During the 12th Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF), Huawei Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of ICT Infrastructure Managing Board David Wang, delivered a keynote speech titled Roads to Mobile 2030: 10 Wireless Industry Trends, saying "Huawei has identified 10 wireless industry trends to define future-oriented wireless networks and prepare the industry for the Intelligent World 2030."
David Wang delivering a keynote speech at MBBF 2021
As he explained, by 2030, the digital
and physical worlds will become deeply integrated, creating a near-real-life
experience. The digital economy will also become a primary driver of the real
economy, and industry will shift focus from device efficiency to
decision-making efficiency. But these advances will also need us to achieve
intrinsic network security and to improve energy efficiency to protect the
environment through green growth.
Mobile networks
will be an important part of Huawei's Intelligent World 2030 concept, and so Wang summarized the 10 trends
we will see in the mobile industry over the next decade.
Trend
1: 10 Gbps for Physical-Digital Integration
In the future, digital communications will be used
to expand and deepen exchanges of information between people, delivering
multi-sensory experiences including hearing, sight, touch, and smell. To enable
these features, mobile networks will need to support 10 Gbps at millisecond
latency everywhere and transmit information in ways that are more semantically
organized.
Trend
2: One Network for 100-Billion All-Scenario IoT Connections
Digital society will be reshaped by the
100 billion thing-to-thing connections cellular
networks will have to support by 2030. Driven mainly by all-scenario IoT, networks
will have to begin offering different types of connections services,
differentiated by speed and priority requirements. This means a deterministic
experience with lower latency and higher reliability must be delivered and a
new form of wireless IoT that features ultra-low power consumption and passive
connections must be created.
Trend 3: Satellite-Ground Collaboration
for 3D Coverage
Satellite-ground collaboration will plug
the gaps in wireless ground coverage and achieve three-dimensional airspace coverage,
enabling communications and control for future drones and aircrafts. Mobile
networks, with their exiting advanced communications technologies and multi-trillion
dollar market, will also likely be used to nurture the new satellite
communications technologies.
Trend 4: Integrated Sensing &
Communications for True Digital Replicas
Sensing and communications will be
further integrated, enabling real-time digital replication of the physical
world and facilitating high-level autonomous driving and drone management. Both
radio interfaces and network architectures will need to be similarly integrated
and sensing resolution technology will need to advance to the centimeter level
using ultra-wideband with Massive MIMO to achieve these
functions.
Trend 5: Intelligence in Every Industry
and Connection
Wireless networks will become fully
integrated with AI technologies to enable level-5 fully autonomous driving
networks, which will further support automated O&M, deliver premium
experiences, and minimize carbon footprints. Future radios will also be designed
with native intelligence, and smart radio algorithms will further optimize the
management of channel coding and radio resource.
Trend 6: Full-Link and Full-Lifecycle
Green Networks
As network traffic grows 100 times over
in the next few years, there will be an equal spike in demand for solutions
that reduce network energy consumption. Per-bit energy efficiency will also need
to improve at a similar rate. Energy efficiency must be considered
in every aspect of network design, including radio interfaces, devices, and
sites. This will enable the construction of these full-link and full-lifecycle
green and sustainable networks.
Trend
7: Flexible Full-Band Sub-100 GHz
By 2030, nations will need an average
of 2 GHz mid-band bandwidth and over 20 GHz of bandwidths on millimeter wave to
accommodate growing traffic. The industry will need to facilitate the evolution
of sub-100 GHz spectrum to NR and redefine spectrum utilization using
multi-band integration and other innovative technologies to achieve 10-fold
spectral efficiency improvement.
Trend
8: Generalized Multi-Antenna for Reduced Per-Bit Cost
Per-bit data transmission costs will be
reduced as multi-antenna technologies begin to be applied to every spectrum
band and every scenario. Ultra-wideband modular antennas will support flexible
combinations of multiple bands and intelligent reflecting surfaces will apply multi-antenna technologies in more
scenarios to enable
cloud-based, higher-performance deployment.
Trend
9: Security as the Cornerstone for a Digital Future
Intrinsic device security and
intelligent and simplified security at the network layer will become increasingly
important as network security and resilience come more into the global
spotlight. Operators will need to provide these kinds of simplified security services
via cloud-network synergy for their industry customers to promote digital transformation.
Trend
10: Mobile Computing Network for Device-Pipe-Cloud Collaboration
Future mobile networks will support more
diverse services, such as the Metaverse, industrial
field networks, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. This means that
computing will need to be integrated with mobile networks to provide
uninterrupted, high-quality services on demand as a single service model will
be insufficient for building new digital platforms.
Wang rounded out his presentation by reiterating
how these 10 industry trends are a bright sign that the wireless industry is
moving quickly in the direction of a fully intelligent world. He closed out
promising Huawei will continue to work with industry partners to define these
networks of the future and make their vision of the Intelligent World 2030 a
reality.
For more information, see the White
Paper: 10 Wireless Industry Trends.
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