IEEE Communications Society Standards Development Board (COM/SDB)
Approved Minutes
Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT – 02:00 PM EDT
Teleconference via WebEx
1. Call to Order
Mehmet Ulema (Chair) called the meeting to order at 12:03 PM EDT and reminded participants
about IEEE Standards and the Law http://standards.ieee.org/develop/policies/stdslaw.pdf, and
to declare or update their affiliations and standards activities listed in the Roll Call.
2. Roll Call and Establish Quorum
Chair conducted the roll call with 6 voting members present: Quorum achieved.
Voting
Affiliations
Standards Participation
Voting Members
Attendance
Status
 Chair, IEEE P1903.1, P1903.2,
 Professor, Manhattan
X
X

Mehmet Ulema
(Chair)
Glen Kramer (ViceChair)
Niranth Amogh
(Secretary)
Farooq Bari
(Treasurer)


X
X
X

X



X
X
X
X
Jean-Philippe Faure
“JP”
 LMTS, Strategic




Marcus Brunner
X
College
Director, Standards
Development Board, IEEE
ComSoc
Chair, IEEE COM/SDB
Advisory Member, IEEE
COM/SPDB
Technical Director,
Broadcom
Vice-Chair, IEEE COM/SDB
Sr. Lead Researcher,
Huawei
Secretary, IEEE COM/SDB



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
Standards, AT&T
Treasurer, IEEE COM/SDB
Head of Standardization,
Swisscom
Member, IEEE COM/SDB
No current IEEE position
(was chair of CNOM,
chair ad-hoc committee
on cloud networking, …)
CEO, Progilon
(Representing Panasonic
in IEEE activities)
Member, IEEE-SA SASB,
ProCom,
Chair, IEEE-SA AudCom
Member, IEEE COM/SDB
Chair, IEEE COM/PLC
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P1903.3
 Chair, IEEE 1903 WG
 Chair, IEEE 1904 WG
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IEEE P1903.1, P1903.2, P1903.3
Vice-Chair, GISFI CSeON WG
TSDSI
3GPP SA6
3GPP SA2
GSMA




ONF
ETSI ISG NFV
oneM2M
and several organization with
Swisscom delegation
 Chair, IEEE P1901
 IEEE P1905.1
Voting Members
Attendance
Voting
Status
Affiliations
 Director, Smart Wireless



Hiroshi Harada

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
Laboratory, NICT
Co-Founder, Wi-SUN
Alliance
— Co-Chair, Board
— Chair, ECHONET WG
Board, WhiteSpace
Alliance
Board of Directors,
Wireless Innovation
Forum (SDR Forum)
Visiting Professor,
University of ElectroCommunications
Chair, IEEE COM/DySPANSC
Member, IEEE COM/SDB
Director, Product
Management, Qualcomm
Standards Participation
 Vice Chair, IEEE 1900.4,
802.15.4g, 802.15.4m
 Vice Chair, TIA TR-51
 Chair, Public Broadband Mobile
Communication Development
Committee, ARIB
 IEEE 1905.1 Working Group Chair
 IEEE 1905.1a Working Group
Chair
Purva Rajkotia
 IEEE PLSC (Powerline Steering
Committee) – Board Member
X
X
 Professor, Information
 IEEE 1901 TSG3 Chair
 IEEE 1910 Working Group Chair
Sciences and Technologies
Dept., RIT.
 Director, Lab for Wireless
Networking and Security,
RIT
 Member IEEE COM/SDB
Nirmala Shenoy
Advisory Members
X
-
 CTO, NETovations Group,

