Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT #:
GSC14-PLEN-044
FOR:
Presentation or Information
SOURCE:
TTA
AGENDA ITEM:
7 (New and Novel Topics)
CONTACT(S):
khj@etri.re.kr
Global Collaboration on Future
Network Standardization
Hyoung-Jun KIM,
Chair of PG210, TTA
Geneva, 13-16 July 2009
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Background (1/2)
The Future Network (FN), which is anticipated
to provide futuristic functionalities beyond the
limitation of the current network including
Internet, is getting a global attention in the
field of communication network and services.
To support the requirements of future
emerging applications and users,
telecommunications technologies beyond
current IP oriented technologies will need to
be developed.
To support the development of global and
harmonized frameworks (e.g. requirements,
functional architectures and protocols)
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Background (2/2)
Future Networks have become a part of
global agenda.
ITU-T (Q21/SG13 and FG-FN), ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC6
IRTF (International), GENI/FIND (US),
FP7/FIRE (EU), FIF(Korea), AKARI/NwGN
(Japan), etc.
However, all these activities seems to be in
their early stage of investigation.
Global harmonization between these different
activities are extremely important and
necessary to build up globally interoperable
future ICT infrastructures.
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Current Activities (1/7)
ITU-T Q.21/SG13
The title of SG13 in the new study period
(2009-2012) is “Future Networks including
Mobile and NGN” reflecting the importance of
“Future Networks”.
A new Question on Future Networks has been
approved as Q21/13 and has started the works.
Future Network : Vision, Concepts, and
Requirements
Requirements of Network Virtualization
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Current Activities (2/7)
Study items (or deliverables) of Q.21/13 to be
considered include, but are not limited to:
Problem statement on current IP-based network
architecture
Design goals and general requirements for the
FN
Gap analysis between existing standards and FN
Meta architecture (network virtualization, crosslayer communications) and architectural
framework for the FN
Incorporating new communication and service
technologies into FN
Identifying functions and capabilities to support
new services for the FN
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Current Activities (3/7)
ITU-T FG-FN
SG13 has established “Focus Group on Future
Networks (FG-FN)” to share the discussion on
Future Networks and ensure global common
understanding about Future Networks with
collaboration and harmonization with relevant
entities and activities.
Supported by the Focus Group, SG13 can
establish the clear roadmap of studies for
Future Networks and good collaboration with
relevant organizations/projects which are
imperative to standardization activities for the
Future Networks.
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Current Activities (4/7)
The Focus Group, by collaborating with
worldwide future network (FN) communities
(e.g., research institutes, forums, academia
and etc), aims to
collect and identify visions of future networks,
based on new technologies
assess the interactions between future
networks and new services,
familiarize ITU-T and standardization
communities with emerging attributes of future
networks, and
encourage collaboration between ITU-T and FN
communities.
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Current Activities (5/7)
1st Meeting of FG-FN
Luleå, Sweden, June 29-July 3 (co-located with
FP7/FIREweek event)
The slide on meeting results will be added.
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Current Activities (6/7)
ISO/IEC JTC1
SC6/WG7 has launched similar standardization
activities on Future Network.
Future Network : Problem Statement and
Requirements
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Current Activities (7/7)
Korean Activities on FN Issues
Actively involved in standardization activities
ITU-T Q.21/13, FG-FN, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
Management Team
Domestic Future Internet Forum (FIF) was
launched in 2006.
A lot of members from universities, institutes, and
industries
ETRI has started the work on development of
virtualized programmable platform for Future
Network research and experimentation.
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Challenges
Taking into consideration the importance of
global connectivity and interoperability between
devices, networks, services and applications,
global harmonization on Future Network between
these different activities are extremely important
and necessary to build up globally interoperable
future ICT infrastructures.
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Future Networks : Initial thinking
For the sake of better understanding of
Future Networks, an initial definition of
‘Future Networks’ was proposed in Q.21/13
meeting
Future Network (FN) is a network which is able
to provide revolutionary services, capabilities,
and facilities that are hard to provide using
existing network technologies.
FN provides mechanisms that benefit every
participant as much as they contribute. It will
be studied based on clean-slate approaches.
Clean-slate approach was understood as a
design principle, not deployment.
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Future Networks : Clean-slate
design
Two Design Choices
Incremental Design : A system is moved from one
state to another with incremental patches
Clean-Slate Design: The system is re-designed
from scratch
It is assumed that the current IP’s shortcomings
will not be resolved by conventional incremental
and “backward-compatible” style designs.
So, the FN designs must be made based on
clean-slate approach.
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New Design Goals for FN
Scalability
Security
Mobility
Quality of Service
Heterogeneity
Robustness
Customizability
Economic
Incentives
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Scalability
Security
Mobility
Economics
FN :
Customizability
Design Goals
Quality of
Service
Robustness
Heterogeneity
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Next Steps/Actions
Global collaboration on Future Network required
To make good collaboration with relevant
organizations/projects
To collect and identify visions of future networks
with relevant organizations/projects
To establish the roadmap of studies for Future
Networks
So, if we agree with the collaboration on FN inside
of the GSC, TTA would like to propose this topic to
be added in HIS at the next GSC.
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Question & Discussion !!
– Hyoung Jun Kim
– E-mail: khj@etri.re.kr
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