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ROADMAP OF ACTIVITIES 2021
PROGRAMS & PROJECTS OVERVIEW
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THE VISION OF THE WIRELESS BROADBAND ALLIANCE
WBA’s vision is to lead the development of
“Seamless and interoperable services experience on Wi-Fi within the global wireless ecosystem”
WORKGROUPS
1 5G Work Group Project Team-1
• Enable collaboration among service 2 NextGen Work Group Project Team-2
providers, technology companies 3 IoT Work Group Project Team-3
and the organizations in the industry
4 Testing Work Group
who share the vision Project Team-3
5 Roaming Work Group
• Undertake programs and activities
6 Policy Work Group
to address business and technical
Project Team-n
issues and opportunities for the 7 Market Work Group
member companies
Strategic
CTO Group – Connected City
OpenRoaming™
Innovation Forum Advisory Board
Established 100+ MEMBERSHIP PROJECTS & 2 ANNUAL PROMOTION AND THOUGHT LEADERSHIP &
in 2003 COMMUNITY PROGRAMS EVENTS GO-TO-MARKET MARKET RESEARCH
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OUR MEMBERS
BOARD MEMBERS MEMBERS
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WBA ROADMAP 2021
WBA WORK GROUPS & PROJECTS
5G IoT NextGen Roaming Testing & Interoperability
Work Group Work Group Work Group Work Group Work Group
5G & Wi-Fi Convergence in Wi-Fi 6/6E Wi-Fi 6E Roaming Evolution Captive Portal
Private 5G Networks for Industrial IoT Trials PKI RadSec Onboarding Evolution
In-Home Wi-Fi IMSI Privacy
Rural Wi-Fi In-Flight Connectivity
Multi-AP Solutions Protection
AR & VR Wi-Fi Sensing Profiles & RCOIs Wi-Fi Devices
Requirements Deployment Guidelines Prioritization Identification
Trackside Connectivity OpenRoaming
& Spectrum for Private LTE/5G
WBA OpenRoamingTM Policy & Regulatory Affairs Market WBA Certification
Task Group Work Group Work Group Task Group
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5G WORK GROUP
Chair: Nigel Bird - Orange
Co-Chair: Mark Grayson - Cisco
Co-Chair: Florin Baboescu - Broadcom
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5G & WI-FI CONVERGENCE IN PRIVATE 5G NETWORKS
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• Evaluate potential optimization of 5G and • Analyze business opportunities & challenges for Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi convergence architecture with and 5G convergence in private 5G networks Understand more about
collocated deployments of 5G access and 5G & Wi-Fi RAN Convergence
• Provide deployment guidelines for converged Wi-Fi and
Wi-Fi access networks
5G deployments in private 5G networks
• Examine management/control for 5G and
• Collaborate and liaise with industry standards bodies RAN Convergence
Wi-Fi access networks and devices from a
(3GPP, IEEE, Wi-Fi Alliance, NGMN, GSMA, ETSI) 2020 Whitepaper
single management entity for 1)
operational benefits and 2) simplify device • Explore potential trials and compliance for Wi-Fi and
management 5G convergence in private 5G networks
WBA & NGMN
• Identify roaming use cases between 5G RAN Convergence 2019
and Wi-Fi within and across private 5G
networks
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
Unlicensed Integration
• Analyze how the enterprise Wi-Fi
with 5G Networks
segmentation and 5G slicing come
• Address co-existence of MEC (Multi-Access Edge
together in private network deployments
Computing) traffic management and the traffic
• Within a 5G context, analyze how management (ATSSS) within the 5G Core
managed QoS can be provided over Wi-Fi
• Evaluate if any enhancements are needed to ETSI MEC
for Time Sensitive Networking
WLAN APIs or ETSI MEC Location APIs to support Wi-Fi
applications
access in private 5G networks
• Address how IEEE 802.1 TSN standards (such as 802.1AS,
802.1Qbv) can be supported over the converged
• Industry guidelines and requirements for optimal
deployments
2021 Project Kick off Work Output
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IOT WORK GROUP
Chair: Sandeep Agrawal - C-DOT
Co-Chair: Wael Guibene - Charter Communications
Co-Chair: Bahar Sadeghi - Intel
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WI-FI 6 / 6E FOR INDUSTRIAL IOT
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• The global industrial IoT (IIoT) market is • Identify Wi-Fi 6/6E enterprise use cases which require
expected to exceed USD 750B by 2020, high determinism and low latency Understand more about
growing at a CAGR of ~23% from 2017 to Wi-Fi 6 for Industrial IoT
2023. As part of the industrial IoT (IIoT) • Leverage Wi-Fi 6/6E new features which result in
including Industry 4.0 and Connected improved performance and make Wi-Fi 6/6E specifically
Factory (CF) transformation, wireless applicable to IIoT networks and applications
connectivity is estimated to become an • Wi-Fi 6E introduces operation in greenfield 6 GHz band Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
integral ingredient growing at the fastest that can be used to meet the majority of the stringent
rate with a CAGR of over 25% low latency requirements of IIoT usage
• Wi-Fi is the most prevalent wireless Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN
technology in industrial environments Trials Report
providing access to mobile employees and
contractors as well as access to mobile
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
automation and control devices and
applications Connected Vehicle
• Industry guidelines for Wi-Fi 6 & Wi-Fi 6E deployment in
