SHANGHAI, Feb. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 5G Advanced
Summit hosted by the Global System for Mobile Communications
Association (GSMA) during Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2021, Dr.
Tong Wen, Huawei Fellow and CTO of Huawei Wireless, delivered a
keynote speech titled "Continuous 5G Evolution for Building an
Engine of All-Industry Digitalization". In his speech, Dr. Tong
emphasized that 5G must continuously evolve to build an engine of
all-industry digitalization so as to satisfy the fast-growing
consumer connections and diverse industrial applications.
5G development accelerates, driving 5G networks to improve
performance
A new communication technology generally dominates for a decade,
evolving to provide stronger capabilities, before being superseded
by the next generation. In the past year, 5G has been evolving at a
faster rate, showing its massive potential. The continuous
improvement of experience in customer connections and enrichment of
Internet of Things (IoT) services raise the requirements on
connection capabilities. "The ever-increasing demand for wireless
connections is the fundamental driving force to continuously
advance mobile technologies," said Dr. Tong.
Therefore, 5G must constantly improve its capabilities. Enhanced
Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services are driving a significant upsurge
in data demand, requiring 5G networks to increase capacity to
guarantee premium experience. With the introduction of reduced
capability (REDCAP), massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC)
services will be available on more terminals to fulfill the massive
diverse IoT requirements. Ultra-reliable low-latency communication
(URLLC) services require networks to reduce transmission latency
and provide latency-guaranteed connection services so as to meet
the high-quality connection requirements of remote and programmable
logic controller (PLC) control.
5G must expand its boundary of capabilities to open up a new
space of business
As new applications keep emerging in the market, the three use
cases originally defined in 5G need enhancement to meet diverse IoT
service requirements. The boundary of 5G capabilities must be
expanded to open up a new space of business.
Immersive interaction services are rapidly developing. 5G AR/VR
has enabled superior virtual experience. With the rise of
lightweight XR devices, 5G XR will also become a reality. This
requires 5G to be further enhanced to deliver premium immersive
experiences. 5G networks will be required to increase its average
speed from 120 Mbps to 2 Gbps as high definition improves from
4K to 16K. To ensure real-time interaction in the
virtual world, 5G must also further reduce transmission latency
from the current 20 ms to 5 ms.
Uplink-centric networks are accelerating industrial
digitalization. Currently, 5G applications are growing at an
unprecedented rate, raising the requirements on uplink speeds.
Various consumer AR/XR services require high-definition images and
videos to be sent from local devices to clouds for further
rendering. Remote control and machine vision in industrial
applications also require real-time transfer of 4K and 8K videos.
This will lead to a considerable increase in the proportion of
uplink traffic over 5G networks to above 40%. To deal with such a
huge amount of uplink traffic, 5G uplink capabilities must be
improved by at least 10 times.
In addition, 5G must provide sensing capabilities to empower
remote control, vehicle-road synergy, unmanned transportation, and
smart logistics. For example, by introducing cellular Massive
MIMO's beam sweeping to sensing technologies, both sensing and
communication, and even indoor high-precision positioning services,
can be implemented through wireless technologies.
5.5G will become an engine of all-industry
digitalization
Based on its abundant practices while helping realize the
prospects in the mobile industry, Huawei has proposed 5.5G to
contribute to exploring new applications, including uplink centric
broadband communication (UCBC), real-time broadband communication
(RTBC), and harmonized communication and sensing (HCS), with the
aim to build an engine of all-industry digitalization.
"Both technology and business are essential to stimulate and
promote the development of an industry. The mobile industry, the
world's largest wireless connection market, reaches trillions of US
dollars every year," said Dr. Tong. "The accelerating integration
of 5G with various industries will create a new market space worth
more than US$10 trillion." Due to the
lack of collaboration between the connection technologies of
industrial services, the applications are often limited to just a
single or several applications, far from a scaled effect. As a
result, the market is worth just billions of US dollars. The
continuous evolution of 5G will improve network capabilities and
expand service scenarios, adding extra support for achieving the
integration while reducing the cost of connections. This will help
unleash the potential business opportunities worth over
US$100 billion in the IoT
industry.
"The innovation of technologies and applications will open up
infinite possibilities for 5G evolution in the next decade," Dr.
Tong concluded. "The wireless communications industry cannot
achieve success without unified standards and industrial
collaboration. Together, we should define 5G evolution and promote
industrial collaboration to accelerate the maturity of technology
and build a sustainable future with 5G."
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