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Below attached you can find a list of some of the activities reflecting the Akraino and ALICON (Ike ALIsson CONsulting) partnering. Alicon's Partnering approach reflects ideas from the field of "Alliance Strategy", distinguishing the "Partner" role/responsibility and interaction from the "Vendor/Supplier" role/responsibility and interaction.
3GPP granted ALICON SWEDEN on April 24th, 2024 the right to use the New 6G logo for use on specifications for 6G (https://lists.akraino.org/g/tsc/topic/3gpp_6g_technology_logo_ike/105733616).
The creation of this 6G Graphical Mark is the next step in 3GPP’s preparations for the Next Generation of Mobile Systems. In December 2023, the Organizational Partners: ARIB (Japan), ATIS (North America), CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea) and TTC (Japan) announced their joint commitment to make 6G happen in 3GPP. Now there is a graphical badge that can accompany the 3GPP work on the topic. One of the 1st outings for the Logo is expected to be at the 8-10 May 2024 Working Group SA1 ‘3GPP Stage-1 Workshop on IMT2030 Use Cases’, held in Rotterdam.
3GPP granted ALICON SWEDEN on November 10th, 2021 the right to use the
"5G Advanced" marker (logo) on ALICON SWEDEN 5G presentations and marketing material . The 3GPP decision to adopt the new marker (logo) for 5G was taken at the 3GPP Project Coordination Group (PCG#46-e Meeting) in April 2021. The "5G-Advanced" logo is envisioned to mark the 3GPP Reports and Specifications, from Release-18 & onward.
This is an evolvement to 3GPP granting ALICON SWEDEN on February 13th, 2017, the right to use
5G marker/logo (3GPP Rel. 15 and onward specifications) on presentations and marketing material about 5G.
Below attached is a list of some of the Akraino & Alicon Partnering Activities
Akraino Forum for generating and evolving "innovative ideas"
Akraino Forum's purpose is to facilitate the on-going flow of Information to TSC and BPs' PTLs in terms of seminars, that take place each Tuesday at the Akraino TSC meetings. The presentations are conducted either by Akraino TSC member or a guest invited by Akraino TSC member.
The model behind that process aiming to facilitate outlining the Issues, that stands on the way and hinder to achive the Goals is denoted as G. A. I. N. (what is Needed to resolve the Issue(s) that hinders/stands on the way to Achieve the Goal(s)) (please see attached below Ref. Ericsson PtW).
The link to Akraino Forum for generating and evolving innovative ideas is: Akraino Forum for generating and evolving "innovative ideas"
The following presentation and input have been provided by Ike Alisson
1. Telecom System AI ML use Consistency Alignment in B5G & 6G Networks Rel-19 and Rel-20
The purpose with sharing the info in "this presentation" about the specified use of AI ML in Telecom is twofold. 1st, it is an attempt to provide an answer to the (most important) Question: "Compared to What? So here is the specified use of AI ML in Telecom in alignment with the SPECIFIED 1. Service Requirements, 2. System Architecture, 3. Security & Privacy, 4. Multimedia, 5. Management, Ochestration & Charging 6. Application Enablement and Terminals (Phones, Sensors, Entities) at/as a SYSTEM and compared to existing AI ML Approach, Architecture, Terminology. Model Trainings in LLMs & Agentic AI "specified" use of AI ML resulted in variety of Solution Tool Suppliers out there & their Methods, Approach & Processes for Product Development. 2nd, w.r.t. FCC TAC WG 6G Report from Aug., 2025 (pgs 12,16), for ANYONE/EVERYONE involved with AI-RAN Alliance &/or O-RAN ALLIANCE with Specifications work/focus on 6G, dislike in the past 10 years with 5G, now, there would not only be needed to be aware of those Specifications specifics "existence" (as in the past case with 5G), but also have both, insights into the Specifications inter-dependencies, and above all, the knowledge for selecting the needed Set of Feature Functionalities from the listed/specified "Normative" & "Optional" Feature Functionalities on the System level due to the specified E2E Performance & Functional Operations. Dislike in the past as done with 5G ignoring an Service Requirements & KPIs, now, there will be needed to have insights into the Specified for QoS Service Availability, Reliability & Mobility, the specified lowest Data granularity with Characteristics (also specifided 5 types) formats and NRM for both CN & RAN, as specified....be Notified/Forewarned...
