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D6.3 – Second year report on standardization,

dissemination and exploitation achievements

Sébastien Ziegler, Anna Brékine

Document Number D6.3

Status Working/Draft/Final

Work Package WP 6

Deliverable Type Report

Date of Delivery 22.06.2018

Responsible MI & KDDI

Contributors Partner organizations

Dissemination level PU

5G!Pagoda D6.3 – Second year report on standardization, dissemination and exploitation achievements

5G!Pagoda Version 1.1 of 48

Authors in alphabetical order

Name Beneficiary e-mail

Afolabi Ibrahim Aalto [email protected]

Akihiro Nakao The University of Tokyo [email protected]

Bagaa Miloud Aalto [email protected]

Beijar Nicklas Ericsson [email protected]

Brékine Anna Mandat International [email protected]

Cau Eleonora Fraunhofer FOKUS [email protected]

Corici Marius Fraunhofer FOKUS [email protected]

Crettaz Cédric Mandat International [email protected]

Daisuke Okabe Hitachi [email protected]

Du Ping The University of Tokyo [email protected]

Eichhorn Fabian Fraunhofer FOKUS [email protected]

Hidenori Inouchi Hitachi [email protected]

Hiroshi Takezawa NESIC [email protected]

Itsuro Morita KDDI Research [email protected]

Kazuto Satou NESIC [email protected]

Kim Eunah Device Gateway [email protected]

Kota Kawahara Hitachi [email protected]

Ksentini Adlen Eurecom [email protected]

Kuklinski Slawomir Orange Polska [email protected]

Laghrissi Abdelquoddouss Aalto [email protected]

Magedanz Thomas Fraunhofer FOKUS [email protected]

Manon Mythili Mandat International [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]
























Masato Yamazaki NESIC [email protected]

Phyo May Thet KDDI Research [email protected]

Shu Yamamoto The University of Tokyo [email protected]

Takuro Sato Waseda University [email protected]

Taleb Tarik Aalto [email protected]

Toshitaka Tsuda Waseda University [email protected]

Yoshiaki Kiriha The University of Tokyo [email protected]

Yoshinori Kitatsuji KDDI Research [email protected]

Zaw Htike KDDI Research [email protected]

Ziegler Sébastien Mandat International [email protected]

Change History

Version Date Status Author (Company) Description

V0.1 December 2018 Initial draft Anna Brékine (MI) Initial draft

V.02 April 2018 Working

document

Anna Brékine (MI), Mythili

Menon (MI), Sébastien

Ziegler (MI)

First inputs on standardization

V.03 May 2018 Working

document

Anna Brékine (MI), Mythili

Menon (MI), Sébastien

Ziegler (MI)

Dissemination, standardization and

exploitation inputs.

V.1 June 2018 Final draft Sébastien Ziegler (MI), Anna

Brékine (MI)

Editing and Final draft

V.1.1 30 June 2018 Final Tarik Taleb Revision and Final draft













Executive Summary

This document outlines the standardization, dissemination and exploitation achievements and activities

during the second year of the 5G!Pagoda project. It provides an overview of the main achievements of the

Work Package 6.



List of acronyms

Acronym Full text

3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

5GMF Fifth Generation Mobile Communication Promotion Forum

AAA Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting

API Application Programming Interface

DG Device Gateway

E2E Exchange-to-Exchange

EIP-SCC European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

EU European Union

FG Focus Group

GIOTS Global IoT Summit

GUI Graphical User Interface

ICC The International Conference on Communications

ICN Information-Centric Networking

ICNRG Information Centric Networking Research Group

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IEEE-CSCN The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IMT-2020 International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 Strategy

INT Interoperability Group

IoT Internet of Things

IPv6 Internet Protocol Version 6

IRTF Internet Research Task Force

ISG Industry Specification Group

ITU-T The study groups of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector

JCA-IoT Joint Coordination Activity on Internet of Things

KDDI KDDI corporation

LWM2M Lightweight M2M

MAC Medium Access Control

MI Mandat International

MVNO Mobile Virtual Network Operator

NFV Network Functions Virtualization

OASC Open & Agile Smart Cities

OPNFV Open Platform for NFV

PPP Public Private Partnership

QoS Quality of Service

R&D Research and Development

RAN Radio Access Network

SA System Architecture

SDN Software-Defined Networking

SDO Standards Development Organizations

SG Study Group

TBaaS Testbed as service

TR Technical Report

TS Technical Specification

TSAG Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

TSG Technical Specification Groups

TSG SA The TSG Service and System Aspects



TTC Telecommunication Technology Committee

UDG Universal Device Gateway

UT University of Tokyo

WG Working Group

WP Work Package



Table of Contents

1. Introduction .................................................................................................................... 11

1.1. 5G!Pagoda in a Nutshell ............................................................................................................................. 11

1.2. Purpose and Scope of WP6 ....................................................................................................................... 11

1.3. Purpose and Scope of the Task 6.1 on Media and Collaboration Tools ................................ 12

1.4. Purpose and Scope of the Task T6.2 on Dissemination, Communication, and

Standardization ............................................................................................................................................................. 12

1.5. Purpose and Scope of the Task T6.3 on Commercial Exploitation and Partnership

Development.................................................................................................................................................................. 12

1.6. Purpose and Scope of the Present Deliverable ................................................................................. 12

2. Dissemination ................................................................................................................. 13

2.1 Dissemination Objectives ........................................................................................................................... 13

2.2 Website .............................................................................................................................................................. 13

2.3 Social Media .................................................................................................................................................... 14

2.3.1 Twitter....................................................................................................................................................... 14

2.3.2 Facebook ................................................................................................................................................. 14

2.3.3 LinkedIn ................................................................................................................................................... 15

2.4 Conference and Events Outreach ........................................................................................................... 17

2.4.1 FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017 ........................................................................................................... 17

2.4.2 Helsinki5GWeek ................................................................................................................................... 17

2.4.3 IoT Week 2018 ...................................................................................................................................... 18

2.5 Scientific Publications .................................................................................................................................. 19

2.6 Presentations ................................................................................................................................................... 20

3. Standardization .............................................................................................................. 21

3.1. Standardization Objectives ........................................................................................................................ 22

3.2. Standardization Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 23

3.3. Leveraging Testbeds for Standardization ............................................................................................ 25

3.4. Standardization Achievements at the ITU ........................................................................................... 26

3.4.1. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.IMT2020-BM ......................................................................................................... 26

3.4.2. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.multiSL ..................................................................................................................... 27

3.4.3. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.NSOM ...................................................................................................................... 27



3.4.4. ITU-T SG 13 – other activities ......................................................................................................... 27

3.4.5. ITU-T Study Group 20 ........................................................................................................................ 28

3.5. Standardization Achievements at 3GPP ............................................................................................... 29

3.5.1. 3GPP TR 23.799: “Study on Architecture for Next Generation System” ........................ 29

3.5.2. 3GPP TS.23.501 “System architecture for the 5G system” .................................................. 29

3.5.3. 3GPP TS.23.502 “Procedures for the 5G system” .................................................................... 29

3.5.4. 3GPP TS.23.503 “Policy for the charging control for the 5G system; stage 2” (UT, KDDI)

30

3.6. Standardization Achievements at IETF ................................................................................................. 30

3.6.1. Gap Analysis for Network Slicing (draft-qiang-netslices-gap-analysis-00), Internet-

Draft, informational.................................................................................................................................................... 30

3.6.2. Network Slicing - Revised Problem Statement (draft-galis-netslices-revized-

problem-statement-01), Internet-Draft, informational ............................................................................... 30

3.6.3. Network Slicing - Revised Problem Statement (draft-galis-netslices-revized-

problem-statement-03), Internet-Draft, informational ............................................................................... 30

3.7. Main Contributions to Standardization Bodies ................................................................................. 31

3.8. Standardization Strategy for the Upcoming Period ........................................................................ 32

4. Partnerships, Liaisons and Cooperation ....................................................................... 33

4.1. Strategy and Objectives .............................................................................................................................. 33

4.2. Partnerships ..................................................................................................................................................... 33

4.2.1. Existing Partnerships and Ongoing Activities .......................................................................... 33

4.3. Liaison and Cooperation with Other Organizations ....................................................................... 34

4.3.1. IoT Forum ................................................................................................................................................ 34

4.3.2. TM Forum................................................................................................................................................ 34

4.3.3. IoT Lab ...................................................................................................................................................... 34

4.3.4. Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) ................................................................................................... 34

4.3.5. Open Source MANO (OSM) ............................................................................................................ 35

4.3.6. GSMA Slicing Alliance ........................................................................................................................ 35

4.3.7. Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) ............................................................... 35

4.4. Liaison and Cooperation with Other Research Projects ................................................................ 35

5G-PPP 35

4.4.1. 5G ENSURE ............................................................................................................................................. 35

4.4.2. Coherent .................................................................................................................................................. 36



