Deliverable D2.2 Touristic city, safe city, and mobility-efficient city use cases – final version
Creators: name: Fletcher, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: 5G-TOURS focusses on central principles established in the 5G-PPP Phase3 ICT-19 call; to validate both technical and business aspects of the opportunities created by 5G and getting to the European Vision of “5G empowering vertical industries” (European Commission, 2018). Both technical and business validation perspectives are pertinent to this deliverable as 5G-TOURS establishes a firmer view on the use case (UC) requirements, key opportunities for implementation and directions for validation in later stages of the project. The UC analysis process, places users of the system at the heart of the analysis and sets those users in the context of the vertical and associated service, the value propositions for the industry sector or vertical and its main identified stakeholders are directly derived. The search for the best way in which to “empower vertical industries” occupies 5G-TOURS across all Work Packages (WP)s with some useful insights coming from this document. We are in the innovation phase of 5G adoption in verticals where the vertical demand needs to start taking control of the UC adoption agenda to assure “empowering vertical industries” turns from aspiration to reality and we move away from technology supplier push. This document presents requirements at a level of abstraction that is typical of a System Design Requirements Specification. The requirements are derived in the WP that manages the UC requirements, (WP2). The objective is to establish User and Network requirements and frame important areas of innovation for the 5G-TOURS in the areas of slicing, AI, and the Service Layer. Substantive functional components have been identified in partnership with WP3 along with an assessment of critical functional and performance requirements in terms of delivering value to users of the 5G-TOURS platforms. User, End User and Network requirements that are provided in this document supersede requirements stated in prior deliverables. The definitions of the 5G-TOURS platforms are now being refined as techno-economic constructs creating a greater understanding of the services and economic aspects and opportunities through the analysis of value creation and value capture potential. This document identifies the potential scope of the platforms taking into account business platform strategy theory and how opportunity can be defined through this perspective and the ability to simulate scope and scale variance based on various factors such as geographic reach, multiplicity of services and other factors. The process of requirement derivation has necessitated significant collaboration amongst multi-skilled teams that comprise of vertical market specialists supporting user expectations and experts in network architecture who have framed the innovations and functional boundaries of the technology and solutions. This has led to broader insights in terms of the knowledge and skills required to design, deploy, maintain and operate the city platforms. We have identified a need and are developing accessible templates to gather requirements that are accessible and understandable for all partners regardless of their value chain position and depth of networking and specifically 5G knowledge. We aim for a level of complexity that is realistic for a vertical sector to lead in the gathering of information. Slicing is a critical capability and 5G-TOURS is underpinned by the 5G-EVE capability in this regard. A 5GTOURS to 5G-EVE interface analysis has been carried out during the development of the project approach to requirements capture and finalisation of the use cases. This review revealed that whilst the 5G-EVE blueprints are ideal for (ICT-19) Testbed Platform as a Service needs and thus for the purposes of detailed description and deploying of a network slice by R&amp;D teams, the level of expertise required surpasses that which a typical vertical in a commercial deployment would be expected to employ. We also investigated the feasibility of usage of templates developed outside of 5G-PPP such as Generic slicing templates promoted by the GSMA and TMForum which provide a useful guideline for templates that help with market adoption. Since publishing 5G-TOURS D2.1 (5G-TOURS, 2019a), we have refined the project approach to the analysis and definition of user and network requirements. We refine systems key performance indicators (KPIs) and their linkage to those identified in the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) working in concert with WP7 and their assessment of validation approaches in D7.1 (5G-TOURS, 2020). This document is an outcome of the analysis of the specifics for each UC that shall be supported by the platforms. Driven by the analysis of each of the UCs, we provide: • A description of the key functionalities identifying aspects such as the service layer, depicted in sequence diagrams; User requirements based on technical performance indicators; • Network performance requirements. A joint assessment of network and user requirements enables an emergent narrative relating to transition from 4G to 5G and how the UCs will benefit from 5G capabilities as 3GPP Release 16 and beyond become available in the market; • A view on the nature of each of the three platform concepts under development in the project; • A preliminary assessment of the economic value; to set the direction for further Economic assessment in WP2; providing a critical component of the wider business validation which will be carried out in collaboration with WP8 in the latter stages of 5G-TOURS. 5G-TOURS, being focused on the tourism, travel and health industries, has undertaken to start evaluating the COVID-19 impact on its 5G-related aspects. Whether the impact is negative or positive will tip on the potential of emerging networks to support economic recovery of Tourism, Travel and Health in Europe. Along with that, new touristic experiences and models will be created out of these changing and challenging times with necessities such as going online or implementing social distancing. 5G-TOURS has from inception envisioned various experiences and UCs that now look even more necessary and promising. 5G-TOURs overarching concepts of “remote tourism” and “enhanced virtual on-site experiences” present an immense opportunity for 5G-TOURS to provide lighthouse proof of concept and trials evidence. The project continues in all WPs to develop approaches to evidence potential to help with Economic recovery from the impact of COVID-19.