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This standard is designed to provide organizations with a set of clear guidelines and certifications guaranteeing they are storing, protecting, and utilizing employee data in an ethical and transparent way. It is also designed to help employers with an understanding that most individuals may not be tech-savvy enough to understand underlying issues of data usage, but still must be properly informed about the safety of their employee data to be provided with tools and services that provide proper opportunities for content based, pre-informed choice regarding how they share their information in the workplace. Modelled after the EU GDPR legislation, this Standard will be designed to be a form of "GDPR for Employees" guaranteeing that workers facing widespread automation issues potentially displacing their jobs will have control and influence over the personal information that directly represents a core asset of their identity and lives whether derived from work-flow monitoring or personal data storage.

Development Statuts: Under development

Openess: Working groups are open for experts and their contributions but experts need to either become IEEE-SA Members by paying an annual member fee or pay a per-ballot fee in order to participate in ballots.

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Data Protection, Privacy and Identity Management

Product security

Blockchain and distributed ledger technology is an innovative and continuously evolving technology. This technology has far reaching security implications beyond just the financial services industries. Thanks to cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology has proven its relevance and increases security for data exchanges and immutable storage of data related to transactions. However, this does not mean the technology is beyond attacks and hacks -- like the dreaded 51% attack. The CSA Blockchain Working Group's goal is to investigate and document various forms of blockchain technology, relevant use cases, and security implications. The Blockchain Working Group is dedicated to producing useable content to educate the industry on this radical technology.

We are responsible for the standardization of access, terminals, transmission and multiplexing. This includes cabling, installations, signal transmission and other forms of signal treatment up to digitalization, in the private and public domains, focusing on the specific technology, equipment, installations and regulatory aspects of the physical layer.

We are developing tools for ICT users to monitor deployment of sustainable smart cities and the sustainable efficiency, including eco-efficiency and energy management, of their sites and networks. This also offers the means of implementing the most efficient broadband systems and physical networks.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the primary body for developing technology specifications for cellular networks. It self-organises through its Working Groups coordinated by the Chairs of the Technical Specifications Groups (TSGs).

RAN WG1 (Radio layer 1) is responsible for the development of specifications dealing with Evolved UTRA. Beyond RAN WG1, it is responsible for specification of the physical layer of the Uu radio Interface for UE, Evolved UTRAN, and beyond, covering both FDD and TDD modes, as well as the physical layer of the Un Interface for Relay Nodes.

The work in RAN WG1 includes especially:

• Specification of physical channel structures
• Specification of the mapping of the transport channels onto physical channels
• Specification of the physical layer multiplexing, and channel coding and error detection
• Specification of the spreading and modulation
• Specification of the physical layer procedures
• Specification of definition of measurements and their provision by the physical layer to the upper layers

RAN WG1 also carries out work related to handling of the physical layer related UE capabilities and to physical layer related parameters used in UE tests developed in TSG RAN.

We are responsible for the standardization of Broadband Radio Access Networks. ETSI’s Broadband Radio Access Networks committee produces standards and specifications for present and future Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) technologies in different frequency ranges.

This includes ETSI Reports for new spectrum demand (System Reference Documents), technical specifications, harmonised standards produced under standardization requests from the European Commission as well as conformance test specifications (radio and protocol testing).

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the primary body for developing technology specifications for cellular networks. It self-organises through its Working Groups coordinated by the Chairs of the Technical Specifications Groups (TSGs).

Within the scope of TSG-RAN, RAN WG2 (Radio Layer 2 and Radio Layer 3 RR)  is responsible for the development of specifications dealing with Evolved UTRA, and beyond. 

RAN WG2 is responsible for:

• Specification of the radio interface architecture and protocol termination.
• Specification of radio interface protocols between UE and RAN as well as between relay node and eNodeB.
• Specification of radio interface protocols common to RAN and GERAN.
• For EUTRAN, specification of the radio interface parameters to be exchanged between eNodeBs in case of inter eNodeB handover, and between eNodeB and RNC/BSC in case of inter-RAT handovers.
• Stage 2 Specifications of the services offered by the physical layer to upper layers.
• Specification of Cell selection and re-selection procedures.
• Specification of UE capabilities for UE - RAN interface (in collaboration with RAN WG1 for Layer 1 capabilities).
• Definition of RRM strategies to be supported by RAN.
• Definition of protocol methodology in RAN specifications.
• Identification of the requirements for UE protocol tests to be defined by TSG RAN WG5, for new functions under RAN WG2 responsibility.
• For EUTRAN, specification of radio interface protocols between UE and positioning server.
• Specification of radio measurements reported to the OAM domain and the radio interface protocols used to collect them.

