6G移动信息网络架构:从通信到一切皆服务的变迁

6G mobile information network architecture: migrate fromcommunication to XaaS

5G与大数据、云计算和AI等技术的融合正在赋能千行百业的数字化转型,加速整个社会走向数字化和智慧化.面向2030年,社会发展的愿景将是“数字孪生、智慧泛在”,更加差异化和碎片化的业务场景将对移动通信网络提出全新的挑战,未来网络将从提供信息传输服务,拓展到信息感知、传输、存储、处理、利用等全过程服务,实现从传统通信网络向移动信息网络的重大转变.为了高效实现这一转变,6G网络将通过通信、感知、大数据、计算、AI和安全等多领域技术的跨界融合,实现柔性、按需服务、至简、智慧内生、数字孪生和安全内生的网络设计,带来“按需服务”和“一切皆服务”的范式转变.本文从面向2030年的新应用需求、新技术趋势,以及5G网络面临的问题与挑战出发,分析6G网络发展的三大驱动力,提出6G网络架构的整体设计思路,并设计了“三层六面”6G网络逻辑功能架构和实际部署架构,打造一站式提供通信、感知、计算、AI、大数据和安全等服务的全新能力,全面提升6G网络的业务和场景适应能力,实现面向全行业、全场景、全生态的按需服务,在有效解决5G网络面临的高成本、高功耗、操作和维护难等主要问题的同时,全面赋能“数字孪生、智慧泛在”社会发展愿景的实现.

The convergence of 5G with big data,cloud computing,and AI is enabling the digital transformation of thousands of industries and accelerating the entire society towards digitization and intelligence.Towards 2030,the vision of social development will be“digital twin and ubiquitous intelligence”.More differentiated and fragmented business scenarios will pose new challenges to future networks.The network will expand from providing information transmission services to the whole-process services including information sensing,transmission,storage,processing,and utilization,realizing a major transformation from traditional communication networks to mobile information networks.In order to efficiently realize this transformation,the 6G network will integrate technologies such as communication,sensing,big data,computing,AI,and security.And the 6G network will realize the goals of soft,on-demand services,lite,native AI,digital twin,and native security.It brings about the paradigm shift of“on-demand service”and“everything as a service”.Taking into account the new application requirements in 2030,new technology trends,and the issues faced by 5G networks,this paper analyzes the three driving forces for the development of 6G mobile information networks,puts forward the overall design ideas of 6G network architecture,and designs the“three-layer and six-plane”6G network logical function architecture and deployment architecture.The 6G network will build the all-in-one platform that provides new capabilities such as communication,sensing,computing,AI,big data,and security.It will support the on-demand services for all industries,scenarios,and ecosystems and effectively solve the problems faced by 5G networks,such as high cost,high consumption,and complicated operation and maintenance.And the 6G network will fully empower the realization of the social vision of“digital twin and ubiquitous intelligence”.