Joint ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF
Standards Education Workshop
(Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012)
Closing the Research and
Standardization Gap
Vinod KUMAR
Representing WWRF
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Vinod.kumar@alcatel-lucent.com
Credits: E. Darmois, ALU Corporate Standards and
Didier Bourse, Director European Programmes
Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012
Outline
Introduction – WWRF Vision
Setting the Scene - Terminology
Research and Standardization
interdependence
Aligning Research and Standardization life
cycles
An example of impact of Research
Increasing complexity – the multi-plane
perspective
Concluding remarks
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WWRF Role
Develop future vision of the wireless world
Develop novel technologies and solutions to meet
new requirements emanating from societal evolution
(anywhere, any time, instantaneous response)
Inform and educate on trends and developments
Bring a wide range of parties together to identify and
overcome significant roadblocks to the vision
Enable and facilitate the translation of the vision into
reality
Be a catalyst in creating new projects and programs
around the world
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WWRF
Vision in a nutshell (1)
7 trillion wireless devices
serving 7 billion people
by 2020
All people will be served with wireless devices
Affordable to purchase and operate
Calm computing: technology invisible to users
Machine to machine communications
• Sensors and tags: e.g. in transport and weather
systems, infrastructure, to provide ambient
intelligence and context sensitivity
All devices are part of the (mobile) internet
Principles of Operation
Global
Open to all
NOT
•
•
•
A standard body
Research funding body
A typical research conference
Based on membership
Volunteer driven
All can attend meetings and make
contributions
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Setting the Scene – Terminology
Open Standards for “Interworking”
First standardize then build
Feature selection based on
technical feasibility studies
Tremendous success story GSM
Good support from collaborative
research projects before and
during standardization
Support from Regulatory bodies
Technology de-facto Standards
First build then standardize
Interworking is “designed-in”
later on
Minimum Performance Requirements
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Ensure acceptable quality and
peaceful co-existence with others
Better characterized as “support
for regulation” than technology
feature selection
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Research and Standardization
Interdependence
Existing Process for
“Interworking” Standards
Focused road map
Work item selection
Generally Solution Oriented
Tactics
Regulatory support expected
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Specific requirements
from research
Pre-standardization
collaborative research work
for harmonization as far as
possible
Open to all stakeholders
including academic
partners
Allows for an
iterative/spiral-based
approach
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Aligning “Research and
Standardization Life-cycles - I
 New product & solution concepts
 Technology assessment to de-risk
product development
 The Research Life Cycle should
be optimized for monetizing
innovation assets
Innovation Channels
 Direct transfer to Product units for
fast portfolio differentiation
 Internal “start-up-like" framework
for flexible & fast time to market
 Indirect channels requiring
Standards and supported by
global eco-systems
Standards Activities
 Many Standards eco-systems with
various degrees of maturity and
intensity
Standardization
Intensity
Research Activities
Std M
Std C
Std
B
Std P
Std A
Std Z
Std
X
Standardization
Maturity
 Standardization based Innovation
requires identification of a target
Standards eco-system and
alignment of Standards and
Research life-cycles
Credits: E. Darmois – ALU Corporate Standards Organistion
Aligning Research and
Standardization Life-cycles - II
Standardization
Intensity
Standardization is a pre-requisite for
turning research results into products
Good partnership between all
stakeholders is a must
-
Std
M
Std C
Std
B
Std
P
Std Z
Std A
Std
X
Standardization
Maturity
Plan
Asset Creation
Standardization
Act
Refine
2 to 5 years
time frame
Market
introduction
Transfer to products
Products
Open Innovation
Evaluate
To work efficiently as an innovation channel,
the Standards
ecosystem must be mature and
its alignment with research lifecycle should
be regulary evaluated
Credits: E. Darmois – ALU Corporate Standard
An example of impact of Research on standardisation
The E2R / E2R II / E3 Case
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Opening of IEEE SCC41 standardization path. First standard
completed by IEEE 1900.4 on the basis of E3 results
Opening of ETSI RRS TC standardization path. E3 concept are the
main drivers for the definition of the work programme of ETSI RRS
Agenda item in WRC’11 for Cognitive Pilot Channel (CPC)
2008-2009: 99 contributions to ETSI TC RRS, IEEE SCC41 P1900.4,
ITU-R WP5A, CEPT…
The Global multi-plane Perspective
Market
Std. / Reg.
Deployment
KIC EIT
ICT Labs
FII Forum
FIRA
FI CG/G15
X-ETPs FI
eMobility
NEM
Industry
Forum
Initiatives & Fora
EIF
EFIA
FIF
WWRF
ITEA
IoT
FIA
Event
Service Celtic
NEM
Wave
Event
Summit
FN & Mobile
Summit
D4 Cluster
FIA
D3 SA Cluster
NESSI
D1 FI Cluster
D2 3D
Cluster
ISI
EPoSS
4WARD
IRMOS
ASPIRE
MyFIRE
UniverSelf
Photonics2
1
Conferences
Events
2020
3DMEDIA
ETICS
FI Projects: http://www.future-internet.eu/publications/bled-declaration.html
Eurek
a
(Celtic
&
ITEA)
Cluster
X-Domains
Research
Concluding Remarks: That is Life…
Numerous Air Interfaces; Internet Protocols…
Voice coders, circuit mode, VoIP, IMS, VoLTE…
Video Coding and Streaming
Operating Systems and APIs for Application
Development
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