Two proposals accepted in the fields of big data and cloud computing

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it received approval for an international standard to promote the distribution of big data at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standardization meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland last month. It also stated that it achieved results, such as proposing and having two new items adopted in the fields of big data and cloud computing.

ETRI explained that the 'Big Data Exchange Framework and Requirements (ITU-T Y.3601)' standard, which it has led the development of for the past three years, was finally approved at the standardization meeting of the Future Network Standardization Study Group (SG13).

This standard has achieved results since 2015, when Principal Researcher Ha Su-uk of ETRI took on the role of Editor, with the participation of Lee Kang-chan, Head of the Service Standards Research Division, and Principal Researcher In Min-kyo.

The newly approved big data standard defines types of big data exchange based on the big data ecosystem. Furthermore, it details the functional requirements necessary for data registration, search, transmission, quality and data ownership management, and privacy protection required for data exchange between data and service providers and big data consumers.

Through this, it amounts to securing a foundation for standardization to support the national initiatives of public data openness and the creation of a big data distribution ecosystem. It is expected to contribute to the quantitative growth of available data by being widely used in big data distribution and data markets in the future.

In addition, the research team has already filed for related international patents in collaboration with the Korea Institute of Patent Strategy and Development (KISTA), and has secured two additional standard patents with this international standard approval. The research team expects that this will enable future royalty income.

The research team has been leading the development of key standards, including requirements for big data source management, big data metadata frameworks and conceptual models, big data-based cloud computing service architectures, and data repository federations.

Along with the approval of international standards, ETRI also proposed and had adopted new items in the fields of big data and cloud computing. During this process, ETRI Principal Researcher In Min-kyo played an active role as an editor.

The research team proposed and adopted new items for the development of a Big Data Reference Architecture (Y.BD-arch) that defines common functional components of big data systems, and functional requirements for cloud-based blockchain services (Y.BaaS-reqts) that are essential for providing blockchain services in a cloud computing environment.

The research team believes that this standard proposal has laid the foundation for incorporating middleware technologies, in which Korea has strengths, and technologies currently under development by ETRI into the standard.
This confirms that the country is faithfully fulfilling its role as a leader in international standards for big data and cloud computing. In particular, as big data is a core element forming the foundation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, securing usable data through data distribution is directly linked to the qualitative improvement of data-dependent services such as artificial intelligence.

“With this achievement, a cornerstone has been laid for expanding data supply through the revitalization of the big data distribution ecosystem, and the approval of new standards is a valuable result that secures various future markets for core technologies of Intelligent Digital Innovation (IDX) that will lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” said Kim Hyung-joon, Head of the Standards Research Division at ETRI.