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[STDS-802-11] FYI - IETF BOF sessions - Low Power Wide Area Networks, Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), and Alternatives to Content Classification for Operator Resource Deployment

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All,

The planned Birds of a Feather sessions for the upcoming April IETF meeting are posted here: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/ .

Of note are the three below; ITS identifies 802 and 802.11:

  • Name: Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN)
  • Description: Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are long range Lowpower Lossy Networks, many of which operating in license-exempt bands. LPWANs provide low-rate connectivity to vast numbers of battery-powered devices over distances that may span tens of miles. Existing pilot deployments have shown the huge potential and met industrial interest, but the loose coupling with the Internet makes the device management and network operation complex and specific. As of today, there is little to no use of IETF technologies in LPWANs at large, and there is a need to evaluate their applicability.

  • Name: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
  • Description: The goal of this group is to standardize and/or profile IP protocols for establishing direct and secure connectivity between moving networks.

We concentrate on 1-hop moving network to nearby moving network communications. This has immediate applicability in mobility environments such as vehicle-to-vehicle or to-infrastructure communications, or PAN-to-homenet, or train-to-vehicle at intersection. In some of the moving network applications the window of opportunity for exchanging data with the immediate infrastructure may be very short. The safety and security requirements are higher in connected mobility environments. The links are very heterogeneous such as: 802.11p/ac/ad OCB, Infra-red, VLC, cellular, 802.15.4 and more.

The activity may leverage protocols elsewhere at IETF such as 6lo protocols for short-range low-power mobile, homenet, MANET for n-hop topologies, Mobile IP, DNS configuration, Neighbor Discovery and DHCP Prefix Delegation.

The BoF gathers implementers, users and experts from academia, institutes, IT and automotive industry, and public authorities. Strong relationships with SDOs: ETSI TC ITS, IEEE P1609, 802 and Category A liaison with ISO TC204 "Intelligent Transport Systems".


  • Name: Alternatives to Content Classification for Operator Resource Deployment (ACCORD)
  • Description: Mobile Radio Access Networks (RANs) have historically allowed content-type based classification to associate service descriptions with flows, with the goal of efficient use of the often volatile radio bearer. The increased use of TLS and other encrypted transports eliminates this metadata from the view of the operator and forces a re-examination of this method.

While having endpoints expose classification of this and other metadata to the RAN outside the encrypted channel would restore this, it would degrade the confidentiality expected and require extensive coordination among application developers, user endpoint manufacturers and RAN operators. To avoid the disadvantages of that approach, we wish to examine both what specific network treatments need to be elicited for the efficient operation of RANs, if any, and what the minimal communication to elicit those treatments would be.


Thanks,

Dorothy

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