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The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global association with over +110 member companies from the automotive and telecommunications industries. Partners who are active in the broader telecommunications and automotive ecosystem, such as universities, research bodies, associations, and public authorities also joined the ecosystem. Each of the 5GAA members bring added value to the 5GAA mission through their contributions and visionary mindset. Together, the key partners foster collaboration and exchange to path the way towards the new mobility era.

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The creation of this Association demonstrates the clear need for a cross-sector-collaboration between mobile industry and car industry for joint innovation, and to establish a platform to align with timeline and priorities and solution roadmaps. It will facilitate global regulation, certification and standardization efforts for autonomous driving and future car services based on 5G technologies.

Dr. Li Yingtao

President 2012 Labs, Huawei

We expect 5G to become the worldwide dominating mobile communications standard of the next decade. For the automotive industry it is essential that 5G fulfills the challenges of the era of digitalization and autonomous driving. With the 5G Automotive Association we founded a cross-industry forum that allows us to shape the future 5G technology with leading ICT companies. As a co-founder of the 5G Automotive Association we would be excited to welcome further partners engaged in the automotive industry, the information and communication technologies or mobile network operators in the association.

Dr. Christoph Grote

Senior Vice President Electronics, BMW Group

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5GAA discusses how C-V2X turns Connected and Safe Mobility into Reality at Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona

5GAA discusses how C-V2X turns Connected and Safe Mobility into Reality at Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona

Barcelona, 3 March 2022 – The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA), alongside its members, disclosed the latest global deployments of C-V2X technology, highlighting how 5G data will deeply transform the mobility system by making it safer and more efficient at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress 2022 in Barcelona on Wednesday 2 March 2022. 

The 5G Automotive Association was back this year at Barcelona’s edition of the Mobile World Congress, the world’s leading exhibition for the connectivity industry, to disclose the cellular technology shaping the future of mobility alongside its member.

Today, connected driving is a reality. Over 200 million connected vehicles are equipped with C-V2X applications sharing hazard and traffic warnings on the road. Applied to the automotive sector, 5G is upgrading revolutionary in-car connectivity, allowing seamless and cooperative communication between vehicles, infrastructure, and surroundings.

On 2nd March, 5GAA experts and member spokespersons shared their views on how the deployment of C-V2X technologies is turning connected and safe mobility into reality from now and in the next few years. Moreover, the association had the pleasure to have Peter Stuckmann, Head of Unit, Future Connectivity Systems, DG CONNECT, European Commission, addressing the participants and highlighting the crucial role of investments in 5G and infrastructures to foster the European green and digital transition.

As noted by Johannes Springer, 5GAA Director-General, the association that celebrates its 5th Anniversary has been working intensely to bridge the gap between automotive, technology, and telecom industries and promote the 5G-V2X (vehicle-to-everything) technology as a comprehensive and integrated platform for connected vehicles, embracing digital transformations as opportunities for mobility innovations.

The conference, moderated by Freddie Holmes, Special Correspondent at Automotive World, offered an overview on the broad-scale improvements that connected mobility can bring to the global automotive system, starting with a first session on the 5G-V2X deployment landscape in different regions, such as Europe, China, and the US. Speakers underlined the need for increased ecosystem cooperation and cross-border projects to ensure reliable access to 5G networks to all users. The second session focused on the safety aspects and benefits brought by the technology, including protecting vulnerable road users.

The event concluded with an insightful panel discussion on mobility data, with the participation of representatives from the entire ecosystem value chain. Panellists discussed how smart cities and infrastructure could help make data-driven decisions that inform how we pave the path for the future of mobility and the crucial role of data standardisation and reliability and new business models to foster investments.

The event welcomed, in person or through virtual messages, high-level representatives of 5GAA’s member companies Deutsche Telekom, Verizon, China Mobile, Harman, Continental, Telefonica, Qualcomm, BMW, Huawei, Intel , ZTE, Stellantis.

In addition,5GAA hosted a Press & Industry guided tour across the booths of key member companies to share their latest C-V2X technology developments with journalists and industry analysts, focusing on road safety and digital infrastructures.

Companies featured in the tour included:

  • Deutsche Telekom presented the Automated Valet Parking in a 5G network use case, in partnership with BMW and Valeo, which delivers high reliability and stable latency to ensure the necessary safety requirements. Moreover, the company presented its Mobility Connect solutions, offering drivers 5G seamless connectivity solutions
  • ZTE Corporation showcased its 5G-V2X products and solutions, including 5G-V2X module, OBU, RSU, V2X cloud platform and other cases
  • Qualcomm presented its Snapdragon Digital Chassis Platform: a set of technology solutions for building connected and intelligent vehicles that are safer, customisable, immersive and continually upgradeable, and Auto Connectivity Platform to support ubiquitous connectivity in and around the vehicle
  • Intel with its Superdemo, developed with its partners Capgemini and Advantech for their 5G Road Side Unit solution for Smart City & Transportation use cases focusing on vulnerable users protection Digital Twin infrastructure for sustainable cities
  • Rohde & Schwarz showcased its 5G and C-V2X solutions for development in the laboratory and verification in the field to ensure the performance and reliability of critical automotive communications
  • Anritsu presented a joint demonstration in partnership with dSPACE. The demonstration showed the use of 5G Network Slicing in an Advanced Intersection Collision Warning (AICW) use case, using Hardware In the Loop (HIL) test and simulation system to provide a realistic sensor simulation to an OBU that is being tested

We would like to thank all our participants, member companies and speakers, for making it such an insightful event, clearly demonstrated the added value of ecosystem cooperation for the future of the transportation system.

Download the agenda of the event here.

For additional information, please get in touch at marcom@5gaa.org.

Please find the video contribution from Ramaswamy Iyer, Senior Vice-President and Head of Connectivity SBU, Harman that unfortunately, we have not been able to show during the conference due to technical problems.

Privacy policy

The 5GAA – 5G Automotive Association e.V. (5GAA) places great importance on the protection of your personal data and is committed to comply with all applicable data protection laws and regulations.

The following Privacy Notice will provide you with information about the personal data we collect, process and use when you visit 5GAA’s website, become a member of the association, otherwise use our services or when we interact or communicate with you in any other way. Please note that if you use services provided by third parties, only the Privacy Notice of these third parties shall apply to the personal data processed via these services.

1. Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?

The responsible data controller, that means the entity deciding why and how to process your personal data, is:

5GAA – 5G Automotive Association e.V.
Neumarkter Str. 21
81673 Munich (Germany)
Tel.: + 49 89 54 90 96 80
Fax: + 49 89 54 90 96 85
secretariat@5gaa.org

5GAA is a global, cross-industry organization of companies from the automotive, technology, and telecommunications industries (ICT), working together to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transportation services.

2. What personal data do we collect?

We collect information from you when you use our website, complete our “Contact us” form, apply to join the association or to cooperate with us in any other way, are a member of the association, join or participate in our working groups, register for an event or otherwise interact with us. We may also receive information on you from our member companies and institutions that you are associated with (for example as an employee).

The personal data we collect might include your title, first name, surname, gender, date of birth, address, email address, phone number, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when.

We may also collect information relating to your employment, including where you are currently employed, your job title, areas of interest/expertise and your job function if this is relevant to your interaction with us. In applications for some categories of membership we ask you to identify a reference by providing their name and address. Please make sure that you have obtained the consent of the reference prior to providing the contact details.

We may also collect your personal data (e.g. name, email address, organisation, function, other relevant contact data), in particular with respect to your function as policymaker or representative of the media or of a public authority, from publicly available sources or within the scope of our business activities from our external sources.

3. For which purposes do we process your personal data?

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Processing your application, in particular for a membership with 5GAA;
  • Administering your membership, that means where we have to process your personal data to perform our relationship with you;
  • Handling your requests and reacting to other interactions initiated by you;
  • Processing your invitations for 5GAA or associated events to facilitate your attendance;
  • Compiling statistics, insights and analyses of attendance and success of our events;
  • Coordinating the activities of 5GAA, and, in particular, its working groups;
  • Enabling 5GAA members, their delegates and other working group participants to communicate (e.g. via email) and to cooperate with you with regard to your working group activities or mutual interests;
  • Seeking your views or comments in the context of 5GAA’s activities;
  • Sending you communications which you have requested or that may be of interest to you, including newsletters, press releases, position papers, information about events and other activities of the association; requests for feedback on our events;
  • Monitoring compliance with our terms and policies, for example, to prevent or detect fraud or other crimes;
  • For billing purposes, where necessary.

4. Who has access to your personal data?

To support us with the administration of your membership and the coordination of our activities (such as hosting and organizing events), our service provider MCI Deutschland GmbH will access and process your personal data on our behalf.

In addition, we will disclose your personal data to our third-party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organizations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf. These service providers include, for example, fulfilment providers for delivery of our digital content and newsletters; member service agencies; hosts, organizers and sponsors of our events; organizations that host our website or databases; and providers of online surveys. We may also disclose your personal data to legal consultants or similar third parties where this is necessary for our legitimate interests, for example for the prevention or detection of fraud or other crimes. However, when we share your personal data with third parties, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the services and we have contracts that require them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own purposes.

If you subscribe to a mailing list of a working group, we may disclose your personal data, in particular your name, the name of the organisation that you are representing, your job title and your email address to other delegates or participants of the same or similar working groups.

Where we are required by applicable laws, we will also disclose your personal data to law enforcement, government authorities or courts.

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties unless you have given your express consent for us to do so where required by law.