Alex Gelman

X
-

Kevin Lu
Curtis Siller
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


LLC
Director and Chair,
Standardization Programs
Development Board, IEEE
ComSoc
Advisory Member, IEEE
COM/SDB
Adjunct Professor,
Stevens
Advisory Member, IEEE
COM/SDB
Member, IEEE-SA NesCom
Enginnovation
Advisory Member, IEEE
COM/SDB
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 IEEE SCC42 Transportation
 IEEE Sensors Council Standards
Committee
 IEEE SCC42 Transportation
 No standards participation
Voting Members
Attendance
Voting
Status
Affiliations
Standards Participation
 Member, IEEE-SA NesCom
 Member-At-Large, IEEE
PSPB
Ex Officio Member
-
 President, NETovations
 No standards participation
Group, LLC
 VP, Standards Activities,

Rob Fish



IEEE ComSoc
Members-At-Large, IEEESA BOG
Chair, IEEE-SA Global
Coordination Committee
Ex-Officio Member, IEEE
COM/SDB
Member, IEEE
Conferences Committee
IEEE SA Staff Support
Jonathan Goldberg
X
Asad
Jouni Korhonen
Michael Tortorella
Mehmet Toy
Huang Jinri
Duncan Earl
Anton Kaska
 Client Services Manager,
-
 Client Services Manager,
 No standards participation
IEEE-SA
Soo Kim
Other Participants
Stephen Bush
-
 No standards participation
IEEE-SA
X
X
 GE Global Research
 SOPTIMIZER
X
X
X
 Broadcom
 Rutgers University
 Comcast
X
X
X
-
 China Mobile
 Qubitekk
 Borealis Traders of New
England
 U.S. House of
Representatives
 Bruce Corporation
X
Lilie Coney
 IEEE 1906.1 (Nanocom)
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IEEE SG SRPSDVE
IEEE RG SDN/NFV
IEEE P2301
IEEE 1904.3 TF
 IEEE SG SRPSDVE
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MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum)
Open Cloud Connect
IETF
IEEE 1904 WG
 IEEE 1906.1
 IEEE SG SRPSDVE
 Chair WG P1912
ComSoc TC Liaisons
X
-
 NIST
X
X
-
 TU Delft
 GE Global Research
Wo Chang
VP
SM Hasan
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 ComSoc TSCBD (Technical Sub
Committee Board)
 ISO/IEC JTC 1 Working Group on
Big Data, Convenor
 Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks
 Innovation and Standards in
Voting Members
Rath Vannithamby
Attendance
X
Voting
Status
-
Affiliations
 Intel
Standards Participation
Information and Communication
Technologies (ISICT)
 Signal Processing &
Communications Electronics
Appendix A provides a list of Liaisons (or Chair if there is no designated standards liaison) from
ComSoc Technical Committees and Emerging Technical Subcommittees.
3. [DECISION] Approval of Agenda
 Chair presented the Agenda for the meeting. Agenda was modified.
 Moved 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 to 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9
 Added 7.6
 [Motion] “Approve the Agenda” - JP moved and Glen seconded.
— [Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.
4. [DECISION] Approval of the COM/SDB Minutes of the last 3 meeting
 [Motion] “Approve the COM/SDB 28-Apr’15 minutes” - Niranth moved and Farooq
seconded.
— [Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.
5. [INFORMATION] Reports
5.1. Chair
5.1.1. Membership and Voting status of the members
Voting status of 2 members have been removed due to absence from COM/SDB
meetings.
5.1.2. Report on IEEE-SASB meeting
P2413 – COM/SDB is the official sponsor. PLC is also a co-sponsor.
P1652 – Decision is deferred.
5.1.3. Updates on COM/SDB P&P to include fund disposal procedures
COM/SDB Chair expense approval to be handled.
5.1.4. Others
Extension required for 1906.1, 1908.1, 1903.1, 1903.2, 1903.3
Chair thanks IEEE SG SRPSDVE efforts.
COM/SDB Ops manual is required.
6. Old and Unfinished Business
6.1. Status of electronic votings in Aug’15
Motion 1- CES Co-sponsor for P1912 (5 – Yes, 0-No) - Approved
Motion 2- Approve sponsorship for P2413 (5 – Yes, 0-No) – Approved
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6.2. [DECISION] Draft PAR P1914 on Next Generation FrontHaul Interface (NGFI)
