Question 11/13 - Evolution of user-centric networking services, and interworking with networks of the future including software-defined networking
(Continuation of Question 12/13)
Motivation
Developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have wide impacts especially in enhancing the end user experience, not only by providing devices, but also advanced networking and services which will form part of smart user environments. Consequently these enhancements are also impacting the networks with variety of communication capabilities derived from various services and applications. Services and applications, especially coming from end user environments, are having more importance to whole process of communications such as configuration of resources, provision of capabilities and managements.
Considering Future Networks (FNs) environments identified in Recommendation ITU-T Y.3001, various awareness features are becoming important for communications. It is noticed that knowledge about the status of end user environments (in terms of services/applications and communication capabilities including end user networks) should be one of the important requirements for providing such awareness features.
User centric networking and services enables end users to cooperate by sharing services and resources for interactions among people and objects using awareness features to support specific applications/services through dynamically organizing a collaboration group and sharing media in end user environment.
This question will investigate such importance of user centric networking and services and identify requirements and functions to support building of smart end user environments. This study will also provide end user requirements to the network side, especially to emerging networks in the scope of SG 13.
In addition, as a continuation of previous study period, interworking aspects between different networks and services should be studied, and this study should be focused on the interworking between other networks and FNs including SDN whenever necessity of interworking is identified.
Thus the focus of this Question will include activities related to user centric networking and services considering end user environments including interworking.
Recommendations under responsibility of this Question include:
Question
Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to:
What new Recommendations should be developed for end user networks, including their ability to support specific applications/services?
What new Recommendations should be developed to support object-to-object communication?
What new Recommendations should be developed to support user centric services?
What enhancements to the existing Recommendations should be made to enable interworking between the emerging networks (e.g., FNs including SUN) and end user networks (e.g., customer premises networks)?
What new Recommendations should be developed for interworking fixed and mobile networks, networks of the future including software-defined networking?
Tasks
Tasks include but are not limited to:
Maintenance and enhancements of Recommendations ITU-T Y.1911, Y.2281, Y.2291 and Y.2062
Development of new Recommendations related to end user networks and their specific applications/services in end users perspective (e.g., enhancement of home networks, personal area networks, etc.)
Development of new Recommendations related to object-to-object communication among users with associate objects and their services considering Web of Things/Objects
Development of new Recommendations related to user-centric services using knowledge-based context awareness in support of FNs including SUN
Development of new Recommendations related to interworking of fixed/mobile networks (including specific networks, e.g., vehicular networks, smart grid networks) and services considering heterogeneous and constraint networking environments in end user side.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG 13 Work Program
Relationships
Recommendations:
Questions:
Study groups:
Standardization bodies, fora and consortia:
ETSI TC M2M
IETF
ONF
3GPP
DSL Forum
HGI (Home Gateway Initiative)
IPSO Alliance
OMA (Open Mobile Alliance)
OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
