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THE STANDARD News From ETSI . Issue 1, 2018
ETSI creates City Digital Profile group on Smart Cities
Cities to procure interoperable smart solutions for their citizens
ETSI has created a new Industry cities and on a large scale. Smart objectives and reducing the overall cost
Specification Group “City Digital Profile” services are intended to improve the of deployment.
(ISG CDP). It will help accelerate the overall quality of living in the city
delivery of integrated citizen services and make them attractive to citizens, Continued on page 2 >
and provide a technology road map investors, business, innovators, visitors
for city leaders who will benefit from and tourists.
standardized solutions from their
The City Digital Profile ISG will enable
Releasing
suppliers.
In providing this technology framework
cities to procure smart solutions
with confidence that those solutions
the Flow
and clear roadmap for technology will be extendable, configurable and
investment and deployment, interoperable with similar services
market confidence levels in the city from other cities and providers.
infrastructure investments should City administrators will therefore
increase and in addition this will give deliver advanced services to their
cities the possibility to replicate those citizens, whilst respecting essential
solutions across domains, between environmental factors, sustainability
First 5G New Radio
Specifications approved Data protection and
3GPP has approved the first 5G he presented details of the group’s
privacy in a data-
specifications: the non-standalone approval of the Non-standalone 5G driven economy
5G New Radio specifications were NR specifications and also outlined
approved on 20 December 2017. how RAN will now turn towards the Come to our ETSI
Balazs Bertenyi, RAN Chair called completion of the first phase of 5G
it “an impressive achievement in a radio, Release 15, by June 2018. summit, 19 April 2018
remarkably short time, with credit due
particularly to the Working Groups”. To know more about 5G new radio, Get a grasp of the policy and
In the 3GPP plenary meeting at the watch our CTO and 3GPP RAN and SA legislative landscape around
end of December in Lisbon, Portugal, chairs: http://bit.ly/2pd9GgC data flow in EU and beyond.
Discuss the interplay of data
ETSI launches new group with regulation, legislation,
technologies and standards.
on Augmented Reality Hear viewpoints and debate
ETSI has launched a new Industry and interfaces. It will provide technical
with experts coming from
Specification Group called Augmented requirements for AR specifications different points of the
Reality Framework (ISG ARF). This new in order to ensure interoperable ecosystem.
group aims to synchronize efforts and implementations that will benefit both
identify key use cases and scenarios for technology providers and end-users. For more information:
developing an Augmented Reality (AR)
Continued on page 2 >
http://www.etsi.org/
framework with relevant components etsisummit
Welcome to the ETSI creates City Digital Profile group
World of Standards on Smart Cities Continued (from page 1)
Cities to procure interoperable smart solutions
for their citizens
“I am excited that this group will enable Other key issues such as citizen related
city leaders and suppliers to work data retention and privacy protection
together to embrace mass market will also be considered, in cooperation
replication of citizen centric systems with such groups as oneM2M, the ETSI
that are innovative, agile and creative founded partnership project and the
while also fully standards compliant, ETSI Technical Committee Cyber.
secure, resilient and cost effective,” says
Paul Copping, chair of the City Digital
Profile ISG.
Initial cross domain city applications
will include:
h Health and social care (disability
entitlement; housing benefit and rent
payment; housing condition, assisted
living and vulnerability)
h Building management and connected
homes
Welcome to this first issue in 2018 h Urban lighting
of our newsletter, The Standard. As
you can see from our cover page h Water and waste management and
logo, this year marks 30 years since energy
the foundation of the institute. While h Transportation and mobility
every new year offers new milestones h Environmental issues such as
to honour, we prefer to look forwards pollution and resource optimization
instead of backwards. 5G will dominate
much of our work in ETSI and 3GPP
in the near future. 2018 will be a
major milestone for 5G, since 3GPP
plan to complete the first full set ETSI launches new group
of 5G specifications (3GPP Release
15) in June, and ETSI will publish on Augmented Reality Continued (from page 1)
them shortly afterwards. 3GPP have
already finalized an initial set of 5G The group held its kick-off meeting on Augmented Reality is the ability to
specifications, you can read a note 30 November and 1 December 2017, mix in real-time spatially registered
about that in these pages. and elected Ms Muriel Deschanel digital content with the real world. AR
from bcom as chair of the group technologies and applications will play
Our articles in this edition will give and Ralf Schäfer from Fraunhofer HHI an essential role in Industry 4.0, and
you some insight into other new as the vice chair. The work of the ISG the success of smart cities and smart
technologies which may change our will start with an analysis of the AR homes. Mobility, retail, healthcare,
day-to-day lives: augmented reality, standards landscape, the analysis of education, public safety are other
automation, cybersecurity, quantum use case requirements and obstacles, examples of domains where AR will
safe cryptography, software defined and the development of a framework bring significant value. AR is quickly
radio, smart cities and much more. architecture. advancing into a new phase of enabling
We’re preparing the innovation which context-rich user experiences that
will bring us forward another 30 years. “There are huge differences in AR combine sensors, wearable computing,
applications but mapping digital the Internet of Things and artificial
Once again, information with the real world implies intelligence. That capability is a unique
I hope you enjoy this edition. the use of a set of common components opportunity of value creation. The
offering functionalities such as need for transparent and reliable
tracking, registration, pose estimation, interworking between different AR
localization, 3D reconstruction or data components is key to the successful
Luis Jorge Romero, injection. The development of such roll-out of such services.
Director General, ETSI a framework will allow components
from different providers to interoperate Participation in the Augmented
through the defined interfaces.” Reality Industry Specification Group
says Ms Deschanel, chair of the is open to all ETSI members as well as
ISG ARF. “This will in turn avoid the organizations who are not members.
creation of vertical siloes and market For information on how to participate
fragmentation and enable players in please contact ISGsupport@etsi.org
the eco-system to offer parts of an
overall AR solution.”
