December 2020 | Volume 4 | Issue 3

Bi-Annual Newsletter of the Telecommunications Standards

Development Society, India

DG SPEAK  P2 | Activities  P4 | Global Standards Roundup  P8 | Partner Engagements  P10 | GC Updates  P10 | General Updates  P11 | TSDSI Membership Update  P14 | Announcements  P15 | Events  P16

MESSAGES ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dear Readers,

I am thankful to TSDSI Members for electing me as Chairman of TSDSI. It is an honour to be taking over at the historic moment when TSDSI’s Radio Interface Technology (RIT) - 5Gi has been approved as an IMT2020 technology standard by the ITU-R WP-5D. This, along with the nationally adopted oneM2M standard, will contribute to much greater penetration of Digital in Rural. These, in conjunction with Bharat Net and purpose driven IoT are the key for India’s socio-economic growth.

I thank the previous Governing Council, particularly Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, for the stellar achievements in his tenure and the strong foundation for standards development that has been laid at TSDSI. I would like TSDSI to continue on the growth path already set and propose the following priority focus areas in the immediate future:

1. Domain application sectors that will see tremendous change as 5G gets adopted

2. Facilitate setting up of an interdisciplinary lab to study interoperating of applications from different domains

3. Align R&D agendas of Industry, Academia and government to accelerate Innovation in priority areas of local and global relevance

4. Work closely with national and global bodies to channelise innovation and promote and adopt solutions that are based on standards

5. Grow Membership to make it more inclusive.

TSDSI will continue to collaborate and deepen intent for globally harmonised 5G standards that will benefit both established and emerging markets.

I look forward to your support in realising these goals.

Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2021,

RegardsN G Subramaniam

TSDSI RIT “5Gi” approved by ITU-R SG5 as an IMT2020 Technology

Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) adopts TSDSI transpositions for IMT Advanced (4G) and oneM2M Release 2 as National Standards

White Paper on “Status of Telecom Startup Ecosystem in India” released

“Cloud Interoperability and Portability (CIP) – Standards” Report prepared jointly with Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India (CCICI) released

Hall of Fame 2020 Awardees – Prof Abhay Karandikar, Ms Aruna Sundararajan and Dr Klutto Milleth felicitated

TSDSI joins Multilateral MoU for 5G Global Events

From the CHAIRMAN’S DESK

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DG SPEAK

MESSAGES

Dear Members,

The last 6 months have been a real “trial by fire” for us at the TSDSI secretariat with several of us directly impacted by COVID and the various challenges related to lockdown. But with great satisfaction we would like

to report that on almost all metrics TSDSI performance and productivity has seen a positive upswing. I would like to applaud the TSDSI Secretariat Staff, SG Chairs, Standing Committee Chairs and GC members on their resilience during these trying times.

Technical activities saw a significant uptake. Each SG Plenary has a packed agenda for 2 days TIP Forums and Task Forces are meeting every week. Virtual Meeting format is making it easier for our members to participate.

On the global front, TSDSI created history with 5Gi (erstwhile TSDSI-RIT), being accepted at ITU paving the way for 100% broadband connectivity, in line with NDCP-2018. TSDSI transposed oneM2M standards, were adopted as a national standard enabling multi-vendor, interoperable and portable deployments, while leveling the playing field for Indian SMEs.

TSDSI Technical Deep Dive (TTDD 2020) with 500+ unique attendees, had strong global participation. Members and secretariat jointly contributed at 10 Global events. The 4th Governing Council led by NG Subramaniam, COO, Tata Consultancy Services took charge.

As the dashboard points out, a Global SDO Strategy is needed to institutionalise the successes at ITU and oneM2M. Membership Development warrants attention to meet our goals for membership growth. Our consultants Jean-Pierre Bienaimé and Amit Gupta shall reach out to you for help in these areas.

The increased level of participation from all of you has provided us the encouragement and support to keep TSDSI growing in reach and impact, even in these challenging times.

A BIG THANK YOU to ALL OF YOU,

Our best wishes for a COVID-free 2021,

Regards,

Pamela Kumar, Director General

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Performance Dashboard

Global SDO outcomes:

ITU-R: TSDSI RIT approved for IMT-2020

oneM2M: 370+ contributions (cumulative) by CDOT, CDOT conferred Technical Excellence Award

ITU-T: 3 Proposals for WTSA

Pre-Standardisation:

Technology Item Proposal (TIP) Forums constituted

Task Forces for WTSA Strategy and Open-Source Strategy

2 Roadmap workshops average 2.5 NIPs per SG (goal 8 NIPs /SG); Roadmap 2.0

Inter Study Group Co-ordination

Global SDO metrics:

Average delegates/meeting– 6@ITU-R, 4@3GPP, 9@oneM2M (Goal 10 delegates)

Contributions/meeting – 6@3GPP; 3@ITU-R, 3@ITU-T, 30@oneM2M (Goal 10 / SDO)

Number of IMs - 20 @3GPP; 6 @oneM2M

Membership Development:

75 Members (Goal 90)

Start-up Ecosystem White Paper

Start-up Strategy Task Force

Global Engagements:

Global SDO Strategy Task Force being formed

Affiliations Management process to be streamlined

Affiliations:

Agreements with IEEE-SA, OCF, ATSC, ORAN under discussion

Organisational:

Process Framework - Accreditations QCI, ITU A.5/A.6; Secretariat SoPs, Working Procedures, Legal and IPR Framework

GC members engagement in MARCOM, Membership development & Technical contributions

Strengthening Secretariat

Higher Impact in Global Forums

Establishing TSDSI as a World Class SDO

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Leadership Roles:

3GPP PCG Vice Chair, oneM2M SC Vice Chair

3GPP SA6 Chair, 3GPP SA3 Vice Chair, ITU-T SG9 Rapporteur, ITU-R WP5D Drafting Group Chair

3-year deputation at 3GPP-MCC

36 Mandays contribution for oneM2M

MARCOM:

TSDSI Tech Deep Dive 2020:3 days online 8 Sessions, 64 Speakers & 500+ unique delegates

Launched TSDSI Expert Talk Webinar Series and conducted the first “Standards driven Research” Outreach workshop in partnership with academic institutes.

