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ZTE Communications ›› 2020, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (1): 1-4.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202001001

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Ten Reflections on 5G

WU Hequan   

  1. China Information Communication Technologies Group Corporation, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2020-03-25 Published:2020-06-15
  • About author:WU Hequan is an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He was the vice president of CAE. Currently, he is the deputy director of the Advisory Committee for State Informatization, director of expert committee of Standardization Administration of China (SAC), director of the experts advisory committee for “Internet Plus” action plan, leader of State Internet of Things expert group, chief engineer of the major scientific and technological project of national “New Generation Broadband Wireless Mobile Communication Network，” and director of Advisory Committee of Internet Society of China. He is also a senior member of IEEE. He has long been engaged in the research and development of digital networks and optical fiber communication systems; he has also taken charge of R&D projects on China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI) and 3G/4G/5G, as well as led and managed consulting projects on engineering science and technology. He won several prizes including Award of the Chinese Science and Technology Conference, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) of China. He has authored one book.

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Abstract:

5G takes the concept of service-oriented architecture to replace the priority principle of network efficiency in the Internet to meet requirements of the industrial Internet and smart cities, such as high reliability and low latency. On the other hand, in order to adapt to the uncertainty of future business, 5G features the openness of services and the Internet protocols, different from the closeness of traditional telecommunication networks. Although 5G tries to have the advantages of both the Internet and telecommunication network, its realization still faces many challenges. In this paper, ten major issues concerning 5G networking and service offering are discussed.

Key words: 5G, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), network slice, Service-Based Architecture (SBA), Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)