Deliverable D2.1 Use cases, deployment and techno-economic requirements - high level description

One of the key features of the 5 th Generation mobile wireless communication system (5G) networks is the ability to efficiently support a multitude of services that have different network requirements. 5G networks allow network operators to simultaneously run services that have different vertical requirements on the same network by allowing flexible allocation of resources and tailoring the network capabilities to the vertical service requirements. As a key feature of the 5G network, validating that the network can indeed provide tailored capabilities to different vertical services simultaneously is imperative. Most of the efforts to evaluate 5G networks conducted so far by public and private sectors were focused on individual vertical use cases, therefore, the need for evaluating the 5G networks performance on multiple vertical use cases became prominent. 5G-TOURS aims to fill this gap by demonstrating the ability of 5G to support multiple vertical use cases concurrently on the same infrastructure. The use cases addressed by 5G-TOURS revolve around the life in a city. The focus of these use cases is on improving the quality of life of the citizens as well as the experience of the tourists visiting the city, ultimately making the city more attractive to visit, more efficient in terms of mobility, and safer for everybody. During the project, 5G-TOURS will deploy thirteen use cases of interest for tourists and citizens around the themes of the touristic city, the safe city and the mobility-efficient city, and trial them in a real environment involving all the relevant players of the ecosystem and providing an operational service to the relevant vertical customer in each use case. This document describes these use cases, their objectives and the benefit they devise to provide to the various stakeholders. The document also provides both technical as well as economic analysis (preliminary) and will be used by the relevant Work Package (WP) teams of the 5G-TOURS project as a baseline for their analysis.