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Smart to Future Cities
25-26 April 2018, Radisson Blu Portman Square, London
Join us for Europe’s only city centric event for citizen centric smart cities. The event will focus on practical,
scalable applications of smart city initiatives to improve infrastructure and quality of life.
Several ETSI groups and speakers will debate during the session on Accelerating Smart City Deployments
Through Standards-Based Technology Solutions, in the afternoon of 26 April.
Visit the event’s website to know more:
https://tmt.knect365.com/smart-future-cities/
ETSI and OpenFog Consortium collaborate
on Fog and Edge applications
Leading organizations in fog and multi-access edge computing sign MOU to share work related
to global standards development for fog-enabled mobile edge applications and technologies
ETSI and the OpenFog Consortium will “Establishing a cooperation Reference Architecture will extend the
collaborate to develop fog-enabled framework with OpenFog represents mobile edge with a physical and logical
mobile edge applications and a significant step towards adoption multi-layered network hierarchy of
technologies. The two organizations of our standards by the industry,” cooperating fog nodes that interface
have recently signed a Memorandum said Alex Reznik, Chairman of ETSI between cloud and edge, allowing for
of Understanding (MOU) with intent MEC ISG. “This alignment of a leading interoperability across operators.
to benefit organizations working industry consortium and a leading
to develop 5G, mission-critical and standards setting organization in the One of the first initiatives from
data-dense applications through fog fog/edge space should make it easier the agreement will be focused on
computing and networking and thus for both application developers and Application Programming Interfaces
reduce technical overlap across the infrastructure solution providers to (APIs) which support edge computing
multitude of domains. develop towards a common, open interoperability. The recently
and interoperable edge computing released package of MEC APIs contain
“This OpenFog-ETSI MOU is a environment.” important properties that can be
significant step in our efforts to build adapted and used in the OpenFog
interoperability for efficient and OpenFog will work with the ETSI reference architecture. The ETSI MEC
reliable networks and intelligent Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) specifications also include an API
endpoints operating along the Cloud- Industry Specification Group (ISG). framework which provides a framework
to-Things continuum,” said Helder The two organizations will cooperate for delivering services to be consumed
Antunes, chairman of the OpenFog on Information and Communication or offered by locally hosted or remote
Consortium and Senior Director, Cisco. Technologies (ICT) standardization authorized applications. By adopting
“We’re now positioned to leverage our and interoperability requirements by and re-using APIs across the OpenFog
respective work to give the industry a sharing and applying selected technical and MEC architectures, it will be easier
cohesive set of standards around fog work in process. MEC’s work addresses for developers to create common
computing in mobile environments, multiple multi-access edge hosts architectures, unify management
while eliminating any redundancy in deployed by different operator-owned strategies, and write a single application
our respective efforts.” networks which run edge applications software modules that run on both
in a collaborative manner. The OpenFog OpenFog and MEC architectures.
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ETSI hosts second NFV Plugtests event
ETSI has shown continued commitment (VIMs) and management and A vital aspect of this latest event
to drive the progression of Network orchestration (MANO) solutions. was the continuous and ubiquitous
Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Over the course of the week a series testing environment that attendees
technology through our efforts to of comprehensive interoperability test accessed to as they join the NFV
ensure that widespread interoperability sessions were embarked upon. Plugtests Programme. This exciting
is supported. Following on from These covered the combining together innovation, based on the ETSI Hub
the success of our previous NFV of various different VNFs, NFV MANO for Interoperability and Validation
interoperability Plugtests™ gathering, solutions and NFV platforms. (HIVE), enabled remote integration
ETSI has just finalized the second event. and pre-testing for the event, but
Extending the scope of what was also further collaborative testing and
This latest NFV Plugtests event was undertaken at the previous NFV validation activities such as remote
held at ETSI, in Sophia Antipolis, France, Plugtests event, which took place interoperability testing, PoCs, demos or
between 15 and 19 January. Once again earlier this year in Leganés, Spain, API validation during and between NFV
the primary objective was to provide the sessions encompassed further Plugtests events.
a valuable opportunity for extensive important aspects that are now
multi-party interoperability testing emerging. These included multi-site In parallel, ETSI OSM organized an OSM
to be carried out. Representatives operation, network path, enhanced Hackfest which supported onboarding
from vendors and several open source platform awareness, fault and activities focusing on Day 0/1/2
communities were able to evaluate performance management and NFV operations (install, configure, optimize)
the level of interoperability of their application programming interfaces to that leverage the latest capabilities
implementations and confirm that they name a few. offered by the OSM platform.
adhere to the NFV specifications that
are being defined by ETSI. Supporting
open source communities include ETSI Proof of
OSM (Open Source MANO), OPNFV, Architectural Concept
Use Cases Aspects
OpenStack and Open Baton. Orchestration
Security
The five day interoperability session
dealt with all key components of NFV Requirements Interoperability
deployments, including virtual network Network
functions (VNFs), NFV infrastructure Management
(NFVI), Virtual Infrastructure Managers
ETSI adds extra dimensions to virtualization of communication
networks with continued NFV specification activity
The ETSI NFV Industry Specification As a direct consequence, it will lead ETSI is giving new players that have
Group (ETSI NFV ISG) has taken to solutions and network services not previously been involved in this
further steps towards establishing a from different vendors being brought sector the opportunity to make a major
ubiquitous platform upon which the to market in the future that are all contribution to its ongoing progression,”
global adoption of network functions interoperable with independently states Diego Lopez, Chairman ETSI NFV.
virtualization (NFV) technology can be developed NFV management and “With the ground-breaking work that is
driven thanks to the completion of a orchestration systems. now being done we are getting closer
series of key specifications. to a stage when universal integration
Two of the six latest specifications of is finally achievable and vendors’ VNF
Over the course of the last quarter ETSI NFV, which detail REST APIs for solutions can be executed and managed
2017, 6 new NFV specifications have management and orchestration, can via any orchestrator and management
been published. These cover virtual be accessed by visiting the following solution without integration
network function (VNF) package links - ETSI GS NFV-SOL 002 and ETSI GS problems arising. Furthermore, all
structure, the dynamic optimization of NFV-SOL 003. ETSI GS NFV-SOL 004, has of the components parts of such
packet flow routing, and acceleration also been completed, it specifies the management/orchestration systems
resource management right through format and structure of a VNF Package will be completely interoperable with
to hypervisor domain requirements. In and is based on the OASIS TOSCA Cloud one another.”
