Group 2 (operational aspects of service
           provision, networks and performance)
      A.2 ITU-T Study Group 4 (telecommunication management,
           including TMN)
      A.3 ITU-T Study Group 12 (end-to-end transmission
           performance of networks and terminals)
      A.4 ITU-T Study Group 13 (multi-protocol and IP-based
           networks and their internetworking)
      A.5 ITU-T Study Group 15 (optical and other transport
           networks)
      A.6 ITU-T Study Group 16 (multimedia services, systems
           and terminals)
      A.7 TMF (Telecommunications Management Forum)
      A.8 ETSI TIPHON (Telecommunications and Internet
           Protocol Harmonization Over Networks)
      A.9 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
      A.10 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic
           Engineering)
      A.11 T1
Annex B: Background - Traffic engineering
      B.1 Traffic analysis methods
      B.2 Queuing theory
      B.3 Analysis tools
Annex C: Traffic analysis over IP based networks
      C.1 Traffic characteristics
      C.2 Packet trains
      C.3 Self-similar modeling
      C.4 Rare event simulations
      C.5 Conclusions
Annex D: Monitoring network metrics in IP based networks
      D.1 Data gathering monitoring
      D.2 Remote Monitoring
Annex E: Bibliography
History

Relates to availability and reliability modeling for IP cable communication networks. Availability and reliability parameters for cable access networks are addressed in the context of end-to-end performance.