The Focus Group, intends to study the capabilities of networks for the year 2030 and beyond, when it is expected to support novel forward-looking scenarios, such as holographic type communications, extremely fast response in critical situations and high-precision communication demands of emerging market verticals. The study aims to answer specific questions on what kinds of network architecture and the enabling mechanisms are suitable for such novel scenarios.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the primary body for developing technology specifications for cellular networks. It self-organises through its Working Groups coordinated by the Chairs of the Technical Specifications Groups (TSGs).

RAN WG3 (Iu, Iub, Iur, S1, X2 and UTRAN/E-UTRAN) is responsible for the development of specifications dealing with UTRA, Evolved UTRA, and beyond, and in particular for:

• Overall UTRAN and E-UTRAN architecture.
• Synchronisation in UTRAN and E-UTRAN.
• Stage 2 work of Work Items allocated by TSG RAN to RAN WG3.
• UTRAN and E-UTRAN O&M requirements.
• Iu interface protocol specifications, i.e. access stratum protocols over the Iu reference point.
• Iur and Iub interface protocol specifications.
• Iupc interface protocol specifications.
• Iubc interface protocol specifications.
• Transport of implementation specific O&M between the Management System and Node B.
• Application of the RANAP on the E-interface.
• Iu-ant interface protocol specifications (RF-parts of the layer 1 specification are under the responsibility of RAN4).
• Parts of Iu and Iur protocols common to GERAN and UTRAN (Iu-g and Iur-g).
• S1 and X2 interface protocol specifications.
• M1, M2 and M3 interface protocol specifications.
• Iuh, and Iurh interface protocols specification.
• LTE Positioning Protocol A (LPPa).
• Xw interface protocol specifications.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the primary body for developing technology specifications for cellular networks. It self-organises through its Working Groups coordinated by the Chairs of the Technical Specifications Groups (TSGs).

RAN WG4 (Radio Performance and Protocol Aspects) is responsible for the development of specifications dealing with UTRA, Evolved UTRA, and beyond.
RAN WG4 responsibilities include:

• Radio specification for the Base Station and evolved Base Station, Repeater and Evolved Repeater, Terminal and evolved Terminal.
• Base Station and evolved Base Station, Repeater and Evolved Repeater Radio Conformance test specifications.
• Base Station and evolved Base Station, Repeater and Evolved Repeater EMC specification.
• Terminal and evolved terminal EMC specification.
• Radio Link requirement specification.
• Cell selection/reselection performance requirement specifications.
• Performance requirements in support of Radio Resource Management.
• Specification of the accuracy of measurements offered by the physical layer to the upper layers Radio system scenario analysis and simulation.

Requirements for UE and evolved UE tests as defined in TSG RAN WG5 for functions under RAN WG4 responsibility.

The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is the primary body for developing technology specifications for cellular networks. It self-organises through its Working Groups coordinated by the Chairs of the Technical Specifications Groups (TSGs).

RAN WG6 (GERAN and UTRAN radio and protocol is responsible for the development of specifications dealing with GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) and UMTS Radio Access (UTRA) aspects, and interfaces.

Specifically RAN WG6 is responsible for:

• RF aspects of GERAN.
• GERAN Radio Layer 1 specification.
• GERAN Radio Layer 2 specification.
• GERAN Radio Layer 3 RR specification.
• A interface specification, Gb interface specification.
• Internal GERAN interface specifications such as Abis, and Ater (Channel Codec Unit-Transcoder and Rate Adapter Unit).
• GERAN functionality related to the support of location services.
• Conformance test specifications for testing of all aspects of GERAN base stations.
• Specifications for GERAN radio performance and RF system aspects.
• GERAN specific operation and maintenance specifications for the nodes in the GERAN.

RAN WG6 is also responsible for the specification of the physical layer of the Uu radio Interface for UE, UTRAN, covering both FDD and TDD modes. It carries out work related to handling of the physical layer related UE capabilities and to physical layer related parameters used in UE tests developed in TSG RAN. RAN WG6 is also responsible for UTRA aspects.