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NGMN Recommendations on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS)

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In a letter from the NGMN board members to the European Commission, NGMN strongly recommends to adopt a forward-thinking, technology-neutral approach in developing the EU’s C-ITS strategy.

The letter, addressed to EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, calls upon European legislators to reconsider the current EC Delegated Act by including C-V2X on the list of potential technologies that European stakeholders may pursue and allow the market to decide which technology prevails.

The board urges that given its importance, the Delegated Act adoption should not be rushed but conducted in transparent consultation with all stakeholders.

A recent white paper on V2X technology published earlier this year by NGMN was also included, outlining the advantages of cellular technology over the less desirable wi-fi technology currently being considered.

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180921 NGMN NCEsec white paper v1.0

Security Aspects of Network Capabilities Exposure in 5G

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5G network is expected to expose some of its capabilities to 3rd parties in order to catalyze the creative services based on them. The exposed network capabilities should thus create new business opportunities, but may also introduce new security risks. The security considerations depend on the exposure scenarios, the local regulation constraints, business models, and trust/liability models among the service user, the network capability provider (i.e., the network operator), and the network capability consumer (i.e., the 3rd party).

The scope of this document is:

  • To identify different network capabilities exposure scenarios;
  • To investigate and propose security requirements for these scenarios;
  • To investigate the exposure of security capabilities and present and evaluate the corresponding use cases.

The main purpose of this document is:

  • To help the network operators and their partners to find secure and beneficial ways of exposing the network capabilities;
  • To influence the 5G-related standardization work in 3GPP (in particular, in SA3, SA1, SA2 and SA6) as well as in other SDOs.
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180910_Interoperability_Framwork_definition_v1-0

Definition of the Testing Framework for the NGMN 5G TTI Interoperability

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This document focuses on the interoperability phase of the NGMN 5G Trial and Testing activities, where the main goal is to test interoperability of various equipment and interfaces in a realistic and heterogeneous environment and to provide feedback to the standardization body.

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180831_NGMN_5G_SPECTRUM_WHITE_PAPER_2018_V2

5G Spectrum Requirements: White Paper v2.0

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The purpose of this paper is to lay out the NGMN vision on the current process of identification of new spectrum for IMT services within the ITU process, as well as exploring the opportunity for new frequency ranges suitable for the deployment of 5G in the next decade.

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180831 NDL White Paper v1.0

A Network Data Layer Concept for the Telco Industry

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This white paper focuses on the services to be provided by an NSP-grade cloud database, called Network Data Layer. In addition, it also describes use cases enabled by the externalization of various types of data.

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180819 NGMN 5G Ext Req TF D2 2 v2.0

5G Extreme Requirements: E2E Considerations

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The aim of this work is to highlight what implications and trade-offs related to the delivery of new 5G services are relevant for mobile network operators. Some of these new services, in fact, require extremely low latency and high reliability of the communication link, which have very little in common with the targets that the telecommunications industry has worked towards until today. The new 5G requirements, in fact, now call for a re-think on how the future network will have to be designed and optimised in order to enable the new services.

The purpose of this document is to identify realistic end-to-end deployment configurations that can potentially deliver the 5G extreme services across their footprint and to highlight some of the key challenges that come into play in this context.

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V2X_white_paper_v1_0-1

V2X Task Force: White Paper v1.0

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This paper presents a summary of the findings of the NGMN V2X task force and concludes with a list of key points.

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180605 NGMN 5G Ext Req TF D2 1 v2.5

5G Extreme Requirements: Radio Access Network Solutions

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The purpose of this document is to identify realistic radio access deployment configurations that can potentially deliver the 5G extreme services across their footprint and to highlight some of the key challenges that come into play in this context.

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180226 NGMN RANFSX D1 V20 Final

NGMN Overview on 5G RAN Functional Decomposition

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The 5G RAN decomposition allows for a wide range of 5G services requirements to be met by allowing for RAN functionality to be split into centralised and distributed locations. There is a trade-off in terms of performance, complexity, flexibility, and transport demands that can allow an operator to decide what RAN decomposition(s) to deploy. This work provides an overview of the various RAN functional split options and their relative trade-offs.

This work also provides an overview of the various industry activities that together form a toolbox enabling an operator to deploy the RAN functional split(s) of their choice.

The functional split options can broadly be classified as either a high layer split (HLS) or a low layer split (LLS). The HLS is progressing as a work item within 3GPP. An overview of the 3GPP activities related to the HLS is provided here. For the LLS, the story is less mature, but still making significant progress. Many industry groups including, 3GPP, eCPRI, xRAN, TIP, TTA, SCF, IEEE 1914, IEEE 802.1CM, are working on parts of the puzzle and specifications are already available or soon to be available from many of these groups. The final part of this document provides an overview of how these various aspects related to the LLS are developing.

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180226 NGMN E2EArchFramework v2.0.0

5G End-to-End Architecture Framework v2.0

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This document delineates the requirements in terms of entities and functions that characterise the capabilities of an E2E (end-to-end) framework. Architectural perspectives and considerations associated with the service categories – eMBB, mIoT, URLLC – envisioned for 5G (Fifth Generation) underscore the delineation of the E2E framework requirements. These requirements are intended as guidance in the development of inter-operable and market enabling specifications for a 5G ecosystem. This version resolves the outstanding Security and Identity management issues from the first published version, adds new references associated with those parts, and makes no changes to the other sections.

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