Terms of Reference (ToR) for ETSI Project End-to-End
Network Architectures (E2NA )
Approved at ETSI Board#89
Mission
- Focus on fixed access & networking services, including
interconnection to other networks (including mobile networks)
and related testing.
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Not duplicating what is in the scope and specified by 3GPP,
OneM2M and any other ETSI group that is responsible for specific
technologies:
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Develop and maintain a global end-to-end system view in
cooperation with other external groups including standardization
organizations and fora, encompassing terminals, customer
networks, access networks, core networks and application
servers, using different technologies.
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Contribute to provide a long-term vision on evolution of
networks, including convergence.
Responsibility
Coherent with its
mission and limits there from,
in
collaboration
and
accordance
with
other
relevant
entities.
- Be
responsible for the coordination of the relevant work of the
member TBs and of
the specifications in the following areas:
o
Next
generation and future networks technologies
o
Architecture and framework for fixed mobile network interconnection
o
Migration across network generations
o
Network
Management
o
Content
Distribution Networks
o
Numbering Naming Addressing and Routing
o
Network
Testing (conformance, interoperability, performance, security)
o
Security
o
Customer
networks
o
Access
Networks
- Provide architecture and protocol
specifications for use in networks, addressing the control, data
and management planes in both the service and transport layers
(including transmission functions and infrastructure aspects) of
these networks.
- Identify, monitor, and reuse as
appropriate, relevant work undertaken in other ETSI TBs,
organisations, fora, consortia & collaborative research projects
which is important for delivering end-to-end network
standardization and adapt/integrate it, as required.
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Provide
in particular capabilities' enablers specifications in response
to regulatory requirements (privacy, lawful interception,
emergency calls, interconnection, etc.
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Make
sure specifications consider the efficient use of limited
network-associated resources, e.g. numbering, radio spectrum.
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Ensure
specifications maximise energy efficiency of the networks and
services end-to-end.
Areas of activity
Coherent with its
mission and limits there from in collaboration and accordance with other
relevant entities develop and maintain specifications for:
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A global
end-to-end system architecture, in cooperation with other
external groups including standardization organizations and fora.
o
between
fixed networks
o
between
fixed and mobile networks, in cooperation in particular with 3GPP and BBF
o
between
and with Content Delivery Networks
o
between
Public networks and corporate networks including business trunking
- Control architectures for
interpersonal communications and content services, including but
not limited to use of RTC-Web technologies in managed networks,
CDN architectures.
- AAA
architectures for fixed networks
- Policy
Control architectures for fixed networks.
- Enablers and associated APIs to
allow applications to access network resources (e.g.,
network-based authentication, location information, content
caching etc).
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Network-hosted enterprise services (including Network as a
Service).
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Migration
from Content Delivery Networks to Information Centric
Networking.
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Customer
Area Networking, including relevant developments of DECT, PLT
and other emerging technologies.
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Network
security and end-to-end security.
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Mechanisms for ensuring Network QoS.
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Network support for Law
Enforcement and Emergency Services and other regulatory
requirements.
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Management and control
of networks and services, considering also self- and autonomic
management.
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Network
conformance and interoperability testing
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Network performance and security testing.
For all the above
tasks, the group will coordinate its activities with those of other groups in
ETSI already addressing similar topics or complementary ones. It will also
identify and monitor relevant work items of independent external entities which
are important for network standardization.
It is recognized
that specific parts of architecture and technology are being developed and
standardized for different sectors of the telecommunication industry. These
specific parts remain of interest to the member TCs and are expected to be
developed by them independently.
This
project inherits activities and has the responsibility for maintenance of
deliverables created by TC TISPAN and its predecessors.
Project structure
ETSI Project E2NA
is initially composed of the following ETSI organizations:
o
ATTM
o
DECT
o
INT
o
MCD
o
PLT
o
NTECH
E2NA will have a
Plenary Assembly responsible for the technical program of the project and its
management and organisation, assuring an end to end system view and global
consistency of the results produced.
Overall
service requirements and architecture will be defined at EP level while detailed
technical work (detailed architecture and protocols) will be delegated to the
relevant member Technical Committees.
Collaboration with other bodies (both
inside and outside ETSI)
Coherent
with its mission and limits there from,
EP E2NA will:
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Cooperate with 3GPP, BBF and any other groups on relevant
topics, including fixed and mobile interconnection and
harmonization;
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Provide overall guidelines to other ETSI Technical Bodies to
ensure a co-ordinated approach to the development of standards
for public networks, including requirements from private
networks; Act as the primary contact for co-ordination between
ETSI and the ITU-T Study Groups involved in current and future
network technologies
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Act as the primary contact
for liaising and collaborating as appropriate with the
CEPT/ECC WG NaN (Numbering and Networks) for non-spectrum
related issues;
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Collaborate with relevant groups on aspects related to energy
efficiency;
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Liaise and collaborate with the European Commission on
regulation, EC Directives, Mandates and other relevant issues;
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Co-ordinate positions on network aspects and related issues
towards IETF.