Study Group(SG) metrics (per meeting):

Average 10 technical contributions (Goal 8 XIPs).

80% jump in participation - Average 32 member organizations (Target 30).

52 unique member organizations participated in Technical Plenary meetings held in this year.

Average 75+ attendees per meeting

Enhancing Technical Activities

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Outcomes:

Published 2 Technical Reports (Cloud Interoperability & Portability and DNS Security).

Transposed 3GPP Release 15 & 16, oneM2M Rel 3 – 261 TS (Goal 8 TS/TR)

Adoption as National Standard: oneM2M Rel 2, IMT Advanced M.2012 – 428 TS (Goal 20 TS)

Focus Areas:

Machine KYC, Cloud Interoperability & Portability; User Data Privacy & Protection, DNS based Threat Reduction, 6 GHz Spectrum Studies, Requirements of Energy Sector, Rural Broadband Architecture etc.

Affiliations:

5G Multi-lateral MoU signed, Indo-EU Partnership Project extended till 2023- supports 3 CoEs

10 Global Partner Events (Goal 10)

18 International Speakers @ TTDD 2020 Partner Webinar Series with 3GPP

Organisational:

Elections for the 4th Governing Council conducted and new committees constituted with “one GC member one Committee” guideline.

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Standardization Activities

Study Group - Networks

IMT2020 and TSDSI RIT submission (WI1-SI39): TSDSI’s 5G Radio Interface Technology, “5Gi” has been approved by SG5 of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as a part of Draft Recommendation M.[IMT-2020.SPECS] in its meeting held on 23 November 2020.

5Gi, the first ever Mobile Radio Interface Technology contribution from India to become part of ITU-R’s IMT recommendation, went through a rigorous evaluation process of the ITU-R working groups over the past 3 years before getting the approval.

Enhancement of Flexible UL/DL Resource Utilization in 3GPP Release 17 (SI66): A Draft Technical Report on the topic is currently being developed.

Extension of Broadcast Offload (WI1-NIP226): Draft Technical Report on the topic is under discussion.

Proposal for study on use cases, requirements and technologies towards 6G (SI70): A Technical Report on use cases, requirements and technologies towards 6G shall be prepared under this study item.

The group is also working on Study Items SI#71 - “Dynamic Spectrum Access” and SI72 - “Improving data capacity & experience as per NDCP Vision”.

Study of 6GHz Spectrum: The group has approved Study items on: Study of 6GHz spectrum for (NIP238/SI73) IMT applications in India and (NIP246/SI74) licence exempt wireless applications in India.

The following new proposals have been approved by the group:

• NIP 248 - Evaluation of the existing IAB architecture in 5G Networks

• NIP 249 - NB-IoT Performance Assessment for Metering and SCADA

• NIP 251 - Dynamic joint deployment of SDN Controllers and Hypervisors (Load and Latency Aware Joint Hypervisor Controller Deployment for 5G)

• NIP 257 – Virtualization for Open-Disaggregated RAN

• NIP 258 - Characterization of E-band for 4G/5G Backhaul & Rural Broadband

ACTIVITIES

Study Group –Services and Solutions

Cloud Interoperability and Portability (SI61): Phase I of the joint study with CCICI, covering Cloud Interoperability - Standards Reference Architecture and analysis of the requirements of hybrid cloud, smart city, telecom and cloud analytics use case scenarios has been completed and a technical report submitted to DoT. Phase II activity on providing normative reference standards on cloud services interoperability and secure and safe portability has been initiated. It will also address security, EDGE cloud and Cloud for Open RAN scenarios.

Unmanned Aerial Services (SI62): A Technical Report on Drone Communication Services support in Cellular Networks has been approved.

Indian Language support for financial transactions (S167): A technical report on the topic is under preparation.

Reducing Threat using DNS (SI68): A Technical report on Reducing Threats to National Critical Infrastructure using DNS is published and shared with NSCS for feedback and suggestions.

Common User Profile Format (NIP239 - SI 76): The group approved a Study Item to create a common user profile format to offer personalized service to people with different range of abilities. This will be device and application independent and adapt user interface parameters like font size, colour contrast, audio volume, arrangement of screen elements etc. as per the user abilities.

Public Protection & Disaster Recovery (NIP256): A Study of technical aspects for deployment of a Pan-India broadband PPDR network based on PS-LTE and 5G technologies has been proposed.

IoT Identifier (NIP243 – SI75): A study item on numbering and addressing requirements for IoT devices and applications, various numbering mechanisms (E.164, ANSI, DOA, etc.), and evolving standards in order to make a recommendation towards a globally unique IoT identifier has been taken up.

Know your machine custodian (KYMC) (NIP244 - SI77): An updated baseline document on required technology, mechanisms and workflows for the verification, databasing and enquiry of a custodian-device relationship for dispersed connected devices, gateways and machines has been approved.

