omniran TG 1 IEEE OmniRAN TG January 2015 F2F Meeting Max Riegel, Nokia Networks (OmniRAN TG Chair)

omniran TG 2 January 2015 F2F Meeting Venue –Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia USA Meeting-room: –Chicago D, Exhibition Level Sessions: –Mon,Jan 12th, 13: :00 –Tue,Jan 13th, 13: :00 –Wed,Jan 14th, 13: :00 –Thu,Jan 15th, 13: :00

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 “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims –“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such 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 – guidelines.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust- guidelines.pdf Link to IEEE Code of Ethics – _ethics.htmlhttp:// _ethics.html Link to IEEE Patent Policy – slideset.ppthttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat- slideset.ppt

omniran TG 8 Jan 2015 Agenda Graphics Mon 1/12Tue 1/13Wed 1/14Thu 1/15Fri 1/16 08:00 10:00 Opening Sessions Closing 10:30 12:30 Local Address SG802.11/ Mid-week Plenaries 13:30 15:30 OmniRAN Opening 16:00 18:00 OmniRAN Closing Local Address SGPrivacy EC SGLocal Address SGPrivacy EC SG

omniran TG 9 Agenda proposal for January 2015 F2F Review of minutes Reports SDN & NFV status update P802.1CF contributions –Network reference model –Backhaul representation –SDN Abstraction –Functional design and decomposition Project planning Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB

omniran TG 10 Business#1 Call Meeting to Order –Meeting called to order by chair at Minutes taker: – Juan Carlos taking notes Attendence recording –Please sign in IMAT –Attendance credit provided by Roll Call NameAffiliationNameAffiliation Max RiegelNokia Networks Juan Carlos ZunigaInterdigital Walter PienciakIEEE SA DanRomascanuAvaya Roger MarksEthAirNet Associates Yonggang FangZTE Glenn ParsonsEricsson

omniran TG 11 Business#2 Approal of agenda –Proposal: Review of minutes Reports SDN & NFV status update P802.1CF contributions –Network reference model –Backhaul representation –SDN Abstraction –Functional design and decomposition Project planning Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB –Proposed agenda approved by group.

omniran TG 12 Business#3 Review of minutes – –No issues brought up Reports –New liaisons to IEEE See next slide no further actions required for OmniRAN TG. SDN & NFV status update – SDN Wiki page Three further organizations proposed (IETF SDNRG, MEF TheThirdNetwork, ITU-T SG13 Q14/13) Listing the names of organizations with links to related web pages agreed as being sufficient. P802.1CF contributions –Schedule of discussions … Network reference model –Refinement of NRM (Juan Carlos) Wed … Backhaul representation –Review document of MEF (Roger) Mon –Some new ideas (Roger) Mon & Wed … SDN Abstraction –No new contributions … Functional design and decomposition –Text on AN Setup (Yonggang) Mon –Text on NDS (Max) Wed/Thur –Concepts of data path (Max) Wed –Unanimous agreement to cancel Tue meeting for providing more time for completion of contributions

omniran TG 13 New liaisons received by ITU-T SG15 has sent an updated OTNT work plan for comment (Maintenance TG) And also ITU-T SG15 has sent notification of the final approval process, effectively similar to sponsor ballot, of four documents of interest (Interworking TG): * Amendment 1 to Recommendation ITU-T G.8013/Y.1731 * Revised Recommendation ITU-T G.8021/Y.1341 * Revised Recommendation ITU-T G.8011/Y.1307 * Gsup.53 Q13/15 has asked for clarification on IEEE 802.1AX and the transport of PTP over LAG (Joint Interworking & TSN TG): IETF has sent a broad liaison to all of IEEE 802 (but primarily 802.1) that it has started work on guidelines for adding ECN to IETF protocols (Interworking TG): IEEE 1588 has sent a questionnaire liaison to several groups including on management enhancements (TSN TG). Also expecting a CPRI cooperation liaison response…

omniran TG 14 Business#4 P802.1CF contributions –Network reference model Agreed NRM for recap: – 1cf-network-reference-model.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran TG-p802- 1cf-network-reference-model.docx Refinements (Juan Carlos) –(Wed) –Backhaul representation MEF TheThirdNetwork (Roger) – vision/140924%20Third_Network_Launch.pdfhttps://metroethernetforum.org/images/mef- vision/140924%20Third_Network_Launch.pdf –Presentation provides generic thoughts without providing specific actions or recommendations Zonal address participation – address-partitioning-in-the-local-space.pdfhttps://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/14/ec EC-zonal- address-partitioning-in-the-local-space.pdf –Comprehensive discussions on benefits and potential issues

omniran TG 15 Business#5 P802.1CF contributions, cont. –Functional design and decomposition Revised text for AN set-up – 01-CF00-updated-text-for-an-setup.dochttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran CF00-updated-text-for-an-setup.doc –Chair made multiple recommendations to introduce further edits for better alignment with overall document structure. Revised text for NDS – TG-january-2015-meeting-slides.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran TG-january-2015-meeting-slides.pptx Presentation outlining basic concepts of Data Path –Max on Wed

omniran TG 16 Business#6 Project planning Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB