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The present document discusses the concepts which are foundational for Cross-Cutting Context Information Management (C3IM) and their application to a selection of Use Cases from the domains of Smart Cities, Smart Agrifood and Smart Industry. These areas of application, together with the general area of Internet of Things (IoT) technology and services, are expected to especially benefit from usage of cross-cutting (cross domain) context information, and from a set of specifications for the APIs supporting C3IM. The present document covers the following:

• A definition of terms relevant to cross-cutting Context Information Management (C3IM).
• An introduction to the notions of C3IM and the potential role of C3IM in enabling services in cross-cutting inter-domain areas, for example Smart Cities, Smart Agrifood, and Smart Industry.
• A motivation for this project's key goal, i.e. defining an API for C3IM.
• A reference diagram illustrating possible architectures and functional entities involved in facilitating C3IM.
• A set of high level Use Cases which can potentially be supported using a C3IM system.
• A subset of detailed Use Cases (scenarios) illustrating potential information flows among functional entities.
• A summary of requirements extracted from the Use Case analysis.

The present document outlines the motivation for the deployment of IPv6 in enterprises, the objectives, the benefits, the risks, the challenges, the technology guidelines, the different choices that arise when designing IPv6-only or dual-stack enterprise network, step-by-step process, the addressing plan, and the milestones.

This 3GPP SA1 Study Item (SID) for Release 17 focuses on updating and improving existing requirements for asset tracking, covering a larger variety of use cases. 

Its main goals are to:

• Describing asset tracking use cases, e.g. pallets, containers, crates, parcels, luggage with an emphasis on those use cases bringing new potential requirements and new KPIs to be supported by 5G communication services.
• Identifying new potential requirements to be fulfilled. 

Asset tracking encompasses distinct use cases such as pallets, trolleys, creates, containers, parcels and security asset tracking but also luggage, vehicles and even animals (pets/farm livestock) tracking.

Asset tracking is a huge market (billions of units) and mostly untapped by 3GPP technology. These assets are often not stationary: they are transported all over the world by different kinds of vehicles. Assets are also moved inside various types of buildings. Ownership may change many times during the lifecycle of the asset as different stakeholders take possession of the assets and pass them on to other stakeholders along the supply chain and value chain. 

The emergence of the sharing economy also implies that one asset can be used by different people, which further amplifies the need for asset tracking. Hence, many stakeholders want to track their assets anytime and anywhere (indoor and outdoor) in a global and multi-modal context (sea, air, road, rail). 

Gap filling and evolutions: 3GPP has already addressed asset tracking aspects:

• In the context of Release 14: Feasibility Study on New Services and Market Technology Enablers (TR 22.891).
• In the context of Release 16: Communication for Automation in vertical domains (TR 22.804).
• In the context of Release 16: Feasibility Study on Business Role Models for Network Slicing. 

These requirements only cover a few asset tracking use cases. This new SA1 Study thus further investigates the asset tracking topic, with a view to identifying missing features and requirements for fulfilling as many asset tracking use cases as possible. 

• The rapporteur is NOVAMINT. Supporting Individual Members (SIMs) include EU-based organisations such as Thales, TNO, KPN, b-com, Philips, Siemens and the European Space Agency (ESA) alongside global supply-side companies. 
   

The overall focus of this 3GPP SA6 Study for Release 17 is investigating how 5G may significantly contribute to revolutionising how goods are produced, shipped and serviced throughout the entire lifecycle in the context of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" or Industry 4.0. 

The main goals of this study item (SID) are:

• Investigating and analysing general applicability of Factories of the Future related to cyber-physical control applications defined in 3GPP TS 22.261.
• Developing key issues, corresponding architecture requirements to make the service enabler for “Factories of the Future” applications over 3GPP networks.
• Providing customised solutions for Factory applications to cross-layer optimise and redesign the actual applications which are now based on the classical wired cable connection world.

