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Integration of Network and Artificial Intelligence toward the Beyond 5G/6G Networks

Atsushi TAGAMI, Takuya MIYASAKA, Masaki SUZUKI, Chikara SASAKI

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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications have been considered in various fields. Mobile networks are becoming an indispensable part of our society, and are considered as one of the promising applications of AI. In the Beyond 5G/6G era, AI will continue to penetrate networks and AI will become an integral part of mobile networks. This paper provides an overview of the collaborations between networks and AI from two categories, “AI for Network” and “Network for AI,” and predicts mobile networks in the B5G/6G era. It is expected that the future mobile network will be an integrated infrastructure, which will not only be a mere application of AI, but also provide as the process infrastructure for AI applications. This integration requires a driving application, and the network operation is one of the leading candidates. Furthermore, the paper describes the latest research and standardization trends in the autonomous networks, which aims to fully automate network operation, as a future network operation concept with AI, and discusses research issues in the future mobile networks.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E106-B No.12 pp.1267-1274
Publication Date
2023/12/01
Publicized
2023/07/14
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2022TMI0001
Type of Manuscript
Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Towards Management for Future Communications and Services in Conjunction with Main Topics of APNOMS2022)
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Authors

Atsushi TAGAMI
  KDDI Research, Inc.
Takuya MIYASAKA
  KDDI Research, Inc.
Masaki SUZUKI
  KDDI Research, Inc.
Chikara SASAKI
  KDDI Research, Inc.

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