addition, a total of 18 different work Service Archive (CSAR) format.
projects have been approved. The ISG continues with the
An OpenAPI representation of the development of a third release of
Central to these endeavours is specified APIs will also be made deliverables (NFV Release 3), with
the defining of unified application available on the ETSI forge, a set of objectives of providing specifications
programming interface (API) collaborative tools for standardized and guidance for operationalizing NFV.
specifications in order to ensure technologies, by the end of this year. It will also perform in-depth studies
that widespread multi-vendor on forward-looking topics, such as
interoperability can be achieved. “It is clear that NFV will thrive through enhanced security for the entire NFV
This will mean that the numerous being backed up by an expansive open environment or considerations on
integration challenges that the industry ecosystem that encourages innovation applying NFV to network slicing for
currently faces can be fully addressed, from the broadest possible range of future 5G deployment.
and the pace at which NFV roll-out sources. By delivering standardized
occurs thereby accelerated. open interfaces and descriptors,
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ETSI completes work on VoIP emergency caller location
The standard developed in the Technical Committee Network Technologies represents an
essential step to support emergency services with systematic location information delivery.
ES 203 283 leverages a number of IETF- Taking into account requirements from
defined protocols, some of which did the industry to enable the support
not initially fulfil all the requirements of emergency services for private IP
identified in the service architecture networks, the specifications published
specification. In order to fill this gap, by ETSI in response to Mandate 493
EC Mandate 493 (2011) required ETSI TC NTECH has proposed, through provide a solid technical reference
to develop a solution to enable the contributions submitted by some of for enabling the determination
localization of VoIP emergency callers, its members to IETF, updates to HELD and transport of emergency callers’
in response to the Universal Service (HTTP-enabled Location Delivery location information regardless of the
Directive 2002/22/EC. The potential protocol) and SIP (Session Initiation voice service provider they use. The
impact on existing emergency service Protocol). A new version of HELD (RFC provisions in the two documents also
architectures, with the risk of high 7840) now supports the provision, upon support the cases where regulation
adaptation costs that a completely request, of routing information along imposes an aggregation provider
new technological approach could with location information. SIP changes interfacing all active voice service
have brought, had to be carefully are still in the process of finalization providers with network providers and
considered to design a viable solution. and will allow providing information on emergency service providers.
An unbalanced one could have led the location information source along
to important impairing in case the with the location information itself in Architecture for VoIP emergency caller localisation
EC would mandate the deployment, an emergency call. support
favouring one or the other market
area. Some of these touchy aspects
were related to, for instance, security
and opening of access to databases.
A careful technical work has allowed
attaining a balanced solution
acceptable to all parties involved.
After the definition of the service
architecture in ES 203 178 in 2015, TC
NTECH has completed the work by
specifying the protocols to be used
at the interfaces exposed in this
architecture. Consequently ES 203 283
was published at the end of November.
The challenge of these specifications
was to conciliate the interests of
network operators, who already
provide the localization of emergency
callers connected to their IMS networks,
with those of service providers that
NFV & Zero Touch
offer VoIP call services using different
types of IP platforms. The possibility
World Congress
for the users to benefit from VoIP
service providers independently
from the location and the regulatory
domain poses several challenges for
the definition of a suitable solution
that still has to comply with traditional
implementations of emergency services
and legacy Public Safety Answering
Points (PSAPs), as the mandate
explicitly required.
TC NTECH has therefore taken into 24-27 April 2018, San Jose, CA, USA
consideration all these aspects and
worked out the most balanced With NFV and the transformation to a virtualized networking
possible solution. It allows the required platform now well underway at Carriers - and already extant at Cloud
opening to new market players with
the definition of the needed interfaces providers - the stage is now set for further transformation. With a
between the access network providers, strategic vision of Zero Touch, both Carrier and Cloud providers have
the VoIP service providers, the an objective of full network and services Automation. So join us for
emergency service providers and finally the NFV & Zero Touch World Congress!
the PSAPs, but is still compliant with a
classic 3GPP network. To know more about the event, please visit www.layer123.com/nfv
Issue 1, 2018 THE STANDARD |5
ETSI standards for autonomic management & control of
networks and services using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By Tayeb Ben Meriem: Orange; NTECH AFI (Evolution of Management towards Autonomic
Future Internet) working group chair
This article gives an overview of the TC NTECH AFI focuses mainly on GANA instantiations are performed
ETSI Network Technologies Technical autonomic networking. This includes onto evolving and future network
Committee (TC NTECH) work on introducing network node/function architectures and their associated
standards for autonomic management self-manageability properties (e.g. management and control
and control of networks and services. self-configuration, self-diagnosis, self- architectures. Autonomics algorithms
This includes the use of Artificial repair, self-healing, self-protection, are meant to be implemented by the
Intelligence (Cognitive Algorithms) self-awareness, etc.) within network GANA Decision-making-Elements (DEs).
in control-loops for real-time and nodes/functions themselves and Such algorithms include cognitive
predictive analytics that drive self- enabling distributed in-network algorithms for Artificial Intelligence
adaptation and dynamic policing of self-management within the data (AI) such as Machine Learning and
network resources, parameters and plane network architectures. This Deep Learning, and other algorithms
services. low level intelligence (autonomics) that can be employed in DEs’ closed-
is complemented by higher level loop operations. This model helps
High level view on ETSI autonomic management and control to achieve closed-loop (Autonomic)
NTECH AFI scope of networks and services—by service assurance through the
which the autonomics paradigm complementary abstraction levels
TC NTECH AFI has made significant (control loop) is introduced outside for introducing self-management
progress in developing standards that of network elements, in the outer, functionality and closed-loops.