Quantum Security (NIP254-SI78): A new Study on need for Post-Quantum-Cryptography in 5G Networks and evolve a migration path of 5G Networks towards Post-Quantum-Cryptography has been approved.

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Rural Broadband Architecture (NIP255): A study of current broadband infrastructure in rural areas, architecture and technologies for providing broadband coverage in villages, integration of different access and backhaul technologies, and enhancing utilisation of the Bharatnet infrastructure has been approved.

User Device Data Protection (NIP 261): A proposal for developing recommendations for regulating data collection by device and OS vendors, app developers and data aggregators in order to ensure user data privacy is being deliberated upon.

Communications Requirements and Recommendations for the Energy Sector (NIP 262): A study for developing an AMI/SCADA/Smart Grid reference architecture with analysis of node wise requirements of traffic, QoS, latency, security etc. has been approved.

Snapshot of Technical Activities

Group Name Study Group - Networks

Study Group - Services and Solutions

Total No. of Technical Reports Released

3 82

No. of Technical Reports in Draft

0 2

Total no. of Standards released

2,465 136

No. of Standards in Draft

0 0

List of Technical Meetings held during this period

Study Group Date Attendees (Member Organizations)

Networks

TP

7-8 September 2020 85(33)

14-15 December 2020

63(32)

Services & Solutions

TP

10-11 September 2020

85(29)

17-18 December 2020

80(31)

* All meetings were held Online

ACTIVITIES

TSDSI welcomes volunteering offers from members and organizations to organise discussion workshops and knowledge sharing webinars on any active study or work items listed on our website. Please contact outreach@tsdsi.in for the same.

Liaison Statements

TSDSI received 7 Liaison Statements (LS) from ITU-R, 1 from ITU-T and 1 from WPC in the reporting period.

ITU-R has begun work on development of a Report on “Future Technology Trends for evolution of IMT towards 2030 and beyond” and has invited organizations to contribute to the same. Transposed standards for IMT Advanced (M.2012 Rev 5) are required to be submitted to ITU-R by 1st September 2021. Organizations are invited to contribute to the development of ITU-R report on the “Use of the terrestrial component of IMT systems for Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything”. ITU-R shared the updated draft report of V2X.

The ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity for IMT2020 (JCA-IMT2020) has invited contributions for updating the IMT2020 Roadmap https://bit.ly/3lHx5PZ.

A Liaison has been sent to DoT, WPC, TEC and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting requesting for information on co-existence and compatibility studies for 6Ghz Band. A response has been received from WPC.

Liaisons Statements can be viewed at https://tsdsi.in/laison-statements/.

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ACTIVITIES

Strategic Initiatives

White Paper on “Status of Telecom Startup Ecosystem in In-dia”

The overall start-up ecosystem in India is growing at 12-15% year-on-year, whereas Deep-Tech start-ups with longer gestation cycles are less than 5%. TSDSI commissioned a whitepaper on “Status of Telecom Start-up Ecosystem in India” to study key impediments to their growth, study best practices from successful countries and come out with recommendations. The whitepaper was released in the Inaugural Session of TTDD2020 by Shri Anshu Prakash, Secretary, DoT on 19 October 2020 (available at https://tsdsi.in/startup-white-paper/ ).

Based on one of the key recommendations in the study, TSDSI has created a dedicated Start-ups task force to hand-hold start-ups and plug them into the standards development process to evolve innovative domestic requirements and solutions. The task force is chaired by Mr Balaji Rangaswamy, CEO and Founder - Sooktha Consulting. Please contact secretariat@tsdsi.in for further information.

Open Source Strategy Task Force

Recognising the growth of “open components” across all segments of 5G architecture, the Governing Council, in its 29th meeting held on 14 July 2020, has approved formation of an Open Source Strategy Task Force to study this area and come out with recommendations. The Task Force has been formed under the Standardization Committee and is co-chaired by Mr Manish Gangey, AIRTEL and Dr Inder Gopal, IISc. Please contact secretariat@tsdsi.in for further information.

Roadmap Committee

TSDSI organized the 2nd Roadmap 2.0 Workshop in online mode on 30 September 2020. There were 87 member and 25 non-member participants, who discussed proposals such as E Band for 4G, 5G and Rural Broadband, Autonomous Electric Cargo Vehicles, Waveform design for

THz Communication, Development of VLC/Lifi Standards, Establishing Emergency Mobile Communication Link, Unified Interface for 5G Cloud Resource Management etc. Roadmap committee is engaging with the experts who submitted the proposals for further crystallisation.

Technology Item Proposal (TIP) Forums on MDPP and DAPPICT formed earlier are working as an extension of the Roadmap initiative. TIP Forum on Mobile Data Privacy and Protection (MDPP) has prioritised its activities and is currently focussing on the protection of privacy and personal data in smartphones, feature phones, and tablets. The Device Agnostic Privacy Preserving Interoperable Contact Tracing (DAPPICT) TIP Forum has defined its scope as study of applications of proximity detection and processing to ensure social distancing and contact tracing within Enterprises, geofencing for Industry, and other applications such as proximity based services focused primarily on healthcare activities. The group is focussing on developing a reference architecture to ensure globally interoperable systems and promote multi-vendor components at device and application layers.

