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DRIVING DATA TO THE EDGE

By Said Tabet, AECC

In July 2020, the Automotive Edge As a partner in 3GPP, the AECC will and technical solutions.
Computing Consortium (AECC) published collaborate with the broader 3GPP The AECC Liaison Relationship Strategy
Version 2.0 of the technical report, membership in the joint identification Committee (LRSC) is responsible for the
Driving Data to the Edge: The Challenge of of future standards work and on a gap creation and maintenance of liaisons
Data Traffic Distribution. analysis on what will be needed from with external organizations. As part of
3GPP to ensure that connected vehicles its responsibilities, it will coordinate
The report provides authoritative best
practices on ways the ecosystem can benefit from best-in-class specifications with AECC working groups for specific
enable secure, cost-effective data delivery for driving data to the edge. activities and collaboration between
and processing on a global scale, it also We look forward to an active liaison and AECC and 3GPP.
includes technology solutions around six collaboration and to getting feedback from www.aecc.org
key issues: edge data offloading, mobility 3GPP on AECC automotive use cases
service provider server selection, vehicle
system reachability, access network “The cellular network is one of the major access
selection, provisioning and configuration
update and opportunistic data transfer. networks for Connected Vehicles, and many
By offering recommendations to vehicle
OEMs, MNOs and the service provider specifications have been standardized in 3GPP.
ecosystem, the report provides ways However, the present work within 3GPP has not fully
to optimize service offerings to meet
the growing needs of connected vehicle addressed the challenge of automotive big data, and
owners and users.
there is a high risk that future network deployments
The findings of the report provide a lot
of material that will be of use to 3GPP in and business models will fail to support the emerging
future specifications for V2X use cases.
One area of work will be to move beyond needs of connected vehicles.” (Driving Data to the Edge Report)
only considering latency-sensitive safety
applications; to begin to address the big
data capacity growth between vehicles
and the cloud.
We have a lot to do to get the current
mobile communication network
architectures and cloud computing
deployments fully optimized to effectively
handle emerging requirements of
Connected Vehicles.
We are now working to align the output
from the AECC Use Case Development
(WG1) and the AECC Technical Solution
(WG2) to the work in 3GPP. For example,
AECC use cases and requirements are
suitable input for 3GPP. The AECC WG2
solution profiling in the technical report
can be shared with 3GPP as a liaison
contribution through our activities as a
3GPP market partner (MRP), since April
this year - Specifically, to the relevant
3GPP groups, including TSG SA, WGs SA1,
SA2, and SA6.
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