IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG October 25th , 2016 Conference Call 2016-10-24 Max Riegel, Nokia BellLabs (TG Chair)

Conference Call Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 at 09:30-11:00am ET September 2012 doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0996r3 Conference Call Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 at 09:30-11:00am ET Join WebEx meeting: https://nokiameetings.webex.com/nokiameetings/j.php?MTID=m188411d73bd2839e7688641c2762c848 Meeting number: 958 153 858   Meeting password: D8JP9Cg6 Join by phone Access code: 958 153 858  +1 972 445 9814 United States (Dallas) Global call-in numbers https://nokiameetings.webex.com/nokiameetings/globalcallin.php?serviceType=MC&ED=432983242&tollFree=0 Stephen McCann, RIM

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

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 http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/materials.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/index.html This slide set is available at https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.ppt

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

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Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation September 2012 doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0996r3 Resources – URLs Link to IEEE Disclosure of Affiliation http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Links to IEEE Antitrust Guidelines http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Clint Chaplin, Chair (Samsung)

Agenda proposal Review of minutes Reports September 2012 doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0996r3 Agenda proposal Review of minutes Confcall Sept 27th minutes Reports Resolution of comments on chapter 8 of 802.1CF-d0.2 Contributions to P802.1CF Access network instantiation other Plans for the San Antonio F2F meeting AoB Stephen McCann, RIM

Business#1 Call Meeting to Order Minutes taker: Roll Call Meeting called to order by chair at 09:32 AM ET Minutes taker: Wang Hao is taking notes Roll Call Name Affiliation Max Riegel Nokia Fan Xiaojing Fujitsu Wang Hao Antonio de la Oliva UC3M Yonggang Fang ZTE TX Su Yi

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.

Agenda Review of minutes Reports September 2012 doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/0996r3 Agenda Review of minutes Confcall Sept 27th minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0072-00-00TG-sep-2016-confcall-minutes.docx Reports 802.1CF TG ballot recirculation http://www.ieee802.org/1/private/email2/msg25260.html Resolution of comments on chapter 8 of 802.1CF-d0.2 https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0066-00-CF00-comments-on-p802-1cf-d02.xls Contributions to P802.1CF Access network instantiation https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0073-00-CF00-virtual-access-network-instantiation.docx Other https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0067-01-CF00-deployment-scenarios-for-home-network.docx Plans for the San Antonio F2F meeting AoB Stephen McCann, RIM

Business #2 Review of minutes Reports Confcall Sept 27th minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0072-00-00TG-sep-2016-confcall-minutes.docx Chair presented minutes. No comments raised. Reports 802.1CF TG ballot recirculation http://www.ieee802.org/1/private/email2/msg25260.html Chair reported that creation of D0.3 happened in time. Recirculation started on October 18th, with comments due latest on November 3rd. Comment resolution will start at the San Antonio meeting. 5G SC status Liaison send out by EC to 3GPP PCG to invite for intensified cooperation on inclusion of 802.11 into IMT-2020 application. OmniRAN planning a special session in San Antonio to progress 5G SC Action A. Other reports None.

Business #3 Resolution of comments on chapter 8 of 802.1CF-d0.2 https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0066-00-CF00-comments-on-p802-1cf-d02.xls Resolution done. Excel sheet uploaded under https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0076-00-00TG-doc-16-66-comments-resolution.xls Antonio will provide additional paragraph on northbound interfaces and relation of SDN architecture to NRM until November 14th. Chapter 8.1 source figures required for terminology alignment. Antonio to deliver until November 14th.

Business #4 Contributions to P802.1CF Access network instantiation https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0073-00-CF00-virtual-access-network-instantiation.docx Yonggang presented document. Lively discussions. Differentiation necessary between virtual network and virtualized network. Antonio recommends to follow terminology as provided by the NGMN whitepaper on network slicing: https://www.ngmn.org/uploads/media/160113_Network_Slicing_v1_0.pdf Chair concluded that more discussion at the San Antonio meeting is necessary to clarify the numerous issues mentioned during the call. Yonggang asked for raising the issues per email to allow him to prepare an enhanced revision for the San Antonio meeting Other https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/16/omniran-16-0067-01-CF00-deployment-scenarios-for-home-network.docx Wang Hao briefly presented the revision of the text about the home network deployment scenario. Main discussion targeted the figure indicating the mapping to the NRM. Max recommended to emphasize the logical nature of the mapping by indicating logical entities by solid lines and physical entities by doted lines. Additionally all reference points should be labeled regardless whether the reference points are exposed in the realization or not. Wang Hao will create a further revision incorporating enhancements discussed in the meeting also encouraging further feedback by email. Discussion will continue at the San Antonio meeting.

Business #5 Agenda for the upcoming F2F meeting AOB San Antonio, TX on November 7th -11th Agenda proposal and session graphics on next two slides Chair introduced the allocation of meeting slots as well as the proposed agenda. No additional requests or recommendations were brought up during the call. AOB None Meeting adjourned by chair at 11:21ET

Nov 2016 Agenda Graphics Mon 11/7 Tue 11/8 Wed 11/09 Thu 11/10 Fri 11/11 08:00 10:00 802 EC Opening 802.11 WNG 802.11 ARC 802.11 Closing 10:30 12:30 802.1 Opening Plenary 802.11AANI 802.11/802.15 Mid-week Plenaries OmniRAN closing 802 EC Closing 13:30 14:00 15:30 802.1 Closing Plenary 16:00 18:00 OmniRAN opening OmniRAN 5G Special Session Joint 802.1/802.15 Privacy Open Mtg

Agenda proposal for November 2016 F2F Review of minutes Reports Result of TG ballot of P802.1CF-D0.3 Comments’ database Comments’ resolution on P802.1CF-D0.3 Revised and new P802.1CF contributions Contributions proposing new content Contributions to Industry Connections activity (5G SC Action A) Plan for 802.1CF-D0.4 draft Open issues to be addressed by next revision Plan and timeline for next revision External review of 802.1CF Presentation on IETF-97 (Seoul, Korea, Nov 13-18) Other groups Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB