Standardization Bodies

The main objective of standardization activities in CHARITY is to contribute to the relevant standardisation activities and industrial forums for developing standards, including technical reports, specifications and recommendations, from the key outcomes of the project. 

Relevant body (and standardization) 

Applicable CHARITY functionalities 

3GPP 

SA4 

Specifications of speech, audio, video, graphics and other media codecs for the CHARITY use cases.  

RAN1 

Communication of XR devices and other components in the XR service deployment plane. 

MPEG 

MPEG_MAR 

Mixed and Augmented Reality Reference Models established to define required modules, minimal functionalities and the associated information content.  

G-PCC 

Includes the procedure to include 3D points structure in a lossless manner by using an octree approach. The use case Holographic Assistant, suitable point cloud formats as its real time capable generation, compression and decompression are a strong requirement. 

OMF 

Omnidirectional Media Format  supports three degrees of freedom which enables omnidirectional media applications - 360° video, images and audio. 

IETF 

detnet 

To facilitate synchronization of specific traffic flows and enable to end-to-end latency. 

dinrg 

Decentralized infrastructure for XR service deployments and distributed store management via blockchain. 

ITU-T 

SG-12 

Contribution to quality assessment  
 methods for XR applications. 

SG-13 

  

Contribution to design aspects of  
 network virtualization supported by the  
 CHARITY use case 

Network 2030 

To guarantee low end-to-end latency  and near-optimal utilization of the available bandwidth for holographic applications 

ETSI 

ISG MEC  

leverage the benefits of deploying service and enabling service migration across MEC hosts/cloud domains 

ISG ZSM 

Orchestration across multi-domain XR serviceecosystem within a cloud native environment 

ISG NFV 

For creating self-managed end-to-end network slices and implementation of the reference architecture of Open-source MANO. 

ARF  

Augmented reality framework for interoperation in the highly heterogeneous ecosystem of providers for an AR-related use cases.  

Khronos  

Group  

OpenXR  

To establish connection between XR devices and the processing engines. 

gITF 

Efficient transmission and rendering of 3D scenes and models created by the holographicapplications.  

EUROCAE,  

RTCA  

  

Aviation related standards for especially for supporting use case 3