GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries
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Table of Contents
1. Digital Transformation..........3
2. Vertical Requirements ...........4
2.1 Category 1: Performance requirements ..........5
2.2 Category 2: Functional requirements 7
2.3 Category 3: Operational requirements ...........8
3. 5G Network Slicing.10
3.1.Defnition...10
3.2. Network Slicing Forms ..........10
3.3. Tackle Vertical Requirements via Network Slicing 11
4. Business Use Cases .14
4.1. Automotive Industry. ...........14
4.2.Industry 4.0 .......15
5.Summary .........16
Glossary16
About GSA 17
GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries
Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association3
1Digital Transformation
As the world becomes ever more digitally and globally connected, industries
are experiencing an ICT-driven transformation.
There are many diferent global trends that can account for this dramatic
projected growth, including:
A rise in emerging economies, which are yet to be fully immersed in the
digital world
The urbanization of integrated mobility
The digital revolution
New health and wellbeing demands
The scarcity and stability of resources.
Additionally, business trends such as hyper competition, new customer power
and sophistication, the fast-paced change in business ecosystems and disruptive
technological advances all afect vertical industries to diferent extents.
5G will be a major technology in
growing industrial digitalization,
creating and enhancing industry
digitalization use cases such as
immersive gaming, autonomous
driving, remote robotic surgery
and augmented reality support in
maintenance and repair situations.
Figure 1 outlines eight key
industries; each of these identifed
areas faces numerous challenges
due to industry trends, which could
be addressed with the adoption of
5G digitalization.
Vertical industries have
addressed their connectivity and
communication needs with
dedicated or industry specific
solutions.
Figure 1: Key Industries and their chalenges
GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries
Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association4
5G technology will provide a common base to provide a more cost efcient,
open, interoperable and large eco-system enabled solution platform for the
various vertical industries.
5G is addressing the more stringent and business critical requirements of the
vertical industries, such as real-time capabilities, latency, reliability, security
and guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA)’s.
5G will provide an industry vertical optimized platform catering in an economical
way the various requirements and business needs of each vertical. For service
providers to ofer these capabilities to vertical industries in an attractive,
scalable and economical way, they will utilize cloud platforms, analytics, system
automation and network slicing technologies as well as new business models.
Network slicing is one of the key capabilities that will enable fexibility, as it
allows multiple logical networks to be created on top of a common shared
physical infrastructure. The greater elasticity brought about by network slicing
will help to address the cost, efciency, and fexibility requirements imposed
by the large variety of industrial vertical services. Moreover, network slicing will
help new services and new requirements to be quickly addressed, according
to the needs of the industries, i.e. a faster Time to Market.
2Vertical Requirements
5G will allow the creation of logical networks on top of a shared infrastructure.
Those networks can be optimized for specifc use cases, service types and
support various business models.“Network as a service” is the tool for
implementing dedicated and customized virtual end2end networks, enabling
vertical industries to rapidly deploy their services.
Vertical industries are very diverse and their requirements are dictated by the
service characteristics of the related vertical segment. Examples of services
requiring Low Latency and High Reliability are Autonomous Vehicles, Industrial
Control, and Augmented Reality. Figure 2 on the next page shows the most
relevant segments.
Requirements can be clustered in ‘Operational Requirements’, ‘Functional
Requirements’ and ‘Performance Requirements’ categories. These three
categories can be interpreted via the Maslow model, which indicates that some
vertical industries have a higher hierarchy of requirements than the others. In
order to catch such diverse requirements, fexibility is one of the key feature
for 5G system, Figure 3.。