5G network technologies are evolving in a tremendous pace, enhancing the potential for being adopted and exploited by vertical industries and serve advance networking requirements needs. Towards this direction, a set of 5G PPP projects (i.e. MATILDA, 5GTANGO, 5GCity, 5G-Xcast, 5G-MoNArch, SLICENET, 5G-MEDIA, IoRL, 5G-TRANSFORMER, 5GPICTURE, 5GCAR, BlueSPACE) are providing contributions for tackling aspects related to the overall lifecycle of 5G vertical applications design, development and deployment, including the activation and management of the appropriate network services. To this end, UBITECH has undertaken the responsibility to coordinate these projects so as to contribute towards the generation of the cartography of a set of novel solutions facilitating the adoption of 5G technologies by vertical industries, aiming at identifying set of challenges and relevant solutions as well as potential synergies among them. The produced whitepaper has been presented at the European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC) that is going to take place in Ljubljana at 18-21 of June 2018.
In particular, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Panagiotis Gouvas, Eleni Fotopoulou, George Tsiolis, Thanos Xirofotos and their co-authors have come up with a cartography of 5G vertical industries which are currently influencing the design of 5G systems and solutions in a group of R&D projects of the 5G PPP programme. Specifically, solutions for the design and development of network applications and network services (e.g. metamodels, software development kits, validation and verification frameworks), solutions supporting resources and network slices creation and management and solutions regarding management and orchestration mechanisms in the various layers (e.g. Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), Software Defined Networking (SDN), vertical applications orchestration) are included in the overall cartography. Based on the cartography, synergies among projects have been examined leading to enhancing the overall interoperability of the provided solutions.
