With the deepening of the global new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, 5G has become a priority in the global digital economy strategy. Following the success of the first session held in Beijing, the World 5G Conference will move to Guangzhou this year. With the theme of "5G Enabling Sharing and Win-win", the Conference will discuss in depth how to integrate 5G into all industries, connect all things, benefit the public, and empower the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
5G is one of the most dynamic fields in this era, and China is the deserved leader of 5G technology and industry. According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, by the end of September, a total of 690,000 5G base stations had been built in China, and urban 5G network coverage had been completed in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with more than 160 million terminal connections.
In the opinion of Zhang Ping, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, our network construction speed and user increment are faster than before. 5G network construction and industry implementation are moving forward step by step. Meanwhile, more ideal solutions are still to be found in terms of industrial interconnection and industrial interconnection.
The latter obviously concerned him more. The second World 5G Conference will be held in Guangzhou on Nov 26. In an interview with Science and Technology Daily, Zhang Ping said frankly, "On the one hand, people talk about achievements and experience, discussing how to arrange stations, how to deal with the interference between existing sites, how to improve the rate of users and other issues. On the other hand, it is more critical to discuss how to better integrate ICT technology and manufacturing so that the 'cyber powers' can drive the' manufacturing powers'."
The industrial Internet cannot copy the development model of the consumer Internet
To accelerate the development of a new generation of information technology and the integration of the manufacturing industry, it is necessary to comply with the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation trends, accelerate the innovation and development of the industrial Internet, accelerate the fundamental transformation of manufacturing production methods and corporate forms, and enhance the digitalization, networking, and Intelligent development level.
"5G is an enabling technology, 20 percent of the market is on the consumer side, 80 percent is on the industrial side, and that's the blue ocean of 5G applications." Zhang said that for industry users, their needs for 5G networks are nothing more than two things: cheap and easy to use. But at present, using the idea of consumer Internet to layout the industrial Internet has its natural disadvantages -- high cost and complicated technology.
And, more importantly, every industry and even every enterprise has its own requirements and characteristics of the difference is very big to the requirement of communication, "the traditional model is through a single network to meet the needs of all, this can be achieved in the consumer Internet, but in industry application, all cannot use a communication network industry solution package, didn't also the necessary." Zhang Ping emphasized.
Therefore, in his view, industrial Internet should abandon the complicate methodology, from the perspective of the distributed network, to solve specific industry enterprises and demand of a single scene, "we need to constantly scene depth of mining industry demand for information technology, combined with edge calculation, enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, new ideas, such as in coordination with the frequency wireless private network development and fusion network, how to speed up 5G technology and the fusion of the real economy." Zhang ping said that this also needs a killer platform, play the role of infiltration drive, enabling thousands of lines of business.
New communication iterations are driven by scenarios rather than rates
Zhang ping said that in the past 30 years, the rapid iteration of mobile communication and the need to improve the communication rate is the main driving force behind it, and this logic also accompanies the development of mobile communication in each generation. But 5G has a revolutionary difference. 5G not only represents a simple rate improvement, but also sets up three scenarios, namely enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine communication and ultra-high reliability and low delay, according to different scenarios, thus opening a new era of communication of the Internet of everything.
"The driving force of mobile communication evolution will change from the single rate demand in the era of 1G/2G/3G/4G, through the transition of three scenarios of 5G, and finally into the scenario-driven evolution paradigm." Mr. Zhang thinks, to 6G, in the process of the evolution of traditional follow stack processing pattern, take technology route, complexity in return for a performance gain is unsustainable and urgently needs new theory innovation, "is not only to improve the rate of 6G, expand the space, but also improve the wisdom, intelligence, communication and human relationship between the new system in the future." Zhang Ping said that in the 6G system, people and network nodes can conduct deeper information interaction through semantics, and people and network nodes integrate and evolve together. Last year, they launched the country's first 6G international cooperation project.
"Communication is always an essential requirement of human society. Solve the problem of uncertainty through the flow of information, and enhance human intelligence." Zhang said the future of 5G+ is a bright vision, and how to implement it needs further discussion and planning from the government, academia and industry.
