Broadband Forum Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Solutions

OMA Workshop, February 2012 Barcelona, Spain Robin Mersh, CEO rmersh@broadband-forum.org Tim Spets, Motorola The information in this presentation is public

Broadband Forum Engineering smarter & faster connections

Architecting a connected lifestyle –  Defining best practices for global networks –  Enabling multi-service and content delivery –  Establishing technology migration strategies –  Engineering critical device & service management tools –  Redefining Broadband

 Who are we? –  Industry consortium made up of approximately 200 service

providers, vendors, consultants, academia and test labs

–  Predominant broadband industry forum since 1994

–  Engineer technology solutions to help service providers achieve standards based, economical and effective broadband deployments

Broadband Forum Service Provider Members – driving requirements

Broadband Forum Scope

PARTNER APPLICATION

FUNCTION

PARTNER CONTROL FUNCTION

IDENTITY

BILLING

OSS TR-126 IPTV Quality of Experience

TR-176 DSL Profiles for IPTV

Quality of Experience TR-069 (CWMP)

Identity, Accounting and Policy Operations and Network Management

DSL Quality Management

TR-069 ACS Management

CWMP TR-069

Edge" Aggregation"

Content Network

VoD

TV

SIP

Multi-Service Core" Access"

Mobile Network

BS

C

RN

C

SG

W

P2P E-FTTx

GPON

EPON

DSL

Multi Service Architecture & Requirements Certification, Test and Interoperability

TR-101, TR-156 Ethernet

Aggregation

Network TR-144 Multi Service Requirements

IP/MPLS

User

Customer Premise Device

Management

Residential Gateway Management

Home Networking Protocols Smart Grid

Connected Home & Office

Content Delivery

Cloud Service

Enterprise Networking

BBF and M2M Ecosystem

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TR-069/ PD-174

Strategic roadmap/

timeline; M2M-related White Papers; Questionnaire;

Interest Request; Use Cases; etc.

End-to-End Arch

Operations & NWM

M2M Applications

M2M Integration

Other SDOs/Fora

ETSI OMA

ETSI M2M

Coordination

Partnership?

Energy Eff. / Smart Grid (?)

IP/MPLS & Core

OD-278

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OMA DM Gap Analysis

Broadband Forum

Broadband Home

M2M Management

Marketing/Strategy

Adjacent Emergent Broadband Services

Relationships

OD-282

Broadband Forum – Home Group

  Focus on Home Networking devices functionality, capability and connectivity.

  Proven scalable protocol solutions connecting the central office to customer premise.

  Enabling new services with recent Technical Reports.

  Strong interoperability track record, regular test events for its protocols since 2005.

  Consistent and growing liaison relationships with other SDOs (OMA, 3GPP, ETSI. etc)

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Broadband Home – Device Management TR-069 – CPE Wan Management Protocol (CWMP)   Industry leading device management solution.

  Evolving TR-069 family of extensive and modular manageable ‘objects’ covering wide range of devices and functionality.

  Referenced by many industry bodies such as 3GPP, ATIS, ETSI and ITU-T.   Approved as a European standard in 2010 by ETSI.   Currently referenced in ETSI M2M architecture as a protocol for device

management that runs over the “mId” reference point.   Ongoing work between the Broadband Forum and ETSI M2M to develop new

Object model work.

  Well over 70 Million devices connected.

  Ratified by DSL (now Broadband) Forum in May 2004, amended in 2006 and 2007 and recent M2M driven amendments amendment 3 and 4 in 2011.

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TR-069 Architectural Framework

  Management Functions –  Bootstrap –  Service Provisioning –  Firmware and Software Module Management –  Diagnostics –  Fault and Performance Monitoring –  Large and growing set of defined object models

OSS/BSS

Call Center

Policy

Auto-Configuration Server (ACS)

Managed Internet Gateway Device

Managed LAN Device

Managed LAN Device

Managed LAN Device Scope of CPE WAN Management

Protocol (CWMP): ACS Southbound Interface

ACS Northbound Interface

Software Module Management TR-069 amendment 3

Operating System, Drivers, HG Core

CWMP Mgmt Agent Execution Environment

Module

Services Gateway

Module Module Module

manages

manages manages

manages

TR-069

ACS

•  Software Module Management to support embedded applications. •  Open design for mapping to multiple Execution environments

(OSGi, OMA, etc). •  New RPC and Software Module Data Model support required.

