Re: [STDS-802-16] Issue with SFID Assignment

[Jeff Mandin <jmandin@STREETWAVES-NETWORKS.COM>]

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Michele Bozier wrote:
> My question is:
> How does the BS obtain the SFID used for this service flow, given that my understanding is that the SFID is required to be unique within the operator's network and not just per-BS.  Is the presumption that this service flow must already have been pre-provisioned by the NMS and a unique SFID thereby assigned?  Or, can the BS choose to essentially accept Service flow requests from certain SSs "on-the-fly" using some other authorisation process and mechanism to obtain a SFID unique to that operator.
Michele,

Both of the mechanisms that you describe are present.   As you
indicate, receipt of an "on the fly" DSA forces the
Base Station to interact with the Management and Provisioning System to
receive approval for the new SF and a unique SFId.   

To avoid that overhead, providers are
likely to do what they do in Cable networks - ie. set up
pre-provisioned Service Flows with no classifiers and an initially null
Active QoS Parameter set, so that the SS or Network Management can
subsequently perform DSC.  

Regards,

- Jeff Mandin
Streetwaves Networking
> Regards
> Michele Bozier
> Principal Development Engineer
> Airspan Networks