 [Motion] “Approve 1914.1 PAR as presented final-20150930_NGFI_WG_PAR_detail.pdf
with the following changes:
1)
Change Project designation to 1914.1
2)
Use the following text for 5.2:
This standard specifies:
1) Architecture for the transport of mobile fronthaul traffic (e.g., Ethernet-based), user
data traffic, and management and control plane traffic.
2) Requirements and definitions for the fronthaul link, including data rates, timing and
synchronization, and quality of service.
The standard also defines functional partitioning schemes between Remote Radio Units
(RRUs) and Base-Band Units (BBUs) that improve fronthaul link efficiency and
interoperability among various vendors, and that facilitate the realization of cooperative
radio functions, such as massive Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (massive MIMO)
operational modes, Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) transmission and reception, etc.
3)
Convert section 5.4 to present tense
4)
COM/SDB chair has an editorial license to implement other changes as necessary
5)
Remove the third bullet point in 8.1
6)
Appoint Huang Jinri as the Chair of NGFI WG”
- Glen moved and Niranth seconded.
[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.
7. New Business
7.1. [DECISION]Extension required for the projects - 1906.1, 1907.1, 1908.1, 1903.1,
1903.2 and 1903.3
 [Motion] “Approve the extension for the PAR P1906.1, PAR 1907.1, PAR 1908.1, PAR
P1903.1, PAR P1903.2 and PAR 1903.3 by 1 year” - Niranth moved and JP seconded.
[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.
7.2. [DECISION] Draft PAR on Software Defined Quantum Communication
Requires more discussion on scope.
Quorum was lost
7.3. [DECISION] Draft PAR P1917.1 on Software Defined Networking and Network
Function Virtualization Reliability
Online voting
7.4. [DECISION] Draft PAR P1915.1 on Standard for Software Defined Networking and
Network Function Virtualization Security
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Online voting
7.5. [DECISION] Draft PAR P1916.1 on Software Defined Networking and Network
Function Virtualization Performance
Online voting
7.6. [DECISION] New P&P for 1912 WG
Online voting
7.7. [DECISION] Expense report approval
Online voting
7.8. Financial Report
 Deferred to next meeting
7.9. Reports from Working Group Chairs (Old status) – Deferred to next meeting
 NGSON (1903) WG: P1903.1/P1903.2/P1903.3
— Final version of the 3 Technical Specifications is in progress.
— Next meeting is via Teleconference in September or October 2015.
 Access Networks (1904) WG: P1904.2, P1904.3
— Face to Face Meeting held in Beijing in June.
— Another meeting via teleconference was held in July.
— 1904.1 Revision, 1904.3 projects are in progress ( a first draft expected at the
end of next month.)
— 1904.2 is decided to be suspended. (Catch up with 802.3)
 NanoCom (1906.1) WG: P1906.1
— Sponsor ballot comments were addressed. Getting ready to be sent to RevCom.
— Implementation is available on NS as open source.
 Network Adaptive QoE Mgmt Schemes for RTMVC (1907.1) WG: P1907.1
— No updates
 Indic Virtual Keyboards (1908.1) WG: P1908.1
— No updates.
 Loop Free Switching and Routing (1910) WG: P1910.1
— Technical discussions (New Algorithms, Mechanisms) in progress. Specification
work is in progress.
— Research component documentation taking longer than expected due to
research students involved. Next meeting in September.
 BOP (2410) WG: P2410
— Submitted to RevCom
 HDBaseT (1911) WG: P1911
— Teleconference meeting was conducted on 20th Apr’15
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— P1911.1 and P1911.2 was approved by COM/SDB via email for sponsor ballot
(IEEE styled draft version of standard to be provided to COM/SDB before sponsor
approval)
1912