World Telecommunications Standards Assembly (WTSA) 2020

A proposal for a new Resolution on “Enabling open and interoperable resources for equitable access to AI/ML technology via networks” and recommendations on WTSA016 Resolution #98, submitted by TSDSI to TEC, were incorporated in India’s contribution to the 3rd meeting of the APT Preparatory Group for WTSA 2020 held in July 2020. The new Resolution on access to AI/ML technologies via networks recommends development of mechanisms for equitable access to AI/ML technology by enabling open, interoperable resources (including data formats, models, tools and frameworks) which can be utilized as a gold-standard for AI/ML in networks and thereby contribute to SDGs. The recommendations for modification to WTSA-16 Resolution 98 “Enhancing the standardization of Internet of things and smart cities and communities for global development” includes a proposal to develop a framework for provision of trusted services using the network layer security infrastructure.

These contributions have been reviewed and discussed in the APT preparatory group. Revised input documents, based on important comments from other member States, have been submitted for discussion in the 4th APT WTSA-20 Preparatory Group Meeting being held online in November 2020.

Another recommendation for modifications in WTSA-16 Resolution #55 (“Promoting gender equality in ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector activities”) has

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been submitted by TSDSI to TEC in November 2020. It proposes methods for ensuring consistent contribution of women in use, deployment and development of technologies and standards, including collating success stories and developing a pipeline of women experts. These have been incorporated in the set of recommendations contributed by India to the 4th meeting of APT Prep Group for WTSA 2020.

TSDSI joins Multilateral MoU for 5G Global Events

TSDSI has joined leading 5G forums from various regions - 5G Americas, 5G Brasil, IMT2020 PG from China, 5GIA from Europe, 5G Forum from Korea and 5GMF from Japan in a “Multilateral MoU for Global 5G Event” to cooperate on building global consensus on 5G. Signatories to this MoU cooperate in organizing a series of annual “Global 5G Events” for discussing the latest Research and Development achievements and views on 5G technologies, spectrum, standardization, field trial, applications, future Roadmap and global collaboration. This MoU gives an opportunity to TSDSI to articulate India market requirements, local innovations, IP and standardization efforts and facilitate sharing of results and experiences from pilots, trials and early deployments in diverse markets on a common platform.

TSDSI participated in the 6th Meeting of India-Japan JWG under India-Japan ICT Comprehensive Cooperation Framework organized by Department of Telecommunications (DoT) GoI.

ACTIVITIES

Pre-Standardisation Activities

TSDSI Expert Talk Webinar Series

TSDSI launched the “TSDSI Expert Talks” Webinar Series to engage India’s standardization community and global stakeholders in a dialog on “Emerging Standards for Emerging Technologies”. The inaugural talk featured Prof Arogyaswami Paulraj, Professor Emeritus Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University who shared his views on “Progress of 5G and Glimpses of 6G” on 24 July 2020. The talk was moderated by Prof Uday Desai, Professor Emeritus & Founding Director, IIT Hyderabad. Prof Paulraj’s recommendations on key pointers for effective deployment of 5G and for India to take leadership position in the ICT – IP driven world were widely appreciated.

Expert Talks#2 was organized with Dr Kumar Sivarajan, CTO Tejas Networks & Founder Chairman TSDSI on “Role of Optical Networking in 5G and Beyond” on 6 August 2020. The session was moderated by Prof Kiran Kuchi, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad and Member Governing Council, TSDSI. Dr Kumar gave an overview of optical technology solutions for 5G fronthaul and backhaul. He also gave a glimpse of the nature of 6G networks that will be deployed in 2030.

Expert Talks#3 was organized with Mr Manoranjan Mao Mohapatra, Executive Director & CEO Comviva Technologies on “Networking Rural India” on 2 December 2020. The session was moderated by Dr Klutto Milleth, Chief Technologist CEWiT. Mr Mohapatra talked about the potential of increased reach due to advanced connectivity technologies, and rural demand/need for 5G. He presented practical use cases of 5G in Rural India like remote education, remote work, remote healthcare, and covered Agritech in detail.

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ACTIVITIES

Post-Standardisation ActivitiesTSDSI standards on IMT Advanced technology (popularly known as 4G), transposed from 3GPP specifications, have been approved as National Standard by Telecommunications Engineering Centre (TEC) on 8 September 2020. These may be viewed on TSDSI Website at link https://tsdsi.in/3gpp/ .

TSDSI transposed oneM2M Release 2 Standards have also been approved by TEC as national standards on 17 September 2020. oneM2M is the global standards initiative that covers requirements, architecture, API specifications, security solutions interoperability for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies. Moreover, oneM2M specifications provide a framework to support applications and services such as smart grid, connected car, home automation, public safety, health and many more. These may be viewed on TSDSI Website at link https://tsdsi.in/onem2m/.

TEC has initiated the process for adoption of TSDSI Standard on CPRI-Fronthaul (STD 5000 V1.0.0) as National Standard.

ITU- RTSDSI’s 5G Radio Interface Technology named as “5Gi” has cleared the rigorous processes of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been approved by the SG5 of ITU as a part of Draft Recommendation M. [IMT-2020.SPECS] in its meeting held on 23rd November 2020. The specifications have been hosted on the TSDSI website (https://tsdsi.in/published-standards/).

This standard is a major breakthrough for bridging the rural urban digital divide in 5G deployment due to enhanced coverage. It enables connecting majority of India’s villages through towers located at gram panchayats in a cost-effective manner. It has found support from several countries as it addresses their regional needs from a 5G standpoint.

The standard will now be circulated by ITU to member states for adoption and approval. Specifications are expected to be published by ITU in early February 2021.