• However, there are wide range of industrial environments, IIoT and enterprise scenarios
applications with latency and reliability Project Leaders
requirements unmet with existing wireless • Demonstrate high quality Wi-Fi use for high
capabilities; hence, the footprint of determinism enterprise applications and showcasing
Leader: Bahar Sadeghi
wireless solutions in manufacturing for Wi-Fi 6/6E features pertaining to IIoT
Intel
automation applications has been limited • Develop and execute trials based on the identified key
due to the challenge of meeting the scenarios; Aggregate and analyze the trial to provide Co-Leader: Malcom Smith
stringent latency and reliability recommendations for IIoT and enterprise application Cisco
requirements
2021 Project Kick off Whitepaper Trial Report
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RURAL WI-FI
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• There are more than 3 billion people • There is a strong business case for the Wi-Fi industry to
around the world who live in rural areas connect the unconnected via Wi-Fi technology Understand more about
and remain digitally unconnected Rural Wi-Fi
• Enable affordable internet access to bridge the digital
• Wi-Fi is considered as the most suitable divide in communities and cities around the world and
technology to provide digital connectivity by contributing significant economic value to the
in rural areas. global economy Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
• However, there are many factors specific
to rural areas which must be considered
when defining Rural Wi-Fi architecture and Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN
deployments if Wi-Fi is to be used as a Trials Report
robust, efficient, and affordable access
technology in these areas
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
• With high CAPEX and OPEX of deploying Connected Vehicle
cellular network in rural areas, operators
are exploring the most efficient ways to • Provide industry guidelines and best practices for Wi-Fi
create sustainable business models by deployment scenario in rural area
providing Wireless services with positive • Identify challenges and gaps in existing Wi-Fi
ROI deployment strategy, enterprise architecture and
guidelines
• Recommendations on sustainable business model
2021 Project Kick off
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AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY REQUIREMENTS
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• Virtual and Augmented Reality is one of • Address and identify the significant intersection
the fastest growing technology segments between wireless technologies and AR/VR devices, Understand more about
today and is projected to exceed a market ranging from simple connectivity to enable services on AR & VR - Requirements
size of $100B by 2025. Numerous major mobile devices, to high throughput and low latency
OEMs have entered the AR/VR market, that supports human interface with light head-
including Amazon , Microsoft , Samsung , mounted devices like AR glasses
Apple , Facebook , and Google . In Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
• WBA will bring together operators, OEMs and silicon
addition, numerous major operators have
providers developing products AR/VR
AR/VR campaigns and assets, including DT
, AT&T, BT and Comcast • Identify the opportunity to demonstrate key new AR/VR
features through WBA’s unique Wi-Fi trials program Wi-Fi 6E Trials
• The future of augmented reality will
across verticals
change our lives in more ways than you
can imagine EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
• Driven by advances in computer vision, AI Wi-Fi 6 for Industrial IoT
and cloud computing, tomorrow’s • Evaluate how wireless technologies can enable unique
augmented reality (AR) will transform and high-value AR/VR applications
everything from travel to real estate,
healthcare to education • Examine the viability of enabling new wireless AR/VR
technologies
• The new generations of Wi-Fi may benefit
from an early identification and definition • Provide trial use cases such as multi-party trials and
of the optimal network requirements / demos showing these technologies
architecture for delivering AR/VR over Wi-
• Provide industry guideline for the foundational
Fi 6E and/or Wi-Fi 7 & 5G on a converged
network requirements that need to be addressed to
context
support massive AR/VR use cases across verticals
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Chair: Kishore Raja - Boingo Wireless
Co-Chair: Necati Canpolat – Intel
Co-Chair: Steve Dyett - BT
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.WI-FI 6E TRIALS
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• In 2020, WBA announced the conclusion of • Wi-Fi 6 technology would remove pain points currently
first Wi-Fi 6 trial deployments across diverse caused by overcrowding on many Wi-Fi networks Understand more about
markets with wider channels up, enabling • Wi-Fi 6 /6E provides more capacity than all the other Wi-Fi 6E Trials
nearly three times faster gigabit data rates Wi-Fi bands put together and deliver connections with
• Wi-Fi 6 is also now proven to deliver better speeds equivalent to the new advanced 5G mobile,
reliability, lower latency, more deterministic support low-latency levels required for mobile gaming,
virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications, Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
