Service requirements for cyber-physical control applications in vertical domains
The present document provides Stage 1 normative service requirements for 5G systems, in particular service requirements for cyber-physical control applications in vertical domains and requirements for auxiliary applications. In the context of the present document, cyber-physical systems are to be understood as systems that include engineered, interacting networks of physical and computational components; control applications are to be understood as applications that control physical processes. Examples for auxiliary applications are distributed sensing and asset monitoring.
Communication services supporting cyber-physical control applications need to be ultra-reliable and, in some cases, the end-to-end latency must be very low. Communication for cyber-physical control applications supports operation in various vertical domains, for instance industrial automation, Smart Grid .
The aspects addressed in the present document include:
- end-to-end service performance requirements and network performance requirements related to these end-to-end service performance requirements;
- support for Ethernet services specific to industrial/high performance use cases. Related Ethernet functionalities include, for example, those in IEEE 802.1Qbv;
- direct device connection and indirect network connection for cyber-physical applications.