Millimeter-waves, MEC, and network softwarizationas enablers of new 5G business opportunities

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Valerio Frascolla

Director Research and Innovation at Intel

Juergen Englisch, Luca Chiaraviglio, Stefano Salsano, Sergio Barberis, Valerio Palestini, Antonio de Domenico, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Koji Takinami, Katsuo Yunoki, Kei Sakaguchi, Thomas Haustein

16.04.2018

WCNC 2018 Special Session Workshop, Barcelona

Overview

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

• Starting point: 5G Usage Scenarios, Services, and KPIs

• 5G Standardization: 3GPP work

• Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

• SUPERFLUIDITY

• 5G-MiEdge

• Use cases

• SWOT Analysis

Starting point: 5G Usage Scenarios

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

Starting point: 5G Usage Scenarios and Services

• The 3 main 5G new Usage scenarios address

• Several different applications

• Several vertical markets

• Future-proof business cases

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Enhanced Mobile Broadband

Massive Machine Type Communications

Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communications

3D video, UHD screens

Smart City

Industry automation

Gigabytes in a second

Self Driving Car

Augmented reality

Smart Home/Building

Work and play in the cloud

Voice Mission critical application,

e.g. e-health

Future IMT

Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

Starting point: 5G Usage Scenarios and KPI

• 5G Use scenarios have different KPI as target different use cases

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

5G Standardization: 3GPP work

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

• 5G Phase 1 standardization has started to work on the 3 usage scenarios

• Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)

• Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC)

• Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communications (uRLLC)

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3GPP 5G Standardization - Phase 1

Source: 3GPP website

• 5G Phase 2 (and B5G) will add more services and more advanced usage scenarios

• Ultra High Speed Low Latency Communications (uHSLLC)

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3GPP 5G Standardization – Phase 2 (and beyond)

Source: 3GPP website

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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• End customers,

• Network operators,

• Network vendors,

• Service providers,

• Equipment vendors,

• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME),

• Start-ups,

• Verticals,

• Public administrations and infrastructure owners,

• Regulatory and standardization bodies.

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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• End customers,

• Network operators,

• Network vendors,

• Service providers,

• Equipment vendors,

• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME),

• Start-ups,

• Verticals,

• Public administrations and infrastructure owners,

• Regulatory and standardization bodies.

Biggest opportunity for business

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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• End customers,

• Network operators,

• Network vendors,

• Service providers,

• Equipment vendors,

• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME),

• Start-ups,

• Verticals,

• Public administrations and infrastructure owners,

• Regulatory and standardization bodies.

Established players:

Manage to keep and

Try to expand market share

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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• End customers,

• Network operators,

• Network vendors,

• Service providers,

• Equipment vendors,

• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME),

• Start-ups,

• Verticals,

• Public administrations and infrastructure owners,

• Regulatory and standardization bodies.

Main beneficiaries

Stakeholder Analysis of 5G Systems

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• End customers,

• Network operators,

• Network vendors,

• Service providers,

• Equipment vendors,

• Small and Medium Enterprise (SME),

• Start-ups,

• Verticals,

• Public administrations and infrastructure owners,

• Regulatory and standardization bodies.‘Controllers’

SUPERFLUIDITY

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

SUPERFLUIDITY EU-funded Project

• In physics, superfluidity is a state in which matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity.

• SUPERFLUIDITY aims at achieving superfluidity in the Internet: the ability to instantiate services on-the-fly, run them anywhere in the network (core, aggregation, edge) and shift them transparently to different locations.

• SUPERFLUIDITY focuses on the design of a flexible, agile and high performance architecture for 5G networks.

• SUPERFLUIDITY tackles crucial shortcomings in today’s networks:• long provisioning times, with wasteful over-provisioning used to meet variable demand• reliance on rigid and cost-ineffective hardware devices• daunting complexity emerging from three forms of heterogeneity:

• heterogeneous traffic and sources• heterogeneous services and needs• heterogeneous access technologies, with multi-vendor network components.

• SUPERFLUIDITY will provide a converged cloud-based 5G concept that will enable innovative use cases in the mobile edge, empower new business models, and reduce investment and operational costs.