Other projects .............................................................................................................................................................. 36

4.4.3. F-Interop .................................................................................................................................................. 36

4.4.4. ANASTACIA ............................................................................................................................................ 36

5. Exploitation ..................................................................................................................... 37

5.1. Exploitation Strategy .................................................................................................................................... 37

5.2. Exploitation Survey ....................................................................................................................................... 37

5.3. Collective Exploitation Achievements ................................................................................................... 39

5.4. Individual Exploitation Achievements and Plans .............................................................................. 41

5.4.1. Aalto University .................................................................................................................................... 41

5.4.2. Ericsson .................................................................................................................................................... 41

5.4.3. Device Gateway SA ............................................................................................................................. 41

5.4.4. EURECOM ............................................................................................................................................... 42

5.4.5. Fraunhofer-FOKUS .............................................................................................................................. 42

5.4.6. Mandat International ......................................................................................................................... 42

5.4.7. Orange ..................................................................................................................................................... 43

5.4.8. University of Tokyo ............................................................................................................................. 43

5.4.9. KDDI .......................................................................................................................................................... 43

5.4.10. Waseda University ............................................................................................................................... 43

5.4.11. NESIC ........................................................................................................................................................ 44

5.4.12. Hitachi ...................................................................................................................................................... 44

6. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 45

Annex 1 - 5G!Pagoda Exploitation Plan Survey ................................................................. 46



Table of Figures

Figure 1 - 5G!Pagoda website ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Figure 2 - 5G!Pagoda Twitter account ...................................................................................................................... 14

Figure 3 - 5G!Pagoda Facebook account ................................................................................................................. 15

Figure 4 - 5G!Pagoda LinkedIn account ................................................................................................................... 16

Figure 5 - Live demos at FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017 ...................................................................................... 17

Figure 6 - Helsinki5GWeek 2017 ................................................................................................................................. 18

Figure 7 - 5G!Pagoda standardization process sequence ................................................................................. 21

Figure 8 - Integrated exploitation strategy for 5G!Pagoda .............................................................................. 37

Figure 9 - Testbed for IoT and video usecase ........................................................................................................ 39

Figure 10 - UT – NESIC Testbed for network slicing............................................................................................ 40

Figure 11 - Security VNF on MVNO slice ................................................................................................................. 40

Table of Tables

Table 1 - Summary of articles and papers for dissemination purposes ...................................................... 19

Table 2 - Summary of presentations used by the partners for dissemination ......................................... 20

Table 3 - Summary of the proposed standardization activities ...................................................................... 23

Table 4 - Summary of the main SDOs and lead partners for the standardization work items .......... 24

Table 5 - Finalized standardization strategy for 5G!Pagoda ............................................................................ 24

Table 6 - Summary of contributions used by the partners for standardization purposes (part 1) .. 31

Table 7 - Summary of contributions used by the partners for standardization purposes (part 2) .. 32



1. Introduction

1.1. 5G!Pagoda in a Nutshell

5G!Pagoda is a Horizon 2020 European and Japanese project. Its main goal is to research the possibilities

offered by Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) in the frame of

the future 5G mobile network. The top objectives of 5G!Pagoda are focused on:

The development of a scalable 5G slicing architecture to create and manage specialized network slices

composed on multi-vendor network functions. This is achieved through the development of a scalable

network slices management and orchestration framework for the network infrastructures, with control

plane and data plane programmability. The integration, the customization, the slices composition and run-

time management are made towards different testbeds or markets across Europe and Japan.

5G!Pagoda is searching for a coherent architecture between Europe and Japan for 5G and IoT testbeds. The

proposed developments are based on a common SDN/NFV architecture and provide several improvements

to the software network architecture. They prepare the next steps of the 5G technology beyond the

immediate NFV standardization and other advancements. This facilitates the integration within the end-to-

end network slices of various software components, using specific and flexible network functions flexibility

associated to an orchestrator. 5G!Pagoda is developing a coherent proof of concept with several testbeds

implemented in Japan and in Europe, using a uniform network orchestration and a set of software features

handling the virtualized network. The integration of the different testbeds will demonstrate all the

functionalities provided by the SDN/NFV technologies and will assist in the development of an aligned 5G-

oriented standardization roadmap for Japan and Europe.

1.2. Purpose and Scope of WP6

As specified in the Description of Actions, the Work Package 6 (WP6) is in charge of dissemination and

exploitation. It aims to:

• “Develop and maintain online collaboration tools and a website for the project.

• Identify, monitor, and contribute to relevant standardization bodies.

• Introduce 5G!Pagoda testbed at conferences, fairs, organized workshops, and other public events.

• Develop plans for commercial exploitation of the knowledge generated by the project.

• Publish the scientific and technical achievements of 5G!Pagoda at relevant conferences and in

magazines / journals.”



1.3. Purpose and Scope of the Task 6.1 on Media and Collaboration Tools

The Task 6.1 on Media and Collaboration tools has been led by Aalto and UT. It has sought to guarantee

fast and effective communication in the project through the administration of a common online

collaboration platform. Furthermore, in the second year of the project, Aalto has been responsible for

maintaining the 5G!Pagoda official website, the content management system, and other tools for

conference calls and collaborative editing. As WP6 leaders, MI and KDDI have been appointed responsible

for the dissemination of the 5G!Pagoda updates on social media.

1.4. Purpose and Scope of the Task T6.2 on Dissemination, Communication, and Standardization

During the second year of the project, the research sought to further build on the dissemination,

communication and standardization achievements of the previous year. Indeed, the first period allowed to

initiate the dissemination activities and to share the overall findings of 5G!Pagoda, scientific and technical,

in both industry and academia. These dissemination measures took various forms including: publications in

scientific journals and magazines, participations in international conferences and summits, the presentation

of the project in high-level workshops (with the participation of members of the public sector, the industry,

the H2020 community and academia), and the promotion of 5G!Pagoda-related activities and events on

social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn).

The Consortium believes that additional contributions in the field of dissemination and communication will

further increase the recognition of 5G!Pagoda and expose the project to a broader audience. In the second

period, all partners have continued their efforts to consolidate these achievements.

Close coordination between research projects and standardization organizations is an essential step for the

exploitation of results and for fostering innovation. The first year of the projects allowed for 5G!Pagoda

partners to work with various standardization bodies. The second year of the project intended to make

supplementary contributions to standardization in order to guarantee higher levels of recognition of the

project in the industrial sector, improve interoperability and establish economies of scale for the 5G!Pagoda

applications.

1.5. Purpose and Scope of the Task T6.3 on Commercial Exploitation and Partnership Development

Taking advantage of the diverse contact list of the participating partners and of the new relationships

established in the first year of the project, this task builds partnerships with a variety of relevant

stakeholders, especially external IoT service providers, which could be included in the testbed of

5G!Pagoda. The purpose of such partnerships is to reach decisions and agreements regarding the

commercialization paths and business models, discussed in WP2.

1.6. Purpose and Scope of the Present Deliverable

The present deliverable is a continuation of deliverable D6.2. It presents the dissemination, standardization

and exploitation achievements and activities during the second year of the 5G!Pagoda project.



2. Dissemination

2.1 Dissemination Objectives

Dissemination and outreach activities are indispensable to guarantee the success and the future of the

5G!Pagoda project. The 5G!Pagoda dissemination activities result from a collective strategy coordinated

between the various work packages, with a strong emphasis on creating a wide impact both on the

European and the international level.

Furthermore, 5G!Pagoda has advanced a set of measures destined at improving the outreach of the project

in an organized way: through an effective integration of dissemination, outreach and promotional activities

with standardization work.

The dissemination strategy of 5G!Pagoda seeks to accomplish the following objectives:

• Promote the 5G!Pagoda architecture and research findings among key entities in the value chain and

through contributions in terms of standards to different standardization bodies (e.g., ITU-T, 3GPP, ETSI

NFV and IETF).

• Engage a broad R&D community to conduct further research into improving and extending the concepts

and components of the 5G!Pagoda architecture.

• Promote the creation of the ecosystem that will foster the growth of the 5G!Pagoda vision.

2.2 Website

In the second year of the project, the 5G!Pagoda website (see Figure 1) served as the principle source of

information about the project. In respect with the objectives of T 6.1, the official website is hosted and

administered by the University of Aalto. It updates both the Consortium members and the general public

about the various work packages, dissemination activities, and 5G!Pagoda related events.

Figure 1 - 5G!Pagoda website



2.3 Social Media

In the first year of the project, three social media channels have been created in order to promote

5G!Pagoda-related activities: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. These platforms are managed by KDDI and

seek to update the general public on important events and on the research progress.

During the second year, the Consortium discussed the benefits of the use of social media for the project.

The objective behind the use of social media is to promote the project to the general public. Due to the

highly technical and specialized nature of the 5G!Pagoda, the Consortium decided to post non-technical

information only, such as current activities related to the project, as well as news about conferences and

events that the Consortium members participate in. The WP6 coleaders highlighted that currently the

majority of followers and posts for the project's social medias are coming from KDDI and MI. They invited

all partners to join the social media as followers and to use the social media to disseminate news.

2.3.1 Twitter

5G!Pagoda’s Twitter account (see Figure 2) seeks to promote related events and activities to the target

audiences through social media. In the second year, KDDI was responsible for updating the Twitter page.

The Twitter account for 5G!Pagoda project can be found by searching for the username “5GPagoda”.

Figure 2 - 5G!Pagoda Twitter account

2.3.2 Facebook

The 5G!Pagoda Facebook page (see Figure 3) disseminates project information and event activities to the

target audiences in an interactive manner. In the second year of the project, KDDI updated the Facebook

page. The 5G!Pagoda Facebook page can be found by typing “5G Pagoda” into Facebook’s search bar. The

direct link of 5G!Pagoda Facebook Page is: https://www.facebook.com/5GPagodaProject/.

https://www.facebook.com/5GPagodaProject/



Figure 3 - 5G!Pagoda Facebook account

2.3.3 LinkedIn

The LinkedIn page for 5G!Pagoda (see Figure 4) aims at promoting the project’s activities to the general

public through one of the leading professional platforms. In the second year of the project, KDDI was

responsible for updating the LinkedIn page. The LinkedIn page for 5G!Pagoda project can be found at

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/13310719/.

https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/13310719/



Figure 4 - 5G!Pagoda LinkedIn account



2.4 Conference and Events Outreach

The following section discusses the key activities relevant to 5G!Pagoda in terms of outreach.

2.4.1 FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017

The 8th FUSECO Forum took place on November 9 to 10, 2017, at the Fraunhofer FOKUS institute and was

a tremendous success. Being the grand finale of the 2nd Berlin 5G Week, over 180 experts from more than

30 countries participated in workshops and tutorials all about SDN / NFV, as well as edge and core software

networks and multi-access network technologies in 5G. Among them, industry leaders from Vodafone,

Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefonica.

Figure 5 - Live demos at FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2017

From industrial IoT applications via 5G to a working live 5G core network, over 15 demonstrations were

shown by the experts from the Fraunhofer FOKUS institute. In particular, the benefits and risks of the

emerging disruptively agile network and service environment were demonstrated through prototypes

developed within the 5G Berlin Testbed and also applications in the Berlin 5G Testfield Initiative driven by

the Senate of Berlin, as shown in Figure 5.

2.4.2 Helsinki5GWeek

IEEE 5G-IoT Summit Helsinki and the 2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking

(CSCN’17) were held in Helsinki on September 18-21, 2017 as part of the Helsinki5GWeek organized by

partners of 5G!Pagoda, with the MOSA!C Lab from Aalto University being the main organizer of the event

(see Figure 6).

The Helsinki5GWeek was an excellent networking and publicity event with strong presence of industry. It

offered a great opportunity for academics and industrial people to meet and exchange ideas and

information. Representatives of all main stakeholders in the future 5G ecosystem took part in the



Helsinki5Gweek, ranging from network vendors and operators to several expected 5G verticals: Nokia,

Ericsson, Huawei, AT&T, DoCoMo, Telenor, Orange, ABB, etc.

Helsinki5GWeek also delivered an extremely rich technical program discussing the emerging 5G mobile

communications systems, vertical services and softwarization, offering a dozen of technical sessions. The

IEEE CSCN’17 sessions consisted of technical papers reviewed and selected by an international technical

program committee representing both academia and industry, with a strong standardization background.

Figure 6 - Helsinki5GWeek 2017

2.4.3 IoT Week 2018

The IoT Week 2018 was hosted in Bilbao, Spain, from June 4 to 7 2018. MI organized a dedicated track of

sessions on 5G – IoT convergence, with the participation of Ericsson. The sessions were supported by the

TM Forum and the IoT Forum. The track was intended to prepare and pave the way towards a larger track

of session at the IoT Week 2019 in June 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark, at the conclusion of the 5G!Pagoda

research project.



2.5 Scientific Publications

As we have seen in the first stage of the research, scientific publications play an essential role in the

dissemination of 5G!Pagoda. In the second year of the project, the consortium members have submitted

26 scientific publications. The Table 1 below summarizes their contributions.

Table 1 - Summary of articles and papers for dissemination purposes



2.6 Presentations

Keynotes, presentations and tutorials also play an important role in the project’s dissemination. In the second year of the project, the partners have delivered 11 keynotes, 2 presentations, 1 tutorial and held 3 distinguished expert panels.

Table 2 - Summary of presentations used by the partners for dissemination



3. Standardization

The following chapter provides an overview of the standardization strategy. It formalizes the consultations

and discussions among the consortium members. As a first step, an initial standardization work plan has

been established, identifying what partner will contribute to what standardization process.

The strategy design started by taking into account all Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

mentioned in the Description of Action, including: ITU-T (Orange, MI, WU), IEEE (AU, MI), IETF (Ericsson),

3GPP (Ericsson, KDDI), ETSI (Orange), OpenAirInterface Alliance (EI), 5GMF (UT), IMT-2020 (UT).

Like for any other research projects, it is expected that the consortium adapts its standardization strategy

to the effective research achievements and outputs in order to submit relevant and qualitative

contributions to standardization processes.

According to the description of actions, the standardization strategy definition was planned for Month 18.

During the first 18 months, the main focus has been on research, technical development, and building a

strategy for standardization, dissemination and exploitation (defining the priorities, the strategy vision, the

coordination, as well as the identification of relevant partners). This process has been incremental since the

beginning of the project. After that period, the main goal is to disseminate and transfer relevant information

on the project towards global standardization processes in order to deliver a solid impact.

Figure 7 - 5G!Pagoda standardization process sequence

However, and as previously reported, the consortium took some advance by making a number of

contributions to standardization processes during the first year of activity, mainly by contributing to the

ITU-T and 3GPP. The second year provided the opportunity to refine and better focus the standardization

strategy. In the following sections we provide an overview of the strategy as agreed by the Consortium.

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3.1. Standardization Objectives

The main objectives of 5G!Pagoda in terms of standardization activities are:

• to disseminate relevant research outputs of the project to the global standardization arena;

• to give visibility to the project achievements and attract recognition of its results by a wide industry

community;

• to stimulate higher levels of interoperability and applicability;

• to identify and consider use of standardized technologies (i.e., frameworks and APIs);

The standardization activity is closely linked to the project technical developments.

Several discussions and consultations have been held to identify the potential contributions to SDOs. The

discussions took into account several factors, including:

• Evolution of the standardization landscape and agenda;

• Time and resource limitations;

• Effective technological achievements relevant for standardization;

• Interest and motivations of the partners.

These discussions led to several decisions:

• It has been agreed to focus on SDOs and work items that can be effectively influenced by the consortium

members within the scope and duration of the project.

• It has been agreed to focus on topics where several consortium members can work together, with a

priority for work items that can be mutually supported by European and Japanese partners.

• Finally, the consortium took into account the advice of the Reviewers provided during the first year

Review to privilege qualitative inputs rather than quantitative ones, by focusing on priority targets.



3.2. Standardization Strategy

All partners have been invited to indicate their interest for standardization activities. Six partners have

completed the survey form and identified topics to be worked on and contributed to. The following Table

3 summarizes the collected information:

Table 3 - Summary of the proposed standardization activities

Partner

Sta

nd

ard

izati

on

Lead

er

Topic

Imp

ort

an

ce

Level

Read

y t

o lead

SDO Existing Work items (if any)

ITU-T SG13

Q20/Q21

Not yet

3GPP SA2 WG Not yet

ITU-T SG13

Q20/Q21

Not yet

3GPP SA2 WG Not yet

ITU SG13 Q21 Not yet

3GPP SA2 WG Not yet

Device

Gateway

Eunah

Kim

Framework for IoT agents in

sliced networks

Rather

ImportantX ITU-T SG20

Not yet

Slice architecture and internal

components

Very

ImportantX

ITU-T SG13,

Q21

Y.IMT2020-MultiSL, Jeong Yun Kim

Slice oriented operations that are

used for slice selection, slice

stitching, slice subscription etc.

Rather

ImportantIETF

Slice management and

orchestration. It should focus on

multi-slice (multiple networks)

management and necessary

extensions to ETSI MANO (if any)

Very

ImportantX

ITU-T SG13,

Q21

Y.NSOM

Service requirements for mobile

communication system

Very

ImportantX 3GPP SA1 WG

TR22.861 “FS_SMARTER - massive

Internet of Things”,

TR22.862 “Feasibility study on new

services and markeets technology

enablers for critical communications;

Stage 1”,

TR22.863 “Feasibility study on new

services and markets technology

enablers for enhanced mobile broadband;

Stage 1”, and

TS22.261 “Service requirements for next

generation new services and markets”

Mobile core architecture

Very

ImportantX 3GPP SA2 WG

TS23.501 “System Architecture for the

5G System”,

TS23.502 “Procedures for the 5G

System”,

TS23.503 “Policy and Charging Control

Framework for the 5G System; Stage 2”

ITU-T - SG13

IETF - IRTF

ICNRG

Framework for IoT agents in

sliced networks

Rather

ImportantX ITU-T SG20

Slice oriented operations that are

used for slice selection, slice

stitching, slice subscription etc.

