Software Defined & Virtualized ecosystem Document No: GSC(14)18_021 Source: IEEE-SA Contact: Mehmet Ulema Agenda Item: 6.1 Software Defined & Virtualized ecosystem Mehmet Ulema, Director- Standards Development, IEEE Communications Society GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis outline IEEE Standardization activities in SDN and NFV related Areas New initiatives Existing projects Strategic Directions Challenges & Hot Issues Next Steps / Actions GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

Highlight of Current Activities - worldwide ONF - Open Flow NIST - Cloud Computing ETSI – NfV IETF/IRTF - SDrN, SDNP, SDN RG Ericsson - Service Provider SDN OMA - Device Mgmt 2.0 SDR (Software Defined Radio) Forum Stanford Univ. – POMI Ohio State Univ. - Software Defined Antenna GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

Highlight of Current Activities - IEEE New initiatives: Study Group (SG) on Security, Reliability and Performance for Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystems Research Group (RG) on Software Defined and Virtualized Wireless Access Research Group (RG) on Structured Abstractions Study Group (SG) on Service Virtualization New work under existing IEEE projects IEEE P1903 – Next Generation Service Overlay Networks (NGSON) IEEE P802.1CF OmniRAN Study Group Proposal GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

IEEE Standards Activities on Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystem “Rapid Reaction Standardization Research Team” meeting held on April 25, 2014 16 attendees from 7 companies and 2 universities AT&T, Verizon, NTT DoCoMo, AlcaLu, Huawei showed large company participation India, Israel, Italy, Japan, US were represented 17 gap items identified, 4 groups formed: Study Group (SG) on Security, Reliability and Performance for Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystems Research Group (RG) on Software Defined and Virtualized Wireless Access Research Group (RG) on Structured Abstractions Study Group (SG) on Service Virtualization 4/17/2017

IEEE standardization process Idea! IEEE-SA Sponsor Approved PAR Approved PAR SPONSOR (Any IEEE OU) Approved charter Study Group (SG) PAR Proposals Approved charter Oversight White Paper Working Group (WG) Standards Balloted Research Group (RG) Research Group (RG) - formed when enough interest has been identified in a particular area of study Study Group (SG) - formed when substantial interest has been identified in a particular area of study Working Group (WG) – formed when mature interests and key stakeholders interests have been identified GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

SG ON Security, Reliability, and Performance for Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystems Objective Identify primary standards development opportunities in the reliability, performance, and security aspects of the SDN, NFV, NGSON, and related areas Scope: Priority class of service virtualization: intersection of reliability, security, and performance circles Use case & application driven; regulated industry Metrics (Contact: Spilios Makris, Chair , <spilios.makris@palindrometech.com>)

RG on Software Defined and Virtualized Wireless Access Objective: Identify and address research issues that need to be solved and assess the feasibility of launching an IEEE standardization on this area Scope: Extending SDN to devices (mobile) at the network edge; separation of data and control planes Use of SDN to control and program network resources (e.g, SDN – SDN Network Controller), Joint optimization of transport and RAN Heterogeneous multi-owner multi-vendor RAN control and Management (eg, CRAN, Ethernet Based included, softRAN) Interoperability among layers 1 to 3 (programmable data path) Extracting and managing information to enable wireless networks control; mechanisms (how); what? KPIs (Contact: Fabrizio Granelli, Chair <granelli@disi.unitn.it>)

RG ON Abstraction – Structured Network Objects (SNO)” Objective: identify and formulate possible IEEE standardization efforts to define a high-level taxonomy and structure that represent the network and its functions. Scope: identify the object structure needed for standardizing interfaces and descriptors for SDN and NFV. Define common high level taxonomy, structure PNF Descriptor Network Model, Service model Data Model, Object model (Contact: Ken Kerpez, Chair <kkerpez@assia-inc.com>)

SG on Service Virtualization Objective: Leverage the existing body of work by IEEE P1903 Next Generation Service Overlay Network (NGSON) Working Group on next generation service overlay networks and define service specific functions for virtualization and softwarization. Scope: NGSON, SDN, NFV Coordination Programmability Service Routing - Not limited to Data packets Triggers based on contexts from users, device, service, and network (Contact: Mehmet Ulema, Chair, <mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu>)

Highlight of Current Activities Existing projects – IEEE P1903 (NGSON) An IEEE sponsored effort to standardize a framework of IP-based service overlay networks A set of context-aware, dynamically adaptive, and self-organizing networking capabilities, including advanced routing and forwarding schemes Motivation: Exponentially increasing number of services and applications and their interactions To have a better, more “efficient” way of providing these services and applications by means of context-aware, dynamically adaptive, and self-organizing networking capabilities. Help to grow the industry through a service architecture ecosystem of one-stop-shopping solution for service specific challenges GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

Application and services NGSON ARCHITECTURE Application and services Service Addressing, Discovery Service interaction facilitation functions Security/Trust Context-aware, dynamically adaptive and self organizing networking capabilities N G S O N Context Aware Routing Dynamic policy enforcement capabilities (eg. QoS, registration derived, etc) Underlying Networks 12

X-Aware Service Ecosystem AS, Apps, ... CPE, Mobile Handset, ... IM, LBS, Social N/Ws, ... Device Awareness User Awareness Application/ Service Awareness NGSON Application Awareness Network Awareness Software Defined Network (SDN) Telecom N/Ws (NGN, IMS, EPC) Other N/Ws (Web, P2P, IT)

NGSON, SDN, NFV TMF NGSON NFV SDN Offered Service Service Mgmt Service Logic Service Mgmt TMF Service Related Service Billing Dyn Comp Re-comp API NGSON SLA Service Routing Cntxt Awareness SDN & NfV allows service provider to create a more powerful application strategy based on NGSON Service Provisioning QoS based Dyn Adapt Charging Virtualized Resource Allocation and Mgmt Transport Related NFV Transport Optimization P2P Static Composition Orchestration QoS based Dyn Adapt Cntxt Awareness Elastic Infrastructure Scaling SDN Netw Routing N/w Comp Self Organization (Run-time)

IEEE 802.1CF OmniRAN Study Group Project Proposal Scope Network Reference Model and Functional Description of IEEE 802 Access Network Based on the family of IEEE 802 Standards Including entities and reference points along with behavioral and functional descriptions of communications among those entities (e.g. Stage-2) Anticipating active participation from existing 802 WGs Use cases considered by Study Group SDN-based Model Smart Grid 3GPP WLAN EPC Access, etc GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

OmniRAN in the big picture of the Internet Peer (Client) Peer (Server) Internet/Web Applications WWW WWW HTTP HTTP TCP TCP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP IP OmniRAN Domain LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY PHY Access Router UE OmniRAN provides a generic model of an access network based on IEEE 802 technologies.

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Strategic Direction SDN and NFV and related areas has been identified as one of IEEE Future Directions. Significantly increase IEEE standardization activities in this area within the existing projects and with new projects Establish liaisons with other SDOs working on this area GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

Challenges & Hot Issues The area is “hot” now! Is it a hype or here to stay? Too many SDOs involved Many overlaps expected Coordination? Realizing NFV requirements! GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Next Steps / Actions SGs are expected to generate PARs and new WGs are expected to be formed in less than 6 months RGs are expected to generate white papers that may be used in launching new standardization activities GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis

GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis Supplementary Slides GSC-18, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis