MICRO OPERATORS FOR VERTICAL

SPECIFIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN 5G

MOBILE BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM

Matti Latva-aho

Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC)

University of Oulu, Finland

http://www.5gcwc.com/

Content, Context & Insentives

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The owner of the space must have a role

and insentive in building, operating and

maintaining the network as well as

creating context related content and

services.

How Operator Roles May Change in 5G?

• Wide coverage area expensive to maintain

• Lot of traffic in densely placed small cells

• Spectrum regulation is going towards shared spectrum

• Content will be changing much faster and lot of content relevant only to the context will be there; users/machines generate lot of content

• Access and content provisioning will finally be separated

• Emergence of new local micro operators?

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Micro Operator - uO

• A virtual operator does not have own infrastructure but

has own customer base.

• A micro operator (uO) has own infrastructure but not

necessarily own customer base.

• Revenue models for uOs are not based on monthly fees

of bytes.– Part of property offering – inclusion to rent

– Part of customer service model

– Improving the efficiency of public service

• Possible only via changes in regulation.

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uO concept:

uOs build and operate indoor small cell networks

and offer local context related services and

content

Technical

building

blocks:-Dense small cell

networks

-Network

virtualization

-Mobile edge

computing

-Operation in

higher carrier

frequencies

-Spectrum sharing

and management

techniques

Regulatory

building

blocks:-Availability of 5G

spectrum

-Local micro

licenses

-Rights to build

indoor networks

-Rules for

collection and use

of data

-Collaboration/

competition rules

with MNOs

Business

models

Network infrastructure

vendor

Facility owner

and tenant

Micro operator

(uO)

MNO

End user equipment

manufacturer

Network infrastructure

constructor

Content provider

Scalable small cell

network and

infrastructure on

demand

Local

services and

applications

Local connectivity for

MNOs customers;

collaborations to use

MNO infra

Permission to

deploy networks;

local services and

content

Devices for

collecting and using

of data/servicesLocal spectrum

licenses and

rules for

competition

End user

Policy maker/ Regulator

Local

services and

applications

Construction

of small cell

infrastructure

Oulu 5G Test Network

2015 2016 2018 2019 20202017

Network operation by VTT and University of Oulu, Nokia radio and core network products

Nationally funded (Tekes 5th Gear)

research trial project

Campus area, includes private

network (VTT) and public network

(University)

State-of-art LTE 5G Proof of Concepts

LTE-M live network performance tests

5G vs. LTE air interface and e2e performance

Step-by-step towards commercial 5G

New 5G technologies, use cases, applications and business models

http://www.5gtn.fi/

Oulu 5G Test Network Offerings

• Real-life Lab for testing 5G portfolio, New Services,

Applications and Business Models

• Current status– Outdoor & indoor coverage built @2.6GHz and 3.5GHz (outdoor coming soon).

– Pre-commercial 5G radio with adaptive beamformer @28GHz by early 2017.

– Commercial EPC for 100k users under installation.

– Several Mobile Edge Computing servers already installed

– IoT extension with ~1000 nodes completed during 2017.

– 100 testphones currently; target to offer SIM for students and personnel to enable

testing with 15-20000 users at the campus area

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A real operator grade 5G test network

5G Proof-of-Concept Radios

Tested in Live Network

LTE-A and 5G protype radiosEPC with possibility

for edge computing

Our target is to bring in 5G PoC radios to verify, e.g., operation of adaptive

beamforming at mmWaves in a real network.

Roadmap for 2016-20182016 LTE support for M2M

PoC 5G radios

Virtualized, cloud based core

Test environment available for 3rd

parties

Real-time network management

running

Mobile edge computing

IMS / VoLTE

Network programming APIs

CDN services

Trusted and non-trusted WLAN

integration + controllers

2017 LTE-U / LWA

PoC for Gbit/s level data rate over

mmWave radio link

PoC for ms level latency over 5G

8k video stream

5G channel model validation

SDN/OpenFlow controlled network

transport

Co-operation with other research

projects

Co-operation with new industry

players

2018 5G Network Architecture validation

Micro-operator business model

research & validation

Connections to 5G test beds around

the world

Capabilities on performing tests on

major foreseen 5G frequencies

Detailed real-life tests on 5G link and

radio features (massive MIMO, ultra-

wide band, etc.)

Network-level performance tests with

novel core functionality

3rd party usage principles:http://5gtn.willab.fi/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Common-description-of-operative-models-for-third-party-activities-in-the-5G-test-network_160114.pdf

We want to offer Oulu Open 5G Network and our partner network to be used

in future H2020 projects. Contact: matti.latva-aho@ee.oulu.fi or ari.pouttu@ee.oulu.fi

Partners:

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Smart City - Traffic, infrastructure

eHealth

Industrial

applicationsGaming, Entertainment

Infotainment

Oulu 5G Test Network is Looking for Business Verticals

Willing to be the Early Birds for Digitized Society

Building automation

Commerce/finance

Energy

Learning &

education

Robotics

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