We will process your personal data on the following legal bases under Article 6 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation:

  • Application and membership necessity: Where the processing of your personal data is necessary to manage your application and administer your membership or any other association with 5GAA;
  • Legitimate business purposes: Where the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (such as to protect us from harm by preventing or detecting illegal activities, fraud or similar threats; to represent our interests publicly or among experts, in particular by reaching out to and communicate with media representatives, policymakers, public authorities and other associations or organizations; to exercise or defend against legal claims; to enhance the benefit of a 5GAA membership by enabling networking and cooperation activities amongst our members, their delegates and other stakeholders; to improve our future events and better meet the interests of our members by compiling statistics, insights and analyses of attendance at our events; or to analyze our website usage and services), unless we determine in a case-by-case assessment that our interests are overridden by your interests or rights;
  • Legal obligation: To comply with legal obligations to which we are subject (for example, where we are requested by a court to disclose your data);
  • Consent: This is where you have given us explicit permission to process personal data for a given purpose, as required under applicable data protection laws and regulations. For example, we will ask for your consent to receiving newsletters when you sign up on our website.

6. Where will your personal data be processed?

Your personal data will be processed both inside the European Union (“EU”) and the European Economic Area (EEA) and outside by the parties specified in Section 4 above.

Please note that EU / EEA Member States and other countries all have different laws regarding the protection of personal data. If we transfer your personal data from your own country to another country, the laws and rules that protect your personal data in the country to which your information is transferred to can be different (or less protective) from those in the country in which you live.

If we transfer any of your personal data outside the EU or EEA, we will, to the extent that this is required by applicable data protection laws and regulations, ensure that the recipient of the personal data provides for an adequate level of data protection, in particular, by implementing safeguards such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or by relying on an adequacy decision by the European Commission. Further information can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu_en.

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In order for this site to work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.

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How do we use cookies?

A number of the pages on our website use cookies to remember:

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In addition, some embedded videos in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you viewed. Although enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work, it will provide you with a better browsing experience. Cookies can be deleted or blocked, but some features of this site may not work as intended should you do so. The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. The cookies on this website are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

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8. How do we protect your personal data?

5GAA maintains appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal data against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use.

Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your personal data, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Where we have given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

9. How long do we store your personal data?

We will not retain your personal data longer than necessary to fulfil the purposes the data was collected for or to fulfil our legal obligations. Afterwards, we will delete your personal data.

If you wish to receive further specific information on the applicable retention periods, please contact us under the contact details mentioned in Section 11.

10. What are your rights in respect of your personal data?

To the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws and regulations, you have the right to access your personal data that we hold on you, to update or correct your data so that it is always accurate and to request the deletion of your personal data if it is no longer needed for the purposes above. Furthermore, you have the right to restrict the processing of your data in certain circumstances (for example, where you have contested the accuracy of your data, for the period enabling us to verify its accuracy) and to obtain a copy of your personal data (including in an electronic, machine-readable format).

Moreover, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where your personal data is processed with your consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You also have a right to object to the processing of your personal data:

In the event and to the extent that we process your personal data based on our legitimate interests as mentioned above, you have the right to object to the processing on specific grounds relating to your particular situation. In such case we will no longer process your personal data unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

In the event and to the extent that we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of your personal data for such marketing.

Please note that legal exceptions (such as mandatory retention periods or rights of third parties) may limit your rights.

To exercise your rights, please reach out to us via the contact details mentioned in Section 11.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.

11. How can you contact us?

We welcome any queries and complaints you may have regarding how we process your personal data via e-mail to secretariat@5gaa.org or in written form to 5GAA – 5G Automotive Association e.V. – Head Office, Neumarkter Str. 21, 81673 Munich (Germany).

12. How often do we update this privacy notice?

This privacy notice will be updated to reflect changes either regarding the way in which we process your personal data or changes to data protection legislation. We will bring any significant changes to your attention by updating this information and making it available on our website. To make sure that you keep up to date, we suggest that you revisit this notice from time to time. In addition, we will examine whether in individual cases there is an obligation to provide other notification in the event of any changes to this information and in this case, we will comply with the existing notification obligation.

This Privacy Notice was last updated in January 2021.

Frequently Asked Questions

General Information about 5GAA

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation bridging the gap between automotive, technology, and telecom industries and promoting the C-V2X technology (Cellular vehicle-to-everything), a comprehensive platform for connected vehicles, safety, and transportation.

5GAA was created in September 2016 by its eight founding members: AUDI AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated.

5GAA unites now more than 130 companies diverse both in terms of geography and expertise. These include automotive manufacturers, tier-1 suppliers, chipset/communication system providers, mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. Find the full list of members here. 

5GAA’s members are committed to helping define and develop global solutions for the next generation of connected mobility and automated vehicle solutions to address the complex challenge of providing enhanced safety, sustainability, and convenience for all road users. Read more about 5GAA’s mission here.

Since its creation, 5GAA has helped transform C-V2X technology from a standard into a market reality and has established 5G as the reference for future automotive connectivity. The association is now regarded as the global lead organisation on automotive connectivity. (link to the 5th anniversary report)

Major publications, reports and white papers include:

5GAA is working on the basis of 5 association pillars: as the first and overarching pillar, 5GAA aims to bring value to its members. Four main pillars help to achieve this overarching pillar: (1) enable deployment by lifting barrier and accelerating time-to-market, (2) contribute to standardisation via pre-standardisation efforts of automotive connectivity, (3) advocate policymakers by addressing regional opportunities and threats, and (4) leverage innovative solutions within the larger connected automotive community.

The association is contribution-driven and only exists through collaborations and communications between its members.

Between 2019 and 2021, 5GAA’s work focused on eight priority areas: security and privacy, road infrastructure, Vulnerable road users, positioning, interoperability, cellular network, and flexible architecture and technology evolution. All of the priority areas are contributing to the association’s vision: “connected mobility for people, vehicles, and transport infrastructure”. You can find more information on 5GAA’s work here.

The association includes an Executive Committee, a Board, and a General Assembly. The Board, composed of eighteen members elected every year by the General Assembly, supervises and advises the Executive Committee in all respects, in particular with regard to strategic guidance. The Executive Committee is the legal representative body of the association and is responsible for its day-to-day management. You can know more about the 5GAA’s leadership and Board at this link.

In order to address society’s transport needs, 5GAA has seven working groups focused on:

  • Use Cases and Technical Requirements
  • System Architecture and Solution Development
  • Evaluation, Testbeds, and Pilots
  • Standards and Spectrum
  • Regulatory and Public Affairs
  • Security and Privacy

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5GAA Working Groups are overseeing the work done in the work programme made of a large number of Work Items. Work Items are time-limited targeted activities which may report to more than one Working Group depending on their tasks. Outputs from Work Items can take many different shapes: Technical Report, Technical Specifications, White Papers, measurements, prototypes and/or demonstrations.

5GAA believe true ecosystem cooperation must be achieved around sustainable business models. An ecosystem that would gather the whole value-chain of connected mobility, seamlessly interacting with partners and standardisation bodies.

5GAA collaborates with different actors active in many fields: Standardisation bodies, Testing, Conformance and Interoperability organisations, Promotion Groups and Think Tanks, and regional organisations. 5GAA is also part of several European and national projects related to 5G networks and connected mobility. You can discover more on 5GAA’s partnerships here.

Friends of 5GAA is a group subscribing to a global newsletter addressing issues of interest and concerns to organisations that are not members but would like to keep up-to-date on 5GAA’s activities: typically road operators, ministries, public bodies, etc. They can also engage with the 5GAA members to identify synergies and business opportunities to accelerate and streamline the deployment of connected automotive.

Questions about Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology

Cellular-V2X (C-V2X), as initially defined as LTE V2X in 3GPP Release 14, is a technology that allows vehicles to communicate with each other and the wider transport ecosystem.
It includes Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-(Roadway) Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) direct communication without necessarily relying on network involvement for scheduling. This is complemented by the connectivity to the mobile network (V2N) using LTE.

C-V2X has a clear evolution path to 5G (also called 5G New Radio (NR)) for both modes of operation mentioned above.  C-V2X direct communication has an evolution path to 5G-NR based C-V2X, and LTE- network communication has its evolution patch to 5G-NR network communication.

5GAA supports the idea that 5G will be the ultimate platform to enable C-ITS and the provision of V2X. 5G will be able to better carry mission-critical communications for safer driving, and further support enhanced V2X communications and connected mobility solutions.

V2X includes:

  • V2V: Vehicle to Vehicle communications – Direct and short-range communication between Vehicles for critical safety applications – providing 360o non-line-of-sight awareness for improved safety;
  • V2P: Direct and short-range communication between Vehicles and Pedestrians – including all “vulnerable” road users such as cyclists;
  • V2I: Direct and short-range communication between Vehicles and Infrastructure – allowing the vehicle to connect to and receive road traffic information (signage, traffic lights etc.);
  • V2N: Network communications between Vehicles and Network (i.e. the cloud) – providing vehicles with advanced traffic routing, long range information and cloud-based services, e.g. Infotainment.

C-V2X technology combines two complementary modes of communication:

Direct & short-range connectivity for safety applications without requiring network coverage or subscription. This operates in designated ITS spectrum bands (e.g. ITS 5.9 GHz) also known as “LTE-PC5”. C-V2X direct communication gives vehicles the ability to communicate with each other (V2V), to pedestrians (V2P), to roadway infrastructure (V2I), enabling safer, more autonomous vehicles of the future;

Connectivity via regular cellular networks for non-safety applications like navigation and infotainment in the car. This operates in the traditional mobile broadband licensed spectrum – also known as “LTE-Uu”. C-V2X network communication allows vehicles to communicate with the network (V2N).

In China, cars enabled with Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology are already available. To this date, 14 C-V2X vehicles have been commercialised so far. In the United States, Ford has committed to deploy C-V2X in all new vehicle models from early 2022.  Finally, in Europe, BMW and Samsung are set to offer 5G/CV2X in their iNEXT vehicle this year, in 2021.

In 2020, 5GAA released a Visionary 2030 Roadmap outlining the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) use cases to improve traffic efficiency and road safety around the world expected in the next decade. Close to 200 million ‘connected vehicles’ are already on the roads worldwide, and a growing number of vehicles with the ability to exchange traffic and road condition information over cellular networks. Further progress in the coming years will pivot around 5G-V2X use cases for more efficient and safe driving. From 2025 onwards, 5GAA expects the mass rollout of more advanced automated driving and safety use cases supported by vehicle connectivity. Additional automated driving functionalities are anticipated from 2026.

5G for automotive has the potential to have the most revolutionary impact by saving millions of lives by reducing road accidents. Furthermore, it will have a positive impact by producing more efficient journeys, minimising travel times, traffic jams and improving environmental footprints. Unlike other competitive technologies, C-V2X leverages both cost-effective direct short-range communications and long-range cellular connectivity. This allows more cost-effective use of an integrated connectivity platform to address the broadest range of safety features.

The cost-efficiency of C-V2X is determined mainly by the three following reasons:

C-V2X integration with existing cellular modem: C-V2X can deliver both short-range safety V2X applications and long-range network communications via the one modem, which accelerates time to market and market penetration, contributing to enhanced safety and reducing cost;

For pedestrians, C-V2X will also find its way into consumer-electronics smartphones both for use by pedestrians, cyclists and unequipped vehicles due to its low power consumption and its possible integration with 4G/LTE chipsets;

Benefit from the economy of scale as it can leverage synergies between transportation and other verticals which are moving towards 5G (e.g. e-health, smart cities, industry 4.0, smart farming, etc.)

C-V2X will improve safety on roads by tremendously facilitating the flow of information between vehicles, pedestrians, and road infrastructure. This will enable connected vehicles to anticipate and avoid dangerous situations, reducing collisions and potentially saving lives.

More connected mobility with C-V2X can help address the constantly growing need for mobility while achieving lower emissions with a 5-20% estimated emission reduction potential. Connected mobility will increase transport efficiency and driving patterns, thus reducing congestion, fuel consumption and emissions. Moreover, it will allow the creation of new ways around traffic flow management and better, more localised environmental control (e.g., dynamic geofencing). 5GAA and its members are convinced the global deployment of C-V2X technology will have a sustainable impact worldwide. However, connected vehicles must reach a critical mass to impact emissions reduction significantly. Read here to have more information about the environmental benefits of C-V2X.

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C-V2X explained

Connected Mobility

C-V2X explained

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything, or C-V2X, is a connected mobility platform that allows vehicles to interact with their surroundings, such as other vehicles, cyclists, pedestrians, road infrastructure, or mobile networks.

To enable connectivity within the broader transport ecosystem, C-V2X uses two complementary transmission modes.

First, direct communications (PC5) works independently of cellular networks and allows vehicles to communicate with other road users (cyclists, pedestrians or other vehicles). Second, network communications (Uu) leverages conventional mobile networks to enable vehicles to receive real-time information about road conditions and local traffic.

By connecting individual vehicles and enabling the development of cooperative intelligent transport systems that reduce congestion and pollution, C-V2X can transform how we look at traffic information to enhance travel and increase road safety.

Leading the new era
of mobility

C-V2X continually evolves over multiple releases in 3GPP. Cellular-V2X (C-V2X) is the umbrella term which encapsulates all 3GPP V2X technologies, including both direct (PC5) and mobile network communications (Uu).​

A major milestone was achieved in 2017 by completing LTE-V2X in Release 14, including both direct and mobile network communications delivering basic safety use cases. In 2020, 5G-V2X was completed in Release 16, also combining direct and mobile network communications to enable advanced and automated driving use cases. ​

Who is 3GPP?

3GPP is a worldwide Standardisation Development Organisation (SDO) developing standards for the different generations of mobile networks: GSM (2G), UMTS (3G), LTE (4G) and 5G, targeting a wide range of consumer and industry applications. When applied in a vehicle connectivity context the acronym V2X (vehicle-to-everything) is added.

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C-V2X in detail

C-V2X provides one unified solution for V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle), V2I (vehicle-to-infrastructure), and V2P (vehicle-to pedestrian) operation with V2N (vehicle-to-network) by leveraging existing cellular network infrastructure.​

  • Device-to-device [1] is Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-(Roadway) Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) direct communication without necessarily relying on network involvement for scheduling.​
  • Device-to-cell tower is another communications link that enables network resources and scheduling and utilises existing operator infrastructure. Device-to-cell tower communications constitute at least part of the V2I proposition and are essential to end-to-end solutions.​
  • ​Device-to-network is the V2N solution using traditional cellular links to enable cloud services to be part and parcel of the end-to-end solution.

In the device-to-device mode (V2V, V2I, V2P) operation, C-V2X does not necessarily require any network infrastructure. It can operate without a SIM, without network assistance and uses GNSS as its primary time synchronisation source.​

C-V2X also supports V2N applications using existing cellular networks where other voices and data communications occur. V2N would deliver network assistance and commercial services requiring the involvement of a Mobile Network Operator (MNO).​

​Collectively, the transmission modes of shorter-range direct communications (V2V, V2I, V2P) and longer-range network-based communications (V2N) comprise what we call Cellular-​V2X[2].

[1] Relies on the PC5 interface specified by 3GPP for device-to-device operation.​
[2] See 3GPP TR 22.885 Study on LTE Support for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Services.​

Work Items

Work Items

Completed Work Items – 2024

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Explore use cases, system requirements, and deployment options for integrating Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication technologies with infrastructure sensors.
  • Outline a framework for developing interoperable, standardised solutions that can operate efficiently within existing Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) spectrums.

 

White Paper

Objective:

  • Provide an update of 5GAA’s vision for the global deployment of smarter, safer and more sustainable mobility and transportation services.

 

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Provide the state of the art including demonstrations and market status, regulation, and safety-related aspect regarding uncrewed ground robots (UGRs) as well as common analysis and system/component requirements for UGRs.
  • Show the methods of communication between UGRs and road users in view of existing gaps in ITS standards, to identify a way forward to incorporate UGRs in future standards.

 

Technical Report

Objective:

  • Outline a vision for integrating a Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connectivity layer as a complement to Terrestrial Networks (TN), enhancing coverage and services for connected vehicles.

 

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Build on previous work in 5GAA on the topic of VRUs, focussing on co-existence and interoperability between different companies’ solutions.
  • Previous showcases and demonstrations have shown the functionality and safety benefits of VRU protection solutions, whereas the objective of VRU-DEMO is to show how these solutions are able to interact with each other.

 

White Paper

Objective:

  • Explore how to manage misbehaviour in Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication systems, where vehicles and infrastructure directly exchange information.

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Provide a business perspective on the Vehicle-to-Network-to-Everything (V2N2X) market, covering market value, stakeholder needs, market growth drivers, and business models observed in various deployments.
  • The report complements the high-level V2N2X architecture described in the 5GAA white paper ‘Road traffic operation in a digital age’ and the technical report ‘Vehicle-to-Network-to-Everything (V2N2X) Communications; Architecture, Solution Blueprint, and Use Case Implementation Examples.’

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Describe an ecosystem for stakeholders on how to realise various V2X applications and use cases (UCs), using cellular network communications in combination with information sharing structures between backend systems.
  • Clarify the different implementation options of the V2X application in a vehicle and their related implications.
  • The report complements the V2N2X business perspectives  in the 5GAA white paper ‘Road traffic operation in a digital age’ and the technical report ‘Business Perspectives on Vehicle-to-Network-to-Everything (V2N2X) Deployments’.

White Paper

Objective:

  • Propose a framework for trust assessment within CAVs by defining key terms related to trust and trustworthiness, establishing a foundation for building trust between these vehicles and creating a taxonomy for classifying different trust relationships.

Technical Report

Objectives:

  • Develop a methodology specifically for testing vehicular communication antennas and provide validation measures that account for the unique form factors and characteristics of each vehicle.
  • This document is an updated version of the Vehicular Antenna Test Methodology technical report published by 5GAA in 2021, available here.

Position Paper

Objectives:

  • Reflect the automotive and connectivity industries agreement on spectrum allocation for ITS services in the 5.9 GHz band in Europe.
  • This 5GAA position paper also takes into account the updates from ETSI and CEPT and proposes a deployment band configuration for road-ITS in the 5.9 GHz band.

White Paper

Objectives:

  • Propose a transformative approach for automotive stakeholders, emphasizing scalable digital data exchange and a federated architecture to manage road traffic information efficiently.
  • Recommend a National Roadway Digital Strategy, federated information-sharing structures, and aligned investments.

Position Paper

Objective:

  • Provide an overview of how security, privacy, and data quality are addressed for C-V2X using mobile network and backend communications, also known as Vehicle-to-Network-to-Everything (V2N2X) solutions.

Technical Report

Objective:

  • The overview of cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) devices provides a fresh look at the devices currently available on the market or nearing release to capture the evolving C-V2X device landscape.

Completed Work Items – 2023

Objectives:

  • Work with the Connected Motorcycle Consortium (CMC) to identify potential C-V2X technology solutions for
  • use cases for powered two-wheelers, focusing on safety aspects
  • This includes use cases enabled by external connectivity or sensors but also covers use cases that may profit or be enabled by the presence of external computing power, representing an attractive potential market even with low V2X penetration.

Objectives:

  • Identify and evaluate a selection of evolving and emerging technologies for positioning in line with the 5GAA roadmap for use automotive use cases.
  • Perform a gap analysis based on automotive use cases concerning selected technologies and provide feedback to relevant SDOs.

Objectives:

  • Cover a broad range of topics, ranging from the analysis of MEC-relevant use cases and requirements, both from a technical and business perspective, the collaboration with SDOs and industry groups (GSMA), the definition of a reference architecture with related deployment scenarios, an early study on security and privacy aspects, and the drafting of a plan for future experimental activities on MEC for automotive services, including public demos.

Objective:

  • Highlight the vast array of new business opportunities that 5G will enable for the connected mobility ecosystem by moving the discussion beyond safety and automated driving to other innovative solutions and customer experiences.

White Paper

Objective:

  • Consider realistic evaluation assumptions based on a common understanding between the automotive industry and 5G-V2X technology vendors.

 

Objectives:

  • Address the issue of trustworthiness in relation to position information exchanged in the context of V2X communication(how much trust the ITS station can place on the received V2X message containing the positioning information).
  • Provide an overview of the current standards related to positioning, including the integrity of the position and confidence levels, and review the definitions and metrics used so far.

Objective:

  • Develop and socialise guidance documents on C-V2X direct communications RSU deployment in the USA with a focus on Day 1 (messages, minimum performance, interoperability and certification) to foster real-world infrastructure deployments.

Objectives:

  • Accelerate the understanding and adoption of VRU protection services enabled by C-V2X to meet the 5GAA-proposed roadmap for deploying those services.
  • This objective is addressed by experimentation and demonstrating existing technology and standards. Exploiting and analysing the results of the experiments and demonstrations enabled an assessment of the existing standards and potential standardisation gaps, laying the ground for the mass deployment of VRU protection services.

Completed Work Items – 2022

Objectives:

  • Stimulate auto industry awareness in Conformity Assessment (CA) and conduct a study of current CA schemes being developed by global industry organizations.
  • Develop a framework for a harmonized conformance assessment for PC5 applicable to both roadside units and on-board units and attain support from global industry bodies and stakeholders

Objectives:

  • Define use cases and align the Use Case Roadmap for mass-market deployment of advanced driving use cases, including their technology and spectrum requirements.

Objectives:

  • Analyze the feasibility of distributed vehicle antennas from an implementation perspective and develop measurement strategies for the analysis.
  • Analyze the specification impact and the potential necessary changes, and provide output to relevant standardization organizations for possible requirements recommendations.

Objectives:

  • Secure consumer acceptance and trust in V2X technologies, and perform lawful processing of data while preserving system efficiency to deliver upon the benefits of both basic and advanced V2X services.

Objectives:

  • Produce a report which describes the actions which 5GAA and its members would need to take to ensure that relevant ETSI and CEPT deliverables are created as needed to support the 5GAA C-V2X Roadmap.

Objectives:

  • Provide awareness of the current state of misbehaviour developments in standards developing organizations, and propose action items to fill the existing gaps.

Objectives:

  • Continue incubation of new technical enablers, both use case specific and use case agnostic, with the intent of achieving sufficient maturity for transition to standards developing organizations .
  • Contribute to SDOs via a Liaison member, bringing up new developments in foundational enablers and protocols for review and consumption by TCs & TFs.

Objectives:

  • Review and update the specified methodology for the use case analysis for Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) related Service Level Requirements.
  • Develop potential enhancements to interfaces, signalling and architecture of the Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) system, including but not limited to the aspects related to edge cloud and interoperability.

Objectives:

  • Detect, propose and evaluate possibilities for telecommunication operators, vendors and further stakeholders to provide what is necessary in order to enable the car OEM to better treat safety.
  • Investigate processes and tools used to develop and operate the complete chain of the system, deriving a judgement on feasibility of those processes for safety.

Objectives:

  • Monitor the activities of standards developing organizations and provide regular updates of the ecosystem to 5GAA members to enable an early identification of risks and challenges in standardization.

Objectives:

  • Introduce tele-operation service provider relevant use cases and scenarios with a V2N2V nature and identify gaps and develop architecture solutions for the development of tele-operated driving services
  • Study framework requirements of a tele-operation service between vehicle and remote tele-operation centre in cross-mobile network operators, cross-original equipment manufacturers and cross-authority scenarios.

Objectives:

  • Produce a C-V2X tolling white paper using the experience from the technology and cost analysis to show the tolling industry how to find common benefit in C-V2X and the importance of C-V2X in the future Road Digitalization Roadmap.

Objectives:

  • Establish use case implementation descriptions realizing use cases’ Service Level Requirements for Automated Valet Parking (AVP), Informative Sensor sharing (HD map Collecting and Sharing), Sensor Sharing for Automated vehicles (AVs) and HD Sensor Sharing for AVs.
  • Contribute to overarching application system implementation specifications combining the respective use case implementation specifications, including potential interfaces to network layer and security layer.

Objectives:

  • Update and improve use case descriptions and corresponding Service Level Requirements in already published Technical Reports and White Papers.
  • Collect, harmonize, align, and integrate new use case descriptions developed in 5GAA and publish the third volume of the Technical Report on C-V2X Use Cases and Service Level Requirements.

Objectives:

  • Strengthen 5GAA members’ understanding of the state of play of V2X in China and improve the cooperation with and among Chinese members.

Objectives:

  • Publish an industry specification defining a system profile to enable US deployment of interoperable basic safety services using LTE-V2X direct communication over channel 183.

Objectives:

  • Establish qualitative general, functional and operational requirements to describe systems for the 5G evolution and beyond that would be useful for automotive solutions.
  • Provide a unified 5GAA opinion on evolving technologies and the expected transition path for the automotive ecosystem when moving from current 5G technology to its evolution, including potential threats and opportunities.

Completed Work Items – 2021

Objectives:

  • Gather evidence of the environmental benefits associated with C-V2X and assist in developing this evidence into a compelling narrative.
  • Assess the benefits of C-V2X deployment (both LTE-V2X and 5G-V2X direct and network-based communications) in terms of emission reduction by 2050 in Europe (and for US and Asia) considering various positive and negative externalities.

Objectives:

  • Identify and investigate further potential enhancements needed to provide Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) for C-V2X, investigate interoperability of network slices, and provide relevant recommendations to standards developing organizations (SDOs) and industry forums, e.g. 3GPP, ETSI, ISO and GSMA.

Objectives:

  • Demonstrate the use of multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology for automotive services, for example, when two distinct automotive vendors can truly test at least three use cases involving two distinct mobile network operators (MNOs) employing the network infrastructure provided by two distinct infrastructure vendors.
  • Increase the flexibility of the current network service architecture, reduce the deployment effort, and increase the interoperability among different stakeholders in the system.

Objectives:

  • Describe how existing 3GPP methods reduce and improve service interruption due to network reselection.
  • Provide an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) view on current and desired network reselection.

Objective:

  • Close the gap of the first spectrum needs study by analyzing several advanced use cases and consider additional items such as security overheads in a second release.

Objective:

  • Prepare a report which describes the 5GAA’s 5.9 GHz radio channel deployment options for use by LTE-V2X and NR-V2X across all regions, and describe relevant changes to existing regulatory frameworks – or the introduction of new regulatory frameworks – which may be required across all regions.

Objectives:

  • Update Use Case Technical Reports with updated use case descriptions and develop a white paper for the Wave 2 of use cases.
  • Provide a new set of use cases with their corresponding service level requirements (SLRs) to be summarized into a new TR.

Objectives:

  • Study and describe specific and technology dependent use case implementations that fulfil the service level requirements (SLRs) as defined in the technology agnostic 5GAA use case descriptions.
  • Develop corresponding descriptions for three exemplary use cases: Left Turn Assist (LTA), (Electronic) Emergency Brake (light) Warning (EEBL), and Traffic Jam Warning and Route Information.

Objective:

  • Define a standardized test method and metrics for vehicular antennas with the dominant emittance toward the outside of the vehicle, focusing on vehicular antennas for telecommunications (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G (< 7.125GHz)), vehicular antennas for direct communication between vehicles to road infrastructure (operating in the designated ITS frequency spectrum (5.9GHz range)), GNSS antennas and 3D-measurements (vehicle-mounted antenna element)

Objectives:

  • Focus on positioning method for vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) and study both positioning methods employing cellular signals (5G/LTE/C-V2X) and the positioning methods integrated with other technologies.
  • Study the requirements of positioning, build the understanding of positioning system framework, and offer the corresponding technologies according to the requirements and environments.

Completed Work Items – 2020

Objective:

  • Analyze V2I deployment costs, including financial, economic and market aspects, to provide guidance to regulators, policymakers and other key stakeholders.
  • Analyse options with higher and lower levels of V2I-based infrastructure vs. V2N-based approach.

Objective:

  • Define and analyse the automotive use case requirements in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) using network slicing and analyze business value and identify the specific features required to support the automotive use cases that cover IoT and mobile broadband services.

Objectives:

  • Define use cases and align the Use Case Roadmap for mass-market deployment of advanced driving use cases, including their technology and spectrum requirements.

Map, assess and contribute to the identification of technical gaps (upper and lower layers, e.g. protocols, Rel. 18 requirements) and forward to relevant standards setting organizations (SSOs).

Objectives:

  • Define all necessary details for conducting the first 5GAA C-V2X Plugfest in the first quarter of 2019.
  • Define 5GAA requirements and timelines for conducting successive plugfests after the first quarter of 2019.

Objective:

  • Facilitate a harmonized industrial evolution and development of enhanced cellular V2X, starting with supporting the basic use cases with the already available C-V2X technologies such as 3GPP Rel-14/15 C-V2X and adopt new technologies for the use cases which cannot be served with current C-V2X

Objectives:

  • Establish a lightweight security system for C-V2X/5G-V2X communications by conducting a requirements analysis of regional privacy regulations to establish an overview of regional differences and define requirements for each region.
  • Analyze concepts to simplify the architecture and its impact on regional privacy compliance.

Objectives:

  • Identify structured and reasonable requirements on mobile networks relevant to spectrum auctioning to accommodate automotive use cases and enable mobile network operator (MNOs) to quantify associated investments.
  • Analyze licensed spectrum auctioning frameworks and other incentivizing initiatives, such as infrastructure leasing exceptions, where additional investments required by mobile network operators (MNOs) to fulfill requirements associated to automotive use cases are appropriately recognized.

Objectives:

  • Develop application-level groundwork for the next-generation services (Rel-16) with use cases involving complex message interactions for assisted and autonomous (Ll1-Ll5) and automated driving (supported by infrastructure).
  • Build prototypes and demonstrate next-generation applications (Rel-16 and further) to gain hands-on experience with some use cases to help stakeholders (OEMs, suppliers, road operators, regulators) understand how 5G NR can implement the concept of connected and automated vehicles for proximal vehicle-to-X coordination and cooperation.

