Standardization
Standardization
The Infonet Lab has been at the forefront of global standardization in next-generation communication networks. Our team led the development of IEEE 1930.1: SDN-based Middleware for Wireless Network Control and Management, approved in 2022—marking the first IEEE standard primarily led by Indian researchers. We also spearheaded the creation of IEEE 2061: Architecture for Low Mobility Energy-Efficient Networks for Affordable Broadband Access, approved in June 2024. Furthering our contributions, the lab is actively involved in shaping 6G system architecture through ITU-T. The first standard in this direction, ITU-T Y.2325, approved in December 2023, outlines a software-defined, modular control plane for future mobile networks, aiming for greater scalability, flexibility, and security. Furthermore, our group has made key contributions to 3GPP 5G Advanced and 6G in the areas of energy efficiency and AI/ML. We have also been active in TSDSI, India’s Telecom SDO. A Technical Report, TSDSI TR 6026, on Broadcast Broadband Convergence and a Technical Standard, TSDSI STD 5002, on Enhanced Relays were led by our groups efforts. TSDSI STD 5002 was the first ever TSDSI standard to be accepted as the national standard by Telecommunication Engineering Center (TEC), Govt of India.
IEEE Standards Contributions
Our group has made significant contributions to IEEE standardization efforts, including the first IEEE standard to come out of largely Indian efforts - IEEE 1930.1.
Contribution to IEEE Standards in 5G
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IEEE 1930.1: Recommended Practice for Software Defined Networking (SDN) based Middleware for Control and Management of Wireless Networks
IEEE 1930.1 standardization was approved in June 2022. It is the first ever IEEE standard to come out of largely Indian efforts. -
IEEE 2061: Architecture for Low Mobility Energy Efficient Network for Affordable Broadband Access
Pioneered the concept of Frugal 5G for rural broadband and initiated a standardization activity for IEEE 2061 standard under the "Frugal 5G" Working Group in IEEE. The standard IEEE 2061 was approved in June 2024 and is now part of the IEEE suite of global standards. In addition to defining a network architecture for affordable broadband connectivity in rural areas, the standard also introduces novel concepts, such as, RAN-Core decoupling, Unified Multi-RAT RAN and Core bypass, which would likely prove useful for the upcoming 6G system.
Contributions to IEEE 802.1 standards (along with Tejas Networks)
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Towards PAR for Segment Protection Switching
M Vinod Kumar and Abhay Karandikar, March 2009
Contributions to IEEE 802.16m standards
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IEEE C80216m-10_0938r1 - Proposal for Co-Located Coexistence Text Changes (Section 16.2.20, 16.2.3)
Siddharth Shetty, Abhay Karandikar, Zhu Jung and Shantidev Mohanty, July 2010
Contributions to 3GPP Standards
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S1-252098, Use case on supporting energy control support on slice level
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #110, 19-23 May 2025, Fukuoka, Japan -
S1-252166, Use case on exposing achievable QoS to aid computational resource selection
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #110, 19-23 May 2025, Fukuoka, Japan -
S3-251867, CR to 33.926: Minor editorial modification
TSG-WG SA3 Meeting #122, 19-23 May 2025, Fukuoka, Japan -
S3-244504, Update on Key Issue 2 related to security aspects on user consent for energy information exposure
TSG-WG SA3 Meeting #118, 14-18 October 2024, Hyderabad, India -
S3-244503, Update on Key Issue 1 related to security aspects on user consent for energy information collection
TSG-WG SA3 Meeting #118, 14-18 October 2024, Hyderabad, India -
S1-242508, Wide-area disaster control support using multi-orbit satellite network
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #107, 19-23 August 2024, Maastricht, Netherlands -
S1-241414, Switching between multi-orbits satellite networks in remote area
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #106, 27-31 May 2024, Jeju, South Korea -
S1-241413, Support for Mobile base station relays (MBSRs) through multi-orbit satellite networks
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #106, 27-31 May 2024, Jeju, South Korea -
S1-241407, Dynamic service adjustment support based on energy information
TSG-WG SA1 Meeting #106, 27-31 May 2024, Jeju, South Korea -
S2-2405505, TR 23.700-06: KI#4, New Solution to Address Mobility aspects of MWAB
TSG-WG SA2 Meeting #162, 15-19 April, 2024, Changsha, China -
S1-223639, Usage of satellite connectivity for collection of information to aid terrestrial network planning
SA1#100, November 2022 -
S1-223722, Use case on Dual Steering through Satellite access and UAV
SA1#100, November 2022 -
S1-222349, New WID on Interworking of Non-3GPP Digital Terrestrial Broadcast Networks with 5GS Multicast Broadcast Services (with Saankhya Labs)
SA1#99e, August 2022 -
S1-222350, Change Request - Interworking of Non-3GPP Digital Terrestrial Broadcast Networks with 5GS Multicast/Broadcast Services (with Saankhya Labs)
SA1#99e, August 2022 -
C1-188928, Change Request on Solving state machine misalignment issue
TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #113, 26-30 November 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA) -
C1-188930, Change Request on Solving state machine misalignment issue
TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #113, 26-30 November 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA) -
C1-188976, Change Request on Solving state machine misalignment issue
TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #113, 26-30 November 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA)
ITU Standards Contributions
Our group has made significant contributions to ITU standardization efforts across multiple working groups, including ITU-R WP5D and ITU-T SG13.