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Source: http://superfluidity.eu/

SUPERFLUIDITY Objectives

• Novel 5G data plane processing architecture – Design a flexible, open and programmable 5G data plane processing architecture and relevant APIs for network functions’ convergence

• Converged 5G platform – Design, implementation, and evaluation of a unified and high performance distributed cloud platform technology for radio and network functions support and migration.

• New Algorithms and functions – Design, development and evaluation of algorithmic and design improvements for radio processing tasks, flow processing primitives, and service optimization.

• Ultra-fast and efficient virtualization – Design, implementation and evaluation of beyond the state of the art quickly instantiable, low memory footprint, and high performance virtualization technology

• Hardware adaptation and abstraction – design and development of technologies and interfaces to exploit and integrate customized hardware.

• Control and provisioning framework – Extensions of existing and widespread frameworks for platform’s management, control, and elastic provisioning.

• Security framework – Security abstractions and mechanisms to control the access to, and execution of, the network processing functions, and to prevent third-party network functions from having a negative impact on other clients’ functions, the network, or the Internet at large

• Contribution to standardization – Feed SUPERFLUIDITY results into the relevant standards bodies and communities working on de-facto standard tools

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Source: http://superfluidity.eu/

5G-MiEdge

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Source: Recommendation of ITU-R M.2083-0

5G-MiEdge Project

• EU-JP co-funded research project

• Duration• 3 years (2016-2019)

• Target• Propose new 5G enabling technologies to

be showcased at Tokyo 2020 Olympics

• Technology enablers:• User/Application centric Orchestration

• mmWave edge Access & Backhaul

• Liquid RAN C-plane

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• Partners:• Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,

Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany

• Commissariat à l‘Energie Atomique, France

• Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany

• Telecom Italia, Italy

• Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

• KDDI Research, Japan

• Panasonic Corporation, Japan

Use cases, Technology components, and KPI

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Use cases, Technology components, and KPI

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Source: 5G-MiEdge deliverable D1.1 “Use cases and scenario definition”. Available: 5g-miedge.eu

5G-MiEdge focus

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Enhanced Mobile Broadband

Massive Machine Type Communications

Ultra-reliable and Low Latency Communications

3D video, UHD screens

Smart City

Industry automation

Gigabytes in a second

Self Driving Car

Augmented reality

Smart Home/Building

Work and play in the cloud

Voice Mission critical application,

e.g. e-health

Future IMT

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Use case 1: Omotenashi service

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• Omotenashi is the Japanese style of hospitality, whose scope is to offer ultra-fast wireless connection so thatvisitors can enjoy high quality services

• Specific applications

• Ultra-high-speed content download in a dense area

• Massive video streaming

• Scenarios

• Airport

• Train station

• Shopping mall

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Use case 1: Signage Prototype

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• (1) While the UE is connected to Wi-Fi, the access pointcontroller (APC) periodically collects expected WiGig linkquality via Wi-Fi

• (2) When the UE requests WiGig connection, the APC connectsthe UE to one of the WiGig modules that provides the best linkquality

• (3) When the user requests the content via an application, theUE starts downloading from the local storage via WiGig

• The prototype achieves 1.8 Gbps throughput, which enables todownload 2 GB content (2 hours of HD video) in 10 seconds

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I n sid e o f th e W iGig Sig n a g e

W iGigM od u le

W i-FiAP …

APC

Sto ra g e

( 1 )( 2 )

( 3 )

( 1 )

• The prototype is a high-speed content delivery system based on WiGig/IEEE 802.11ad

• Authentication, connection management as well as content browsing are executed via Wi-Fi to achieve wide coverage

Use case 1: Overall System Architecture

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• WiGIG Signage prototype (Top)

• Architecture for the servicedelivery in Context DeliveryNetworks (CDN) (Center)

• Key players (Right)

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Ed g e Clo u d

Clou d

m m W avem esh backhau l

Liqu id-RAN

Edge cloud CDN(Data d istribution)