Objective:

  • Solicit road operators’ views on their role in the deployment of ITS C-V2X services through a free form questionnaire to determine the road operator willingness to participate directly in future 5GAA discussions or events.

Objectives:

  • Develop and demonstrate a phased vulnerable road user (VRU) protection approach by defining a VRU protection roadmap.
  • Provide realistic paths for vulnerable road user (VRU) protection using cellular communications, differentiating C-V2X from 802.11p based technologies and set the stage for application of C-V2X to VRU protection.

Objectives:

  • Define the application layer reference architecture for the V2X service and recommend the application layer reference architecture of the V2X system.
  • Discuss other architecture related subjects to align with the coordinated 5GAA architecture.

 

Completed Work Items – 2019

Objective:

  • Identify, analyze and compare the advantages and disadvantages of V2I deployment using long-range (Uu) mobile networks and RSU (PC5) from a business perspective, reflecting how C-V2X enables synergies with both the transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, which includes leveraging existing mobile network infrastructure for C-ITS.

Objectives:

  • Work on the CEPT/ETSI-related activities by extending the ITS safety-related band at 5.9 GHz to allow coexistence of LTE V2X and Urban Rail to coexist with ITS-G5 within the 5,875-5,925 MHz frequency band.
  • Clarify ITS “co-frequency coexistence” statements, include future 3GPP releases and evolution, engage the urban rail community, engage with national administrations.

Objectives:

  • Develop a trial and interoperability testing framework that defines the deployment scenarios and uses cases, testing methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs) to be tested.
  • Develop a 5GAA trial and interoperability testing strategy to capture the 5GAA testing priorities, including setting up a 5GAA testbed environment and planning multi-partner trials covering the priority test cases.

Objective:

  • Prepare input material for the work in ETSI TC ITS to amend the test specification required to use LTE-V2X as the underlying access layer technology.

Objectives:

  • Identify and evaluate potential architecture enhancements needed to provide predictable Quality of Service (QoS) for C-V2X in 5G for the automotive industry, utilizing network slicing and edge computing technologies.
  • Provide guidelines on the design of Network Slice Templates (NST) for the automotive industry that enable support for different categories of C-V2X use cases and 5GAA requirements.

Objectives:

  • Provide an assessment of the deployment roadmap for use cases.
  • Establish a mapping between use cases and potential technology candidates, e.g. 3GPP releases, sidelink and/or Uu requirements.

Objectives:

  • Define a framework for classifying use cases and requirements, identify prioritized use cases, functional requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Perform a gap analysis and specify the extended set of prioritized use cases.

Objectives:

  • Identify the use cases that benefited from the presence of an application server, and based on the output, explore the V2X application server features and how the application server can be used to perform these use cases.

Completed Work Items – 2018

Objectives:

  • Develop consensus on operating models for system implementation, taking into account the various requirements arising from the planned networked transport services.
  • Investigate architectural paradigms such as cloud-based solutions, including edge computing aspects, and analyze solutions from the perspective of verification, confidentiality and privacy, identify requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs), and recommend further actions.

Objective:

  • Enable the development of a strategy for comprehensive testing, trials, demo pilots, and compliance assessment for V2X using cellular air interface specifications (i.e., including PC5 and Uu).

 

Objectives:

  • Promote C-V2X, including existing (LTE-V2X PC5 and Uu interfaces) and future realizations, as the technology of choice for ITS and promote ITS in 5.9 GHz spectrum in some areas, and interact various regulatory organizations.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Promote C-V2X, including its existing (LTE-V2X) and future realizations, as the technology of choice for ITS.
  • Promote appropriate availability of radio spectrum for C-V2X where necessary in addition to 5.9 GHz, and promote the use of 5.9 GHz for safety-related ITS over other applications (e.g., RLANs, CBTC).
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Quantify the future spectrum needs for 5G short-range V2X communications in the context of safety-related ITS spectrum allocation and 5G wide range communications.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Develop recorded test procedures to validate various performance and functional requirements of C-V2X technology covering both the laboratory/test bed and the field test environments.

Objectives:

  • Quantify future spectrum needs for 5G V2X communications related to ITS spectrum allocation for advanced use cases, including a technology assessment of the amount of radio spectrum needed to meet the key performance criteria related to the low frequency band (e.g. 5.9 GHz) as well as mmWave (e.g. 63–64 GHz) for various advanced ITS applications and a wide-area 4G/5G Uu interface.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Completed Work Items – 2017

Objective:

  • Establish a high-level plan for C-V2X trials in North America, including definition of trial scope and objectives, identification of suitable/preferred trial facilities, and guidance regarding preferred trial participant composition.

Objective:

  • Identify existing regional V2X application specifications that have some dependency on specific radio access technologies, such as ITS-G5/11p, and determine how these specifications can be adapted to interoperate with generic radio access technologies and, in particular, with the lower layers of ITS-Cellular specified by 3GPP.

Objective:

  • Develop the timeline of major functionalities and milestones describing the expected availability of monetizable items and associated business and/or operational model options.

 

Objectives:

  • Identify sensor data sharing requirements from planned automated driving applications, including architecture options, requirements and implications.
  • Conduct a gap analysis of ETSI ITS standards related to existing data objects and complete a technical report outlining the 5GAA framework for sensor data sharing for V2X applications.

Objective:

  • Prepare a survey report on finalized, on-going and planned test activities, established testbeds and simulation frameworks.

Objective:

  • Compile V2X communication terms and definitions to be used within the 5GAA.

Completed Work Items – 2023

Objectives:

  • Work with the Connected Motorcycle Consortium (CMC) to identify potential C-V2X technology solutions for
  • use cases for powered two-wheelers, focusing on safety aspects
  • This includes use cases enabled by external connectivity or sensors but also covers use cases that may profit or be enabled by the presence of external computing power, representing an attractive potential market even with low V2X penetration.

Objectives:

  • Identify and evaluate a selection of evolving and emerging technologies for positioning in line with the 5GAA roadmap for use automotive use cases.
  • Perform a gap analysis based on automotive use cases concerning selected technologies and provide feedback to relevant SDOs.

Objectives:

  • Cover a broad range of topics, ranging from the analysis of MEC-relevant use cases and requirements, both from a technical and business perspective, the collaboration with SDOs and industry groups (GSMA), the definition of a reference architecture with related deployment scenarios, an early study on security and privacy aspects, and the drafting of a plan for future experimental activities on MEC for automotive services, including public demos.

Objectives:

  • Highlight the vast array of new business opportunities that 5G will enable for the connected mobility ecosystem by moving the discussion beyond safety and automated driving to other innovative solutions and customer experiences.

Objectives:

  • Address the operational aspects of misbehaviour detection, explicitly looking into remediation classification, misbehaviour classification and misbehaviour remediation.

Objectives:

  • Analyse and evaluate the performance of 3GPP NR-V2X sidelink and draw conclusions and recommendations for its operation, including gap analysis covering future releases and engagements with relevant SDOs.

Objectives:

  • Address the issue of trustworthiness in relation to position information exchanged in the context of V2X communication(how much trust the ITS station can place on the received V2X message containing the positioning information).
  • Provide an overview of the current standards related to positioning, including the integrity of the position and confidence levels, and review the definitions and metrics used so far.

Objectives:

  • Develop and socialise guidance documents on C-V2X direct communications RSU deployment in the USA with a focus on Day 1 (messages, minimum performance, interoperability and certification) to foster real-world infrastructure deployments.

Objectives:

  • Accelerate the understanding and adoption of VRU protection services enabled by C-V2X to meet the 5GAA-proposed roadmap for deploying those services.
  • This objective is addressed by experimentation and demonstrating existing technology and standards. Exploiting and analysing the results of the experiments and demonstrations enabled an assessment of the existing standards and potential standardisation gaps, laying the ground for the mass deployment of VRU protection services.

Completed Work Items – 2022

Objectives:

  • Stimulate auto industry awareness in Conformity Assessment (CA) and conduct a study of current CA schemes being developed by global industry organizations.
  • Develop a framework for a harmonized conformance assessment for PC5 applicable to both roadside units and on-board units and attain support from global industry bodies and stakeholders

Objectives:

  • Define use cases and align the Use Case Roadmap for mass-market deployment of advanced driving use cases, including their technology and spectrum requirements.

Objectives:

  • Analyze the feasibility of distributed vehicle antennas from an implementation perspective and develop measurement strategies for the analysis.
  • Analyze the specification impact and the potential necessary changes, and provide output to relevant standardization organizations for possible requirements recommendations.

Objectives:

  • Secure consumer acceptance and trust in V2X technologies, and perform lawful processing of data while preserving system efficiency to deliver upon the benefits of both basic and advanced V2X services.

Objectives:

  • Produce a report which describes the actions which 5GAA and its members would need to take to ensure that relevant ETSI and CEPT deliverables are created as needed to support the 5GAA C-V2X Roadmap.

Objectives:

  • Provide awareness of the current state of misbehaviour developments in standards developing organizations, and propose action items to fill the existing gaps.

Objectives:

  • Continue incubation of new technical enablers, both use case specific and use case agnostic, with the intent of achieving sufficient maturity for transition to standards developing organizations .
  • Contribute to SDOs via a Liaison member, bringing up new developments in foundational enablers and protocols for review and consumption by TCs & TFs.

Objectives:

  • Review and update the specified methodology for the use case analysis for Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) related Service Level Requirements.
  • Develop potential enhancements to interfaces, signalling and architecture of the Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) system, including but not limited to the aspects related to edge cloud and interoperability.

Objectives:

  • Detect, propose and evaluate possibilities for telecommunication operators, vendors and further stakeholders to provide what is necessary in order to enable the car OEM to better treat safety.
  • Investigate processes and tools used to develop and operate the complete chain of the system, deriving a judgement on feasibility of those processes for safety.