Gap filing and evolutions:

• This work builds on 3GPP Rel-16 work on cyber-physcial control applications in vertical domains (cyberCAV) as defined in TS 22.104 and TS 22.261. Requirements and studies on LAN support in 5G (5GLAN) are defined in TS 22.261.

The overarching goal of SP-181139 is to investigate what application layer support functions are required to efficiently use and deploy Factories of the Future in 5G networks. 

• The rapporteur is ZTE Corporation. Supporting Individual Members (SIMs) include global supply side companies and Robert Bosch GmBH on the end-user side. 

This 3GPP SA6 study item (SID) for Release 16 is aimed at identifying the impacts on and the necessary changes in Stage 2 (5G phase 2) for mission critical specifications to ensure support over 5G System (5GS). 

The main goals are: 

• Identify subclauses in the existing stage 2 Mission Critical specifications that should also apply to the 5GS, but which currently contain 4G specific terminology and therefore would require terminology changes.
• Develop a common approach (e.g. terminology) for changes in stage 2 Mission Critical specifications that apply to the 5GS.
• Review and identify the 5GS aspects (e.g. 5QI, network slicing) to support Mission Critical architecture.
• Identify key issues and develop solutions to ensure support of Mission Critical services over 5GS.
• Evaluate the solutions and make recommendations for normative work.
• Study where and how to integrate solutions in the stage 2 Mission Critical specifications.

Gap filling and evolutions: 3GPP has developed the 5G System (5GS) specifications from Release 15. Further work in Release 16 is based on input from 3GPP SA1, with TSG SA#78 confirming that the stage 1 Mission Critical (MC) specifications are applicable to LTE and beyond, including 5G (SP-170985). 

• The rapporteur for this SID is The Police of the Netherlands. Supporting Individual Members (SIMs) include the UK Home Office, FirstNet (U.S.), the French Ministry of the Interior, associations such as the International Rail Union (UIC) and Public Safety Communications Europe (PSCE), as well as EU and global supply-side companies. 

The Auditorium Security Message (ASM) specification enables interoperable communication of security-critical information (information necessary to ensure security of D-Cinema content) between devices over an intra-theater exhibition network.

The scope of the Standard is to specify the minimum set of key requirements for the Next Generation Protocols (NGP), Industry Specific Group (ISG). The present document addresses requirements in the following areas:

• Business Case and Techno-Economics
• Migration
• General Technical Requirements
• Addressing
• Security
• Mobility
• Multi-Access Support (including FMC)
• Context Awareness
• Performance (including Content Enablement)
• Network Virtualisation
• IoT Support
• Energy Efficiency
• e-Commerce
• MEC
• Mission Critical Services
• Drones and Autonomous Vehicles and Connected Vehicles
• Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications

The present document provides an overview of existing identity oriented protocols, mapping systems and proposes next generation mobility with a generic and resilient identity services infrastructure.

The scope of the present document is to specify the minimum set of key scenarios for the Next Generation Protocols (NGP), Industry Specific Group (ISG).

The document aims to define the protocols and interfaces of LTN systems. It goes along with the document GS LTN 002 [5] on LTN functional architecture.

The present document aims to:
• describe the characteristics of the architecture of a Low Throughput Network
• illustrate the applicability of LTN in industrial communication
• highlight the specificity of LTN deployment

The present document outlines the motivation for IPv6 in IoT, the technical challenges to address IoT on constrained devices and networks, the impact on the IPv6 technology and protocols, the technology guidelines, the step by step process, the benefits, the risks, as applicable to IoT domains including: M2M, Energy, Industrial, Mining, Oil and gas, Smart city, Transportation (including EVs), etc.

IPv6-based IoT in this context refers to the connectivity network layers needed to support the communication between things. It is understood that a complete IoT system may use of an IoT architecture including but not necessarily an abstraction layer part of an IoT platform. The description of such IoT platform is out of the scope of the present document. 2