Remote Management of non-TR-069 Devices TR-069 amendment 4

TR-069 “Proxying” Managed Device

ACS

Non-TR-069 “Proxied” Managed Device

CWMP RPC to Proxy Service on TR-069 Device Local Protocol command to

non-TR-069 Device

Local Protocol Success Response

CWMP RPC Response

  Proxy management agnostic to the local protocol –  UPnP DM/DLNA, Zwave, ZigBee etc. –  Layer 2 protocols (e.g. HomePlug OAM, etc.) –  Any proprietary local protocols known by the proxying device

  TR-069 accesses proxied devices through TR-069 embedded and virtual managed objects

–  ACS sends management commands to proxying device –  TR-069 device converts TR-069 commands to local protocol –  Once proxied device has successfully executed commands, TR-069 device

sends CWMP messages to ACS

Broadband forum M2M Next activities: Identify GAPs Critical for Service Delivery

  Continue work on current BBF specifications for Management Plane. –  New work started to incorporate ETSI M2M Data models –  Potential BBF management specifications for a standard

North-Bound Interface (NBI) for interfacing to new services. –  Continued exploration of M2M networks and paradigms.

  Emerging work on Control Signaling and Data Abstraction to M2M devices as key enabler to service delivery to provide connectivity to growing ecosystem of devices.

Motivation: M2M Value and Value Chain Key M2M Stakeholders

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Network Operator

Wireless or Fixed Network OSS

(existing networks) M2M

Platform M2M GW of the Provider

or its Partners

Provisioning Self-Service

B2B Gateway

Tariff/Charging

Resource Mgt.

M2M Devices

M2M Devices

Access Network Connections

Charging

M2M Application provider

Billing

M2M Application provider M2M Application Provider Our Data ! Application User

Device Owner

M2M Service Provider

Carrier’s Network Customer Network

M2M Devices

M2M Devices

Proxy/GW

M2M Activity : Ongoing TR-069 Work

  OD-278 to study a set of M2M use cases in order to verify extended verticle scenarios impact to TR-069, identify new object models and potentially identify GAPS.

  Identify overlapping or related standardization work in other fora/SDOs involving device management and object model work.

  Current analysis: –  M2M (local) area networks: new constraints, e.g. large

number of devices, autonomy capabilities, heterogeneity –  Interworking with ETSI TC M2M data models. –  Data modeling potential model extensions –  Protocols potential protocol extensions

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M2M activity – Control Signaling & Data Abstraction (CSDA)

  Horizontal solution for enabling end device communication for countless Vertical Services.

  Build on recent work to enable services in the Smart Home. –  Devices enabled with Execution Environment to provide

embedded applications to enable services.

–  Devices enabled with Proxy Management able to provision and manage growing ecosystem of M2M/IoT devices.

  “Missing piece” essential to Service Providers to provide common device abstraction and signaling for new M2M related services.

  Completed analysis Phase communicating with other SDOs (20+ liaisons) M2M work.

  Build on the Broadband Forum competency and leadership in large scale device communication solutions.

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Control Signaling & Device Abstraction

Control Signaling and Device Abstraction:

  Connection to non-IP and legacy devices –  Access to existing devices (and gateways) on existing network

technologies, requiring no modifications. –  Not management plane – “Instant / real time” command

communications.

  Control Signaling & Device Abstraction –  Provides access to all devices using common communication and

common objects, enabling an seamless extensible ecosystem. –  Provide technology agnostic access by embedded and cloud

applications.   Build on work in ETSI M2M Release 1

–  Evaluate ETSI M2M mechanisms for addressing, connectivity, instant communication, discovery, notifications etc.

–  Insure a scalable solution for all devices, both IP and Non-IP –  Identify architecture critical functionality. –  Provide implementation friendly solution

OMA liaison discussion

  Reached out to OMA with OD-282/OD-278 liaison

  OMA responded with CPNS documents (2011.1254) and Device management discussion (2011.1297)

  Broadband forum to evaluate Lightweight M2M concerns about ETSI M2M during CSDA work.

  M2M is the intersection of Home networking and Wireless technologies.

  Synergies for BBF CSDA work and CPNS/Lightweight M2M architectures.

  oneM2M involvement and impact on Cloud and home networking standards.

  Synergies in sharing future management objects / maybe follow common framework for management objects

Thank you