behaviour, and better network efficiency,
especially in environments with many and Industry 4.0 solutions
connected devices
Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
• Wi-Fi 6 will help with congestion problems, Decoded
increase densification of the network –
helping to connect more devices, and
enable new use cases EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
• WBA is championing a global Wi-Fi 6/ 6E Guidelines
• Conduct trials of Wi-Fi 6/6E infrastructure and services
program to ensure that industry needs are
on various scenarios and verticals including,
addressed as Wi-Fi 6 and 5G standards are
manufacturing (IoT Industry 4.0), enterprise,
ratified
transportation, stadiums, residential (SFU/MDU), cities
• WBA continues to develop and expand new & rural areas, public venues, etc. Project Leaders
trials that support Wi-Fi 6 and 6E expansion
• Provide market data to help drive standardization and Leader: Necati Canpolat
into new areas in different geographies
convergence within the wireless ecosystem Intel
around the world
Co-Leader: Gabriel Desjardins
Broadcom
Wi-Fi 6E Trials
2021 Project Kick off Report
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• With the rise of Multi-AP solutions and the • Tackle the challenges that have contributed to
concept of mesh networks, there is a inconsistent performance in home environment Wi-Fi Understand more about
growing demand for open interoperability deployments, including a lack of uniform coverage In-Home Wi-Fi
in the home environment, which escalates and visibility into the in-home Wi-Fi experience
further with the introduction of the IoT • Help operators understand the in-home
devices transformation (including IoT) and increase customer
satisfaction through a better quality of experience Multi-AP Trial Use Cases
• This project will define a set of
performance metrics and subsequent test
plans which will be collected from a group
of operators’ live use cases, conducted in a Wi-Fi Sensing
real operating environment Whitepaper
• These range from enhanced Wi-Fi
coverage, critical diagnostic information EXPECTED DELIVERABLES In-Home Wi-Fi
needed by operators for remote Guidelines
management, dynamic KPI reporting, • Define operator requirements and test cases under
simple deployment per subscriber, among various deployment environments including Private
others Wi-Fi, Guest Wi-Fi and Community Wi-Fi Project Leaders
• Address the deployment challenges, home network
security issues and define requirements with multi-AP Leader: John Bahr
solutions CableLabs
Co-Leader: Koen Van Oost
AirTies
Co-Leader: Tim Twell
BT
2021 Trial Kick Off Trial Report
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• The last year has seen significant • Evaluate motion sensing capabilities being examined
momentum gained in the area of Wi-Fi within the home environment, under distinct Understand more about
Sensing. This year’s WBA Wi-Fi Sensing scenarios, to fast-track deployments Wi-Fi Sensing
project has seen a definition of KPI and test
procedures focused on a home monitoring • Help industry understanding better the sensing
use-case, plus a successful deployment and technology opportunity and accelerate go-to-market
of new home solutions Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
evaluation performed by CableLabs. This
Guidelines
year has also seen multiple new products
launched in this space
• With the generation of KPIs and test Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
procedures to evaluate them, one large gap Decoded
identified during the Wi-Fi Sensing Phase 2
project, was the lack of guidelines, EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
procedures, or recommendations for how to In-Home Wi-Fi
optimally deploy a sensing network in a Industry Guidelines
• The expected deliverable is a deployment guideline
home environment
document outlining recommendations on deploying a
• By expanding on the work performed in W-Fi Sensing network, based on experimental results Project Leaders
2020 by the Wi-Fi Sensing group, a focus can
• In addition, given the active work being done by IEEE,
be placed on evaluating system Leader: Chris Beg
this group would like to openly contribute any
performance given different deployment Cognitive Systems
information deemed relevant. This could include
scenarios. By evaluating the results,
targeted deployment use-cases, measurement results,
guidelines or recommendations can be Co-Leader: Sandeep Agrawal
or desired functionality of which standard support can
derived C-DOT
help improve
Co-Leader: Suresh Parathi
Comcast
Co-Leader: Michel Allegue
2021 Project Kick Off Whitepaper Aerial
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• There is lack of industry standard for scaling • The combination of experience and technology
Understand more about
up Wi-Fi connectivity in transportation and among WBA members will be instrumental in
Trackside Connectivity &
it may incur high CAPEX for enterprises or developing a set of recommendations of industry best
Spectrum
service providers to build good cellular practices, standards and guidelines for TSNs
coverage and important to provide cellular
independent connectivity service. • The recommendations from WBA will facilitate the
approval and development of TSN projects, resulting RAN Convergence
• Due to the lack of standards and guidelines in improved connectivity quality and coverage for Whitepaper
for Track-Side Networks (TSN), these end-users.