prescribe methods and mechanisms logically centralized, management
for introducing intelligence in the and control planes architectures of a Each of the ETSI NTECH AFI Technical
management and control operations particular target network. The ETSI Reports on GANA can be used by
of networks and services. Namely NTECH AFI GANA (Generic Autonomic different players to implement proof
the application of the autonomics Networking Architecture) reference of concept (PoC) demonstrations to
paradigm, with the goal of prescribing model combines perspectives on showcase the autonomics solutions
design and operational principles these aspects, so as to capture (based on standards) the industry is
for self-managing and self-adaptive the holistic picture of autonomic looking for, and to implement GANA
networks that enable to achieve networking, cognitive networking autonomics in a particular target
OPEX reduction and other benefits and self-management design and network architecture and its associated
autonomics brings to network operational principles. management and control architectures.
operators (Service Provider networks
Snapshot of the GANA Reference Model and Autonomic Cognitive Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
and Enterprise networks).
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ETSI standards for autonomic management & control of
networks and services using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Continued (from page 6)
Latest and ongoing work NTECH AFI is also in relation with 3GPP complementary networking paradigms
in the group SA2 and SA5. Feedback was included and when instantiating GANA onto
in TR 103 404. This technical report emerging and future network
A lot of work is being finalized in our addresses Autonomicity and Self- architectures and their associated
group on GANA; GANA instantiations Management in the backhaul and core management and control architectures.
onto various network architectures network parts of the 3GPP architecture. Another consideration that could
and their associated management be pursued would be to see how
and control architectures; including Artificial Intelligence (AI) in GANA is Open Source communities could be
scenarios, use cases and requirements also a topic we look into with respect encouraged to help launch activities
for Autonomic/Self-Managing Future to how AI plays a role in GANA DEs, that bring GANA autonomics into
Internet (see ETSI TS 103 194). the Model Based Translation Service their frameworks.
(MBTS) part of GANA, Data Analytics
An ETSI white paper provides a on various entities in the network
description of GANA concepts and and its management and control
describes the two categories of systems, including data collectors,
players the GANA model is addressing: and cognition modules and cognitive Zero Touch
suppliers/vendors of GANA functional algorithms in general.
blocks, and providers of assets
NTECH AFI launched a PoC framework
& Carrier
required by the developers of GANA
functional blocks. that can be used by different payers
to respond to the call for autonomics
Automation
The GANA white paper and other
technical reports also describe
PoCs available at http://ntechwiki.etsi.
org/.
Congress
relationships between GANA and other
complementary networking paradigms Collaborating with other
such as SON (Self-Organizing Networks), organizations
SDN (Software-Defined Networking),
NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), The working group NTECH AFI work
E2E Orchestration, network analytics, plan in 2018 and beyond will be
Big Data, and other paradigms. dedicated mainly to testing and
Business drivers for autonomic trialling activities through the AFI PoC
networking, an implementation guide framework and through collaborations 20-23 March 2018,
for GANA, GANA instantiation onto the
BroadBand Forum (BBF) architecture
with other SDOs on joint efforts in
testing related activities. We will
Madrid, Spain
scenarios and insights on GANA also seek to close gaps in standards, ETSI is pleased to endorse
integration with SDN and NFV are some gaps exposed in the integration of
of our latest or upcoming reports. GANA autonomics with emerging Layer123’s very first Zero
Touch & Carrier Automation
Congress.
It is time for a fresh focus to
create the future of Network
& Service Management –
practical and collaborative
approaches founded in
production network reality –
so join the market makers at
the start of the Zero Touch
journey!
Our Director General, Mr.
Luis Jorge Romero will be a
speaker at the event. Our
groups ZSM, ENI and OSM will
also feature in the agenda.
To know more, visit their
website at:
Key Liaisons established between TC NTECH AFI WG and Groups in other SDO/Fora www.layer123.com/zta
Issue 1, 2018 THE STANDARD |7
Software Radio Reconfiguration enables upgrades to
in-vehicle and IoT radio systems
Most new cars sold today offer of vehicles, or even impossible in the
connectivity as a feature, whether case of inaccessible IoT devices.
standard or optional. Customers
expect their navigation systems to An overview of the ETSI model
be connected, to download real time and the solutions and functionality
traffic information and map updates. it offers is provided in the recent
Vehicle manufacturers increasingly ETSI White Paper “Software Radio
provide remote diagnostics and Reconfiguration: A highly efficient
vehicle software updates. And yet a and modular software reconfiguration
fundamental problem remains: today approach for mobile devices”,
these vehicles use 2G, 3G or 4G mobile available from the ETSI website.
networks to connect, while long before ETSI also held a webinar on this subject,
the end of their useful lives, 5G on 8 December 2017. The recording
networks will be more common. The can be viewed on the ETSI website.
complete lifecycle of a vehicle is
significantly longer than that of a mobile
device, and completely out of step. ETSI launches Zero Touch Network
ETSI’s Technical Committee for and Service Management group
Reconfigurable Radio Systems has
developed a system which can help Enabling agile, efficient and qualitative management
solve this and similar issues. ETSI’s and automation of future services
Software Radio Reconfiguration model
provides a modular and scalable ETSI is pleased to announce that it reach and support for massive
solution to the challenge of deploying has created the Zero touch network machine communication. Networks
and using software radio systems. The and Service Management Industry need to evolve towards programmable,
solution, described in a recent ETSI Specification Group (ISG ZSM). The software-driven, service-based and
white paper and in the EN 303 146 ETSI ISG ZSM will initially focus on the holistically-managed architectures,
series of European Standards, allows 5G end-to-end network and service using the technology enablers and
a gradual and stepwise deployment management such as network slicing catalysts, such as NFV, SDN and MEC.
of software reconfigurable radio. management and will extend to the New business models, including those
This enables device manufacturers management for future network enabled by technology breakthroughs
to gradually implement software generations. The goal is to have all such as Network Slicing, support new
reconfigurable radios, developing operational processes and tasks - markets and impose unprecedented
confidence at each step of the way. delivery, deployment, configuration, operational agility and higher
assurance, and optimization - cooperation across network domains.
