Chair:

Professor Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark [email protected]

Mission
To promote a secure communications environment across multiple Socio-Economic settings based on user needs and requirements

Overview
WGA is focused on discovering and promoting research areas that strive to understand the needs for and requirements to wireless future internet systems. The activities are based on the understanding that users are driving the creation and design of new, emerging applications and services in a secure environment. This includes the ‘direct’, traditional user requirements area: how the users are driving the creation and design of new, emerging services in a secure environment and how users will interact with devices, systems and applications in the Wireless World. It also includes ‘indirect’ user requirements in the form of ‘M2M’ communications. There is thus recognized an Increasing socio-economic impact on the Wireless development where the Future Internet will represent an increasing fusion between the digital and the physical world. User acceptance of this development requires attention to data protection, privacy and ethical issues. WGA addresses these challenges and investigates the sphere of user requirements and interaction between users, devices, systems and applications and studies the elements of viable business models under different socio-economic conditions.

Focus in 2023 – Preparing for the CMI/ WWRF conference 16/ 17 November 2023 in Copenhagen work will in collaboration with WG Cybersecurity focus on discussing/ analyzing data collection and privacy in connected cars.

Focus areas

• • Methods, processes and best practices for user-centred research and design
  • Reference frameworks for modeling user needs within the context of wireless future internet systems
  • Identification of relevant future services and applications based analyses of user needs/ requirements and user experiences
  • Approaches and tools for creating new, sustainable applications, services and service infrastructures
  • User scenario creation and analysis
  • User interaction technologies
  • The needs of users, operators, service providers and other players for secure and trustworthy wireless systems incl security requirements and privacy concerns in context-sensing environments
  • Visions on services, applications and needed infrastructures related to the wireless Future Internet (FI) era
  • User centric Identity Management Systems
  • Studies of user requirements for, and usage of, wireless technologies by particular user groups, in different geographical or socio-economic contexts including emerging economies
  • Studies the spectrum requirements needed to make services available where needed by users (e.g., no home/ work distinction)
  • Development of viable business models based on user needs and requirements incl. impact of loss of reputation and trust to business models

Chair: Sudhir Dixit [email protected]

Introduction
The approach and focus of the WWRF is at present being sharpened to better align with the technology innovations and industry directions in networking and communication. As a result, the Working Group C, while building on its successes, is being revitalized to speed-up and facilitate the convergence of software, cloud, big data, virtualization and networking. It is the WGC’s endeavor to pool industry and academic resources to do targeted applied research to identify challenges facing the industry with this convergence and propose solutions that are pragmatic in the short-term (with backwards compatibility) and strategic in the long-term to evolve to what ideally they should be.

Mission
The group’s mission is to guide the mobile industry in the use of software, virtualization and cloud computing in future networks (both wireless and wired) by developing end-to-end network architectures, identifying the specific requirements and issues and addressing them by providing solutions that are practical and business driven, and thus accelerate the adoption of 5G where IT will play a major role. Virtual network slicing to develop custom networks for specific industry verticals and services from the common underlying physical infrastructure will also be an important mission of this group.

In short, the group focuses on Internet of senses, softwarization, cloudification, virtualization and slicing of the 5G and future networks (such as 6G) where IT will play an important role

Focused Topics
Main topics that WGC covers are focused on:

• • Software network architectures and software design approaches to meet the specific requirements of future wireless carrier networks
  • Mapping of 5G performance requirements to virtualized hardware and software that is decentralized, including potentially those that virtualize the user (5G) devices
  • Liaison with IEEE, ITU and ETSI and other fora to influence standards work
  • Facilitate collaborations and consensus building among various experts and actors
  • Invite and engage with the IT industry and encourage them to join WWRF
  • Organize speaking events and workshops to encourage dissemination and interactions with the experts
  • Convergent wireless/ wireline access and core network segments leveraging cloud, virtualization and big data
    
    • Smart Virtualized Infrastructure
    • Smart management of the Cloud-RAN;
    • Software-defined wireless networks (SDN);
    • Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
    • End-to-end network slicing
    • Internet of senses
    • Cloud native and native AI
       

Chair: Dr Angeliki Alexiou [email protected]

Overview

WGD addresses research aspects focusing on the air interface for wide-area and local-area wireless communication systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Senses, spectrum issues and resources management and sharing.

