en.Wedoany.com Reported - Henan Mobile and ZTE Corporation have jointly established a 5G-A Intelligent and Simplified Network Innovation Demonstration Zone at Wansui Mountain Wuxia City in Kaifeng, Henan Province. To address the characteristics of high foot traffic, complex environments, and concentrated uplink-heavy services in this scenic area, the two parties systematically deployed and validated 5G-A innovative technologies such as 4.9G+FA SUL, GigaMIMO Distributed Array, X-times differentiated experience, and experience agents. This initiative aims to build an intelligent and simplified network for comprehensive cultural tourism scenarios from three dimensions: network simplification, spatiotemporal experience consistency, and service differentiation, thereby optimizing the digital experience for tourists.
Wansui Mountain Wuxia City is renowned for its live-action performances, ancient-style interactions, and folk exhibitions, attracting dense crowds year-round, especially during holidays. High-definition live streaming, short video creation, and video calls have become mainstream applications for tourists, while smart services such as AI-guided tours and interactive explanations continue to gain popularity. The area's staggered architecture and densely packed crowds impose stringent requirements on mobile network uplink transmission, multi-user concurrency, and interference suppression capabilities. To this end, Henan Mobile and ZTE tailored a 5G-A Intelligent and Simplified Network solution for the scenic spot, integrating innovative products and technologies into specific scenarios.
The 4.9G+FA SUL technology piloted this time is the core enabler for enhancing uplink capacity in the scenic area. With this technology, the single-user uplink peak rate can reach 1Gbps, unlocking the potential for uplink-heavy services. In densely populated areas such as performance stages and popular check-in spots, tourists can engage in outdoor HD live streaming, upload HD short videos and large-capacity image files, and smoothly conduct HD video calls and share original photos on social media. Even during peak periods with tens of thousands of concurrent online tourists, the network uplink remains stable, meeting the diverse uplink usage demands of cultural tourism scenarios.
To address severe interference issues caused by dense crowds and base stations in areas like the "Wang Po Matchmaking" zone, Henan Mobile and ZTE deployed and validated GigaMIMO Distributed Array technology. Based on coordinated signal transmission and reception across multiple cells and base stations, this technology improves edge experience by over three times, ensuring stable network performance across different areas such as streets, squares, and observation decks at various times, thereby guaranteeing a consistent and high-quality service experience for tourists.
In terms of network operation and service assurance, the application of experience agents has ushered the scenic area's network into an intelligent and simplified operation phase. This intelligent system can perceive the scenic area's operational status in real time 24/7, automatically identify high-priority services such as HD live streaming and video calls, and dynamically schedule multi-dimensional network resources based on service demands. The system provides dedicated bandwidth guarantees for core cultural tourism applications, such as boosting AI glasses interaction speeds by over 10%, ensuring smooth AI phone shopping, and offering X-times differentiated experiences with high-precision predictions for different user tiers. The error between predicted rates and actual measured experiences is less than 10%, laying the foundation for a "promise equals delivery" user experience service. Meanwhile, the operation agent enables network self-intelligence capabilities such as automatic fault diagnosis and parameter self-optimization, simplifying traditional operation and maintenance processes and reducing the operational management costs of the scenic area's network.
The collaborative application of 5G-A innovative technologies has driven the upgrade of Wansui Mountain Wuxia City towards an intelligent scenic area. The stable network foundation supports the smooth operation of smart terminals and applications such as AI-guided tours and live-action interactions, while the scenic area's distinctive performances and traditional folk culture can be widely disseminated through live streaming and short videos.
This project aligns with the development direction of cultural and tourism integration during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. This phase focuses on empowering cultural tourism with digital technology, cultivating new business forms, and revitalizing traditional culture. As a new-generation digital infrastructure, 5G-A is key to the transformation and upgrade of smart scenic areas. This practice has opened up the integration pathway between communication technology and cultural tourism scenarios, providing a reference path for the digital upgrade of similar scenic areas in Henan Province and across the country.
From the perspective of the mobile communication industry's development, 5G-A is a crucial phase bridging 5G and 6G. This real-world demonstration has accumulated technical and scenario experience for 6G technology research and development. The complex real-world scenario of Wansui Mountain Wuxia City, characterized by high foot traffic, heavy uplink demand, and concurrent multiple services, can provide authentic scenario reserves for the iterative design of 6G network architecture, high-density access, and intelligent management and control systems.
Henan Mobile and ZTE will continue to deepen the 5G-A Intelligent and Simplified Network Demonstration Zone, iteratively enhance network performance, and enrich the forms of smart cultural tourism applications to support the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry and advance frontier technology exploration.
