Wireless AI,Vitalizing the Mobile Network

Due to the increasing complexity of network, the usage efficiency of network resource will have a

sharp decline, even to an unacceptable level. It’s because there’s no global coordination and

scheduling mechanism.

Index Scheduler Complexity

5G Scheduler 100X+increase

Latency(ms)

IMT-2020

User ExperiencedData Rate(Mbit/s)

1

20

10

100 x

106

100

3 x

500

10 x1 x

10.1

1

10

1 x

400350

105 10

IMT- Advanced

Peak Data Rate(Gbit/s)

Area Traffic Capacity

(Mbit/s/m2)

Network Energy Efficiency

Connection Density(devices/km2)

Spectrum Efficiency

Mobility(km/h)

Intelligent Operation for Services is Must While Complexity Exploding

Networking Evolution

Pole site

Micro site

Small cell

Macro site

HetNet

GSM/UMTS/LTE/5G

900MHz

1.7GHz

2.1GHz

700MHz

850MHz

1.4GHz

1.9GHz

3.5GHz

3.6GHz

3.7GHz

24GHz

39GHz

60GHz

70-90GHz

16+Bands

28GHz

2.6GHz

2.3GHz

2.6GHz

New RAT Evolution

Services Booming as Network Evolution

SMS

Call

Email

SMSCall

Web

Game

Video

Social

Tracking

Metering

Trunking

…

…

Voice

Web

Data，Video

4K、VR、IoT…

2G

3G

4G

4.5G/5G

<1Mbps 10Mbps 100Mbps >1Gbps data rate

>1s

100ms

10ms

1ms

Late

ncy

VR

Tactile internet

AR

Multi-person video call

Office in cloud

Autonomous car

Real time gamingDisaster alert

Automotive ecall

Sensors

Device remote control

Bi-directional remote control

Mobile video

Personal cloud

Services Network Requirement are Varied

Experience Guarantee Getting Harder While Service Booming

Automation or Die is new Philosophy for 5G Era

2100M

1800M

1400M

2600M F&T

900M

700M

800M

600M

2300M

C-Band

(~100MHz)

mmWave

(~1GHz/band)

Group 30

Group 40

Complicated Hetnet NetworkResource Mgt. for Network Slicing

Bring Intricate Management

Network Functions

Transport-UP SOC-UPRAN-UP

Business Application

Business Model Design SLA Definition

Slice Function Define

Slice Template

Slice Topology Design

SLA Decomposition

E2E SliceManagement

User Plane

SDN-Controller SOC-CPRAN-CP

Control Plane

Physical Infrastructure

NFVI

RAN Transport Core

Massive Data Hardware Computing Power

Mobike:1TB/day Taobao:7TB/day Web: 500PB/day GPU: Float Operations, 10Tflops; CPU: 1.34Tflops

Google AI

IBM Watson

Softbank Pepper

Assist Smart Driving On-device AI

• Machine Leaning• Deep Learning• Reinforcement

Learning

Sweeping Robot

AI Democratization Starts its Journey

Massive

Data

Computing

capability

Diverse

Service

Complicated

Algorithm

AI Big Data Algorithm Computing

Wireless Network Inherent 4 Characteristics Make it Fertile Ground for AI

Real time data from network

CoordinationResource allocation

eNB, Cloud with high ability chip

Blooming service, diverse SLA

When wireless network meets AI, new potential will be inspired

Mobile Network is Feasible move to AI

Network O&M Network Performance New Business

Typical

Cases

Customer

Values

Beyond Performance Limits

• Massive MIMO Self-Adaption

• Intelligent Alarm Association

• Topology Smart Optimization

• Adaptive KPI Anomaly

Detection

• Fault Alarm prediction

• Scenario Self-Recognition

• Free Measurement multi-carrier

selection

• VoLTE Quality Improvement

• Bottom user experience

improvement

• TCP Optimization

• Network Fingerprint Enabled

High Accuracy Location

• Using Artificial Intelligence to

Predict Ride Requests

…… ……

Wireless AI Vision and Case list--Learning Radio Environment, Make impossible to possible

Simplify O&M Enable New Business

……

OpenAPI

Traffic

Advertising

Customer heat map

Precise behavior analytics

Mall Positioning

Store flow statics & prediction

Recognition

Prediction

Positioning

New Fundamental

Capabilities：

Enable Diverse Services with Openness

…

Raw data

- signaling

- user plane data

- manage-ment data

- 3rd party, incl. map

Information

- network

- user

- device

- service

Statistics

- network

- user location

Capability

- analytics

- capacity abstraction

User loc.

Moving speed

Cell load

Behavior

Preference Analytics

Recognition and Prediction ability enable diverse SLA, Positioning enable innovative business