D2.2 6G Use Case Scenarios and Requirements

The deliverable D2.2 “6G Use Case Scenarios and Requirements” is aimed at providing sufficient technical elements including challenges, associated risks and timeline on 16 NATWORK’s use cases and related requirements, putting emphasis on their KPIs. To set NATWORK in its technical context, we start with an analysis of the emblematic use cases delivered by diverse standardization institutions, industry associations and on-going SNS collaborative projects. A specific and common use case description template is used for the 16 use cases. NATWORK quantity of use cases (i.e., 16) leads to an extended report. The document puts emphasis on NATWORK’s performance-sustainability and security-sustainability reconciliation concept and how the different use cases reflect and exemplify techniques in that direction. The document also distinguishes novel KPIs from the initial KPIs, defined with a more accurate grasp by the contributors, 10 months after the project start. The document concludes with the prevalence of the KPIs used by the use cases, their good coverage of most frequently used 6G KPIs and suggests an evolution to future 6G KPIs dealing in two directions concurrently (i.e., performance and sustainability).