Future networks: Objectives and design goals

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3001 describes objectives and design goals for future networks (FNs). In order to differentiate FNs from existing networks, four objectives have been identified: service awareness, data awareness, environmental awareness, and social and economic awareness. In order to realize these objectives, twelve design goals have been identified: service diversity, functional flexibility, virtualization of resources, data access, energy consumption, service universalization, economic incentives, network management, mobility, optimization, identification, reliability and security. This Recommendation assumes that the target timeframe for FNs falls approximately between 2015 and 2020. Appendix I describes technologies elaborated in recent research efforts that are likely to be used as an enabling technology for each design goal.