“Smart Networks in the Context of NGI”

“Smart Networks in the Context of NGI”

Sep 2020 Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2021-27 European Technology Platform NetWorld2020 “Smart Networks in the context of NGI” 2020 Networld2020 SRIA Sep 2020 Table of Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 5 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 6 1.1 Global Megatrends – Societal Challenges ............................................................................ 6 1.1.1 Trends related to the natural environment ................................................................. 7 1.1.2 Trends related to the political system ......................................................................... 8 1.1.3 Trends related to the education system ..................................................................... 9 1.1.4 Trends related to the economic system ..................................................................... 9 1.1.5 Trends related to the media-based and culture-based public system ...................... 11 1.2 Strong Contribution to the European Economy .................................................................. 12 1.3 Smart Networks Vision ........................................................................................................ 12 2. Policy Frameworks and Key Performance and Value Indicators towards 2030 ........................... 16 2.1 Policy Objectives ................................................................................................................. 16 2.1.1 Global view: UN Sustainable Development Goals ................................................... 16 2.1.2 The Green Deal ........................................................................................................ 17 2.1.3 Full industrial digitization and support of vertical industries ...................................... 18 2.2 Societal, Economical and Business Drivers for 6G ............................................................ 19 2.2.1 Integrate new technologies and support emerging applications ............................... 24 2.3 Mapping of the UN SDGs to ICT development ................................................................... 24 2.4 Key Performance Indicators (Access, Network, Management) .......................................... 29 2.5 Technical Standard Areas ................................................................................................... 34 2.6 Key Value Indicators ........................................................................................................... 35 3. Human Centric and Vertical Services ............................................................................................ 38 3.1 Emerging applications and use cases ................................................................................ 38 3.2 Digital Service Transformation ............................................................................................ 44 3.3 From Software-Centric to Human-Centric Internet Services .............................................. 46 3.4 Services Everywhere, Infrastructure No Limits ................................................................... 48 3.5 Network-Unaware Vertical Services ................................................................................... 50 3.6 Extreme Automation and Real-Time Zero-Touch Service Orchestration ........................... 51 3.6.1 Enhanced policy management including huge data analytics .................................. 51 3.6.2 Artificial Intelligent driven orchestration and network management .......................... 52 3.6.3 Cloud-native management and serverless approach applied to NFV orchestration . 52 3.7 Service Injection Loop ......................................................................................................... 53 4. System Architecture ...................................................................................................................... 54 4.1 Evolution of Networks and Services ................................................................................... 54 4.2 System Architecture Vision: Towards Smart Green Systems ............................................. 57 4.3 Virtualised Network Control for Increased Flexibility .......................................................... 59 4.3.1 Programmability is Control ....................................................................................... 59 4.3.2 Separation of control/controllability .......................................................................... 60 4.3.3 Multi-Tenancy and Ownership ................................................................................. 60 4.3.4 Known Unknowns .................................................................................................... 61 4.3.5 Self-Preservation ...................................................................................................... 61 4.3.6 Research Challenges ............................................................................................... 62 4.4 Re-Thinking the Data & Forwarding Planes ........................................................................ 62 4.4.1 Design Considerations for an Evolved Data & Forwarding Plane ............................ 62 4.4.2 Key Research Questions ......................................................................................... 65 4.4.3 Recommendations for Actions ................................................................................. 66 4.5 Efficiency and Resource Management ............................................................................... 67 4.5.1 Network Slicing versus Network Capacity Planning ................................................. 67 4.5.2 Slicing Requires Conflict Resolution ........................................................................ 67 4.5.3 Elasticity: Slicing Efficiency Requires Runtime Scheduling ...................................... 68 4.5.4 Towards Green ICT .................................................................................................. 68 4.5.5 Research Challenges ............................................................................................... 69 4.6 AI/ML-based System Evolution ........................................................................................... 70 4.6.1 Proliferation of AIaaS in Network Operations ........................................................... 70 4.6.2 AIaaS Proliferation in Service Provisioning .............................................................. 71 4.6.3 Related Research Challenges ................................................................................. 72 4.6.4 Recommendations for Future Actions ...................................................................... 73 4.7 Deep Edge, Terminal and IoT Device Integration ............................................................... 74 5. Edge Computing and Meta-data ................................................................................................... 78 5.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 78 5.2 ETSI MEC evolution ............................................................................................................ 81 Final version Page 2 Networld2020 SRIA Sep 2020 5.3 Activities on MEC in other Standardization Bodies ............................................................. 82 5.4 NFV, SDN, orchestration ..................................................................................................... 82 5.5 Computing platform technologies ....................................................................................... 83 5.6 Containers and container orchestration .............................................................................. 85 5.7 Distributed services ............................................................................................................. 86 5.8 Edge, Mobile Edge Computing and Processing ................................................................. 86 5.9 Edge AI ................................................................................................................................ 87 6. Radio Technology and Signal Processing .................................................................................... 90 6.1 Spectrum Re-farming and Reutilisation .............................................................................. 90 6.2 Millimetre Wave System ...................................................................................................... 92 6.3 Optical Wireless Communication ........................................................................................ 94 6.4 Terahertz Communication ................................................................................................... 96 6.5 Massive and Ultra-Massive MIMO ...................................................................................... 98 6.6 Waveform, Multiple Access and Full-Duplex .................................................................... 101 6.7 Coding and Modulation ..................................................................................................... 103 6.8 Positioning and Sensing ...................................................................................................

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