WGD covers topics such as smart antenna technologies, cooperative communications, interference management and cell-less architectures, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Joint Communications and Sensing. Physical-layer security of wireless systems is also covered in this working group.

As wireless networks evolve towards IMT-2030 and beyond, connectivity will be faced with new challenges stemming from critical usage scenarios, both as extreme evolution of well-known 5G usage scenarios (MBB, URLLC, MMTC) and as revolutionary usage scenarios with a clear emphasis on ‘beyond communications’ characteristics. Especially for the latter, capacity and latency may not be the only critical performance targets. Reliability, resilience, and reconfigurability are expected to play a significant role in performance optimization. The objectives of reliable and efficient transmission of bits may be further expanded to also address sensing, situational awareness, as well as immersive and interactive intelligence. Balancing performance with scalability/complexity may prove an important challenge in future networks.

It is envisaged that WGD will address a large dynamic range of modelling, analytical assessment, advanced radio technologies design, physical layer procedures and resource management approaches, including (but not limited to) the following topics:

Advanced modulation, coding and multiple access schemes

Advanced antenna technologies

Propagation and channel modelling

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Holographic MIMO

Electromagnetic Information Theory

Integrated sensing and communication

Ultra-high accuracy positioning

Device-to-device communications

Full duplex communications

mmWave and THz communications

Ultra-dense radio technologies

AI-native communications

Physical layer security

Non-terrestrial connectivity

Spectrum management algorithms and techniques

Standardization and regulatory aspects

WGD has been following and contributing to the works of ITU-R WP5D and has been driving the technical contributions of WWRF as sector member of ITU towards IMT-2020 Evaluation and IMT-2030 Technology Trends and Vision.

WGD White Papers and Outlooks

Outlook 31– April 2023-WWRF-IEG’s Evaluation of IMT-2020 Candidate Technology Enhanced Ultra High Throughput 5G (EUHT-5G) revised submission from NUFRONT

Outlook 30– February 2022 – Evaluation of IMT-2020 Candidate Technology: Enhanced Ultra-High Throughput (EUHT)

Outlook 29– November 2021 – WWRF IEG Evaluation of IMT-2020 Candidate Technology Submission from ETSI (TC DECT) AND DECT FORUM

Outlook 27– April 2020 – WWRF EUHT Report – ITU evaluation process for IMT-2020

Outlook 26– April 2020 – WWRF IEG Report – ITU evaluation process for IMT-2020

“Wireless World 2020: System Concept Trends, Technology Enablers and Radio Interface Challenges” [available as outlook]

“Small Cell Evolution for Wireless World 2020: Hotspots&Indoor improvement”

“WWRF Wireless World 2020 Workshops: Visions for the Wireless Future”

Chair: Professor Knud Erik Skouby, Aalborg University, Denmark ( [email protected])

Mission

The mission of the WG-Cybersecurity is to promote a trusted and cyber secure environment for the current and future wireless technologies through the identification of key research challenges and technology trends.

NEWS

Workshop on Cybersecurity on 1st April 2022

With the mission to promote a trusted and cyber secure environment for the current and future wireless technologies through the identification of key research challenges and technology trends WWRF organised a virtual workshop on 1st of April, WWRF WG-Cybersecurity on “Cybersecurity in 5G Beyond” The workshop had good representation from the Industry and Research Institutions. The topics for the talks were:

• • “Towards sustainable 6G” Dr. Marja Matinmikko-Blue; Research Director at Infotech Oulu Institute Director of Sustainability and Regulation at 6G Flagship >>>
  • “Where is cybersecurity developing towards – a view on recent trends in the standardization of cybersecurity” – Scott Cadzow; Director, Cadzow Communications Consulting.>>>
  • Security Standardization in 3GPP – Noamen Ben Henda; Security Standardization Expert, Huawei Technologies.>>>

Overview

WWRF provides a platform to the global wireless research community to explore and develop the research challenges that confront us as we look beyond current 5G and other developments. These developments have raised considerable concerns in the cybersecurity sector.

WG-Cybersecurity focuses on addressing these concerns and provides a common ground to researchers and Industry representatives to explore these challenges. The group takes the multifaced approach to cybersecurity due to its complexity as there are multiple threat vectors, increasingly sophisticated and effective attacks, and a general lack of suitable security standards.

To support our mission of “a trusted and cyber secure environment for the current and future wireless technologies” the WG-cyber will focus on following areas. 

• • Cybersecurity Strategy, Policy and Standardization
  • Cybersecurity Frameworks, Certification and Supply chain
  • Cybersecurity Directives and Regulations
  • Enhancing the Trustworthiness in Current and Future Wireless Technologies
  • Wireless Cybersecurity Use Cases (IoT, V2X, Healthcare)
  • Cyber Threat and Risk Management for 5G Networks and beyond
  • Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Challenges
  • New Security Technologies and Techniques Relevant to Wireless Networks

Focus in 2023 – Preparing for the CMI/ WWRF conference 16/ 17 November 2023 in Copenhagen work will in collaboration with WG A/B focus on discussing/ analyzing data collection and privacy in connected cars.

Chair: Dr Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus [email protected]

While the wireless world is moving towards the 6G era and many technological advances have been proposed, there seem to be significant limitations in the capability to efficiently and flexibly handle the massive amount of QoS/QoE-oriented data that will be exchanged along with the super-high data rate and almost zero latency requirements. Moreover, there is a clear trend towards perceptive and resilient connectivity, where situational awareness, resilience, sensing agility and reconfiguration intelligence will transform wireless networks towards a ‘beyond just communications’ era.

THz connectivity (above 100GHz) as a wireless backhaul extension of the optical fiber is an important building block to high-speed internet access everywhere in 6G. Furthermore, new challenging THz connectivity scenarios are becoming ever more relevant in 6G systems, including: NLOS connectivity based on metasurfaces with the capability to dynamically reconfigure so to track slowly moving users and Ad hoc connectivity in fast moving network topologies, e.g., based on drones or V2X links. Holographic MIMO and Large Intelligent Surfaces in the THz regime offer the potential of shaping/tuning the wireless environment by taking advantage of the wavefront engineering capabilities. Most important, THz wireless connectivity provides an ideal playground for joint communications and sensing, environmental mapping and localization/positioning.

Together with extraordinary promises, THz communications bring unique and novel challenges that require rethinking classic communications and networking mechanisms. The root cause for these challenges is the ultra-wideband, the distance dependent bandwidth and the extremely directional nature of THz communications links. Other peculiarities of THz communications include signal and antenna design, channel, and interference modelling. The fundamentally different structure of the interference, due to narrow beams, calls for thorough investigation and detailed modelling of interference. Medium access control (MAC) and radio resource management (RRM) protocols now must operate with pencil beams and, thus, have to be based on completely new principles. Fast handover procedures need to include the time required for discovery, localization and tracking functionalities. The Tbits/s data rates create significant challenges for the transceiver processing including algorithm and architecture design as well as hardware implementation.