ITU-TITU-T SG13 (Future networks, with focus on IMT-2020, cloud computing and trusted network infrastructures) has consented the Indian contribution Y.OBF_Trust in the ITU Plenary in December 2020. The Open Bootstrapping Framework (OBF) enables security for IoT devices and applications by reusing security resources, capabilities and mechanisms already present in the underlying ICT layers. The critical part of the OBF recommendation is in making the process of bootstrapping independent of network technology and transferable across service providers.

ITU-T SG13 has approved 5 new work items for draft recommendations on Machine Learning technologies developed under the Focus Group on ML5G.

India supported the ITU-T SG13 work in AI/ML use cases and architecture. The Indian Delegation supported a proposal for an open platform on the topic of Autonomous Networks. The plenary held in December 2020 approved the formation of this Focus Group.

ITU conducted an online Bridging the Standardization Gap (BSG) Hands-on Training Session for delegates from developing countries and other entities that are not active in standards development on 21 July 2020. The training encompasses principles of standards development to lifecycle to how to make good contributions and get them accepted in standards forums, especially ITU.

GLOBAL STANDARDS ROUNDUP

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GLOBAL STANDARDS ROUNDUP

3GPPTSDSI transposed 234 specifications of 3GPP Rel 15 and 16 towards 3GPP RIT and SRIT for IMT-2020 technologies for submission to ITU-R. These were submitted to ITU-R in September 2020 for consideration in the ITU-R WP5D #36e meeting. The transposed specifications are available on the TSDSI website (https://tsdsi.in/3gpp/).

3GPP PCG#45e and OP#44e meetings were held online on 28 and 29 September 2020 respectively. There were a total 6 Participants from TSDSI. Following are the important highlights of the meetings:

• It was decided that terms of office for TSG and Working Group Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen shall be extended until such times as e-elections are possible (i.e., not before March 2021).

• A high-level review among the Organizational Partners on transposition of 3GPP specifications into Partner deliverables is going on.

• Recommendations of the 3GPP Meeting Hosting Study Group (MHSG) on meeting hosting service levels, funding models and decision making have been approved. The future funding and hosting of 3GPP meetings would become the responsibility of the OPs from 2022 onwards. 3GPP TSG and WG meetings shall be distributed across Asia, North America, Europe regions equally (i.e. one-third each). TSDSI and other OPs from Asia- ARIB, TTC, CCSA and TTA are in discussions on how to further distribute and fund the meetings among their respective sub-regions.

Participation and contributions by representatives from TSDSI member organisations in 3GPP technical meetings from July through December 2020 is as follows:

Group RAN CT SA

No. of Meetings 16 10 19

No. of Participants 214 53 83

No. of Contributions 64 10 31

3GPP launched its bi-annual online newsletter “3GPP Highlights” on 1 September 2020. The newsletter presents highlights from 3GPP – meetings, release progress, “feature” articles by experts, interviews, elections, Partner’s news, awards etc. It can be viewed at https://bit.ly/3pC4cHf.

oneM2MTSDSI successfully completed the transposition of 24 standards and 3 reports of oneM2M Release 3 in November 2020.

The System Design and Security (SDS) group of oneM2M has accepted 16 Change Requests from CDOT.

CDOT also participated in the 7th oneM2M Interop event, held remotely from 16-27 November 2020, and performed interoperability and conformance testing of CCSP (CDOT Common Service platform). The event was organized by oneM2M Partnership Project with the support of InDiCo, a project funded by the European Union and coordinated by ETSI.

Prof Uday Desai has been elected as Vice Chair of oneM2M Steering committee. Ms Poornima Shandilya, Team Lead at CDOT has been awarded the oneM2M Technical Excellence Award in the TP47 meeting held in October 2020. She has been contributing extensively to development of oneM2M specifications most recently pertaining to the oneM2M Rel-4 service subscriber functionality.

IEEETSDSI was the Knowledge Partner for the IEEE 5G World Forum organized virtually from 10 September – 10 October 2020. The 3rd edition of Worldwide 5G Industry Fora (WWIF) focussing on “5G regional visions and deployments, verticals integration and international cooperation”, was conducted on 10 September. The session, co-chaired by Ms Pamela Kumar DG, TSDSI deliberated on Regional visions and involvement of verticals, spectrum, standardization and deployments roadmap towards Full 5G vision and IMT-2020, and International industry cooperation. Click here to view the Concluding Remarks from this session.

TSDSI organized a session on “Standardisation and Open Source: Opportunities and Challenges for SDOs, Industry and Consumers” in IEEE ANTS 2020 on 16 December 2020. Starting with overview of TSDSI, the session had a discussion among expert panellists on opportunities and challenges for SDOs, Industry and Consumers in assimilating open source based technologies. The session was chaired by Mr AK Mittal, Advisor TSDSI; moderated by Mr R Prakash, Vice Chair SG-Networks TSDSI and included Dr Aloknath De (Samsung R&D Institute), Mr Manish Gangey (Bharti Airtel) and Mr Nagendra Bykampadi (Altiostar).

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India-EU Partnership Project (PP) on Cooperation for ICT StandardizationThe project has been extended for a further period of two years, till February 2023. The project scope has been further enhanced to include areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence, open data sets, including interoperability, and sector applications such as smart cities, agriculture, blockchain/DLT, health, mobility etc.

The project has launched a MOOC on oneM2M, developed and curated by IIIT Hyderabad CoE. This course has 17 modules that will introduce oneM2M concepts along with relevant exercises that will improve the understanding of concepts learned. The course is available free of cost.

PARTNER ENGAGEMENTS GC UPDATES

Subsequent to taking over of the new Governing Council in October 2020, Committees of the Governing Council were reconstituted as follows:

STANDING COMMITTEE ON STANDARDIZATION

Chair: KVS Hari, IISc; Co-chair: Kishore Babu, DoT

Members: Kumar Sivarajan, Tejas Networks Ltd.; Satish Jamadagni, R-JIO; Jayanta Dey, WIPRO; P. Balaji, Vi; GK Agrawal, DoT; Vinosh James, Qualcomm;Pamela Kumar, Uday Desai, Amit Gupta, Vishnu Ram, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON ROADMAP

Chair: UK Srivastava, DoT; Co-chair: Anindya Saha, Saankhya Labs

Members: Akhilesh Srivastava, TCS; Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, BIS; Prasanta Sarkar, Tata Motors; R Prakash, CDOT; Satish Jamadagni, R-JIO; Sharad Arora, Sensorise; Surendra Rai, DoT; AK Mittal, Vijay Madan, Vishnu Ram, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON TRANSPOSITION

Chair: Klutto Milleth, CEWIT

Members: Satish Jamadagni, R-JIO; R Prakash, CDOT; Akhilesh Srivastava, TCS; Sharad Arora, Sensorise; A K Mittal, Vijay Madan, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON RULES & REGULATIONS

Chair: R K Pathak, DoT; Co-chair: Ashwani Kumar, Huawei

Members: SaiDhiraj Amuru, WiSig; Geeta Kathpalia, MeitY; Anurag Vibhuti, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL & IPR MATTERS

Chair: NG Subramaniam, TCS; Co-chair: Randeep Raina, NOKIA

Members: Abhay Karandikar, IIT Kanpur; Srinivasan Vasudevan, Apple; PK Jain, ISRO; Pushpendra Kumar Singh, DoT; Shefali Sinha, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON BUDGET & FINANCE

Chair: DK Agarwal, BSNL

Member: Anurag Vibhuti, TSDSI

STANDING COMMITTEE ON OUTREACH

Chair: Sharad Arora, Sensorise; Co-chair: Rajkumar Upadhyay, CDOT

Members: Akhilesh Srivastava, TCS; Gagandeep Bajaj, Vi; Rajeev Shorey, IIT Delhi; Rajesh Gangadhar, Sterlite; Subhash Chand, DoT; Amit Gupta, Bindoo Srivastava, Jean-Pierre Bienaimé, TSDSI

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GC UPDATES GENERAL UPDATES

Finances TSDSI’s Financial Audit Report for the Financial year 2019-20 was approved in the 14th General Body Meeting held online on 15 July 2020.

TSDSI thanks its members Sterlite Technologies Limited, Sensorise Digital Services Limited and Voda Idea Limited for sponsoring select sessions of the TSDSI Tech Deep Dive Conference 2020.

Please contact outreach@tsdsi.in to discuss potential sponsorship opportunities.

Operational MattersBased on proposals from members for participating in the activities of various groups of ITU-T and ITU-R, TSDSI is enhancing its membership to sector membership. Members may contact secretariat@tsdsi.in for enrolling in the study groups of ITU-R and ITU-T.

TSDSI has obtained Trademark certificates for its name and logo. This has also been secured for 3GPP and oneM2M. TSDSI has been awarded MSME certificate.

TSDSI conducted its 28th Governing Council and 14th General Body Meetings online on 14 and 15 July 2020 respectively.

TSDSI conducted elections for the 4th Governing Council of TSDSI on 16 September 2020. Thereafter, elections for the Chairman and Vice Chairman positions were held on 1 October 2020. As per the Rules and Regulations revised recently, elections were held for 21 seats representing various segments of digital communications ecosystem. 8 seats on the Council are by nomination, with representation from DoT, MeitY and BIS.

Mr N G Subramaniam, COO, TCS was elected as the new Chairman. Mr Satish Jamadagni, Vice Chairman from the previous GC, was re-elected in the same position. The new Governing Council has 19 elected and 8 nominated members, out of which 4 members are joining for the first time and 5 are returning to the GC after a hiatus of 2 years. 10 members continue from the previous GC. With this composition, the new GC therefore stands to benefit from fresh ideas as well as continuity for sustaining the ongoing initiatives.

Standardisation Committee

A proposal to form a Global SDO Strategy Task Force has been approved by the Governing Council in its 31st meeting, with the objective of providing strategic direction to the relationships with the Global SDOs.

Global SDO Activities

Subsequent to the adoption of oneM2M as National Standard for M2M in India, TSDSI is promoting initiatives to enhance capacity building and deeper technical involvement of domestic entities in this standard. TSDSI is also enabling all its members to enrol as IMs of oneM2M. Members are encouraged to participate in the oneM2M activities by enrolling formally as IMs to the project at no additional cost for Calendar year 2021. Please contact secretariat@tsdsi.in for details.

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The new GC took over from the previous slate in the 30th GC meeting held online on 19 October 2020. Contributions of the outgoing Chairman and GC members were lauded at the meeting. First full meeting of the new GC was held on 26 November 2020.

Outreach

TSDSI Tech Deep Dive (TTDD) 2020

TSDSI organized the 3rd Edition of its Annual Tech Deep Dive (TTDD) Conference 2020 from 19 October – 23 October 2020. The theme of the conference was “Technologies for the Digitally Driven World”. In keeping with the new normal of online interactions, the conference was held in a fully virtual mode.

