Liaison statement
Initiation of work to support IMT-2020/5G in the Transport Network
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| State | Posted |
|---|---|
| Submitted Date | 2017-07-06 |
| From Group | ITU-T-SG-15 |
| From Contact | Hiroshi Ota |
| To Group | IETF |
| To Contacts | The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> |
| Cc | John Drake <jdrake@juniper.net> Scott Mansfield <Scott.Mansfield@Ericsson.com> The IETF Chair <chair@ietf.org> itu-t-liaison@iab.org The IESG <iesg@ietf.org> |
| Response Contact | malcolm.betts@zte.com.cn glenn.parsons@ericsson.com |
| Purpose | For information |
| Attachments | SG15-LS54 |
| Body |
This liaison statement is to advise you that WP3/15, having responsibility for
Optical Transport Networks, has initiated a new work item to produce a
Technical Report, GSTR-TN5G, on “Transport network support of IMT-2020/5G”.
This Technical Report will describe the high level architecture for a Transport
Network to support the requirements of IMT-2020/5G networks with a focus on
supporting the radio network specified by 3GPP. This description will include
the following:
- A reference model for the IMT-2020/5G transport network (with the terminology
clarified)
- A set of deployment scenarios including details on:
- Transport network topology
- Interfaces between the IMT-2020/5G entities to the transport network
- distance between these entities
- number of interfaces; interface bit rate; total capacity
- latency requirements
- synchronization requirements
- Control/Management interfaces
- Support of IMT-2020/5G network slicing (data plane and control plane)
GSTR-TN5G will provide guidance that will allow the other Questions of WP3/15
to work efficiently in the development of new, revised or amended G series
Recommendations that will enable the Transport Network to support IMT 2020/5G.
It is anticipated that, where necessary, the corresponding work items will be
added to the work programme in February 2018. To advance this work we plan to
hold an interim meeting 16-20 October 2017 in Europe.
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