The IOWN Global Forum technology documents include published deliverables from the Forum’s work efforts to establish the fundamental architecture of IOWN technology’s compute and network infrastructure. Published documents include Technology Outlooks, Functional Architectures, Reference Implementation Models (RIMs), and Proof of Concept References (PoC References).
Technical Outlooks
The DCI Product Concept Paper complements the DCI Functional Architecture by introducing the overall concept of IOWN GF DCI systems from a product perspective and outlines the benefits of using DCI for users and operators.
The IOWN Global Forum is focused on driving the development of future communications and computing infrastructure to create a more connected and efficient society. The innovative structure of the Forum imbues the organization with unique characteristics and values that allow it to deliver multiple distinct benefits to the market. By applying these values, the Forum provides immense benefits to the global technology by focusing on two key technology segments: IOWN Networking and IOWN Computing. This document maps specific metrics to the overall 2030 timeline of the Forum for both technology segments, provides the current status of how IOWN technologies have addressed certain metrics, and maps how the development of PoCs have advanced the adoption and scaling of IOWN technologies thus far.
Emerging mobile technologies such as massive MIMO, dynamic spectrum sharing and mmWave wide spectrum deliver high data rates to enable video-centric, latency-sensitive applications such as remote surgery, AR/VR and industrial automation. To render these use cases possible, the reference document addresses new requirements and proposes solutions and evolution paths for the transport networks handling capacity, reliability and availability supporting next generation wireless networks utilizing the IOWN technologies.
The second version “Technical Outlook for Mobile Networks Using IOWN Technology – Advanced Transport Network Technologies for Mobile Network” covers the technical topics related to mobile and transport networks to support the IOWN Global Forum’s efforts to develop fundamental technologies on communication, computing, data handling, and energy efficiency that would bring a quantum leap in performance improvements over existing networks and enable a much smarter world with advanced applications. This document presents advancements that members have made since the original “Technical Outlook for Mobile Networks Using IOWN Technology” was published in January 2022.
IOWN Security Task Force studies a Multi-Factor Security (MFS) architecture which can combine multiple technologies to achieve end-to-end data protection with post quantum security. MFS could address a wider range of threats including sudden cryptographic compromise and achieve a required security level by the user that cannot be reached with a single method.
Functional Architectures
This document defines the functional architecture of the Data Space for Digital Twin applications (DSDT) layer at the top of the IOWN technical infrastructure. DSDT encompasses functional blocks that enable the implementation of the digital twin applications allowing and easing the exploitation of the IOWN technical infrastructure. The functions span the data management and integration for the Digital Twin, the support for the data analytics to model the real asset behaviour in the digital world, and the interaction with user through manipulation of the Digital Twin.
The MFS key exchange and management architecture is designed to realize quantum-safe cryptographic communication with high crypto-agility based on the MFS concept on IOWN infrastructure.
The IOWN Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (IOWN PETs) architecture is designed to enable data owners to maintain data sovereignty throughout the data lifecycle to promote active data distribution on the IOWN infrastructure.
The IOWN Global Forum Open APN Fiber Sensing Task Force (OAF Task Force) studies the system architectures and the use cases for applying the fiber sensing function to the IOWN Open APN. With the addition of the sensing function, the fiber optic network becomes more intelligent, with better operation efficiency and resiliency. The sensing function also brings new value streams to the network infrastructure.
The concepts, features, and functional architectures of high-speed distributed data management and sharing solutions that enable various use cases envisioned by the IOWN Global Forum.
The Data-Centric Infrastructure (DCI) is designed to enable service providers with the tools needed to build and flexibly place data pipelines, including data processing and storage functions, while dynamically selecting data transfer and network protocols on a pipe-by-pipe basis.
The Open APN defines the architecture of network infrastructure that creates direct optical communication paths among communication endpoints and enables end-to-end communication with deterministic performance.
Reference Implementation Models (RIMs)
IOWN Global Forum has initiated the development of RIMs, with CPS Area Management Security Use Case (AM Security UC) included in Cyber-Physical System Use Case Release 1 [IOWN CPS UC] and others already entering the Proof of Concept stage. This document covers an additional initial study on another target use case, the Industry Management use case included in IOWN CPS UC, and presents a RIM for this purpose. The RIM in this document has been developed concerning Open APN [IOWN Open APN] and Data-Centric Infrastructure Functional Architecture [IOWN DCI], and Data Hub Functional Architecture [IOWN Data Hub], which were released in January 2022, as well as subsequent development on these architectures at the IOWN Global Forum.
This document delves into the RIM for the Interactive Live Music Use Case (ILM UC) as defined in the IOWN AIC UC. The purpose of this RIM work is to develop and evaluate the RIMs iteratively. The RIMs provide guidance for the practical implementation of these technologies and their combinations for the overlay solution targeting specific CPS/AIC Use Cases.
This document describes an IOWN Global Forum end-to-end system that will meet the requirements of a target use case. The reference design also aims to demonstrate many of the benefits of the IOWN Global Forum architecture and technology over today’s cloud-based implementations.