Rather

ImportantIETF

X

X

X

KDDI

Research,

Inc.

Yoshinori

Kitatsuji

Scalable Control and

Management

Very

Important

Data Plane ProgrammabilityVery

Important

Network Slicing ArchitectureVery

Important

Mythili

Menon,

Sébastien

Ziegler

Mandat

International

Orange

University of

Tokyo

Akihiro

Nakao,

Shu

Yamamot

o,

Yoshiaki

Kiriha

Slawomir

Kuklinski

Waseda

University

Toshitaka

Tsuda,

Takuro

ICN is the emerging network

technology that will provide with

attractive features for content

Rather

Important?



As a first result, the survey results highlighted that some SDOs raise more interest than others. The following

Table 4 synthetizes the results:

Table 4 - Summary of the main SDOs and lead partners for the standardization work items

It was agreed to focus on existing work items given the relative short time framework allotted to the

project’s standardization activities. Within the 3GPPP, it was decided to focus on SA2 as it pertains to the

architectural aspects. After consultation with the partners, the following strategy has been adopted:

1. To contribute to the ITU with focus on Study Groups 13 and 20.

2. To contribute to 3GPP with a focus on SA2

3. To follow up and consider contributions to IETF

The following Table 5 details the targeted contributions by the 5G!Pagoda members.

Table 5 - Finalized standardization strategy for 5G!Pagoda

SG13 SG20 SA1 SA2University of Tokyo X X

Waseda University X X

KDDI Research, Inc. X X

Orange X X

Device Gateway X

Mandat International X X X

4 2 1 2 3 0 0

IETF ETSIITU 3GPP

IEEE

Quest. Topic Existing Work Items New Topics Lead Supporter Testbed

Network Slicing Architecture UT MI, WU

Data Plane Programmability UT MI, WU

Scalable Control and Management UT MI, WU

Network Slicing

Architecture

(+ Data Plane

Programmability?)

Y.IMT2020-MultiSL UT &

Orange

MI, WU

(Eurecom TBC)?

Scalable Control and

Management

Y.NSOM UT &

Orange

MI, WU

(Eurecom TBC)?

Q22 ICN

TBD WU MI, UT, Orange

(Nessic, Hitatchi

TBC)

?

SG20 Q1 or 6Framework for IoT agents in sliced

networks

DG & MI OrangeYes

TR22.861 “FS_SMARTER - massive Internet

of Things”

KDDI

TR22.862 “Feasibility study on new services

and markeets technology enablers for critical

communications; Stage 1”,

KDDI

TR22.863 “Feasibility study on new services

and markets technology enablers for

enhanced mobile broadband; Stage 1”, and

KDDI

TS22.261 “Service requirements for next

generation new services and markets”

KDDI

Network Slicing

Architecture

TS23.501 “System Architecture for the 5G

System”

KDDI & UTYes

TS23.502 “Procedures for the 5G System” KDDI & UT

TS23.503 “Policy and Charging Control

Framework for the 5G System; Stage 2”

KDDI & UTYes

Network slicing

Slice oriented operations that are used

for slice selection, slice stitching, slice

subscription etc.

Orange MI, (DG TBC?),

UCL

IRTF ICNRG

ICN is the emerging network technology

that will provide with attractive features

for content delivery and IoT applications.

WasedaIETF

SDO

ITU-T

SG13

Q20

Q21

3GPP

SA1

SA2



3.3. Leveraging Testbeds for Standardization

Regarding the potential use of the 5G!Pagoda testbeds, two models have been identified. These are as

illustrated below:

Model A

Model A is related to testing and validating the 5G!Pagoda research results on its testbed before submitting

them to relevant SDOs.

Model B

Model B is related to testing and validating SDOs drafts on the 5G!Pagoda testbed and sharing the relevant

results with the SDOs.

Relevant SDOs are identified and a roadmap for impacting standards through the 5G!Pagoda testbed is

defined and agreed upon.

The project will leverage the testbed infrastructures developed and/or made accessible through the

partners of the consortium.



3.4. Standardization Achievements at the ITU

The standardization potential at the ITU is mainly located in the following groups: ITU-T Study Group 13

“Future networks including cloud computing, mobile and next-generation networks” and ITU-T Study Group

20 “Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities”. The consortium members contributed to

standardization documents of the ITU SG 13 mainly.

Study Group 13 focuses on the standardization work related to the next-generation networks (NGNs). It

also caters to the evolutionary trajectory of NGNs, while elaborating on future networks and network

aspects of mobile telecommunications.

Currently, SG13 has been standardizing future networks with the objective of service, data, environmental

and socio-economic awareness. While it earlier also included standardization work on IoT, following the

creation of ITU-T SG20, work related to IoT was subsequently transferred to SG20.

3.4.1. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.IMT2020-BM

In the second year of the project, Orange, MI and DG submitted the proposals for modification of business

model for network slicing in Y.IMT2020-BM:

1. Modification of the network slicing ecosystem in Y.IMT2020-BM by introducing the Network

Infrastructure Manager role separated from Network Slice Manager role. The Network Infrastructure

Manager integrates infrastructure of many providers and offers the combined resources to Network Slice

Manager. The Network Slice Manager may interact with multiple Network Infrastructure Managers.

2. Modification of the network slicing ecosystem in Y.IMT2020-BM, which identifies the case in which the

slice Blueprint Provider, VNF Providers and the Network Slice Manager are different entities. As a result,

the separated role of slice Blueprint Provider is defined.

3. Modification of the network slicing ecosystem in Y.IMT2020-BM, which identifies the case where the

Network Slice Service Subscriber is provided a Network Slice that is created over several domains

(administrative or technological). Such multi-domain slice may have a provider, which is different to single-

domain slice providers, as well as a multi-domain network slice manager, which is different from managers

of single-domain slices. Additionally, two situations should be distinguished:

• the multi-domain network slice manager requests creation of a multi-domain slice according to its

detailed multi-domain blueprint;

• the multi-domain network slice manager requests creation of single-domain slices according to local

single-domain blueprints managed by network slice managers in domains, and then coordinates

concatenation of single domain slices into a multi-domain one.



3.4.2. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.multiSL

In the second year of the project, Orange and MI submitted the proposal for modification of the framework

for the support of multiple network slicing in TD163 Y.multiSL. The contribution proposes the following

changes:

• Modification of the high-level description of network slicing in the Overview part and inclusion of multi-

actors operation (in addition to operators: tenants, 3rd parties).

• Addition of 2 new use cases for multiple network slicing: MVNO (multiple network slices of different

service properties used by the same MVNO with a set of common mechanisms, e.g. user authentication,

handover etc.) and multi-operator attachment of UE (ability of user’s terminal to request an attachment

to specific slice provided by its respective operator, with which the user has a subscription, on per-

service/application level).

• Addition of support of a multi-tenant aspect of sharing of NFs within slices to high-level requirements

of multiple Network slicing.

3.4.3. ITU-T SG 13 – Y.NSOM

In the second year of the project, Orange and MI submitted the proposal for modification of the mobile

network slicing orchestration and management framework in ITU-T Y.NSOM. The contribution proposes to

modify:

• the requirements for mobile network slicing lifecycle management by addition of support of single and

multiple services by slices;

• the requirements for mobile network slicing deployment by addition of separation of slice and services

lifecycles, fast creation of slices on demand and creation of single or multiple domain slices;

• the requirements for mobile network slicing automation by modification of the requirement for

automated healing and scaling actions;

• the functional description of slice management and orchestration by adding the slice management

functions to be implemented within the slice, to the slice blueprint;

• the functional description of network function management by adding the slice network function

management to the slice as its part.

3.4.4. ITU-T SG 13 – other activities

In the second year, Waseda participated in ITU-T SG13/Q.22 activity and submitted the proposal entitled

“Proposal to Initiate a New Work Item on the Requirements in ICN Message Content and Naming Scheme

for Edge Computing and Service Chaining”. This was accepted as a new working item, and Waseda

University was assigned the editor position. Although the outcomes of 5G!Pagoda were not yet included,

the base ground for submission of Waseda’s achievements was established. Waseda will submit the

contribution based on the 5G!Pagoda project to this working item in the third year.



Prof. Nakao from The University of Tokyo is an Associate rapporteur of Q21/13 “Network Softwarization

Including Software-Defined Networking, Network Slicing and Orchestration”. He has led the standardization

discussions on network softwarization and has contributed to the development of a draft recommendation

ITU-T Y.3150 (ex Y.IMT2020-NetSoft) “High level technical characteristics of network softwarization for IMT-

2020”.

