Internet-Draft IPMON Problem Statement March 2023
Jeong, et al. Expires 27 September 2023 [Page]
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J. Jeong, Ed.
Sungkyunkwan University
Y. Shen
Kyungsung University
S. Gundavelli
Cisco

IPv6 Mobile Object Networking (IPMON): Problem Statement and Use Cases

Abstract

This document discusses the problem statement and use cases of IPv6 Mobile Object Networking (IPMON). A moving object is a physically movable networked device with 5G communication capability, such as a terrestrial vehicle (e.g., car and motorcycle), a user's smart device (e.g., smartphone, smart watch, and tablet), an aerial vehicle (e.g., drone and helicopter), and a marine vehicle (e.g., boat and ship). These mobile objects are called vehicles in this document. The main scenarios of vehicular communications are vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. First, this document explains use cases using V2V, V2I, and V2X networking over 5G. Next, for IPv6-over-5G vehicular networks, it makes a gap analysis of current IPv6 protocols (e.g., IPv6 Neighbor Discovery).

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

New Radio (NR) called 5G is a popular wireless communication technology for mobile devices such as smartphone, smart watch, and tablet [TS23501][TS38300]. This 5G-based communication also plays an important role of the interaction among a person's mobile devices, Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and autonomous networked objects (e.g., robot and drone).

A moving object is defined as a physically movable networked device with a wireless networking capability such as cellular communications (e.g., 4G LTE and 5G) and IEEE 802.11 family (e.g., 802.11-OCB), which may be a terrestrial vehicle (e.g., car and motorcycle), a user's smart device (e.g., smartphone, smart watch, and tablet), an aerial vehicle (e.g., drone and helicopter), and a marine vehicle (e.g., boat and ship). These mobile objects are called vehicles in this document.

The main scenarios of vehicular communications are vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. First, this document explains use cases using V2V, V2I, and V2X networking over 5G. Next, for IPv6-over-5G vehicular networks, it makes a gap analysis of current IPv6 protocols (e.g., IPv6 Neighbor Discovery).

2. Terminology

This document uses the terminology described in [RFC8691][RFC9365].

3. Use Cases

This section explains use cases of V2V, V2I, and V2X networking. Those three kinds of use cases are the same as the use cases in IPWAVE (IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) Problem Statement [RFC9365] by assuming that the wiress access technology is 5G-based V2V, V2I, and V2X instead of IEEE 802.11-OCB-based V2V, V2I, and V2X. For the detailed discussion on the V2V, V2I, and V2X use cases, refer to the use cases in [RFC9365].

3.1. V2V

The use cases of V2V networking discussed in this section include

  • Context-aware navigation for safe driving and collision avoidance;
  • Collision avoidance service of end systems of Urban Air Mobility (UAM);
  • Cooperative adaptive cruise control in a roadway;
  • Platooning in a highway;
  • Cooperative environment sensing.

The above use cases are examples for using V2V networking, which can be extended to other terrestrial vehicles, river/sea ships, railed vehicles, UAM end systems, and pedestrians' smart devices (e.g., smartphone, smart watch, and tablet).

3.2. V2I

The use cases of V2I networking discussed in this section include

  • Navigation service;
  • Energy-efficient speed recommendation service;
  • Accident notification service;
  • Electric vehicle (EV) charging service;
  • UAM navigation service with efficient battery charging.

The above use cases are examples for using V2I networking, which can be extended to other terrestrial vehicles, river/sea ships, railed vehicles, UAM end systems, and pedestrians' smart devices.

3.3. V2X

The use cases of V2X networking discussed in this section include

  • Protection service for vulnerable road user (VRU) (e.g., pedestrian and cyclist);
  • Human sensing-based protection service for VRUs not carrying smart devices.

Note that the application area of this use case is currently limited to a safety service in a specific environment, such as construction sites, plants, and factories, since not every VRU (e.g., children) in a public area (e.g., streets) is equipped with a smart device. For a safety service for VRUs not carrying start devices, a human sensing technology with WiFi signal measurement can be combined with V2X networking between road infrastructure nodes with such human sensing capability and vehicles.

4. 5G Vehicular Networks

This section describes the context for vehicular networks supporting 5G V2V, V2I, and V2X communications among vehicles, gNodeBs, and other User Equipments (UEs) such as smartphones, smart watches, and tablets [TS23287]. As shown in Figure 1, infrastructure nodes for vehicles are gNodeBs in 5G vehicular networks.

