The present document is part of a TS-family covering the 3rd Generation Partnership Project Technical Specification Group Services and System Aspects, Telecommunication management; as identified below:

The present document describes the concepts and requirements for the management of Automatic Neighbour Relation (ANR) in UTRAN and E-UTRAN across the Itf-N. The ANR management is a key feature of Self Organizing Networks (SON) [4]. The NCR concept and background information are described in clause 4. The requirements for management of NCR are defined in clause 5.