omniran ecsg 1 OmniRAN EC SG Agenda and Meeting Slides September 2013, Nanjing, China Michael Montemurro (Blackberry) acting on behalf of Max Riegel (EC SG Chair)
omniran ecsg 2 Meeting Tuesday, Sept 17 th, 19:30 – 21:30 Meeting Room: ?? Conference Call: –Call-in number: 1-(972) (US) –Global numbers: –Conference Code: # WebEX –Meeting Number: –Meeting Password: omniRAN –Connect to WebEX: UwMmQ2 UwMmQ2
omniran ecsg 3 Guidelines for IEEE-SA 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 If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit 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. This slide set is available at
omniran ecsg 4 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 ecsg 5 Meeting Etiquette IEEE 802 is a world-wide professional technical organization Meetings are to be conducted in an orderly and professional manner in accordance with the policies and procedures governed by the organization. Individuals are to address the “technical” content of the subject under consideration and refrain from making “personal” comments to or about the presenter.
omniran ecsg 6 LMSC Operations Manual 4.3 Study groups Study group operation Progress of each Study Group shall be presented at the closing Sponsor meeting of each IEEE 802 LMSC plenary session by the appropriate WG, TAG, or ECSG Chair. Study Groups may elect officers other than the Chair, if necessary, and will follow the general operating procedures for WGs specified in the IEEE 802 LMSC WG P&P. Because of the limited time duration of a Study Group, no letter ballots are permitted Voting at study group meetings Any person attending a Study Group meeting may vote on all motions (including recommending approval of a PAR). A vote is carried by 75% of those present and voting “Approve” or “Disapprove.”
omniran ecsg 7 OmniRAN ECSG Resources Website: Document Archive on mentor: reflector: archive: mail/ mail/ Attendance registration: Roll call to allow for remote participation
omniran ecsg 8 Agenda for September 2013 F2F Call Meeting to Order Secretary position Attendance recording Approval of agenda Approval of minutes Reports –Discussions with –Communication with IETF –Communication with ONF Content of ‘Stage 2’ document –Legacy guidance –WiMAX NWG Stage 2 –Initial draft ToC of IEEE 802 ‘Stage 2’ PAR & 5C texting Report to IEEE mid-week plenary AOB Adjourn
omniran ecsg 9 Business#1 Call Meeting to Order – Secretary position: – Appointment of recording secretary: – Roll Call NameAffiliationNameAffiliation * denotes remote participation
omniran ecsg 10 Business #2 Approval of agenda: – Approval of minutes: – Reports: –IEEE 802 EC Geneva Jul 13 closing meeting decision ecsg-omniran-ec-closing-report.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran ecsg-omniran-ec-closing-report.pptx OmniRAN EC SG got extension for creation of PAR & 5C proposal –OmniRAN meeting planing for delivery of PAR & 5C proposal See next slide
omniran ecsg 11 OmniRAN Meetings until November 2013 as agreed in Aug 7 th conference call Wed, Sep 4 th, 2013, F2F Meeting York, UK w/ remote participation Tue, Sep 17 th, am ET/ Nanjing, F2F session w/ remote participation Fri, Sep 27 th, 2013, 09-11am ET: Confcall Fri, Oct 4 th, 2013, 09-11am ET: Confcall Thu, Oct 10 th, 2013, 09-11am ET: Confcall Fri, Oct 11 th, 2013, CoB: Submission deadline for PAR to EC list Mon, Nov 11 th, am CT: EC Opening Meeting Dallas F2F Meeting announcements, agenda proposals and dial-in details for all meetings are published on OmniRAN web site.
omniran ecsg 12 Business #3 Reports –Discussions with gaps-network-detection-selection.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran ieee- 802-gaps-network-detection-selection.pptx gaps-point-to-point-links.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran ieee- 802-gaps-point-to-point-links.pptx Fruitful discussions on Sep 3 rd PM with security group on both proposals Plan to create more detailed functional description on ptp links by use of MACsec –Communication with IETF Still pending, planned for mid September –Communication with ONF Approved communication to ONF to introduce OmniRAN SDN use case to omniran-sdn-use-case-for-external-communication.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran ecsg- omniran-sdn-use-case-for-external-communication.pptx Word document and executive summary for formal submission created. OmniRAN SDN use case proposal had to be submitted by way of ONF member companies (NSN (ECSG chair), NEC) as no formal way seems to exist to contribute to ONF discussions out of IEEE SA activities –Clarification necessary whether possibility exists, that OmniRAN can directly communicate into ONF discussion groups
omniran ecsg 13 Business #4 Content of ‘Stage 2’ document –Legacy guidance Overview by ETSI: /protocolStandards/stagedApproach.htm /protocolStandards/stagedApproach.htm Staged approach for service network specification by ITU-T: –Specification, which was mainly referenced for Geneva presentations and discussions Detailed description of Stage 2 by ITU-T: Q I/enhttp:// Q I/en –Q.65 contains detailed description of pieces comprising a Stage 2 specification –The structure of a Stage 2 ToC can directly be derived from this specification –WiMAX NWG Stage 2 Example of Stage 2 specification build on generic requirements captured in tenets: cument/2010/12/WMF-T R016v01_Network-Stage2-Base.pdfhttp://resources.wimaxforum.org/sites/wimaxforum.org/files/technical_do cument/2010/12/WMF-T R016v01_Network-Stage2-Base.pdf ‘SHALLs’ as stated in the Tenets section of WMF NWG Stage 2 are not appropriate for an IEEE SA Recommended Practice. No single SHALL shall appear in a Recommended Practice
omniran ecsg 14 Business #5 Content of ‘Stage 2’ document, cont. –Initial draft ToC of IEEE 802 ‘Stage 2’ 1.Introduction and Scope 2.Abbreviations/Acronyms, Definitions, and Conventions 3.References 4.Identifiers 5.Tenets for IEEE 802 Access Network Systems Architecture 6.Network Reference Model –Overview –Reference Points –Access Network to Core Internetworking Relationship 7.Functional Design and Decomposition –Network Discovery and Selection –Authentication –Link establishment –QoS and policy control –Link mobility –Link teardown –Accounting
omniran ecsg 15 IEEE 802 Network Reference Model with Reference Points Access Ctrl Internet R1 R3 R4 Access Ctrl Internet R3 R5 Terminal R3 Authentication Authorization Accounting Location CoA Mobility Encapsulation Authentication Authorization Accounting Location CoA Mobility Encapsulation DataPath AccessCore Transport Reference Points represent a bundle of functions between peer entities -Similar to real network interfaces Functions are extensible but based on IEEE 802 specific attributes R2 Access R3
omniran ecsg 16 IEEE 802 Access Network Functions AAA Policy Configuration DHCPApplication ANQP Access Technology Control I/f Access Network Network Selection Accounting Disassociation Host Configuration Application Policy Control Application Host Config Release Accounting Authentication Authorization Association Scanning Link Establishment Link Mobility Link Teardown
omniran ecsg 17 Business #6 PAR and 5C texting –Result out of York meeting uploaded to mentor after the meeting under par-5c-table-of-content.docxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/13/omniran par-5c-table-of-content.docx Report to IEEE mid-week plenary – AOB – Adjourn –