The ETSI Software Radio Reconfiguration executed automatically, ideally with The resulting exponential increase in
model provides solutions to the 100% automation. overall complexity makes automation
following issues which all software a necessity.
radio systems must address: The group will define a new, future-
proof, horizontal and vertical “There are many issues that are
h How to transfer and install radio
end-to-end operable framework currently hindering the automation of
software components in a secure way enabling agile, efficient and qualitative operations and Network and Service
h How to provide access to new management and automation of Management functionalities that need
software components to a user/ emerging and future networks and to be addressed at an industry level,”
operator services. Horizontal end-to-end refers says Klaus Martiny, convenor of the
h How to deal with device certification to cross-domain, cross-technology ETSI ISG ZSM. “A primary goal of the
and type approval when new radio aspects. Vertical end-to-end refers to ISG ZSM is to identify requirements
software components can modify the cross-layer aspects, from the resource- on the necessary management
radio behaviour of a device oriented up to the customer-oriented architecture and interfaces to support
h How to provide software portability layers. The ZeroTouch NSM group the end-to-end zero touch network
and achieve efficient radio will also facilitate the coordination and service management in a multi-
performance and cooperation between relevant vendor environment. It is important
h How to gradually evolve a system standardization bodies and open as well that existing solutions will be
towards software reconfigurability source projects. considered”.
With the use of software reconfigurable The challenges introduced by the The kick off Meeting of ISG ZSM took
radio, the radio system on board a disruptive deployment of 5G trigger the place at ETSI on 10-12 January 2018.
vehicle can evolve and improve over need for network transformation and a Participation in the Zero touch network
time, with new software upgrades. radical change in the way networks and and Service Management Industry
Software reconfigurable radios will also services are managed and orchestrated. Specification Group is open to all ETSI
help in other situations. For example, These challenges are driven by the wide members as well as organizations who
security concerns may require the range of 5G requirements, including are not members. For information
upgrade and patching of radio systems massive seemingly infinite capacity, on how to participate please contact
deployed in the field. Yet manual imperceptive latency, demand for ISGsupport@etsi.org. The current list of
intervention would be costly in the case personalized services and unmatched ISG participants is available here.
degree of experience, global web-scale
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Latest ETSI ETSI General Assembly re-elects
White Papers Dirk Weiler as Board Chairman
Software Radio consists of up to 30 members, including
Reconfiguration: two seats reserved for representatives
of SMEs and of Users. Members of the
A highly efficient and ETSI Board are elected for a three-year
modular software term of office.
reconfiguration approach
ETSI Director General, Mr. Luis Jorge
for mobile devices Romero, works closely with the leaders
Developed by several authors, this of the General Assembly and the Board
white paper outlines ETSI’s framework in the management of the institute.
developed to enable reconfiguration
of wireless equipment through The members of the ETSI Board for the
software. It identifies some use cases new mandate period 2017-2020 are:
which would benefit from software h Niels ANDERSEN, Anemone
radio reconfiguration, together with Technology
some of the challenges that must be h Rémi ARQUEVAUX, Ministère de
faced when deploying Software Radio l’Economie et des Finances, France
Reconfiguration technology. It also h Howard BENN, Samsung R&D
presents the ETSI solution in more Institute UK
detail, and examines how it addresses h Jorge BONIFACIO, PT Portugal SGPS
specific challenges. Read here. SA
h Angel BOVEDA, Wireless partners
Improved operator S.L.L.
experience through At their 70th General Assembly held on h Chris CLIFTON, Sony Europe Ltd
Experiential Networked 28-29 November 2017, ETSI members h Axel FERRAZZINI, GovStrat SPRL
selected a new Board and reelected
Intelligence (ENI) Dirk Weiler of Nokia as Chairman of the
h Jochen FRIEDRICH, IBM Europe
ETSI Board. h Lindsay FROST, NEC Europe Ltd
Developed by several authors, this
white paper draws attention to h Marc GRANT, AT&T GNS Belgium SPRL
the need to improve the operator Dirk has held various ETSI leadership h Simon HICKS, Department for Digital,
experience. The use of artificial positions during the last decade. He has Culture, Media and Sports, UK
intelligence (AI) techniques in the chaired the ETSI IPR Special Committee
h Kevin HOLLEY, BT plc
network management system could since 2008 and has been Chairman
of the Board since 2014. Dirk served h Jamshid KHUN-JUSH, Qualcomm
help solve some of the problems
of future network deployment and as the Chairman of the ETSI General CDMA Technologies GmbH
operation based on the “observe- Assembly from 2010 to 2014. h Magnus MADFORS, Ericsson
orient-decide-act” control model. Telefonaktiebolaget LM
Dirk is a member of the CEN-CENELEC-
Read here. h Pierpaolo MARCHESE, Telecom Italia
ETSI Joint Presidents' Group, member
of the DIN Presidential Committee h Markus MUECK, Intel Deutschland
FOKUS.ICT and the ETSI representative GmbH
to the European Commission's ICT h Adrian NEAL, Vodafone Group plc
Multi-Stakeholder Platform. He is Head h Neviana NIKOLOSKI, Phonak
of Standards Policy in Nokia, where he Communications AG
is responsible for standardization policy h Gabrielle OWEN, Ministry of
and Nokia’s membership portfolio. Prior Economic Affairs, Netherlands
to 2007 Dirk held various management
h Heinz POLSTERER, Deutsche Telekom
positions in the areas of development,
research, intellectual property, AG
standardization and marketing in h Dominique ROCHE, eG4U
the communication business of h Nick SAMPSON, Orange;
Siemens. Dirk has worked actively in h Alain STARON, Veolia Environnement
standardization for over 30 years on SA
technical, strategic and policy issues h Christian TOCHE, Huawei
in organizations such as ETSI, 3GPP,
ITU and OMA. Dirk has been working Technologies France
in mobile communications since h Sebastiano TOFFALETTI, SBS aisbl;
he joined Siemens in 1985 starting h Bogdan TOPIČ, SIST
with the development of the Mobile h Isabelle VALET-HARPER, Microsoft
Communication System C450. Europe SARL
h Dirk WEILER, Nokia Solutions and
The ETSI Board meets regularly and
operates under powers delegated by Networks GmbH & Co. KG
the ETSI General Assembly, in particular h Helene WORKMAN, Apple (UK) Ltd
being responsible for managing ETSI’s h Christoph WÖSTE, BMWi, Germany
technical committees. The Board
Issue 1, 2018 THE STANDARD |9
Quantum-Safe Security: Technology Standards Overview
Mark Pecen - Chairman, ETSI TC Cyber Working Group for Quantum Safe Cryptography (QSC)
1. The Importance of in order to benefit from the resulting and other practical aspects of
Technology Standards market access, some of which is quantum-safe cryptographic services
created by massive interoperability. that will be encountered by industry.
