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TR-069 Family of Specifications



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5.2 TR-069 Family of Specifications

5.2.1 Description


The Broadband Forum has developed a series of specifications that have been termed the TR-069 Family of Specifications. These specifications provides the capability to manage CPEs within the connected home. MR-239 Broadband Forum Value Proposition for Connected Home [i.14] provides an overview of the value proposition for utilizing the TR-069 family of specifications for the connected home.

5.2.2 Architecture


The TR-069 family of specifications is anchored by the TR-069 [i.13] specification for the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP) protocol. TR-143 [i.33] for diagnostic tests. TR-131 [i.32] for requirements related to the ACS North Bound Interface.

In addition Service Providers are increasingly interested in retrieving large quantities of data from their installed CPE base at regular intervals. The amount of data being requested represents a significant portion of the CPE’s data model and is thus a large amount of data. In response to this, the Broadband Forum has documented a data collection solution in TR-232 Bulk Data Collection [i.15]. This specification is based on the IPDR protocol from the TMForum.

Devices within the Connected Home are managed via a set of data models for CWMP Enabled Devices. These data models are anchored by TR-181 [i.34] which defines the objects and attributes for management for most capabilities offered by a device (e.g., physical interfaces, bridging and routing, firewalls, NAT, software modules). Likewise services and capabilities specific to a type of device are included in a separate set of specifications. For example, CWMP enabled STB are managed using TR-135 [i.35]; Femto cell devices are managed using TR-196 [i.38]; VoIP capable devices are managed using TR-104 [i.36]. Not all devices within the Connected Home are CWMP enabled; in this situation TR-069 provides the capability for a CWMP enabled device to act a proxy for the device.

Figure 5.2.1: TR-069 Family of Specifications


5.2.2.1 TR-069 Proxy Management


CWMP can be extended to devices that do not have a native CWMP Endpoint of their own, but instead support management of devices with another management protocol or “Proxy Protocol”. A CPE Proxier is a CPE that supports a CWMP Endpoint(s) and also supports one or more Proxy Protocols (example services include UPnP DM, Z-Wave etc.). A CPE Proxier uses these Proxy Protocols to manage the devices connected to it, i.e. the Proxied Devices. This approach is designed to support Proxy Protocols of all types that can exist in the CPE network now or in the future. Annex J of the TR-069 [i.13] provides an overview of CWMP Proxy Management.

Figure 5.2.2: Proxy management terminology


5.2.2.1.1 Proxied Device Deployment Archirecture

Figure 5.2.4: TR-069 UPnP DM Proxied Device depicts an example scenario where a proxied device that supports the UPnP DM protocol is managed using CWMP.

Figure 5.2.3: TR-069 UPnP DM Proxied Device

The entities include the Service Provider OSS/BSS systems that interface with the ACS (1); the CWMP and IPDR protocols between the ACS and the TR-069 enabled CPE (2) and the Home Area Network protocol UPnP (3).

5.2.3 Reference points


The CWMP enabled devices in the Connected Home typically communicates with three (3) entities, the ACS, OSS/BSS and devices within the Connected Home via standardized reference points.

These references points are defined as:



  • ACS to CPE

  • CPE to BSS

  • CPE to Device



Figure 5.2.4: TR-069 Reference Points

5.2.4 Protocols

5.2.4.1 ACS to CPE Protocol


The protocol that is supported on the ACS to CPE reference point is CWMP as defined in BBF TR-069 [i.13]. CWMP takes a layered approach to the protocol based on several standard protocols for transport and exchange of messages. The protocol stack defined byCWMP is shown in Figure 5.2.5. A brief description of each layer is provided in Table 5.2.1.

Figure 5.2.5: Protocol stack



Layer

Description

CPE/ACS Application

The application uses the CPE WAN Management Protocol on the CPE and ACS, respectively. The application is locally defined and not specified as part of the CPE WAN Management Protocol.

RPC Methods

The specific RPC methods that are defined by the CPE WAN Management Protocol. These methods are specified in CPE WAN Management Protocol.

SOAP

A standard XML-based syntax used here to encode remote procedure calls. Specifically SOAP 1.1, as specified in Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1.

HTTP

HTTP 1.1, as specified in RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.

TLS

The standard Internet transport layer security protocol. Specifically, TLS 1.2 (Transport Layer Security) as defined in RFC 5246, The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol, Version 1.2 (or a later version). Note that previous versions of this specification referenced SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0.

TCP/IP

Standard TCP/IP.

Table 5.2.1: Protocol layer summary

5.2.4.2 CPE to BSS


The protocol that is supported on the CPE to BSS reference point is the IPDR protocol. The IPDR reference architecture is presented in Figure 5.2.6 is defined in TMForum IPDR Service Specification Design Guide [i.16]. The figure depicts a Service Element communicating to an IPDR Recorder that sends messages to the IPDR Transmitter and optionally to an IPDR Store. TR-232[i.15] utilizes the A and D interfaces of this specification where the Service Element is a device within the Connected Home.