3.4.5. ITU-T Study Group 20

ITU-T Study Group 20 on Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities and communities was created in 2015. It

follows up on the work initiated by the ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities, which completed its

tenure in 2015. Currently, SG 20 conducts research and works on the standardization requirements of IoT

application within the smart city domain.

Since its inception, SG20 has been developing international standards implemented globally to enable the

coordinated development of IoT technologies, including machine-to-machine communications and

ubiquitous sensor networks. It also focuses on the end-to-end architectures for IoT and promotes

interoperability of IoT applications and datasets employed by various vertically oriented industry sectors,

especially in the urban realm.

In line with the work conducted within SG20, a contribution on the work conducted on network

infrastructures within 5G!Pagoda was submitted by MI to SG20 under Q3/20 on “Architectures,

Management, Protocols and Quality of Service”. It was proposed by the contribution to consider the

inclusion of this work into draft Recommendations and Supplements. This contribution will be further

discussed at ITU-T SG20 Q3/20 e-meetings.



3.5. Standardization Achievements at 3GPP

3GPP is a powerful standardization body and has been actively working on 5G. KDDI mainly participates and

contributes in the following work items.

3.5.1. 3GPP TR 23.799: “Study on Architecture for Next Generation System”

TR 23.799: Study on Architecture for Next Generation (NextGen) System lists several key issues relevant to

the design of a new architecture for next generation networks. Support of network slicing is treated as a

key issue. It defines network slicing as a concept to allow multiple logical networks to be on the top of

common shared physical infrastructure.

In TR 23.799, KDDI has proposed various use cases and key issues in the 5G mobile communication system.

The use cases and key issues relevant to 5G!Pagoda are:

• Supporting network slicing,

• Supporting for session and service continuity and efficient user plane path,

• Architecture impacts when using virtual environment.

3.5.2. 3GPP TS.23.501 “System architecture for the 5G system”

The TS 23.501 is a release 15 of technical specifications which describe the Stage 2 system architecture for

the 5G System, which provides data connectivity and services. Some of the solutions proposed in TR 23.799

are adopted in TS 23.501. The document contains architecture model and concepts, network functions

description, roaming and non-roaming scenarios, interworking between EPS and 5GS, policy and charging,

mobility and authentication and security aspects.

KDDI has submitted many contributions to TS 23.501. In the first year, KDDI proposed a framework to allow

the user terminal to have selections which network slices the terminal connects to, and functional roles in

the architecture of the 5G mobile communication system.

In the second year of the project, KDDI proposes network slice selection functions which support network

slice selection/reselection over the NextGen system. In order to reflect the results of 5G!Pagoda in the

specification, KDDI, with the collaboration with Ericsson, proposed several modification requests related to

network slicing for session management, Session Management Function (SMF) selection and User Plane

Function (UPF) selection.

3.5.3. 3GPP TS.23.502 “Procedures for the 5G system”

This specification describes detailed procedures for registration management, session management,

procedure for control and user plane functions interaction and, security and authentication procedure.

Regarding TS 23.502, KDDI proposed detailed procedures of negotiation for background data transfer for

5G core networks (5GC). KDDI also submitted a contribution that analyses the service of Session

Management Function (SMF) and then normatively specifies the services and the service operation. In order

to reflect the 5G!Pagoda results in the technical specification, KDDI submitted several modification requests

for some procedures such as handling of protocol data unit (PDU) session corresponding to Local Area Data

Network (LADNs).



3.5.4. 3GPP TS.23.503 “Policy for the charging control for the 5G system; stage 2” (UT, KDDI)

This specification describes the policy and charging control framework for the 5G system and the interaction

between network functions. Regarding TS 23.503, KDDI proposed a new solution to Policy Control

Framework to support Network Slicing. It is proposed to reuse the existing EPC's policy framework with the

modifications needed for supporting the Control and User Plane split. KDDI and Orange submitted a

contribution which proposes solution update to access data store in Unified Data Repository (UDR). KDDI,

together with Ericsson, proposed modification requests of the services name used in negotiation of future

background data transfer for 5G core.

3.6. Standardization Achievements at IETF

In the second year of the research, the following standardization achievements at IETF can be noted.

3.6.1. Gap Analysis for Network Slicing (draft-qiang-netslices-gap-analysis-00), Internet-Draft, informational

The document presents network slicing differentiation from the non-partition network or from simply

partition of connectivity resources. It lists 15 standardization gaps related to 6 key requirements for

network slicing. It also presents an analysis of existing related work and other potential solutions on

network slicing. The gap analysis aims to provide a basis for future works in network slicing. The

representative of Orange (Dr. Sławomir Kukliński) actively contributed to creation, development and editing

of the document.

3.6.2. Network Slicing - Revised Problem Statement (draft-galis-netslices-revized-problem-statement-01), Internet-Draft, informational

The document introduces Network Slicing problems and the motivation for new work areas. It represents

an initial revision of the Network Slicing problem statement derived from the analysis of the technical gaps

in IETF protocols ecosystem. It complements and brings together the efforts being carried out in several

other IETF working groups to achieve certain aspects of Network Slicing functions and operations. The

representative of Orange (Dr. Sławomir Kukliński) actively contributed to creation, development and editing

of the document.

3.6.3. Network Slicing - Revised Problem Statement (draft-galis-netslices-revized-problem-statement-03), Internet-Draft, informational

The document is an updated and revised release of the expired document described in the section 3.6.2.



3.7. Main Contributions to Standardization Bodies

The following Tables 6 and 7 below give an overview of the main contributions submitted by the partners

to the standardization bodies.

Table 6 - Summary of contributions used by the partners for standardization purposes (part 1)



Table 7 - Summary of contributions used by the partners for standardization purposes (part 2)

3.8. Standardization Strategy for the Upcoming Period

On the long-term, the 5G!Pagoda project intends to develop a tight collaboration between Europe and

Japan in order to produce common proposals. By doing so, the consortium hopes to enable and influence

the standardization process and the international negotiations.



4. Partnerships, Liaisons and Cooperation

The development of partnerships, liaisons and cooperation is part of task T6.3. The task T6.3 is led by MI

and is expected to be supported by all partners. The task 6.3 started in Month 18.

4.1. Strategy and Objectives

A key objective of the task T6.3 is to leverage on the wide contact list of the participating partners. It intends

to establish partnerships with the different relevant stakeholders, particularly IoT service providers outside

the consortium, so that, with the definition of appropriate interfaces to their services, they could be

included in the testbed of the 5G!Pagoda testbed (WP5).

4.2. Partnerships

The consortium is continuing its efforts to improve the strategic partnerships identified in T2.2. For the

second year of the project, the following partnerships can be noted.

4.2.1. Existing Partnerships and Ongoing Activities

4.2.1.1. UDG Alliance

MI and DG are members of the UDG Alliance, which is actively engaged in highly scalable IoT deployment

in smart cities. UDGA is in charge of the heterogeneous integration of IoT in the European Large Scale Pilot

on IoT for Smart Cities: Synchronicity. The latter gathers international cities, such as Milano, Manchester,

Helsinki, Santander, Porto, Eindhoven, etc. UDGA is also in charge of developing a market place for IoT

technologies complying with smart cities requirements. Discussions are ongoing to include relevant

5G!Pagoda technologies that could be tested and demonstrated in European cities.

4.2.1.2. IMD

DG, MI and Orange have set up a cooperation with the International Institute for Management

Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in order to promote network slicing technologies towards

the industry. A dedicated event with top managers will be organized by DG with IMD on October 4-5 2018

in Lausanne at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). The event will be a unique

opportunity for two key participants of the 5G pagoda project to parent and discuss the results with about

50 managers from industry and with several world experts in the field.

4.2.1.3. CEATEC

CEATEC (Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies) is a large Japanese trade show focusing on IT and

electronics, held annually in Japan. MI, DG and KDDI are in discussion to organize visibility for 5G network

slicing achievements and developments at the next CEATEC event, from October 16 – 19, 2018.

4.2.1.4. Focus Groups

MI, DG and KDDI have started planning and organizing a set of focus groups with industry to better

assess and grasp the potential for 5G!Pagoda exploitation and ongoing cooperation.



4.3. Liaison and Cooperation with Other Organizations

A number of partners have established cooperation and liaison with other organizations. The following part

outlines their achievements.

4.3.1. IoT Forum

MI is hosting the Secretariat of the IoT Forum and serves as President of the Board since 2016. One of the

major activities of the IoT Forum is to organize the yearly IoT Week conference. Through the different

editions of the IoT Week and other activities, the IoT Forum permits to its members to collaborate between

them and to exchange ideas not only about IoT, but also about the emerging technologies like 5G. During

the last edition of the IoT Week held in Bilbao, specific sessions about 5G-IoT convergence were organized

with different topics like the ecosystem integration and management, the security and the privacy. MI has

already started organizing next year’s IoT Week held between June 17 and 21st 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark.

