Closing the Research and Standardization Gap

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Closing the Research and Standardization Gap
Joint ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF Standards Education
Workshop (Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012)

• Vinod KUMAR
• Representing WWRF
• Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
• Vinod.kumar_at_alcatel-lucent.com
• Credits E. Darmois, ALU Corporate Standards and
• Didier Bourse, Director European Programmes

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Outline

• Introduction WWRF Vision
• Setting the Scene - Terminology
• Research and Standardization interdependence
• Aligning Research and Standardization life cycles
• An example of impact of Research
• Increasing complexity the multi-plane
  perspective
• Concluding remarks

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WWRF Role

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

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WWRF Vision in a nutshell (1)

• 7 trillion wireless devices
• serving 7 billion people
• by 2020
• All people will be served with wireless devices
• Affordable to purchase and operate
• Calm computing technology invisible to users
• Machine 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

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Principles of Operation

• Global
• Open to all
• NOT
• A standard body
• Research funding body
• A typical research conference
• Based on membership
• Volunteer driven
• All can attend meetings and make contributions

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Setting the Scene Terminology

• Open Standards for Interworking
• First standardize then build
• Feature selection based on technical feasibility
  studies
• Tremendous success story GSM
• Good support from collaborative research projects
  before and during standardization
• Support from Regulatory bodies
• Technology de-facto Standards
• First build then standardize
• Interworking is designed-in later on
• Minimum Performance Requirements
• Ensure acceptable quality and peaceful
  co-existence with others
• Better characterized as support for regulation
  than technology feature selection

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Research and Standardization Interdependence

• Specific requirements from research
• Pre-standardization collaborative research work
  for harmonization as far as possible
• Open to all stakeholders including academic
  partners
• Allows for an iterative/spiral-based approach

• Existing Process for Interworking Standards
• Focused road map
• Work item selection
• Generally Solution Oriented
• Tactics
• Regulatory support expected

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Aligning Research and Standardization
Life-cycles - I
Research Activities
Standards Activities
New product solution concepts
Many Standards eco
-
systems with


various degrees of maturity and
Technology assessment to de
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risk

intensity
product development
The Research Life Cycle should be optimized for
monetizing innovation assets

Std M
Std M
Std C
Std C
Intensity
Intensity
Standardization
Std
Std
Std P
Std P
B
B
Innovation Channels
Std A
Std A
Std Z
Std Z
Direct transfer to Product units for

Std
Std
fast portfolio differentiation
X
X
Internal

start
-
up
-
like" framework
Standardization
Standardization

Maturity
Maturity
for flexible
fast time to market
Standardization based Innovation requires
identification of a target Standards eco-system
and alignment of Standards and Research
life-cycles


Indirect channels requiring Standards and
supported by global eco-systems
Credits E. Darmois ALU Corporate Standards
Organistion
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Aligning Research and Standardization
Life-cycles - II
Standardization is a pre-requisite for turning
research results into products Good partnership
between all stakeholders is a must
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Market
introduction
Plan
Asset Creation
Standardization
Products
Act
Refine
Transfer to products
2 to 5 years
Open Innovation
time frame
Evaluate
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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Credits E. Darmois ALU Corporate Standard
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• An example of impact of Research on
  standardisation
• The 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 WRC11 for Cognitive Pilot Channel
  (CPC)
• 2008-2009 99 contributions to ETSI TC RRS, IEEE
  SCC41 P1900.4, ITU-R WP5A, CEPT

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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 Streaming
• Operating Systems and APIs for Application
  Development

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