Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012

Closing the Research and Standardization Gap

Vinod KUMARRepresenting WWRF

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, FranceVinod.kumar@alcatel-lucent.com

Credits: E. Darmois, ALU Corporate Standards and Didier Bourse, Director European Programmes

Joint ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF Standards Education Workshop

(Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012)

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OutlineIntroduction – WWRF VisionSetting the Scene - TerminologyResearch and Standardization interdependenceAligning Research and Standardization life cyclesAn example of impact of ResearchIncreasing complexity – the multi-plane perspectiveConcluding remarks

WWRF Role

Develop future vision of the wireless worldDevelop novel technologies and solutions to meet new requirements emanating from societal evolution (anywhere, any time, instantaneous response) Inform and educate on trends and developmentsBring a wide range of parties together to identify and overcome significant roadblocks to the visionEnable and facilitate the translation of the vision into realityBe a catalyst in creating new projects and programs around the world

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7 trillion wireless devices serving 7 billion people

by 2020All people will be served with wireless devicesAffordable to purchase and operateCalm computing: technology invisible to usersMachine 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

WWRF Vision in a nutshell (1)

Principles of OperationGlobalOpen to allNOT • A standard body• Research funding body• A typical research conferenceBased on membershipVolunteer drivenAll can attend meetings and make contributions Page 5

Setting the Scene – Terminology

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Open Standards for “Interworking” First standardize then buildFeature selection based on technical feasibility studies Tremendous success story GSM

Good support from collaborative research projects before and during standardizationSupport from Regulatory bodies

Technology de-facto StandardsFirst build then standardizeInterworking is “designed-in” later on

Minimum Performance RequirementsEnsure acceptable quality and peaceful co-existence with othersBetter characterized as “support for regulation” than technology feature selection

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Research and Standardization Interdependence

Existing Process for “Interworking” Standards

Focused road mapWork item selectionGenerally Solution OrientedTactics Regulatory support expected

Specific requirements from research

Pre-standardization collaborative research work for harmonization as far as possibleOpen to all stakeholders including academic partnersAllows for an iterative/spiral-based approach

Aligning “Research and Standardization Life-cycles - I

Credits: E. Darmois – ALU Corporate Standards Organistion

Standardization based Innovation requires identification of a target Standards eco-system and alignment of Standards and Research life-cycles

Research ActivitiesNew product & solution conceptsTechnology 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 ActivitiesMany Standards eco-systems with various degrees of maturity and

intensity

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Aligning Research and Standardization Life-cycles - II

Credits: E. Darmois – ALU Corporate Standard

Transfer to products

Standardization

Products

Open Innovation

Marketintroduction

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To work efficiently as an innovation channel, the Standards ecosystem must be mature and its alignment with research lifecycle should be regulary evaluated

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Standardization is a pre-requisite for turning research

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Asset Creation

2 to 5 yearstime frame

An example of impact of Research on standardisationThe E2R / E2R II / E3 Case

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…

FIA

KIC EITICT

Labs

FI CG/G15

ISI

EPoSS

FI Projects: http://www.future-internet.eu/publications/bled-declaration.html

4WARD

ETICS

IRMOS ASPIRE

UniverSelf

D1 FI Cluster

D2 3D Cluster

D3 SA Cluster

D4 Cluster

IoT

FII Forum

eMobility

X-ETPs FI

NESSI

NEM

Std. / Reg.Deployment

WWRF

Research

Market

ClusterX-Domains

ConferencesEvents

IndustryForum

ITEA Event

Celtic

Event Eurek

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c& ITEA)

MyFIRE2020

3DMEDIA

FIRAEFIA Initiatives & ForaEIF

FIF

FIANEM

SummitServiceWave

FN & MobileSummit

Photonics21

The Global multi-plane Perspective

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Concluding Remarks: That is Life…

Numerous Air Interfaces; Internet Protocols…Voice coders, circuit mode, VoIP, IMS, VoLTE…Video Coding and StreamingOperating Systems and APIs for Application Development