2. 5G System Core Network (CN) enhancements for use of AI ML Rel-20
"To be forewarned is to be forearmed"..they say...Be forewarned on the 5GS CN enhancements for AI ML use & DP (Data Profile) for Data (sets) for Data Statistics (Performance) & Predictions & 3rd Party UMTES (UE Model Training Entity Server) Specified as an Input to 6G System Architecture Release normative work. As we had seen in the past (& told by my colleague Wallis Dudhnath), 3G Specs were realized with 4G LTE & 4G EPC Specs were realized with 5G NSA deployments, & those 5G Advanced Specs will be realized/deployed with commissioning of "6G" Services. For anyone/everyone involved with O-RAN ALLIANCE & AI-RAN Alliance Specs, "THIS (CN) DOMAIN" is non-existing in your Specs & as such, THE INFO in the PRESENTATION, could feel/be perceived as too alien, uninteresting, unimportant (as in the last 10 years), &/but also very much cumbersome & challenging (too many new terms & abbreviations). Please "be notified" (aka "forewarned") on Info in Solution #32 on page 51, that, "THIS" (RAN DESIGN ARCH. with INTERFACES) is under change/evolving (Specs work on-going) in terms that the "whole (3GPP specified) RAN" would undertake the role of "a Relay" for the UE (UDCF Architecture) to the CN (currently undertaken by AMF, as you see ) & it is not "if", but more of "when", "this" will happen. As with "Private 5G" (decisions by Verizon & Nokia Mngmnts) this (RAN) evolvement, may suddenly put you in a situation to be involved with an "old/legacy Solution" & responsible for "Support & Maintenance" & it may happen much sooner than projected/forecasted 2030 year... As they also say "Hope is a Pleasant Company, but a Bad Advisor"..."BE NOTIFIED", aka "forewarned" as "the new" Competition might pick this up and "implement it" ("on the periphery")..."on the way towards "6G". Let's see HOW MUCH one could "see" from the Specified in the Presentation about "THOSE SPECIFIED KEY ISSUES (2) & USE CASES (2) WITH SOLUTIONS AT MWC 2026 at Barcelona in March 2026..that is about "TELECOM", right?!?!?!?
3. Towards AI-Native 6G Systems Standards Enablers
4 aspects related to this post. The attached Paper is "an Inroduction" to the post "tomorrow". 1st, as this Paper focus on the 3GPP limitation on 5G CN UP (User Plane) for AI ML use to enable "Dynamic Task Migration", the post tomorrow, presents the 5GS CN enhancements for use of AI ML on User Plane (also including enhancements on UL & Capabilities for dynamic PCC in 5GS CN), enhanced Capabilities, as Specified in 3GPP Rel-20. 2nd, "The SW Approach in the Paper (with proposed Solution for a AI ML Controller) also reveals the Approach to Product & SW development, deployment in Telecom & commissioning towards 5GS CN NFs as Apps DevOps SaaS Business Model in terms of SI (System Integration) Project for a tenure of 3-5 years, widely adopted for deploment of 5G from Rel-15 onwards. It also explicitly shows the embraced & applied neglect & ignorance to 3GPP Approach since its initial Rel-99 to have all its Releases as "Parallel" & "Inter-operable". 3rd,. the Paper also focus on proposing, as perfectly elaborated by Thierry Van de Velde in his post on "Making 6G as successful as 5G NSA", where he points out that (quote) "Today in 2025, there's a Geopolitical Marketing Push to force AI Agents into the (5G CN) NFs, abusing the Service-based Architecture (SBA) (HTTPS) to convey Self-invented Non-3GPP-Standardized Protocols (HTTPS POST someuri:predict-me-this?someparameter), destroying the Compatibility between different NF Vendors, between hosting MNOs and MVNOs, or between Visited 5GC and Home 5GC in Roaming Scenarios. As a result of Geopolitics and Vendorpush, Market Confidence got eroded when it came to the truly Valuable Innovations of the 5G System (5GS), which came in R16/R17: URLLC, TSN, 5GLAN, ATSSS, PNI-NPN, NTN, RedCap... No, Not Slicing" (end of quote). 4th, last but not least, the type & nr of used References in the Paper, using only two (2) 3GPP Specs, & giving preference to other Research Papers, is an example of why Agentic AIs & LLMs have an about 20% correct hit rate when it comes to 3GPP Specs Information. Simply because, not the 3GPP Specs, but respective Research Papers are chosen by the PEOPLE "training" all those Agentic AIs & LLMs about "Telecom" & "5G".
