Ruigu Electronic

At present, all sectors of society are generally enthusiastic about the breakthroughs and applications of AI technology. However, there is only a vague understanding of the network conditions required for the AI era, and there is a lack of truly effective technical evolution plans and industry breakthrough paths. The essence of the “Top Ten Challenges for Wireless Networks” is that Huawei, based on its profound accumulation in wireless communication technologies, extensive layout in fields such as AI, computing, and storage, combined with an overall grasp of the industry’s intelligentization process, has comprehensively put forward forward-looking development directions and technical visions for wireless networks.

These ten challenging propositions, taken together, define an innovative development direction. With a clear future direction, we also have a path to follow. The strategic core of Huawei’s proposal of the Top Ten Challenges is to help the global communications industry anchor the progressive path towards the AI era.

At this stage, global operators are generally in a period of upgrading and transformation. As Huawei’s Rotating Chairman Xu Zhijun mentioned during the MWC Shanghai exhibition, after nearly 40 years of rapid development, the telecommunications industry has entered an era of technological surplus, where the basic needs of consumers in major markets are basically saturated, and revenue growth has stagnated. The entire industry has entered a stable development period, and the industry is striving to explore growth opportunities and paths.

New industrial paths and growth opportunities need to be obtained through new challenges, new technologies, and new trends. This strategic thinking will not only affect operators’ layout for next-generation wireless networks but also drive current technological evolution and commercial growth paths. Currently, 5G-A is at a critical development node, and industrial opportunity innovations driven by new technologies have taken shape. For example, the large uplink capability of 5G-A is becoming a fulcrum for operators to explore new opportunities. For instance, human-machine multimodal interaction requires ubiquitous 20Mbps uplink capability; intelligent cockpits, vehicle-cloud collaboration, and vehicle-road collaboration in vehicle networking scenarios require 20Mbps uplink and 20ms latency experience guarantees. To this end, operators have conducted in-depth technical exploration and industrial cultivation on 5G large uplink capabilities. For example, China Telecom’s “Intelligent Aggregation Large Uplink” solution uses AI models to predict channel quality in real-time and realizes five-dimensional collaborative scheduling of time, frequency, and power through AI. It reduces latency by more than 30%, increases uplink rate by more than 15%, and improves edge experience by more than 15%, thus building a 5G-A network with leading experience and energy efficiency.

Driving technological progress with future challenges and exploring commercial possibilities with technological progress has become a deep consensus among global operators in deepening the critical period of 5G-A development and completing long-term exploration of wireless networks in the AI era.

From a telegram across the ocean, to a call through the stars, and then to using a mobile phone to encompass the world, wireless networks have always been at the forefront of the modern world, always the vanguard in the array of technological innovations, and always turning the unimaginable splendor into reality.

Today, it is difficult for us to imagine how intelligent technologies will change the world in the next 5 or 10 years. But we can predict one thing: all these changes will start with wireless networks.

From this perspective, the challenges of wireless networks are the ladder of human progress.