Action Plan for Implementation of Application Layer Standards

Background, TSDSI work , Recommendations

• Report on “Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” was submitted to DOT in 2018-19 by Application Layer Standards Task Force established by the 5G High Level Forum constituted by the Government of India,

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• Facilitate new standards development and Adoption of International standards,
• Accelerate 5G deployment and local industry creation in India. .
• Transform every sector of the economy and society.
• Address Deployment related challenges such as Spectrum allocation, Promoting Early, Efficient and Pervasive Deployment, Applications Layer Standards, Usage Demo Lab and Data Hub
• Address challenges related to Innovation, Intellectual property, Expanding manufacturing, Technology Suppliers for Make in India

Background

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report �Objectives

• Analyze and develop a landscape of requirements for India specific Application use cases
• Plan for standardizing India specific requirements with local and global SDOs
• Establishing action plan for the Adoption of Application Layer Standards in India
• Propose an ecosystem for large scale Application pilots and to facilitate and provide guidance for piloting these applications in proposed 5G test bed
• Recommend action plan for the Adoption of Application Layer Standards in India
• Deliverables (standards documents, test and certification guidelines, regulation and governance guidelines
• Activities required (e.g. setting up of the capabilities and ecosystem, process steps like pre-standardization activities, research, innovation sandbox, test and interoperability labs, pool of experts)
• Entities required (existing entities in Government, Academia, Industry and Standards bodies)
• Indicative timelines, budgets, source of fund

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report �Key findings and Recommendations

Four dimensions of Application layer standard

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• Domain layer Applications: Transportation, Healthcare, Smart City, Agriculture, Utilities, Public Safety, Banking and Finance, Education, Home, Manufacturing, and others.
• Are use case dependent. 2. Closely linked to the regional aspects of the domain 3. need to be driven by India’s requirements & standards with suitable Gap Analysis
• Application Services Layer is where the specifications of integrated application architecture, data set dictionary, data interaction standards , artificial intelligence, data analytics and interface specifications across multiple application services or domains are included
• Enabling Technology Services Layer includes specifications for architectures, interfaces of components & services encapsulating many technology options and alternatives that are required to perform several of the standard functions of an ICT based system. Usually application agnostic. Frameworks like cloud, web services, database & remote connectivity
• 5G Services Layer 5G service classes that covers variety of possible 5G use cases: eMBB - URLLC – mMTC, network slicing dividing available network capacity with customer-centric SLAs application services & domains use these network features through well-defined APIs standardized in various standards forums.

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report

Key findings and Recommendations

Proposed Guidelines by HLF

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• Compile a priority list of research areas/services required (Problems to be solved) while keeping a linkages and note of other mission mode projects active in India covering Digital India, Make in India, Swachh Bharat, Smart cities/Villages, Electric and autonomous mobility, Disaster Management, Financial Services, Agriculture and Water, Supercomputing, Security of critical infrastructure etc
• Enable 5G infrastructure capabilities to experience High speed broadband everywhere, anytime; New services of Smart Automotive: Connected vehicles, Intelligent transport system, V2V/ V2I and e-call; Multi- Media everywhere, virtual presence; Public safety through critical control of remote devices; Robotic surgery; Drones
• INDIA SPECIFIC use cases and considerations that need to be prioritized such as Highly Secure Communication for Financial Transactions; Unified Authentication Framework; Seamless co-existence and transitions between multiple generations of technologies(2G, 3G, 4G, 5G), Network Infrastructure creation for public use and neutral model for OFC and Access network should be encouraged; carrier grade Quality of network infrastructure to support mission critical applications
• Create links from any existing deployment standard, to the Government’s initiatives,
• Map Government Initiatives to corresponding 3GPP application categories
• Further research to enable and test these applications.

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report

Key findings and Recommendations

Key Application domains

• Based on stakeholders discussions (such as government departments and industry bodies):
• Smart Cities (and related areas in Smart Villages)
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Smart Health
• Banking and Finance
• Smart Agriculture
• Public protection and disaster relief / Public safety
• Smart Manufacturing,

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• Other Application Domains
• Clean India Waste Management,
• Environment and Pollution Control,
• Smart Governance,
• Smart Utilities, Energy, Water, Gas,
• Smart Education,
• Smart Retail

Each Domain highlights use-case applications and deployment recommendations

• Create an industry-academia-government standardization framework to harmonize the distributed and currently non-coherent activities that are ongoing in the Application areas in various entities such as NASSCOM and BIS in India

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• Develop harmony with Global Standards and stakeholder bodies globally as far as possible, with the relevant standards
• Telecommunications heritage (e.g. 3GPP, oneM2M and ITU)
• Application Domain Heritage (e.g. ISO, IEC, IEEE).