In his inaugural speech at the conference, Shri Anshu Prakash, Chairman, Digital Communications Commission and Secretary (Telecom), Ministry of Communications congratulated TSDSI on its RIT getting accepted as a IMT2020 technology and on the timely release of the white paper on Telecom Startup Ecosystem in India. He declared that “Many developing countries look upto India for developing standards that are global and TSDSI being India’s voice in Global Forums. We must have incorporation of more Indian IPR in global standards. We should also think beyond 5G and work should commence on that”.

Around 60+ globally renowned experts delivered keynotes and participated in panel discussions on topics arranged in sub themes: Spectrum, Open Initiatives, AI/ML, Rural & Remote Data Connectivity, Security, Data Management & Privacy and Design in India for AtmaNirbhar Bharat. A special session on “Roadmap 2030: India Context” on the Inaugural day set the stage for the conference proceedings.

The presentations made in the conference may be viewed on the event website at link https://tsdsi.in/tech-deep-dive-2020/.

TSDSI Outreach for Academia

TSDSI, along with its member IIT Bhilai, organized an outreach workshop on “Standards-driven Research and Innovation in India” on 28 July 2020, online. The objective of the workshop was to explore standardization potential of research activities being carried out in the premier technology institutions in the central part of India. Apart from IIT Bhilai, experts from IIT Indore, IIT Patna, IIIT Naya Raipur and IIITDM Jabalpur participated in the workshop.

GENERAL UPDATES

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GENERAL UPDATES

TSDSI alongwith Jindal School of Banking & Finance and Department of Telecommunication, Govt. of India organized a webinar on “SEPs and IPRs in the Tech Driven Society - Opportunities for SMEs” on 16 July 2020, with Prof Ashish Bharadwaj, Dean and Executive Director, Office of Rankings, Benchmarking and Institutional Transformation (ORBIT), Jindal School of Banking & Finance as expert speaker. The session was moderated by Mr Kishore Babu, DDG Standards, Research and Innovation, Department of Telecommunication, Govt. of India.

TSDSI in partnership with Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Finovista and Unconventional Connections UK organized an online Workshop on IP Management and Commercialization on 17 July 2020 with special focus on Digital Communication Technologies (DCTs) sector to solve Societal and Industrial Challenges. The workshop provided complete overview of the IP landscape.

TSDSI members delivered training modules on TSDSI, 3GPP & oneM2M, to the 2018 batch of ITS Officers. The training was organized by National Telecom Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT) from 3 August – 7 August 2020.

Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director IIT Madras & Chairman TSDSI alongwith Ms Pamela Kumar, DG TSDSI shared their views on the Indigenous 5G Test Bed Initiative and its role in shaping the local 5G technology ecosystem at the Virtual Conclave on “AtmaNirbhar Bharat for 5G” on 27 August 2020. The event was organized by Keysight Technologies & IIT Madras in association with CNBC TV-18. The event was later telecast on CNBC TV-18 on 12 September 2020.

TSDSI Outreach Committee Member & Vice Chair SGSS, Mr Sharad Arora, presented the status of ITS Activities in TSDSI at the Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards (CITS) on 9 September 2020.

Ms Pamela Kumar, DG TSDSI shared her views on “The Role of TSDSI in the regulatory process” at the Wi-Fi Now Special Event on 6GHz for India on 16 September 2020. She gave an overview of representative activities at TSDSI including work in the 6GHz segment at the event.

Prof Radha Krishna Ganti represented TDSI at the Connected India 2020 organized by Terrapinn on 30 September 2020. He shared his views on “The New Rural: Digitalising India’s Rural Infrastructure”.

Ms Pamela Kumar, DG TSDSI, participated in a Panel Discussion on “India Integration” at the ATSC 2020 NextGen Broadcast Conference on 26 October 2020 which was held online. The panel included Ms Madeleine Noland, ATSC President & Shri Shashi S Vempati, CEO Prasar Bharati.

Ms Pamela Kumar, DG TSDSI, participated in a Panel Discussion on “5G Ecosystem in India” held online on 20 November organised by TiE Bangalore. The panel included other TSDSI Member Experts, Mr Ambarish Anjaneyareddy from Sooktha Wireless and Mr Subhas Mondal from Wipro Limited.

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TSDSI MEMBERSHIP UPDATE

Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), DOLBY Technology India Pvt Ltd. and Niral Networks have joined TSDSI as Corporate Members after completing their six month observership period.

TSDSI welcomes Astrome Technologies Pvt. Ltd., ICEA and Prasar Bharati as members. DSP Works Automation & Wireless Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Kirat Communications, Plum Consulting and TekUncorked have joined as observers.

Astrome, https://astrome.co/, has pioneered a Multi-beam E-band product based on their patented millimeter wave digital beamforming technology which offers powerful features like automatic link alignment, dynamic power allocation between links and remote link formation to help communication service providers achieve significant OpEx cost reduction. The product is ideal for rapid 5G deployment and Rural Broadband.

India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA), https://icea.org.in/, is the apex industry body of mobile and electronics industry comprising of manufacturers, brand owners, technology providers, VAS application & solution providers of mobile handsets and electronics devices.

Prasar Bharati, http://prasarbharati.gov.in/, is a statutory autonomous body entrusted for Public Service Broadcasting in India. Prasar Bharati intends to contribute to development of standards in the convergence segment - Direct-to-Mobile and 5G Broadcasts at TSDSI.

