Identified Indicators

The proponents propose specific joint operational performance indicators:

 Selection of the most relevant set of projects with respect to Industry roadmap.

 Percentage of industry (target > 50%) including significant SME participation (target > 20%) participation.

The proponents propose specific PPP operational performance indicators:

 PPP roadmap refreshed every two years at least

 Number of peer reviewed scientific publications/results.

 Number of standards influenced by the research, and generated patents.

Scientific & Technical performance indicators (KPIs): Wireless Networks (LTE baseline)

Associated KPIs:

 Mobile data volume supported per area  > 1000 multiplication factor in cell throughput

 Amount of spectrum made available via new

intelligent spectrum management techniques  Starting from a today allocation of about 300 MHz (Target: in minimum doubling)  Number of connected devices  10x to 100x increase

 Achievable typical user data rate  10x to 100x increase

 Lower energy consumption  Additional 80 % reduction in radio access part

 Increased battery life for low power devices  > 10x

 End-to-End latency  < 1ms, 5x reduction

Optical Networks Associated KPIs: Core  Capacity (> 10x increase)  Reach  Equipment density/Bit  Energy reduction/Bit  Automation & control

 Tbps+ channels 100 Tbps+ links Pbps network nodes  up to 2500 km  x10  x10

 30 % network efficiency increase > 30 % OPEX savings

Access and Aggregation

 Capacity (>10x increase)  10G+ peak rates

CIR/EIR 1:10 or better

10x central office consolidation 10 Tbps network nodes

 Reach

 Equipment density/Bit

 Energy reduction/Bit

 Automation & control

 up to 100 km

 x10

 x10

 30 % network efficiency increase

> 30 % OPEX savings Data centre  Capacity (>10x increase)  Reach  Equipment density/Bit  Energy reduction/Bit  Automation & control

 Pbps fabrics Tbps interconnects in support of: Exascale computing Zettabyte storage  up to 2 km (intra-DC) up to 100 km (inter-DC)  x10  x10

 30 % network efficiency increase > 30 % OPEX savings

Automated Network Organisation – Network Management and Automation Associated KPIs:

 QoE/QoS  Increased customer satisfaction in terms of

o throughput,

o handover reliability and o call drop rate

 Network reliability and resilience  Increase performance

 OPEX  Reduced OPEX in terms of

o energy consumption and

o complexity of human operator tasks

 Scalability of the mechanisms  In terms of

o number of coordinated elements and

o number of coordinated control loops

Implementing Convergence Beyond the Access Last Mile Associated KPIs:

 Number of converged networks  Including e.g. fixed, mobile, but also specific ones such as private infrastructures city-wide ITS (road management), PMR, future smart grids, …

 The factor of total increase in capacity  Reduction in OPEX/CAPEX (20%)

Associated KPIs:

 Response time  Improved response time showing the efficiency

of the name resolution, data access etc., by comparing the response time of 1st data packet to the average response of the rest of the data packets

 CAPEX and OPEX  Minimised CAPEX and OPEX related to

centralised content services of operators

 QoS and QoE  Improved data access and discovery in terms of

QoS and QoE

 Signalling and traffic overhead  Minimised signalling and traffic overhead in

terms of bandwidth utilisation and QoS/QoE  Signalling and traffic overhead  Improved scalability in large scale network

environment compared to traditional approaches

 Demonstration and test network platforms  Number of large scale demonstration and test

network platforms showing the scalability Network Function Virtualisation

Associated KPIs:

 Real deployments  Number of real deployments

 Demonstrations of interoperability  Demonstrations of interoperability among

vendors and operators of their virtualised products and infrastructures

 Open innovation ecosystem  The availability of an open innovation ecosystem around NFV technologies

 CAPEX and OPEX  Figures on CAPEX and OPEX reduction (our

initial estimates for this pilot are around 35 % in CAPEX and 45 % in OPEX)

Software Defined Networking Associated KPIs:

 Reference implementations of a NetworkOS  Number of reference implementations of a NetworkOS, and related South Bound and North Bound interfaces

 Availability of standards on NetworkOS concepts  Availability of standards supporting the concept

of a NetworkOS, and related South Bound and North Bound interfaces

 SDN controlled network resources  Number of SDN controlled network resources

 Backward compatibility  Demonstrated backward compatibility with non

Networks of Clouds Associated KPIs:

 QoS requirements  Number of services with demanding QoS

requirements running in hybrid cloud environments

 Availability of standards on SLA negotiation  Availability of standards supporting proposals

supporting SLA negotiation in hybrid cloud environments

Ensuring Availability, Robustness and Security Associated KPIs:

 Collecting and processing user data  Volume and time for collecting and processing user data

 Quality of user behaviour characterisation  Number of patterns and connections identified

per user or group Ensuring Efficient Hardware Implementations

Associated KPIs:

 Hardware performance improvements  Simultaneously cost efficiency

 Very high level RF performance and low power consumption

 50 % more efficient in terms of o power consumption o much lower leakages  Operations as low as 0.5 V

 RF solutions  Improved battery life and ensuring autonomy of

up to 10-20 years

 Reduce gap between µW range from possible

harvested energy and mW range for electronics and RF communication

 RF front-end receiver power consumption below

1 mW

 Ultra-miniaturisation of antennas while

maintaining high efficiency

 Millimetre wave communications  Improved integration of RF front-end with CMOS technology (including antenna arrays for

beamforming and diversity)

 Digital architectures and components for

transceivers and micro-servers  Innovative multicore chips with high performance/energy ratio

 Bandwidth between compute engines and

memories up to 450 Gbps  Energy efficiency by using heterogeneous