It will be an opportunity to give high visibility to a pilot and presentation on 5G network slicing for IoT. The

event is targeting the IoT community and industry.

4.3.2. TM Forum

The TM forum is a non-profit industry association for service providers and telecommunication operators.

In the second year, MI has worked together with the TM forum to organize the following four sessions on

5G convergence on June 4th 2018, during the IoT Week 2018 in Bilbao, Spain:

- 5G-Iot Convergence: An Overview

- An Interactive Session on 5GIoT Ecosystem Integration & Management

- 5G and IoT: The Security and Privacy Challenges

- GIOTS Industry Forum II: 5G LSP European and Chinese Perspective

Together with the TM Forum, MI is currently working to organize a track on IoT - 5G convergence during

the next IoT Week conference in Aarhus in 2019. The track would highlight the potential of network slicing

for the IoT sector.

4.3.3. IoT Lab

The IoT Lab association has been established by the European research project IoT Lab. It gathers and

federates several European testbeds together with crowdsourcing resources and tools. The IoT Lab

platform is managed by MI and the resources (sensors and actuators typically) available through IoT Lab

can be used in the frame of the research, test and validation of IoT related applications of dynamic slicing.

The IoT Lab resources are also used in the context of the 5G!Pagoda demonstration.

4.3.4. Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV)

Fraunhofer FOKUS is involved in OPNFV with the project Orchestra that was concluded last year with high

success. Orchestra enables the integration of the open source NFV MANO platform Open Baton with other

OPNFV projects for specific scenarios and use cases. In particular, the Open Baton installation was

integrated into different OPNFV installers in order to be part of the OPNFV installation process.



Furthermore, many testing scenarios were also executed as part of the Functest project, providing a

comprehensive testing methodology, test suites and test cases to test and verify OPNFV Platform

functionality.

4.3.5. Open Source MANO (OSM)

OSM is an ETSI-hosted project to develop an open source platform aligned to the ETSI NFV specifications.

Fraunhofer FOKUS is an active OSM member committed to provide its expertise and consultancy in the area

of Management and Orchestration. Specifically, a first integration between OpenBaton and OpenVIM

components was successfully performed.

4.3.6. GSMA Slicing Alliance

Fraunhofer FOKUS is one of the founding members of the “5G Slicing Association” formed in early 2018. It

addresses requirements from vertical industry and potential application scenarios of 5G network slicing on

the way to defining new business models.

4.3.7. Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC)

Professor Nakao from the UT has been contributing the discussion on mobile access network softwarization

architecture for ITU-T SG13/Q21. Oki electronics, Mitsubishi, NEC, and NTT have submitted several

proposals after the TTC discussions which is consistent with 5G!Pagoda architecture.

4.4. Liaison and Cooperation with Other Research Projects

The members of 5G!Pagoda actively cooperate with other research projects. Indeed, a number of these

projects, including METIS II, 5G Ensure and Coherent fall under the scope of the 5G-PPP (5G Infrastructure

Public Private Partnership). The members also cooperate with other European projects.

5G-PPP

4.4.1. 5G ENSURE

5G ENSURE is a H2020 5G PPP project. It is targeting to develop a set of non-intrusive security and privacy

enablers (AAA, Privacy, Trust, Monitoring, Network Management and Virtualization Isolation) for the core

of the 5G reference architecture and to define a 5G security architecture giving operators a platform for

entirely new business opportunities. The goal is to deliver strategic impact across technology, business

enablement and standardization as well as to initiate a 5G security test bed vision and initial set-up in which

the security enablers will be made available and demonstrated. The project finished in October 2017.

Ericsson was a partner of the project focusing on the security architecture. The architecture was designed

with network slicing features. There has been a collaboration and information sharing between the people

working in 5G!Pagoda and 5G Ensure, especially regarding isolation of network slices, slicing based security

and SDN. In 5G Ensure, Ericsson has designed the 5G Ensure architecture and worked on threat analysis for

5G NFV architecture and the security of standalone EPC. Ericsson has also provided use cases as well as new

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security enablers. Particular collaboration between the projects has produced solutions for SDN controller

selection for switches in slicing scenarios.

4.4.2. Coherent

The Coherent project is about new RAN for 5G. EURECOM is member of the Coherent consortium. The

cooperation of 5G!Pagoda and Coherent is RAN slicing. A two-level MAC scheduler for RAN slicing has been

developed in collaboration with Coherent members. The two-level MAC scheduler has been implemented

on top of OpenAirInterface (OAI) and shared by both projects to create and enforce RAN slices.

Other projects

4.4.3. F-Interop

F-Interop is a H2020 research project developing a platform on online testing tools for the IoT. It works in

close cooperation with several SDOs. MI is Scientific and Technical Coordinator of F-Interop and ensures

the liaison between both projects. Currently, F-Interop includes IoT related online testing tools in its

platform, and 5G!Pagoda may collaborate on 5G related conformance and/or interoperability testing tools

to be included in the platform.

4.4.4. ANASTACIA

ANASTACIA is a European research project researching new models and paradigm for cybersecurity.

ANASTACIA is developing a trustworthy by-design security framework which will address all the phases of

the ICT Systems Development Lifecycle and will be able to take autonomous decisions through the use of

new networking technologies such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function

Virtualization (NFV) and intelligent and dynamic security enforcement and monitoring methodologies and

tools.

The ANASTACIA cyber-security framework provides self-protection, self-healing and self-repair capabilities

through novel enablers and components. The framework dynamically orchestrates and deploy security

policies and actions that can be instantiated on local agents. Security is enforced in different kinds of devices

and heterogeneous networks, e.g., IoT- or SDN/NFV-based networks. The framework is designed in full

compliance to SDN/NFV standards as specified by ETSI NFV and OFN SDN, respectively. ANASTACIA includes

a suite of distributed trust and security components and enablers, able to dynamically orchestrate and

deploy user security policies and risk-assessed resilient actors within complex and dynamic CPS and IoT

architectures (online monitoring and testing techniques will allow more automated adaption to mitigate

new and unexpected security vulnerabilities).

MI, DG, AU, and Ericsson are all members of ANASTACIA and ensure a close cooperation between both

projects to develop synergies wherever relevant.

MI and DG are contributing to the identification of privacy threats at the network level. Ericsson is currently

considering slicing as one method of increasing security, e.g. through isolation of device categories and by

transferring devices with identified risks to slices with appropriate security functions.



5. Exploitation

The task T6.3 regarding exploitation is led by MI and has started in January 2018. The following chapter

discusses the exploitation strategy, the exploitation survey, individual exploitation achievements, and

collective exploitation achievements and plans.

5.1. Exploitation Strategy

There is a close interdependency between the task T6.3 on exploitation and the task T2.2 on market

analysis. Both task leaders have agreed on a joint collaborative approach between both tasks. Task T2.2 has

generated a first deliverable D2.2 that will influence the work orientation of task T6.3. Task T6.3 has started

in month 18 and will provide inputs to the task T2.2 that will generate the deliverable D2.4. The latter will

contribute to feed and guide the conclusion of task T6.3 leading to the adoption of the deliverable D6.5.

Figure 8 gives a visual representation of the exploitation strategy process.

Figure 8 - Integrated exploitation strategy for 5G!Pagoda

5.2. Exploitation Survey

Although exploitation will be discussed in more depth in the future deliverable D 6.5, MI has already taken

some preliminary steps and developed a relevant survey (see Annex 1) to be filled in by all the partners.

The survey contains closed and open questions about future exploitation plans of each partner and was

sent to all 5G!Pagoda partners to complete. All the partners, but two, have submitted the results to the

survey. The first part of the questionnaire is entitled “Partner perspective” and discusses exploitable results

from 5G!Pagoda. The second part, “Exploitable result description” addresses each partner’s exploitable

results in the framework of 5G!Pagoda.

It is interesting to note that the partners have already participated in a similar survey in the context of

Deliverable 2.2 ‘Initial business models, market analysis, and strategies for the adaptation of 5G!Pagoda

concept’. Nonetheless, the questions of the 2018 questionnaire were adapted to deliverable D 6.3. In the



framework of the present report, a number of similarities in the results can already be noted, particularly

in the first part of the questionnaire. The second part of the survey has, to a larger extent, allowed to

confirm the results presented in D2.2, while also concretizing certain aspects of the 5G!Pagoda exploitation

results, such as defining the timeframe for commercialization. As mentioned above, the complete results

of the survey are going to be fully presented and analyzed in D 6.5. Yet, in the context of the present

deliverable, we can already mention a number of orientations:

• Open source technology enablers and proprietary technology enablers are viewed by the majority

of partners as the main exploitable results of 5G!Pagoda. Consulting service and/or technology

transfers are an exploitation path also considered by certain respondents.

• All partners have a different perception about the competitive advantage of the 5G!Pagoda project.

While certain partners emphasize the technological element as the competitive advantage of their

exploitation plans, other partners recognize that the market situation, economic context and

expertise are the attributes that will allow them to outperform their competitors.

• There is an overall consensus amongst the partners about the target customers of 5G!Pagoda being

mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators, IoT service providers, enterprise, and

network vendors.

• According to the results of the survey it appears that the 5G!Pagoda exploitable results belong to

the software category.

• On average, the 5G!Pagoda exploitable results will be mature to be commercialized within a 2-5

years timeframe.

• All the respondents to the survey have successfully underlined the competitive advantage of their

exploitable result compared to existing alternatives.

• Six collective exploitation results resulting from a collaboration between 5G!Pagoda partners can

already be noted. KDDI and Ericsson are working independently on their own exploitation results,

and Orange is currently in the process of exploring possible cooperation.

• The survey has shown that the partners’ approach diverges on the question whether their

exploitation result should be allowed to be freely exploited by third-parties. So far, only one partner

has confirmed that their product can be freely exploited. It appears that the remaining partners

plan on limiting the free exploitation of their results.

• The target customers of the exploitation results include: Infrastructure operators, Orchestrators

operators (network slice services brokers), Telco operators, Verticals and their slicing solutions

providers, R&D laboratories and academia.

• Regarding the priority geographic market, it appears that all partners but two are oriented towards

the global market.



5.3. Collective Exploitation Achievements

Different collaborations between European and Japanese partners are progressing in the last year of the

project with experiments and evaluations of the different 5G use cases and scenarios in IoT and human

communication domains, as described in more details in D5.2. In particular, the following use cases are

taken into consideration:

• ICN/CDN use case for Dynamic CDN as a Service, in collaboration with Waseda and AU;

• IoT Video Slices use case for dynamic slicing in emergency situations, in collaboration with DG, MI,

ERICSSON and FOKUS;

• Healthcare use case for the medical market applications, in collaboration with NESIC and UT;

• Deep Data Plane Programmability use case for realizing a highly programmable network node

architecture, in collaboration with UT and FOKUS;

• End-to-end slice instantiation use case for RAN, core network and transport slicing, in collaboration

with EURECOM and AU.

The different testbeds will be part of a unique common infrastructure that represents the 5G!Pagoda

integrated infrastructure, providing a comprehensive PoC for the multi-slicing architecture.

The first significant example of integration consists in dynamic real-time slicing for emergency situations.

Specifically, DG, MI, ERICSSON and FOKUS are building a testbed for the IoT Video Slices use case, as shown

in Figure 9. An edge datacenter in Geneva is connected through a VPN connection with the central

datacenter in Berlin, enabling the integration with the 5G!Pagoda testbed located in Tokyo and Berlin.

Partners will maintain the testbeds beyond the project lifetime and will seek for the further collaboration

on IoT usecase in 5G.

Figure 9 - Testbed for IoT and video usecase

In parallel, Japanese partners are building a testbed for network slicing, as shown in Figure 10. With regards

to this testbed, UT and NESIC are making slices for the purpose of creating unique services targeted towards

various markets by MVNO. In the framework of 5G!Pagoda, the main focus will be on increasing security



needs and demonstrating that security VNF runs on MVNO slices for healthcare use cases (see Figure 11).

UT and NESIC are conducting function verification in the hospitals, and aim for commercialization in the

future.

Figure 10 - UT – NESIC Testbed for network slicing

Figure 11 - Security VNF on MVNO slice



5.4. Individual Exploitation Achievements and Plans

The following section represents the individual exploitation achievements and plans transmitted by the

partners.

5.4.1. Aalto University

AU has been using the findings of the 5G!Pagoda in its teaching material, particularly in the two courses -

ELEC-E7230 - Mobile Communication Systems and ELEC-E7110 - Trends in Communication Engineering

Research. AU team has largely contributed to the community of Network Softwarization researchers and

that is in the form of many scientific publications, keynotes and tutorials as reported in this deliverable. AU

has developed the NSP tool, detailed in D3.2, and made it available for the public. AU has also made

contributions to the CRIU project and provided different consultancy to its industrial partners, particularly

NOKIA and Ericsson, in the areas of the 5G!Pagoda project.

5.4.2. Ericsson

The goal of Ericsson has been to develop and prototype future slicing features, including dynamic slicing,

scalability, isolation, NFV placement and slice selection. To differentiate from the work done in product

units, the research done with 5G!Pagoda has focused on more long term ideas based on assumptions on

possible commercial developments. The concepts developed within research are transferred to product

units as candidates for commercialization. Ericsson has presented the testbed developed within 5G!Pagoda

internally and discussed with relevant units on adopting ideas. There has also been extensive internal

information sharing on slicing related topics, including service-based architecture. There is also a planned

demo to be presented in a major internal event.

In particular, Ericsson has been discussing the transfer of ideas from the project into standardization,

including network-initiated slice selection and slice description. However, standardization is currently

focused on more short-term topics and will consider the project results later. There is still some internal

discussion to be done, as it is not agreed that the basic assumptions, including a massive number of slices,

adopted in 5G!Pagoda yet fully represent the near future direction.

Ericsson has also used the slicing testbed for promoting slicing and the concept of service specific slices.

The demo presented in IoT Week 2017 received a large audience and raised the awareness about the

advantages of network slicing within the IoT community. The market support of the concept of a large

number of service specific slices needs to be gained before commercial exploitation is successful.

5.4.3. Device Gateway SA

In the first and second year of the project, DG has been taking two major tracks of exploitation. First, DG

has been building IoT & Video slice testbed together with Ericsson, MI and FOKUS, benefiting the 5G slicing

technologies. The first demo has been presented in the IoT Week 2017 in Geneva, which received a large

audience and raised the awareness about the advantages of network slicing in the IoT community. The

accumulated knowledge of the 5G!Pagoda project has been directly used to build further business strategy

and to enrich its core technology development. Second, DG is promoting the project results to its

stakeholders, as the concepts of 5G slicing is not yet concrete in IoT community. As a frontier on building

IoT-5G integrated use case, DG is engaging in community discussion on business development.



DG, as an IoT service provider, is continuing the effort and testing the service specific slices to apply bigger

scope of IoT services. More technical experiments will be performed before commercial exploitation.

5.4.4. EURECOM

EURECOM has exploited the project results by publishing scientific publications in international journals

and conferences, and participating to panels. Moreover, the OpenAirInterface (OAI) (open source tool for

5G) has been enriched by the RAN slicing functionality as specified and defined in WP4.

EURECOM’s exploitation plan is to continue disseminating the project outputs by publishing the project’s

results in international journals and conferences, and organizing events around 5G!Pagoda results.

5.4.5. Fraunhofer-FOKUS

In the first and second year of the project, Fraunhofer has had three major tracks of exploitation. First,

dissemination via industry relationships in order to promote 5G!Pagoda research results, including the

FOKUS FUSECO FORUM series of conferences, that took place during the first and second year of the

project, and exploitation in lecture courses (e.g. at TU Berlin). Fraunhofer has also published relevant results

in the form of academic publications and participated to different international conferences and keynotes.

Secondly, the accumulated knowledge of the 5G!Pagoda project has been directly transferred to the

industry through direct consultancy, services and research projects. Especially, the resulting 5G!Pagoda

platform is fundamental in the context of the 5G Berlin trial infrastructure (integration of the latest

developments in hardware and software of 5G prototypes), enhancing research on 5G distributed facilities

and network slicing.

Finally, Fraunhofer is enriching the functional portfolio with state of the art features with extensions on top

of the Open5GCore, Open Baton and related toolkits for addressing the 5G related requirements on self-

evolvable and self-expandable ecosystem that will be mirrored at customer premises.

5.4.6. Mandat International

The research infrastructure used by Mandat International was already extended with the first results of the

5G!Pagoda project for the dynamic network slicing. This includes the distributed IoT Lab testbed managed

by Mandat International. IoT Lab is a research platform exploring the potential of crowdsourcing and IoT.

The platform encourages the multidisciplinary research with more interactions with the different end-users.

So, the crowd is placed at the core of the research and innovation process. With the dynamic network

slicing, the management of the MI network is improved across the different locations of the IoT Lab testbed.

At the same time, the federation of remote IoT Lab testbeds can benefit from 5G connections for the

experiments.

In the second year of the project, the achievements of the 5G!Pagoda project were used by Mandat

International to feed the standardization effort at the ITU-T. The outputs of the project, in particular for the

IoT, are transmitted to ITU-T where MI is actively engaged in the Study Group 20 covering the Internet of

Things and the Smart Cities.

Mandat International is extending the collaboration with the industrial partners of the project and will

continue in this direction during the project.