Application

Provider

Application

Provider

Application

ProviderApplication

Provider

Application

Provider

Application

Provider

Distribute data to the edge server using MEC

Edge-cloud CDN

Provider

Provides site specific ultra-high-speed radio access

Core Network

Operator

Mobile Network

Operator

Provides Liquid-RAN C-Plane

Micro

Operator

Micro

Operator

Application

Provider

Application

ProviderEnd usersApplication

Provider

Application

ProviderEnd users

I n sid e o f th e W iGig Sig n a g e

W iGigM od u le

W i-FiAP …

APC

Sto ra g e

( 1 )( 2 )

( 3 )

( 1 )

Use case 1: SWOT Analysis

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Strengths Weaknesses

- Less than 1/10 download time

- Low cost deployment by mmWave mesh backhaul

- Capability of site-specific marketing and advertising

- Narrow area coverage of mmWave access

- Sensitive to blockage due to obstacles, e.g.

human body

Opportunities Threats

- Continuous increase of data size (such as 4K/8K videos)

- Limit throughput of the access part (Wi-Fi, LTE etc.)

especially in high user density area

Emergence of new wireless standards, e.g. IEEE

802.11ax, which may achieve significant throughput

improvement even in high user density area

Use case 2: Moving hotspot

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• A moving hotspot describes a wireless communicationsystem for passengers on trains, buses, or airplanes

• Specific applications

• Entertainment contents download

• Upload and share sightseeing photos and videos

• Scenarios

• Train

• Bus

• Airplane

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Use case 3: 2020 Tokyo Olympic

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• ‘MiEdge showers’ at the Tokyo Olympic stadium gatesdeliver pre-loaded contents to visitors

• Event applications

• Player profiles …

• HD cameras collect different angles of view of the game

• Media room process in real-time the several streamsand deliver personalized experiences to selected users

• Specific applications

• Olympic game application and data download

• 4K multi camera video capturing and download(video analytics)

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Use case 3: mmWave edge shower gate

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• The stadium will have six main entrance gates

• Each entrance gate is subdivided in several access ports

• Each access port will be enhanced with a so called ‘mmWaveedge shower’

• The ‘mmWave edge shower’ refers to the concept that whenpeople walk through a port of a gate, they will be able todownload a massive amounts of content.

• In order to achieve ultra-high-speed throughput, such showerwill combine mmWave access with MEC technology

• MEC enables to pre-fetch the most popular contents, or user-specificcontent based on registered profiles, to the local edge server, in order toprevent backhaul congestion.

• mmWave access enables to transfer the dedicated data with a very shortlatency and, thanks to directive beams, to limit the interference betweenneighboring showers

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Use case 3: SWOT Analysis

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Strengths Weaknesses

- Can reach the target data rate

- Enables focusing the data transmission to a single user

- Enables highly customized content delivery in a short

time

- Data transmission transparent to the user

- Optimal deployment is still challenging

- Sensitive to blockage due to obstacles, e.g.,

human bodies

Opportunities Threats

- Reduce the transport network load

- Customized content may also include advertising,

promotions, or security-related messages

- Data analysis in a larger use community may enable

new use cases and services

- mmWave access needs to be adopted and

broadly integrated in future user equipment

- Business models have to be established across

several stakeholders

Use case 4: Dynamic crowd

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• An outdoor city area where thousands of people continuouslymoving spend their time. The traffic pattern changesdynamically along the day according to users’ activities

• Specific application

• Public video surveillance based on MEC

• 3D live video broadcast of Olympic Games

• Requirements (excerpts)

• 2 mmWave Access Points of peak data rate of about6Gbps to cover the crowded square area of 160 m2

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Use case 5: Automated driving

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• Roadside Units (RSU) monitor the latest traffic conditions by camerasand LiDAR sensors. However, so far, this information is not fully utilizedto assist driving for safety purpose

• Scenario• Cooperative perception of HD maps using extended sensors

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Questions?

Thanks for your attention

Disclaimer: The research leading to these results are jointly funded by the European Commission (EC) H2020 and the Ministry of Internal affairs and Communications (MIC) in Japan under grant agreements N° 723171 5G MiEdge in EC and 0159-{0149, 0150, 0151} in MIC, and by the EC H2020 under the project SUPERFLUIDITY (grant agreement No. 671566).