                     Traffic Control Center in Vehicular Cloud
                    *******************************************
+-------------+    *                                           *
|Correspondent|   *             +-----------------+             *
|    Node     |<->*             | Mobility Anchor |             *
+-------------+   *             +-----------------+             *
                  *                      ^                      *
                  *                      |                      *
                   *                     v                     *
                    *******************************************
                    ^                   ^                     ^
                    |                   |                     |
                    |                   |                     |
                    v                   v                     v
              +---------+           +---------+           +---------+
              | gNodeB1 |<--------->| gNodeB2 |<--------->| gNodeB3 |
              +---------+           +---------+           +---------+
                  ^                     ^                    ^
                  :                     :                    :
           +-----------------+ +-----------------+   +-----------------+
           |      : V2I      | |        : V2I    |   |       : V2I     |
           |      v          | |        v        |   |       v         |
+--------+ |   +--------+    | |   +--------+    |   |   +--------+    |
|Vehicle1|===> |Vehicle2|===>| |   |Vehicle3|===>|   |   |Vehicle4|===>|
+--------+<...>+--------+<........>+--------+    |   |   +--------+    |
           V2V     ^         V2V        ^        |   |        ^        |
           |       : V2V     | |        : V2V    |   |        : V2V    |
           |       v         | |        v        |   |        v        |
           |  +--------+     | |   +--------+    |   |    +--------+   |
           |  |Vehicle5|===> | |   |Vehicle6|===>|   |    |Vehicle7|==>|
           |  +--------+     | |   +--------+    |   |    +--------+   |
           +-----------------+ +-----------------+   +-----------------+
                 Subnet1              Subnet2              Subnet3
                (Prefix1)            (Prefix2)            (Prefix3)

        <----> Wired Link   <....> Wireless Link   ===> Moving Direction
Figure 1: An Example 5G Vehicular Network Architecture for V2I and V2V
                           Data Network
             *****************************************
            *                                         *
           *            +-----------------+            *
          *             | V2X Application |             *             N6
         *              |      Server     |<-------------*----------------+
         *              +-----------------+              *                |
          *                      ^                      *                 |
           *                     |                     *                  |
            *                    v                    *                   |
             *****************************************                    |
                                                                          |
                                  5GC                                     |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+   |
|             +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+      |   |
|             |   UDM   |  |   PCF   |  |   NEF   |  |    AF   |      |   |
|             +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+      |   |
|                  ^            ^            ^            ^           |   |
|                  |            |            |            |           |   |
|                  |            |            |            |           |   |
|                  v            v            v            v           |   |
|       ---------------------------------------------------------     |   |
|          ^            ^            ^            ^                   |   v
|          |            |            |            |               +---------+
|          |            |            |            |          ---->|   UPF   |
|          v            v            v            v         /     +---------+
|      +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  /          |
|      |   NRF   |  |   UDR   |  |   AMF   |  |   SMF   | /           |
|      +---------+  +---------+  +---------+  +---------+             |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                    ^
                                    |
                                    |
                                    v
+-------------------+       +--------------+     Uu      +-------------------+
|        UE1        |       |    NG-RAN    |<...........>|        UE4        |
| (V2X Application) |       +--------------+             | (V2X Application) |
+-------------------+                  ^                 +-------------------+
          ^                            :                           ^
          : PC5 (V5)                   : Uu                        : PC5 (V5)
          v                            v                           :
+-------------------+    PC5 (V5)  +-------------------+           :
|        UE2        |<............>|        UE3        |<...........
| (V2X Application) |              | (V2X Application) |
+-------------------+              +-------------------+
                   <----> Wired Link   <....> Wireless Link
Figure 2: An Example 5G Network Architecture for Vehicular Networks

Mobility Anchor (MA) is a node that maintains IPv6 addresses and mobility information of vehicles in a road network to support their IPv6 address autoconfiguration and mobility management with a binding table. An MA has End-to-End (E2E) connections (e.g., tunnels) with IP-RSUs under its control for the address autoconfiguration and mobility management of the vehicles. This MA is similar to a Local Mobility Anchor (LMA) in PMIPv6 [RFC5213] for network-based mobility management. Mobility Anchor consists of 5G core functions such as PCF (Policy Control Function), AMF (Access and Mobility Management Function), SMF (Session Management Function), and UPF (User Plane Function) as shown in Figure 2. Note that Figure 2 shows an example 5G network architecture for vehicular networks.

Traffic Control Center (TCC) is a system that manages road infrastructure nodes (e.g., gNodeBs, MAs, traffic signals, and loop detectors), and also maintains vehicular traffic statistics (e.g., average vehicle speed and vehicle inter-arrival time per road segment) and vehicle information (e.g., a vehicle's identifier, position, direction, speed, and trajectory as a navigation path). TCC is part of a vehicular cloud for vehicular networks.

V2V communication between two vehicles as UEs uses a PC5 reference point [TS23287]. V2I communication between a vehicle and a gNodeB uses a Uu reference point [TS23287]. As shown in Figure 1, Vehicle1 can communicate with Vehicle3 via Vehicle2 in the same Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET). In this figure, Vehicle1 can communicate with Correspondent Node via Vehicle2 as a relay node and gNodeB1 as an infrastructure node in a Radio Access Network (RAN) in 5G networks.