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• Foundational Recommendations: •
• Standardization Framework for each Application domain is needed:
• Define Standardization Strategy , Enhance Participation in Global SDOs
• Build Standardization Capability, Establish Standardization Life Cycle , Mobilize Partnerships

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• Establish a framework to incubate, nurture and support a “Pool of standardization experts” who consistently participate and contribute in the global SDOs.

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• Enable a pipeline of ideas and proposals for Standardization for healthy research, innovation and IP development ecosystem i.e Pre-standardization stage Plan; Standardization stage Plan; Post-standardization Plan.

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report

Key findings and Recommendations

Follow up on Report

“Adoption of Applications Layer Standards for 5G” -Report

• Taking some leads and motivation from the 5G HLF ALS report, TSDSI started working to take forward the Standardization part of the report and the related aspects
• TSDSI set up the ‘Application Layers Standards Task Force’ to suggest a strategy on Way Forward working in collaboration with Standardization Committee of its GC
• One of the Key recommendation of the task force was to initiate technical work on the ALS and merge the Task Force with Study Group on Solutions & Services (SGSS) which was already working on various Study / Work items related to ALS
• To broaden the horizon and taking up of work related to various verticals / use-cases a special Working Group under SGSS was created as (Application Layer Standards & AI)
• The WG also noted the recommendations of TSDSI’s Global SDOs Task Force to implement some of those to take the work done in India for Indian requirements Global SDOs besides motivating the large-scale deployment in India.

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Inputs of SGSS Working Group

DoT Inter-Ministerial initiative in IOT/M2M

Enhanced scope of Application Layer Requirements

with inclusion of following Govt. Departments/ Ministries

• MeitY,
• DST;
• Power;
• Agriculture (Department of Agri & Farmers welfare);
• Education (Department of Higher Education);
• Urban & Urban Affairs;
• Health;
• Ports,
• Shipping and Waterways

• Heavy Industries;
• Road Transport and Highways;
• Commerce and Industry (Department of Commerce);
• Mines;
• Tourism;
• Jalshakti (Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation);
• Youth Affairs and Sports;
• Railways.

Active Subjects in SGSS

• Cloud Interoperability & Portability (CIP)  (WI1-NIP197)
• Indian Language Support for Financial Transactions & Applications (ILFTA) (SI-67)
• IoT Identifier (SI-75)
• Know Your Machine Custodian (KYMC) (SI 77)
• Quantum Security: Need of Post Quantum Cryptography in 5G Networks (SI 78)
• Rural Broadband Services & Architecture (SI 85)
• PPDR Use Cases & Architecture (SI 86)
• Communications Requirements and Recommendations for the Energy Sector  (SI 87)
• 5Gi trials and use cases for automotive (WI1-NIP260)
• Service Delivery using 3GPP broadcast for TC, Radio, IPTVC and File Casting (SI 91)
• Creation of Edge Intelligence standards for latency and privacy management (SI 90)
• National Language Preference Repository for Indian Mobile Users (WI1-NIP 278)

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Recommendations to meet Objectives and Reach Goals

• Define Standardization Strategy
• Enabling the interoperability between the different use-case "actors"
• To setup an complete standardization pipeline
• Enhance Participation In Global SDOs
• Building Standardization Capability
• Establish the Standardization Life Cycle
• To setup an complete standards pipeline, covering pre-standardisation, standardisation and post-standards steps including testbeds and open source strategies
• Mobilise Industry Partnerships
• Identify candidate organizations which are linked to mentioned verticals
• Harmonization of Related Activities
• To be able to ensure that there is a standardized “linking between Applications and Communications layers”
• Concrete examples specific to Indian context
• Smart Agriculture, PPDR
• GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPING THIS AREA

Example: Smart Agriculture

• Objective: Bring the advantages of standardisation to the farmers (especially in developing regions)
• Ensure the sensors used have a specification that is verified from a soil lab which can be verified “on-the-fly’
• Setup processes to qualify/ calibrate sensors so that the end-user is not at the mercy of IoT provider/ sensor provider
• Setup interoperability among sensors and cloud providers to ensure investment by farmers is not wasted owing to potential discontinuity of a solution/ monopoly by some providers
• The soil test labs to be included in TSDSI partner list - a slight deviation in sensors may have a major impact on the farmer/ citizens lives.
• A standardization here is essential since impact is upon productivity as well as possible nutrition/ yield
• Enabling the interoperability between the different use-case "actors" to lower the barrier to onboarding farmers as well as extending the life-cycle, affordability and efficacy of the solution

