©Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association15G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries Prepared by GSA with contributions from Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia September 2017GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries ©Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association2 Table of Contents 1. Digital Transformation .................................. 3 2. Vertical Requirements ................................... 4 2.1 Category 1: Performance requirements ...................... 5 2.2 Category 2: Functional requirements ........................ 7 2.3 Category 3: Operational requirements ....................... 8 3. 5G Network Slicing ..................................... 10 3.1. Definition ....................................... 10 3.2. Network Slicing Forms .................................. 10 3.3. Tackle Vertical Requirements via Network Slicing ............ 11 4. Business Use Cases ..................................... 14 4.1. Automotive Industry. ................................... 14 4.2. Industry 4.0 ........................................... 15 5. Summary ............................................. 16 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 About GSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries ©Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association3 1 . Digital Transformation As the world becomes ever more digitally and globally connected, industries are experiencing an ICT-driven transformation. There are many different global trends that can account for this dramatic projected growth, including: •A rise in emerging economies, which are yet to be fully immersed in the digital world •The urbanization of integrated mobility •The digital revolution •New health and wellbeing demands •The scarcity and stability of resources. Additionally, business trends such as hyper competition, new customer power and sophistication, the fast-paced change in business ecosystems and disruptive technological advances all affect vertical industries to different extents. 5G will be a major technology in growing industrial digitalization, creating and enhancing industry digitalization use cases such as immersive gaming, autonomous driving, remote robotic surgery and augmented reality support in maintenance and repair situations. Figure 1 outlines eight key industries; each of these identified areas faces numerous challenges due to industry trends, which could be addressed with the adoption of 5G digitalization. Vertical industries have addressed their connectivity and communication needs with dedicated or industry specific solutions. Figure 1: Key Industries and their chalenges GSA White Paper | September 2017 | 5G Network Slicing for Vertical Industries ©Copyright 2017 Global mobile Suppliers Association4 5G technology will provide a common base to provide a more cost efficient, open, interoperable and large eco-system enabled solution platform for the various vertical industries. 5G is addressing the more stringent and business critical requirements of the vertical industries, such as real-time capabilities, latency, reliability, security and guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA)’s. 5G will provide an industry vertical optimized platform catering in an economical way the various requirements and business needs of each vertical. For service providers to offer these capabilities to vertical industries in an attractive, scalable and economical way, they will utilize cloud platforms, analytics, system automation and network slicing technologies as well as new business models. Network slicing is one of the key capabilities that will enable flexibility, as it allows multiple logical networks to be created on top of a common sha