IEEE Communications Society Standards Development Board (COM/SDB)

Draft Minutes

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 10:00 AM EDT – 12:00 PM EDT

Teleconference via WebEx

  1. Call to Order

Mehmet Ulema (Chair) called the meeting to order at 10:10AM EDT and reminded participants about IEEE Standards and the Law and to declare or update their affiliations and standards activities listed in the Roll Call.

  1. Roll Call and Establish Quorum

Niranthconducted the roll call and established the quorum with 6 voting members present:

Voting Members / Attendance / Voting Status / Affiliations / Standards Participation
Mehmet Ulema (Chair) / X / X /
  • Professor, Manhattan College and Consultant, Huawei
  • Director, Standards Development Board, IEEE ComSoc
  • Chair, IEEE COM/SDB
  • Advisory Member, IEEE COM/SPDB
/
  • Chair, IEEE P1903 (P1903.1, P1903.2, P1903.3)

Glen Kramer (Vice-Chair) / X / X /
  • Technical Director, Broadcom
  • Vice-Chair, IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • Chair, IEEE P1904.1
  • Chair, IEEE 1904 WG

Niranth Amogh (Secretary) / X / X /
  • Sr. Lead Researcher, Huawei
  • Secretary, IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • IEEE P1903.1, P1903.2, P1903.3
  • Vice-Chair, GISFI CSeON WG

Farooq Bari (Treasurer) / X / X /
  • LMTS, Strategic Standards, AT&T
  • Member, IEEE-SA CAG, SASB, NesCom, ICCom
  • Treasurer, IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • Chair, GSMA/WBA JTF Wi-Fi Roaming
  • 3GPP SA2
  • ITU-T JCA-IoT
  • Onem2m TP

Marcus Brunner / X / X /
  • Head of Standardization, Swisscom
  • Member, IEEE COM/SDB
  • No current IEEE position (was chair of CNOM, chair ad-hoc committee on cloud networking, …)
/
  • ONF
  • ETSI ISG NfV
  • oneM2M
  • and several organization with Swisscom delegation

Jean-Philippe Faure“JP” / X /
  • CEO, Progilon (Representing Panasonic in IEEE activities)
  • Member, IEEE-SA SASB, RevCom
  • Chair, IEEE-SA AudCom
  • Member, IEEE COM/SDB
  • Chair, IEEECOM/PLC
/
  • Chair, IEEE P1901
  • IEEE P1905.1

Hiroshi Harada / X /
  • Director, Smart Wireless 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 Electro-Communications
  • Chair, IEEE COM/DySPAN-SC
  • Member, IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • Vice Chair, IEEE 1900.4, 802.15.4g, 802.15.4m
  • Vice Chair, TIA TR-51
  • Chair, Public Broadband Mobile Communication Development Committee, ARIB

Purva Rajkotia / X /
  • Director, Product Management, Qualcomm
/
  • IEEE 1905.1 Working Group Chair
  • IEEE 1905.1a Working Group Chair
  • IEEE PLSC (Powerline Steering Committee) – Board Member
  • IEEE 1901 TSG3 Chair

Nirmala Shenoy / X / X /
  • Professor, Information Sciences and Technology Dept., RIT.
  • Director, Lab for Wireless Networking and Security,RIT
  • Member IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • IEEE 1910 Working Group Chair

Advisory Members
Alex Gelman / X / - /
  • CTO, NETovations Group, LLC
  • Director, Standardization Programs Development Board, IEEE ComSoc
  • Chair, IEEE COM/SPDB
  • Advisory Member, IEEE COM/SDB
  • Represents IEEE TAB for the purpose of IEEE standards governance
/
  • No standards participation

Kevin Lu / X / - /
  • Advisory Member, IEEE COM/SDB
  • Member, IEEE-SA NesCom
/
  • No standards participation

Curtis Siller / X / - /
  • Enginnovation
  • Advisory Member, IEEE COM/SDB
  • Member, IEEE-SA NesCom
/
  • No standards participation