— Had a face to face meeting in July. There were 24 participants.
— 2 subprojects were identified: Use Cases and survey of what other SDOs are
doing
— Next meeting in September.
Communication Electroacoustics WG: P269, P1652
— P269 subgroup met face to face in June and via teleconference in July.
— A new PAR (revised P1652) will be submitted for approval.
7.10.
Reports from ComSoc Standards Committee (Old status) – Deferred to next
meeting
 DySPAN
— Committee is meeting regularly about every month. Recently, a face to face
meeting was held in Berlin.
— P1900.1 meeting regularly on active revision PAR
— P1900.5.1 has a 2 year PAR extension request on the upcoming September 2015
NesCom agenda.
— P1900.6b - Corr1 and Amendment B in process
— P1900..7 has a 1 year PAR extension request on the upcoming September 2015
NesCom agenda however this is only to accommodate sponsor balloting.
 PLC
— Committee meeting regularly about every month.
— P1901.2a - PAR modification request on the September 2015 NesCom agenda
and submitted to RevCom
— P2030.5 - Revision in progress
7.11.
CAG Report
 Deferred to next meeting
8. Adjournment
 Chair thanked everyone for participating in the meeting and adjourned the meeting at
02:11 PM EDT.
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Appendix A: ComSoc Technical Committee and Subcommittee Liaisons
Technical Committee
Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks
Cognitive Networks
Communications & Information
Security
Communications Quality &
Reliability
Liaison
R. Venkatesha Prasad
Mouli Chandramouli
TU Delft
Stevens
Neeli Prasad
Aalborg University
Hideaki Yoshino
NTT
Communications Software
Jaime Lloret Mauri
Polytechnic University of
Valencia
Henry Suthon
Barrios Technology
Communications Switching &
Routing
Communications Systems
Integration & Modeling
Communication Theory
Computer Communications
Data Storage
e-Health
High-Speed Networking
Information Infrastructure &
Networking
Internet
Multimedia Communications
Network Operations &
Management
Optical Networking
Power Line Communications
Radio Communications
Satellite & Space Communications
Signal Processing &
Communications Electronics
Transmission, Access, & Optical
Systems
Wireless Communications
Emerging Technical Subcommittee
Applications of Nanotechnologies
in Communications
Autonomic Communications
Cable Networks & Services
Cloud Communications &
Networking
Affiliation
Harry (Charalabos) Skianis U Aegean
Sana Sfar
R. Venkatesha Prasad
Tiffany Jing Li
Hsi-Pin Ma
Gumaste Ashwin
HKUST
TU Delft
Lehigh
National Tsing Hua University
IIT/MIT
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane
ENSIIE
Periklis Chatzimisios
Ali Begen
ATEITHE
Cisco
Marcus Brunner
NEC Europe
Josué Kuri
Haniph Latchman
George Chrisikos
Igor Bisio
Infinera
U Florida
Qualcomm
University of Genoa
Rath Vannithamby
Intel
Frank Effenberger
Huawei
Sumei Sun
Institute for Infocomm
Research
Dilip Krishnaswamy
Qualcomm
Spyros Denazis
Mehmet Toy
University of Patras
Comcast
Masum Z. Hasan
Cisco
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Technical Committee
Green Communications and
Computing
Human Centric Communications
Innovation and Standards in
Information and Communication
Technologies (ISICT)
Integrated Fiber & Wireless
Technologies
Internet of Things
Nano-Scale, Molecular, and
Quantum Networking
Peer-to-Peer Networking
Situation Management
Smart Grid Communications
Social Networks
Vehicular Networks & Telematics
Applications (VNTA)
Liaison
Jinsong Wu
Shengjie Zhao
John Buford
Affiliation
Alcatel-Lucent
Tongji University, China
Avaya
SM Hasan
GE
Steve Weinstein
CTTC
Latif Ladid
IPv6 Forum
Andrew Eckford
York University
John Buford
Gabe Jakobson
Petar Popovski
Kwang-Cheng Chen
Avaya
Altusys
Aalborg University
National Taiwan University
National Chiao Tung
University
T. Russell Hsing
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