[Shenzhen, China, July 22, 2022] At the Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week, Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei Wireless Solution, delivered a keynote speech titled “Continuous Innovation Towards 5.5G for a New Journey of 5G Industry “. In his speech, Yang summarized the main features of 5.5G: 10 Gbps experience, 100 billion connections and native intelligence. “Driven by new toC and toB services, we will enhance eMBB, URLLC and mMTC, and provide new sensing, passive IoT, positioning and native intelligence capabilities. 1 Gbps uplink and 100 billion connections, embarking on a new 5G journey.”
Yang Chaobin delivers a speech at Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week
5G enhancements are imperative to support new user experience and digital industry services. As XR Pro and other toC services continue to grow in popularity, networks need to increase user fees for mobile connections tenfold. ToB services require high uplink speeds and sensing capabilities, medium-speed connections, and passive IoT. “This means that 5.5G networks must provide 10 Gbps downlink speed and 1 Gbps uplink speed, support 100 billion IoT connections, and become natively intelligent,” Yang commented.
Ultra-high bandwidth and ELAA are the key to 10 Gbps downlink. Ultra-wide bandwidth has proven essential for mobile networks, requiring all resources below 100 GHz to be fully utilized. As higher bands are increasingly used, an extremely wide antenna array (ELAA) will be required to accommodate the resulting coverage contraction. ELAA enables broadband networks to provide the same coverage as C-band so operators can deliver 10 Gbps to all users anytime, anywhere. MetaAAU ELAAs have been marketed in more than 30 cities. Field tests are complete on the 6 GHz band, showing that co-coverage with C-band is possible in cases where outdoor deployments cover both outdoor (O2O) and indoor (O2I) users. mmWave can provide an overall peak throughput of 10 Gbps, with Gbps experience possible even at a distance of 5 km.
Improved uplink/downlink decoupling and multi-band convergence are key to 1 Gbps uplink. ToB connections often exhibit much stronger uplink capabilities than downlink. With uplink decoupled from downlink, toB services flexibly utilize uplink and downlink spectrum on different bands, including existing FDD spectrum and newly defined uplink-only spectrum. Thanks to uplink/downlink decoupling, convergence of the spectrum will be possible to ensure the uplink Gbps. To date, uplink/downlink decoupling has already been commercially adopted in the mining and steel industries to provide the 1 Gbps uplink transfer required for 100-channel HD backhaul and panoramic remote control.
RedCap, NB-IoT and passive IoT based on 5G will enable 100 billion connections over the next 10 years. RedCap is already available for commercial use. Compared to eMBB, RedCap features low power consumption and high cost efficiency, making it easy to adopt at scale. Passive IoT combines cellular communications and passive tagging and features low terminal prices and long coverage distances, providing an ideal option for connecting tens of billions of passive IoT devices. According to Huawei’s verification, the passive IoT supports a coverage distance of more than 200m. In addition, detection will be integrated into mobile networks, facilitating the use of mmWave high bandwidth to improve detection accuracy. Thus, speed and distance measurements and imaging will be enhanced to further improve exception identification for smart transportation, geolocation for smart factories and other industrial applications, eventually enabling digital replication.
5.5G will provide native intelligence for service operation, network optimization and simplified O&M. 5G developments will increase service variety and differentiation, with networks operating simultaneously with multiple bands and radio access technologies. This justifies the urgent need to introduce intelligence into mobile networks to maximize resource utilization and ensure service experiences. Additionally, intelligence will best balance network performance and power consumption, which will be important to meet the growing demand for 5G traffic. Native intelligence will further enable networks to facilitate real-time sensing, modeling and prediction, as well as multi-dimensional decision making. Thus, the networks will be intelligently optimized, with various resources to be configured on demand to provide optimal user experience and capacity. Operation and maintenance will be smartly simplified, with automated site planning, deployment and troubleshooting to maximize performance and energy savings.
“To meet the diverse demands of various industries over the next 10 years, 5G must enhance existing capabilities and support new capabilities in high-precision sensing, passive IoT, and native intelligence. We will continue to work with global partners to further innovate 5G and aspire to the 5.5G era by protecting operators’ investments,” Yang concluded.
