5GAA Releases New 2030 Roadmap for Advanced Driving Use Cases, Connectivity Technologies and Radio Spectrum Needs
BRUSSELS, 8 September 2020 – In the next two to three years, the 5G Automotive Association’s (5GAA) expects to see mass deployment of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases geared towards improving traffic efficiency and road safety around the world. This vision is outlined in a new White Paper released by 5GAA which explores how leading automakers, mobile
network operators and their suppliers see the world of automotive connectivity evolving over the coming decade.
Vehicles talking to one another but also to roadside and telecom infrastructure and operators – so-called V2X communication – is just the tip of 5GAA’s vision for ‘advanced 5G-connected driving’. In its latest White Paper, 5GAA offers a comprehensive roadmap to guide all parties involved in this near-term market development, bringing both automotive and telecom sectors together to fulfil what 5GAA sees as a powerful digital ecosystem in this fast-moving field.
The Paper highlights selected end-to-end V2X applications factoring in the necessary technological evolution, industry readiness and spectrum needs. 5GAA has developed ‘advanced driving’ use cases such as Cooperative Manoeuvres and Sensor Sharing in conjunction with both the adoption of Cellular Vehicle-To-Everything (C-V2X) standards and the availability of the required technologies and devices. These provide a tangible account of how advanced driving is taking shape globally.
“Success in this endeavour requires to have all industry stakeholders on-board, including telecoms and automotive. Only then will new business opportunities and necessary investments be secured to fuel this ‘ecosystem’,” said 5GAA’s CTO and spokesperson Maxime Flament upon the White Paper’s launch.
With close to 200 million ‘connected vehicles’ already on the roads worldwide in 2020 and a growing number of vehicles with the ability to exchange traffic and road condition information over cellular networks, the foundations for 5G-connected driving are well established, the Paper points out. Further progress in coming years will pivot around 5G-V2X use cases for more efficient and safe driving. From 2025 onwards, 5GAA anticipates mass rollout of more advanced automated driving and safety use cases supported by vehicle connectivity. Additional automated driving functionalities are anticipated as from 2026.
Between now and 2024, ‘connected’ digital road infrastructure will pave the way for real-time or ‘dynamic’ traffic updates, hazard warnings, and high-definition mapping services. Towards 2026, advanced vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) cooperation will further boost automated driving developments, including sharing sensor data and cooperative manoeuvring.
To fully support this evolution, 5GAA calls on national and regional administrations to make sufficient radio spectrum available for mobile communication networks in targeted low- and mid-bands, and it recommends harmonised use of the 5855-5925 MHz band for communication between road users and roadside infrastructure within the wider international digital traffic ecosystem.
Here, the White Paper acknowledges that some 5G-enabled applications may prove challenging to implement, while others will be easier and offer valuable lessons going forward: “Low-hanging fruit applications addressing OEM fleets, such as automated valet parking and tele-operated driving will open the door to more secure, safe and interoperable vehicle-to-network automotive applications across borders.”
Charting a clear way forward…
All in all, to deliver end-to-end V2X services and unlock the true value of vehicle connectivity, 5GAA considers that the realisation of its roadmap would require:
(1) sufficient spectrum for short-range direct communications at 5.9 GHz
(2) high levels of mobile network coverage along the roads
(3) sufficient service-agnostic mobile network spectrum for mobile network-based communications, in addition to the bands that are currently identified for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) use.
The essence and great promise of 5G is that it makes better use of the radio spectrum, boosts mobile network coverage, security and safety, while delivering environmental benefits for citizens and consumers. To chart a clear way forward, 5GAA calls on all players to work together while implementing the use cases highlighted in the Paper, as well as other measures outlined in 5GAA technical reports and papers.
About 5GAA
The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of companies and OEMs from the automotive, technology and telecommunications industries working together to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transportation services. 5GAA is uniquely placed to support 5G-V2X advances because it unites all major automotive, chipset, technology, telecom-mobile infrastructure and mobile network operators. In less than three years, more than 135 global players, including pioneering OEMs, have signed up to 5GAA’s vision.
