New ITU Focus Group to study Machine Learning in future networks including 5G OpenGovAsia

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations specialised agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), has launched a new ITU Focus Group to establish a basis for ITU standardisation to assist machine learning (ML) in bringing more automation and intelligence to ICT network design and management. Machine learning algorithms are helping operators to make smarter use of network-generated data. These algorithms enable ICT networks and their components to adapt their behaviour autonomously in the interests of efficiency, security and optimal user experience. Fixed and mobile networks generate a huge amount of data both at the network infrastructure level and at the user/customer level, which contain a lot of useful information such as data on location, mobility and call patterns. New ML methods for big data analytics in communication networks can extract relevant information from the network data, and then leverage this knowledge for autonomic network control and management as well as service provisioning.