4. 6G specified Use Cases, System Architecture and new RAN Design with Interfaces as an input to Rel-21 Specifications normative work (the timeline to be finalized by June 2026).
5. Ike Alisson input to Akraino TSC on BPs 6G evolvement Rev PA04 May 29 2025 and Summary of the 3GPP 6G WS at Incheon March 10-11, 2025
6. Ike Alisson input to Akraino TSC on BPs 6G evolvement Rev PA02 May 25 2025
7. Presentation on AI ML Opportunities in 2023 to Akraino TSC on Nov. 23, 2023.
8. Presentation on use of AI ML in 5G with specified AL ML Management Data Analytics, AI ML Model Transfer and AI ML Services KPIs on Nov. 4th, 2023
9. Presentation on AI ML Mobile Device Requirement Specification on Nov. 20th, 2023
10. Presentation on 5G Advanced Release specification on use of AI/ML in 5G with 5G Standard specified Management Data Analytics, Transfer of AI/ML Models Training, Knowledge Transker, defined AI/ML Service KPIs.
Link to the presentation on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ike-alisson-21173_5g-advanced-use-of-aiml-with-aiml-models-activity-7125775255331090432-nQvD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
11. Presentation on Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G Network Capabilities with the 5G Advanced Release
The presentation focuses on elaboration of NGMN White Papers on Operators view on 6G and Cloud-native Manifesto related Network evolvements with the current 3GPP 5G Advanced Releases for new Services in B5G & 6G Programmable, Predictable, Deterministic Networks assuring Services with Performance and User Experience Guarantees.
12. Presentation on 5G Personal IoT Networks (PINs) enhancements in 5G Network and Application Layers to Akraino TSC on July 20 & July 27, 2023
13. Presentation on Challenges in (selected) Cloud-native adoption in (distributed & disaggregated) MNOs (5G and B5G) Networks need for Synergy between Compute, Storage, Networking and Communications
14. Presentation on "5G Advanced Capabilities presented on September 22nd to LF Edge Akraino Technical Summit, Fall 2022
The presentation aimed to share selected nsights into 3GPP specifications for "5G Advanced" Release related to both, insights and pace of development related to "equivalent" NPNs/SNPNs (Private Networks) with support to non 3GPP Access and providing support for Localized Services, APIs evolvement for realization of Service Enablement Framework Services, Analytics on System & Application level, Enhacements on System & Application level for developing Applications/Service on the Edge, exemplifying the alignment between 3GPP EDGEAPP & ETSI MEC Architectures as part of the GSMA proposed in June 2021 Solution for providing E2E Solution for Edge Applications & some insights on the O-RAN Alliance SMO related non RT-RIC related to rApps.
Link to the presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/IkeAlisson/ike-al-pres-on-5g-and-5g-advanced-selected-capabilities-to-lf-edge-akraino-summit-fall-2022-rev-pa10-sept-22-2022pdf