Document No:
GSC(14)18_021
Source:
IEEE-SA
Contact:
Mehmet Ulema
Agenda Item:
6.1
SOFTWARE DEFINED & VIRTUALIZED ECOSYSTEM
Mehmet Ulema, Director- Standards Development, IEEE Communications Society
GSC-18 Meeting, 22-23 July 2014, Sophia Antipolis, France
OUTLINE
• IEEE Standardization activities in SDN and NFV related Areas
• New initiatives
• Existing projects
• Strategic Directions
• Challenges & Hot Issues
• Next Steps / Actions
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HIGHLIGHT OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES WORLDWIDE
• ONF - Open Flow
• NIST - Cloud Computing
• ETSI – NfV
• IETF/IRTF - SDrN, SDNP, SDN RG
• Ericsson - Service Provider SDN
• OMA - Device Mgmt 2.0
• SDR (Software Defined Radio) Forum
• Stanford Univ. – POMI
• Ohio State Univ. - Software Defined Antenna
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HIGHLIGHT OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES - IEEE
• New initiatives:
• Study Group (SG) on Security, Reliability and Performance for
Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystems
• Research Group (RG) on Software Defined and Virtualized Wireless
Access
• Research Group (RG) on Structured Abstractions
• Study Group (SG) on Service Virtualization
• New work under existing IEEE projects
• IEEE P1903 – Next Generation Service Overlay Networks (NGSON)
• IEEE P802.1CF OmniRAN Study Group Proposal
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IEEE STANDARDS ACTIVITIES ON SOFTWARE
DEFINED AND VIRTUALIZED ECOSYSTEM
• “Rapid Reaction Standardization Research Team” meeting
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held on April 25, 2014
16 attendees from 7 companies and 2 universities
AT&T, Verizon, NTT DoCoMo, AlcaLu, Huawei showed large
company participation
India, Israel, Italy, Japan, US were represented
17 gap items identified, 4 groups formed:
• Study Group (SG) on Security, Reliability and Performance for
Software Defined and Virtualized Ecosystems
• Research Group (RG) on Software Defined and Virtualized Wireless
Access
• Research Group (RG) on Structured Abstractions
• Study Group (SG) on Service Virtualization
6/24/2016
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IEEE STANDARDIZATION PROCESS
Idea!
SPONSOR
IEEE-SA
Approved
PAR
Approved charter
(Any IEEE OU) PAR Proposals
Approved
charter
White
Paper
Research Group
(RG)
Study Group
(SG)
Working Group
(WG)
Standards
Balloted
Research Group (RG) - formed when enough interest has been identified in a
particular area of study
Study Group (SG) - formed when substantial interest has been identified in a
particular area of study
Working Group (WG) – formed when mature interests and key stakeholders
interests have been identified
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SG ON SECURITY, RELIABILITY, AND
PERFORMANCE FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED
AND VIRTUALIZED ECOSYSTEMS
• Objective
• Identify primary standards development opportunities in the
reliability, performance, and security aspects of the SDN, NFV,
NGSON, and related areas
• Scope:
• Priority class of service virtualization: intersection of reliability,
security, and performance circles
• Use case & application driven; regulated industry
• Metrics
(Contact: Spilios Makris, Chair ,
<spilios.makris@palindrometech.com>)
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RG ON SOFTWARE DEFINED AND
VIRTUALIZED WIRELESS ACCESS
• Objective:
• Identify and address research issues that need to be solved and assess
the feasibility of launching an IEEE standardization on this area
• Scope:
• Extending SDN to devices (mobile) at the network edge; separation of
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data and control planes
Use of SDN to control and program network resources (e.g, SDN – SDN
Network Controller), Joint optimization of transport and RAN
Heterogeneous multi-owner multi-vendor RAN control and
Management (eg, CRAN, Ethernet Based included, softRAN)
Interoperability among layers 1 to 3 (programmable data path)
Extracting and managing information to enable wireless
networks control; mechanisms (how); what? KPIs
(Contact: Fabrizio Granelli, Chair <granelli@disi.unitn.it>)
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RG ON ABSTRACTION – STRUCTURED
NETWORK OBJECTS (SNO)”
• Objective:
• identify and formulate possible IEEE standardization efforts to define
a high-level taxonomy and structure that represent the network and
its functions.
• Scope:
• identify the object structure needed for standardizing interfaces and
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descriptors for SDN and NFV.