[Shenzhen, China, July 22, 2022] At the Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week, Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei Wireless Solution, delivered a keynote speech titled “Continuous Innovation Towards 5.5G for a New Journey of 5G Industry “. In his speech, Yang summarized the main features of 5.5G: 10 Gbps experience, 100 billion connections and native intelligence. “Driven by new toC and toB services, we will enhance eMBB, URLLC and mMTC, and provide new sensing, passive IoT, positioning and native intelligence capabilities. 1 Gbps uplink and 100 billion connections, embarking on a new 5G journey.”
Yang Chaobin delivers a speech at Win-Win Huawei Innovation Week
5G enhancements are imperative to support new user experience and digital industry services. As XR Pro and other toC services continue to grow in popularity, networks need to increase user fees for mobile connections tenfold. ToB services require high uplink speeds and sensing capabilities, medium-speed connections, and passive IoT. “This means that 5.5G networks must provide 10 Gbps downlink speed and 1 Gbps uplink speed, support 100 billion IoT connections, and become natively intelligent,” Yang commented.
Ultra-high bandwidth and ELAA are the key to 10 Gbps downlink. Ultra-wide bandwidth has proven essential for mobile networks, requiring all resources below 100 GHz to be fully utilized. As higher bands are increasingly used, an extremely wide antenna array (ELAA) will be required to accommodate the resulting coverage contraction. ELAA enables broadband networks to provide the same coverage as C-band so operators can deliver 10 Gbps to all users anytime, anywhere. MetaAAU ELAAs have been marketed in more than 30 cities. Field tests are complete on the 6 GHz band, showing that co-coverage with C-band is possible in cases where outdoor deployments cover both outdoor (O2O) and indoor (O2I) users. mmWave can provide an overall peak throughput of 10 Gbps, with Gbps experience possible even at a distance of 5 km.
Improved uplink/downlink decoupling and multi-band convergence are key to 1 Gbps uplink. ToB connections often exhibit much stronger uplink capabilities than downlink. With uplink decoupled from downlink, toB services flexibly utilize uplink and downlink spectrum on different bands, including existing FDD spectrum and newly defined uplink-only spectrum. Thanks to uplink/downlink decoupling, convergence of the spectrum will be possible to ensure the uplink Gbps. To date, uplink/downlink decoupling has already been commercially adopted in the mining and steel industries to provide the 1 Gbps uplink transfer required for 100-channel HD backhaul and panoramic remote control.
RedCap, NB-IoT and passive IoT based on 5G will enable 100 billion connections over the next 10 years. RedCap is already available for commercial use. Compared to eMBB, RedCap features low power consumption and high cost efficiency, making it easy to adopt at scale. Passive IoT combines cellular communications and passive tagging and features low terminal prices and long coverage distances, providing an ideal option for connecting tens of billions of passive IoT devices. According to Huawei’s verification, the passive IoT supports a coverage distance of more than 200m. In addition, detection will be integrated into mobile networks, facilitating the use of mmWave high bandwidth to improve detection accuracy. Thus, speed and distance measurements and imaging will be enhanced to further improve exception identification for smart transportation, geolocation for smart factories and other industrial applications, eventually enabling digital replication.
5.5G will provide native intelligence for service operation, network optimization and simplified O&M. 5G developments will increase service variety and differentiation, with networks operating simultaneously with multiple bands and radio access technologies. This justifies the urgent need to introduce intelligence into mobile networks to maximize resource utilization and ensure service experiences. Additionally, intelligence will best balance network performance and power consumption, which will be important to meet the growing demand for 5G traffic. Native intelligence will further enable networks to facilitate real-time sensing, modeling and prediction, as well as multi-dimensional decision making. Thus, the networks will be intelligently optimized, with various resources to be configured on demand to provide optimal user experience and capacity. Operation and maintenance will be smartly simplified, with automated site planning, deployment and troubleshooting to maximize performance and energy savings.
“To meet the diverse demands of various industries over the next 10 years, 5G must enhance existing capabilities and support new capabilities in high-precision sensing, passive IoT, and native intelligence. We will continue to work with global partners to further innovate 5G and aspire to the 5.5G era by protecting operators’ investments,” Yang concluded.