Contributions to ITU-T-SG13
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SG13-TD143/WP1, Initial text of draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.AI_HNO_ACPS "Requirements and framework for AI/ML-based heterogeneous network optimization and automated communication primitive selection in future networks including IMT-2020 and beyond"
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
23474-C275 (250714), Requirements and framework for AI/ML-based heterogeneous network optimization and automated communication primitive selection in future networks including IMT-2020 and beyond
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
SG13-TD-103/WP3, Draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
23474-C282-R1 (250714), This contribution proposes new text for the Section 8 of the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
SG13-TD-104/WP3, Draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
23474-C284-R1 (250714), This contribution proposes new text for the Section 8 of the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU SG13 co-located Rapporteur Group meeting (Virtual), 14-25 July, 2025 -
SG13-TD118/WP1, Requirements and framework for AI/ML-based heterogeneous network optimization and automated communication primitive selection in future networks including IMT-2020 and Beyond
A.1 justification for draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.AI_HNO_ACPS, ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-C-0120, Proposal to initiate a new work item on draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.ACP-selection: “Requirements and architectural framework for AI/ML-based automated communication primitive selection and optimization in future networks including IMT-2030”
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-TD40/WP3, Output document containing updated text of draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in NGN evolution control plane
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-TD39/WP3, Output document containing base line text of draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-C115, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in NGN evolution control plane” (text for the Section 7)
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-C114, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in NGN evolution control plane” (new abbreviations in Section 4 and editorial corrections in Section 6)
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-C113-R1, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane” (text for the Section 7)
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-C112-R1, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane” (new abbreviations in Section 4 and editorial corrections in Section 6)
ITU-T SG13 Q2, Q20 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 3-14 March, 2025 -
SG13-TD580-R1/WP3, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 15-26 July 2024 -
SG13-TD581-R1/WP3, Draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in NGN evolution control plane”
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 15-26 July 2024 -
SG13-C1182-R1, Proposal to initiate a new work item on draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_mobility: “Mobility management and control framework in evolved NGN control plane”
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 15-26 July 2024 -
SG13-C1184-R1, Proposal to initiate a new work item on draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.NGNe-cp_na: “Network attachment control framework in evolved NGN control plane”
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 15-26 July 2024 -
Y.2325 (TD161/PLEN/ex-Arch_NGNe_ncp), A draft new Recommendation on Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology consented by SG13 plenary
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 23 October - 3 November 2023 -
SG13-C625R1/Q2/WP3, Editorial changes in the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.Arch_NGNe_ncp: Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 Q2 and Plenary meetings, Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual), 23 October - 3 November 2023 -
SG13-C008/Q2/WP3, Updated text for section 7 of the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.Arch_NGNe_ncp: Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 Q2 Interim meeting (Virtual), 17-21 July 2023 -
SG13-C009/Q2/WP3, Updated text for sections 8,9 and 10 of the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.Arch_NGNe_ncp: Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 Q2 Interim meeting (Virtual), 17-21 July 2023 -
SG14-C010/Q2/WP3, Updated text for section 11 of the draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.Arch_NGNe_ncp: Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 Q2 Interim meeting (Virtual), 17-21 July 2023 -
SG13-TD291/WP3, Output document for draft new Recommendation ITU-T Y.Arch_NGNe_ncp: Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 Q2 Interim meeting (Virtual), 17-21 July 2023 -
SG13-C0255, Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 meeting, 13-24 March 2023, Geneva, Switzerland -
SG13-TD221/WP3, Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 meeting, 13-24 March 2023, Geneva, Switzerland -
SG13-TD140/WP3, Architectural evolution for NGN control plane by applying SDN technology
ITU-T SG13 meeting, 14-24 November 2022, Geneva, Switzerland -
20244-C196R1 (221114), Architectural framework for NGN evolution by extending SDN paradigm to the Network control plane
ITU-T SG13 meeting, 14-24 November 2022, Geneva, Switzerland -
SG13-C 0157, Architectural framework for NGN evolution for IMT-2030 by extending SDN paradigm to the Network control plane
ITU-T SG13 meeting, 4-15 July 2022, Geneva, Switzerland -
Network architecture for IMT-2030
Workshop on "IMT for 2030 and Beyond", ITR-U WP5D - Meeting #41, 14 June 2022, Geneva, Switzerland
Contributions to TSDSI
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TSDSI-SGN-SWIC1075-V1.0.0, TR for Handling of Diverse Services in Future Mobile Networks
SGN-TP#38, 27-28 March 2025 -
TSDSI-SGN-SWIC1069-V1.0.0, Lack of Application Specific Signalling in 3GPP 5G Network – A Key Issue
SGN-TP#38, 27-28 March 2025 -
TSDSI-SGN-SWIC1070-V1.0.0, A key issue related to the close integration of user plane control and UE signalling within the network control plane
SGN-TP#38, 27-28 March 2025