5.4.7. Orange

During the second year of the project, Orange decided to organize its own laboratory environment based

on National Instruments USRP SDR modules and OpenAirInterface software developed by the consortium

led by EURECOM. It is intended to test the architectural slicing concepts developed within the project using

the Open Source software.

Orange also plans to continue its dissemination activities by publishing conference and journal papers

dedicated to management & orchestration architectures and business models of network slicing as well.

5.4.8. University of Tokyo

During the first and second year of the project, UT has been contributing to the ITU-T FG-2020

standardization and SG15 Q21 on network virtualization technologies. The UT’s inspiring 5G network

virtualization demo at the ITU-T FG-2020 workshop and demo day in December 2016 has been very

successful and appeal our technology advances. Moreover, Professor Nakao has been acting as one of

technology leaders in 5GMF (5G Mobile Communications Promotion Forum) in Japan, in order to promote

5G! Pagoda research results.

As far as the UT’s data plane programmable node is concerned, the UT has been promoting the 5G!Pagoda

research results through over 20 times keynotes and invited presentations, in order to promote it in the

business sector. The UT plans to promote such state-of-the-art technologies to members of the industry in

order to integrate their business environment. The UT intends to commercialize their technologies in a

couple of years.

5.4.9. KDDI

During the first and second year of the project, KDDI has been working on the 3GPP standardization with

Ericsson and 3GPP members who are dealing with or adopting the specified 5G mobile communication

systems as the potential exploitation. KDDI has succeeded to have agreements for more than 26

contributions and three technical specifications which have been published in December 2017.

KDDI has also been actively involved in evaluating the ability of 5G prototype systems in building mobile

network slices. Additionally, KDDI also verifies the features of the mobile network slice availability and

usability in designing the 5G mobile service communications.

KDDI plans to adopt the network slicing features in their commercial system and migrate a part of the

mobile communication services to slicing-based 5G systems in the next couple of years.

5.4.10. Waseda University

In the first and second year of the project, Waseda has been working towards the realization of ICN in a

variety of ways, including through the means of standardization. The main activity in this aspect is in ITU-T

SG13/Q.22, where Waseda proposed a new study item for this study period. The study item was accepted

and Waseda was assigned as editor to promote the discussion.

The second type of activity worth mentioning involves written publications and presentations. In the second

year of the project, Waseda made 3 presentations in international conferences including one keynote and

one invited talk. One journal paper was published.



The third type of activity involves new project proposals using the technologies established by 5G!Pagoda.

Waseda proposed some projects, and one was accepted and the other is under evaluation. Waseda will

enrich the ICN related 5G!Pagoda achievements by utilizing them in other projects, and has a good chance

to do so in the coming years.

5.4.11. NESIC

In the second year of the project, NESIC has been investigating the effective introduction of network slicing

in the MVNO network. NESIC aims to utilize network slicing and the data plane program to provide optimal

service quality for multiple use cases.

Additionally, NESIC plans to realize network slicing features in their upcoming 5G services.

5.4.12. Hitachi

In the first and second year of the project, Hitachi mainly conducted an evaluation work of the DSSO

(Domain Specific Service Orchestrator) which can manage and orchestrate versatile virtual resource ranging

from network slice resources to cloud and IoT devices to accelerate service velocity.

Hitachi has been conducting an evolution of “Resource Pooling” architecture for its Network Slice

Orchestrator.

The orchestrator with the “Resource Pooling” capabilities is primarily intended to achieve service

development/deployment velocity, with the virtualization of any types of ICT resources including various

types of networks, cloud/edge computing ones, and even end-devices like sensors.

Hitachi has completed the first-phase performance evaluation of the architecture, mainly from the view

point of scalable slice management, which consists of consideration for the total volume of the slice

instances in operation and the modification interval of each one.

Hitachi is also developing the OAM capabilities on that to achieve the agile service restoration in case of

infrastructure failures.

Finally, Hitachi will introduce these developed technologies for the systems integration of innovative ICT

areas like IoT.



6. Conclusion

The deliverable D6.3. has shown 5G!Pagoda’s progress in the field of dissemination, standardization and

exploitation in the second year of the project.

The results on dissemination have been outlined in chapter 2. In the second year of the project, the partners

have persevered in their efforts and contributed to further disseminate and promote the 5G!Pagoda

project. The dissemination methods included the publication of articles in journals and magazines, the

organization of relevant tutorials, keynotes and presentations, the participation in global IoT events

(particularly the FOKUS FUESCO Forum 2017 and the Helsinki5GWeek), and the promotion of the

5G!Pagoda project on the main dissemination channels (official website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn).

Chapter 3 discussed the efforts in the field of standardization in the second year of the project. Following a

presentation of the 5G!Pagoda standardization strategy, the deliverable has examined the partners’

standardization contributions to the ITU, 3GPP and IETF. Such contributions have allowed to achieve

broader recognition of the project’s results by a wide industry community, stimulate higher levels of

interoperability and contribute to establishing economies of scale for 5G!Pagoda applications.

Chapter 4 on “Partnerships, Liaisons and Cooperation” has sought to provide an update on the status of the

partnerships previously identified in D 6.2. It has also allowed to introduce new partnership paths and

opportunities for the next period.

Finally, chapter 5 on exploitation has provided early insights into the results of the 5G!Pagoda exploitation

survey that will be further analyzed in D 6.5. The chapter has also shed light on the individual and collective

exploitation achievements of all partners in the second year of the project.



Annex 1 - 5G!Pagoda Exploitation Plan Survey

5G!Pagoda Exploitation Plan Survey

T6.3 survey on exploitation potential to be returned by ALL partners before April 30 2018

even if you have no PMs in WP6 Dear partners, in order to pave the way to a successful exploitation plan of the 5G!Pagoda results, we need

your inputs. We are aware that as a research project, not all results are identified yet, but we would like to

get from each partner a clear description of your expected exploitable result out of the project. The results

of this survey will be used by T6.3 to analyse and report on the exploitation strategy. The form has to be

sent to: [email protected]

Partner name:

Person of contact name:

Person of contact email:

Person of contact phone number:

Part A – Partner perspective

1. Please define which exploitable results your organization is planning to get from 5G!Pagoda? (Please

fill in multiple categories if applicable)

❑ Open source technology enablers:

❑ Proprietary technology enablers:

❑ Products:

❑ Online services:

❑ Consulting service and/or technology transfer:

❑ Other (please specify):

Please complete one Form B (at the end) for each 5G!Pagoda exploitable results.

2. What is, according to you, the value proposition of what we are developing in 5G!pagoda?

3. Could you identify and describe the main competitors in the scope of 5G!Pagoda concepts?

4. What competitive advantage do we have against competing solutions (advantage that cannot be easily

reproduced by competitors)?




5. Who are the priority customers 5G!Pagoda should target?

6. What is your Intellectual Property Strategy?

- Do you have or plan to patent results?

o If yes, could you clarify what will be patented?

- Do you plan to make results open source and publicly available?

o If yes, could you clarify what will be made open source?

7. What exploitation strategy are you interested in:

- Collective exploitation: by mutualizing the developments made by 5G!Pagoda and exploiting

them as a consortium or joint venture among the partners:

❑ YES ❑ EVENTUALLY ❑ NO

- Individual exploitation: by using your results independently from the other partners:

❑ YES ❑ EVENTUALLY ❑ NO

8. Where should be the focus for exploitation?

❑ 5G!Pagoda enablers?

❑ 5G!Pagoda network?

❑ EU-Japan synergies opportunities?

❑ Other, please specify:

9. Would you be interested to develop partnership in 5G!Pagoda in:

- Joint commercial exploitation with 5G!Pagoda partners:

❑ Not at all ❑ Not really ❑ Perhaps ❑ Rather yes ❑ Very much

- Joint research activities with 5G!Pagoda partners:


- Joint standardization activities with 5G!Pagoda partners:


10. Would you please suggest some exploitation actions to be performed in 5G!Pagoda?

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Part B – Exploitable Result Description

Please complete one Form B for each 5G!Pagoda exploitable result. If you have more than one exploitable

result, just copy and paste this section for each one.

1. Name of the result to be exploited:

2. Category of exploitable result:

❑ Software ❑ Hardware ❑ IPR / patent

❑ Other, specify:

3. Short description of the exploitable result (10-15 lines):

4. What is the value proposition and uniqueness of this asset?

5. When will it be mature enough to be commercially exploitable?

6. Does (or will) it include competitive advantage compared to other existing solutions?

7. What are the elements that would prevent the competitors to simply copy or reproduce it?

8. Which 5G!Pagoda partners are (or will be) involved in its development?

9. Is it (or will it be) IPR protected?

10. Can the other members of the 5G!Pagoda freely exploit it?

11. Can third parties freely exploit it? If not, what will be the licensing cost?

12. Who could be the potential customers?

13. What would be the priority geographic market?

14. Who would be the formal contact point to access the technology?

15. Other remarks to be specified

Thank you very much for your answers

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