Towards 6G Networks: Use Cases and Technologies

By Marco Giordani, Michele Polese, Marco Mezzavilla, Sundeep Rangan, Michele Zorzi. arXiv.org, 2019

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Reliable data connectivity is vital for the ever increasingly intelligent, automated and ubiquitous digital world. Mobile networks are the data highways and, in a fully connected, intelligent digital world, will need to connect everything, from people to vehicles, sensors, data, cloud resources and even robotic agents. Fifth generation (5G) wireless networks (that are being currently deployed) offer significant advances beyond LTE, but may be unable to meet the full connectivity demands of the future digital society. Therefore, this article discusses technologies that will evolve wireless networks towards a sixth generation (6G), and that we consider as enablers for several potential 6G use cases. We provide a full-stack, system-level perspective on 6G scenarios and requirements, and select 6G technologies that can satisfy them either by improving the 5G design, or by introducing completely new communication paradigms.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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AI-Native Network Slicing for 6G Networks (2021, background): “Such requirements demand several candidate technologies, such as THz communications, intelligent reflecting surface, and AI [4], [7], [8].”
6G Wireless Systems: Vision, Requirements, Challenges, Insights, and Opportunities (2020, background): “[13] take a look at potential 6G use cases and provide a system-level perspective on 6G requirements, as well as presenting potential technologies that will be needed to meet the listed requirements.”
A Speculative Study on 6G (2019, background): “nication interface [3], even teleportation [4], remote surgery and etc.”
6G Wireless Communication Systems: Applications, Requirements, Technologies, Challenges, and Research Directions (2019, background): “Although, the 5G communication systems that are going to be released very soon will offer significant improvements over the existing systems, they will not be able to fulfill the demands of future emerging intelligent and automation systems after 10 years [4].”
The Road to 6G: Ten Physical Layer Challenges for Communications Engineers (2020, background): “Very recently, some related articles have elaborated on: 6G driving applications, metrics and new service classes [1], the importance and challenges of the THz-based communications [2], 6G requirements and overview of supporting technologies [3], and, finally, potential use cases and 6G-enabling net”