deployments, in most cases, end up
suffering from: Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
Decoded
• Disappointing Quality of Service and
Experience
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
• Higher costs that are difficult to justify“ Unlicensed Integration
with 5G Networks
• Unpredictable in terms of cost and quality • Provide a set of recommendations and TSN
Deployment Industry Guidelines document
• Uncertainty of monetization with
transportation authorities due to lack of • Identify relevant cases for TSN with current Wi-Fi, Wi-
benchmarks and role models Fi 6/6E technologies and paving the way to adapt 5G
usage for TSN.
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Chair: Erinn Hall – AT&T
Co-Chair: Betty Cockrell – Single Digits
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.ROAMING WORK GROUP
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• The Roaming Work Group (RWG) is the • Introduce new opportunities on Wi-Fi Roaming
umbrella group where all the topics business by enabling and extending available Understand more about
related to Wi-Fi Roaming are addressed. footprint across the globe Roaming Work Group
• RWG has weekly calls to discuss and • Scale up the ecosystems and leverage synergies
review evolutions to the Wireless among operators, Wi-Fi advocators, cities and public
Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX) and enterprise stakeholders Roaming Evolution
specification, development of
identification, interconnection, data and
financial clearing of networks to help the
industry in growing their Wi-Fi Roaming WBA OpenRoaming™
business ultimately.
• The latest projects include Roaming
Evolution for the implementation of EXPECTED DELIVERABLES OpenRoaming for Private
RadSec / PKI interconnection and WBA LTE/5G
OpenRoaming™ Task Force to implement • Maintenance and evolution of the WRIX
all terms and agreements of specification, along with Wi-Fi Roaming best
OpenRoaming™. practices
Project Leaders
• Development of new Roaming Business and
Chair: Erinn Hall
Charging Models
AT&T
• Promotes compliance and best practices to the
Co-Chair: Betty Cockrell
benefit of the industry players
Single Digits
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• As the Wi-Fi roaming systems scale with • Introduce new opportunities for Wi-Fi Roaming
increased adoption, WBA has examined business by enabling and extending available
About WBA OpenRoaming
options for automating aspects of WRIX footprint across the globe
security and aims to improve the standard • Scale up the ecosystems and leverage synergies
of Wi-Fi roaming. among operators, Wi-Fi advocators, cities and public
• This extends the benefits to different and enterprise stakeholders. PKI RadSec - Operator
stakeholders, allowing them to generate Deployment Guidelines
more business and revenue in the industry
• The Roaming Evolution is a mandate to PKI RadSec – End-Entity
enable a WBA Public Keying Infrastructure Deployment Guidelines
(PKI) for automating the security of
roaming partners exchanges, allowing the
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
scalability of simplification of relations PKI Certificate Policy
across the ecosystem. (Members only)
• Define deployment guidelines for interconnection and
simplification of the user experience
• Offer PKI/RadSec platforms for simplified Project Leaders
interconnection model of Authentication servers and
Customers databases for Wi-Fi networks Leader: Luther Smith
CableLabs
• Define the standard to create a single Network ID to
simplify all the process of data clearing and increase Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
data and networks intelligence Single Digits
• Establish NGH Roaming Federation, in which Co-Leader: Mark Grayson
participants (venues, operators, cities) will be able to Cisco
provide Wi-Fi Roaming by using a single Roaming
Consortium OI.