DSP Works Automation & Wireless Network Solutions, https://dspworks.in/, is a technology startup working in the field of Embedded systems/IoT building modules, products and solutions. DSPWorks intends contributing towards IoT Initiatives (Home Automation/ Industry 4.0), Contact Tracing towards Pandemic/ Industrial applications as well as LoRa based standardization initiatives in Global Shipping trade and bring harmony with DCSA.

Kirat Communications (OPC) Private Limited, http://kiratcommunications.com/, have expertise in developing affordable wireless solutions for Digital Connectivity, network planning for radio links and deployment, WiFi hotspots etc.

Plum, https://plumconsulting.co.uk/, is a leading independent consulting firm, focused on the telecommunications, media, technology, and adjacent sectors.

TekUncorked, https://www.tekuncorked.com/, is a disruptive deep tech startup which is making utility infrastructure smart, connected and predictive through its AIIoT products and software platform.

TSDSI member list can be viewed here https://tsdsi.in/present_members/.

To apply for TSDSI membership, please visit https://tsdsi.in/membership/.

Ms Pamela Kumar, DG TSDSI, participated alongwith other Senior Government Officials & Experts from both India & EU, in a session on “5G and beyond: Developing EU-IN cooperation for the next generation of standards” at the India Mobile Congress 2020 on 8 December 2020. The speakers shared information on current plans and public policies for research in next generation technologies, discussed ways to tighten the link between research/innovation and standardization and explored operational steps for EU India cooperation in this context. The Experts from India featured Dr Archana G Gulati (Joint Secretary (Digital Communication), NITI Aayog), Shri YGSC Kishore Babu (Deputy Director-General (S-R-I), Indian Department of Telecommunications), Dr Rajesh Sharma (Director, CDOT) and Lt. Gen Dr S P Kochhar (Director General, COAI).

If you are interested in getting an outreach workshop conducted for your organization or your industry segment, please contact outreach@tsdsi.in.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

TSDSI “Hall of Fame 2020”

Awardees of the TSDSI Hall of Fame 2020 were announced on 19 October 2020 in the Inaugural Session of TTDD 2020. They were conferred with a plaque each, by Shri Anshu Prakash, Chairman DCC and Secretary (Telecom), Ministry of Communications.

Congratulations to the winners of the TSDSI Hall of Fame awards.

TSDSI Fellow – Technical Excellence

Dr Klutto Milleth, Chief Technologist, CEWiT, for “his significant technical contributions relating to improvement in spectral efficiency and latency in TSDSI 5G standard 5Gi, which is going to become part of IMT-2020 specifications of ITU-R. He is also one of the flag bearers of TSDSI,

for contributions from India at 3GPP.”

TSDSI Fellow – Organization Building

Prof Abhay Karandikar, Former Chairman, TSDSI (Director IIT Kanpur), for “his efforts in steering TSDSI through a very critical initial period and establishing a strong organizational framework. He led TSDSI from the front as the first Vice-Chair, and then as Chair, and also as interim DG to provide the

much needed stability and direction for the initial 5 years of TSDSI.”

TSDSI Fellow – Champion

Ms Aruna Sundararajan, Former Secretary, DoT, for “her decisive leadership in building support for TSDSI’s efforts at ITU. She enabled the path for better Rural Broadband 5G connectivity in India and worldwide, by enabling TSDSI to make history at ITU-R WP5D first by contributing LMLC

as a mandatory IMT-2020 requirement, and then through the first ever Radio Interface Technology submission from India.”

TSDSI congratulates its member, Sensorise Digital Services for being awarded the ET Telecom Award 2020 in the category “Best IoT Service Provider”. The award was announced on 18 September 2020 during the ET Telecom Digital Telco Virtual Summit 2020.

TSDSI congratulates its member expert Ms Poornima Shandilya for being conferred the oneM2M Technical Excellence Award 2020.

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About TSDSITelecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI), aims at developing and promoting India-specific requirements, standardizing solutions for meeting these requirements and contributing these to international standards, contributing to global standardization in the field of telecommunications, maintaining the technical standards and other deliverables of the organization, safe-guarding the related IPR, helping create manufacturing expertise in the country, providing leadership to the developing countries (such as in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, Middle East, etc.) in terms of their telecommunications-related standardization needs.

TSDSI is recognised by Department of Telecommunications as India’s Telecom Standards Development Organisation (SDO).

TSDSI is registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act (Act XXI of 1860).

This issue covers activities from 1 July 2020 to 31 December 2020© 2021, Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India

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Upcoming Events

Event Name (Meetings / Workshops / Conferences / Webinars)

Date & Time

TSDSI AGM (GBM#15) 20 January 2021

oneM2M TP49 18 January - 9 February 2021

TSDSI SGN Technical Plenary 28-29 January 2021

ITU-R WP 5D 1-12 March 2021

TSDSI SGN & SGSS Technical Plenary

15-18 March 2021*

3GPP RAN/SA/CT#91e 18-29 March 2021

oneM2M TP50 10 April - 4 June 2021

3GPP PCG#46e/OP#45e 27-28 April 2021

TSDSI SGN Technical Plenary 3-4 May 2021*

TSDSI SGN & SGSS Technical Plenary

1-4 June 2021*

ITU-R WP 5D 7-18 June 2021

3GPP RAN/SA/CT#92e 14-21 June 2021

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EVENTS

TSDSI pays homage to Shri FC Kohli, Father of the Indian IT Industry who was instrumental in setting up and growing several marquee IT Technology entities in India who are now members of TSDSI.