Three Mobile Carriers to Protect Network Quality at Yeouido Fireworks Festival With AI
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The three mobile carriers will launch special communications measures for the Yeouido Fireworks Festival.
SK Telecom analyzed last year's field-measurement data and the spread trend to nearby areas, and prepared plans to expand fixed facilities and add temporary facilities.
KT will apply the AI operations system A-One and 5G network slicing, while LG Uplus has prepared a response system built around additional mobile base stations, temporary equipment, and AION.
The three mobile carriers will launch special communications measures for the Yeouido Fireworks Festival. They will use new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G network slicing as part of the plan. The event schedule begins with the eve celebration on the 4th, and the main event will run from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the 5th. The period expected to be most crowded is the fireworks show window from 7:40 p.m. to 9:10 p.m.
The three mobile carriers have drawn up communications measures in preparation for the surge of crowds during the fireworks show. SKT deployed mobile base stations ahead of the festival. SK Telecom predicted traffic for this event based on last year's field-measurement data.
SK Telecom analyzed last year's 193,000 net visitors and the 88,000 peak concurrent users recorded during the fireworks show. It found that the trend of crowd dispersal extended to nearby areas such as Noryangjin Fish Market and all the way to the Water Light Plaza at Mapo Bridge.
Based on those findings, SK Telecom will expand fixed facilities at the cruise dock, clock tower and Yeouinaru Station in Yeouido Hangang Park, and will also add temporary facilities such as mobile base stations and electric vehicle base stations. It has also prepared a network operation plan reflecting the expanded and added facilities.
KT has applied its self-developed AI operations system, 'A-One(Access All-in-One),' to this response. A-One is a single AI integrated system for wireless access network operations, and it automatically senses event information in real time and forecasts communications quality and traffic, while also automatically calculating the number and locations of mobile base stations.
When the event site is designated on a map, AI immediately performs an analysis. The items analyzed are the expected crowd size, the number of the company's subscribers, the capacity of existing equipment, and the load rate of existing equipment. Based on this, AI determines whether additional support is needed and recommends the optimal expansion location.
KT plans to identify traffic concentration zones in real time on the day of the event and respond immediately to any changes in conditions. In line with this, KT Group employees conducted communications quality checks along major movement routes in and around Yeouido Hangang Park and nearby subway stations, and prepared for wireless quality measurements and the installation of mobile base stations in the Yeouido area.
To respond, KT expanded the capacity of nearby base stations and added more mobile base stations to secure network capacity. Photo courtesy of KT.
On the day of the event, KT plans to operate a 24-hour response system centered on its integrated control room, and will also increase on-site and support personnel compared with normal levels. It also plans to respond quickly if any unusual situation arises.
KT plans to use 5G network slicing. This is a technology that divides a single 5G network into multiple networks, providing more stable communications quality for specific services. Through this, KT plans to support the organizer's reception of CCTV footage across the entire event venue and to ensure smooth, uninterrupted CCTV video transmission.
Jeong Seon-il, head of the Network Operations Innovation Division at KT's Network Division and managing director, said the fireworks festival is an event where massive traffic is concentrated over a short period, and added that KT plans to devote its full effort to network operations so that attendees can share content smoothly with family and friends.
LG Uplus expanded wireless traffic capacity ahead of the event and added mobile base stations and temporary equipment. It also carried out wireless network optimization work and completed pre-event call quality measurements and network inspections.
LG Uplus said it has completed preparations to handle a surge in traffic. It also released a photo showing mobile base stations deployed in the Yeouido area, and the photo source is LG Uplus.
At the event site, specialized personnel will be assigned to enable immediate response, and will be responsible for call quality checks and fault response. At the same time, the company will operate a real-time response system, and on-site staff will continuously monitor communications quality around the venue and take immediate action if any problems occur.
At the same time, it will operate an integrated situation room at its Magok headquarters in Seoul during the event period, where traffic by equipment and wireless network quality will be monitored intensively 24 hours a day. It also plans to use the AI-based autonomous operations network platform 'AION,' through which it will preemptively respond to base station overload and automatically control traffic.
Source: IT DAILY · Seong Won-young
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241352
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