2021 Project Closure
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• In 2019, WBA launched its In-Flight • Showcase how a high-quality In-flight Connectivity
Connectivity white paper which provided experience can help the industry to reduce network Understand more about
insight into the key drivers behind the operational costs and enable passengers to easily and In-Flight Connectivity
growing demand for in-flight Wi-Fi access securely connect to in-flight Wi-Fi services
in airplanes. It also examined the evolving • Build and detail the technical enablement model for a
technical advancements that offer a seamless and roaming experience across the globe –
seamless connectivity experience for OpenRoaming™ WBA OpenRoamingTM
customers. This paper was released prior • Provide recommendations to address the market
to the launch of WBA OpenRoaming™, challenges, surpassed using the OpenRoaming™
which aims to standardize all Wi-Fi business models In-Flight Connectivity-
Roaming. Wi-Fi Deployment & Use Cases
• Following up on the work in 2020, the
project team is focused on deploying EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
OpenRoaming into the aviation sector, Wi-Fi 6 Trials Report
with a series of trials involving operators,
• Set the benchmark for the value proposition of in-
satellite and infrastructure providers, as
flight connectivity and recommendation of
well as roaming HUBs.
monetization tactics for airlines
Project Leaders
• Paired with these initiatives, the WBA IFC
• Analyze technical challenges and opportunities for in-
team is also looking to dwell on the gaps Leader: Angelos Mavridis
flight connectivity enablement options through
of existing connectivity use cases and Deutsche Telekom
prominent use cases
business models, to help the industry
increasing overall usage of connectivity in Co-Leader: Charlie Allgrove
• Develop a set of test cases under key deployment
airplanes. Single Digits
scenarios for optimal In-flight Wi-Fi connectivity
Co-Leader: Ed Kyte
Panasonic
2021 OpenRoaming Trials Whitepaper
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• With the expansion of Passpoint networks • It is important to identify a set of standardization in the
and recent launch of WBA way profiles and RCOIs are prioritized. A solution to Understand more about
OpenRoaming™, the landscape of identity this problem will allow: Profiles & RCOI Prioritization
providers is undergoing a paradigm shift
o End-user will have more control over which profile he
• While in the past, we would expect the wishes to be used
identity to come from a mobile network Identity providers will have better expectations and
o WBA OpenRoamingTM
operator (MNO), through EAP-SIM – clarity in terms of prioritizing RCOIs within a profile
Subscriber Identity Module -, the industry is
now seeing other different stakeholders o Access network providers will, eventually, be able to take
becoming identity providers and options in terms of what profiles / RCOIs they wish to see
prioritized WRIX Framework
challenging the status quo
• Profiles provisioning and the prioritization
and selection of Roaming Consortium EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
WBA OpenRoaming™
Organization Identifiers (RCOIs). are the
Release 1 (Members Only)
questions for service providers to offer
• Provide industry guideline and best practices for
good user experience for their costumers
prioritization of RCOIs within a profile
• Examine on how identity providers and access
network providers can prioritize profiles
• Provide standardization recommendation to be shared
with device and infrastructure providers on how
profile and RCOI prioritization will ideally be achieved
2021 Project Kick Off Whitepaper
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• Private 5G network deployments are • Private 5G networks can provide new business
expected to ramp up significantly over the opportunities to enterprises to enhance services and Understand more about
next few years in sectors like deliver new use cases with greater level of control and WBA OpenRoamingTM
manufacturing (industrial IoT), utilities, flexibility.
supply chain, healthcare, transportation
etc. • Private 5G networks can be deployed over licensed
spectrum, shared spectrum (e.g. CBRS spectrum for 5G, WBA OpenRoamingTM
• With the latest developments in Wi-Fi dedicated private 5G spectrum in Germany) or Release 1 (Members Only)
standards with Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E and unlicensed spectrum (with Wi-Fi and NR-U) and will be
continued evolution to Wi-Fi 7 with TSN tailored for specific industry needs, creating new
support, the Wi-Fi technology with service opportunities that improve experiences and PKI Certificate Policy
scheduling, lower latency, higher operations. (Members Only)
throughput and green field spectrum is
well positioned to meet requirements for EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
many of the industrial use cases. This has User Engagement in
been demonstrated by the latest WBA Wi- OpenRoaming Era
• Identify business opportunities , operational benefits
Fi 6 Mettis trials, where Wi-Fi 6 was used to
and simplify device management for 5G and Wi-Fi
support mission critical industrial
access networks within private 5G enterprise Project Leaders
applications and use cases that were not
deployments.