Motivated by the potential of THz technologies to transform the future of ICT, WG-HF aims to identify the critical technology gaps as well as the appropriate enablers, in terms of baseband processing RF frontend, channel models and waveforms, signals and coding, beam-patterns and medium access control schemes. It aspires to provide a discussion platform/thinktank, by engaging a critical mass of experts from industry, regulators and academia, in order to investigate/understand the trends, requirements, enablers and challenges in the specification, design, optimization and adoption of above 100GHz radio technologies in future wireless networks.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Transceivers for terahertz communications

Antenna and ultra-massive antenna arrays for Terahertz communications

Electromagnetic Information Theory for Terahertz communications

Channel models for Terahertz communications

Channel estimation techniques for Terahertz communications

Modulation and waveform design for Terahertz communications

Beamforming, precoding and space-time coding schemes

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Advanced wavefront engineering

Near field communications

MAC layer design for Terahertz communications

Interference management for Terahertz communications

System-level modelling and experimental demonstrations

Chairs: Chritos Politis ([email protected])

Mission

To peer into what is next to come after 5G (B5G) leading to the development of the  standards for 6G, required research into the enabling technologies and how it is likely to be  commercialized. Nothing succeeds without the compelling use cases, applications, and innovations in business models; therefore, this group will also be vigilant about these non-technical aspects to augment its work on technologies and standards to present a holistic view of the launch of the 6G era.

Scope

The 6G Vision and Technologies Group focuses on research that looks five to ten years ahead in order to meet the requirements of the networks in the year 2030 time-frame. The group looks into the gaps in 5G that would need to be filled, resulting into incremental changes to 5G, called B5G until such time that clear requirements of 6G have been determined and needed research areas identified.  The group also aims to study the emerging new use cases that will require 6G, and the potentially novel business models to justify investments that will be needed.

Methodology

• • Leverage academic research to develop technologies for B5G and 6G that drive and/or complement the standards activities
  • Provide relevant input from/to the stakeholders in order to maximize the advantages of B5G and 6G while addressing concerns with respect to security, trust and privacy
  • Develop WWRF as a bridge between the various stakeholders to provide input to help prepare for standardization
  • Develop ideas and concepts on how 6G will likely impact the various industry verticals, facilitating the telecom and vertical industries to jointly discuss the vision, usage scenarios and technical requirements
  • Develop use cases and study any gaps that may need to be addressed
  • Develop use cases and technical requirements for 5G and beyond support of the connected car and associated industries,
  • Work with other relevant global organizations with similar visions and interests as those of the WWRF
  • Publish white papers, articles and speak at the various leading networking events.

Areas of focus

• • Use cases or killer applications
  • All technology areas related to networking and adjacencies, such as AI, ML, blockchain
  • Evolution of networking to cloud and IT technologies, including SDN, virtualization, edge computing
  • IoT, M2M and M2H communications
  • Network management, operations support and administration
  • Community and federated architectures
  • Intersection of B5G and 6G with SDG goals to bridge the digital divide
  • Network sharing concepts
  • Green communications
  • Business models
  • Regulatory and policy related ideas and issues
  • Authentication, security and trust
  • Reliability and QoS.

Participation

The major companies, universities and organizations active in 5G, B5G and 6G are most welcome to join the 6G Working group.

Chair: Rehan Usman, Kingston University London, UK

Co- Chair: Dr. Nuwan Weerasinghe, SIMULTELCO LTD, London, UK

Vision

The DigiTel-Health Working Group envisions a future where AI-powered digital healthcare platforms integrate seamlessly with the latest wireless technologies, catalyzing a transformative shift across various healthcare sectors. By actively engaging with healthcare industry stakeholders and collaborating with standardization and regulatory bodies, we aim to foster a dynamic ecosystem that propels the rapid development and implementation of pioneering technologies. Leveraging the capabilities of AI, advanced wireless technology (including 6G and beyond), stringent cybersecurity measures, and a commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, our goal is to guide the healthcare industry toward enhanced patient outcomes and improved quality of care, contributing to the evolution of a more interconnected and responsive healthcare system.

Objectives

The objectives of the DigiTel-Health VIP are to:

1. Develop Application Scenarios
2. Identify User Requirements, i.e., Develop a Framework for Successful health as a Service (HaaS) Systems
3. Identify Technical Requirements in collaboration with third parties (5G PPP, ITU-R, 5G-PPP, IEEE, ETSI) and Digital Healthcare stakeholders.
4. Provide business cases to demonstrate the new business models and value chains.
5. Prepare and demonstrate a 6G and beyond Digital Healthcare paradigm to wide audiences and stakeholders in Europe and beyond.

