ITU-T Kaleidoscope Conference
Innovations in NGN
STRATEGIC INNOVATIONS
THROUGH NGN STANDARDISATION
FOR A UBIQUITOUS CONSUMER
WIRELESS WORLD
Máirtín O’Droma & Ivan Ganchev
Telecommunications Research Centre
University of Limerick, Ireland
Geneva, 12-13 May 2008
Outline
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Consumer-centric Business Model, CBM
• Third-Party Authentication, Authorization and
Accounting service providers, 3P-AAA-SPs
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NGN authentication architecture for interworking
among wireless access networks
3P-AAA Server
ITU Draft Recommendation Q.3202.1:
“Authentication Protocols … for
Interworking among
3GPP, WiMax, and WLAN in NGN”
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3P-AAA
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NGN Standardisation: New Interfaces
for 3P-AAA functional model
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3rd-Party Authentication, Authorisation and
Accounting (3P-AAA)
NGN Standardisation:
3P-AAA interface architecture
3P-AAA signalling protocol
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Social Impact:
Zero roaming charges
Users not tied to any ANP
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New ‘Personal’ Address scheme
New globally network-independent “personal”
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Consumer address ownership and
Full address portability is enabled
IPv6 addresses
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IPv6 addresses
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CIM replaces SIM in UCWW
NGN Standardisation - required for these
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CIM Card Security & ITU-T X.509
IPv6 address
purchased by user
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his/her ITU-T X.509
digital certificate
Location: field
‘Extensions’
‘Subject Alternative
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Personal IPv6 address(es)
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Extensions
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WBC & ICC Services
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Wireless Billboard Channels (WBC)
Wireless equivalent of Roadside advertisement billboards
‘Push’ advertisements means for Access Network Providers
‘Presence & current service offerings
Association procedures for a consumer to obtain services
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under their different profiles …
ABC&S network-service match decisions
Advertisement, Discovery and Association (ADA) functions
and activities
Particular to consumer wireless communications environment
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WBC characteristics
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Local, Regional, National & Global
Coverage
Operated by non-ANP service providers
Standardised Layered architecture
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Wireless Billboard Channels (WBCs) - Summary
NGN Standardisation
WBC spectrum allocations
WBC Protocol architecture
(physical, data link, and service layer protocols)
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New business service provider entities (WBC-SPs)
Choice of ‘best’ service within a group of services
Personal profile matching & user-driven ABC&S decisions
Fair and equal pro-actively access to consumers for
Existing and NEW access network providers
Others - TSPs, mobile handset manufacturers, etc.
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Consumer-oriented
Incoming Call Connection service (ICC)
Not having a fixed point of attachment how
can a consumer receive incoming calls?
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SBM strength
To be re-invented
Operation based on
A ‘contact address (CA)’ scheme
globally routable, temporary, forwarding IP address
A Contact Address Identifier (CAI)
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ICC Service Operation
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Incoming Call Connection (ICC) service
NGN Standardisation
ICC interface architecture
ICC signalling protocol
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consumer roles and profiles.
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CBM technological foundations
3rd-Party Authentication,
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The two
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Trend from SBM to CBM
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UCWW in Harmony with ITU NGN objectives
(1/3)
Packet-based network
Primarily IPv6
New ‘personal IPv6 address’ class proposed
Broadband capabilities with end-to-end QoS
and transparency
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Primarily user-driven (and also supported by service
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Full number portability
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UCWW in Harmony with ITU NGN objectives
(2/3)
Interworking with legacy networks via open
interfaces
Three new open 3P-AAA interfaces are proposed
Transparent heterogeneous interworking facilitated
all network types, PSTN, wireless, etc.
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Decoupling of service provision from network,
and provision of open interfaces
Defining characteristic of UCWW
3P-AAA SPs; WBC SPs; ICC SPs;
Clearer separation between ANPs and TSPs
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UCWW in Harmony with ITU NGN objectives
(3/3)
A variety of identification schemes which
can be resolved to IP addresses for the
purposes of routing in IP networks
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Wrap-up Conclusions
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Ubiquitous Consumer Wireless World
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Main beneficiaries
All Wireless Business Stakeholders
Manufacturers, Service providers, Application
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New Wireless business entrepreneurs
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Wrap-up Conclusions
2/3
Benefits include
More open wireless communications market
‘level playing field’ for new network-provider entrants
Immensely increased technological and business
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new niche and specialised wireless-access-network
opportunities
ingredients for a potential commercial solution for
Ad Hoc networking.
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Wrap-up Conclusions
2/3
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Strategic Innovations
Through NGN Standardisation
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Twenty years from now
which is it to be?
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End
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Dr. Máirtín O’Droma
Email: mairtin.odroma@ul.ie
Acknowledgement
UCWW Research work has been supported by
Science Foundation Ireland Basic Research Grant Ref. No. 04/BR/E0082 &
Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland.
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