Technology standards and the Industry members affected by this work
standardization process itself are Standards are of paramount includes companies and government
used for multiple reasons. A primary importance for specialty users of quantum-safe cryptography
reason is to ensure that the several who use or create quantum-safe
areas such as cryptography systems and services. The scope
components of an Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and cyber security of this industry specification group
system, for example, can be made to includes analysis into the performance
be interoperable over a broad scale, Standards are of paramount considerations, implementation
over large geographic distances, using importance for specialty areas such as capabilities, benchmarking, and
equipment and software from multiple cryptography and cyber security. This practical architectural considerations
manufacturers. is partly due to the precise degree for specific applications. Therefore,
of implementation considerations the group focuses on questions and
This concept of mass interoperability required to ensure successful recommendations that include analysis
creates what economists call “network interoperability, reasonable resilience of the consequences of deploying,
externalities”, by which a greater and against side-channel attacks for a given for example, a certain primitive,
greater interconnection of nodes in a implementation, and acceptable levels key-exchange method, protocol, etc. for
network results in greater economic of performance. In addition to the a specific purpose. The work feeds into
utility value over time. For example, above goals, certification standards other ETSI groups and projects such as
a wireless communication system must be addressed. For example, in 3GPP and other standards bodies such
that serves a single country having a Canada there exists the Cryptographic as the ITU and the Internet Engineering
population of around 65 million such as Module Validation Program (CMVP). Task Force (IETF). The objectives of the
France, may deliver a certain degree of The CMVP is a programme jointly QSC does not include the development
economic utility value to people within managed by Communications Security of cryptographic primitives, nor do they
that country. But imagine the utility Establishment (CSE) in Canada and the focus on QKD, as these are propositions
value of a wireless communication National Institute of Standards and best left to academia and other groups
system that permits global Technology (NIST) in the United States. who specialize in those areas. The ISG
communication, and one that can The purpose of this programme is to QSC became the working group for
put any user in touch with any other ensure the validation of cryptographic Quantum-Safe Cryptography (WG QSC)
user on the network from almost any modules to the Federal Information of ETSI Technical Committee Cyber in
reasonably populated country almost Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1 and March 2017.
instantly. This global interoperability is FIPS 140-2, and other cryptography
exactly what we have today with our based standards. Programmes such as To date, WG QSC has published five
cellular broadband communication the CVMP help to ensure that a certain Group and/or Technical Reports
systems. More than 5 billion individual level of security can be achieved, and pertaining to the various aspects of the
subscribers are connected by wireless that products specified to offer a industry forming around quantum-safe
technologies that were standardized certain level of security can be verified cryptography. These reports include
by ETSI members and International as being able to meet those specified analyses of cryptographic primitive
Telecommunication Union (ITU) security requirements. families that are believed to be secure
beginning in the 1980s. against attacks by quantum computers,
2. Survey of Quantum-Safe as well as case studies regarding the
Because of the tremendous success Cryptographic Standards deployment of certain quantum-safe
of standards such as Global System primitives for specific applications and
for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM), Activities the consequences of those deployments
Universal Mobile Telecommunications in terms of implementation complexity
System (UMTS or 3rd Generation 2.1. ETSI and performance. In addition, ETSI
wireless) and Long Term Evolution standardized risk assessment techniques
Probably the initial efforts to develop
(LTE or 4th Generation Wireless) there were applied to the quantum computing
quantum-safe standards were focused
has been a major worldwide shift in threat, as well as an analysis of
on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); a
technology standardization activities symmetric-key cryptography in relation
technique for exchanging cryptographic
over the past 30 years. This shift is to the capabilities of future quantum
keys for symmetric key cryptography
manifested as a distinct migration computers.
by utilizing basic quantum mechanical
of ICT standards away from local
properties of electromagnetic radiation. Access to the current published work of
standards, which are standards that
These initial efforts were begun in WG QSC can be found here:
are specific to a single country or
ETSI in 2007 with the creation of
region, to global standards that can
the Industry Specification Group for ETSI GR QSC 001
ideally be used almost anywhere in
Quantum Key Distribution (ISG QKD).
the world. Furthermore, commercial ETSI GR QSC 003
enterprises have seen the benefits In 2015, ETSI members decided to
of global-scale market access when a accelerate the standardization of ETSI GR QSC 004
technology becomes a global standard. quantum-safe cryptography by creating
Industry players often participate a new Industry Specification Group on ETSI GR QSC 006
in the standardization process by Quantum-Safe Cryptography (ISG QSC).