Figure 3. 6G and beyond in Digital Healthcare

The above objectives will be realised by investigating various evolutions in healthcare by selecting a specific domain and focusing on the following:

• • New care pathways (clinical processes).
  • Digital transformation of medical and pharmaceutical industries.
  • Added value for healthcare data – big data in healthcare.
  • Assisted living and prevention.
  • AI based assistance models (diagnostics and predictive analysis).
  • Preoperative surgical and guided surgical procedures (Telepresence)
  • Collaborate with healthcare device manufacturing Industries (Samsung, Nokia, Huawei etc.)

Case study parameters and KPIs

• • Healthcare Challenges in Journal and White paper publications
  • 6G and beyond networks targets
    
    • low power consumption
    • cost efficiency
    • flexibility for future evolutions
  • Healthcare use cases will require:
    
    • Homogenous experience from outdoor to deep-indoor
    • Higher typical throughput per user/ application
    • Smart Medical IoT (MIoT)
    • High security and reliability
    • Ultra Low-cost deployments
    • Emergency management
    • Intelligent Diagnostics and Treatment
    • Virtual environment infrastructure support
  • Develop Application scenarios (define, specify, develop)
  • User Requirements (identify stakeholders and industry player’s needs)
  • Technology Requirements in collaboration with WWRF stakeholders and partners

Potential and Existing Stakeholders

1. 1. 1. Kingston University London, UK
      2. UBITECH Ltd. UK
      3. SIMULTELCO, UK
      4. Vidavo, Greece
      5. CTTC, Spain
      6. 5G PPP – 6GIA (VIA)
      7. Superior University Lahore, Pakistan
      8. Telkom University, Indonesia
      9. UTEM, Malaysia
      10. Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea
          1. Kim Dong Seong and Prof. Soo Young Shin, KIT, Soth Korea (Korean mobile operators, ICT research center and BK21+)
      11. COMSATS University, Lahore, Pakistan
      12. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
      13. University College Dublin, Ireland
      14. A-Alog, UK
      15. Sri Lanka Telecom, Sri Lanka
      16. University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

Milestones for 2024

• • Taking onboard new stakeholders, Telecommunication industries from Asian Countries.
  • Engagement of Digital Healthcare research and development companies in Asia and Globally.
  • WWRF DigiTel-Health VIP group workshop ‘e-Health’ in Huddle Workshops event 2024 Berlin Germany
  • Development and study of use cases:
    
    • UbiTheraPlay Dentists (Remote Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy):
      
      • Use Case: Implementing virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications using Artificial Intelligence and wireless personal area networks, supported by high-speed 5G connectivity, for remote physical therapy sessions and rehabilitation exercises tailored to Muscular stimulation.
      • Benefits: Increases accessibility to rehabilitation services, promotes patient engagement, and enables healthcare professionals to monitor progress in real time.
      • Contributor: UBITECH Ltd.
    • 3D imaging and Haptic feedback based Dental preoperative and live surgeries.
      
      • Use Case: leverage 5G networks to facilitate 3D imaging based dental Tele surgery and to engage industry for adopting such solutions.
      • Benefits: Accelerates the pace for global quality based reliable and cheaper dental treatment.
      • Contributor: Glasgow University UK
    • Engagement of Digital Healthcare device manufacturers and clinicians from Asian countries and worldwide.
    • Planning WG DigiTel-Health inaugural in 2024 potentially in Pakistan or UAE (Looking for better and attractive venue).
    • Host a WWRF DigiTel-Health VIP workshop in IEEE CCNC 2025 conference (Las Vegas, USA, January 2025).
      
      • 1st Workshop on “Research Advancements in AI and Future Communication Technologies for Healthcare (RAFCATH)”
    • Finalization of the White paper before WWRF 52^nd
    • Discussion and finalization of 2^nd potential whitepaper topic, structure and publication.

