IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG Meeting 2015 Summary

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG January 2015 F2F Meeting 2015-01-12 Max Riegel, Nokia Networks (OmniRAN TG Chair) 1

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG January 2015 F2F Meeting Venue Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia USA Meeting-room: Chicago D, Exhibition Level Sessions: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Jan 12th, 13:30 - 18:00 Jan 13th, 13:30 - 18:00 Jan 14th, 13:30 - 18:00 Jan 15th, 13:30 - 18:00 2

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 3

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 4

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 5

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omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 7

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Jan 2015 Agenda Graphics Mon 1/12 Opening Sessions Tue 1/13 Wed 1/14 Thu 1/15 Fri 1/16 802.11 Closing 08:00 10:00 10:30 Local Address SG 802.11/802.15 Mid-week Plenaries 12:30 13:30 OmniRAN Opening 15:30 16:00 OmniRAN Closing 18:00 Local Address SG Privacy EC SG Local Address SG Privacy EC SG 8

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 9

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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 802.11 Roll Call Name Affiliation Name Affiliation Max Riegel Nokia Networks Hiroki Nakano Trans New Tech, Inc. Juan Carlos Zuniga Interdigital Hesham ElBakoury Huawei Walter Pienciak IEEE SA Carol Ansley Arris Group Inc Dan Romascanu Avaya Edwin Malllette Bright House Networks Roger Marks EthAirNet Associates Yonggang Fang ZTE Glenn Parsons Ericsson 10

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG 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. 11

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Business#3 Review of minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0087-00-00TG-december-16-meeting-minutes.docx No issues brought up Reports New liaisons to IEEE 802.1 See next slide no further actions required for OmniRAN TG. SDN & NFV status update SDN Wiki page https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/bp/SDN_Wiki 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 NRM Ambiguities (Max) 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 12

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG New liaisons received by 802.1 ITU-T SG15 has sent an updated OTNT work plan for comment (Maintenance TG) http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2015/liaison-SG15-LS199-OTNT-0115.zip 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 http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2015/liaison-SG15-LS214-Etherent-0115.zip Q13/15 has asked for clarification on IEEE 802.1AX and the transport of PTP over LAG (Joint Interworking & TSN TG): http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2015/liaison-SG15-LS206-PTPoLAG-0115.zip 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): http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2015/liaison-IETF-ExplicitCongestionNotification-0115.txt IEEE 1588 has sent a questionnaire liaison to several groups including 802.1 on management enhancements (TSN TG). http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2015/liaison-request-1588-0115.pdf Also expecting a CPRI cooperation liaison response 13

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Business#4 P802.1CF contributions Network reference model Agreed NRM for recap: https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0083-00-00TG-p802-1cf-network- reference-model.docx NRM Ambiguities (Max) https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0003-00-CF00-nrm-ambiguities.pptx Discussion about communication endpoints; more documentation required to distinguish between interface and communication endpoints (SAP inside stack) Changes to NRM terminology (Core Network Interface, CNI Ctrl, Terminal Interface) Question whether to split up TE Ctrl into two entities, one for R2 and one for R8c conclusion delayed until more information on R8c available Refinements to drawing requested to differentiate by graphical element between network entities, interfaces and control elements. Revision created and uploaded with rough agreements on the last slide. However further discussions are necessary for final conclusion. https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0003-01-CF00-nrm- ambiguities.pptx Comments on NRM (Roger) https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0005-00-CF00-comments-on- omniran-14-0083-00.docx Discussed proposed modifications, agreed on changes to be made. Revision uploaded with agreed content. https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0005-01-CF00-comments-on- omniran-14-0083-00.docx 14

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Business#5 P802.1CF contributions, cont. Network reference model NRM Control Reference Points Information and Parameters (Juan Carlos) https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0004-00-CF00- discussion-on-nrm-control-reference-points-information-and- parameters.pptx Comments provided for further amendments Backhaul representation MEF TheThirdNetwork (Roger) https://metroethernetforum.org/images/mef- vision/140924%20Third_Network_Launch.pdf Presentation provides generic thoughts without providing specific actions or recommendations Zonal address participation https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/14/ec-14-0071-01-00EC-zonal- address-partitioning-in-the-local-space.pdf Comprehensive discussions on benefits and on potential issues 15

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Business#6 P802.1CF contributions, cont. Functional design and decomposition Revised text for AN set-up https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0078-01-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 https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0082-02-CF00-network- discovery-and-selection.docx Discussion led to a small revision of proposed text https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/14/omniran-14-0082-03-CF00-network- discovery-and-selection.docx Presentation outlining basic concepts of Data Path https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0002-00-CF00-key-concepts-of- data-path.pptx Revision of terminology based on group discussions Agreement to go forward based on revised slide set Revised version uploaded https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15-0002-01-CF00-key- concepts-of-data-path.pptx 16

omniran-15-0001-02-00TG Business#7 Project planning Roughly on track as set up in Nov 2014 Appointment of editor will be topic for Berlin Status report to IEEE 802 WGs https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/15/omniran-15- 0006-00-00TG-jan-15-status-report-to-802wgs.pptx Agreed without comments AOB Nothing brought up Adjourned at 16:40 17