possible with the previous Wi-Fi
generations. • Evaluate potential optimization of 5G and Wi-Fi Leader: Mark Grayson
convergence architecture with collocated Cisco
• Wi-Fi is incumbent technology in
deployments of 5G access and Wi-Fi access networks. Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
enterprises, and private 5G networks will
be deployed along with Wi-Fi to meet • Identify roaming use cases between 5G and Wi-Fi Single Digits
wireless communication needs by within and across private 5G networks. Co-Leader: Finbarr Coghlan
leveraging capabilities and resources
• Examine spectrum related considerations and any Orange
across both the networks
impact of spectrum selection on the 5G and Wi-Fi Co-Leader: Necati Canpolat
interworking in private 5G networks. Intel
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• WBA OpenRoaming™ is a roaming • Creates a federation of networks and identity
federation service enabling an automatic providers to enable automatic roaming and user
and secure Wi-Fi experience globally. About WBA OpenRoaming™
onboarding on Wi-Fi
With WBA OpenRoaming™, we are
creating an open connectivity framework • Enable simple, secure and scalable Wi-Fi connections
for all organizations in the wireless amongst different organizations that are part of WBA
OpenRoaming™ Wi-Fi 6
ecosystem to power new opportunities in
Deployment Guidelines
the 5G era • Based on WBA’s Wireless Roaming Intermediary
• WBA OpenRoaming™ transforms the Wi-Fi eXchange (WRIX) standards to scale and facilitate
experience for consumers and businesses different business models under a harmonized Wi-Fi Roaming Standard
and ultimately opens up opportunities for framework (WRIX)
broadband and the Internet of Things
(IoT) connectivity across business EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
verticals, including retail, hospitality, Carrier Wireless Services
education, smart cities, automotive and Certification (CWSC)
• Allow automatic and secure roaming between
aviation, among many others. Devices millions of networks, nationally and globally with
simply connect automatically and secured interconnection and encrypted
securely on to the WBA OpenRoaming™ Project Leaders
communications
network
Leader: Mark Grayson
• Defines an automated roaming consortium codes
Cisco
framework (RCOI) to support policy provision on
devices and networks. Organizations that manage a
Co-Leader: Betty Cockrell
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint®-enabled network may
Single Digits
become part of the WBA OpenRoaming™ federation
Co-Leader: Finbarr Coghlan
Orange
Co-Leader: Necati Canpolat
Intel
2021 Release 2 – Automatic Financial Settlement
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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Chair: Michael Sym – Single Digits
Co-Chair: Erinn Hall – AT&T
Co-Chair: Peter Thornycroft – Aruba Networks
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.CAPTIVE PORTAL – ONBOARDING EVOLUTION
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• WBA published the Captive Network Portal • Provide industry guidelines to enhance user
Standards white paper which analyses experience with seamless, automatic and secure Wi-Fi Understand more about
captive portal behavior across operating connection via captive portals Captive Portal
systems, use cases for NGH/Passpoint® and
identifies a set of recommendations for • Address technical challenges and identify business
future features to standardize the way strategies to engage with users via the captive portals
to analyze user behavior, simplify the Wi-Fi roaming Access HERE the
Captive Portals are utilized. Device Behavior Database
experience and generate insight of different
• The Onboarding Evolution stage focuses on monetization tactics
improving the user experience of
“captivation” and how end-users engage
Captive Portal Network
with captive portals in the Passpoint® era;
Standards for Wi-Fi
provides recommendations on technical and
business challenges; and outlines the role of EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
captive portals for interconnecting
User Engagement in
networks, as well, in a Federated ecosystem.
• Provide Captive Portal deployment guidelines with OpenRoaming™ Era
• During 2020, the team has launched a particular emphasis on user experience across
second delivered focused on how operating systems
captivation will evolve during an
OpenRoaming Era. • Encompass different onboarding methodologies that
are used with different economic outcomes and Project Leaders
assess how the captive portal will evolve in each one Leader: Ilya Volynkin
of them, as Passpoint® and a Global Federation Maxima Telecom
comes into the scene
Co-Leader: Chris Spencer
GlobalReach
Co-Leader: Alex Meub
Eleven Software
2021 Guidelines Project Closure
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• To provide solutions that enable mobile • Standardization for seamless, private and secure
devices to keep their permanent access for SIM-based devices onto to Wi-Fi Understand more about
subscriber identity (IMSI) private when IMSI Privacy Protection
• Provide clear guidelines to ensure that service
using SIM authentication methods
providers can deploy secure and interoperable Wi-Fi
• EAP methods are mostly used by wireless services with confidence
carriers and operators who want to take Wi-Fi Roaming
advantage of Wi-Fi capabilities for their Standards
SIM subscribers alongside or instead of
licensed mobile radio service; in service-
environments such as sports or shopping Roaming Evolution
venues; underground locations; and to
improve the overall experience for end-
users when Wi-Fi and mobile services are EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
combined for the SIM subscriber’s benefit. Security &
Passpoint enables the cellular carrier to Identity Privacy
• Joint collaboration between operators and vendors to
offload data by providing a means to formulate the best practice on security policy and
have an automated connection to privacy protection on SIM based devices
available Wi-Fi providers
• Develop guidelines and compliance program to Project Leaders
guarantee broad industry deployment and alignment
Leader: Hai Shalom
• Work with Wi-Fi Alliance and 3GPP to promote the Google
adoption of potential solutions
Co-Leader: Michael Sym
Single Digits
Co-Leader: Paul Hancock
AT&T
2021 Specification Certification Assessment
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• Many Wi-Fi networks have until now relied • The project will identify the requirements for device
on the original permanence of device MAC identifiers for network access and management, Understand more about
addresses to facilitate access to or examine the currently available identification Wi-Fi & Devices Identification
management of the network. This mechanisms and information and make
permanence is actively being removed and recommendations as to how device identification
can no longer be relied upon. should be performed and used for network
management. Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
• Without a new way to identify devices on Guidelines
Wi-Fi networks, the networks will cease to • Such solutions should help network access
be either as manageable or as functional as identification standardization across different verticals,
they were. This will have customer namely throughout the home, the enterprise and the Enhanced Wi-Fi 6
experience impacts as well as financial public domains. Decoded
ones.
