IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG Meeting September 2017 Summary

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG IEEE 802.1 OmniRAN TG September 2017 F2F Meeting St. John s, NL, Canada 2017-09-05 Max Riegel, Nokia Bell Labs (TG Chair) 1

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Sep 2017 F2F Meeting Venue: Murray Premises Hotel 5 Beck's Cove St. John's, NL, Canada http://murraypremiseshotel.com/index.html Sessions: Tue, Meeting room: Gypsy Room Wed, May 16th, Meeting room: Gypsy Room Thu, May 17th, Meeting room: Gypsy Room May 15th, 13:30-16:00 13:30-18:00 13:30-16:00 Editorial sessions: Tue, Wed, Thu: 09:00-12:30 2

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Agenda proposal for Sep 2017 F2F Review of minutes Reports Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6 New content for P802.1CF Chapter 7.9 Information Model Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN Other amendments Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft IC NEND contributions review Conference calls until Nov F2F Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB 3

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Sep 2017 Agenda Graphics Mon 9/4 Labor Day Tue 9/5 Wed 9/6 Thu 9/7 Fri 9/8 08:00 P802.1CF editorial session P802.1CF editorial session P802.1CF editorial session 10:00 10:30 12:30 13:30 OmniRAN opening Joint TSN & OmniRAN session OmniRAN closing 15:30 16:00 Social Event @ Cabot Tower Reception 18:00 4

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 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 5

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 6

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 7

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Participation in IEEE 802 Meetings All participation in IEEE 802 Working Group meetings is on an individual basis Participants in the IEEE standards development individual process shall act based on their qualifications and experience. (https://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sb_bylaws.pdf section 5.2.1) IEEE 802 Working Group membership is by individual; Working Group members shall participate in the consensus process in a manner consistent with their professional expert opinion as individuals, and not as organizational representatives . (http://ieee802.org/PNP/approved/IEEE_802_WG_PandP_v19.pdf section 4.2.1) You have an obligation to act and vote as an individual and not under the direction of any other individual or group. Your obligation to act and vote as an individual applies in all cases, regardless of any external commitments, agreements, contracts, or orders. You shall not direct the actions or votes of any other member of an IEEE 802 Working Group or retaliate against any other member for their actions or votes within IEEE 802 Working Group meetings, see https://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/bylaws/sb_bylaws.pdf section 5.2.1.3 and http://ieee802.org/PNP/approved/IEEE_802_WG_PandP_v19.pdf section 3.4.1, list item x By participating in IEEE 802 meetings, you accept these requirements. If you do not agree to these policies then you shall not participate. 8

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 5.3.10 and Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy for more details. 9

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 10

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Business #1 Call Meeting to Order Chair called meeting to order at 13:30 Minutes taker: Hao is taking notes. Roll Call Name Affiliation Name Affiliation Max Riegel Nokia Networks Nader Zein NEC Hao Wang Fujitsu Yonggang Fang ZTE TX Hajime Koto NICT Tomoki Ohsawa NICT Walter Pienciak IEEE Paul Nikolich IEEE 802 Satoko Itaya NICT Kenichi Maruhashi NEC Fumihide Kojima NICT 11

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG 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 Nothing was brought up. 12

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Sep 2017 F2F agenda Review of minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0065-00-00TG-july-25th-confcall-minutes.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0061-00-00TG-july-2017-f2f-meeting- minutes.docx Reports Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6 http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/cf-drafts/d0/802-1cf-d0-6.pdf New content for P802.1CF Chapter 7.9 Information Model https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0063-01-CF00-information-model-for-an-setup.pptx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0064-01-CF00-information-model-structure.pptx Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0067-01-CF00-tsn-in-the-scope-of-p802-1cf.pptx Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment Other amendments Pending: <<Hao>> Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft IC NEND contributions review No contributions for this meeting Conference calls until Nov F2F Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB 13

