omniran TG 1 IEEE OmniRAN TG April 19 th, 2016 Conference Call Max Riegel, Nokia (TG Chair)

omniran TG 2 Conference Call Tuesday, April 19 th, 2016 at 09:30-11:00am ET Join WebEx meeting: m4cc43d7aaa9f0b1c0cf26d4845b8f7e2https://nokiameetings.webex.com/nokiameetings/j.php?MTID= m4cc43d7aaa9f0b1c0cf26d4845b8f7e2 –Meeting number: –Meeting password:pGHtf436 Join by phone –Access code: – United States (Dallas) –Global call-in numbers ype=MC&ED= &tollFree=0https://nokiameetings.webex.com/nokiameetings/globalcallin.php?serviceT ype=MC&ED= &tollFree=0

omniran TG 3 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants [Note: Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2]: “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search

omniran TG 4 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: –IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws –IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual –Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

omniran TG 5 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted

omniran TG 6 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. Technical considerations remain primary focus Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details.

omniran TG 7 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation – Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines – Link to IEEE Code of Ethics – Link to IEEE Patent Policy –

omniran TG 8 Agenda proposal Review of minutes –Macau F2F minutes Reports –5G SC status P802.1CF contributions –NRM amendments for network virtualization and network management –Functional description updates Status of 802.1CF editor's draft Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting AOB

omniran TG 9 Business#1 Call Meeting to Order –Meeting called to order by chair at 09:34 AM ET Minutes taker: –Walter volunteered to take notes Roll Call NameAffiliationNameAffiliation Max RiegelNokia Walter PienciakIEEE Wang HaoFujitsu Antonio de la OlivaUC3M Yonggang FangZTE TX

omniran TG 10 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted Nothing brought up.

omniran TG 11 Agenda Review of minutes –Macau F2F minutes meeting-minutes.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran TG-mar-2016-f2f- meeting-minutes.docx Reports –5G SC status P802.1CF contributions –NRM amendments for network virtualization and network management and-virtualization.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-nrm-for-nms- and-virtualization.docx omniran.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-nfv-for- omniran.pptx –Functional description updates for-fdm.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-text-proposal- for-fdm.docx Status of 802.1CF editor's draft Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting AOB

omniran TG 12 Business #2 Review of minutes –Macau F2F minutes f2f-meeting-minutes.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran TG-mar f2f-meeting-minutes.docx Max found editorial mistake on title page and Wang Hao pointed to misspelled word regarding FDM. Revision with corrections uploaded to mentor Reports –5G SC status Max reported that 5G SC is setting up its mind in weekly conference calls. So far no indications exist, that much support would exist in IEEE 802 for going full 5G specification work. It was several expressed that nobody likes to repeat the WiMAX exercise. Interest seems to be mainly for protecting licensed-exempt spectrum resources for IEEE 802 technologies. IMT-2020 is regarded as one option to get access to spectrum, but other options have also brought up.

omniran TG 13 Business #3 P802.1CF contributions –NRM amendments for network virtualization and network management and-virtualization.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-nrm-for-nms- and-virtualization.docx –Max presented document pointing out the major changes to the text and content in draft D0.0. –Yonggang requested more time for review and confirmed that presentation of network virtualization is well aligned with his views. –Antonio mentioned that showing the terminals in the network slices is unusual and recommended to create a figure showing only the sliced access network portion. –Text is up for review by the OmniRAN TG until the Budapest meeting. omniran.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-nfv-for- omniran.pptx –Yonggang presented a revision of the slides showing the possibility to introduce NFV into the OmniRAN specification. –Antonio pointed out, that NRM fits quite well, when scope is limited to IEEE 802 technologies. –Functional description updates for-fdm.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran CF00-text-proposal- for-fdm.docx –Wang Hao walked through the revision of the FDM chapter, which essentially became a complete re-write due to the NMS extension to the NRM –Text is up for review by the OmniRAN TG until the Budapest meeting.

omniran TG 14 Business #4 Status of 802.1CF editor's draft –Remaining open comments will be resolved in the Budapest meeting. –The content of the next revision will be discussed in the Budapest meeting with final agreement in the following conference call. –Max will set-up a meeting with Walter to inform about the outcome of the Budapest meeting. Walter is not able to attend the Budapest meeting. Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting –Agenda proposal and session graphics on next two slides –No additional recommendations or comments received. Meeting will focus on review and acceptance of new text contributions for the draft. AOB –Nothing brought up. Meeting adjourned by chair at 10:59am ET

omniran TG 15 May 2016 Agenda Graphics Mon 5/23Tue 5/24Wed 5/25Thu 5/26Fri 5/27 08:00 10:00 5G SC Meeting 10:30 12:30 13:30 15:30 OmniRAN opening 16:00 18:00 OmniRAN closing

omniran TG 16 Agenda proposal for May 2016 F2F Review of minutes Reports Revised and new P802.1CF contributions –Network reference model amendments –Deployment models –Functional design and decomposition –Backhaul representation –SDN Review of 802.1CF-D0.0 editor’s draft –Comment resolution and plan for next revision Project planning Contributions to 5G SC Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB