The combination of mobile cloud base station planning communication and cloud computing

Cloud computing as a popular technology, in various fields have applications, IDF2012 Conference, China Mobile on the joint with Intel, China Mobile and Intel in the construction of cloud base station is gradually making significant progress.

What is the difference between the cloud base station and the current common base station? The common base station is to handle the signal in the base station to calculate, and the cloud base station is transmits the signal all to the cloud computing center, unifies carries on the computation processing, thus may save each place the base station the energy consumption and the expense, simultaneously may maximize the utilization computation ability.

As early as 2010, China Mobile had cooperated with Intel to address some of the challenges facing mobile communications networks. China Mobile is the world's largest mobile communications operator, serving more than 500 million customers.

Global mobile operators, including China Mobile, face very big challenges, according to the person. "The first is the contradiction between rapid data growth and flat income growth, followed by pressure on energy conservation and emission reduction." According to relevant data, China Mobile's overall electricity consumption is close to 10 billion-kilowatt. So, China Mobile is thinking about how to build the next generation mobile communication network C-ran, by centralizing and integrating the base station BBU, effectively saving the floor area and power consumption of the room. ”

Apart from BBU, China Mobile also considered introducing the cloud computing approach to wireless processing to improve base station performance while significantly reducing application costs. He also disclosed that China Mobile will also convene a C-ran meeting next week, inviting industry parties to participate together.

When it comes to concrete cooperation with Intel, he believes it can be divided into three broad dimensions. The first is to prove the feasibility and the application of the C-ran architecture based on i/a, the second is the joint development technology, improve the cloud base station system; The 30th effort reduces the total cost of ownership of the C-ran architecture. Experts from China Mobile experts say that after years of hard work, Intel has also made significant breakthroughs in LTE research and development, which is superior to other products in terms of power consumption and performance. At the same time, the Intel China Research Institute and the China Mobile Communication Research Institute jointly developed 4G Technology.

At the same time, he said, Cran network is the focus of the future, through the common cloud computing platform for communication, which is completely different from the traditional base station, can save a lot of energy and improve the efficiency of the system, traditional server applications will gradually be transformed into cloud computing mode.

With LTE to commercial, this year 9 cities deployed LTE, the end of 20,000 base stations, 2013 to 200,000 base stations, covering large and medium-sized cities and 200 million users. At present, mobile and the Intel China Research Institute in collaboration with the C-ran network deployment (cloud Base station), accelerate the cloud computing infrastructure construction, so as to speed up 4G network construction.