Question 2/13 - Requirements for NGN evolution (NGN-e) and its capabilities including support of IoT and use of software-defined networking
(Continuation of Question 3/13)
Motivation
With the ever increasing number of services and applications, demand has been continuously increasing for enhancing capabilities of NGN and for its evolution. Emerging services and applications are placing more and more requirements on networks and are resulting in the need to make them more and more intelligent with the provisioning of new service and network capabilities. One essential objective is the maximization of the usage of common capabilities in order to provide support to a broad range of services and applications in different vertical markets, in a cost efficient, multi-vendor and easily deployable manner.
On the other hand, the increasing integration and convergence of advanced communication technologies (e.g., content delivery, distributed service networking and service delivery platform technologies) with advanced information technologies (e.g., cloud computing, big data management, SOA, Web services and composition technologies) are making available a large set of advanced capabilities for the support of new promising services and applications.
Emerging services and applications to be considered include:
Internet of Things (IoT) services and applications in different vertical market areas (key identified market areas include e-health, Intelligent Transportation Systems, smart home, smart city, emergency management, etc.)
Advanced multimedia conversational services, IPTV and content delivery network based services (e.g., communication centre services, mobile IPTV)
Advanced network intelligence based services (e.g., enabling application customization according to third parties or other users’ requirements).
Consideration will be also given to applications and services based on the integration of the above services and applications with advanced information and communication technologies, including softward defined-networking (SDN).
The following major Recommendations, in force at the time of approval of this Question, fall under its responsibility:
Y.1901, Y.1991, Y.1902, Y.2006, Y.2007, Y.2091, Y.2201, Y.2211, Y.2212, Y.2215, Y.2216, Y.2233, Y.2236, Y.2807, Supplement 5 to Y.1900 series, Supplements 1 and 7 to Y.2000 series (IPTV, NGN aspects)
Y.2234, Y.2240 (service environment aspects)
Y.2213, Y.2221, Y.2060, Y.2061 (IoT aspects).
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG13 Work Programme:
QuestionThe Question addresses the support of emerging services and applications in NGN and its evolution. On the basis of use cases and related ecosystem aspects, the requirements and capabilities imposed on networks (including user networks) will be specified. The study of requirements and capabilities will include the usage in an evolving NGN of advanced enabling technologies such as SDN.
Study items include, but are not limited to:
Capabilities subject to specification include:
advanced capabilities for the support of IoT services and applications: autonomic networking and autonomic service provisioning; location based capabilities; time sensitivity; ad-hoc/device to device networking; gateway and device capabilities specific to IoT;
advanced capabilities for the support of emerging multimedia conversational services, IPTV and content delivery network based services;
advanced capabilities for network intelligence enablement (NICE): data mining, analytics and reasoning; content awareness; dynamic policy control and traffic scheduling; user self-assignment of network and service resources; flexible accounting and charging;
advanced capabilities for an enhanced service environment (service delivery platform for NGN and its evolution including support of IoT): capabilities which are application specific or common to applications in different vertical market areas; distributed service environment capabilities; service environment capabilities for advanced user devices; application publishing and integration with portals and application stores.
Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
Development of Recommendations for the support of emerging services and applications in an evolving NGN, covering:
use cases;
ecosystem aspects taking into account business models and use cases;
requirements for services and applications (including service interface requirements);
capabilities (including capability framework, capabilities covering network and user domains).
Maintenance and enhancement of the Recommendations for which the Question is responsible.
Relationships
Recommendations:
Questions:
Study Groups:
Standardization bodies, fora and consortia including, but not limited to:
IETF
OMA
IEEE
ATIS
ETSI
ISO/IEC
3GPP/3GPP2