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Schedules Tue Review of minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0065-00-00TG-july-25th-confcall-minutes.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0061-00-00TG-july-2017-f2f-meeting-minutes.docx Reports Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0067-01-CF00-tsn-in-the-scope-of-p802-1cf.pptx Wed Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6 http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/cf-drafts/d0/802-1cf-d0-6.pdf Chapter 7.9 Information Model https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0063-01-CF00-information-model-for-an-setup.pptx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0064-01-CF00-information-model-structure.pptx Other amendments Pending: <<Hao>> Thu Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft Conference calls until Nov F2F Status report to IEEE 802 WGs AOB 14

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Business #2 Review of minutes https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0065-00-00TG-july-25th-confcall-minutes.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0061-00-00TG-july-2017-f2f-meeting- minutes.docx No issues raised. Walter appreciated that in the minutes not only plain decisions are kept, but also the essential flow of the discussions. Reports New IEEE 802.1 website OmniRAN content up-to-date, but no official release announced yet. Max will maintain for time being both OmniRAN websites Creation of D0.6 was delayed, however document will be used as base for internal editorial clean- up and further amendments Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0067-01-CF00-tsn-in-the-scope-of-p802- 1cf.pptx Max presented his slides in preparation of the joint TSN-OmniRAN meeting on Wednesday, 13:30. When comparing the configuration and control models, Hao pointed out that even the fully distributed configuration model could be represented through the NRM. As OmniRAN is mainly about centrailized access network control, it was agreed to focus on the centralized models in the joint meeting on Wednesday. The QoS and policy control architecture of OmniRAN provides additional functionality compared to the two centralized TSN configuration models. The additional capabilities of the OmniRAN architecture should be brought up in the joint meeting to retrieve feedback about the potential acceptance by TSN. Max lined out the compact slideset he would create for the joint meeting explaining hardly anything about TSN architecture but providing much more background on P802.1CF NRM capabilities and options. 15

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Business #3 Joint TSN-OmniRAN meeting A revision of the slides of TSN within P802.1CF was presented and discussed. https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0067-02-CF00-tsn-in-the- scope-of-p802-1cf.pptx No obstacles to inclusion of TSN into P802.1CF were raised. Even the adoption of the P802.1CF QoS policy model seems to be appropriate as the additional capabilities can be realized according to P802.1Qcc Agreement was reached to go for Working Group ballot with the next revision containing the TSN functionality to entertain comprehensive review through members of the TSN TG Comment resolution on P802.1CF-D0.6 http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/cf-drafts/d0/802-1cf-d0-6.pdf No comments submitted for this meeting However a comprehensive editorial review was carried through in editors meetings. The following additions have been identified: Max: Definition of unlicensed and authorized spectrum at the begin of chapter 7.1 Max: Amend text at the beginning of NDS section to explain figure 30 Max: Introduce the role of NMS in the chapter 7.5 Data path Max: Provide a short introduction to the restructured chapter 8 Max: Amend chapter 4.2 with an explanation of the UML notation used in the document. Inheritance will be added to the capabilities Hao: Review and revise chapter 7.8.3.3 to remove overlap with section 7.2 including fig 57 16

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Business #3 Chapter 7.9 Information Model https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0063-01-CF00-information-model- for-an-setup.pptx https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0064-01-CF00-information-model- structure.pptx Discussion led to agreement to try-out the structure of Max for creating more detailed information models for each of the subsections of Chapter 7 Agreement that some documentation of UML notification syntax would be necessary to make drawings really meaningful Max created amendment with two additional slides, one on UML notation syntax, and another on high-level User service information model. https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0064-02-CF00-information-model- structure.pptx Other amendments Contribution of Hao postponed to next conference call IC NEND contributions review None for this meeting 17

omniran-17-0066-03-00TG Business #4 Revision of 7.5 and 7.6 to cover TSN Pending: Chapter 7.5 & 7.6 text amendment Max will create text proposal until next confcall Will be discussed in upcoming conference call Plan for 802.1CF-D0.7 draft No intermediate draft, D0.7 for WG ballot after November meeting Conference calls until Nov F2F 26.9., 10.10., 31.10., 09:30AM ET, 90mins Status report to IEEE 802 WGs Agreed slides by https://mentor.ieee.org/omniran/dcn/17/omniran-17-0069-00- 00TG-sep-2017-report-to-ieee802-wgs.pptx AOB 18