Huawei Board Executive Director and ICT Infrastructure Managing Board Chairman David Wang speaks at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2021 held in Dubai, Thursday, local time. Courtesy of Huawei
Huawei Board Executive Director and ICT Infrastructure Managing Board Chairman David Wang speaks at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2021 held in Dubai, Thursday, local time. Courtesy of Huawei


Huawei executive outlines key wireless industry trends

By Kim Bo-eun

A Huawei executive on Thursday stated the demand will grow for green and sustainable networks, as solutions for reducing energy consumption are sought.
This was one of the key wireless industry trends Huawei’s Board Executive Director and ICT Infrastructure Managing Board Chairman David Wang outlined at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum 2021 held in Dubai.“As network traffic grows 100 times over the next few years, there will be an equal spike in demand for solutions that reduce energy consumption,” he said.

“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.”

Second, Wang said mobile networks will need to support 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) for integration between the physical and digital.

“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 and transmit information in ways that are more semantically organized,” he said.
There will also have to be one network for a 100 billion all-scenario Internet of Things (IoT) that offers different types of connection services, differentiated by speed and priority requirements, the executive said.

“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,” he said.

Fourth, 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, Wang said.

In addition, sensing and communications will be further integrated, enabling real-time replication of the physical world, he said.

Sixth, Wang said wireless networks will become fully integrated with artificial intelligence technologies to enable level-5 fully autonomous driving networks, which will further support automated operation and maintenance, deliver premium experiences and minimize carbon footprints.

Next, per-bit data transmission costs will be reduced as multi-antenna technologies begin to be applied to every spectrum band, he said.

Eighth, Wang spoke about the enhanced need for security. “Intrinsic device security and intelligent and simplified security at the network layer will become increasingly important as network security and resilience receive the global spotlight,” he said.

Finally, Wang said future networks will support more diverse services, such as the Metaverse, industrial field networks and vehicle-to-everything communications.
“This means that computing will need to be integrated with mobile networks to provide uninterrupted, high-quality services on demand,” he said.


‘Demand for green, sustainable networks to grow’
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