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:

• TS 32.531: Telecommunication management; Software management; Concepts and Integration Reference Point (IRP) Requirements;
• TS 32.532: Telecommunication management; Software management Integration Reference Point (IRP); Information Service (IS);
• TS 32.536: Telecommunication management; Software management Integration Reference Point (IRP); Solution Set (SS) definitions.

The present document describes the concepts how SWM of NEs works and what IRP requirements need to be met to support this functionality. In the 3GPP Rel-8 the present document focuses on automated software management of eNBs.