Ex Officio Member
Rob Fish / X / - /
  • President, NETovations Group, LLC
  • Affiliated with Rubin-Anders
  • VP, Standards Activities, IEEE ComSoc
  • Members-At-Large, IEEE-SA BOG
  • Member, IEEE-SA Strategic Planning and Portfolio Management Committee
  • Chair, IEEE-SA Global Coordination Committee
  • Ex-Officio Member, IEEE COM/SDB
/
  • No standards participation

IEEE SA Staff Support
Lisa Perry / X / - /
  • Program Manager, Technical Program Development (TPD), IEEE-SA
/
  • No standards participation

Jonathan Goldberg / X / - /
  • Client Services Manager, IEEE-SA
/
  • No standards participation

Other Participants
William Lumpkins / X / - /
  • Chair,CRFID
/
  • Chair, CRFID

Stephen Bush / X / - /
  • GE Global Research
/
  • Chair,IEEE P1906.1

Ariel Sobelman / X / - /
  • President, HDBaseT Alliance
/
  • No standards participation

ComSoc TC Liaisons
- / -

Appendix A provides a list of Liaisons (or Chair if there is no designated standards liaison) from ComSoc Technical Committees andEmerging Technical Subcommittees.

  1. Approval of Agenda
  • Niranth (Secretary) presented the Agenda for the meeting.Updates to the Agenda –Added Chair’s remarks
  • [Motion]“Approve the Agenda” - Niranthmoved and Curtis seconded.

—[Result]APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.

  1. [INFORMATION] Chair’s Remarks
  • Standardization opportunity in SDN/NFV. 20 members (based on invitation) participated in abrainstorming sessionsponsored by ComSoc SPDB last week. 1 SG (BYOD, Security in SDN/NFV) and 3 RGs are proposed (under discussion).
  1. [INFORMATION] Status updates from Working Group Chairs
  • P1903 WG: P1903.1/P1903.2/P1903.3

—Meeting in IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney for 3 days. Conference Call in Sep’14 and F2F in GLOBECOM 2014.

  • Access Networks WG: 1904, P1904.2

—WG was approved. PAR for P1904.2 was approved. Next meeting in Colorado – end of Jun’14. Joint workshop with BBF.

  • SIEPON WG: P1904.1-Conformance 01, 02, and 03:

—Started sponsor ballot on all 3 projects. Scheduled to close on 5th May’14.

  • P1906.1:

—Monthly meetings are held. Completed Definition and Framework. Metrics is work in progress.

  • P1907.1:

—No updates.

  • P1908.1:

—No updates.

  • P1910.1:

—Scope was framed.Planning Webex monthly meetings.Mar’14 – Discussed Security related issues.

  • TeleTest SC:

—No updates.

  1. [INFORMATION] Status updates from ComSoc Standards Committee
  • DySPAN

—No update

  • PLC

—The revision PAR of 2030.5 has been approved by SASB in March.

—Revision of the ITU-T coexistence recommendation: As reminder the ITU-T coexistence recommendation was aligned with the ISP coexistence protocol defined in the 1901 Std. ITU-T SG15 decided to unilaterally revise the ITU-T coexistence recommendation with no coordination with 1901.

—IEEE 1905.1: The 1905.1 working group approved a first working draft and a work plan in late February and shared it with ITU-T SG15. In March ITU-T SG15 withdrawn their initial draft revision of 1905.1 and started the development of a new recommendation based on the1905.1 working document. It is improving.

  1. [DECISIONS] Approval of the COM/SDB Minutes of the last meeting
  • [Motion]“Approve the COM/SDB Mar’14 minutes” - Niranth moved and Glen seconded.

—[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.

  1. [INFORMATION] HDBaseT presentation
  • HDBaseT Alliance – Standardizing the transmission of Full, Uncompressed HD Video over CAT 5/6 Cable upto to distance of 100 mts.
  • ENERGY is partnering as this technology provided reduced power specification.
  • Spec 2.0 is completed for Home Play. Supports 10 times more resolution.
  • Interested to create a PAR for Next Generation HDBaseT standard.
  1. [INFORMATION] Biometric Open Protocol (BOP) presentation
  • BOPS is used between Smart Phone and Server. It integrates Face matcher, fingerprint, etc. Purpose is authentication.
  • [Motion]“ComSoc to be the primary sponsor for 2410” - Farooq moved and Alex seconded.

