Provides guidelines that will promote 5G technologies and construct a sustainable industry.
To extract greater social and economic value from 5G, 3GPP officially announced 5.5G as the second phase of 5G, naming it 5G-Advanced. From here, industry partners reached consensus on 5G-Advanced development and composed this white paper to clarify the requirements and technologies for its evolution from 5G, thus expediting its development on networks, according to Huawei.
5G is essential to upgrading service experience and fueling digital and intelligent transformation of industries. To penetrate deeper into industries, 5G requires the convergence of DT, OT, IT, and CT (DOICT). And the core network, akin to the brain of the E2E network, plays a pivotal role in 5G-Advanced network evolution.
According to Huaweii organisations must promote the development of 5G core network architecture and technologies in line with business models, as it will help operators improve ROI and help industry players better utilize 5G networks during digital and intelligent transformation.
To enhance network capabilities and meet ever-diversifying service requirements, 5G-Advanced will evolve both 5G architecture and technology.
Under the 5G-Advanced network architecture come cloud-network and computing-network synergies.
Cloud Native can be utilized to strengthen the NFV-based telecom cloud and enable flexible deployment of 5G networks.
Edge Network can combine distributed networks with edge services.
Network-as-a-Service will enable various customized solutions for vertical industries.
Moreover, 5G-Advanced technologies have three main highlights:
- AI will take the capabilities and quality of services to new heights through network functions and network management.
- Convergence will combine different RATs and different types of networks for unified support. Network services can be tailored to different industries.
- Enablement will customize networks with proactivity, flexibility, and resource isolation under 5G-Advanced capabilities.
- With continuous enhancement, 5G-Advanced will allow us to rapidly roll out network functions and iterate them on-demand to fit into various service scenarios.