White Papers

We will develop and publish three white papers within three years for the WG. These white papers will demonstrate the Digital Healthcare paradigm under the 6G and beyond ecosystem using a specific healthcare domain as an example. The following white paper is proposed for 2024:

WP1: Exploring the Next Frontier: Digital Healthcare Innovations in the Era of 6G Technology.

• • Will be based on the Business Case Scenarios and Use Cases.
    
    • Timeline: WWRF 52^nd Meeting in September (Final Paper)
    • Preliminary presentation (paper structure) in WG DigiTel-Health in the 51^st WWRF Meeting

Actions Plan for DigiTel-Health VIP (year 2024) 

• • Collaborate with Asian and Global R&D companies/institutes/organization working in the domain of the working group.
  • Kick-off of the WWRF DigiTel-Health VIP in Pakistan or UAE (checking
  • WWRF e/m Health & Wearables VIP group workshop in Huddle Workshops event 2024 Berlin Germany
  • Presentation of Final WP1 in the 52nd WWRF meeting in 2024
  • Presentation of the WWRF DigiTel-Health VIP Group in 6G summit November 2024
  • Host a WWRF DigiTel-Health VIP workshop in IEEE CCNC 2025 conference (Las Vegas, USA, January 2025).
    
    • 1st Workshop on “Research Advancements in AI and Future Communication Technologies for Healthcare (RAFCATH)”

Chair: Steffen Ring ([email protected])

Scope

The Vertical Industry Platzform (VIP) Rail study group focuses on research that looks five to ten years ahead to meet the requirements of the railway industries based on the next generation wireless technologies. It is also  aimed to identify and discuss new and vital use cases for these industries.

As the global process of developing the 5G (NR) platform is progressing at remarkable speed, both in terms of the identification of the market need, standardization aspects and spectrum related matters, where  sets of “pioneer bands” already has been adopted across Regions, a need is emerging to focus more closely on the Professional Sectors, in this case the national Train Service Authorities, and the potential benefits and hurdles for their future adoption of what today is known as 5G.

As train services across the world offer higher speed trains, the need for operational radio communications systems and Internet of Things (IoT) are also pushing this aim.

Security, reliability, safety, resilience, IoT and dependability are playing a focal role in future radio communication systems for efficient train operations.
Furthermore, VIP Rail study group should also consider participation in the ITU-R activities, that are being initiated based on the decisions of the  ITU-R World Radio Conference 2019regarding choice of harmonized  spectrum for train to track communications.

Objectives

• • Identify and investigate the new advanced key applications that determine the stringent requirements to 5G for modern trains
  • Study the applicability adopting 5G technologies for  train operations
  • Compare and study if and how the Time,- and Mission Critical train applications compare with requirements from other professional and land-mobile vertical sectors, such asPublic Safety, utilities, etc.  with the aim of the possible sharing of such professional 5G network resources applied in those s vertical sectors
  • Study the vital coexistence aspects between the passengers Internet access platform(s) and the train operations 5G system
  • Develop WWRF as a bridge between the railway industries and industry organizations such as 5GAA and the wireless standards organizations (such as 3GPP) to provide input to help prepare for ideal standardization
  • Leverage academic research to develop technologies for railways that complement developments in standards bodies. Provide relevant input to government and railway industry to maximize the advantages of new technologies while addressing growing concerns with respect to security and privacy.
  • Create a better understanding in the railway industry of the potential and capabilities of future wireless technologies.
  • Enable the telecom and railway industry to jointly discuss the vision, usage scenarios, requirements and enabling technologies to achieve the targets of future vertical industry communications in 5G and beyond.
  • Work with the global railway industry to highlight and develop opportunities enabled by 5G and beyondsuch as the UIC (European Union Agency for Railways) Future Radio Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) Project and other Global Initiatives
  • Provide relevant and timely input to standardization process (3GPP, ITU-R,  ITU-T, ETSI, etc.)
  • In particular for the EEA/ETSI, the TC TCCE for Critical Communications matters, the TC ERM for spectrum and EMC matters, the TC RRS for Reconfigurable Radio Systems /Software Defined Radio solutions, the TC ITS for Intelligent Transport Systems, the TC SAGE and TC CYBER for security matters and the ETSI TC SES for satellite communication matters.
  • Liaise where required with the regional spectrum authorities, one level under ITU-R, such as the CEPT/ECC, ATU, Arab Group, and other Regional Authorities….
  • Liaise where applicable with the EU Research Framework programmes, such as Horizon 2020 and in particular the forthcoming Horizon Europe Research Framework, that right now can be inspired/contributed to by the WWRF results related to 5G