—[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.

[ACTION] – Electronic ballot on the motion –“Approval of PAR by COM/SDB and appointment of WG chair.”to be conducted by COM/SDB.

  1. [DECISION] Approval of the Project Status Report
  • [Motion]“Approve the Project Status Report Template for use for monthly status reporting at 1st of each month by COM/SDB sponsored WGs or WGs under other ComSoc standards committees.” - Glen moved and Farooq seconded.

—[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.

  1. [INFORMATION] Status updates from NesCom meeting
  • Postponed to next meeting.
  1. [INFORMATION] Financial report
  • Need help from IEEE SA staff to collate the financial status of WGs and other ComSoc SCs.
  1. Other business
  • None
  1. Adjournment
  • [Motion]: Adjourn the meeting - Glen moved andNiranth seconded.

—[Result] APPROVED by acclamation as there were no objections.

  • Mehmetthanked everyone for participating in the meeting and adjourned themeeting at 12:05PM EDT.

Appendix A: ComSoc Technical Committee and Subcommittee Liaisons

Technical Committee / Liaison / Affiliation
Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks / R. Venkatesha Prasad / TU Delft
Cognitive Networks / Mouli Chandramouli / Stevens
Communications & Information Security / Neeli Prasad / Aalborg University
Communications Quality & Reliability / Hideaki Yoshino / NTT
Communications Software / Jaime Lloret Mauri / Polytechnic University of Valencia
Communications Switching & Routing / Henry Suthon / Barrios Technology
Communications Systems Integration & Modeling / Harry (Charalabos) Skianis / U Aegean
Communication Theory / Sana Sfar / HKUST
Computer Communications / R. Venkatesha Prasad / TU Delft
Data Storage / Tiffany Jing Li / Lehigh
e-Health / Hsi-Pin Ma / National Tsing Hua University
High-Speed Networking / Gumaste Ashwin / IIT/MIT
Information Infrastructure & Networking / Yacine Ghamri-Doudane / ENSIIE
Internet / Periklis Chatzimisios / ATEITHE
Multimedia Communications / Ali Begen / Cisco
Network Operations & Management / Marcus Brunner / NEC Europe
Optical Networking / Josué Kuri / Infinera
Power Line Communications / Haniph Latchman / U Florida
Radio Communications / George Chrisikos / Qualcomm
Satellite & Space Communications / Igor Bisio / University of Genoa
Signal Processing & Communications Electronics / Rath Vannithamby / Intel
Transmission, Access, & Optical Systems / Frank Effenberger / Huawei
Wireless Communications / Sumei Sun / Institute for Infocomm Research
Emerging Technical Subcommittee
Applications of Nanotechnologies in Communications / Dilip Krishnaswamy / Qualcomm
Autonomic Communications / Spyros Denazis / University of Patras
Cable Networks & Services / Mehmet Toy / Comcast
Cloud Communications & Networking / Masum Z. Hasan / Cisco
Green Communications and Computing / Jinsong Wu / Alcatel-Lucent
Human Centric Communications / John Buford / Avaya
Innovation and Standards in Information and Communication Technologies (ISICT) / SM Hasan / GE
Integrated Fiber & Wireless Technologies / Steve Weinstein / CTTC
Internet of Things / Latif Ladid / IPv6 Forum
Nano-Scale, Molecular, and Quantum Networking / Andrew Eckford / York University
Peer-to-Peer Networking / John Buford / Avaya
Situation Management / Gabe Jakobson / Altusys
Smart Grid Communications / Petar Popovski / Aalborg University
Social Networks / Kwang-Cheng Chen / National Taiwan University
Vehicular Networks & Telematics Applications (VNTA) / T. Russell Hsing / National Chiao Tung University

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