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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - global5g.org (Global vision, standardisation stakeholder engagement in 5G)

Teaser

Objective 1 – Design, implement, and maintain a “Standardisation Tracker tool” dedicated to monitoring all relevant standardisation efforts related to specific vertical industries. Objective 2 – Implement a multi stakeholder engagement plan involving key players...

Summary

Objective 1 – Design, implement, and maintain a “Standardisation Tracker tool” dedicated to monitoring all relevant standardisation efforts related to specific vertical industries.
Objective 2 – Implement a multi stakeholder engagement plan involving key players within the 5G ecosystem by increasing understanding of new requirements from vertical industry.
Objective 3 – Create a “Technology Tracker” to monitor trials and testbeds, maximising the result of R&I projects and identifying gaps in technology and standardisation as priorities for future activities.
Objective 4 – Provide valid recommendations for future R&I actions which help shape the socio-economic impact of 5G services and technologies for the market after-mapping technology and vertical requirements.
Objective 5 – Identify potential gaps and provide recommendations for future investments in 5G, including economic sustainability, creating a sustainability path with credible engagement drivers.
Objective 6 – Play a supporting role in the policy, regulatory & legal frameworks and contribute to shaping up the global 5G-PPP discussions through the Expert Advisory Group (EAG).
Objective 7 – Harmonise the activities with currently running EC funded initiatives.

Work performed

The 5G PPP Pre-Standardization WG has recognised Global5G.org as a key contributor to its monitoring of contributions to the 5G standardisation process. As a result, Global5G.org works closely with the Chair, Technology Board and Steering Board to define priorities for such analysis. Contacts have been made throughout the standards WGs, with particular emphasis on intra-Vertical WGs (e.g. automotive) to set up mechanisms for continuous monitoring of standardisation efforts and tracking of key standardisation issues (such as C-V2V versus IEEE802.11p). Ongoing design of the Standards Cartography for the web-based visualisation tool for illuminating standards activity throughout the verticals. This will form the basis for reporting on 5G PPP and EU industry contributions to 5G standardisation. Work is coordinated through the 5G IA Pre-Standardization WG. Extending the community of standards specialists across relevant organisations, particularly 3GPP to track progress made at Plenaries and on-going activities.
Assisting 5G PPP in identifying representative use cases from each vertical sector and feeding them into our Verticals Cartography analyses, in order to make requirements and synergies across verticals more transparent.
Global5G.org has also taken initial steps in interacting with the 5G IA Verticals TF to support and complement vertical stakeholder engagement.
Assisting the 5G PPP in sharing data on their planned trials for the Verticals Cartography, the development of which is coordinated through the 5G PPP Technology Board.
Setting up first contacts with key technological working groups in order to observe and flag uses of new technologies or missing use; for example, the new Spectrum Working Group and its questionnaire activities on the use of beamforming technologies and access to mmW frequency bands.
Vertical Cartography activities are setting up the enabling mechanisms for performing analyses (such as Market Technology Readiness Levels, a methodology co-developed by partner Trust-IT, for evaluating current levels of market readiness and potential impact).
Through the Vertical Cartography activities (see Objective 4), complemented by broad-based participation in vertical working groups, and with continuing strong links to Phase 1 projects and establishment of links to Phase 3 projects, Global5G has enabled the capability to identify and promote valid sustainability routes.
Through the initial country profiling led by IDC, Global5G.org is monitoring 5G planning, investments, regulatory aspects and expected deployments across the EU.
Tracking, commenting, and disseminating the COCOM report on the regulatory landscape surrounding 5G implementation.
Establishing a synergy with the Small Cell Forum on data sharing and dissemination of findings.
Dissemination of information on key policy / regulatory / and legal issues through our webinars and site.
Global5G has created a strong, deeply and broadly rooted network of connections to the relevant EC initiatives, including broad coverage of Working Groups and strong liaisons with companion 5G coordination activities (e.g. To-Euro-5G).

Final results

In Year 1, the Global5G.org web platform was launched and configured according to the reoriented directions of Global5G.org as a support environment across vertical industries, whereby Global5G personnel entered into Working Groups on key horizontal issues: in particular, personnel entered the pre-standardisation working groups (also in key industries such as automotive), and the newly created Spectrum WG. In this way, the possibility of identifying important transversal themes early and signalling them across verticals going forward was ensured.
Global5G has strongly and continuously contributed to the 5G IA Pre-Standardization Working Group over the course of Year 1, and contributed personnel to the vertical industry working groups in such a way as to ensure broad coverage of standardisation activities occurring throughout the 5G verticals environment. This activity has been complemented by the launch of the vertical cartography activities, which intensified toward the end of Year 1 and are resulting in a broad-based capture of verticals, associated use cases, and relevant domain-specific standards, promoting a harmonization effect across the 5G standardisation landscape.
Year 1 has culminated in the organisation of a full-day 5G Verticals Workshop at the EuCNC Conference in June 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The workshop brought together stakeholders from the vertical markets in focus of Global5G from around Europe and Asia, constituting the first of the major vertical stakeholder events in the Global5G planning. Year 1 also brought Global5G.org into a strong supporting role in the organization of the Cloudscape conference in Brazil, contributing both organizational support and content in the form of position statements in key verticals that are underrepresented in pure European contexts but more important in other global regions (such as agribusiness verticals in various forms, ranging from transport to cultivation efficiency).
Progress against this expected impact is still in preliminary form at the end of Year 1 of the project, whereby emphasis has been on laying the foundations for the eventual development of the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (SRIA) later in the project. Activities have consisted primarily of setting up the monitoring and tracking mechanisms for the trials and testbeds that are already ongoing and those which are starting up (e.g. as part of Phase 3). In addition, the vertical cartography activities are also part of the foundational actions that will provide the basis for the development of the SRIA. Year 1 experience has highlighted a quickly-developing 5G strategic environment, both in terms of research agendas and business evolution, leading us to believe that a statically planned SRIA development will prove inadequate. Thus the emphasis on the monitoring and tracking mechanisms in Year 1, so that the SRIA development activities can change course as new information becomes available from the trials, testbeds, vertical standardisation efforts, etc.

Website & more info

More info: https://www.global5g.org/.