5. Problem Statement

For 5G V2V by PC5 in unicast mode, one vehicle UE (VehUE) needs to be an IPv6 router for IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) [RFC4862]. The 5G V2X specifications [TS23287][TS24587] do not specify which VehUE shall be the IPv6 router for SLAAC. Also, it does not specify how many IPv6 addresses/prefixes a VehUE will have in this case.


   ===>                 ===>                 ===>                  ===>
+--------+   SLAAC   +--------+   SLAAC   +--------+ Link-Local +--------+
|Vehicle2|<.........>|Vehicle1|<.........>|Vehicle3|<..........>|Vehicle4|
+--------+           +--------+           +--------+            +--------+
IPv6 Host            IPv6 Router          IPv6 Host             IPv6 Host

        <....> Wireless Link   ===> Moving Direction
Figure 3: SLAAC in Unicast Mode by PC5 Interface of 5G V2V

As shown in Figure 3, a VehUE (e.g., Vehicle1) among others shall be acting as an IPv6 router using SLAAC to assign IPv6 addresses/prefixes for other VehUEs. In this case, there are several issues as follows:

For V2V and V2I communications among VehUEs and gNodeB, the 5G specifications [TS23287][TS24587] do not mention that VehUEs will use the same IPv6 configuration. It is necessary to consider whether the VehUEs will use the same prefix or the different prefixes for both V2V and V2I communications.

For multihop V2V and V2I among VehUEs and gNodeB, existing routing protocols are costly to maintain a routing table. The 5G specifications [TS23287][TS24587] do not consider how to minimize control traffic overhead for both routing and IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) [RFC4861].

Mobility management in 5G V2X is required for the seamless communications between a VehUE and a server in a wired network (e.g., the Internet). It is necessary to consider how to manage the mobility of vehicles that have connections with a server while they are moving along their navigation paths [RFC9365].

6. Security Considerations

This section discusses security and privacy for IPv6-over-5G-based vehicular networking. The issues and considerations in 5G-based V2I, V2V, and V2X are the same as those in 802.11-OCB-based V2I, V2V, and V2X in [RFC9365].

7. IANA Considerations

This document does not require any IANA actions.

8. References

8.1. Normative References

[RFC4861]
Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman, "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861, DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.
[RFC4862]
Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862, DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4862>.
[RFC5213]
Gundavelli, S., Ed., Leung, K., Devarapalli, V., Chowdhury, K., and B. Patil, "Proxy Mobile IPv6", RFC 5213, DOI 10.17487/RFC5213, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5213>.
[RFC8691]
Benamar, N., Härri, J., Lee, J., and T. Ernst, "Basic Support for IPv6 Networks Operating Outside the Context of a Basic Service Set over IEEE Std 802.11", RFC 8691, DOI 10.17487/RFC8691, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8691>.
[RFC9365]
Jeong, J., Ed., "IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem Statement and Use Cases", RFC 9365, DOI 10.17487/RFC9365, , <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9365>.

8.2. Informative References

[TS23287]
3GPP, "Architecture enhancements for 5G System (5GS) to support Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services", TS 23.287 V17.5.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23287.htm>.
[TS23303]
3GPP, "Proximity-based services (ProSe); Stage 2", TS 23.303 V17.0.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23303.htm>.
[TS23304]
3GPP, "Proximity based Services (ProSe) in the 5G System (5GS)", TS 23.304 V17.5.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23304.htm>.
[TS23501]
3GPP, "System Architecture for the 5G System (5GS); Stage 2", TS 23.501 V17.7.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/23501.htm>.
[TS24587]
3GPP, "Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) services in 5G System (5GS); Stage 3", TS 24.587 V18.0.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/24587.htm>.
[TS38300]
3GPP, "NR; NR and NG-RAN Overall description; Stage 2", TS 38.300 V17.3.0, , <https://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/38300.htm>.

Appendix A. Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government, Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) (No. 2023R1A2C2002990).

This work was supported in part by Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)(No. 2022-0-01015, Development of Candidate Element Technology for Intelligent 6G Mobile Core Network).

This work was supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (No. 2022R1I1A1A01053915).

Appendix B. Contributors

This document is a group work, greatly benefiting from inputs and texts by Erik Kline (Aalyria) and Eric Vyncke (Cisco). The authors sincerely appreciate their contributions.

The following are coauthors of this document:

Bien Aime Mugabarigira
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu
Suwon
Gyeonggi-Do
16419
Republic of Korea
Tae (Tom) Oh
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
One Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5603
United States of America

Authors' Addresses

Jaehoon Paul Jeong (editor)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
2066 Seobu-Ro, Jangan-Gu
Suwon
Gyeonggi-Do
16419
Republic of Korea
Yiwen Chris Shen
School of Global Studies
Kyungsung University
309, Suyeong-Ro, Nam-Gu
Busan
48434
Republic of Korea
Sri Gundavelli
Cisco
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
United States of America