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Technical Committee (TC) DATA

Our work deals with data solutions and related interoperability services. 

This activity covers the development of deliverables to support the deployment and operation of distributed solutions for data collection, integration, sharing, and management, including security and testing aspects. TC DATA addresses the technical standards necessary for data infrastructures, data products, data access services, and application interfaces (APIs) in the ICT domain, ensuring they are suitable for both machines and human users. We focus on the three dimensions of distributed data processing: Connectivity (data in transit), Storage (data at rest), and Compute (data in process).

TC DATA is also committed to addressing European policy and regulatory requirements, including standardization needs in the areas of data interoperability, semantic interoperability, ontologies, and data governance. We engage with other regulatory bodies to ensure that our outputs support relevant global, regional, and national requirements.

Our work includes providing input on technical aspects of ETSI responses to EU Standardization Requests and other government inquiries regarding data solutions. We also contribute relevant technical content for ETSI deliverables related to the European Data Act and the data-related aspects of the European AI Act. 

Additionally, TC DATA cooperates with open-source initiatives relevant to data domain standardisation.

We support the development and maintenance of semantic and data models, such as SAREF and NGSI-LD, and facilitate the transposition of oneM2M outputs into ETSI standards.

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Industry Specification Group (ISG) Multiple Access Techniques (MAT)

ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) MAT provides an opportunity for ETSI members and non-ETSI members participants to share their research results and early findings in order to build a wider industry consensus on new Multiple Access Techniques for the upcoming 6th generation of mobile systems (6G) based on 3GPP specifications.

The scope of the ISG is on downlink Multi-User (MU) multiple access techniques for the physical layer of the 3GPP radio interface that enhance the transmission efficiency (e.g., spectrum efficiency, power consumption, latency, user fairness, etc.) of specified approaches.

Two delivery modes for downlink are considered:

unicast-only delivery; and joint broadcast/multicast and unicast delivery.

Candidate downlink Multiple Access Techniques in the scope are (but not limited to): OMA (Orthogonal Multiple Access), SDMA (Spatial Division Multiple Access), NOMA (Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access), RSMA (Rate-Splitting Multiple Access).

Relevant deployment environments are (but not limited to) indoor hotspot, urban macro (e.g., High Demand Density areas) and rural.

The ISG produces informative output only, including Group Reports (GRs) that will be made available to 3GPP and other relevant industry for consideration in their related 6G standardisation activities.

AREAS OF ACTIVITIES

The ISG will focus on the following areas of activities:

Use cases, deployment scenarios, key performance indicators and evaluation methodology Study of transmitter and receiver processing structures including complexity aspects Study of physical layer procedures Study of link level and system level performance Study of potential specification impact and gaps of new multiple access techniques Proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and field trials

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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (TC) Securing Artificial Intelligence (SAI)

The aim of Technical Committee Securing Artificial Intelligence (TC SAI) is to develop technical specifications that mitigate against threats arising from the deployment of AI, and threats to AI systems, from both other AIs, and from conventional sources. Whilst in the short to medium term the focus of TC SAI will be on the application of Machine Learning (ML) the group shall also give guidance and evaluation reports to ETSI and its stakeholders on the wider developments of AI.

NOTE: The term AI is used to include variants and siblings of AI including ML.

TC SAI addresses 4 main aspects of AI security standardisation:

1. Securing AI from attack e.g. where AI is a component in the system that needs defending.
2. Mitigating against AI e.g. where AI is the ‘problem’ (or used to improve and enhance other more conventional attack vectors).
3. Using AI to enhance security measures against attack from other things e.g. AI is part of the ‘solution’ (or used to improve and enhance more conventional countermeasures).
4. Societal security and safety aspects of the use and application of AI.

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Industry Specification Group (ISG) Integrated Sensing And Communications (ISAC)

ETSI ISG ISAC will provide an opportunity for ETSI members to coordinate their pre-standards research efforts on integrated sensing and communication technology across various EU/National funded collaborative projects, extended with relevant global initiatives, towards paving the way for 6G standardization of the technology. The ISG will prepare systematic output on 6G use cases, channel models, architecture and deployment considerations, KPIs and evaluation assumptions, for subsequent evaluation by standards organizations such as 3GPP future 6G releases and ITU-R IMT-2030 deliverables (e.g. capabilities, evaluation methodology).

The scope of ETSI ISG ISAC is summarized below

Definition of a prioritized set of 6G use cases and sensing types with a roadmap for their study and evaluation. Development of advanced channel models for the target 6G ISAC use cases and sensing types, and validation through extensive measurement campaigns, that can fill the gaps of existing communicationbased channel models (e.g. 3GPP, IEEE 802, ITU-R). Specification of KPIs and evaluation methodology building upon the channel modelling and measurements, simulations/POCs, and synergies with ETSI ISG RIS and ISG THz. Study of a System and RAN architecture framework for 6G ISAC, including end-to-end deployment considerations. Study of the privacy and security aspects of sensing data in the ISAC 6G framework Study of impact of widespread deployment of ISAC on UN sustainability goals

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Software Development Group for OpenSlice (OSL)

The ETSI Software Development Group for OpenSlice (SDG OSL) is developing an open source service based Operations Support System (OSS) to deliver Network Slice as a Service (NSaaS).

The group liaises with relevant standards bodies and projects working on network transformation such as the TM Forum, ETSI ZSM, ETSI NFV, OpenSourceMANO and TeraFlowSDN.

  1. OCF
  2. THz
  3. TFS
  4. RIS