This document illustrates the use cases for Compute-In-the-Network (COIN). It
is the first RG document from COINRG that is ready for IRSG review.
As the authors stated in the conclusion section, "this work offers no
comprehensive overview of possible use cases and is thus only a snapshot of
what may be possible if COIN capabilities existed." Most of the use cases
described in this document were presented in the past COIN meetings. The
initial idea was to identify some concrete research challenges from the
discussion of the use cases. However, considering the size of the document and
the maturity, the detailed research challenges were left to a dedicated
document, which is in progress.
This draft itself has been presented several times to the research group for
discussion. During the last call in the group, there were some detailed
comments on and off the list. These comments were addressed in the revised
draft.