Chinanews, Beijing, May 15 (Reporter Liu Yuying) What new applications will 5G technology bring to the next five years?
China Unicom and Huawei announced on the 15th that they will jointly carry out 5G-Advanced technology innovation for the next five years. The two sides will now focus on three new industries.
The so-called 5G-Advanced refers to 5G evolution technology, that is, the R18 version and the subsequent 5G standard version.
In July 2020, the R17 version of 5G will be frozen.
According to the planning of the International Standards Organization 3GPP, R18 will be established at the end of this year and will be frozen in 2023.
R18 is aimed at 5G technology after 2025.
Ding Yun, executive director of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and president of operator BG, introduced that facing the future, my country's 5G industry application scenarios are constantly upgrading.
The current cellular network only carries 1.3 billion IOTs. In the future, 5G networks will carry hundreds of billions of IOTs, covering industries such as industrial Internet, flying networking, car networking, power, ports, and medical care.
Ma Hongbing, general manager of the Science and Technology Innovation Department of China Unicom, said that China Unicom and Huawei have identified the three new industry tracks in the future and proposed the "wisdom" series of three major 5G-Advanced technologies: "Intelligent New Vision" for XR virtual interaction; "Smart sharing and big uplink" for upstream industries such as mass live broadcast and broadband Internet of Things; "smart super-sensing" for new industries such as high-precision positioning, Internet of Vehicles, drones, and intelligent driving.
It is understood that these new industrial tracks require 5G evolution technology to be realized.
For example, XR virtual interaction requires a downlink rate of 1Gbps, while the current 4K ultra-high-definition video provided by the 5G network only requires 100Mbps, and the existing network cannot meet XR virtual interaction.
For another example, broadband IoT services such as 3D machine vision and remote control require uplink rates of 500 Mbps and 5 Gbps respectively, which are also unattainable by current 5G technology.
Wen Ku, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Communications Standards Association, said that various new applications posed new challenges to network development.
He said that the era of virtual interaction has become a reality, and XR virtual interaction business is expected to become a killer application for super-large traffic.
Internet of Things services such as autonomous driving, drone management, and Internet of Vehicles will explode.
The three innovative solutions of the Wisdom Series will facilitate the high-quality development of 5G.
Ding Yun said that China Unicom and Huawei's continuous innovation in 5G will promote the development of 5G-Advanced standards, and it is also a process of research and exploration.
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