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Download the Roadmap
Tele-operated Driving (ToD) – Use Cases and Technical Requirements
This work reports the analysis, extension and classification of a set of Tele-Operated Driving (ToD) use cases, with the aim of providing a shortlist, which will serve as a basis for further activities related to technical requirement derivation and business considerations.
The ToD Work Item (WI) aims to describe the requirements and framework needed for ToD service provisioning for automated vehicle operation, covering the possible interfaces and stakeholders. This WI focuses on the tele-operation of vehicles after an incident or in difficult situations (including parking), also potentially taking the network conditions before the incident happened into account.
Read the full report here
V2X Application Layer Reference Architecture
This document describes an Application Layer Reference Architecture for the operational part of the automotive ecosystem, both from a functional view and from several deployment views.
The Application Layer Reference Architecture may be used to describe various deployments, from small proof-of-concept deployments with just a few functions, to large scale deployments with all functions in the automotive ecosystem. In addition, the Reference Architecture facilitates identification of application layer protocols and an understanding of the need for new standardisation.
This document addresses the 5GAA WG2 work item ‘V2X Application Layer Reference Architecture (V2XSRA)’.
5GAA Efficient Security Provisioning System
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is at our doorsteps. It is a key part of the future of connected vehicles and autonomous driving as it enables infrastructure, pedestrians and vehicles to interact, thus taking the transportation ecosystem to the next level. Security plays an important role in building trust in V2X, protecting users’ privacy, and enabling safety, efficiency and comfort.
Efforts to reinforce trust in this ecosystem are driving global initiatives to develop, standardise and implement Security Credential Management Systems (SCMS). As a consequence, different stakeholders have put forward their requirements leading to differing, non-interoperable regional designs. The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) has evaluated existing system designs and their regulatory requirements, as well as identified some new ‘advanced’ features. The resulting recommendations for improved design fulfilling these security and privacy requirements in a large-scale system are outlined in this white paper.
With the objective to integrate new technical opportunities in the automotive world, as afforded by widespread cellular connectivity, and to identify potential design simplifications, an analysis and evaluation of existing system designs has been completed over the last year. These existing designs are region-specific and not fully interoperable due to differing security and privacy requirements. Some ecosystem stakeholders within 5GAA challenged this status quo on several levels and evaluated these regional V2X security approaches.
The paper summarises the design simplifications, discusses their rationale and impact, and proposes an updated design for large-scale deployment and cross-regional interoperability called the ‘Efficient Security Provisioning System’ (ESPS). The paper outlines potential simplifications to the existing V2X credential management systems.
Predictive QoS – using 5G network data analytics to enable proactive C-V2X adaptation
On 26 March, 5GAA held its first public webinar on Predictive QoS – using 5G network data analytics to enable proactive C-V2X adaptation, with Ali Hamidian, Research & Development Manager at Huawei Sweden.
Click here to download the webinar recording or watch it online below.
Click here to read the White Paper Making 5G Proactive and Predictive for the Automotive Industry.
C-V2X Demonstration – focus on ‘See Through’ solution (FCA, Marelli, Vodafone Automotive, Vodafone)
When our view is obstructed, overtaking can be dangerous.
C-V2X supports vehicle safety system to prevent accidents and make overtaking in traffic easier.
Discover how in this video.
5GAA Releases White Paper on Making 5G Proactive and Predictive for the Automotive Industry
We are at the dawn of a new era of mobility. Future intelligent transportation systems will provide tremendous benefits to people and society in terms of lives saved, increased time and money efficiencies, reduced environmental impact, as well as better utilization of the global road and highway networks. Automated and connected driving, intelligent driver assistance and data-driven transportation network optimisation are examples of what tomorrow’s transportation will mean for people and governments. A key enabler of this development is that mobile networks fulfil the requirements of future transportation.