Objectives:

  • Monitor the activities of standards developing organizations and provide regular updates of the ecosystem to 5GAA members to enable an early identification of risks and challenges in standardization.

Objectives:

  • Introduce tele-operation service provider relevant use cases and scenarios with a V2N2V nature and identify gaps and develop architecture solutions for the development of tele-operated driving services
  • Study framework requirements of a tele-operation service between vehicle and remote tele-operation centre in cross-mobile network operators, cross-original equipment manufacturers and cross-authority scenarios.

Objectives:

  • Produce a C-V2X tolling white paper using the experience from the technology and cost analysis to show the tolling industry how to find common benefit in C-V2X and the importance of C-V2X in the future Road Digitalization Roadmap.

Objectives:

  • Establish use case implementation descriptions realizing use cases’ Service Level Requirements for Automated Valet Parking (AVP), Informative Sensor sharing (HD map Collecting and Sharing), Sensor Sharing for Automated vehicles (AVs) and HD Sensor Sharing for AVs.
  • Contribute to overarching application system implementation specifications combining the respective use case implementation specifications, including potential interfaces to network layer and security layer.

Objectives:

  • Update and improve use case descriptions and corresponding Service Level Requirements in already published Technical Reports and White Papers.
  • Collect, harmonize, align, and integrate new use case descriptions developed in 5GAA and publish the third volume of the Technical Report on C-V2X Use Cases and Service Level Requirements.

Objectives:

  • Strengthen 5GAA members’ understanding of the state of play of V2X in China and improve the cooperation with and among Chinese members.

Objectives:

  • Publish an industry specification defining a system profile to enable US deployment of interoperable basic safety services using LTE-V2X direct communication over channel 183.

Objectives:

  • Establish qualitative general, functional and operational requirements to describe systems for the 5G evolution and beyond that would be useful for automotive solutions.
  • Provide a unified 5GAA opinion on evolving technologies and the expected transition path for the automotive ecosystem when moving from current 5G technology to its evolution, including potential threats and opportunities.

Completed Work Items – 2021

Objectives:

  • Gather evidence of the environmental benefits associated with C-V2X and assist in developing this evidence into a compelling narrative.
  • Assess the benefits of C-V2X deployment (both LTE-V2X and 5G-V2X direct and network-based communications) in terms of emission reduction by 2050 in Europe (and for US and Asia) considering various positive and negative externalities.

Objectives:

  • Identify and investigate further potential enhancements needed to provide Predictive Quality of Service (QoS) for C-V2X, investigate interoperability of network slices, and provide relevant recommendations to standards developing organizations (SDOs) and industry forums, e.g. 3GPP, ETSI, ISO and GSMA.

Objectives:

  • Demonstrate the use of multi-access edge computing (MEC) technology for automotive services, for example, when two distinct automotive vendors can truly test at least three use cases involving two distinct mobile network operators (MNOs) employing the network infrastructure provided by two distinct infrastructure vendors.
  • Increase the flexibility of the current network service architecture, reduce the deployment effort, and increase the interoperability among different stakeholders in the system.

Objectives:

  • Describe how existing 3GPP methods reduce and improve service interruption due to network reselection.
  • Provide an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) view on current and desired network reselection.

Objective:

  • Close the gap of the first spectrum needs study by analyzing several advanced use cases and consider additional items such as security overheads in a second release.

Objective:

  • Prepare a report which describes the 5GAA’s 5.9 GHz radio channel deployment options for use by LTE-V2X and NR-V2X across all regions, and describe relevant changes to existing regulatory frameworks – or the introduction of new regulatory frameworks – which may be required across all regions.

Objectives:

  • Update Use Case Technical Reports with updated use case descriptions and develop a white paper for the Wave 2 of use cases.
  • Provide a new set of use cases with their corresponding service level requirements (SLRs) to be summarized into a new TR.

Objectives:

  • Study and describe specific and technology dependent use case implementations that fulfil the service level requirements (SLRs) as defined in the technology agnostic 5GAA use case descriptions.
  • Develop corresponding descriptions for three exemplary use cases: Left Turn Assist (LTA), (Electronic) Emergency Brake (light) Warning (EEBL), and Traffic Jam Warning and Route Information.

Objective:

  • Define a standardized test method and metrics for vehicular antennas with the dominant emittance toward the outside of the vehicle, focusing on vehicular antennas for telecommunications (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G (< 7.125GHz)), vehicular antennas for direct communication between vehicles to road infrastructure (operating in the designated ITS frequency spectrum (5.9GHz range)), GNSS antennas and 3D-measurements (vehicle-mounted antenna element)

Objectives:

  • Focus on positioning method for vehicles and vulnerable road users (VRUs) and study both positioning methods employing cellular signals (5G/LTE/C-V2X) and the positioning methods integrated with other technologies.
  • Study the requirements of positioning, build the understanding of positioning system framework, and offer the corresponding technologies according to the requirements and environments.

Completed Work Items – 2020

Objective:

  • Analyze V2I deployment costs, including financial, economic and market aspects, to provide guidance to regulators, policymakers and other key stakeholders.
  • Analyse options with higher and lower levels of V2I-based infrastructure vs. V2N-based approach.

Objective:

  • Define and analyse the automotive use case requirements in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) using network slicing and analyze business value and identify the specific features required to support the automotive use cases that cover IoT and mobile broadband services.

Objectives:

  • Define use cases and align the Use Case Roadmap for mass-market deployment of advanced driving use cases, including their technology and spectrum requirements.

Map, assess and contribute to the identification of technical gaps (upper and lower layers, e.g. protocols, Rel. 18 requirements) and forward to relevant standards setting organizations (SSOs).

Objectives:

  • Define all necessary details for conducting the first 5GAA C-V2X Plugfest in the first quarter of 2019.
  • Define 5GAA requirements and timelines for conducting successive plugfests after the first quarter of 2019.

Objective:

  • Facilitate a harmonized industrial evolution and development of enhanced cellular V2X, starting with supporting the basic use cases with the already available C-V2X technologies such as 3GPP Rel-14/15 C-V2X and adopt new technologies for the use cases which cannot be served with current C-V2X

Objectives:

  • Establish a lightweight security system for C-V2X/5G-V2X communications by conducting a requirements analysis of regional privacy regulations to establish an overview of regional differences and define requirements for each region.
  • Analyze concepts to simplify the architecture and its impact on regional privacy compliance.

Objectives:

  • Identify structured and reasonable requirements on mobile networks relevant to spectrum auctioning to accommodate automotive use cases and enable mobile network operator (MNOs) to quantify associated investments.
  • Analyze licensed spectrum auctioning frameworks and other incentivizing initiatives, such as infrastructure leasing exceptions, where additional investments required by mobile network operators (MNOs) to fulfill requirements associated to automotive use cases are appropriately recognized.

Objectives:

  • Develop application-level groundwork for the next-generation services (Rel-16) with use cases involving complex message interactions for assisted and autonomous (Ll1-Ll5) and automated driving (supported by infrastructure).
  • Build prototypes and demonstrate next-generation applications (Rel-16 and further) to gain hands-on experience with some use cases to help stakeholders (OEMs, suppliers, road operators, regulators) understand how 5G NR can implement the concept of connected and automated vehicles for proximal vehicle-to-X coordination and cooperation.

Objective:

  • Solicit road operators’ views on their role in the deployment of ITS C-V2X services through a free form questionnaire to determine the road operator willingness to participate directly in future 5GAA discussions or events.

Objectives:

  • Develop and demonstrate a phased vulnerable road user (VRU) protection approach by defining a VRU protection roadmap.
  • Provide realistic paths for vulnerable road user (VRU) protection using cellular communications, differentiating C-V2X from 802.11p based technologies and set the stage for application of C-V2X to VRU protection.

Objectives:

  • Define the application layer reference architecture for the V2X service and recommend the application layer reference architecture of the V2X system.
  • Discuss other architecture related subjects to align with the coordinated 5GAA architecture.

 

Completed Work Items – 2019

Objective:

  • Identify, analyze and compare the advantages and disadvantages of V2I deployment using long-range (Uu) mobile networks and RSU (PC5) from a business perspective, reflecting how C-V2X enables synergies with both the transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, which includes leveraging existing mobile network infrastructure for C-ITS.

Objectives:

  • Work on the CEPT/ETSI-related activities by extending the ITS safety-related band at 5.9 GHz to allow coexistence of LTE V2X and Urban Rail to coexist with ITS-G5 within the 5,875-5,925 MHz frequency band.
  • Clarify ITS “co-frequency coexistence” statements, include future 3GPP releases and evolution, engage the urban rail community, engage with national administrations.

Objectives:

  • Develop a trial and interoperability testing framework that defines the deployment scenarios and uses cases, testing methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs) to be tested.
  • Develop a 5GAA trial and interoperability testing strategy to capture the 5GAA testing priorities, including setting up a 5GAA testbed environment and planning multi-partner trials covering the priority test cases.

Objective:

  • Prepare input material for the work in ETSI TC ITS to amend the test specification required to use LTE-V2X as the underlying access layer technology.

Objectives:

  • Identify and evaluate potential architecture enhancements needed to provide predictable Quality of Service (QoS) for C-V2X in 5G for the automotive industry, utilizing network slicing and edge computing technologies.
  • Provide guidelines on the design of Network Slice Templates (NST) for the automotive industry that enable support for different categories of C-V2X use cases and 5GAA requirements.

Objectives:

  • Provide an assessment of the deployment roadmap for use cases.
  • Establish a mapping between use cases and potential technology candidates, e.g. 3GPP releases, sidelink and/or Uu requirements.

Objectives:

  • Define a framework for classifying use cases and requirements, identify prioritized use cases, functional requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Perform a gap analysis and specify the extended set of prioritized use cases.

Objectives:

  • Identify the use cases that benefited from the presence of an application server, and based on the output, explore the V2X application server features and how the application server can be used to perform these use cases.

