Global Collaboration on Future Network Standardization

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Global Collaboration on Future Network
Standardization
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_at_etri.re.kr

• Hyoung-Jun KIM,
• Chair of PG210, TTA

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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,
  cross-layer 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 IPs 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

Scalability
Security
Economics
Mobility
FN Design Goals

Customizability
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_at_etri.re.kr