5G Automotive Association (5GAA) has developed the concept of predictive Quality of Service (QoS), which is a mechanism enabling mobile networks to provide advance notifications about predicted QoS changes to interested consumers. This makes it possible to adjust application behaviour before the predicted QoS change takes effect, which is important to certain automotive use cases, such as remote and autonomous driving.
The concept of predictive QoS is spreading in the industry and among standards- developing organizations (SDO). It is, therefore, of interest to achieve a common understanding of what predictive QoS is – what problems it addresses, as well as how they are addressed.
This White Paper describes predictive QoS in order to reach a common understanding.
You can find the white paper here.
ETSI-5GAA C-V2X testing event in Europe confirms high level of interoperability
5GAA has proudly partnered with ETSI for their first C-V2X PlugtestsTM. The testing, that took place from December 2nd to 6th at the Malaga premises of the 5GAA Member DEKRA, has been concluded with a success rate of more than 95% of the executed tests, showing an extremely positive level of multi-vendor interoperability.
The event
The event demonstrated a high-level of interoperability across all participating companies employing 320 C-ITS test-cases, where devices were successfully communicating with each other directly and without network connectivity based on ETSI TC ITS and 3GPP standards, in both lab and field environments. In addition to the existing ITS upper layer interoperability test specifications from ETSI, participating companies conducted also the recently adopted 5GAA cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) IoT test specification for mode 4 operation over the PC5 direct communication access layer interface.
The positive results showed the industry’s maturity to support the commercial deployment of C-V2X solutions throughout the world, with both infrastructure and onboard units.
“Testing European LTE-V2X radios with ETSI was an important milestone on our global strategy to accelerate C-V2X time-to-market and finally deploy C-V2X on the European roads” commented 5GAA CTO Maxime Flament.
Plugtests™ represent a fundamental tool to allow vendors to evaluate the interoperability of their systems, strengthening cross-industry cooperation and the entire C-V2X ecosystem. Moreover, this event was a further milestone in the cooperation between 5GAA and DEKRA, a leader in automotive safety testing, that already had the chance to collaborate during a previous Plugfest in April 2019.
The week was viewed as very successful by participants (65% of them were 5GAA members), as it brought together roughly 70 C-ITS experts for testing and to validate that C-V2X products are both mature and commercially available today for the cooperative, connected and automated mobility ecosystem.
At the end of the event, Bob Banks, 5GAA WG3 Chair (Vodafone Group), declared “The results clearly show the maturity of not only the C-V2X technology but also the products from different vendors as crucial and available enablers for connected and safer mobility”.
“I’m glad we could successfully demonstrate again that C-V2X is working as expected and that so many companies are ready for deployment in Europe” stated Ralf Weber, 5GAA WG3 Vice Chair (Qualcomm).
The Workshop
During the event, 5GAA also organised a joint workshop on December 4th, on the latest developments related C-V2X Interoperability and Deployment. Standards experts from 3GPP and ETSI TC ITS offered thorough presentations on the ongoing developments related to standards that are already supporting the deployment of C-V2X. Subsequently, speakers from the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Global Certification Forum (GCF) presented updates on ITS and how C-V2X can favour its deployment.
5GAA Statement on FCC Chairman’s Proposal for the 5.9 GHz Band
In response to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal for the 5.9 GHz band, the 5G Automotive Association issues the following statement:
The 5G Automotive Association applauds Chairman Ajit Pai for proposing to dedicate a portion of the automotive safety spectrum for the use of Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X). Extensive crash avoidance testing continues to demonstrate that C-V2X technology will deliver safety benefits to the American public. We look forward to working with all stakeholders throughout this process to ensure that spectrum regulations adequately address the needs of transportation safety.
You can find the official FCC chairman speech here.
5GAA in Action
The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of 128 members made of leading global automakers, Tier-1 suppliers, mobile operators, semiconductor companies and test equipment vendors. It works together to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transport services.
5GAA is committed to defining and developing the next generation of connected mobility, automated vehicle and intelligent transport solutions based on C-V2X.
Learn more about what actions the associations are taking in the video.
