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Work item:
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QSTR-GDM (ex TR-GDM)
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Subject/title:
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Guide on development and maintenance of ONPs (Open Networking Platforms) and federations for IMT-2020 and beyond
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Status:
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Agreed on 2025-02-28 [Issued from previous study period]
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Approval process:
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Agreement
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Type of work item:
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Technical report
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Version:
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New
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Timing:
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Liaison:
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ETSI TC INT
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Supporting members:
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Telecom Italia, Mandat International, A1 Telekom Austria
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Summary:
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This Technical Report describes the concept of an Open Networking Platform (ONP) as a special testbed built for the purpose of validation of the fusion of Multi-SDO/Fora standards, harmonization, and trials on the use and interworking of the standards from different SDO/Fora that as target for the integration testing and harmonization objectives.
The Technical Report is to provide the definition of steps that can be pursued by the ICT industry towards developing, operationalizing and maintaining ONPs for IMT-2020 and beyond. One of the main aspects of this document is the use of the federated testbeds reference model and APIs (as a metamodel) to build ONPs. The case presented for ONPs in this present document should be treated as a special use case and ICT industry requirement for testbeds federations for addressing as being driven by SDOs/Fora requirements specifically.
The industry (SDOs/Fora, 5G network operators, telecom equipment suppliers, enterprises, SMEs, users) are in dire need of Open Networking Testbeds (ONTs) for use in validation of the fusion of Multi-SDO/Fora standards, harmonization, and trials through industry-Grade proving grounds testbeds. Unfortunately, most of the ONTs available (e.g., for 5G) are mainly suitable for research purposes only and are not built based on standards and for standards validations based on SDOs/Fora standards-driven requirements as drivers for building the testbeds. In some viewpoint the proposed ONTs and approach that encourages standards driven innovations—an approach that enables resultant solutions to be quickly accepted and consumed by the industry than proprietary non-standards driven innovations that often face low intake due to not integrating well with components built based on ICT industry standards. In fact, deployments of the evolving and new technologies multiple standards coming from different SDOs/Fora often need to be deployed and made to interwork with each other. Testbeds are a good instrument to deploy and interwork Multi-SDO/Fora standards and validate their interworking so that any problems discovered get to be communicated to the responsible SDOs/Fora that are makers of the standards in order for issues to be resolved and for harmonization of the standards to take place.
What would help to achieve this goal is to create special testbeds in form of ONPs that are built based on the inputs and priorities from the Multi-SDOs/Fora pertaining to the standards that need to be interworked and tested at a particular timeframe of which the SDOs/Fora need feedback from the test activities. ONPs can primarily serve this purpose as instruments for validation of the fusion of Multi-SDO/Fora standards, harmonization, and trials through industry-grade proving grounds testbeds, as standalone and as federated testbeds. Secondly, it can also foster standards driven innovation and help serve as a playground (proving ground) for network operators and enterprises (including small organizations that do not have resources to build own testbeds) to use in trying out new technology pre-deployment real use cases for 5G and beyond, based on ICT industry harmonized and cross-SDO/Fora fusion of standards within the ONP as the fundamental requirement and enabler.
The Technical Report also focuses on:
The role of testbeds federations reference model based on Recommendation [ITU-T Q.4068] in designing ONPs and federating them as federated testbeds;
The categories of stakeholders which can benefit from ONPs, with a focus on the benefits to specific stakeholders;
The methods for maintenance and sustenance of ONPs.
NOTE-1: ONP as a special use case for testbed federations. The work presented in this Technical Report on the concept of ONP and federation of ONPs is an example of use cases for testbeds federations (along with other use cases compiled in the ITU-T Technical Report QSTR-UCFTBS) since the case presented for ONPs as a special case for testbeds and federated testbeds requirement. ONPs should be treated as a special use case and industry requirement for testbeds federations.
NOTE-2: ONP also can be used as a special “Testbed-as -a Service” (TaaS) - a concept described in [ITU-T Q.4078]. There is a relationship between TaaS concept and ONP concept as an ONP can be viewed as a special case for TaaS.
NOTE-3: in addition, ONP can benefit from insights derived from IEEE 5G & Beyond Testbed Initiative [b-IEEE-TI] and therefore, there is need for ONP implementers to explore such initiatives in order to derive insights on how such a testbed and processes involved in its build, use and maintenance present certain characteristics of relevance to consider when designing, building and using ONPs and federating them with other types of testbeds.
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Comment:
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First registration in the WP:
2024-05-21 09:34:39
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Last update:
2025-04-14 11:20:03
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