Completed Work Items – 2018

Objectives:

  • Develop consensus on operating models for system implementation, taking into account the various requirements arising from the planned networked transport services.
  • Investigate architectural paradigms such as cloud-based solutions, including edge computing aspects, and analyze solutions from the perspective of verification, confidentiality and privacy, identify requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs), and recommend further actions.

Objective:

  • Enable the development of a strategy for comprehensive testing, trials, demo pilots, and compliance assessment for V2X using cellular air interface specifications (i.e., including PC5 and Uu).

 

Objectives:

  • Promote C-V2X, including existing (LTE-V2X PC5 and Uu interfaces) and future realizations, as the technology of choice for ITS and promote ITS in 5.9 GHz spectrum in some areas, and interact various regulatory organizations.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Promote C-V2X, including its existing (LTE-V2X) and future realizations, as the technology of choice for ITS.
  • Promote appropriate availability of radio spectrum for C-V2X where necessary in addition to 5.9 GHz, and promote the use of 5.9 GHz for safety-related ITS over other applications (e.g., RLANs, CBTC).
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Quantify the future spectrum needs for 5G short-range V2X communications in the context of safety-related ITS spectrum allocation and 5G wide range communications.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Objectives:

  • Develop recorded test procedures to validate various performance and functional requirements of C-V2X technology covering both the laboratory/test bed and the field test environments.

Objectives:

  • Quantify future spectrum needs for 5G V2X communications related to ITS spectrum allocation for advanced use cases, including a technology assessment of the amount of radio spectrum needed to meet the key performance criteria related to the low frequency band (e.g. 5.9 GHz) as well as mmWave (e.g. 63–64 GHz) for various advanced ITS applications and a wide-area 4G/5G Uu interface.
  • Comment FO: This WI did not have an acronym.

Completed Work Items – 2017

Objective:

  • Establish a high-level plan for C-V2X trials in North America, including definition of trial scope and objectives, identification of suitable/preferred trial facilities, and guidance regarding preferred trial participant composition.

Objective:

  • Identify existing regional V2X application specifications that have some dependency on specific radio access technologies, such as ITS-G5/11p, and determine how these specifications can be adapted to interoperate with generic radio access technologies and, in particular, with the lower layers of ITS-Cellular specified by 3GPP.

Objective:

  • Develop the timeline of major functionalities and milestones describing the expected availability of monetizable items and associated business and/or operational model options.

 

Objectives:

  • Identify sensor data sharing requirements from planned automated driving applications, including architecture options, requirements and implications.
  • Conduct a gap analysis of ETSI ITS standards related to existing data objects and complete a technical report outlining the 5GAA framework for sensor data sharing for V2X applications.

Objective:

  • Prepare a survey report on finalized, on-going and planned test activities, established testbeds and simulation frameworks.

Objective:

  • Compile V2X communication terms and definitions to be used within the 5GAA.

Active Work Items

This work item will drive the study on the trends and evolution of current technologies. The objectives of the work item consist of:

  • Establish qualitative general, functional and operational requirements that would describe systems for the5G evolution and beyond that would be useful for automotive solutions,
  • Conduct a SWOT analysis with the automotive industry with respect to evolving technologies in a timeframe of 5, 10 and/or 15 years,
  • Providing a unified 5GAA opinion (in the form of a white paper) on evolving technologies and the expected transition path for the Automotive
  • Ecosystem when moving from current 5G to its evolution, including the potential threats and opportunities.

This Work Item assesses the required communication technology to support Automated Valet Parking (AVP) as specified by the 5GAA Use Cases T-210023, T-190139 and T-190140 and their respective Service Level Requirements (SLR).

This Work Item assesses the required communication technology to support Automated Valet Parking (AVP) as specified by the 5GAA Use Cases T-210023, T-190139 and T-190140 and their respective Service Level Requirements (SLR).

This Work Item consists of:

  • Stimulate Auto Industry awareness in CA
  • Study of current CA schemes being developed by global industry organisations
  • Develop a framework for harmonized PC5 CA applicable to both RSUs and OBUs and attain support from global industry bodies and stakeholders

 
Publications
 

This Work Item aims at:

  • Create a list of devices and update it every 6 months
  • Define KPIs of the Dashboard and the format of the dashboard presentation
  • Verify 5GAA’s market predictions
  • Ensure legal compliance
  • Create the first dashboard for publication

 
Publications
 

A joint Work Item with the Connected Motorcycle Consortium, this WI will look into CV2X enabled use cases for motorcycles mainly focusing on safety

Definition of all Use Cases and alignment of UC roadmap for mass-market deployment of advanced driving Use Cases, inc. their technology and spectrum requirements.

A comprehensive overview of the privacy and data protection regulatory framework.

A report which describes the actions which 5GAA and its members would need to take in order to ensure that relevant ETSI and CEPT deliverables are created as needed to support the 5GAA C-V2X Roadmap.
 
Publications
 

This Work Item consists of:

  1. Moving toward federated MEC demos/trials (global MEC);
  2. MEC System interoperability and test framework;
  3. usage of predictive edge analytics and situation awareness for closed-loop adaptation in multi-MNO and multi-OEM MEC scenarios (synergy and inputs from NESQO,eNESQO,V2XSRA PRESA);

This Work Item aims at discussing attractive selling points for CV2X for both final customers and OEMs beyond the usually discussed ADAS and safety features.

This Work Item:

  • Provides awareness of current state of MBD developments in SDOs and trials/demos, and proposes action items to fill the existing gaps.
  • Delivers content on:  (1) concepts and terms definitions, V2X message stack, (2) overview of related/existing work and gaps, (3) Threat and Risk Assessment (TARA) and requirements for Day-1 applications, (4) determination of application domain-specific mitigation, and (5) legal aspects and recommendation of a strategy.

This Work Item aims at:

  • Continue incubation of new technical enablers, both UC specific and agnostic for transition to SDOs.
  • Contribute to SDOs via a Liaison member & Individual contributors from member companies will work directly on relevant standards projects on an ongoing basis.

This Work Item consists of:

  • Review and update the specified methodology for the UC’ analysis for Predictive QoS related SLRs.
  • Study application and system reactions.
  • Develop potential enhancements to interfaces, signalling and architecture of the P-QoS system, including but not limited to the aspects related to edge cloud and interoperability.
  • Provide input to SDOs.

 
Publications
 

This Work Item consists of:

  • Monitor SDOs activities on and provide regular updates of the ecosystem to 5GAA members. This will enable early identification of risks and challenges in standardisation.
  • Prepare contributions by 5GAA to critical SDOs.
  • Support WGs and WIs intending to provide inputs to SDOs.
  • Support 5GAA messaging in SDO related events.

This Work Item:

  • Explore the use of C-V2X to enable electronic toll collection in China (ETC)
  • Constructive advice about Investment, Performance Improvement and migration for C-V2X Tolling Implementation in China
  • Find common benefits between Road Industries and 5GAA

 
Publications
 

This Work Item consists of:

  • Update White Paper on C-V2X Use Cases: Methodology, Examples and Service Level Requirements [3].
  • Update TRs Vol. I [1] and Vol. II [2] as needed.
  • Update WP Vol. I [3] and Vol. II [4] as needed.
  • Create new TR (Vol. III) with new UCs.

This Work Item consists of:

  • Description of applicable measurement configurations
  • Description of test procedures
  • Definition of relevant metrics

 
Publications
 

Accelerate the understanding and adoption of VRU protection services enabled by C-V2X” in order to meet the 5GAA-proposed roadmap for the deployment of those services.

Completed Work Items – 2020

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Connected Mobility for People, Vehicles and Transport Infrastructure

About us

Connected Mobility for People, Vehicles and Transport Infrastructure

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is a global, cross-industry organisation of companies from the automotive, technology, and telecommunications industries (ICT), working together to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transportation services. Created in September 2016, 5GAA has rapidly expanded to include key players with a global footprint in the automotive, technology and telecommunications industries. This includes automotive manufacturers, tier-1 suppliers, chipset/communication system providers, mobile operators and infrastructure vendors.

Christoph Voigt – 5GAA Chairman

5GAA was created to connect the telecom industry and vehicle manufacturers to develop end-to-end solutions for future mobility and transportation services.

Christoph Voigt – 5GAA Chairman

Mission

5GAA bridges the automotive and telecommunication industries in order to address society’s connected mobility needs, bringing inclusive access to smarter, safer and environmentally sustainable services and solutions, integrated into intelligent road transportation and traffic management.

A visionary roadmap

What we do

5GAA is addressing today’s mobility key challenges. With C-V2X technology, 5GAA will revolutionise the mobility ecosystem and the way drivers interact with the world. 5GAA’s ambition is to improve the overall transportation industry to make it safer, greener and more efficient for vehicles, road users and the surrounding infrastructure.

Smarter

Sustainable

Safer

5GAA has defined 4 strategic pillars designing the short and long term goals in very diverse domains contributing to the same ambition: Connected Mobility.

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Live Trial of 5G Connected Car Concept To Launch in Turin, Italy

Live Trial of 5G Connected Car Concept To Launch in Turin, Italy

The international collaboration of tech leaders and public sector on a live connected car trial will pilot new roaming technology for traffic safety on 2 December 2021.

2 DECEMBER 2021, Turin (ITALY) – On 2 December, the City of Turin (Italy) will host a live trial of new driver and pedestrian safety technology allowing near-real-time notification of roadway hazards through 5G-Edge networks. This trial is one of a series conducted internationally by a historic public-private collaboration over the next few years, organized by the 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) and eight member companies representing leading technology companies from around the globe.

“This collaboration between the 5G Automotive Association and its member companies is the perfect example of how we can secure safety on roads and build the future of connected mobility,” said Maxime Flament, CTO of 5GAA. “This time, demonstrated use-cases take place in Europe through 5G and Edge networks—I look forward to seeing more in the future in the United States and other continents.”

