WHITE PAPER from 5G-Blueprint, 5GMED, and 5G-ROUTES Enabling Seamless Connected Automated Mobility in cross-border Scenarios through 5G Technology

This White Paper presents insights from the three ICT-53 projects 5G-Bluepring, 5GMED, and 5G-Routes related to providing seamless service continuity (with the shortest disruption) for automotive services through 5G Standalone (SA) networks, particularly in cross-border scenarios. The three projects successfully performed demos showing the feasibility of providing uninterrupted services in three cross-border corridor areas: Belgium-Netherland, France-Spain, and Estonia-Latvia. To provide acceptable interruption times when crossing country borders, different technologies at core and radio access network levels were developed and evaluated. In particular, the 5GMED project deployed and evaluated Local Break-out (LBO) roaming that enables the use of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in an efficient way. In addition, enabling technologies such as radio access network sharing, neutral host, and MEC federation and orchestration were also evaluated. The technologies and results presented in this white paper shows how 5G SA networks enables the deployment of Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) services can be efficiently deployed in cross-border scenarios and unblock all their capabilities. The white paper also discusses the challenges, and the lessons learned while deploying 5G technologies for CAM services in cross-border scenarios.