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Soil Test Laboratories are in every state and a harmonization among them may augur well to standardize sensors, analytics back-end and one-M2M based standardized links

• PPDR would greatly benefit from a common standard across the multiple user agencies like xDRF, State Police, Para-military as well as Indian Railways and such
• There are diverse standards for each specific use case however a common national standard would bring efficiencies (spectrum), better coordination
• DCPW influences Indian PPDR specifications along with WPC for spectrum and has to be an essential partner in PPDR standardization
• The eventual aim is to have an application layer standard that allows interoperability across various end-users and user engagement which is common across the various user agencies also bringing out harmony in spectrum, law enforcement as well as R&R.
• Eg: This ensures a NDRF team can work with flood rescue team in Kerala or cyclone affected areas in Orissa and same setup can be used for monitoring from a common location or a Fire-Brigade team can work with SDRF or Police force leveraging radio communication and IoT along with field tasks

Example: PPDR

• Concerns & Constraints:

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• The infrastructure upgrade is expensive and funds for these end-users is limited
• Considering the above, TSDSI may work with organizations like DCPW/ WPC and other stake-holders to propose an evolutionary path hand-holding a technical evolution, to gradually move towards a common national standard adoption as well

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• Reference:The TRAI note on Next Generation PPDR dated 4th June 2018 and responses by stakeholders captures it very well.

Example: PPDR continued

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation …

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation

Conclusion

• Application Standards Development enables economies of scale including SMEs participation – Creating market for standardized products possible.

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• All stakeholders: product development organizations, service provider organizations, academic and research institutions see value in investing knowledge and financial resources if the market requirements align with standards based evolution

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• Harmonization of Related Activities
• To be able to ensure that there is a standardized “linking between Applications and Communications layers” to maintain continuity of applications/ services across vendors

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• Participation of government and user-agencies like DCPW, RDSO, EESL that define the commercial road-map within their organizations, in standards development is an essential step and will bring further acceptance and drive among startups and corporates alike as well as interoperability and affordability among end-users.

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• Government Strategic role shall be important through fund support in development, Pilot Projects, Test beds etc.

Thank You

• Define Standards Strategy
• Identify application areas which are active in SDOs [3GPP, ITU, OneM2M] and are captured in their Road map
• Identify India Application Standards Priorities
• Create Roadmap of Application Domains and sub-domains for creating Technical Reports and Work Items
• Align Roadmap with National Standardization Bodies [BIS, etc.] for progressing various topics
• Publicize roadmap with Academia, Industry, Government for contributions with time targets

• Enhance Participation in Global Standards
• Capacity Building of academia, industry to contribute in standard eco-system at National Level
• Develop Capacity Building eco-system of academia, industry to contribute in standard at International Level
• Arrange support of Govt. for capacity building (funds as perpetual support)
• Arrange support of Govt for participations of the stakeholders in National eco-system (as perpetual support)
• Arrange support of Govt for participations of the stakeholders in International eco-system (as perpetual support)

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation

• Build Standardisation Capability
• Capability development for solutions based on standards
• Capability development for commercialization of the indian standards, indian intellectual property, standard essential patents

• Establish Standardization Life Cycle
• Develop and implement system of large scale model for
• Category of Domains of operations
• Study Items of the domain (TR)
• Work Items of Standardization (TS)
• Efficacy of use of the Technical Specifications
• Certifications and Test Beds
• Workshops, possibly involving User Agencies

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE: Can be worked out for individual activities (by the respective stakeholders) as a continuous process of development of ALS.

• Government Support for Developing Area
• National IPR Policy 2016 envisages promotion culture of Innovation
• ALS development would require financial support. Estimates prepared in 2019 are part of HLF ALS report

TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation

• Role of the ALS WG of TSDSI in achieving the above objectives
• Drive the NIP and SWIC for relevant normative specifications
• Develop use cases under pre Std activities
• Collaborative workshops with TSDSI members, stakeholders and global partners

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Expand Participation of Contributors to undertake more domains and Topics of Standarrdization

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TSDSI Action Plan on ALS Implementation