collaborating globally with partners, ETSI TR 103 570
The primary focus of ISG QSC is the
and even competitors in the same field, implementation issues, architecture,
10 | THE STANDARD Issue 1, 2018Quantum-Safe Security: Technology Standards Overview
Continued (from page 10)
2.2. National Institute 2.3. International 2.5. International Standards
of Standards and Telecommunication Organization (ISO)
Technology (NIST) Union (ITU) The International Standards
The National Institute of Standards and The International Telecommunication Organization (ISO) is an independent,
Technology (NIST) is an agency of the Union (ITU) is a specialized agency non-governmental, international
United States government focusing within the United Nations that is a organization headquartered in Geneva,
on the evaluation of technology and public-private partnership. The ITU’s Switzerland with a membership
technology standards. NIST is the membership includes 193 countries of 162 different national standards
originator and maintenance organization and almost 800 private-sector entities bodies on a country-by-country basis.
for security algorithm certification and academic institutions. The ITU ISO aims to bring together experts
and accreditation via their Federal Telecom (ITU-T) sector Study Group to share knowledge and develop
Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 17 (SG17) coordinates security related voluntary, consensus-based, market
140-1 and FIPS 140-2 programs. work across all ITU-T Study Groups relevant international standards. ISO
and liaises and cooperates with other is a large organization that develops
A few months after the creation of standards-development organizations and publishes a wide variety of
the ETSI QSC in March of 2015, NIST worldwide. international standards, including
formally announced its post-quantum business procedures and operations,
cryptography standardization project. Progress towards quantum-safe best practices for manufacturing,
The first milestone of the NIST post- cryptographic standards began in ITU-T technology and more.
quantum standardization project was SG17 in 2017 with the introduction
end of 2017, which is the deadline of an optional extension to the The standardization of quantum-
set by NIST to receive proposals X.509 digital certificate. This optional safe cryptography is currently being
for quantum-safe cryptographic extension will allow the next version discussed within the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC
standards. This process is similar of X.509 to support two Public Key 27 WG2 working group on cryptography
to former initiatives of NIST on the Infrastructure (PKI) modes: one for and security mechanisms. At present,
standardization of cryptographic the existing certificate structure and ISO is in a study period on quantum-
primitives, such as the Advanced processing requirements, and another safe cryptography and is collecting
Encryption Standard (AES), and Secure for the quantum-safe certificate feedback from delegates regarding the
Hash Algorithm-3 (SHA3). structure and processing requirements. principal requirements for quantum-
The next version will be available safe cryptosystems in general, as well
The first part of this NIST project is an middle of 2018. as the vision for future standardization.
open call for proposals for quantum- It is anticipated that ISO will begin more
safe cryptographic algorithms. In the 2.4. Internet Engineering formal activities regarding quantum-
second part, NIST’s internal experts will safe cryptography and best practices
review the submitted proposals. At the Task Force (IETF) shortly.
same time, NIST will monitor progress The Internet Engineering Task Force
by the quantum-safe cryptography (IETF) is responsible for developing and 2.6. Accredited Standards
community and encourage research by maintaining standards for network and Committee X9 Inc. (X9)
organizing conferences and workshops. transport layer protocols and related
According to the timeline laid out by signaling and management functions The Accredited Standards Committee
NIST, new quantum-safe cryptographic incidental to their operation. These X9 Inc., more commonly known as
standards should be completed include important and ubiquitous X9 is a standards body accredited
between 2022 and 2024. Internet communications protocols by the American National Standards
such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), Institute (ANSI). X9 is dedicated to
This NIST project for quantum-safe the development, maintenance, and
algorithm selection differs from Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail advocacy of standards for financial
previous NIST initiatives in the sense industries. Headquartered in Annapolis
that the process will likely result in Extensions (S/MIME). Recently, there
have been some studies on quantum- Minnesota USA, X9 standards are used
multiple quantum-safe cryptographic not only in the Americas, but also by
standards as opposed to a single safe cryptography in the IETF’s Crypto
Forum Research Group (CGRG); a financial sectors globally; facilitating
standard as in the SHA3 and AES worldwide financial interoperability.
competitions. general forum for discussing and
reviewing uses of cryptographic and
Recently, X9 began a new initiative to
security mechanisms. Since 2013,
standardize blockchain technologies
several IETF Internet-Drafts related
for use in financial industry. The first
to quantum-safe cryptography have
step of this initiative is to standardize
been actively discussed in the CFRG.
the common terminology used in
This work includes: hash-based digital
blockchains and Distributed Ledger
signatures, new initiatives to make
Technology (DLT). X9 intends to publish
TLS quantum-secure, and educational
a technical report on the matter in the
documents about the quantum threat
coming months.
in general.
Issue 1, 2018 THE STANDARD | 11Adopting TDL in practice with the TDL Open Source project
As software becomes critical in more In October 2017 ETSI launched the TDL
and more industrial technologies, Open Source Project (TOP), an Open
ensuring high quality of software Source implementation of TDL tools
components through testing is of the to lower the barrier to entry for both
highest importance. ETSI’s Technical users and tool vendors using this new
Committee Methods for Testing and language. This Open Source toolset
Specification (TC MTS) has more than comprises graphical and textual
20 years of experience in creating editors as well as other supporting 2018 will be an important year for TDL.
standards to enable effective and facilities. The TOP toolset is developed Through the Open Source project and a
open testing for conformance and as a set of plugins based on the Eclipse growing user base, TDL is expected take
interoperability in standardized and platform and related technologies, its place alongside the well-established
proprietary technologies. such as Xtext and Sirius, that are well ETSI TTCN-3 language and broaden
known and developer friendly. the scope of ETSI testing technologies
To continue this activity and to for standardization and the industry.
tackle new challenges, in 2015 the TOP is openly accessible at the TDL As a first milestone along the way, the
Test Description Language (TDL) website, hosted and managed at ETSI. newly created TST Working Group
was launched by TC MTS. TDL It is distributed under the Eclipse in TC MTS has decided to use TDL
offers a standardized language for Public License (EPLv1). This enables as the description and publication
the specification of high-level test users and developers to download format for their standardized test
descriptions as well as test objectives. and use the toolset and encourages suites. In particular, TST WG plans to
TDL enables the creation of well- contributions from the community leverage TDL Test Objectives extension
defined and portable test descriptions to extend the functionalities of the to describe the test purposes on
without the need of software available tools, as well as to create functional and non-functional (such as
development skills. new tools. In the first month, the TOP performance, security) features in their
toolset was downloaded more than work programme.