Figure 5.2.6: IPDR Reference Architecture

From the perspective of the Broadband Forum, the CPE or device is the Service Element and IPDR Exporter. The IPDR Data Collector is the BSS. As described in Annex A IPDR Theory of Operaton of TR-232[i.15], the IPDR documentation clarifies that the following scenario, where the Service Element directly communicates to the BSS, is valid and simply means that the IPDR Recorder and IPDR Transmitter (collectively the IPDR Exporter in this use case) are all incorporated into the Service Element. The Service Element is permitted to directly interface with the BSS if it supports the “D” interface specifications including backing stores and retransmission of IPDR documents.



Figure 5.2.7: Simplified IPDR Architecture

5.2.4.2.1 IPDR Reference Points

TR-232[i.15] defines 6 interfaces and 4 defintions for the IPDR Reference Model:

Interface

Description

A

Vendor proprietary. High-volume with high granularity void of context. This interface is not part of the IPDR Protocol.

B

IPDR Data Interface. From IPDR Recorders to IPDR Stores or IPDR Transmitters.

C

IPDR Store Export Interface.

D

BSS Interface. XML or XDR data from IPDR Exporter to IPDR Collector

E

Settlement Interface. Connects Service Delivery Business Management Systems.

F

Financial System Interface. This interface is not part of the IPDR Protocol.

Table 5.2.2: IPDR Interfaces

The IPDR File Transfer Protocol uses FTP or HTTP to transfer files that contain IPDR records from the SE to the BSS. The IPDR Streaming Protocol uses SCTP or TCP to transfer IPDR records from the SE to the BSS using highly efficient XDR encoding as described in the IPDR/XDR Encoding Format document or an XML encoding as described in the IPDR/XML File Encoding Format document.


5.2.4.3 CPE to Device Protocol


The TR-069 proxy mechanism is designed to incorporate any protocol for area networks within the customer premises. The following protocols have been standardized or are currently in development:

  • UPnP DM

  • ZigBee
5.2.4.3.1 UPnP DM Proxy

The CPE Proxier consists of three logical modules: CWMP client, TR-069/UPnP DM Proxy Module and UPnP DM Control Point. CWMP requests received by the CWMP client from the ACS are translated by the TR-069/UPnP DM Proxy Module to the UPnP DM actions, and then passed to the UPnP DM Control Point to be sent to the UPnP DM devices. When an UPnP action response or event is received by the UPnP DM Control Point, the action response and event is passed to the TR-069/UPnP DM Proxy Module to be converted to a CWMP response or sent to the ACS using the CWMP event notification mechanism.



Figure 5.2.8: TR-069/UPnP DM Proxy Management Architecture
5.2.4.3.2 ZigBee Proxy

Figure 5.2.9 and Figure 5.2.10 present the principle and an example basic sequence for the management of ZigBee devices by using TR-069 with the ZigBee data model.

The ZigBee devices reside behind a GW and communicate with the ACS via this GW. The GW resides normally in a CPE such as a broadband router (home gateway or business gateway). The GW has a proxy function to change a CWMP message to a ZDO function invocation based on the ZigBee data model object. The proxy function changes messages by referring to a mapping of ZigBee data model objects and CWMP methods to ZDO functions and their parameters. A management example is shown in Figure 5.2.10.



Figure 5.2.9: Usage of the data model to manage ZigBee devices with TR-069



Figure 5.2.10: Example sequence diagram of ZigBee management with TR-069



This example shows how the ACS gets a ZigBee device’s network address by using TR-069 communication based on the ZigBee data model. The ACS sends a CWMP message which includes the “GetParameterValues” as a method and the part of the ZigBee data model “Device.ZigBee.ZDO.{i}.NetworkAddress”, which refers to the network address, as a parameter name. The proxy function in the GW changes the received message to a ZDO handling message to call some ZDO function on the ZC. The ZC manages the ZigBee devices according to the called ZDO function and sends the result (the searched network address, in this case) to the proxy. The proxy function changes the ZDO management result to a CWMP message which is denoted in Figure 5.2.10 as “GetParameterValuesResponse”. The name of the parameter list is “Device.ZigBee.ZDO.{i}.NetworkAddress” and the value of the parameter list is “0x0fE3” (network address instance).

5.2.5 Functions


The TR-069 family of specifications is intended to support a variety of functionalities to manage a collection of devices, including the following primary capabilities:

  • Auto-configuration and dynamic service provisioning

  • Software/firmware image management

  • Software module management

  • Status and performance monitoring

  • Diagnostics

  • Proxy Management

  • Bulk data collection


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