2019 Annual Report (^61)
Huawei invests significantly in research and innovation, pursues open innovation, and actively brings professionals from around the
world to the company for joint innovation. More than a decade ago, Huawei established a microwave innovation center in Milan, Italy
to support the work of microwave expert Renato Lombardi. This center has gradually helped Huawei build its global competitiveness in
microwave products from scratch. “To this day, I still see myself as a lucky guy to have joined Huawei. I’m very lucky to work with an
excellent team, conduct industry-leading research, and contribute new thoughts and ideas. The microwave innovation center in Milan
was built from scratch and has been growing ever since. It is like my baby and has become a part of me.” –Huawei Fellow Renato
Lombardi.
Renato showcasing the Milan microwave innovation center’s accomplishments and discussing
how to demonstrate functions of a sample device
Renato’s collection of badges from
technical meetings he attended as a
Huawei representative
Key Innovations Enable a Fully Connected, Intelligent World
Huawei is continuing to focus on research and
innovation to seize the opportunities and address the
challenges of the future intelligent world. This will
widen the “de Laval nozzle”, the rocket engine that will
drive us forward. We are also bringing top minds from
around the world to join us, while openly innovating
and incubating new theories and key ICT technologies
to share with the industry. Together we can jointly
serve the information society.
Redoubling efforts in basic research to
make theoretical breakthroughs, fueling the
development of the intelligent world
■ The rapid development of communications
technology over the years continues to drive
communications channel capacities closer to the
Shannon limit. The whole industry is continuing to
search for breakthroughs in underlying technologies,
so that communications technologies can keep
pace with the development of the intelligent world.
In 2019, we continued our deep exploration of
communications theories, aspiring to redefine a
wireless network architecture for the time when the
Shannon limit is broken. Specifically, we:
● Were the first in the industry to define the
10 grand challenges facing basic research
and the challenges we foresee as we stand at
the threshold of the intelligent world. These
challenges include problems related to privacy,
information models, channel capacity, and
approximate computing and optimization. We
have also been working with top scientists from
around the world to tackle these challenges.
● Pioneered a theoretical model for trustworthy
networks in the age of AI, a dynamic network
data traffic forecast model, and a theoretical
model for distributed dynamic sliced networks.
These models have significantly improved
network robustness, forecastability, and
utilization, and driven active control efficiency
up by 56%.
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