Zhao Huiling: Open and innovative ecology to promote the development of network technology

At the "Future Network Technology Development and Reform" theme forum of the Fifth Future Network Development Conference, Zhao Huiling, director of the China Institute of Communications and chairman of the Information Network Technology Professional Committee, shared "open innovation ecology to promote network technology development".

We have been discussing the development of the future network and what will the network 2035 look like? Academician Yu Shaohua summarized a TRUST principle (T: Tb/s-level bandwidth, R: ultra-high reliability, U: ubiquitous connection, S: sub-millisecond time Yan, T: Terahertz spectrum) looked forward to the future. Under the new situation, network development generally includes technical features such as extreme performance, elastic reconfiguration, multi-resource integration, ubiquitous connectivity, autonomous management, endogenous security, and green and low-carbon.

With the characteristics of such a large future network, the current development strategy of data development, computing power development, and cloud-network integration requires very high computing capabilities. Digital development has brought about the explosive growth of information and data, and massive data needs to be stored in the cloud or the edge, aggregated and analyzed to achieve data value conversion. Ubiquitous computing power presents the characteristics of multi-level, decentralized, and disordered computing power. It is difficult to achieve unified coordination between computing power and the network, and the intelligent on-demand capability of computing power needs to be adapted by the network.

The computing power network will become the basic support structure for cloud network integration. Originally, operators only provided connection capabilities. Now they must provide the computing power, storage capabilities, and even security capabilities in the network as a service to everyone. In fact, it is An ability



And service-oriented expansion. The standardization of computing power network has been carried out in an orderly manner in major standards organizations at home and abroad, and the research of computing power network is also an important link in the future network field and even the expansion of network capabilities.

Now with the development of edge computing, the original traditional communication network equipment form has changed, and network equipment has produced new forms, such as edge Leaf white box, fixed-mobile convergence, UPF equipment form and modularization, flexible customization of edge network, lower Reduce the cost of edge deployment and improve programmability.

Regarding the protocols in the IP network field, the entire IP protocol can be improved from the three dimensions of technical capabilities, security capabilities, and application capabilities. The computing power mentioned earlier is in application capabilities.

The development of the Industrial Internet is faced with challenges such as on-site real-time calculation and control requirements, complex field interconnection buses, and the need for intelligent industrial applications. Industrial Internet needs to realize the application of deep integration of information and physics with low latency requirement and light weight on the edge side.

Finally, AI capabilities fully penetrate the network to realize the ubiquitous intelligence of the network. AI empowers intelligent network operations, which is an important feature of future networks. With continuous breakthroughs in technologies such as intentional networks, self-organizing networks, and brain-like computing, a self-learning and self-operating intelligent network is built through omni-directional and three-dimensional AI enablement.


The network digital twin is also very important. Faced with huge pressure from increasingly diverse customer needs and increasingly complex communication network conditions, operators need to change passive monitoring of network data to active perception of the state of the entire network. Network digital twins rely on data Driven intelligent network status perception, solving network complexity problems. Especially for the complex hierarchical heterogeneous network in the existing network, a unified data model and resource model are constructed through digital twins to further realize network simulation, fault prediction and network optimization.

All of the above are some of the more important technical directions and fields in the future network development. Zhao Huiling said that the formation, generation and research of standards in the network field require innovative capabilities and be guided by demand applications. Finally, Zhao Huiling also hopes that everyone will work together to promote the development of network technology and promote the development of the entire network with a more open mind.

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