Milestones and deliverables

Outputs include white papers and technical proposals which will be submitted to the major standardization bodies of 5G, including ITU and 3GPP.

• • Delivery of draft white paper

• • Deliver contributions to 3GPP and other organizations

• • Approval of final white paper

Participation

Invite major companies, universities, and organizations active in the area of railways

Chair: Professor Knud Erik Skouby [email protected], 

Focus in 2023 – Preparing for the CMI/ WWRF conference 16/ 17 November 2023 in Copenhagen work will in collaboration with WG A/B focus on discussing development of sustainable/ green business models for 5G and beyond.

Scope

The Vertical Industry Platform (VIP) focuses on research that looks five to ten years ahead on Business Models (BM´s)  supported and enabled by 5G and Beyond wireless technologies in order to meet the requirements of future Business Model Ecosystems (BMES). It also is aimed at the identification of user and business cases for these BM´s and BMES.

Objectives

• • Leverage academic research to develop technologies for Multi Business Model Innovation (MBMI) that complement developments in standards bodies.
  • Provide relevant input to government in order to maximize the advantages of MBMI technologies while addressing concerns with respect to security, privacy, trust, speed of MBMI.
  • Develop WWRF as a bridge between the Future 5G wireless technologies, MBMI and the wireless standards organizations (such as ETSI and ITU) to provide input to help prepare for standardization.
  • Create a better understanding of MBMI in Businesses, BMES of the potential, competences needed, capabilities, risks of Business Models and BMES embedded with future wireless technologies.
  • Enable the telecom, businesses and representatives from different BMES´s to jointly discuss the vision, usage scenarios, customers, network, requirements and enabling technologies to achieve the targets of future vertical and horizontal BMES business and communications in 5G and beyond.
  • Develop use-, business-, BMES cases and study any gaps that may need to be addressed with respect to existing and evolving standards for the support of related BM´s, BMES´s
  • Develop use-, business-, BMEs- cases and technical requirements for future Sensing and Persuasive 5G and beyond BM´s and BMES
  • Provide relevant and timely input to standardization processes (IEEE, ITU and ETSI)

Participation

Companies, universities and organizations have shown interest in the activities and will be contacted after the approved launch.

Contact

Knud Erik Skouby
Professor,
Center for Communication, Media and Information technologies
Aalborg University- Copenhagen
Post: AC Meyers Vænge 15; DK-2450 Copenhagen SV  Denmark
Visit: Frederikskaj Bldg.12, 3.Floor
Tel: +45 9940 7197

Peter Lindgren
Professor, PhD – Multi Business Model Innovation and Technology, Vice-president CTIF Global Capsule
Aarhus University
School of Business and Social Sciences
Birk Centerpark 15, Office: CGC LAB
DK-7400 Herning – Denmark
T: +45 29442211/ +45 23425504
M: [email protected]
www.au.dk
www.ctifglobalcapsule.org
http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/peter-lindgren(244bfceb-2a4c-4ef0-8c5a-34ad8238b5eb)/publications.html
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Chair: Seshadri Mohan

The VIP CV WG focuses on research that looks five to ten years ahead in order to meet the requirements of the automotive and transport industries based on the next generation wireless technology. It also is aimed at the identification of use cases for these industries.

