Motivation
Digital transformation is the strategic adoption of new, fast and frequently changing technology to improve process and productivity, manage risk, reduce cost, etc. Competitiveness of digital transformation depends on evolving technology, that is, its ability to quickly adapt to future computing technologies. In particular, cloud computing and big data are driving digital transformation. In addition, future computing technologies take into account artificial intelligence including machine learning, distributed computing, edge computing, data-centric computing, memory-centric computing, quantum cloud computing and computing aware networking. Therefore, the telecommunication industry has an important role to play in the fields of future computing and furthermore, the integration and development of future computing technologies in Future networks will drive a rapid move towards a digital transformation.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling service user's ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services), that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.
Data is of high value to build applications and services based on future computing. For this reason, not only the big data capabilities, but also technologies and standards to support data usage, processing, analysing, exchanging, sharing, and data quality assessment are essential in terms of data handling.
The primary focus of this Question is to provide the architectures, infrastructures and networking views related to the integration and support of the future computing (including cloud computing and data handling) in telecommunication ecosystems.
This Question is intended to develop new Recommendations for:
– functional architectures in support of future computing based services and applications
– future computing functional architectures supporting interworking requirements, distributed computing, edge computing and other
emerging forms of computing;
– future computing infrastructures including networking aspects (e.g. for the support of network slicing);
– future computing functional architectures of in support and applied in vertical domains;
– data handling functional architectures including data handling interworking functional architecture and future computing based data
handling architecture;
– functional architectures and mechanisms supporting the integration and convergence of future computing technologies in
networking.
This Question is also intended to develop Reports; Handbooks; Guidelines for practice, assessment, evaluation; etc. as appropriate on studies and implementations for above functional architectures and related functions.
The following major Recommendations, in force at the time of approval of this Question, fall under its responsibility: Y.3502, Y.3504, Y.3509, Y.3511, Y.3515, Y.3516, Y.3519.
Study items
Study items to be considered include:
- What new Recommendations should be developed regarding the future computing functional architectures, including the specification of corresponding functions, functional components, and their inter relations?
- What new Recommendations should be developed regarding the infrastructures and networking aspects of future computing?
- What new Recommendations should be developed for the data handling architectures, including data exchange and interoperation functional architectures?
- What new Recommendations should be developed for the functional architectures of future computing in support of vertical domains?
- What collaboration is necessary to minimize duplication of efforts with other SDOs?
Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Developing Recommendations for future computing functional architectures (including interworking), covering the identification of architectural functions, functional components, and their inter-relation required to provide future computing based services.
- Developing Recommendations for future computing infrastructures and networking aspects, covering the identification of functions, functional components for computing, storage and networking.
- Developing Recommendations for future computing based data handling functional architecture, data exchange and interoperation functional architecture.
- Developing Recommendations for the functional architectures of future computing in vertical domains.
- Providing the necessary collaboration with external SDOs, consortia and forums.
- Maintenance and enhancement of the Recommendations for which the Question is responsible.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG13 Work Programme:
https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?Q=18/13.
Relationships
Recommendations
- Other relevant Y-series recommendations, in particular in Y.3500 and Y.3600 series
- Y-series and Cloud computing and data handling related Recommendations in the M, Q and X series Recommendations.
