LONDON, Nov. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Global
Mobile Broadband Forum (Global MBBF), Edward Deng, President of Huawei Wireless
Network Product Line, delivered a keynote speech on "Embracing 5G
Era Mobile Network". He elaborated upon the unprecedented
opportunities and huge challenges faced by operators in the era of
5G, especially in terms of how mobile networks satisfy requirements
of diverse services and connectivity. Huawei proposed the most
important elements for the future mobile network: 5G Era SingleRAN,
Mobile Cloud, and Wireless Intelligence, which aim to help
operators build a single network that provides a diverse range of
services. Such a network also helps to rapidly seize new business
opportunities at low costs and achieve sustainable growth in the
process towards realizing a digitalized society.
Embracing 5G Era Mobile Network to Address New Opportunities
and Challenges
The next decade will be a new era of 5G featuring the rapid
development of new services and requirements in the wireless
communications industry. Edward Deng
believes that operators' top priority is to build a single mobile
network that meets the demands of a super connected society and
industry development. This requires the fostering of three key
capabilities:
- Powerful network capability to meet divergent requirements for
capacity, coverage, and latency of a wide range of services
- An agile and flexible network architecture to improve the
efficiency of multi-service connections
- Intelligent network management to provide efficient network
O&M and optimization of diversified service experience
Powerful Network Capability: 5G Era SingleRAN Provides Full
Support for Diverse Services on a Single Network
The diversity of IoT applications and scenarios poses high and
divergent requirements for network capabilities. Capacity must be
improved from single to double digit Gbps data rates for the
upcoming 5G era. Similarly, population coverage must be expanded to
cater for geographical coverage, while reducing latency from 10 ms
to ms level.
At the Global MBBF, Huawei released the portfolios of 5G Era
SingleRAN that boast higher capacity, wider coverage, and low
latency with high reliability. This solution will enable operators
to offer diverse services on a single network. This solution adopts
simple and highly integrated 5G sites to deliver ultra-high
capacity. A series of low-cost innovative sites can be used to
improve the depth and width of scenario-specific network coverage,
while supporting the latest protocol and architecture to support ms
level latency. Edward Deng indicated
that, "5G Era SingleRAN can maximize the value of existing networks
and promote a smooth evolution to 5G. Enhanced capabilities help
enable a mobile network to support a multitude of services."
Agile Network Architecture: Mobile Cloud Supports Flexible
Deployment and Agile Provisioning of Diverse Services on a Single
Network
At the Global MBBF 2016 held in Tokyo, Huawei released the Mobile Cloud
solution, which includes CloudEdge, CloudAIR, and CloudRAN. These
solutions help to usher in a new era of mobile cloud. Edward Deng emphasized that, "Mobile Cloud can
maximize the value of operator assets to enable efficient resource
utilization, on-demand deployment, and agile service provisioning.
This solution allows operators to build mobile networks for all
industries."
CloudAIR cloudifies an air interface to efficiently share
spectrum, power, and channel resources. This innovation can enhance
air interface utilization, while allowing for flexible network
deployment and improving user experience. Over the past year, over
30 networks have commercially launched CloudAIR. And by the end of
2018, over 100 networks will use this cutting-edge solution.
"Huawei is dedicated to constant innovation and CloudAIR will
continue to pursue better performance." Edward Deng announced the debut of CloudAIR 2.0,
which at least doubles GUL spectrum sharing efficiency. LTE and 5G
NR can share the spectrum in both time and frequency domains to
achieve more flexible and higher proportion of resource sharing.
CloudAIR is set to help operators upgrade spectrum efficiency and
accelerate the deployment of 5G networks.
Efficient Network Management: Wireless Intelligence Allows
Low-cost Deployment of New Services on a Single Network with
Reduced OPEX
In the 2020-oriented 5G era, the complexity of mobile networks
will far exceed current networks. Traditional methods and tools
will struggle to meet new business requirements. Wireless
intelligence emerges as an exemplary solution. Edward Deng highlighted that, "Wireless
intelligence and mobile networks have already revolutionized the
world and will further reshape the future. In the best era soon to
arrive, these two technologies are poised to meet and combine to
offer more innovations."
Wireless intelligence serves as a smart brain to create three
customer values:
- Enable automatic and smart O&M to make things simple.
- Inspire network potential to achieve the best network
performance and empower new capabilities.
- Make the impossible possible and provide automation solutions
to issues that cannot be resolved by onsite personnel.
In partnership with top global operators, Huawei has achieved
remarkable progress in discussions and joint tests on related use
cases.
For example, Massive MIMO is the most important technology of
high-capacity 5G base stations and applies to complex scenarios
with dynamic traffic scenarios. However, the configuration and
optimization of multi-antenna beam parameters prove to be an
obstacle. SoftBank and Huawei launched the wireless intelligence
based adaptive solution for Massive MIMO. This solution can
automatically select the best parameter combination from nearly 300
options to achieve dynamic coverage based on user distribution and
scenario. This adaptation can also help to considerably improve
cell capacity and user experience.
Another innovation of wireless intelligence is splitting each
cell into thousands of virtual grids. Each grid can collect a large
amount of data to perform intelligent training and maximize the
value of network optimization in a smaller scale. Wireless networks
perform structured processing on real-time and historical data
stored in virtual grids and then generate a "network fingerprint".
With the machine learning algorithm, wireless networks can
implement refined and intelligent scheduling of radio resources.
For example, grid-level historical data helps determine signal
quality of each carrier. The intelligent scheduling algorithm
ensures that a device is always running on the best carriers and
therefore can deliver the best user experience.
5G Era SingleRAN, Mobile Cloud, and Wireless Intelligence are
the most important elements of the future network. They will
collectively help operators build 2020-oriented mobile networks for
diverse services and quickly seize new business opportunities at
low costs. Edward Deng concluded his
speech with a promising vision. Looking forward to the 2020s,
Huawei plans to work with more operators and industry partners to
promote the prosperity of the mobile industry and realize "Everyone
on Mobile, Everything with Wireless, and Every Industry plus
Wireless".
About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information and communications
technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and
improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a
responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the
information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry.
Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei
has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives
customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise
networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 180,000 employees
worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom
operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions,
products and services are used in more than 170 countries and
regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded
in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its
employees.
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www.huawei.com.
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