Define common high level taxonomy, structure
PNF Descriptor
Network Model, Service model
Data Model, Object model
(Contact: Ken Kerpez, Chair <kkerpez@assia-inc.com>)
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SG ON SERVICE VIRTUALIZATION
• Objective:
• Leverage the existing body of work by IEEE P1903 Next Generation
Service Overlay Network (NGSON) Working Group on next
generation service overlay networks and define service specific
functions for virtualization and softwarization.
• Scope:
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NGSON, SDN, NFV Coordination
Programmability
Service Routing - Not limited to Data packets
Triggers based on contexts from users, device, service, and network
(Contact: Mehmet Ulema, Chair,
<mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu>)
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HIGHLIGHT OF CURRENT ACTIVITIES
• Existing projects – IEEE P1903 (NGSON)
• An IEEE sponsored effort to standardize a framework of IP-based
service overlay networks
• A set of context-aware, dynamically adaptive, and self-organizing
networking capabilities, including advanced routing and forwarding
schemes
• Motivation:
• Exponentially increasing number of services and applications and their
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interactions
To have a better, more “efficient” way of providing these services and
applications by means of context-aware, dynamically adaptive, and selforganizing networking capabilities.
Help to grow the industry through a service architecture ecosystem of onestop-shopping solution for service specific challenges
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NGSON ARCHITECTURE
Application and services
Service
Addressing,
Discovery
Service
interaction
facilitation
functions
Security/Trust
Context-aware, dynamically adaptive and self
organizing networking capabilities
NGSON
Context
Aware Routing
Dynamic policy enforcement
capabilities (eg. QoS, registration
derived, etc)
Underlying Networks
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X-AWARE SERVICE ECOSYSTEM
CPE, Mobile
Handset, ...
AS, Apps, ...
Application/
Service
Awareness
IM, LBS, Social
N/Ws, ...
Device
Awareness
User
Awareness
NGSON
Application
Awareness
Software Defined
Network (SDN)
Network
Awareness
Telecom N/Ws
(NGN, IMS, EPC)
Other N/Ws
(Web, P2P, IT)
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NGSON, SDN, NFV
Offered Service
Service Logic
Service Mgmt
TMF
Service Related
Dyn Comp
Re-comp
Service
Routing
QoS based
Dyn Adapt
Service Billing
API
Cntxt
Awareness
NGSON
SDN & NfV
allows service
provider to
create a more
powerful
application
strategy
based on
NGSON
Charging
Transport Related
Transport
Optimization
QoS based
Dyn Adapt
Netw
Routing
P2P
Cntxt
Awareness
N/w
Comp
SDN
SLA
Service Provisioning
Virtualized Resource
Allocation and Mgmt
NFV
Static Composition
Orchestration
Elastic Infrastructure
Scaling
Self Organization
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IEEE 802.1CF OMNIRAN STUDY GROUP
PROJECT PROPOSAL
• Scope
• Network Reference Model and Functional Description of IEEE 802
Access Network
• Based on the family of IEEE 802 Standards
• Including entities and reference points along with behavioral and functional
descriptions of communications among those entities (e.g. Stage-2)
• Anticipating active participation from existing 802 WGs
• Use cases considered by Study Group
• SDN-based Model
• Smart Grid
• 3GPP WLAN EPC Access, etc
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OMNIRAN IN THE BIG PICTURE OF THE
INTERNET
Internet
Peer
Peer
(Client)
(Server)
Internet/Web Applications
WWW
WWW
HTTP
HTTP
TCP
TCP
IP
IP
IP
IP
IP
IP
IP
IP
LINK
LINK LINK
LINK LINK
LINK LINK
LINK LINK
LINK LINK
LINK
PHY
PHY PHY
PHY PHY
PHY PHY
PHY PHY
PHY PHY
PHY
OmniRAN Domain
UE
Access
Router
OmniRAN provides a generic model of an access network
based on IEEE 802 technologies.
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
• SDN and NFV and related areas has been identified as one of
IEEE Future Directions.
• Significantly increase IEEE standardization activities in this
area within the existing projects and with new projects
• Establish liaisons with other SDOs working on this area
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CHALLENGES & HOT ISSUES
• The area is “hot” now!
• Is it a hype or here to stay?
• Too many SDOs involved
• Many overlaps expected
• Coordination?
• Realizing NFV requirements!
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NEXT STEPS / ACTIONS
• SGs are expected to generate PARs and new WGs are
expected to be formed in less than 6 months
• RGs are expected to generate white papers that may be
used in launching new standardization activities
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Supplementary Slides
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