Objectives

• Leverage academic research to develop technologies for connected vehicles (CV) that complement developments in standards bodies.
• Provide relevant input to government in order to maximize the advantages of CV technologies while addressing concerns with respect to security and privacy.
• Develop WWRF as a bridge between the automotive industries and industry organizations such as 5GAA and the wireless standards organizations (such as 3GPP) to provide input to help prepare for standardization.
• Create a better understanding in the automotive industries of the potential and capabilities of future wireless technologies.
• Facilitate the telecom and automotive industries to discuss the vision, usage scenarios, requirements and enabling technologies to achieve the targets of future vertical industry communications in 5G, 6G, and beyond.
• Develop use cases and study any gaps that may need to be addressed with respect to existing and evolving standards (e.g., DSRC) for the support of connected car and associated industries
• Develop use cases and technical requirements for 5G and beyond support of the connected vehicles and associated industries,
• Work with the global automotive industry to highlight and develop opportunities enabled by 5G and beyond
• Provide relevant and timely input to standardization process (3GPP primarily, also ITU-T and ETSI)
• Explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on connected vehicles

Chair: Dr Angeliki Alexiou, University of Piraeus [email protected]

WWRF WG  Evaluation has championed several activities focused on the evaluation of Wireless Networks of 5G and beyond, including the organisation of workshops and special sessions, presentations, and Outlook publications. WWRF WG Evaluation has been supporting the ITU’s evaluation process for IMT-2020.

WWRF, in its capacity as ITU member WWRF, had many direct contributions, including its participation as an independent evaluation group IEG in the IMT-2020 Step 4 evaluation of the TSDSI and EUHT (NUFRONT) technology proposals, during 2019-2020, and in the Step 4 rewind evaluation process regarding DECT-2020 NR RIT (ETSI TC DECT & DECT FORUM) and EUHT-5G (NUFRONT) technologies in 2020-2021, and in the evaluation of EUHT-5G as part of the ‘Revision After 2021’ evaluation process for IMT-2020 (in 2022). The WWRF IEG is currently working on the evaluation of the candidate IMT-2020 radio interface ‘EUHT-5G’ submitted by Proponent ‘Nufront’ (IMT-2020/89) as part of the Revision 3 of Recommendation ITU-R M.2150 (work taking place during 2024-2025).

The WWRF WG Evaluation focuses also on research and performance assessment of technologies aimed to meet the requirements in the year 2030 and beyond. The group investigates the gaps in the provision of IMT-2020 requirements that would need to be filled and explores the potential of novel technologies that could revolutionize the wireless evolution.

The WWRF WG Evaluation has contributed since the beginning of the IMT-2030 works in ITU to the definition and the specification of requirements for future communication systems and towards the identification of necessary research areas and technology enablers, by submitting contributions towards the following 3 WP5D reports/Recommendations:

• • As one of the targets at the beginning of the IMT-2030 process, ITU-R WP 5D developed a new ITU-R Report on “Future Technology Trends”  published in November 2022, as Recommendation ITU-R M.2​516.
  • ITU-R WP5D  Report on“Framework and overall objectives of the future development ​of IMT for 2030 and beyond”​​, published as Recommendation ITU-R M. 2160.
  • ITU-R WP5D report on “Technical feasibility of IMT in bands above 100 GHz”, published as Recommendation ITU-R M.2541, which addresses the topics of propagation mechanisms and channel models, as well as advance technology enablers, such as active and passive components, antenna and MIMO techniques, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and deployment architectures, and the results of simulations and measurements. WWRF team has supported the development of this report, from the early stages of the draft to its final version, by contributing the chapters on RIS, MIMO and beamforming.

WWRF WG Evaluation follows the works on IMT-2030 requirements specification, currently in progress in ITU-R WP5D and is planning to leverage on the IMT-2020 expertise and support the IMT-2030 evaluation process expected to start in 2027