100 times.
ETSI Open Source MANO announces
Release THREE
Expedites adoption in production environments
In November, the ETSI Open Source
MANO group (ETSI OSM) announced
the general availability of OSM Release
THREE, keeping the pace of a release
every 6 months. This release includes
a large set of new capabilities as well
as numerous enhancements in terms
of scalability, performance, resiliency,
security and user experience that
facilitate its adoption in production
environments.
“OSM Release THREE provides a highly Release THREE also includes the OSM hackfest
functional and reliable component support of projects. These projects are
for NFV Orchestration that enables shared spaces where users can access The 1st OSM Onboarding Hackfest
all industry players to accelerate their and operate a given set of Network took place during the second ETSI NFV
deployment plans, with no need to Services (NS) and Virtual Network Plugtests® event in January 2018, at
change their target architectures for NFV Functions (VNF), enabling collaborative ETSI. In addition, ETSI OSM members
infrastructure or OSS transformation.” work with orchestration. participated in the Plugtests event,
declared Francisco-Javier Ramón, bringing their OSM implementations.
chairman of the ETSI OSM group. The New Service Assurance and
Monitoring capabilities allow the Strong community growth
OSM Release THREE features orchestrator to act on events and
metrics gathered from VNFs and Up to the delivery of Release THREE,
With a new role-based access control, infrastructures, in a technology- 17 more organizations joined the
OSM Release THREE enables users from agnostic manner. Other features such community bringing the total to 83
different service providers to access the as anti-affinity rules as well as explicit organizations! The new organizations
OSM system with the appropriate set of port ordering and device role tagging are: Aqsacom, Astellia, Big Switch
privileges. It facilitates the adoption of facilitate VNF deployments, availability Networks, CASE CENX Inc., Citrix,
complex operation workflows without and resiliency. CPLANE NETWORKS Inc., CTTC, Empirix
compromising the security of the Inc., iconectiv, i2CAT, Mavenir Systems,
network or its operations. A comprehensive description of the MC5G, NetNumber Inc., Sigma Systems
new features that come with OSM Canada LP, Tech Mahindra, Ubiwhere
Release THREE can be found in the new Lda, WIPRO Ltd.
white paper from our OSM Community.
12 | THE STANDARD Issue 1, 2018eCall successfully tested during ETSI ETSI IoT Week –
and ERTICO TESTFEST in Slovenia recorded
ETSI and ERTICO – ITS Europe organized mobility, regardless of their social, Presentations from our recent IoT
the sixth eCall TESTFEST event, which cultural, or geographical situation. Week event in October 2017 have been
took place from 9 to 13 October 2017, recorded and made available online. As
in Kranj, Slovenia. This event was eCall is based on the European well as recording the presentations, we
hosted by SINTESIO in cooperation established 112 emergency number have also captured the panel sessions.
with Iskratel, the administration of the service. The European Parliament
requires all new type of vehicle be Watch the videos:
Republic of Slovenia for Civil Protection www.etsi.org/news-events/videos/
and disaster Relief (URSZR) and equipped with eCall technology from
April 2018. eCall is based on built-in etsi-iot-week
Telekom Slovenije.
sensors which are automatically Full event details:
Interoperability and eCall service triggered in the event of a collision www.etsi.org/news-events/
harmonization are critical challenges to or an accident. It is anticipated that past-events/1192-iot-week-2017
be taken into account for the successful the introduction of this system in
deployment and operation of the eCall the European Union will reduce the Webinars
service. Slovenia is among the first number of road transport fatalities by
European countries to implement the 2,500 per year. Don’t forget to follow the ETSI Webinar
eCall solution. channel and watch our webinars on
“The eCall TESTFEST is an event such topics as the Radio Equipment
Over a hundred of public safety experts dedicated to trialing the interoperability Directive or tutorials on NFV.
attended the event. The experts, of eCall devices by different www.etsi.org/news-events/webinars
mainly from the fields of development manufacturers and vendors. This event
engineering, electrical engineering, was also important to review the status
computer science, mathematics, and
Videos
of the I_HeERO project, and to test
related sciences, came from nearly 40 participants’ technical development View all of ETSI’s videos online on
companies in 15 different countries activities and policy aspects, such as our YouTube channel, or our Vimeo
in America, Asia and EU. ERTICO – ITS first experiences in the application of channel:
Europe, a public-private partnership the solution, regulation in the area www.youtube.com/etsiorgstandards
of 120 companies and organizations concerned, and the development of the www.vimeo.com/etsi
promoting and deploying Intelligent new generation of mobile networks”,
Transport Systems (ITS) in Europe, according to Jacob Bangsgaard, CEO of
strives for a safer, smarter, and cleaner ERTICO – ITS Europe.
ETSI signs MoU with Federation
of Electrical, Electronic and
Communication Industries
Bringing 24 trade associations comprising 3000 companies
During its 70th General Assembly sectors include renewable and energy population, digital infrastructure, digital
in November 2017, ETSI signed a efficiency, smart home, health, ageing confidence and mobility.
Memorandum of Understanding with
the French Federation of Electrical,
Electronic and Communication
Industries (Fédération des Industries
Électriques, Électroniques et
de Communication - FIEEC), an
industrial federation gathering 24
trade associations in the sectors of
electrical, electronic, digital and durable
consumer goods industries.
The FIEEC represents 3000 French
companies (of which 87% SMEs) with
400,000 employees and a turnover of
over 100 billion euros (46% exported).
Innovation is a priority, with 16% of
the employees and 8% of the turnover
being dedicated to R&D. The FIEEC
is instrumental in helping build a
French industrial strategy based on
economic growth and competitiveness
and answering future market needs
in terms of innovation though an
ambitious R&D policy. New activity Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI DG; Jean-Pierre Quémard, VP FIEEC
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