• The main objective is to promote the EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
In-Home Wi-Fi
removal of reliance on a persistent Wi-Fi Industry Guidelines
MAC from Wi-Fi networks by identifying • The project would produce a technical paper
long-term solutions for stable, private, promoting best practice, and where necessary provide
network-specific identifiers that are rationale, business- and use-case information to other
appropriate for the use to which they are standards bodies to assist their activities. Project Leaders
put.
• The success or otherwise of the project will be Leader: Tim Twell
measured against the disruption of services that users BT
experience during the transition to per-session MAC
randomization of client devices. Co-Leader: Luther Smith
CableLabs
Co-Leader: Ilya Volynkin
Maxima Telecom
2021 Project Kick Off Requirements
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
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Chair: Burhan Masood - Broadcom
Co-Chair: Brian Josef - Comcast
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.POLICY & REGULATORY AFFAIRS WORK GROUP
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• The objective of WBA’s Policy & Regulatory • Work closely with WBA members and regulatory bodies
Affairs Work Group is to track global trends for improved Wi-Fi (more spectrum, better security, user Understand more about
and relevant policy & spectrum issues that experience, Passpoint® & Roaming) Policy Work Group
are of concern to the WBA membership.
• Validate business opportunities of new Wi-Fi
• The Work Group will coordinate Wi-Fi generations working in new spectrum brands and work
advocacy efforts across membership, cities, with regulators globally Wi-Fi 6 Deployment
regions and regulators globally. Guidelines
• Embrace the benefits of WBA OpenRoamingTM to
• To provide and issue industry guidelines and support user authentication and address regulatory
white papers that outline recommendations requirements for user identification issues
to regulators and authorities in respect to Wi-Fi 6E Trials
various spectrums ranges, worldwide bands
allocation and public consultation
consensus and responses EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
Global Implication for
Wi-Fi 6 & 6Ghz
6 GHz band harmonization
• US FCC 6 GHz FNPRM ruling gaps coverage
Work Group Leaders
• Client-to-client communication
Chair: Burhan Masood
• Successful advocacy with regional leaders in Asia, Broadcom
and South America
Co-Chair: Brian Josef
• Strategy for upper 6 GHz band in EU Comcast
OpenRoaming™ and Passpoint® collaboration strategy
• 911 emergency calling over Wi-Fi trial
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Chair: Melody Eclavea – AT&T
Co-Chair: Melody Walker – Boingo Wireless Supported by WBA Marketing
Co-Chair: Gabriel Desjardins - Broadcom
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.MARKET WORK GROUP
BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• WBA's Market Work Group is comprised of a • Work closely with WBA members and partners to
team of professional marketers from WBA enable marketing and business opportunities.
Current Members
member companies. • Promote the works of the Alliance members which
• The team aims to develop and align the address business & technical issues, as well as
various marketing activities carried out by opportunities for member companies.
the WBA, including but not limited to • Promote effective marketing channels for members to WBA Programs & Projects
general marketing, event marketing, and increase their influence in the industry.
thought leadership with an overall goal of
accelerating marketing and business • Work closely with media, journalists, research and
opportunities. analysts to strengthen and communicate all the Wireless Global Congress
potentials and benefits of Wi-Fi.
EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
Industry Awards
• Strengthen branding positioning – ensure success of
the Alliance and other initiatives reflects on the WBA
brands and sub-brands
Work Group Leaders
• Continue to enhance WBA’s members leadership
position as the ‘voice of Wi-Fi’ Chair: Melody Eclavea
AT&T
• Drive the engagement among exiting members and
followers. Co-Leader: Melody Walker
Boingo Wireless
Co-Leader: Gabriel Desjardins
Broadcom
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• WBA OpenRoaming creates the framework to • Address market and motivation of OpenRoaming
connect billions of users and devices to
millions of Wi-Fi networks globally. • Define business model and go to market strategy WBA OpenRoamingTM
• With OpenRoaming the WBA is acting as a • Define use cases, priorities and business requirements
centralized policy authority enabling an for technical implementation
ecosystem for identity providers and Wi-Fi • Define scope of interoperability certifications How it works?
network providers to work together and
deliver an automatic and secure Wi-Fi
experience to millions of users.
• WBA OpenRoaming enables companies to Benefits
accelerate and scale Wi-Fi roaming
relationships. Enabled networks can
automatically onboard users securely EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
leveraging established identity providers FAQ
such as operators, cloud IDs and loyalty • Create a clear set of requirements and prioritize
memberships; bridging the gap between Wi- them based on business-critical elements and
Fi and cellular networks. addressable market
• This sub-group aims to define the market • Set within the market opportunity, the competition,
opportunity and requirements for risks and dependencies
OpenRoaming™ from business and
marketing perspective in order to enable • Hand over the technical work-groups to define the
effective technical deployment addressing solutions and delivery
the business needs.
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BACKGROUND & INDUSTRY CHALLENGES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES & BENEFITS LEADING PARTICIPANTS RELEVANT PROJECTS
• Carrier Wireless Service Certification • WBA has launched its Certification Program starting
(CWSC) program allows carriers and with the Carrier Wireless Services Certification Understand more about
vendors to independently test and certify (CWSC) testing for members and sponsored partners. CWSC
devices.
• CWSC provides unprecedented capabilities to test
• The program utilizes WBA Authorised the end-to-end wireless ecosystem to guarantee that
Test Labs, working with Members and the service operation and user experience is Wi-Fi Roaming
their partners to simulate end customer consistent across real life networks Standards
usability in a real network environment
to ensure that devices are ready for
worldwide commercial deployments, Roaming Evolution
reducing customer support time for
carriers and time to market for vendors.
• WBA Certification is expanding the EXPECTED DELIVERABLES
testing opportunities to services such as WBA OpenRoamingTM
network interoperability, roaming, • Joint collaboration between operators and vendors
offload and captive portal behavior to develop a compliance program to guarantee
broad industry deployment and alignment
Project Leader
• Maintain a current set of equipment to get used in
certification Ilya Volynkin
Maxima Telecom
• Evaluate and monitor the Authorized Test Labs
• Work with Wi-Fi Alliance and 3GPP to promote the
adoption of potential solutions Authorized Test Labs (ATLs)
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www.openroaming.org
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.OPENROAMING™: OPENING THE ECOSYSTEM FOR NEW BUSINESS MODELS
WBA OpenRoamingTM is a framework that brings together
key capabilities to create the federation and enables it to
scale and work on a global basis.
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.WHAT IS WBA OPENROAMINGTM
WBA OpenRoamingTM is based on a set of business and technical components that enables the function of the roaming federation
WBA OpenRoamingTM WBA OpenRoamingTM Components
Dimensions & Standard & Technical specs
• Manages secure public keying infrastructure (PKI) / RadSec Technology for
Cybersecurity certificates policy, management and broker services
Service
WBA OpenRoaming™ is a • Supports dynamic & static interconnection technologies
roaming federation service
enabling an automatic and
• Operates centralized federation policies and global identifiers for Wi-Fi
secure Wi-Fi experience
networks & identity providers
globally. With WBA
Cloud • WBA unique Wi-Fi network identifier (WBAID) for federation partners
OpenRoaming™, we are creating Federation
an open connectivity framework • Wireless Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX) standard enables
for all organizations in the roaming services harmonization and multiple business models
wireless ecosystem to power
new opportunities in the 5G era. • Manages automated roaming consortium codes
It encompasses three key Network and policy provisioning mechanisms
elements: Automation
• Utilizes Passpoint® technology
© 2021 Wireless Broadband Alliance. All rights reserved.WHAT WE DO
WI-FI 6 & 6E 5G & WI-FI RAN CONVERGENCE OPENROAMING™
Key use
cases for
Wi-Fi 6 &
6E
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