The promise of 5G and Edge technology has long been anticipated to deliver new connected services that will revolutionize daily life, with the estimated new economic opportunity stretching into the trillions USD over the next 10-years1. The global connected car market size alone is projected to reach USD 191.83 billion by 2028.

5G transmission speeds and so-called “Edge” servers—locally installed, high-powered computers capable of running Artificial Intelligence programs—open the door to smart city technologies like near real-time traffic management and innumerable other business applications. The connected car concept uses this high-speed and Edge computing technology to communicate with car sensors and pedestrian smartphones, via a user-authorized mobile app—about traffic hazards, like accidents and road construction—to Pedestrian and in-vehicle driver safety and efficient navigation.

“The connected car concept is an important validation of the combined value of Edge, of 5G and IOT,” said Paolo Campoli, Head of Global Service Provider sector at Cisco, “We are so excited to take part in this event that creates a platform for innovation in 5G IOT. The integration of 5G mobility, applications and data processing at the Edge requires expertise from very different domains—expertise that Cisco and Partners can bring. It includes elements of automation, intelligent infrastructure and workloads control, cybersecurity protection and end-to-end application observability. The live trial in Turin is a great opportunity to show how the intersection of Edge, 5G and IOT based on Standards creates a platform to connect Service Providers and Industries.”

This live international trial attempts to solve one of the more technical challenges of making the connected car concept a daily reality. The 5G networks underpinning the concept are managed by communication service providers (CoSPs) according to geography, each with different edge solutions that must be able to communicate without interruption of the V2X applications as drivers cross borders. Roaming services—the ability to make a call regardless of the network—is one early success of multi-mobile network operators (MNO). Demonstrating the connected car concept can work in a roaming scenario is the core objective of the live trial and represents the first of any such attempt in Europe.

“Telecom operators will have to play a major role by enabling applications and services for the connected car ecosystem,” says Shamik Mishra, CTO Connectivity, Capgemini Engineering. He further adds: “Capgemini is excited to bring its innovative federated MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing) platform and applications to this 5GAA trial to demonstrate the true value of intelligent industry, leveraging data in the vehicles and edge-cloud. The trials serve as a stepping-stone for realizing the potential for automakers to provide services to their connected cars from the network”. The trial will demonstrate how the car manufacturers, MNOs and technology providers come together to help overcome the challenge of when a vehicle moves from one network boundary to another or Inter-MNO handover of MEC service.

The Turin live trial addresses three objectives:

  • Objective 1: Multi-MNO scenario: How can a vehicle, which has radio access to MNO A, use a MEC application, which is operated by MNO B -> Interworking between MNO‘s (by NOT losing the benefits of low latency)
  • Objective 2: Global operational Availability: How can an OEM as the MEC application developer be sure, especially on a global basis, that a MEC application works in the same way if it’s operated by MNO A, or if it’s operated by MNO B
  • Objective 3: Multi-MNO with roaming scenario: Where the two operators can seamlessly transfer the V2X service from one operator to the other as the car OEM moves from one geo to the other in a roaming scenario. Typically, when an in-vehicle driver does a cross-border travel that involves two operators.

One of the key benefits of the trial is the value demonstrated by bringing in a large ecosystem to help develop not only the technology but also build the business case and model that will help drive the market adoption for 5G and C-V2X to help into the digital transformation of smart cities of the future. To succeed in this endeavor, it will need a village and investment from both public and private sectors to help adopt this new technology to provide a quality of life for all citizens.

The city of Turin is delighted to facilitate the 5GAA Multi Operator MEC Trial with its Smart Road infrastructure and the technical support of 5T. We see – Chiara Foglietta, Deputy Mayor for Mobility, Ecological and Digital transition, Innovation says – C-V2X services as fundamental to develop a sustainable and safe mobility for all the citizens, whatever transport means they use. In the future, Turin wants to continue the collaboration with 5GAA and offer its Smart Road infrastructure for further scale in the live traffic within Torino City Lab and the new project “ Turin House of emerging Technologies – CTE NEXT”

“As TIM, we are honored to be hosting in Turin such a challenging trial by leveraging our Innovation Lab competencies and our pre-commercial instances of Edge Cloud,” says Daniele Franceschini TIM VP Innovation, Standard and Portfolio. “The federation model implemented with our partners enables a ‘continuum’ between Edge Cloud instances allowing players from the automotive industry and beyond to benefit from a seamless cloud experience across country boundaries.”

“Greater connectivity speeds, improved hardware and expanded software expertise have opened new opportunities for Stellantis with safety systems being one of the many areas we focus on,” said Mamatha Chamarthi, Head of Software Business and Product Management. “Through smart and strategic partnerships such as 5GAA, we will capitalize on next-generation systems and prove out the technology.”

The demonstration brings new learnings for various players across the value chain and creates a testbed for trying out new 5G connected car services at the Edge in subsequent phases. The Turin Live Trial will run throughout the day on 2 December 2021.

BACKGROUND

In this live trial, Telecom Italia (TIM), Telefonica, BT/EE will demonstrate the NSA 5G networking capabilities and the Edge Cloud solution to deliver connected car use cases at the Edge of their networks for their customers. TIM makes its Innovation Lab facilities available and its commercial 5G network with pre-commercial Edge Cloud specific features such as Local Break Out, that together with the federation of edge platforms in TIM, BT/EE and Telefonica make the use cases available for roaming users from BT/EE and Telefonica.

The three companies are hosting Capgemini’s ENSCONCE MEC platform, built upon the Intel Smart Edge Open toolkit, the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, and Intel hardware to enable connected car use cases at the Edge on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor equipped Cisco Servers. Intel Smart Edge Open (formerly known as OpenNESS) is a royalty-free edge computing software toolkit for building optimized and performant edge platforms.

“The international live trial of building and provisioning Connected Car edge services in a multi-operator scenario is a transformative 5G and Edge use case,” said Renu Navale, Vice President and General Manager of Smart Edge Platforms Division at Intel. “This trial demonstrates the possibilities that 5G connectivity and edge computing can bring to connected car solutions, when the broad ecosystem collaborates and uses Intel technologies such as Xeon processors, Smart Edge Open and OpenVINO.”

Capgemini’s ENSCONCE MEC Platform provides multi-tenancy and multi-MNO MEC federation capabilities. The visual compute applications for pedestrian detection and tracking supported by Capgemini’s Orbital Car Situational Awareness V2X platform. To realize the Active and Passive Vulnerable Road User (VRU) use cases, Cisco provides the Edge infrastructure based on CISCO UCS Servers (the Unified Computing Systems that combines computing, network and management in a cohesive architecture) hosting the ESCONCE platform, used to demonstrate Virtual-RSU and host V2X applications that are based on the Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and Intel HDDL-R Visual Accelerators. Harman International and Capgemini provide the Virtual-RSU and RSE solutions respectively to realize various V2X use cases with location-aware and AI inferencing technologies. Harman also offers V2X Application Server and a 5G enabled TCU that integrates seamlessly with Stellantis/FCA car and hosts V2X applications.

“It is key that operators and industry partners collaborate to explore the technical feasibility and benefits to unlock the new business opportunities and services to our customers. In this project, we are jointly evaluating the potential to federate edge cloud compute capabilities across multiple geographies to support low latency use cases, including key connected car use cases being delivered as 5G edge services in a multi-MNO, multi-OEM environment,” said Sunil Joshi, Senior Manager, Global Roaming Products at BT/EE.

“Telecom operators will have a key role in supporting V2X services and this trial demonstrates the value of leveraging mobile architecture, federating edge platforms and allowing local break out in visited network. Such an approach as defined in the GSMA Operator Platform Group allows customers and developers to deploy their applications across multiple operator domains, and our end users to have the best latency and customer experience when accessing their services,” said Juan Carlos Garcia,  Senior Vice-President of technology innovation and ecosystems, Telefonica.

“At Harman, we are focused on building connectivity solutions at the intersection of 5G, V2X and Edge Computing that will build more equity on the road for all users,” said Mahsa Nakhjiri, Director, Product Management. “While these technologies can unlock many new use cases and experiences, the most important element of any solution in this space is safety.  As programs such as this one fueled by the collaboration of industry leaders and organizations like 5GAA bring a new degree of safety to users, they will also lead to a higher level of confidence in autonomous vehicles.”

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Source: Harbor Research1.
5GAA to participate in IAA Munich Mobility Conference 2021

5GAA to participate in IAA Munich Mobility Conference 2021

The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) is proud to announce its participation in the IAA Mobility Conference 2021 that will take place from 7 to 12 September in Munich. IAA Mobility is the leading global platform for the mobility industry and brings together actors from the entire mobility chain.

Following the guiding theme “What will move us next” the discussion will focus on how automation, connectivity, and smart city solutions will drive our progression to a more sustainable and effective mobility.

The event will provide an excellent platform to discuss the future of mobility with relevant stakeholders of the transport ecosystem.

5GAA will be active at two occasions:

  • 9 September 2021 10.30 AM CEST
    5GAA will hold a Master Class session. A great opportunity to engage in cross-industry exchange, present our expertise in an educational format, and discuss last updates and automated mobility by demonstrating the capabilities and deployment models of the Cellular Vehicle to Everything (“C-V2X”) technology.
  • 10 September 2021, 11.45 AM CEST
    5GAA will be present with its own Speaker Corner in the Business Club House, located in the central area of the exhibition. During 90 minutes our association and its members will have the opportunity to have speakers discuss the latest topics on connected mobility, as well as enjoy networking opportunities.

More details on the content of the sessions will come in the following weeks.

Safety Treatment in V2X Applications

Safety Treatment in V2X Applications

This White Paper describes the new challenges in the treatment of functional safety arising from the introduction of connected and distributed functions, which are typical for cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) applications. A dedicated 5GAA technical working group performed a detailed analysis to determine, propose, and evaluate possibilities for mobile network operators, vendors, and any further identified stakeholders to provide vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) what they need to treat safety in new use cases enabled by C-V2X technologies.

Read the full White Paper  here.